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Japan’s Club World Cup highlights shift from traditional powerbases

Plenty of football-mad cities are yet to host major tournaments or finals, but FIFA and UEFA are increasingly indifferent to passionate fanbases

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Thirty years of Football Banning Orders have eroded fans’ freedoms

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New figures show that football-related arrests remain at an all-time low, but the ever-increasing powers of FBOs have had a huge impact on supporters’ basic rights

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From the archive ~ Football’s rocky long-term relationship with music

From The Cockney Rejects to Oasis via Half Man Half Biscuit – Richard Newson explored how football and music went from opposites to best friends

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From the archive: The cynicism and incompetence of the 1986 World Cup

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has recently unveiled plans to increased the World Cup from 40 to 48 teams. Back in 1986, in WSC 3, even 24 was deemed too many

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Overpowering crowd noises are a rare thing of beauty

It requires extremes of timing to drown out PA systems but nothing beats those roof-rattling, full-throated roars forced out by penalty box drama

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