WSC 218 April 2005
Editorial Players who always blame someone else
Diary Sven draws a blank; Martin Allen takes the plunge; José
R falls for the Spanish Jeremy Beadle; José M wins the big one
Shot! The stresses of last month’s
battles against relegation, told in pictures
Sidelines North Korea and Japan try to make friends; PSG at war
with supporters; UK islands with international ambitions; Grimsby, Swindon
and Stockport struggle on
Playing for Survival A Labour spin doctor’s bid to save football
at Cambridge and the player’s dad doing the same at Northwich Victoria
Foreign Relations How UEFA’s new bid to promote home-grown
players could take football back to law and internationalise national
sides; Arsenal’s all-foreign squad
Glazer Returns... ...but Manchester United fans remain determined
that the stay won’t be a long or productive one
Shot! Archive Chelsea's first Russian visitors
Scandal in Germany The disgrace of referee Robert Hoyzer and the
chaos his match-fixing “confessions” have left behind. Plus,
the allegations hanging over Turkey coach Ersun Yanal
Match Of The Month Hibernian can outclass Dundee – but can
they, or anyone in Scotland, seriously challenge the Old Firm?
As Good As It Got The greatest non-League FA Cup run since before
the First World War, when Blyth were seconds away from the quarter-finals
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The Strange Case of... Rafael Scheidt, John Barnes’s biggest
mistake at Celtic, despite the competition
Book Reviews Sex, lies and footballers; feet, mouths and commentators;
grounds nostalgia; an astonishingly bad biog of Thierry Henry
A Season In Brief “Neil” Hislop helps Reading win Division
Two, while Fulham slip into the basement
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