Photo of a page from this month's When Saturday Comes, showing my name.
Don't forget to stock up copies of this month's @wsc.co.uk (there's no law preventing you from buying ten or twenty copies of it, just sayin'), in which you can find me warbling on about Dagenham & Redbridge.
An inside page from When Saturday Comes issue 464. The page features an article titled ‘Spot Checks’ by Glen Wilson with pictures of Wales football players and the subheading ‘Despite another campaign ending in heartbreak, Craig Bellamy has revitalised Wales’. The words of the article are blurred out.
The new issue of @wsc.co.uk (464) is out now.
Includes 750 words from me on Wales’ World Cup (non) qualifying campaign.
New @wsc.co.uk magazine out now, featuring lots of good stuff including @shirleymush.bsky.social on the World Cup and the need for protest, and a silly letter from me about Gavin and Stacey
Image showing three photographs of teams playing at home in away kits: Newcastle United's Malcolm Allen playing in blue and celebrating a goal in 1993, Wimbledon playing in red in a 1994 FA Cup tie against a Manchester United side in yellow and green halves, and Manchester City in red and black stripes at home to Tottenham in 1985.
When teams wear away strips at home: By me for the new @wsc.co.uk (WSC 464, May 2026 issue). Includes a Premier League game almost postponed over a kit clash, and the rules designed to stop such a stand-off now. I'll have missed an example you remember: Write to the letters page if it's a good one.
WSC 464 is out now!
• Can fans fight FIFA?
• Northern Ireland bow out
• Penalty peril for Wales
• Home teams in away kits
• Farage farce at Ipswich
• I lifted the European Cup
• South Shields on the rise
Plus much more – in shops now or subscribe and save 👇
Doing the 92: how football changed during my groundhopping odyssey
By @marpsdavid.bsky.social for WSC 461, now on @theguardian.com
Hello Pat, just to let you know the account you've screenshotted there is not affiliated to the magazine in any way – our X/Twitter page (now dormant) is x.com/WSC_magazine
Want to win £250 and have your work published in the magazine this summer? Entries are now open for our 2026 writers' competition, with a closing date of July 10 – find out more: www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-writers-...
Wrote about fictional football fans for the new @wsc.co.uk. Space prevented me from detailing the teams of famous TV puppets (Nookie Bear - Palace, Emu - Bristol Rovers, etc) but look out for my 12-part podcast series coming soon.
T-SHIRT SALE! We're having a spring clearout so you can now get our Rattle and Cap or Football Pink designs for a bargain £6 each (£5 subscribers) – limited sizes and stock remaining! www.wsc.co.uk/filter/t-shi...
Absolutely brilliant couple of opening paragraphs in When Saturday Comes mag ‘match of the month’ feature
When Saturday Comes issue 463
A very happy 40th birthday to the wonderful @wsc.co.uk.
A subscriber since issue 18 (1988) and it’s always a joy when a new one arrives
Happy birthday @wsc.co.uk, the only print media I ever read these days 🥰
Briefly flirted with the idea of having a pre-match beer somewhere different for a change. But then I remembered you can’t beat perfection so it’s The Murenger as always.
Perfect chance to read the new @wsc.co.uk too.
#ncafc 🧡🖤
The front cover of issue 463 of When Saturday Comes magazine - the 40th anniversary issue of the magazine.
An open page of issue 463 of When Saturday Comes magazine featuring and article titled ‘Yorkshire Grit’ by Glen Wilson (me!) as part of the ongoing Shelf Life series on loved football books. The subheading reads ‘Pete Davies' I Lost My Heart to the Belles goes behind the scenes at one of the pioneering clubs in women's football’. The words of the article are blurred out, because you should buy it.
