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Johnny Haynes: Portrait of a football genius by James Gardner

369 JohnnyHaynes

Pitch Publishing, £18.99
Reviewed by Neil Hurden
From WSC 369, November 2017
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The beautiful game: Pelé, Didi and the origins of football’s most tiresome cliche

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Examining how the phrase came to be so commonplace tells us a lot about the way in which the sport developed and spread around the world

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Fearless

357 FearlessThe amazing underdog story of Leicester City, the greatest miracle 
in sports history
by Jonathan Northcroft
Headline, £20
Reviewed by Paul Rees
From WSC 357 November 2016

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The glut of books purporting to analyse Leicester City’s Premier League title triumph has been as inevitable as the 2015-16 domestic season was unpredictable. Relatively, Jonathan Northcroft, a widely respected football writer with the Sunday Times, has taken his time with Fearless.

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From the archive: The cynicism and incompetence of the 1986 World Cup

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has recently unveiled plans to increased the World Cup from 40 to 48 teams. Back in 1986, in WSC 3, even 24 was deemed too many

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WSC 356 out now

October issue available online and in stores

wsc356The new WSC is out now, in all good newsagents or available to order from the WSC shop.

– Clubs and other sports
– High times at Huddersfield
– World Cup boycott begins
– Dalian Atkinson tribute
– Non-League in Hertfordshire
– YouTube football at Wembley

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