When Saturday Comes No 447 November 2024

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REGULARS 5 Editorial

Threats to strike over their workload show how players have power 6 Sidelines

Ticket prices sour Villa’s Champions League adventure; retelling the Munich air disaster; why the new National League Cup won’t be drawing big crowds; the debate over WSL players’ pitchside autographs 12 Shot!

Under the Heathrow flightpath as Bedfont host PFC Victoria London

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15 Cameron Carter column

Life is a list of teams to “keep an eye on” 24 The perfect shot

QPR fans march to Wembley in 1967 30 World view

Dundalk’s financial spiral; a Serbian top division tie-in; San Marino celebrate a win at long last 44 Letters

Banksy approached me in the gardening part of the store... 46 Season in brief

IFK Gothenburg win Sweden’s championship play-off in 1990

FEATURES 16 Full volume

How stadium anthems went from communal singing to forced fun 19 Blue velvet

Birmingham City are turning heads as League One’s big spenders 20 Match of the month

Hope still prevails in Cumbria as Carlisle United host Fleetwood Town 26 Six of the best

Toto Schillaci, the man who came from nowhere to win the Golden Boot

The visitors are helped by the fact that Carlisle’s defence is so full of holes any passing Jumblies would be tempted to put to sea in it Carlisle United v Fleetwood Town p20

28 Confined space

Rebounding goalnets and chocolate boxes at The Dell in Southampton 34 Men of Kent

Tonbridge Angels pitching upwards; derby delight for Folkestone Invicta 36 Doctor’s note

Getting back out on the six-a-side pitch after a health scare 40 Bratwurst summer

2024 WSC readers’ survey results 42 Object lessons

Flicking through the pages of a Forestfilled scrapbook