Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.
The Scottish Premier League faces reorganisation again, but this time its leaders are determined to make a more permanent mess. Gary Oliver is unimpressed
Saturday afternoon football coverage on BBC Radio Scotland concludes with Off The Ball, a generally frivolous phone-in. Far from jovial, though, was a recent guest appearance by Roger Mitchell, chief executive of the Scottish Premier League.
Contrary to past belief, it seems these days you never win anything without kids. Matthew Hall questions Leeds’ intentions in Australia
It's usually after about three or four pints down the pub: “With the influx of all these foreigners,” grumbles some old sop, “there’s no future for homegrown talent in the English game any more.” A complete load of crock, of course, as readily demonstrated by most of the big clubs introducing outstanding young players more than capable of holding their own alongside big-money international signings.
Rotherham thought they had unearthed a great young talent in Stephen Alabi. Then it all got complicated, as Iain Busby explains
Little is written about Rotherham United in the national press. This all changed, however, after January 16th when a Millers fan appeared on Radio Five’s 6.06 programme. The subject under discussion was one Stephen Alabi, Rotherham’s very own “new Michael Owen”.
John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson trace the toots of England's international impotence and the shambles at the FA
December’s crisis within the FA, when chairman Keith Wiseman and chief executive Graham Kelly faced a vote of no confidence from the FA Council, can only be properly understood in relation to English football’s recent lack of standing in Europe and in FIFA politics. In the run-up to the 1998 World Cup and critical UEFA and FIFA congresses, Kelly was asked whether the British associations lacked influence in UEFA.
Phil Tanner grinds his teeth over the Welsh FA's hypocrisy and says they may have jeopardised the national team's status
Declaring interests has not been a central theme of Lancaster Gate-gate (or Westgate-gate as it might be termed on the other side of the Severn Bridge), but what the hell. I support a Welsh non-League club which in 1995 had to go to court to establish its right under restraint of trade law not to be forced into the League of Wales. The pillar of the Welsh FA’s defence was that national associations outside the UK were stepping up pressure over the so-called home nations’ independent status and that even minor anomalies such as three clubs, each with a few hundred supporters, playing on both sides of the border might ultimately threaten the existence of the Welsh national side. (For some reason the fact that three much larger clubs did likewise was discounted, but we’ll skip that.)