WSC 232 June 2006
Free World Cup 2006 wallchart
Plus 1966 World Cup Photo Pull-out
Editorial We get an FA as weak and hopeless as the clubs want us to
have
Diary Middlesbrough’s UEFA Cup euphoria; West Ham recall the
John Lyall years; Pompey’s great escape; Chelsea take the title;
no World Cup for Wayne?
Shot! Conference clubs win promotion,
face the play-offs or fear relegation
Sidelines Shirt sponsors splash the cash; Accrington Stanley back
in the big time; Steaua Bucharest’s European Cup hero; Gabby goes
goth and the Beeb launch a Wenger wild-goose chase
José Mourinho Just how special is the Chelsea boss considered
in his native Portugal
Promoted to the Prem UEFA pass the buck on sectarian songs; Swans
players in trouble for Cardiff taunts
Rangers & Swansea Hopes that the English expedition to Germany
will pass off peacefully; plus the host nation’s coach, Jürgen
Klinsmann, under pressure
Shot! Archive Preston legend Tom Finney plays through the spray,
in a photograph and in bronze
Match Of The Month Leyton Orient and Grimsby square up for League
Two’s last promotion place
World Cup Ticket Shortage A global problem caused by FIFA sponsors
As Good As It Got Leatherhead Revisited: FA Cup heroes achieve
unlikely TV fame in 1974-75
World Cup Headlines The man with the trophy transplant, animals
caught cheating and other stories
Letter from... Mexico, where a national hero has been left out
of his country’s World Cup squad
Book Reviews Scottish nostalgia for Argentina 78; clever writers
help us understand the World Cup; Sir Alf Ramsey; the Italian way of football
A Season In Brief Verona’s sole Serie A triumph, in 1984-85
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