WSC No 276, February 2010

Contents 4 EditorialMiltonKeynes gets FA support 6 Shot!

The Europa League on a cold night in Berlin 8 Sidelines

The World Cup approaches; Craig Levein; FIFA expulsions; football on Facebook 12 Portsmouth pandemonium

“Fans greet each other warmly, people say ‘thank you’ when you stand to let them pass and bonhomie reigns unabated” Match of the month Fulham v Man Utd p20

Attempting to understand the club’s rapid decline and depressing prospects 14 Chaos at County

A Notts fan surveys the damage, plus an alternative view from a Forest follower 16 Pay up for Palace?

The case against renewing a season ticket 18 World Cup

USA meet England in 2010, 60 years after a famous shock, plus a night with the 1966 winners 20 Match of the Month

Not in Notts p14

Man Utd visit Fulham and are comprehensively beaten 24 Shot! Archive

Early football images from the world’s first illustrated newspaper

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27 Goal nets

A lost symbol of clubs’ individuality 28 Euro view

Crowd control in Serbia; Italian clubs’ abrupt collapse; Celta Vigo overstretch themselves; a familiar face in Israel 32 Fear and loathing in Cheshire

The lowdown on the fierce rivalry between the two clubs of Northwich 34 Argentina

Plans to reward well-behaved hooligans 36 Re-evaluating referees

Changing the habits of a lifetime 37 Strange case of...

Charles Itandje, a goalkeeper under a cloud 38 As good as it got

The Cup-Winners Cup exploits of Borough Utd, the first Welsh winners in Europe 40 Reviews

Gazza at Kettering; Peter Shilton’s Plymouth; famous cup shocks; a Lisbon lion cub 42 Letters

Dear WSC, I would like to take issue with... 46 Season in brief

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