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Remembering Kenner Sportstars – the football toys that captured a moment in time

384 KennerSportstars

This endearingly anachronistic range of player figurines may have lacked accuracy and interactivity, but they provided an early window into the world of football

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Suffering fools: the feeling of defeat lingers for so long in football

376 Cameron 

It’s hard to maintain dignity every time your team lose, with either loud or quiet moods impossible to shake off for adults who should know better

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From the archive ~ It’s time to admit football scenes in movies don’t work

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Never mind Escape To Victory, Mike Bassett or Jimmy Grimble – where’s our Raging Bull, our This Sporting Life? Even a Seabiscuit would do

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If Only: An alternative history of the beautiful game

366 IfOnly

by Simon Turner
Pitch Publishing, £9.99
Reviewed by Tony Curran
From WSC 366, August 2017
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From the archive ~ Remembering Jossy’s Giants: ground evictions and girl problems

 

Glipton’s teenage stars captivated a generation of adolescents with their comic microcosm of the evolving football world in the late 1980s

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