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Maggie Thorne

Maggie Thorne writes about the grounds that disappeared and the tournaments that went sideways. She has stood on most of the terraces that still exist and mourns the rest in Those We Have Lost.

Articles by Maggie Thorne

5 September 2025
Holker Street Blues: The Fifty-Year Exile of Barrow AFC
5 September 2025
The Shame of Gijón: Algeria's Stolen World Cup Dream
27 June 2025
Panorama’s Stadiums of Hate: A Country Misrepresented
16 May 2012
Those We Have Lost: Huish, Yeovil Town
29 June 2011
Those We Have Lost: Fellows Park, Walsall
27 June 2011
A Parallel Universe: The Lost World of the FA Amateur Cup
13 June 2011
Those We Have Lost: Kingstonian FC at Richmond Road
4 June 2011
Those We Have Lost: Southbury Road, Enfield
23 December 2010
Chasing the Argonauts: The Club That Never Played a Match
16 September 2010
The Way We Were: Aston Villa vs Everton, November 1989
18 July 2010
World Cup Punditry: An Exercise in Unprofessionalism
26 June 2010
When Fulham Blew It: The Story of the 1982-83 Season
26 June 2010
World Cup Tales: The Making of a Design Classic, Mexico 1970
26 June 2010
World Cup Tales: When the World Cup Legitimised a Dictatorship
25 June 2010
World Cup 2010: England's Charmless Mediocrity Against Algeria
5 June 2010
World Cup Tales: How Mussolini's Italy Fixed the 1934 Tournament
31 May 2010
The 1966 World Cup Boycott: When Africa and Asia Said Enough
12 May 2010
World Cup Tales: Colombia 1986, the Tournament That Never Was