WSC 233 July 2006
Free World Cup 2006 Guide
Editorial What we love to hate about the World Cup
Diary Arsenal edged out by Barça; Liverpool lift the FA Cup;
muddled messages about Rooney’s metatarsal; Watford back in the Premiership;
Hereford end their exile
Shot! Mixed feelings at the play-off semis
Sidelines Theo Walcott, teenager of the year; UEFA review; Spurs
scuppered by a virus; Joe Royle in Suffolk on sufferance
Boro Blocked Middlesbrough’s traumatic UEFA Cup final defeat
to Sevilla as viewed from a parched press centre
Conference Call Two decades of automatic promotion to and relegation
from the Football League’s fourth tier: two decades of thrilling
survival, heart-rending failure and steps into a brave new full-time professional
world
World Cup Countdown Why Brazil’s star names are the cornerstone
of Nike’s corporate marketing; how Sven is perceived in his homeland;
the nation cowers under the onslaught of awful songs backing England
Shot! Archive A scene from Highbury in its Seventies heyday, as
Arsenal move on after 93 years
Football League Review Observing the trends in the League’s
three divisions – not a vintage year, on the whole
World Cup Ticket Shortage A global problem caused by FIFA sponsors
As Good As It Got The season QPR would have been champions, but
for a slip-up at Carrow Road, Norwich, in April 1976
World Cup Headlines The man with the trophy transplant, animals
caught cheating and other stories
Letter from... Italy, where investigations into a complex network
of corruption may see Juventus and other top clubs relegated and cast
a shadow over the national team in Germany
Book Reviews Famous wearers of the No 10 shirt; Martin Peters,
the unheralded star of ’66; Bryan Robson tells his story; a personal
journey through Italian football
A Season In Brief France 1992-93, where Marseille are stripped
of the title but win the first Champions League
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