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Life during wartime: how the Second World War exposed football’s regional divides

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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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Outside The Box: A statistical journey through the history of football

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by Duncan Alexander
Cornerstone, £16.99
Reviewed by Gordon Cairns
From WSC 369, November 2017
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Remembering when Pierre van Hooijdonk went AWOL from Nottingham Forest

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Players use a variety of tactics to agitate for moves but they don’t always work out, as Forest fans who remember Van Hooijdonk’s transfer saga can testify

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From the archive ~ Traditional floodlights are a sad casualty of modern stadiums

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A proper football ground should have prominent floodlights, argued Simon Inglis in WSC 196, June 2003 – otherwise how will away fans find the match?

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From the archive ~ Blackburn Olympic: the first northern FA Cup winners

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Many early FA Cup triumphs are footnotes of a bygone age but, as Tom Green explained in WSC 236, Blackburn Olympic’s 1883 win was a turning point for the game

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