- 1. WSC 382 out now
- (Stories)
- ... a huge conurbation, keen to assert its own identity but never quite able to do it. To locals, this is the door between Birmingham’s urban sophistication and the beer-swilling, parsnip-chewing badlands ...
- Created on 06 December 2018
- 2. From dreaded cup draws to weather watching – the life of a stadium manager
- (Stories)
- ... a club official who opened the club shop at half time so I could buy the headwear needed to survive the arctic blasts. My biggest security worry was when I won a crate of beer in a raffle and had to carry ...
- Created on 13 November 2018
- 3. From Sunday league shouts to ultras karaoke – exploring the sounds of football
- (Stories)
- ... want to go and have a beer” – of the Aylesbury and District, North Berks, and Oxfordshire Senior Football Leagues. In both its listenable and readable elements, however, equal weighting is afforded to ...
- Created on 08 October 2018
- 4. Adventures In The Golden Age by Archie Macpherson
- (International )
- ... tales to emerge from various Scotland camps. He saw drunken escapades, once while sitting have a beer with John Motson. “Down the short flight of stairs leading into the well of the bar came the Scottish ...
- Created on 05 October 2018
- 5. WSC 378 out now ~ Biggest ever issue! New season guide, World Cup review & extra pages
- (Stories)
- ... | Fan predictions | What would make your club more popular Plus World Cup review Tournament diary | England's social media stars | Mixed emotions for a part-time fan | Beers spill: watching on a b ...
- Created on 02 August 2018
- 6. First Hand: My life and Irish football by Eoin Hand with Jared Browne
- (Managers)
- ... Atlason, his Icelandic counterpart, sitting on a couch at a house party in Reykjavik hours after a European Championship qualifier between the countries in 1983. Beers had been drunk and they were both ...
- Created on 20 March 2018
- 7. From the archive ~ Mark E Smith interview: So you call yourself a football fan?
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- ... some clubs, something that wasn’t there in Britain. And you get big pints of beer at German matches for, like, 25p, and a nice clean sausage. I saw Germany v Bulgaria at the 1994 World Cup. What a day ...
- Created on 25 January 2018
- 8. Hope for 2018 ~ part two
- (Stories)
- ... Cup. That they’re not cooped up in their hotel and are allowed the freedom to explore; hell, even have a beer or two – although given the reports this might be the World Cup you’re actually better off ...
- Created on 01 January 2018
- 9. The best and worst moments of 2017 ~ part one
- (Stories)
- ... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Embed from Getty Images Best The brief moment in the early hours of Saturday October 7 when, carried away by the heady cocktail of an away win, cheap Georgian beer, little sleep and Tbil ...
- Created on 22 December 2017
- 10. We Are Sunday League by Ewan Flynn
- (General)
- ... game with the rise of his Wizards, but it’s when he breaks away to tell these stories that he is most successful at steering We Are Sunday League towards the beer-drenched, mud-splattered soul of the amateur ...
- Created on 18 October 2017
- 11. From the archive ~ Blackburn Olympic: the first northern FA Cup winners
- (Stories)
- ... their diet (lots of oysters, no beer) and got them as fit as possible. Formation was another area for innovation. While most teams played with six up front, Hunter’s Olympic dropped one back into midfield ...
- Created on 23 May 2017
- 12. From the archive ~ The five ages of being a football fan
- (Stories)
- ... the six hours that going to a 90-minute game now demands. You’ll save yourself from drinking cold, crappy beer from a plastic beaker. You’ll save yourself from the bloke next to you who hasn’t washed his ...
- Created on 24 April 2017
- 13. From the archive ~ Walk on the wild side: the art of pitch invading
- (Stories)
- ... st certain that I would turn to face my onlookers and start wobbling my beer gut, rubbing my crotch or doing any of the other things I have seen in the last few years. Maybe Edmund Hillary, on the summit ...
- Created on 09 January 2017
- 14. Thirty years of Football Banning Orders have eroded fans’ freedoms
- (Stories)
- ... managing the “hooligan firms” (there is also some anecdotal evidence from those engaging in football violence to support this). However what about the fan who drinks a bottle of beer while watching the ...
- Created on 25 November 2016
- 15. From the archive ~ The joy of nets, from playing in gardens to Wembley
- (Stories)
- ... hold over people like me (if there are any), but it can bring out the strangest behaviour in Sunday morning players. Have you noticed the Sabbath sight of squat beer drinkers in shorts jumping up and down ...
- Created on 31 October 2016
- 16. Football’s harsh alcohol laws unfairly criminalise fans
- (Stories)
- ... read Amanda Jacks’ full blog on the Football Supporters’ Federation site here. Photo by Paul Thompson/WSC photography: Leicester fans enjoying a free beer provided for home fans by the clubs owners ...
- Created on 13 October 2016
- 17. Non-League fanfunding campaign for Prostate Cancer UK
- (Stories)
- ... matches to get in the way. Free tickets, free beer and even free mushrooms have been offered to encourage new fans to check out a non-League match and to show that football can still be fun and doesn’t ...
- Created on 09 August 2016
- 18. Interventionist Football Deity ~ Ireland v Italy
- (Videos)
- ... d beer. Obviously, due to his non-existence, it's impossible for him to get involved in the Ireland v Italy final group game… M067ocMgLoQ Video by Tim Bradford Subscribe to WSC on YouTube ...
- Created on 23 June 2016
- 19. Reports of violence don’t tell full story in Lille
- (Stories)
- ... and drinking beer. A Preston North End flag was tied against one of the windows. Three semi-circles of people surrounded them. The first was made up of bored-looking riot police, checking their nails ...
- Created on 15 June 2016
- 20. WSC 353 out now
- (Stories)
- ... ley 3 Millwall 1 League One play-off final "On the train to Wembley. There’s been little evidence that a match is taking place in London thus far, except for a small claque of Barnsley fans emitting beer od ...
- Created on 14 June 2016
