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In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray consider the topic What Were They Thinking?, from Scotland’s 1950 World Cup qualification calamity to Richard Dinnis of St James’ Park via the Roy Hodgson/Sammy Lee evolution chart. Record Breakers brings us a Leicester lullaby, and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is Dan MacLennan of Carlisle United podcast The Brunton Bugle.
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Reviewed by Marcus Haydon
From WSC 427, January 2023
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Illustration by Matt Littler
Returning to non-League after 2020’s enforced absence heightened the senses of matchday, as told in this extract from the new book The Silence of the Stands
Uwe Seeler captains West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final. Offside
The countless goals scored for both Hamburg and Germany by “Our Uwe”, who died in July, were matched by off-field charm as he became a national institution