// Publisher notes //

Published in June 2024, Issue Fifty Three and its five sections contains 14 articles including how Benni McCarthy was shaped by the gangster leagues of Cape Town; a conversation with Brian Stapleton, the scout who found Nathan Tella; Brendan Batson on the breaking of racial barriers at West Brom; the extraordinary story of the first mixed-race star of Brazilian football; an oral history of Dinamo Tbilisi’s victory in the 1981 Cup Winners’ Cup.