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Hell for leather: mystery surrounds the first ever World Cup final ball

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Eighty-eight years on, people are still confused about which football was used in the first ever World Cup final after an argument erupted between Argentina and Uruguay

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“There won’t be Nazis at Eintracht Frankfurt” – German club ban far-right voters

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A move by club present Peter Fischer to stop neo-nazis attending Eintracht Frankfurt matches has prompted a wider debate about political neutrality in German football

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Football doesn’t need VAR – it needs an end to referee-blaming culture

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Video technology was hailed as the saviour of football, until the next day when it was a shambles. Maybe the change the game really needs is not technological at all, as Sean Cole explained in the current issue of WSC

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Green Shoots: Irish football histories by Michael Walker

373 GreenShoots

De Coubertin Books, £20
Reviewed by John Morrow
From WSC 373, March 2018
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Italy’s VAR trial: 45 “game-changing” interventions and plenty of controversy

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Video technology has resulted in 18 penalties awarded, seven rescinded, ten red cards and ten disallowed goals but it is also removing emotion from Serie A

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