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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.

 

Press for attention

Nick Wyke looks at the efforts being made to promote women's football in Italy in the face of media indifference

Italy’s Serie A is, arguably, the most prestigious and rigorous league in world football. As a result, Italian women have a reputation to live up to. Their cause has not been helped by a media that shirks the women’s on-pitch efforts in preference for sideline gossip.

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Norwegians would

With more Norwegian players leaving every week, Ole P Pedersen explains why the player drain to the English league is causing concern back home

I never thought I would see Norwegian footballers be a major part of English football. But there are now more Norwegian internationals than Scottish in the Premiership: cheap, solid footballers who can run all day, never drink and accept lower wages than their British compatriots.

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Letters, WSC 121

Dear WSC
I don’t know what the rest of you think but all the recent media coverage of the Italian national team had led me to one major conclusion: Paolo Maldini gets his good looks from his Mum’s side of the family.
Alex Anderson, Ardrossan

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Paying the price

Steve Lilley explains how a lack of financial expertise brought about Millwall's collapse

The announcement on 21st January that Millwall Holdings plc had sought an administrative order came as a surprise to no one who had been following the club's ailing fortunes.

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Never ending story

In the wake of the television recreation od the day of the Hillsborough disaster, Rogan Taylor explains why the families of the deceased want a new public enquiry

Hillsborough won‘t go away. Nearly eight years after that fateful day which took the lives of ninety-six football fans, it is still a burning issue.Welcome fuel was added to the fire before Christmas with the transmission of Jimmy McGovern’s powerful film about the tragedy and its aftermath.

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