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“Nothing beats the adoration you receive”: What it’s really like to be a football mascot

Representing your club as their mascot makes you part of a community like no other – one well worth the sweaty costume and risk of broken fingers

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Potato field to world-renowned atmosphere – celebrating Portmouth’s Fratton Park

The Pompey pub club offices and matching clubhouse, with its mock-Tudor frontage, at Fratton Park. Colin McPherson/WSC Photos

For 125 years, opposition players and managers have left the Archibald Leitch-designed south coast stadium with the Pompey Chimes ringing in their ears

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Episode 53: Steve McManaman’s iconic hands and the Sandygate slope

Munching on the sweetie version of a veteran reserve goalkeeper, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss players’ Indian Summers, from Horst Hrubesch to Wilfried van Moer via untucked shirts and Pools Panel hotel trifle. WSC Deputy Editor Tom Hocking talks us through the pages of magazine edition 417, including Big Match Festive Specials and issues around colour blindness in football. Record Breakers brings crooning from Cagliari, plus Steve McManaman’s iconic hands and Maurice Fussey’s wig.

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