Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is issue 6 of Bedford Town’s Eyrie Go. Yes, you heard that right, even Bedford town had a fanzine back in October of 1996, 50p for 28 pages of news and views from Division Three of the Isthmian League. The name is of course a lovely pun on the name of the ground and a well known chant, rhythmically problematic as the ground they were playing at by now was the “New” Eyrie but what the hell.

The original Eyrie was left behind in 1982 but there are some magnificent photos of that here, a positive cornucopia of #FloodlightFriday shots. https://sites.google.com/site/bedfordoldeagles/the-rest/ground-photos

The cover and inside back cover remind us that nothing is new. Back in 1996 the fanzine was vehemently opposed to a merger between Bedford Town and United This battle reemerged in 2025, and perhaps some things are new because this time it includes a bitcoin podcaster and the Winklevoss twins behind United, now renamed Real Bedford…watch this space. There is a great article about it here starting with the magnificent line “In the shadow of one of the UK’s biggest abattoirs..” https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/27/crypto-mogul-bitter-battle-bedford-town-real-bedford

The editorial is a classic, the gloom of recent form mixed with a passionate cry for swearing to be allowed in the ground, apparently against the wishes of a prawn sandwich brigade committee and a cry for peace that might be needed today. Great stuff.

Carlo doing his tortoise impression is a great feature that more fanzines should have copied, various mates in team t shirts pretending to be an animal is something I would have paid to see.

There is news of an away day gone wrong, very wrong including falling down a 12 foot ditch twice. Tony Garlick was the Press Box Announcer and Life Vice President at Bedford Town.

There is a fanzine classic, reproducing local rivals’ official song in full to allow a petty dig at them AND fill an entire page of the zine…brilliant fanzine stuff.

The adverts are exactly what you should expect from division Three of the Isthmian League standard, a superb full page beauty for a pallet company.

Finally, there is a great little historical piece about supporting a team based on family memories and being “the only person in football who hates a referee for something he did 4 years before I was born” a claim that I doubt very much.

Absolutely superb fanzine, proving once again that you didn’t have to be a big club to produce something brilliant, brimming with passion, style and a great sense of what it means to be a fan.