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Stories
edited by Neville Gabie, Alan Ward and Jason Wood
Axis Projects, £30
Reviewed by Chris Stride
From WSC 371, January 2018
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The staginess of finals – sit behind the goal, wear your colours and hold up your part of the mosaic like good scenery should – is trickling downwards
Jon Spurling goes back to Boxing Day 1963, when 66 goals were scored in the First Division
As Christmas 1963 approached, weathermen warned a shivering nation to expect a recurrence of what had happened 12 months previously. The winter of 1962 was the worst since the big freeze of 1946, when the snow began on Boxing Day and wiped out football for virtually the next two and a half months. The occasional game was played here and there, but most were played out in the minds of the newly created Pools Panel, who met each weekend in a secret London location and guessed what each result might have been.
Chris Lines on Fulham’s scapegoating of fans after a ticketing shambles
Fast becoming football’s answer to the Harlem Globetrotters, September saw the Brazilian national team in London for an enticing friendly with Ghana at Fulham’s Craven Cottage. But for many supporters the occasion was marred by events outside the stadium.