Tuesday, 16 March, 2010
New Spirit of Forsyth Post
How the 1979 NASL player 'strike' looked from Canada. Like a whole lot of nothing it turns out.
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- Richard Whittall
- Richard Whittall writes on football from his hovel in Toronto, Canada. In addition to this site, he also writes the Canadian Soccer history blog, The Spirit of Forsyth. He is also the associate editor of Tom Dunmore's award-winning Pitch Invasion. His writing has appeared in Toronto Life and the Globe and Mail, and he was a contributor for Brooks Peck's Yahoo! blog Dirty Tackle for the 2010 World Cup.
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