WSC No 280, June 2010

Contents

It’s hard to remember exactly why it is you’re supposed to dislike this team in white with its garrulous away support Match of the month Charlton v Leeds p20

4 Editorial Club debt doesn’t worry the Premier League 6 News watch Reaction to Liverpool’s loss and Spurs’ gain 8 Sidelines Changes at MOTD2; the unfulfilled potential of Twitter; “Roy Keane’s Ipswich”; a psychological study of football 12 Shot! Sheffield Wednesday down, Barnet survive 15 Manchester United The future for the Glazer protests 16 England’s World Cup songs No sense of national pride as the cast of

Hollyoaks, Chris Kamara and a collection of commentators hit the studio 18 Italia 90 film The danger of nostalgia 19 TV interviews How tedious soundbites are promoted by the media 20 Match of the month Charlton host Leeds, as the

Gazza’s heyday p18

promotion-chasing visitors’ agony drags on 24 Shot! Archive Highbury in the 1950s

The Championship closes in at The Valley

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26 The Titus Bramble effect Certain footballers are never as bad as they’re claimed to be 28 Notts County &Darlington A sense of shame at Meadow Lane;

plus a positive spin on relegation to the Conference 30 Strange case of... Dani, West Ham’s male model 32 Euro view Germany’s capital loses a top-division team; Czechoslovakia possibly reunited by football 34 Pennine pride Mossley AFC take 10,000 to Wembley 37 Half-time entertainment From paper aeroplanes to testicles 38 World view Altitude problems in Bolivia;

FIFA’s pre-World Cup aggression 40 Reviews Viv Anderson’s misfortune; World Cup tips;

Yorke’s trophy-hunting; English failure 42 Letters Dear WSC, I really must say... 46 Season in brief Serie A 2005-06