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Ferry terminal: remembering the short-lived Cross-Channel League

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A brief taste of European football for Kent’s non-League clubs was scuppered by logistics in the early 1970s

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Episode 55: Unusual XIs & flat sharing with Jimmy Hill – plus guest Charlie Baker

Taking time out from pondering which footballer’s haircut to get at the barbers’, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Representative XIs, B-Teams and C-Teams, from Jim Baxter versus the Nordics to Great Britain taking on Europe, via a flat share with Jimmy Hill. WSC Assistant Editor Ffion Thomas delves into the pages of magazine issue 418, Record Breakers brings rhymes from Reims, and we continue our nearly-new 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 comedian and radio presenter, Charlie Baker, who also discusses falling for the Vanarama and being the son of a man with an advertising hoarding at a Football League ground.

If you enjoyed this and would like more, you can sign up to the WSC Supporters’ Club for as little as £2 per month. There are great rewards, including bonus episodes, extended editions, badges, T-shirts and photo prints.

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WSC 418 out now

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March issue available now online and in store

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Episode 54: Stan Bowles chest prods and Aston Villa’s baseball champions – plus guest DN35 podcast

In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Dramatic Exits from unknowable biker entity Peter Wilson to Carlos Roa’s apocalypse via a chest prod for Stan Bowles. They also talk other sports in football grounds and oldest managers, while Record Breakers brings mourning from Milan. Nearly-new feature The Final Third sees Alex Green from Grimsby Town podcast DN35 donate a match, player and object to the WSC Museum of Football.

The only way to hear this episode is to sign up for the WSC Supporters’ Club for as little as £2 per month. There are great rewards, including bonus episodes, extended editions, badges, T-shirts and photo prints.

“It’s a conversation that needs to be had”: Her Game Too campaign fighting sexism in football

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Abuse on social media sparked a group of female fans into action – and their message is gathering pace

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