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American TV star Jesse McClure, from hit shows Storage Hunters and Storage Hunters UK, is encouraging young fans to get behind his adopted UK “soccer” club, Accrington Stanley.
Throughout February accompanied under-12s will receive a free limited edition talking Jess McClure doll worth £10 when they watch home games for free at the Wham Stadium. Sporting an Accrington Stanley-badged shirt under his trademark leather jacket, the plush doll speaks five phrases including “Accrington Stanley, the club that wouldn’t die!” and “Fight on Accy Stanley, never say die!”.
“Since working over here I’ve become a big fan,” said Jesse. “It’s my nature to side with the underdog and I love everything about the club – its fantastic history, the way it’s fought against the odds to survive, and most of all its army of fans. That’s one army I’m happy to enlist in!”
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by Bob Latchford
deCoubertin Books, £20
Reviewed by Mark O’Brien
From WSC 348 February 2016
Perhaps to its detriment, but thoroughly in keeping with its subject, Bob Latchford’s thoughtful, detailed autobiography shies away from drama and sensationalism and tells the story of a modest, unassuming Birmingham boy who became the most expensive player in British football.
The extraordinary life and times of Glenbuck and its famous sons
by Adam Powley and Robert Gillan
Pitch Publishing, £18.99
Reviewed by Graham McColl
From WSC 348 February 2016
With the Scottish football landscape currently ravaged almost beyond repair and Gordon Strachan, our jokey, England-based national-team manager telling us that Ikechi Anya and Scott Brown are talents to be reckoned with, it seems timely to be transported back to the village of Glenbuck. This was Bill Shankly’s childhood home and one that symbolises a footballing epoch – a century or so from the late Victorian era to the late 20th century – when Scotland produced reams of talented players from tight-knit working-class towns and villages, united by dangerous work in industry and an obsession with football.