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Issue Eleven Contents
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African Champions League
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* Firdose Moonda - Following Orlando Pirates’ run to the final of the African Champions League
* Colin Udoh, Football’s Only Part of It - To prosper in the African Champions League you have to play the game off the pitch as well as on it
* James Montague, In Memoriam - After the tragedy of Port Said, Al Ahly’s seventh Champions League success was far more than a footballing victory
* Oluwashina Okeleji, The Triumph of the People’s Elephant - How Enyimba became only the second team to retain the African Champions League
* Ian Hawkey, The Flight of the Ravens - The rivalry between TP Mazembe and Asante Kotoko dominated African football in the late sixties
* Segun Ogunfeytimi - Images of the passion stirred in Nigeria by this season’s African Champions League
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Interview
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* Martín Mazur, Oscar Washington Tabárez - El Maestro on how he keeps Uruguay overachieving
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Theory
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* Gunnar Persson, Roy’s Swedish Revolution - How Roy Hodgson transformed the face of the Swedish game
* Andi Thomas, The Waiting Game - The strange world of the back-up goalkeeper
* Uli Hesse, Learning to Press - The tactical revolution that led to the transformation of the German game
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Identity
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* Nicholas Hogg, Size 5 - Football, growing up in Leicester and falling out of love with the game
* Dion Fanning, Booze Boys - Tracing Irish football’s sozzled relationship with alcohol
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Referees
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* Sam Kelly, The Final Whistler - Horacio Elizondo on the strategy of officiating and sending off Zidane in the World Cup final
* Alexander Jackson and David Toms, The First Modern Ref - Refereeing a Cup final cost Harry Nattrass his job but he became the greatest official of his age
* Ben Lyttleton, The Psychologist - Tom Henning Øvrebø on man-management and that game at Stamford Bridge
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Exile
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* James Horncastle, The Lost Legend - Árpád Weisz was one of Serie A’s first great coaches. He was also Jewish.
* Igor Rabiner, Closure - Travelling through with Avram Grant to find the graves of his grandparents
* Shaul Adar, The Survivor - Emmanuel Schaffer escaped the holocaust and took Israel to the World Cup
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Fiction
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* David Ashton, The Handkerchief - Young love intervenes between a goalkeeper and his chance of glory
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Greatest Games
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* Richard Winton, Dundee 1 Dundee United 2 - Scottish Premier League, Dens Park, Dundee, 14 May 1983
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Eight Bells
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* Michael Yokhin, Unexpected league leaders - A selection of minnows who, briefly, found themselves at the top of the tree
