Bringing a ripple of class to help you through the winter, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Unlikely Footballers of the Year from The Oil Butcher to the Golden Fireman via Tony Book. Magazine Deputy Editor Ffion Thomas previews WSC issue 450, Record Breakers brings us a Brest banger and we continue our sprightly feature The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is Dutch football writer Joris van de Wier from Staantribune magazine.
In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Likeable Pundits and Co-commentators from Big Jack to Nedum Onuoha via David Pleat’s Limp Along Leslie. Record Breakers brings a Flanders fling and we continue our sprightly feature The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is Chris Black from Preston North End fanzine, The Nose Bag.
In this special Christmas episode – i.e. there is no guest because everyone was busy – magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Footballing Families, from Hinshelwoods to Carrs via the Hertfordshire Chilavert. Magazine Deputy Editor Ffion Thomas previews WSC issue 449 and Record Breakers brings us a Hartlepudlian hymn.
Illustration by Tim Bradford
You may never even find out their names, but the acquaintances you make on the terraces at your local non-League club are all part of the experience
Illustration by Jörn Kröger
From the language barrier to the cost of courses, getting back on the touchline after relocating from Norfolk to Andalucía was a learning curve