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1. Outfield players in goal is one of football’s great unexpected joys
(Stories)
... seven subs (one of which is almost always a goalkeeper) can now be found on the heated seats of Premier League dugouts. Thankfully, the outfield player taking over in goal is not completely missing from ...
Created on 15 June 2017
2. Tales From The Dugout
(General)
... of the positioning of the home and away dugouts, and where the away fans sit, in terms of influencing the referee through his linesmen. More outlandishly, he regrets not having the manager’s bench at Hampden ...
Created on 07 March 2016
3. WSC 349 out now
(February 2016)
... reviews ~ Tony Currie; supporting two clubs; Cristiano Ronaldo; in the dugouts Availability WSC is the only nationally available independent football magazine in the UK, and you can get it monthly for a  ...
Created on 09 February 2016
4. Gateshead 1 Cambridge United 1
(Match of the month)
... een redeveloped over the years, but nothing much has been done to make football's role here look anything more than an afterthought. The "dugouts" are on wheels, the technical areas are matting, the e ...
Created on 01 November 2011
5. Sheffield Wednesday 2 Notts County 1
(Match of the month)
... th a new benefactor and promotion. In the dugouts are two managers with chequered pasts. For County, there is Martin "Mad Dog" Allen, in his seventh job in eight years, all but one of which were in the l ...
Created on 21 October 2011
6. Pick and mix
(Non-League)
... caster's Belle Vue closed, Blyth Spartans saved the turnstiles, Sheffield FC took the floodlights and Retford United found themselves with two (not so) new dugouts, and some of the ex-Roker Park seats made ...
Created on 21 October 2011
7. Sitting pretty
(Grounds)
... those who endured the plain wooden pews that were open to the elements at Molineux. They simply don’t offer the kind of snapshots that define an age or manager the way the old dugouts did. You can’t imagine ...
Created on 21 September 2010
8. World Cup 2010 TV diary – Knockout stages
(World Cup 2010)
... he dugouts at half-time with Maradona doing some peace-keeping of the “He’s not worth it, Martin” variety. By then Mexico are two down, Gonzalo Higuaín benefiting from a miscontrol by Ricardo Osorio;  ...
Created on 21 August 2010
9. Capital punishment
(Europe)
... Nuremberg in March, 150 fans stormed the pitch in the Olympiastadion and smashed up the dugouts. Less inhibited away from home, Hertha hammered reigning champions VfL Wolfsburg 5-1 in March but then missed ...
Created on 21 June 2010
10. Horden Colliery 0 Billingham Synthonia 2
(Match of the month)
... and Teesside commuter belts. Places like Morpeth and Stokesley, where there’s more money and fewer folk whose idea of a good evening’s entertainment is to set fire to the dugouts. Not that there’s any ...
Created on 21 December 2009
11. Swear on it
(Governing bodies)
... again.” Far more successful were three posters, introduced soon afterwards. The first, for each club’s refs’ room, read “No offence, gentlemen”; the second, for the dugouts, read “This is a no-swear box”; ...
Created on 21 October 2008
12. Language barrier
(Referees)
... referees. TV monitors have been removed from dugouts, while Sky, Setanta and the BBC will make use of ex-referees to help all those pundits still unaware that a player doesn’t have to be “the last man” ...
Created on 21 October 2008
13. Workington Town 0 Boston Utd 1
(Match of the month)
... version of the Z Cars theme that lurches into The Final Countdown. In the main stand opposite the dugouts a man in an astrakhan hat enthusiastically greets the players by spinning an ancient red-and-white ...
Created on 21 April 2008
14. Wales under John Toshack
(Euro 2008)
... press conferences, sit in cold dugouts or submit to regular contact with Craig Bellamy. This, though, is Wales, where the man in the national coconut-shy is the rugby coach. More than a few observers have ...
Created on 10 December 2007
15. New year revolutions
(Miscellaneous)
... these are all very new and deeply undesirable things. Only the reintroduction of proper dug-out dugouts, populated by scowling men in horrible coats, can put an end to it all. Not to mention a three-day ...
Created on 14 February 2007
16. Letters, WSC 225
(Readers' letters)
... or care where the money that backs their club originates? The away fans were not “shunted” into the Shed End seating because Jose Mourinho wanted them away from the dugouts, but as part of a rethink brought ...
Created on 14 November 2005
17. Chelsea 4 West Brom 0
(Match of the month)
... est Brom fans – shunted into a corner away from the dugouts, rumour has it, on the orders of José Mourinho – is likely to have a bad word to say about it. For a start the market brought them Michael Essien  ...
Created on 14 October 2005
18. Letters, WSC 185
(Readers' letters)
... three seconds after coming on as a substitute in April 1993. As I recall, the dugouts at Leeds Road were conventionally situated near the centre line, so to achieve this amazing feat Starbuck would have ...
Created on 14 July 2002
19. Two ground extremes
(Webwatch)
... which appears to have dugouts in its front garden, and the scruffy charms of weed-pocked terracing at places like Yoker Athletic FC in Clydebank. Click on Grand Schemes to follow projects either planned ...
Created on 14 April 2001
20. Letters, WSC 170
(Readers' letters)
... an expert at wheedling into dugouts and slipping past police cordons for those post-match and mid-match interviews, but could someone please supply him with questions worthy of the interviewee? The man ...
Created on 14 April 2001

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