Introduction
Editor’s Note – Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson’s Editor’s Note from Issue Thirty
Crossword – Knut
The cryptic crossword from Issue Thirty
Hostile Environment
Southern Comfort – Callum Rice-Coates
Football played a vital role in maintaining morale on Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expeditions
The Longest Game – Roger Domeneghetti
How Wolves beat Aberdeen to win the US title in sudden-death over-time
Golan Heights – Shaul Adar
The lengthy struggle of the Druze to put together a team to play in the Israeli league
The Chairman’s Wife – Heather McKinlay
Heather Alwen remembers the battle to take Charlton back to the Valley
2018 World Cup
Shock and Bore – Jonathan Wilson
Reflections on a thrilling World Cup with an underwhelming champion
The Little Soldier – Ben Lyttleton
Didier Deschamps explains how leadership has always come naturally to him
A Favourite Scapegoat – Kit Holden
Why Mesut Özil’s photograph with Turkey’s president ended his international career
Road Trip to Russia – Stuart Roy Clarke
Driving a camper van to Russia, back to England and into France for the final
Belonging
The Stone Phallus of Fortune – James Montague
Following Bhutan as they embark on their World Cup qualification campaign
When Stadiums Disappear – Paul Hyland
Jorge Luis Borges, AFC Wimbledon and the meaning of home in football
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles – Sean Williams
How a team run by an Evangelical church has taken the Nigerian league by storm
The Discreet Charm of Rafa Benitez – Alex Hess
How English football came round to a manager who hates spontaneity
The Social Project – Michael Yokhin
The accidental success of the Swedish side that was never meant to be about winning
Theory
The Third Man – David Owen
The change in the offside law in 1925 altered the game forever
Do You Speak Football? – Tom Williams
An A-Z of colourful footballing vocabulary from around the globe
Greatest Games
England 2 Croatia 3 – Mike Gibbons
Euro 2008 qualifier, 21 November 2007, Wembley