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Illustration by Steve Beerling

The winning entry in our 2023 writers’ competition celebrated father-daughter days out at the football. Entries are now open for the 2024 competition

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Taking a break from reading the match reports of Dmitri Shostakovich, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Last Days and Season Ends, from Basque delight to flip flops in Paisley, via the bonkers Bundesliga of 1999. Record Breakers brings a West Flanders wonder, WSC Deputy Editor Ffion Thomas takes us inside the pages of magazine issue 431 and we continue our giddy 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 the Times newspaper’s Scottish football correspondent, and author of Fergie Rises, Michael Grant.

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Mariner Books, £25
Reviewed by Jonathan O’Brien
From WSC 427, January 2023
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TRUK United line up with Dulwich Hamlet Women before their friendly in March. Alamy

The Alternative Football League and clubs such as Manchester Laces show demand is there but players still face huge hurdles to wider participation

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Pitch Publishing, £18.99
Reviewed by Huw Richards
From WSC 426, November/December 2022
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