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Tights, trainers and turf thaw: how football clubs coped with the big freeze of 1978-79

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The extreme weather and nationwide strike action of the Winter of Discontent played havoc with the fixture list, but inspired some creative thinking from managers and players

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Adventures In The Golden Age by Archie Macpherson

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Scotland in the World Cup finals 1974-1998
Black and White, £11.99
Reviewed by Alan Patullo
From WSC 379, September 2018
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Graeme Souness – Football: my life, my passion

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by Graeme Souness
Headline, £9.99
Reviewed by Peter Brooksbank
From WSC 378, September 2018
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Scotland settle in to life as the warm-up act with only tiny glimmers of hope

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Friendlies against World Cup qualifiers Mexico and Peru highlight how much work Alex McLeish still has to do to get Scotland to a tournament

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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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