- 1. WSC 380: Non League Special ~ out now!
- (Stories)
- ... club? | Life asa stadium manager | Tribute to Kevin Beattie | What's going on Charlton? | Storm over season tickets | The super club in Belarus | In praise of small crowds | Sweden's original derby Pl ...
- Created on 02 October 2018
- 2. Weekly Howl 03-08-12
- (2012)
- ... meo Castelen a trial." --- from Ian Chadwick "There has been plenty of speculation about Andy Carroll's future after Liverpool left him out of their Europa league squad for the ...
- Created on 03 August 2012
- 3. Alexander Hleb
- (The strange case of...)
- ... He was relatively unknown in England, technically excellent, yet cursed with a pathological preference for a pass over a punt at goal. When the six-time Belarus player of the year and sometime captain ...
- Created on 01 April 2012
- 4. Patriot games
- (Politics)
- ... ncluding Druze, Circassians and Bedouin, as well as immigrants from countries including Argentina and Nigeria. At a recent youth international against Belarus, Israel had seven Arab players. Maccabi H ...
- Created on 01 January 2012
- 5. Monopoly money
- (Champions League)
- ... he pledged to overhaul the Champions League qualifying criteria. Platini’s plans were diluted in the face of pressure from the big clubs, but some changes were made and sides from Belarus and Cyprus ...
- Created on 21 September 2010
- 6. ESPN replaces Setanta
- (TV watch)
- ... get up to Anfield to give his prognosis. There is a tendency in TV circles to leap upon a first sign of weakness and feed hungrily on it for weeks. Steve Rider introduced ITV’s England v Belarus coverage ...
- Created on 21 December 2009
- 7. Principality defence
- (Europe)
- ... attacking players, coach David Rodrigo put his faith in a notional 4-5-1 formation, hoping to snatch a point or two against Belarus and Kazakhstan. The bus-parking tactic worked just fine five years ago, ...
- Created on 21 December 2009
- 8. Weekly Howl 23-10-09
- (2009)
- ... Mike Walters may have used up all his ideas in one go (pigged out, you could say) in his opening paragraph on England's match with Belarus: 'Ben Foster had busier nights chopping parsley when he ...
- Created on 28 October 2009
- 9. Well of youth
- (Europe)
- ... of the war to take third place at the 1998 World Cup. This Under-21 side was immensely impressive in qualifying. Forget the fact that they only finished joint-top of their group with Belarus: they took ...
- Created on 21 July 2009
- 10. The unlikely lad
- (South America)
- ... poor results, including unconvincing draws against Ecuador and Belarus as well as the Chile defeat. Argentina’s successful Olympic campaign, led by youth-team boss Sergio Batista, came in the middle of ...
- Created on 21 January 2009
- 11. Bernd Stange
- (The strange case of...)
- On October 15, England face a Belarus team whose coach used to be an informer for East Germany’s secret police. Paul Joyce reports “Football trainers shouldn’t mix work and politics,” Belarus coach Bernd ...
- Created on 21 October 2008
- 12. Letters, WSC 257
- (Readers' letters)
- ... no twinkle-toed Belarusian international is worth that amount of bother. I know it’s wrong to perpetuate the stereo-type of all Italians being gangsters, but Morabito started it. Will Musker, Droitwich ...
- Created on 21 July 2008
- 13. Netherlands
- (Euro 2008 team guide)
- ... a single-goal victory over Luxembourg and a collapse against Belarus in Minsk at the end of 2007. However, the national team have survived the first round of every European Championship since Marco van ...
- Created on 04 June 2008
- 14. Dinamo Minsk 1982
- (As good as it got)
- Football in Belarus hit a new low in October, with defeat to Luxembourg, but November 19 is the 25th anniversary of its finest hour: Dinamo Minsk’s sole Soviet title success. Jonathan Wilson looks back ...
- Created on 17 December 2007
- 15. An imperfect match
- (Clubs)
- ... Aleksandr Hleb. There is a subtext here, as the Belarusian has long vied with Shevchenko for the mantle of best player from the former Soviet Union, a rivalry fuelled by the monthly ratings run by influential ...
- Created on 14 March 2007
- 16. May 2006
- (Diary)
- ... have both had bids for Andy Johnson accepted by Palace. Thursday 25 Robert Green is out of the World Cup after rupturing himself taking a goal-kick during England B’s 2‑1 defeat by Belarus. Scott Carson ...
- Created on 14 July 2006
- 17. Rouble makers
- (Players)
- ... room resembles a Tower of Babel, with colleagues from Ghana, Brazil, Georgia, Costa Rica, Malawi, Belarus, Cameroon, Serbia, Croatia, Slovakia, Egypt, Switzerland and Mali. B-list South Americans, Africans ...
- Created on 14 May 2006
- 18. October 2005
- (Diary)
- ... runners-up. “I know we have struggled this season but today I was very pleased,” says Sven. Scotland’s chances have gone with a 1‑0 home defeat by Belarus: “We’ve had one poor 45 minutes since Walter took ...
- Created on 14 December 2005
- 19. USSR Championship, 1991
- (Season in brief)
- ... era – they were champions in 1983 – are now not even the second best team in Belarus and average home gates of around 1,600. Went on to greater things Oleg Salenko ~ The USA 94 Golden Boot winner - five ...
- Created on 14 December 2005
- 20. June 2005
- (Diary)
- ... will seek a judicial review: “He’s entitled to say, ‘Why me? Why aren’t you prosecuting other footballers who’ve done much worse than me?’ ” In World Cup matches, Scotland draw 0‑0 in Belarus (“We are ...
- Created on 14 August 2005
