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The Archive

Articles from When Saturday Comes. All 27 years of WSC are in the process of being added. This may take a while.

 

Stuck indoors

It may be winter, but Ian Plenderleith points out that the football can continue indoors

There are some things in football as sure to come around every year as Ian Wright’s suspension and Thomas Brolin’s attempt at career rehabilitation. In Germany and Switzerland it is the litany of the coaches moaning about the tough playing schedule when the annual fixture lists are produced, as if they thought perhaps this year they would only be playing their opponents once and that the national cup had been abolished. They carp on about too many “English weeks”, meaning that their poor oppressed players have to some-times turn out on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. And that the summer break is far too short.

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Geoffrey Richmond

David Pendleton examines Geoffrey Richmond's unglamorous rags to riches tale

Habitat A self made man. Bought Ronson Lighters when they were insolvent, turned the company around and sold it for £10m plus. Now being the Chairman of Bradford City is his full time occupation, he is always first to enter the building and last to leave. Opens all the mail, occasionally answers the phones and has been known to work in the ticket office. Hands-on is an inadequate term.

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Monopoly bored

Television deals are becoming increasingly important in the modern game. Roger Titford explains the latest agreement that will determine how we view football

More evidence of football’s growing importance as the new national religion arrives: the left-wing, oops sorry, independent, think tank Demos have published a pamphlet arguing that price controls should be imposed on Sky TV by a newly-created Office for Regulating the Broadcasting of Sport (ORBS?).

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Ethics work

Former police commissioner Sir John Smith was asked by the FA to look into football's values after the colourful financial events of recent years.  Martin Le Jeune, who assisted with the report, explains why we should take it seriously

Betting, bungs, bribes… there have been times in the past few months when football’s financial dealings might as well have come straight out of a business studies course taught by Del Boy Trotter and Arthur Daley.

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Standing to lose

Although standing at football matches is forbidden, Ashley Shaw disapproves of the thuggish stewarding at Old Trafford

When eye-witness accounts talk of scuffling in the stand between stewards and supporters, it is a clear sign that all is not well at Old Trafford.

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