When Saturday Comes #414

Features
Two by four
A biennial World Cup is all about cash

Spur of the moment
Jimmy Greaves had that rare intuitive ability to find the back of the net

Say it with your chest
The shirts sending the wrong message

Match of the month
Protests outside as troubled Oldham Athletic welcome Hartlepool United

Suffolk punch
How geography denied Lowestoft Ladies the chance to build on success

George Curtis’s Coventry contribution; sticking with the Sky Blues from afar

Object lessons
A strictly neutral Queen’s Park scarf

Job satisfaction
The utility player’s unheralded role

Euro vision
2021 WSC readers’ survey results

 

Regulars
Editorial
While gambling sponsors may soon be forced out, crypto currency companies are creeping into the game

Sidelines

Derby and Reading’s grounds for divorce; fan ownership wins Hearts and minds; the grassroots film missing its mark; England over-60s’ walk in the park

Shot!
FA Cup underdogs Ware host Hemel Hempstead Town

Harry Pearson column
Own goal scorers will look back and laugh – eventually

Focus on
Roberto Mancini, a creative force at Sampdoria and Lazio

World view
Lukas Podolski keeps his promise to Gornik Zabrze

Books

Nostalgic memories of Peter Barnes; stories from a season in the Championship; a globetrotting football tour

Letters
Is there any point in checking studs anymore, with these new-fangled boots with moulded studs...

Season in brief
Bucharest’s big three are denied by Cluj in 2007-08