FOOTIE MAGS“Is our soccer overloaded?” asks Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly
in November 1970 as Alun Evans challenges for the ball on the
cover. “The players are handsomely paid for doing their jobs,” it
muses, “but maybe soon there will be no close-season for them at
all, what with this competition and that, and they will all become sick
and tired of too much football before the league season has barely
started. Even the £100-a-week men can have too much of it.”