From a Bradford fan drawing Scunthorpe’s new badge on the way home from a match to Birmingham’s gas-engineer-design effort, it’s surprising that so many club badges were designed by supporters, as this extract from The Beautiful Badge explains
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 - Stories
The oldest club in the League have never been in the Premier League and probably never will be, so their last top-flight season is one that Martin Naylor savoured in WSC 216, February 2005
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Monday, April 16th, 2018 - Stories
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There was a time when strike partnerships rolled off the tongue like superheroes and clubs even thought foreign players should be kept in pairs, as Harry Pearson explains
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Thursday, December 21st, 2017 - Stories
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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Monday, November 13th, 2017 - Stories
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Despite its ability to raise public spirits, maintaining a coherent league programme proved problematic between 1939 and 1945 – and not just because of the constant threat of air attack
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 - Stories