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Issue Thirty Nine

December 2020

Released in December 2020, our next issue contains eight sections of articles including an analysis of some of football’s boldest talents such as Roberto Firmino and Leônidas; instances when football and politics intersected in the UK, Argentina, Georgia and Qatar; tragedy and surprise in the midlands and so much more.

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In This Issue

Introduction

Issue 39: Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Thirty Nine

Football & The State

The Stubborn City – Patrick Keddie
Trabzonspor’s ongoing battle for the Turkish title, on and off the pitch

The Survivor – Hassanin Mubarak
Six years after Sahid Abbas was sentenced to death he was jailed for World Cup failure

The Chaos And The Glory – Jordan Florit
How the shambolic preparations for the 2019 Gran Final summed up Venezuelan football

Mouldbreakers

The Making Of Roberto Firmino – Josué Seixas
The Liverpool forward’s earliest friends and coaches recall his development in Alagoas

Harry Leddy’s War – John Harding
The PFA, an enforced pay-cut and the early fight for players’ rights

O Diamante Negro – Peter Speetjens
The extraordinary story of Leônidas, the man who invented the bicycle kick

The Birth Of A Club – David Kennedy
John Houlding and committee-room wrangling that led to Liverpool’s split from Everton

Photo Essay

A Day With The Red Shirts – Michael Sheridan
How a chance encounter in Yangon led to an Asian Cup qualifier

Beyond The Pitch

Truth To Power – Adam Bushby
Frits Barend and the battle to report on the junta at Argentina 78

The End Of Welfare – Will Magee
The struggle to keep alive the clubs founded by miners

Football v The Far Right – Michael Cole
How football has become a battleground in Georgia’s culture wars

Workers Rights – Tony Richardson
The story of the Nepalese labourers building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums

The Midlands

The Crash – Chris Lepkowksi
The tragedy that costs Tom Silk his life, and West Brom a visionary director

After Clough – Luke McLaughlin
How Frank Clark took Nottingham Forest to third in the league in 1994-95

Theory

Those That Can, Scan – Ben Welch
What do we mean when we speak of the “football brain”? Is there a sporting intelligence?

Greatest Games

Netherlands 1 Russia 3 (aet) – Michael Yokhin
Euro 2008 quarter-final, St Jakob-Park, Basel, 21 June 2008

Eight Bells

Eight Bells (Fashion First) – Alex Hess
The story of English football told through eight iconic items of managerial fashion

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