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Empty seats and AWOL players – why 2011’s Carling Nations Cup was a Dublin dud

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Originally planned to run every two years, the Home Internationals revamp never returned after a disastrous first instalment

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Episode 9: A corrupt goalie, smallpox and landladies

In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray talk football and illness, footballers’ houses and landladies, and WSC magazine front covers of yore. Plus, Record Breakers takes us to Belgium, Italy and Czechoslovakia. Expect the Badger of Prudhoe, George Best making a Mother’s Day card and Esmond Million, corrupt goalkeeper.

The only way to hear this episode is to sign up for the WSC Supporters’ Club for as little as £2 per month. There are great rewards, including bonus episodes, extended editions, badges, T-shirts and photo prints.

Scotland in the Seventies: The definitive account of the Scotland football team 1970-79

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By Ronnie McDevitt
Pitch Publishing, £12.99
Reviewed by Archie MacGregor
From WSC 389, August 2019
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From Hurst FC to Fiorentina: Uncovering the hidden history of a footballing ancestor

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Peter Percival was an unassuming man who rarely spoke of his playing days at Man City in the 1930s, but family research has revealed his starring role in a significant match

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Tights, trainers and turf thaw: how football clubs coped with the big freeze of 1978-79

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The extreme weather and nationwide strike action of the Winter of Discontent played havoc with the fixture list, but inspired some creative thinking from managers and players

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