An excerpt from a piece I (Glen Wilson) wrote for WSC in 2020 about attending the first football match with attending fans during the Covid-19 pandemic. The excerpt reads ‘After months of football played toacanned chant soundtrack it's refreshing to hear a live crowd reacting naturally. Football fans aren't generic; that's the joy in them. For all the advancements of audio technology, no sound engineer in the world would think to inject a high-pitched "Fucking get hold of the fucking ball!" five minutes in. Yet a home fan beneath me does so effort-lessly, like he's never been away.’
The latest issue of @wsc.co.uk is out now, the 40th anniversary issue, and features words by me.
I reviewed Pete Davies’ brilliant book on a season with Doncaster Belles for the Shelf Life series.
I also make a cameo in their look back over WSC’s last/first 40 years, which was a pleasant surprise.
⬇️ This includes my piece on Mansfield v Lincoln - featuring flags, pub chat, tactical cramp, a relaxing lilac kit, and a social media kid creating fantasy scorelines - order a copy!
WSC 463 is out now – 40th anniversary special!
• Lincoln head for promotion
• Woes of Sheffield Wednesday
• Fictional football fans
• Doncaster Belles' heyday
• Jhon Durán roams the world
• Team Spirit: Wycombe
Plus much more – in shops now or subscribe and save 👇 www.wsc.co.uk/shop/wsc-463/
Introducing The Global Guide to Football Culture.
From the beaches of Rio to the packed stadiums in Tokyo, this is the ultimate book for the curious groundhopper.
Featuring contributions from the world’s best football writers, photographers and magazines, secure your copy today at www.vol.co
I wrote about UEFA turning a blind eye to frequently poor and dangerous conditions for away fans in their competitions for issue 462 of @wsc.co.uk
Order your copy here 👇🏻
www.wsc.co.uk/shop/wsc-462/
A photograph of a football ground in Belfast, with players on the pitch and the floodlights are on. In the background is the Cave Hill or Ben Madigan, looming over the city.
Great photos of Dundela and their mystical home at Wilgar Park, the Hen Run to you and I. It's been a wick season so seeing the place in the pages of @wsc.co.uk has been a bright spot.
Up the rip roaring Duns.
"Goin' Down Shoddys" and the final farewell: as Boston's derelict York Street home is finally due to be demolished, my piece about the beloved old ground appears in this month's @wsc.co.uk as part of their regular "Lost Stadiums" series.
Out now!
www.wsc.co.uk/shop/wsc-462/
All the best James! cc @camsell59.bsky.social
Hello, it should have arrived by now – email us at orders@wsc.co.uk with your name and address and we'll have a look
WSC 462 is out now!
• West Ham – still hoping to survive
• AFCON: Mayhem in Morocco
• Ballboy controversies
• Last days of an Everton pub
• Policing problems in Europe
• Lost Stadiums: York Street
Plus much more – in shops now or subscribe and save 👇 www.wsc.co.uk/shop/wsc-462/
I made some observations on the state of football, transport, supporters, stadia, scarves etc on completing the 92 for @wsc.co.uk
Go buy it now.
Wow. What a superb resource
This looks great. As a veteran of the broken down bus to Tirana, I’ll be searching for the reports about that.
(But if anyone can offer a home to hundreds of back issues, dating back to single digit numbers, they’re yours if you can collect from Birmingham.)
WSC 461 is out now!
• Infantino: the Swiss view
• Mexico happy to host?
• What I learned doing the 92
• Cotterill's rousing #CTFC return
• New Hillsborough report
• Team Spirit: #TRFC
• Football in the rain
In shops now or subscribe and save 👇
this is great. been browsing all weekend. hard to beat having a paper copy in hand, but the odds of me venturing into the loft and sorting out boxes of back issues are quite long now. interesting to see the early issues especially. don't think the magazine has moved from its core message since.
New WSC digital archive screenshot with recent issues
We're turning 40 in 2026 and to mark the occasion we’ve relaunched our digital edition:
• Every issue since 1986
• Mobile friendly
• Save and read offline
• Article audio
• Fully searchable
• Free access for print subscribers
Find out more: www.wsc.co.uk/digital-edit...
