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The beautiful game: Pelé, Didi and the origins of football’s most tiresome cliche

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Examining how the phrase came to be so commonplace tells us a lot about the way in which the sport developed and spread around the world

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Photo of the week ~ Building the new Holmesdale Stand at Selhurst Park

Crystal Palace Selhurst Park Holmesdale

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The Fall Of The House Of FIFA by David Conn

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Yellow Jersey Press, £16.99
Reviewed by Jon Driscoll
From WSC 367, September 2017
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Sweden musters strong defence against match-fixing after Allsvenskan scare

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It was thought criminals would not dare attempt to fix a top-level match, but IFK Gothenburg v AIK Stockholm was targeted and the authorities’ response has been swift

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From the archive ~ The enduring myth of Wembley’s wide open spaces

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Tottenham’s struggles at the national stadium follow similar problems for Arsenal in the late 1990s, but blaming it on pitch size is rubbish

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