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Great football sitcoms are in short supply because fans’ teams are tragic enough

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There are plenty of good comedy writers who love football but almost all shows on the subject come up short, which is no surprise given the role the game plays in supporters’ lives – as Dave Cohen explained in WSC 336, February 2015

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The strange case of Igor Belanov – the least remembered Ballon d’Or winner

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Belanov possessed incredible power and speed but, playing for an unfashionable team, his 1986 Ballon d’Or was a shock – as was his rapid decline

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If Only: An alternative history of the beautiful game

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by Simon Turner
Pitch Publishing, £9.99
Reviewed by Tony Curran
From WSC 366, August 2017
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It’s time for UK footballers to follow US athletes and get political

NFL players such as Colin Kaepernick have become powerful voices in American political life, yet in the UK footballers seem unwilling to follow suit

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Our hopes for 2017 ~ part two

Scrap the Checkatrade Trophy and introduce retrospective punishment for diving – more of our writers on what they want to see in 2017

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