Author: Peter Slater
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We have a plethora of floodlights for #Floodlight Friday this week from one of the all time great fanznes, The Absolute Game with its legendary numbering scheme; issue 2nd Round 1st leg appearing to cover August and September of 1989.…
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It is time for another thought / writing exercise that proves little except that fanzines are packed full of social history, excellent writing, mysterious bodies and stories, excellent design and that we need more print not less…so quite a bit…
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One of the great joys of collection fanzines is 1st issues, after thirty or so issues fanzines are much more slick and have developed a style that some stick slavishly to for the rest of their time, others grow and…
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Believe it or not there are 11 fanzines on the list that were written in English and sold in the UK but were entirely devoted to football and fandom in another country. Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, Japan and even as…
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The titan of print, Encyclopedia Britannica is still around but only as a website now, it even has a chatbot (No thank you) and it tells me that “Expressionism is a 20th-century artistic movement where creators prioritize showing inner emotional…
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Today’s pick from the pile for #FOTD is Never Mind The Danger “written by supporters for supporters” fanzine (that’s a given lads) looking at a vintage year for Norwich City FC from January 1989. Very promising lurid green cover with…
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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…
