Power, Corruption & Pies - Volume Two: The Best Writing from the Second Decade of WSC, foreword by Adrian Chiles (2006)
THIS anthology takes up the story from 1997 to 2006, the second decade of legendary football fanzine When Saturday Comes.
It was an era when the football bandwagon became a juggernaut, apparently with no one at the wheel.
In spite of rampant commercialisation, the game nonetheless retained its appeal, even among those for whom almost every season is a sequence of disappointments.
The new WSC anthology reflects the big issues of the era, from the rise of the Champions League to the disappearance of old football grounds, with trenchant opinions on a range of topics including the heyday of football boardgames, the calamitous decline of the FA Cup and Delia Smith’s unusual half-time announcements.
Throughout its existence WSC has provided a platform for innovative football writing. Widely known authors such as David Conn, Dave Hill and long-standing contributor Harry Pearson all feature in this book. Most of all, WSC gives space to the view of those who know football best: the supporters.
- Also recommended: Power, Corruption and Pies: A Decade of the Best Football Writing from When Saturday Comes, edited by Doug Cheeseman, Andy Lyons and Mike Ticher (1997) | The First Eleven (1992)