Issue number: 2
Publication date: undated (28th August, 1972)
Number of pages (including covers): 24
Front cover: Pat Rice (Arsenal)
Team Groups (colour): Aston Villa, Division Three Champions, 1971/72 (double page)
Other colour: Tony Brown (West Bromwich Albion), John O’Mara (Brentford)
Other articles:
- Cover Man – How Pat broke through into the Big Time
- Time for changes, with b&w photograph of Robert Keens (Luton Town chairman)
- Rodney & Vic: Friends and now neighbours, with b&w photograph of Rodney Fern and Vic Halom (Luton Town); Entertainment (Swindon Town making use of their football stadium in summer); What a swap! (Leeds United’s links with Australian football)
- Postbag – Readers’ letters, with small b&w photograph of Brian King (Millwall)
- Albert Wilkes retires and it’s the end of an era (West Bromwich Albion)
- ‘Striker’ game advert – I include this purely for nostalgia!
- Goal forecast: The outlook is brighter (Walter Pilkington)
- League Appearances 1971/72 – Bury, Cambridge United, Cardiff City, Carlisle United, Charlton Athletic, Chelsea, Chester, Chesterfield (with small b&w photographs of Phil Warman (Charlton) and John Hollins (Chelsea))
- 1959/60: “a host of workmanlike players lacking finesse”, with small b&w photograph of Burnley vs West Ham, August 1959
- How to spread the soccer gospel – Football League Yearbook advertising material with small b&w photograph of Grimsby Town
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