Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.
Davy Millar looks at examples of football becoming caught up in the politics of Northern Ireland
There are those who will argue that there should be a firm demarcation line between the worlds of sport and politics. They believe that the average altruistic politico is ill-prepared to survive contact with the rampant megalomania, corruption, cynicism, exploitation and downright thuggery of modern professional sport. Or have I got it the wrong way round? It’s hard to tell these days.
Like so many players, Neil Wills made no provision for his retirement. Now it's got him worrying about death
According to Marianne Faithfull, it was at the age of 37 that Lucy Jordan realised she would never ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair. According to my brother Clive, he was a mere two years older than that when he realised that if he didn’t stop playing football, his hamstrings would explode. This terrified me because hitherto I had always assumed I would play football for ever. I suddenly realised that – all genetics being equal – at 32 I probably only had seven years to go. For the first time in my life, I faced the grisly prospect of retirement.
Risk taking and rapid changes from big clubs puts others' futures in doubt. Can it be sustained?
Do football clubs know what they’re doing? Put like that, the question seems ludicrous. Of course they don’t. They blunder from manager to manager, most are clueless about public relations and their management style is archaic. That much we know. But there’s a more particular question. Do clubs know what they’re doing now, given football’s current financial state?
Richard Mason reflects on Fiorentina's explusion from the UEFA Cup and what it means for media objectivity
The exclusion of Fiorentina from the UEFA Cup has naturally provoked a lot of comment in Italy, but one aspect of the affair has been entirely ignored: its implications for media companies such as Sky and Carlton seeking to buy into football clubs.
A brief guide to football on the English riviera from Nick House
1927 Torquay take Aberdare’s Football League place following a controversial second ballot. The new boys promptly lose 9-1 at Millwall and finish in the bottom five in all but two of their first seven seasons. Unusually bad results each August suggest the signing of holidaymakers on fortnightly contracts.