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First of all an apology, I was wrong and this is the second time a fanzine has appeared as Fanzine of the Day and a #FloodlightFriday post in the same week. Search for Pollok FC in the new improved search…
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In the days of Xg and bollocks like that we all sit back and tut at the crude and stupid clickbait it produces but sometimes, sometimes you just have to stand back and admire things. Take this for example, as…
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Todays Fanzine of the day comes to you from late 1985 as Maidstone United plied their trade in the Gola league. SAM is one of those “sort of a fanzine” issues, something from round the edges that is a supporters…
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In the post this week this beautiful little fanzine arrived. I’d never even heard of From London To Manchester before but eBay turns up all sorts of wonderful things. Issue 3 seems to be from the early 90s as on…
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Not The View is a great fanzine name, a pun but a clear and concise one, instantly recognisable to fans as it is clearly not the official Celtic mouthpiece of the time, The View. Issue 23 appeared in October 1990…
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I feel a bit bad that the first “feature” with Off The Ball (Issue 16, Winter 1988, 50p) is just a mini blog because this was a real titan amongst fanzines. After Foul blazed the trail, OTB came along albeit…
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It has been a year now since we provided some stats on fanzines included on The List of the many and varied football print publications that have sprung up over the years so let’s dip back into that to provide…
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Today’s #Fanzineoftheday (In case you were wondering, this usually means grabbed at random from the pile under my desk) is Sheffield Wednesday’s Half Day Closing, issue 1 from Septemberish 2000. Lovely cover, the club’s stripes, a price and sort of…
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OK, this hashtag and the resultant blogs are supposed to include floodlights pictures for people to say oooh to but…well nothing was ever straightforward with fanzines so the back cover of The Tea Party issue 10 from March 1992 gives…
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Bored with the World Cup? Yeah, me too so this week I decided to look for another blog idea and as I was looking I realised that it was right there in front of me, fanzine covers. The strange thing…
