Mine arrived this morning. I'm top of the shop on the Letters page and it looks like EIM will be buying a new book this month. Looking forward to the pieces on Carlisle, whose fans I've never really liked after it kicked off behind the new stand in 2006, and rivalries.
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The new WSC with New Years' Resolutions on the cover
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Am currently going through my entire back catalogue of WSCs as I've run out of space - archiving my own contributions before chucking the lot, unfortunately. But it's all digitally saved now anyway, and I've seen unsuccessful attempts on here before to donate or pass on print magazines that no one wants cluttering up their houses any more.
It's hard not to get distracted by old articles, though. And especially book reviews and the Letters page - some lively exchanges there early on between Ed Horton and Harry Pearson. There used to be a lot more female contributors too, in the early-mid 90s when the magazine was, I reckon, at a peak in terms of both variety and quality of content.
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I'm really enjoying the Team Spirit (I think that's what the feature's called) articles. They seem to hark back to the early, fan-nostalgia pieces you'd see in Offside and Late Tackle. This month's article on Brunton Park and the recent tribute to Les Mutrie are particularly fine examples.
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My "hope" for 1999 (WSC 144): "That football will eat itself and then we can all do something worthwhile with our spare time." I was also disappointed that David Mellor had failed "to drown in his own grease".
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It's also worth noting the large amount of space that WSC devoted to incisive articles about race and racism in the 90s, when no one else really was.
Going through them chronologically is a bit like reading old diaries. Have spent another whole day on this and am still only at 2002.
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In 2002 I filled out the fan survey but didn't send it off. Question 23. "What one change, improvement, new service or idea do you most want from your club?" A. Poetry workshops at half-time.
Curious Question 32. "Which of the following do you drink regularly?" I go for Draught Guinness/stout and wine. Then, as now, I wasn't into alcopops (do they still exist?). It's the only non-demographic question not related to football.
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Have been sidetracked by some magnificent vintage book reviews dismantling sub-standard works. Wingco on Giles Goodhead's 'Us v Them: Journeys to the World's Greatest Football Derbies' (2003) and Taylor Parkes destroying Will Buckley's 'The Man Who Hated Football' (2004).
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Ha ha, I've only just noticed the headline for my webwatch column in WSC 254 (April 2008) Start Talking Sense (reviewing various podcasts) remains unchanged the following month in WSC 255 (about Ebbsfleet and various other sites), where my byline, mysteriously, is 'Ian Plenderleith 2.0'.
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Originally posted by EIM View PostWhat book am I going to be buying? Is it Cantona's Notebook full of pictures of dicks? If so, a shoplifter gave me one in exchange for a pint of Guinness.
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