There is an article on 'Shamrock Rovers in Europe' in this months edition (October) I get my copy by post, probably available in likes of Easons this w/e.
For a UK mag, I find it has an Irish football article in at least every 3 months, maybe every 2 mths, def worth picking up, as the features are always very well written, and a nice angle to most, I like the way it has a focus well away from the EPL.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), only Irish club to win a game / points in Europa League Group Stage (2016).
Without a doubt the best football magazine out there - probably because it feels like an English style fanzine when you're reading it. I love the overall layout of it and the fact it is not obsessed with the premier league as you say. Even the adverts are classy and it eclipses the awful 442 that seems packed with football boot/kit adverts. Even with the internet eventually leading to less and less mags, WSC will always have a readership. That being said I have not got a subscription! Guess what I'm doing tomorrow. Thanks Oriel.
Yeah best magazine by a long shot. First time this month that I'm late getting it. Must sort that out tomorrow.
WSC is good but I prefer Back Pass which features all the greats from 1960/70/80s....by greats I mean everthing from Best to lower division stars like Fred Binney, Ken Beamish, Gerry Ryan, John Trollope and many many others.... if you're aged u40 you might be better off with WSC !!!
I've been reading WSC (on and off) since it first came out, and it didn't dawn on me that younger fans may not actually know that WSC started life as a fanzine, hence why it still reads like one. A bit, anyway.Originally Posted by maksimir
It seems to have got better recently. It went through a terrible patch in the early noughties. It got incredibly trainspotterish with loads of articles on football financing - important and, occasionally, interesting stuff, no doubt, but in every edition? No thanks. It also became overran with articles written in that laddish ironic 'humour' turn, which became enormously tedious. It seems to have got the balance right again now.
Also let's not forget The Blizzard in all of this.
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It's always an excellent read and has little time for the nonsense that surrounds the EPL and the circus that is "Team England".
Great to see Rovers as a headline on the front page, the Rovers piece is on page 33 and is a good read.
If you enjoy football you should always find that WSC is worth having a gander at.
WSC is one of the best. I've been getting it on subscription since I was a twelve yo. So long ago that there was a piece in my first edition about Derry City joining the LOI.
Sure that was only 2 years ago.
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Sure that was only 2 years ago.
Excellent read and addictive once you start ...An increasing number of articles in recent times on LOI matters (usually not favourable unsurprisingly). Great read also about lower divisions and non league football in England and (as said elsewhere) keeps the EPL stuff to a minimum.
I believe one of our mods on here has had a couple of LOI related articles printed in WSC (no false modesty Stu)
Nah; just a letter or two. Have seen a couple of other foot.ie posters in it as well I think.I believe one of our mods on here has had a couple of LOI related articles printed in WSC (no false modesty Stu
I remember sending in 2 terse letters the season before last bemoaning the lack of coverage the LOI receives in Ireland... their LOI quotient has increased as a result... hmmm...
There was a brilliant article in the August edition about the circus that is football clubs going on pre season tours now like Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea, all going to Asia and all to promote the 'brand' then it compared this to the pre 2000's
Classic tale of Lou Macari/Steve Coppell refusing to play for Man u in some game in HK, and Tommy Docherty the then manager arguing with them while swinging on a bottle of scotch. Cut to Pete Beagrie riding a motor bike smashing through the front door of the team hotel in San Sebastian in early 90`s, lost 3 pints of blood, then when recovering in hospital, the cops told him that his Everton team mates were actually staying in the hotel next door.............
A mate of mine, another Dundalk fan got an artice published in 93, all about the mad season where no goal diff was in place. Cork/Shels/Bohs ended up on same points, then we had a round robin series, then all ended up in same points, before a final mini series produced the lge winners.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), only Irish club to win a game / points in Europa League Group Stage (2016).
You'll have seen a few regulars on the forum also, but I warn you, once you start, you'll never leave!
I clicked it. Damn you... this place is bad enough.
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Would ye rank it ahead of World Soccer, just out of curiosity. Don't know if I've ever bought When Saturday Comes, will probably try and get this issue.
17 posts in, and not not one begrudger saying 'I've read it, and it's s**t.' A Foot.ie record!!!
It IS an excellent magazine - I find it's the perfect cover-to-cover-length read when traveling from Dublin to Heathrow (or Heathrow to Dublin of course).
I've read WSC before, and it is s**t! It's the best of a bad bunch when it comes to football magazines, but I've never got over it's double standards over club fanzines back in the 90's.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
Straightstory, this is your fault.
Macy I would give it a chance again. Some excellent articles now. As someone said above there's a great balance now.
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