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Stories

A small number of articles from each issue of When Saturday Comes are reproduced here. To get the full WSC experience, including free access to our digital archive, take out a subscription.

Free football-themed resources to help with home schooling children

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Keep the kids informed and entertained with decent football content

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“A wee cauldron of a stadium”: celebrating 30 years of St Johnstone’s McDiarmid Park

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Britain’s first purpose-built all-seat stadium was well ahead of its time when it opened in August 1989 and went on to serve as a blueprint for the post-Taylor Report football ground revolution

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WSC 397 out now

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April issue available now online and in store

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From stand-in linesman to actually scoring a goal: a debut season in veterans’ football

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We are now accepting entries for the 2020 WSC writers’ competition. By way of inspiration, here is Steve Keene’s winning entry from 2019, about his rediscovery of playing the game

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How Birmingham star Jeff Hall’s tragic death left a public health legacy

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The 29-year-old full-back’s sudden and avoidable death from polio in 1959 sparked a national clamour for inoculations and a dramatic fall in the number of cases of the disease

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