Eric Batty, Brian Glanville and other World Soccer Columns- Part Eight

I.  Eric Batty

WS Magazine Issue: April 1964                 

Article Title(s): ‘Defence is the order’

-Eric Batty’s analysis on how good defense has taken over      

WS Magazine Issue: December 1972

Article Title(s): ‘England could produce better wingers’

-Eric Batty’s Analysis on wingers

WS Magazine Issue: May 1981     

Article Title(s): ‘England found sadly lacking’

-Eric Batty’s analysis of the English National Team

WS Magazine Issue: August 1974 and October 1975  

Article Title(s):  ‘No Cruyff or Neeskens’ and ‘World XI’

-The World XI selections for the years 1974 and 1975.

Eric Batty Columns-Part 8

II.   Brian Glanville

WS Magazine Issue: July 1964

Article Title(s): ‘How to save the next World Cup’

-Discussing ideas on improvements for future World Cups

WS Magazine Issue: April 1971

Article Title(s): ‘Common Market poses a problem’ and ‘Sights sets firmly on Europe’

-Brian Glanville’s regular ‘Looking at Soccer’ column and under his pseudonym of Andre Duclos reporting on the French scene

WS Magazine Issue: December 1981

Article Title(s): ‘Liverpool can retain European Cup despite unpredictable Grobbelaar’ and ‘Is Hidalgo Bold or…’

- His regular Column and under his pseudonym of Andre Duclos reporting on the French scene

WS Magazine Issue: May 1991

Article Title(s): ‘Sudden Death should stay

- His regular Column

Brian Glanville Columns -Part 8

III.  Other Writers:

a) Martin Rodgers

WS Magazine Issue: July 1965

Article Title(s): ‘Why World Cup will elude hosts’

-Martin Rodgers predicting (erroneously) that England will not win the 1966 World Cup

b) Leslie Vernon

WS Magazine Issue: October 1972

Article Title(s): ‘Are Olympics a Farce?’

c) Paul Parish

WS Magazine Issue: January 1984

Article Title(s): ‘If England are not inferior, why have we failed?’

-Discussing England’s failure to qualify for the 1984 Euros

Other Writers’ Columns-Part 8