Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is issue 12 of On Cloud Seven a Hull fanzine from September 1991. Hull are newly relegated to the 3^rd Division (League one) in their 88th season. The brilliant name stems from manager Colin Appleton’s idiomatic faux pas when asked by a journalist how he felt about returning to the Tigers.

The “Boring page” of fanzines inside the cover is a bit of a classic and so deserves your attention; Not for profit, Juma printed, the hopeful copyrighting, thanks, Sportspages, subscriptions and a very handy contents page. A beauty, though it is missing the disclaimer about views of the club etc.

The editorial contains something you don’t see in many fanzines, the words of “Sometime playwright” Alan Plater. Sometime? He wrote 18 episodes of ‘Z cars’ and 30 of ‘Softly Softly’ and his play became the magnificent ‘Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt’ lads!

They also include a LONG letter about the most recent takeover bid which I won’t reproduce in full but there is mention of an action group in 1981 coffin march to protest the state of the club. There have been a few of these over the years, but this is the earliest I’ve seen mentioned in a fanzine

There is a 2-page spread on 60’s keeper Ian McKechnie. BE STILL MY BEATING HEART!

Equally as surreal there is 2 pages on Egyptian football. This is great fanzine fare, just when you least expect it BAM! 4 columns on the soap opera that is football in Egypt in 1991.

In a 4-page spread on the reign of Brian Horton there is a lovely little visual gag. (DM if you want the full, unexpurgated article..)

And there is a Crucial Season’ feature which actually covers 5 seasons. I’ll include the description of 1930-31 season which followed “Arguably the finest in the club’s history” 1929-30 when they were relegated?! Anyway, in 1931 Hull finished 6^th in the 3^rd Division north because Chesterfield won it that year. A foregone conclusion really.

On the back cover we are treated to the delights of Tubby Lard and Hesi-tant, erstwhile Hull City and pie fans…simple, crude but effective, much like Hull’s football that season as they finished 12^th but qualified for “promotion” to the Second Division as the Best League in the World^TM Premier League lumbered into view.

Great fanzine, you never know what is round the corner and though some of the in jokes are impenetrable and the cartoons “rustic” at this distance it is well written, has a great name and was well worth 50p of anyone’s money.