New Addition: Eric Batty, Brian Glanville and other World Soccer Columns- Part one

Another  new feature to this blog (due to a suggestion from an interested reader) is collection of articles from World Soccer Magazine from 1960s onwards from excellent writers Eric Batty, Brian Glanville plus others.

Eric Batty and Brian Glanville will be permanent fixtures, however, other articles from Leslie Vernon, Keir Radnedge, Eric Weil , etc. will also be included.

Each Eric Batty section will include his famous yearly World XI section that was ever present until 1992, prior to his passing in 1994.

I.  Eric Batty

WS Magazine Issue: September 1962     

Article Title(s): ‘World’s Number 2 Country?’ and ‘Question: Quo Vadis

Soccer?’

-Two articles from the same issue one dealing with

Czechoslovakia National team who had just finished runners-up in

that year’s World Cup and another one discussing problems facing soccer

WS Magazine Issue: July 1978                     

Article Title(s): ‘No Great Sides…No Surprise’

-Eric Batty’s Analysis of the 1978 World Cup

WS Magazine Issue: December 1960   

Article Title(s): ‘The Eleven Best?’

-The very first World XI selection.

Eric Batty Columns-Part 1

II.   Brian Glanville

WS Magazine Issue: August 1978

Article Title(s): ‘Worst World Cup!’  and ‘World Cup Reflections’

-Two articles in the same issue dealing with analysis of the 1978 World Cup, the second article in from his regulr ‘The Brian Glanville’ Column in the magazine.

WS Magazine Issue: August 1979

Article Title(s): ‘Where do England stand?’ plus ‘The Brian Glanville Column’

-The state of the English national team and his regular column

WS Magazine Issue: May 1979

Article Title(s): ‘Greaves Confesses’  plus ‘The Brian Glanville Column’

                    -An analysis of Jimmy Greaves’ autobiography and his regular

column

 Brian Glanville Columns -Part 1

III.  Other Writers:

a) Leslie Vernon

WS Magazine Issue: October 1979

Article Title(s): ‘Idealist in charge of our national squad’

-Leslie Vernon interviewing England Manager Ron Greenwood

b) Ken Montgomery

WS Magazine Issue: September 1961

Article Title(s): ‘The Big Exodus

-About Scottish players leaving the Scottish league to join the English

league

b) Kenneth Wolstenholme

WS Magazine Issue: January 1962

Article Title(s): ‘Brazil to retain their World Title?’

-Pre-World Cup Prediction and Analysis


Other Writers’ Columns-Part 1