When Saturday Comes No 450 February 2025

Contents

REGULARS 5 Editorial

Hopes for a new name on the FA Cup 6 Sidelines

12 FEATURES 17 Refuse men

Swindon and Dumbarton in turmoil; 3pm blackout under threat; new film on Argentina’s World Cup joy; will season tickets soon be a thing of the past? 12 Shot!

Falmouth Town host Mousehole 15 Harry Pearson column

The dying art of the shoulder barge

Why the Premier League’s Rainbow Laces campaign needs a rethink 18 Ata boy

Ademola Lookman’s award-winning rise from south London to Serie A 19 Highbury haven

Studying Arsenal’s black history 20 Match of the month

Two Championship stalwarts meet again as Millwall take on Blackburn

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Like ships in the Sargasso Sea, Millwall and Blackburn appear trapped in the middle reaches of the Championship Millwall v Blackburn Rovers p20

24 The perfect shot

Kevin Keegan in his Scunthorpe United days 34 World view

Scandal at the top of the Peruvian FA; Red Bull get their hands on Japan’s Squirrels 40 Books

Oleksandr Zinchenko’s story; tales of Gareth Southgate; non-League exploits 42 Letters

Setting off fireworks on a clear blue day was a supremely pointless exercise… 46 Season in brief

Manchester City’s first second-tier title

26 Dug out

Wayne Rooney’s managerial ambitions have failed to take off 28 Foxes’ den

Polythene protection and rooftop views at Leicester’s Filbert Street 30 States of mind

There’s little excitement for Gianni Infantino’s revamped Club World Cup 33 Object lessons

A set of unreliable Top Trumps cards 36 Down Dales

Derbyshire’s scenic amateur league