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From knotweed to music fans – how even top clubs’ pitches used to suffer

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With Mauricio Pochettino complaining about Rochdale’s pitch, it’s worth looking back at when most playing surfaces were a mess – as Mike Whalley explained in WSC 362, April 2017

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Forcing away ends out of modern grounds is hurting the game’s atmosphere

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In WSC 294, August 2011, Andrew Woods lamented the decline of the visiting supporters’ section, something that modern clubs just want out of the way

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From Arsenal to Bishop’s Stortford: the strange case of Christopher Wreh

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Having played a key role in Arsène Wenger’s 1998 triumphs, the striker became virtually anonymous and also larger than life, as Ian Davey discovered in WSC 212, October 2004

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Herbert Chapman: the Huddersfield and Arsenal manager who shaped English football

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Few football men can be claimed to have died as a result of their desire for power and few have had as lasting an impact as Herbert Chapman, as Barney Ronay explains

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From the archive ~ The enduring myth of Wembley’s wide open spaces

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Tottenham’s struggles at the national stadium follow similar problems for Arsenal in the late 1990s, but blaming it on pitch size is rubbish

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