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Harry Pearson column: Fans can’t get enough of ludicrous excuses for defeats

375 Harry

From managers avoiding promotion to dodgy referees, supporters love making up exotic reasons for why their team have lost

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From the archive ~ Mark E Smith interview: So you call yourself a football fan?

 

Mark E Smith, frontman of The Fall, has died aged 60. He was a long-term reader of WSC and left a legacy which included some contributions to the magazine over the years. In WSC 157, March 2000, Mark discussed his football experiences, which included encounters with a goalkeeping plumber and a controversial match against the Icicle Works

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Fighting, drinking, racing horses and carts: past players were not well behaved

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The idea that modern footballers misbehave more often than their predecessors is a myth, as Steve Field explained in WSC 170, April 2001

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What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley

371 ThinkFootball

Profile Books, £8.99
Reviewed by Charles Morris
From WSC 371, January 2018
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The Title: The story of the First Division by Scott Murray

370 FirstDivision

Bloomsbury, £16.99
Reviewed by Jon Driscoll
From WSC 370, December 2017
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