THE HALF DECENT FOOTBALL MAGAZINE

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Potentially Switzerland’s best ever team go into their World Cup qualifying play-off with confidence but are not yet good enough to let that become complacency

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Despite its ability to raise public spirits, maintaining a coherent league programme proved problematic between 1939 and 1945 – and not just because of the constant threat of air attack

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Only via the FA Cup and only in the 1970s could Leatherhead make such an impact on the public imagination, as Jon Spurling explained in WSC 232, June 2006

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Despite their disastrous early season under Frank de Boer showed up Eagles’ shortcomings but reverting to a familiar style is slowly working

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The 376-page book takes you on a journey through Sweden via hundreds of photos of picturesque grounds, old stands, matches, players and more

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How could the best footballer in the school end up doing DIY while a wet-nosed, scabby-kneed boy went on to much bigger things? Howard Pattison explained in WSC 266, April 2009

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The racism and anti-semitism highlighted by Lazio’s fans and owner runs deeper than one club in Italy and all too often flourishes inside stadiums

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

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Bacup Borough v Holker Old Boys ~ by Colin McPherson

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CARTOONS

369 TBBy Tim Bradford

REVIEWS

370 KanchelskisRussian Winters by Andrei Kanchelskis

BADGE OF THE WEEK

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SV Walking Boyz Company, Suriname