WSC 230 April 2006
Editorial The resignation of Florentino Pérez and the game’s
triumph over celebrity culture
Diary Shearer and Henry break records; Wembley not open for business;
Stamford Bridge bogged down; O’Neill for England?
Shot! The big push for promotion, from
the Championship to the Conference
Sidelines Ron Greenwood remembered; watching matches live on computer;
the shortage of City investors in football’s surviving plcs; Ian
Wright just won’t sit still
Manchester United divided The emigration of fans from Old Trafford
to Bury, home of FC United; plus Real Madrid supplant United in a rich
list
Anti-Semitism The problems presented by the use of one word on
both sides of north London; plus race as an issue in Israeli football
African Cup of Nations A home triumph for Egypt, but a poor showing
by some World Cup qualifiers
Shot! Archive Gordon Banks grabs a four-legged invader
Match Of The Month The Sheffield derby sees a result that could
help both sides leave the Championship, but by different routes
Cambridge and Colchester Resistance to a proposed merger by the
Cam; the Us bid to leave Layer Road
The Final Scores The decline of teletext and the closure of Newcastle’s
Saturday night football Pink
Fanzines To mark the 20th anniversary of WSC, a look at the heyday
of ’zines and how some have survived the internet boom
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Letter from... Belgium, beset by a match-fixing scandal
Book Reviews A 1960s classic; Dishy Des; Munich disaster aftermath;
the appliance of science
A Season In Brief The Spanish league enters an era of Basque dominance
in 1980-81 as a Real Madrid star falls flat
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