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Working Class Heroes: The story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid’s forgotten team

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by Robbie Dunne
Pitch Publishing, £9.99
Reviewed by Huw Richards
From WSC 374, March 2018
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Outdated attitudes mean football fans still tolerate unfair treatment by police

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The steel pens and baton charges of the 1980s may be gone, but harsh and degrading actions by authorities are still part of the match day experience

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Forget Panini – there’s a new type of football sticker to obsess over

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We are now accepting entries for the 2018 WSC writers’ competition. By way of inspiration, here is Matt Johnson’s runner-up entry from 2017, about a a new phenomenon of global football culture sweeping the streets

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Great football sitcoms are in short supply because fans’ teams are tragic enough

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There are plenty of good comedy writers who love football but almost all shows on the subject come up short, which is no surprise given the role the game plays in supporters’ lives – as Dave Cohen explained in WSC 336, February 2015

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Australia can celebrate reaching 2018 World Cup for now but trouble looms

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With the future of head coach Ange Postecoglou still uncertain, the team still relying on Tim Cahill and a stagnant A-League, all is not well for the Socceroos

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