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Introduction

Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Five

World Cup Bidding

The Fall-Out – James Corbett
Significant questions remain unanswered about the World Cup bid process

Russia’s Victory – Igor Rabiner
Russia’s success in the 2018 bid was a triumph over internal as well as external opponents

Qatar Hero – Philippe Auclair
Michel Platini is often seen as the ex-pro coming to save Fifa. But why did he vote for Qatar?

Interview

Sócrates – David Tryhorn
The former Brazil captain talks about why footballers have a political responsibility

Theory

Roy the Rover – Philippe Auclair
Roy Hodgson explains how his travels have shaped his coaching philosophy

Like a Shooting Star – Luca Ferrato
How Ternana soared and then crashed with Corrado Viciani’s high-tempo style

The Skilling Fields – Steve Bartram
Manchester United are just one of the clubs influenced by the coaching model of Wiel Coerver

The Asian Market

The Gaijin of Gamba – Ben Mabley
Fan culture has begun to challenge Japanese hierarchies. The only European Gamba ultra explains how

Sing When You’re Winning – Ian Griffiths
How the need to appear successful turns fans in Singapore from the S.League to the Premier League

Photo Essay

The Hard Core – Misha Domozhilov
Images of the fans who followed Zenit St Petersburg as they won the Russian championship in 2010

Fall

The Centre-back and the Kitchen Knife – Lars Sivertsen
Claus Lundekvam opens up on his battle against the addiction that overwhelmed him after retirement

My Name is Ally MacLeod and I am a Winner – Dominic Sandbrook
How Scotland’s humiliation at the 1978 World Cup knocked nationalism off course

The Lions Sleep Tonight – Jonathan Wilson
Ten years after retaining the Cup of Nations, Cameroon failed to qualify. What went wrong?

Polemics

The Real Problem – Brian Phillips
Is the ‘real fan’ being marginalised or is he just a rhetorical tool?

Where’s Darth Vader Gone? – Simon Kuper
Is the age of football as a substitute for war coming to an end?

The Culture of Violence – Sergio Levinsky
The absence of leadership means there is little hope of Argentina’s hooligan problem being solved

Fiction

The Glasses – David Ashton
A gift from a mysterious visitor changes life for a man on a Scottish estate…

Greatest Games

Romania 4 Yugoslavia 6 – Vladimir Novak
World Cup qualifier, Ghencea Stadium, Bucharest, 13 November 1977

Five Rings

Olympic Stories – Marcus Christenson, Steve Menary, Joel Richards, Colin Udoh and Jonathan WilsonFive tales from the rich history of Olympic football

Issue Five

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First published in June 2012, Issue Five is now out of stock. There are currently no plans to reprint but you can still access it in digital form.  Issue Five contains 19 articles in 10 sections, including: Philippe Auclair investigating why Michel Platini vote for Qatar and James Corbett on the significant unanswered questions about the World Cup bidding process; Ben Mabley on how fan culture is challenging Japanese social hierarchies; and Claus Lundekvam opening up to Lars Sivertsen on his battle against drink and drug addiction.

 

 

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