Pelé acknowledges his fans as he boards the bus with wife Rosa. Alamy
Almost half a century ago, a touring Santos side met their match in a feisty friendly in front of a capacity crowd at Home Park
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Diego Maradona, Allan Simonsen and Bernd Schuster ahead of the 1982-83 season at Barcelona. Getty Images
Diego Maradona’s room-mate at Barcelona drove them to domestic and European glory before a spat with Terry Venables ended in him joining their bitter rivals
Arsenal goalkeeper Pat Jennings holds aloft the champagne presented to him to celebrate 1,000 appearances. Alamy
After a trophy-laden spell at White Hart Lane ended in shock relegation the supposedly declining Northern Ireland No 1 found a new lease of life at Highbury
Terrified at the thought of a Cabbage Patch Kid uprising, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss unlikely cup finalists, from the London XI to Catanzaro via Bobby Gould’s tears and Johnny Crossan’s Tongeren insomnia. WSC Assistant Editor Ffion Thomas delves into the pages of magazine issue 422, Record Breakers brings delight from Denmark, 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 Suzy Wrack, Guardian sportswriter and author of the new book, A Woman’s Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women’s Football.
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