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Editorial: Paddy Power’s shirt stunt reflects gambling’s insidious hold on the game

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The bookmaker’s garish sponsorship of a short-lived Huddersfield Town kit got them the publicity they wanted, as the latest example of how betting has embedded itself in football

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State Of Play: Under the skin of the modern game by Michael Calvin

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Century, £16.99
Reviewed by Neil Andrews
From WSC 380, November 2018
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Micky Adams: My life in football

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by Micky Adams & Neil Moxley
Biteback Publishing, £20
Reviewed by Neville Hadsley
From WSC 372, February 2018
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Fighting, drinking, racing horses and carts: past players were not well behaved

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The idea that modern footballers misbehave more often than their predecessors is a myth, as Steve Field explained in WSC 170, April 2001

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Yesterday’s men that embraced Tomorrow’s World – when Leatherhead hit the big time

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Only via the FA Cup and only in the 1970s could Leatherhead make such an impact on the public imagination, as Jon Spurling explained in WSC 232, June 2006

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