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Remembering Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly – the pioneering football magazine

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In WSC 237, November 2006, Simon Inglis traced the life of the first half-decent football magazine and the player and broadcaster who brought it into existence

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Dalglish & Rush, Summerbee & Lee, Warboys & Bannister – where have the great duos gone?

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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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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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Referees’ tolerance of foul play annoyed fans and blighted 1950s matches

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Restrained use of yellow cards by officials meant any caution was headline news but that attitude was not always for the good of the game

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Mesut Özil: Gunning for greatness – my life

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by Mesut Özil 
with Kai Psotta
Hodder & Stoughton £15.99
Reviewed by David Stubbs
From WSC 365, July 2017
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