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Reviewed by Tom Lines
From WSC 418, March 2022
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Stories
by Jon Henderson
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Reviewed by Tristan Browning
From WSC 378, September 2018
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The Scotland manager is excellent at deflecting pressure from his players, but he also knows more than anyone what a Wembley victory would mean
Football at the
sharp end
by Richard Gordon
Black and White, £9.99
Reviewed by Gordon Cairns
From WSC 349 March 2016
“Tales From The Technical Area” may have been a more pleasingly alliterative title, but the stories author Richard Gordon elicits from his subjects are generally of the more humble variety; summoning the sense of a damp bus shelter rather than a Perspex conservatory. The author is better known as the reasonable anchor man on Radio Scotland’s Sportsound among more excitable colleagues. Drawing on these radio connections he has amassed 48 interviews with a range of figures in the Scottish game. What is refreshing is that stories about Celtic and Rangers are minimal, allowing backroom staff and managers from smaller teams to tell their tales with a remarkable degree of candour.