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Contents of Issue Fourteen

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World Cup Review
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* Cassiano Gobbet, The End of the Affair - Brazil's 7-1 semi-final defeat will reverberate through history: what went wrong?
* Ben Lyttleton,The Inevitable Conclusion - Another World Cup exit on penalties: why can't the Dutch win shoot-outs?
* Various, Notes from a Tournament - It wasn't all about the football. Memories of the 2014 World Cup.
* Ryu Voelkel, A selection of the best images from the 2014 World Cup

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Past Glories
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* Elko Born, The Velvet Revolution - Johan Cruyff, Ajax and the struggle for the soul of Dutch football
* Dan Nolan, Orbán Planning - The Hungarian prime minister's attempts to restore the national team to glory
* Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen, Mike Gibbons, The End of the Affair - How Spain and a misplaced backpass halted Denmark's glorious 1986 World Cup campaign

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The Misfits
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* Richard Jolly, Bye-bye Bebé - The strange Manchester United career of the Portuguese striker
* Luke Alfred, Best in Show - While most fans were focused on the 1974 World Cup, George Best was playing in South Africa
* Joachim Barbier, The Still Point - Can a player like Javier Pastore make it at a club like PSG?

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The Revolutionaries
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* Alex Footman, $10 Per Day - Aid poverty and political turmoil, football goes on in Afghanistan
* John Harding, Football's First Millionaire - How Bolton's Jack Slater smashed class barriers to make his fortune
* Pedar Foss, The Rise and Fall of Castel Rigone - The entrepreneur, the village team and the experiment in humanistic capitalism
* Gunnar Persson, A Passage to Indiana - The Swedish great Murren Carlsson's doomed attempt to make it in the USA
* Philippe Auclair, The Second Birth of French Football - Michel Hidalgo survived kidnapping to lead France to the 1978 World Cup

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Fiction
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* Iain Macintosh, Quantum of Bobby - Spinning through time and space, Bobby Manager finds himself in Escape to Victory

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Greatest Games
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* Michael Yokhin, Russia 1 Ukraine 1 - Euro 2000 qualifier, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, 9 October 1999

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Eight Bells
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* Jack Lang, Brazilian Courtroom Dramas - A selection of controversies in the Brazilian game that were settled off the pitch

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