This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes from issue 34 of Watford classic Clap Your Hands Stamp Your Feet! with some of the most grainy, awful and some might say spurious photos we’ve published so far.

The cover displays keeper Steve Cherry and what I’m saying is a floodlight pylon in the background. I say that purely as a guess based on the angle the photo was taken from and the fact that its of the keeper. Complicating the provenance of these photos somewhat is the fact that parts of Vicarage Road were torn down and replaced in 1995 after the Taylor report. Anyway, it’s my blog so the pylon is there.

The second photos we’re including from the match definitely contains a power pylon which is an added bonus. Left of that and above a portacabin is what is also DEFINITELY part of the floodlight pylons. The photo is so bad thankfully we have a caption that describes what it contains and thankfully for you and advertising opportunities for me, I have a picture of the Craig Ramage caricature from the £7 ‘Cool as Craig’ t-shirt. You can read more about caricatures in fanzines in last week’s blog here. https://footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/05/21/the-distorted-presentation-of-a-person-type-or-action-caricatures-in-fanzines/

As a bonus I’ve included the match report from the game which perfectly demonstrated the patchy print quality and the moribund nature of the match reports. Great stuff.

I’ve come into possession of about 15 issues of Clap your Hand recently. It was totally unknown to me before I started this project and it is one of those great unexpected joys that come from doing this. For a start in 1995 alone the price went from £1 to 50p via 80p then back to £1 as page numbers veered wildly from 30 to 60 pages via 40 and 44 page editions. It is the very best of fanzines, ramshackle, smudged, black and white, irreverent and sometimes brilliant collection of articles, jokes, caricatures, morbid match reports and of course, terrible photography. If you are still out there congratulations to the seven strong editorial team with perhaps the best or most bewildering collection of pseudonyms we’ve seen so far.