Contemplating using a Fat Rascal to dislodge a ball from a tree, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss footballing light entertainers, from the tantalising conversion of Bobby Hoy via Spike Rawlings of Barrow and the Peter Beardsley pantomime experience. WSC Deputy Editor Ffion Thomas takes us inside the pages of magazine issue 429, Record Breakers brings Wearside wailing and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is the writer, broadcaster and West Brom fanatic Adrian Goldberg.

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In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Impact Subs, from Bobby Knox of Barrow to Libbra the Leo. Record Breakers brings us a Lucerne lullaby, and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is Phil Catchpole, Wycombe Wanderers Head of Audio and Broadcast, and presenter of their Ringing the Blues podcast.

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Fashioning a goal from Mini Twiglets and asking a Jelly Baby to be keeper, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss great players who were terrible managers, from Jackie Milburn’s Ipswich to Gazza’s Kettering via Lothar Matthäus’ Cameroon canoodle problem. Record Breakers brings a ballad from Brann, and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is BBC Newcastle’s Sunderland commentator, Nick Barnes.

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The Pompey pub club offices and matching clubhouse, with its mock-Tudor frontage, at Fratton Park. Colin McPherson/WSC Photos

For 125 years, opposition players and managers have left the Archibald Leitch-designed south coast stadium with the Pompey Chimes ringing in their ears

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Ronnie Radford celebrates his wonder goal for Hereford against Newcastle as supporters invade the Edgar Street pitch. Alamy

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