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Hope for 2018 ~ part two

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No more gambling ads, reform in Spain and Italy, and England playing in the Football League – WSC contributors’ wishes for the year ahead

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The perils of being a child with parents who are not interested in football

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If you missed the 1978 World Cup final and don’t want to know the score, look away now. Al Needham’s dad preferred the seaside to the match, as he explained in WSC 199, September 2003

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“And Smith must score” – the worst misses are the ones that truly mattered

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There has been much talk about Neal Maupay’s miss for Brentford this weekend being one of the worst ever, but it is nothing compared to those in crunch games – as Cris Freddi described in WSC 151, September 1999

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Frank de Boer, Ronald Koeman and the strange decline of Dutch managers

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Formerly at the forefront of football innovation, the sackings of De Boer and Koeman have highlighted how quickly the Netherlands’ coaches are being left behind

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Referees’ tolerance of foul play annoyed fans and blighted 1950s matches

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Restrained use of yellow cards by officials meant any caution was headline news but that attitude was not always for the good of the game

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