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26 When Saturday Comes No 418 March 2022 Contents 24 20 REGULARS 5 Editorial The authorities have work to do on tackling vaccine hesitancy in dressing rooms 6 Sidelines ng Championship concerns; Spurs brighten up the neighbourhood; Derby in limbo; suspicious betting patterns examined 12 Shot! Refugees welcomed in Middlesbrough 19 Harry Pearson column The dying art of the goalmouth scramble 46 M AT T L I T T L E R ( ) , CO L O R S P O RT 24 Focus on 24 Focu Martin 36 Wo Martin Jol, adding midfield bite in two spells at Den Haag 36 World view Isol wel 40 Isolation and ambition on St Helena; Spanish clubs’ welcome windfall faces a challenge in court 40 Books 4 The even darker side of football owners; Streltsov stranger than fiction; reassessing the s game 42 Letters Our talismanic keeper had never felt so exotic... 46 Season in brief Liverpool win promotion in FEATURES 16 Sticky toffees A new manager won’t fix the problems behind the scenes at Goodison Park 20 Match of the month Relegation-threatened Reading take on Huddersfield with the teams in contrasting form 26 Classified results The argument rages on – is it East Fife Forfar , or Forfar East Fife ? By the 13th minute, honestly, my notes say “looks like a seven-goal thriller coming” and the next moment the visitors are 2-1 up Reading v Huddersfield Town p20 28 Still with us Darlington, reborn and rising up the leagues under fan ownership 29 Entente cordiale The unfulfilled potential of a short- lived cross-Channel competition 32 Team spirit Norwich City’s top -tier ups and downs; the play-off run that sparked a new era 39 Kitted out The middle-aged replica shirt wearer should be celebrated, not mocked

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When Saturday Comes No 418 March 2022

Contents

24

20

REGULARS 5 Editorial

The authorities have work to do on tackling vaccine hesitancy in dressing rooms 6 Sidelines ng

Championship concerns; Spurs brighten up the neighbourhood; Derby in limbo; suspicious betting patterns examined 12 Shot!

Refugees welcomed in Middlesbrough 19 Harry Pearson column

The dying art of the goalmouth scramble

46

M AT T L I T T L E R

( ) ,

CO L O R S P O RT

24 Focus on

24 Focu

Martin 36 Wo

Martin Jol, adding midfield bite in two spells at Den Haag 36 World view

Isol wel 40

Isolation and ambition on St Helena; Spanish clubs’ welcome windfall faces a challenge in court 40 Books

4

The even darker side of football owners; Streltsov stranger than fiction; reassessing the s game 42 Letters

Our talismanic keeper had never felt so exotic...

46 Season in brief

Liverpool win promotion in

FEATURES 16 Sticky toffees A new manager won’t fix the problems behind the scenes at Goodison Park 20 Match of the month Relegation-threatened Reading take on Huddersfield with the teams in contrasting form 26 Classified results The argument rages on – is it East Fife

Forfar , or Forfar East Fife ?

By the 13th minute, honestly, my notes say “looks like a seven-goal thriller coming” and the next moment the visitors are 2-1 up Reading v Huddersfield Town p20

28 Still with us

Darlington, reborn and rising up the leagues under fan ownership 29 Entente cordiale The unfulfilled potential of a short-

lived cross-Channel competition 32 Team spirit

Norwich City’s top -tier ups and downs; the play-off run that sparked a new era 39 Kitted out

The middle-aged replica shirt wearer should be celebrated, not mocked

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