Introduction
Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Eleven
African Champions League
A Voyage Under Jolly Roger – Firdose Moonda
Following Orlando Pirates’ run to the final of the African Champions League
Football’s Only Part of It – Colin Udoh
To prosper in the African Champions League you have to play the game off the pitch as well as on it
In Memoriam – James Montague
Al-Ahly’s seventh Champions League triumph was about more than football
March of the People’s Elephant – Oluwashina Okeleji
How Enyimba became only the second team to retain the African Champions League
The Flight of the Ravens – Ian Hawkey
The rivalry between TP Mazembe and Asante Kotoko dominated African football in the late sixties
Unity and Faith – Segun Ogunfeytimi
Images of the passion stirred in Nigeria by this season’s African Champions League
Interview
Oscar Washington Tabárez – Martin Mazur
El Maestro on how he keeps Uruguay living up to the standards of the past
Theory
Roy’s Swedish Revolution – Gunnar Persson
How Roy Hodgson transformed the face of the Swedish game
The Waiting Game – Andi Thomas
The strange world of the back-up goalkeeper, in which nothing is something
Why is the World Cup Boring? – Jonathan Wilson
How the nature of international football leads inevitably to sluggish football
Learning to Press – Uli Hesse
The tactical revolution that led to the transformation of the German game
Identity
Size 5 – Nicholas Hogg
Football, growing up in Leicester and falling out of love with the game
Booze Boys – Dion Fanning
Tracing the history of Irish football’s sizzled relationship with alcohol
Referees
The Final Whistler – Sam Kelly
Horacio Elizondo on the strategy of officiating, and sending off Zidane in the World Cup final
The First Modern Ref – Alexander Jackson and David Toms
Refereeing a Cup final cost Harry Nattrass his job but he became the greatest official of his age
The Psychologist – Ben Lyttleton
Tom Henning Øvrebø on man-management and that game at Stamford Bridge
Exile
The Lost Legend – James Horncastle
Árpád Weisz was one of Serie A’s first great coaches. He was also Jewish.
Closure – Igor Rabiner
Travelling through Siberia with Avram Grant to find the graves of his grandparents
The Survivor – Shaul Adar
Emmanuel Schaffer escaped the holocaust and took Israel to the World Cup
Fiction
The Handkerchief – David Ashton
Young love intervenes between a goalkeeper and his chance of glory
Greatest Games
Dundee 1 Dundee United 2 – Richard Winton
Scottish Premier League, Dens Park, Dundee, 14 May 1983
Eight Bells
Unexpected League Leaders – Michael Yokhin
A selection of minnows who, briefly, found themselves at the top of the tree