WSC 434 – New season special

Double magazine pack!

New season special
• How will each team get on? • What would you do if you owned the club? • Who should be the shirt sponsor?
• Premier League • EFL • National League • Scottish Premiership • WSL • Women’s Championship

Features
Weight lifting Dele speaking out shows why critics must not be so quick to judge players
Lions club Gareth Southgate’s England on stage
Blues brother Remembering Trevor Francis
Like father, like daughter Our 2023 writers’ competition winner on the football routines of parenthood
View from the stands Our writers’ competition runners-up: the curious world of college soccer; caught on camera by a match vlogger
Top corner Let’s get back to TV scoreboard basics
Object lessons Patience was a virtue with Play-By-Mail
National treasure Under Craig Brown’s leadership, Scotland fans believed once more

Regulars
Editorial Get set for the FA Cup to be diminished again
Sidelines Qualifying for Europe causes multi-club ownership drama; Southend in limbo; the Refugee World Cup; what it’s really like inside a mascot costume
Shot! Matlock Town host Buxton in a pre-season local derby
Harry Pearson column Anyone can be a tactics expert these days – and they certainly know how to spot a player
The perfect shot Sneaking a peek outside Villa Park in 1981
World view Mixed fortunes in the Belenenses break-up fallout; Irish football prepares to invest in infrastructure
Books Franz Beckenbauer by thirds; Scotland’s road to Euro 2020; revealing the story of the Mitropa Cup
Letters We continued to call him Derek Piero…
Season in brief Juventus take their Serie B punishment in 2006-07