When Saturday Comes

21. "And Smith must score" – the worst misses are the ones that truly mattered: (Stories); ... season in a row Barcelona won the title thanks to a blunder by their closest rivals. Missed chances that cost cup finals include Peter Rodrigues (“it looked easier to score") and Andy Lochhead (“a sitter") ...; Created on 20 November 2017
22. Frank de Boer, Ronald Koeman and the strange decline of Dutch managers: (Stories); ... one of Holland’s best. He’s better than Ronald Koeman, now sacked by Everton, and is more highly regarded than his old Holland and Barcelona team-mate Phillip Cocu, now in charge at PSV, or Feyenoord’s ...; Created on 16 November 2017
23. WSC 370 out now: (Stories); December issue available in stores and online The new WSC is out now, available from all good newsagents or to order from the WSC shop. Inside Football & identity ~ Barcelona and the Catalonia ...; Created on 08 November 2017
24. Crystal Palace gaining confidence under Roy Hodgson and relishing survival battle: (Stories); ... the atmosphere has stayed relatively upbeat at Selhurst Park this season. Granted, Frank de Boer’s failure to bring an Ajax/Barcelona hybrid possession game to this corner of south-east London had plenty ...; Created on 03 November 2017
25. Benfica’s leaky defence opens door for Porto to defend consecutive titles record: (Stories); ... the gap; right-back Nélson Semedo has signed for Barcelona, with no clear substitute in place; and captain Luisão’s centre-back cover Victor Lindelof is now at Manchester United. Benfica are aiming for ...; Created on 04 August 2017
26. WSC 367 & 2017-18 Season Guide out now: (Stories); ... debut disasters | What does football smell like? | The local heroes of Barcelona | Middlesbrough press ban | Brutal sackings in Brazil | | Where is the Man Utd women’s team? | Real Madrid 2 Nelson 4 | ...; Created on 01 August 2017
27. The strange case of Igor Belanov – the least remembered Ballon d’Or winner: (Stories); ... a 40-goal season for Everton and a 20-goal season for Barcelona, had good reason to be peeved with second. The general feeling, shared by Belanov himself, was that the award was really for the team(s) ...; Created on 31 July 2017
28. Mesut Özil: Gunning for greatness – my life: (Players); ... their fixtures against Barcelona was pitiful. He is a World Cup-winner and played in the famous 7-1 semi-final demolition of Brazil in Belo Horizonte in 2014. And yet his most notable contribution to t ...; Created on 08 June 2017
29. European semi-finals lack illumination as established names dominate: (Stories); ... up on aggregate. Further afield, the zenith of Arrigo Sacchi’s managerial career was securing the 1989 European Cup for AC Milan. But, for Milanisti, thrashing Steaua Bucharest in the Barcelona final pales ...; Created on 12 May 2017
30. Football’s Secret Trade: How the player transfer market was infiltrated: (General); ... a blow-by-blow analysis of Neymar’s controversial transfer from Santos to Barcelona, revealing how his father ruthlessly played Barça and Chelsea off against each other to maximise the financial gain; ...; Created on 10 May 2017
31. The Artist: Being Iniesta by Andrés Iniesta: (Players); ... of brutally cynical Clásicos played between Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona and José Mourinho’s Real in 2010-11 and its damaging impact on Ramos’s relationships with his Spain team-mates from Camp Nou. With ...; Created on 09 March 2017
32. My Turn: The autobiography by Johan Cruyff: (Players); ... adviser.) In short, anyone wanting to hear, for example, the inside story of what went on when Barcelona were crushed by Milan in Athens in 1994 – well, I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place. The ...; Created on 14 February 2017
33. From the archive ~ When football tried to set up a motorsport league: (Stories); ... one; as far back as 2000, a consortium including our old friend Graham Kelly launched Premier 1 GP, claiming that they were in talks with Barcelona, Juventus, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Chelsea ...; Created on 05 December 2016
34. WSC 358 out now: (Stories); ... your team | Celebrating 30 years of the Orientear | Do banning orders really work? | Cambridge City’s grounds for complaint | Qatar Aspire for more | Focus on Terry Venables at Barcelona | The Kurdish ...; Created on 08 November 2016
35. New project pledges to uncover untold stories in Spanish football: (Stories); Los Demás promises to ignore Barcelona and Real Madrid, instead focusing on anything from “A Coruña to Almeria, Palma to Tenerife” 27 October ~ The majority of the media coverage of Spanish football ...; Created on 27 October 2016
36. Di Stéfano: (Players); ... his contract. Key developments such as the magnificently tangled wrangle in 1953 for his services between Real and Barcelona are explained lucidly. Hawkey shows that Real triumphed not only through ...; Created on 29 September 2016
37. In praise of football’s famous trophies: (Stories); ... the Football League Championship trophy at Charlton last season because it might incite violence, or three-times champions Barcelona playing last ever winners, Leeds United, in a 1971 play-off for permanent ...; Created on 20 September 2016
38. Mister: (General); ... Bobby Robson at West Bromwich Albion in the 1950s before taking on a young Johan Cruyff at Ajax, and setting the ground for the modern identity of the Amsterdam club and then Barcelona in terms of philosophy ...; Created on 21 July 2016
39. Ibrahimovic arrival sparks Man Utd sales spike in Sweden: (Stories); ... Euros, the latter's status and commercial drawing power is just as strong as it was before the tournament. After a decade of pilgrimage to Milan, Barcelona and Paris it is now time for Manchester to b ...; Created on 11 July 2016
40. “Germany played, France won” and nation celebrates: (Stories); ... Iceland, and that explain why Barcelona are about to spend £25 million to buy him from Lyon. The France squad spent the night in Marseille before travelling back to their Clairefontaine base 70km from ...; Created on 08 July 2016

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