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Reviewed by Tom Lines
From WSC 418, March 2022
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Taking time out from their hunt for Newcastle United’s missing fluorescent tabards, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray talk Caretaker and Saviour Managers, from the Spanish Tony Parkes to Frank Barlow’s honeymoon period via adairs, Houdinis and Keystone Cops. WSC Deputy Editor Tom Hocking delves into the pages of magazine issue 419, Record Breakers brings marching from Munich, and in our sort-of new feature The Final Third, author Jon Spurling selects this episode’s match, player, object and snack for the WSC Museum of Football.
In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Footballers’ Restaurants and Other Business Pursuits, from Joe Mercer’s bacon boning to Gennaro Gattuso’s fisherman’s blues. Record Breakers brings Amsterdam perspective, and sort-of new feature The Final Third sees Charlotte Cromarty from Rochdale podcast The Dale Way donate a match, player and object to the WSC Museum of Football.
