Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.
Derby County fan Peter Gutteridge talks stadiums, kits and youth players at pride Park
The board and manager. Do they know what they’re doing?
No. Jim Smith seems to have lost all notion of team tactics in the past couple of seasons. Owner Lionel Pickering seems disintereted in the club and wants to sell up. But he’s also big chums with Smith so there’s a stalemate.
Sunday 1 Liverpool might enter the Vieira bidding war – “Of course we’d be interested in a player like him,” says M Gérard – though Arsenal continue to insist through collectively gritted teeth that he’s not for sale. Man Utd chief executive Peter Kenyon denies claims that United have been snubbed by several transfer targets. “Listening to all the speculation you'd think we were a club on the precipice. We’ve not had one rejection.” Brazil lose another World Cup tie, 1-0 in Uruguay, which leaves them barely hanging on to South America’s fourth automatic qualifying place.
The Old Firm's proposal to join the Premier League
Ten years ago this summer, the FA published its Blueprint for Football, which first made explicit its support for the breakaway Premier League, to be formed for the start of the 1992-93 season. At the time it was seen by many, including us, as a radical and damaging step which threatened to undermine the traditional bonds between the top of the game and the bottom. The desire of the Premier League clubs to keep a greater proportion of the game’s revenue for themselves, scandalously endorsed by the FA, seemed likely to send many of the smaller clubs to the wall.
The choice of Colombia as the host nation for the Copa America caused much controversy and country's ability to host the tournament was called into question. Simeon Tegel reports
Allowing Colombia to host the Copa América was either a very brave decision or a very foolish one. Unfortunately for the officials of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), it was the second alternative which increasingly looked the more accurate description in the run-up to the July tournament, the region’s biennial equivalent of the European Championship.
Justin McCurry reports on how the rising political tensions in South Korea and Japan should not affect the 2002 World Cup
Logistically, awarding the 2002 World Cup to Japan and South Korea was a classic FIFA fudge, but it did raise hopes that the countries would put aside their historical differences and co-operate to make the tournament a success. With kick-off less than a year away, however, “football diplomacy” is proving no match for emotions stirred up by events of more than half a century ago.