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1. Klopp: Bring the noise by Raphael Honigstein
(Managers)
... ot least the uber-competitiveness which as a player sometimes made him a pain to team-mates in training sessions. But this is accompanied by his trademark self-deprecation, drawing engagingly on his limits  ...
Created on 26 April 2018
2. From the archive ~ Mark E Smith interview: So you call yourself a football fan? ...
(Stories)
  Mark E Smith, frontman of The Fall, has died aged 60. He was a long-term reader of WSC and left a legacy which included some contributions to the magazine over the years. In WSC 157, ...
Created on 25 January 2018
3. Getting into Europe: The 1973 Common Market Match ...
(Stories)
... joined the European Economic Community (EEC) on January 1, 1973, a Wembley crowd of 36,500 watched an international friendly. The teams were “The Three”, comprising the home nations and fellow Common Market ...
Created on 18 August 2016
4. Gauliga Ostmark 1938-39 ...
(Season in brief)
... March 1938, the Austrian Nationalliga was renamed Gauliga Ostmark and became part of the German football pyramid. Jewish clubs such as Hakoah Vienna were disbanded mid-season and all references to Austria ...
Created on 21 April 2009
5. Defining Mark ...
(International football)
... get you so far. Same today. A midfield with three Christian names as sur­names, nearly four. David Phillips marks people, Peter Nicholas kicks them, Robbie James runs all day, Mick­ey Thomas runs and looks ...
Created on 14 April 2002
6. Call yourself a football fan? – Mark E Smith ...
(Fan culture)
Time for a chat with Mark E Smith of The Fall, whose football experiences include encounters with a goalkeeping plumber and a controversial match against the Icicle Works You grew up in Salford, which ...
Created on 14 March 2000
7. Italy’s VAR trial: 45 “game-changing” interventions and plenty of controversy
(Stories)
Embed from Getty Images Video technology has resulted in 18 penalties awarded, seven rescinded, ten red cards and ten disallowed goals but it is also removing emotion from Serie A 5 January ~ With ...
Created on 05 January 2018
8. Xherdan Shaqiri and Haris Seferovic key to Switzerland unlocking Northern Ireland
(Stories)
... of the occasion. The players have been remarking on how Windsor Park’s boisterous backing will lift the home team for the first leg but they appear eager to embrace the challenge. Switzerland’s all-round ...
Created on 09 November 2017
9. The Greatest Comeback: From genocide to football glory by David Bolchover
(Managers)
... as much as this is a portrait of a remarkable, brilliant, cantankerous human being, it is a lament for a lost world, “a vibrant Jewish Europe which no longer exists” whose achievements included an immense ...
Created on 19 July 2017
10. Idols And Underdogs: An anthology of Latin American football fiction
(General)
... for a Scottish publisher) are possibly in awe of, but is less remarkable to the rest of us. As for the stories themselves, they are the inevitable mixed bag: The Idol by José Hidalgo Pallares, from ...
Created on 15 March 2017
11. In praise of football’s famous trophies
(Stories)
...    Such symbolic status means cups have become trademarks, ambassadors, holy relics and political pawns. But, be it a local non-League shield or the Bundesliga’s distinctive Meisterschale, trophies ...
Created on 20 September 2016
12. Friendlies don’t need hype to make them worthwhile
(Stories)
...  attending friendlies. Does it make you a victim of cynical marketing or someone who sees beyond a fixture’s label? I’ve been locked out of two Rangers games in my life. One was a friendly. Maurice Johnston ...
Created on 08 August 2016
13. Blue Thunder & Big Jock
(Managers)
... mould, who did what was necessary to get the best out of his players. Murder Hill is cited so often as Wallace’s trademark fitness routine that these books leave you feeling like an out-of-shape ’Ger in ...
Created on 13 January 2016
14. Exposed At The Back
(Fiction)
by Arild Stavrum Freight Books, £14.99 Reviewed by Mark SandersonFrom WSC 343 September 2015 Buy this book   Perhaps the biggest criticism of ex-footballers working in the media today is that they ...
Created on 10 September 2015
15. Switzerland preview ~ World Cup 2014
(World Cup 2014)
... te marketing match too, Benaglio being not quite top of the range but comfortably above average and very reliable. Xherdan Shaqiri is becoming a one man brand – "XS" – and riding Bayern Munich's wave of su ...
Created on 15 June 2014
16. The Winning Touch
(Players)
My autobiography by Stevie Chalmers with Graham McColl Headline, £19.99 Reviewed by Mark PooleFrom WSC 314 April 2013 Buy this book   Stevie Chalmers scored the winning goal in the 1967 European ...
Created on 15 April 2013
17. Just cause
(Crowd control & policing)
... the HFSG, whose two daughters died that day, remarked that the findings showed that the whole affair was "much deeper and much dirtier than we ever thought possible". HFSG chair Margaret Aspinall, who ...
Created on 15 April 2013
18. Does Your Rabbi Know 
You're Here?
(General)
...  way he held the gun". Anthony Clavane's remarkable history of Jews in English football reminded me of Bruce, in that few Gentiles would think of Brian Glanville, David Pleat or David Dein as having ...
Created on 07 February 2013
19. Bolton Wanderers 3 Liverpool 1
(Match of the month)
...  the Reebok comes alive. Steven Gerrard fails to track Mark Davies’s run onto David Ngog’s deft lay-off and, with the Liverpool defence showing minimal interest, the diminutive midfielder scampers int ...
Created on 01 March 2012
20. Weekly Howl 10-02-12
(2012)
... Mark Bright. --- Badge of the week ~ Maiwand Kabul FC, Afghanistan Back in mid-20th century Afghanistan, in the wind-tossed province of Maiwand, close to the venerated city of Kabul, it was not unknown ...
Created on 15 February 2012

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