Author: Peter Slater
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The second of our blogs about the amazing stories behind just a few of the vast array of football fanzine names on the first comprehensive list of all fanzines that existed over the past 60 or so years, a very…
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25 September 1976 was a VERY important day. The 1st edition of Roy of the Rovers as a standalone comic was published with an exclusive article by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in which he exclusively revealed exclusively that in…
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In other blogs we have talked about fanzines and the media personalities that grew from them. In this blog we’ll look at the case of a much bigger fanzine, acknowledged as the first general football fanzine and how they were…
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Last season’s FSA led initiative with fan groups staging #StopExploitingLoyalty protests at many premier league games demonstrated that the potential for organised protest does still exist in football and can be mobilised despite the horrific changes in law brought in…
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We’ve mentioned the rich history of people starting out in fanzines before moving on to “bigger” things. The A side of this 7” blog covers a largely unknown fanzine that was followed by an extraordinary roller coaster of a ride…
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We’ve mentioned before (https://footballfanzineculture.blog/2025/05/22/football-fanzines-and-the-media-today/ ) some of the many famous people who started out in fanzines, Danny Baker and Steve Lamacq to name two but there more who were involved specifically with football fanzines during the boom period of the…
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Marketing gurus search for ages and get paid millions to come up with a catchy name or slogan. (Although the famous stories of the Chevy Nova in Spanish speaking countries and the Rolls Royce Silver Mist in Germany would suggest…
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Side 4 of our gatefold magnum opus. More puns, ‘taches and mullets, the list has grown to. 104 songs and is now 6 hours 34 minutes long but I’ve left “Freed from Desire Out” because I hate it with a…
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On the face of it, a bit of a niche fanzine blog this time; Subbuteo and fanzines. However, as we will see, the two have been strongly linked since the start of the golden (goalden? – Ed) era of fanzines.…
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The one where we add a few songs linked to terrace culture and found a link between one of the best-known artists of the past 25 years and a fanzine. Now 102 songs and 6 hours 29 minutes long the…
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