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From tildes to umlauts: Premier League players embrace shirt punctuation to show roots

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Be it an accent, umlaut or favoured nickname, many footballers have special requests as to how their name is printed

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From Delhi To The Den: The story of football’s most travelled coach

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by Stephen Constantine
De Coubertin, £12.99
Reviewed by Neil Andrews
From WSC 368, October 2017
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Scotland’s record of glorious failure perfect for Russia 2018 qualifying process

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Fluffed penalties, late goals and becoming the first nation to be eliminated from the World Cup finals without losing – Scotland are the best at missing out

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Badge of the week ~ 4.25 Sports Club, North Korea

425badge180The main task of North Korea’s junior minister for re-information is to refute everything ever said by French intellectuals. One year he did a special on Jean-Paul Sartre and began with Sartre’s assertion that “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do”. 

As it was a drowsy Friday afternoon, the junior minister simply made a quick call and renamed his local football team 4.25 Sports Club.

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Friendlies don’t need hype to make them worthwhile

“Competitions” such as the International Champions Cup miss the point of pre-season games

8 August ~ Last week I went to a football match in which nothing was won or lost, the pace was slow and the flow stilted by 13 substitutions. I’ve seen Burnley before. I’ve watched Rangers for decades. And I’ve attended more friendlies than most fans would think advisable in one lifetime. But when the post denied Burnley the chance to go 3-0 up after just 23 minutes I realised it could become the biggest defeat I’d ever seen my team suffer and that, consequently, I cared deeply about this match.

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