Author: Peter Slater
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Not The View is a great fanzine name, a pun but a clear and concise one, instantly recognisable to fans as it is clearly not the official Celtic mouthpiece of the time, The View. Issue 23 appeared in October 1990…
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I feel a bit bad that the first “feature” with Off The Ball (Issue 16, Winter 1988, 50p) is just a mini blog because this was a real titan amongst fanzines. After Foul blazed the trail, OTB came along albeit…
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It has been a year now since we provided some stats on fanzines included on The List of the many and varied football print publications that have sprung up over the years so let’s dip back into that to provide…
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Today’s #Fanzineoftheday (In case you were wondering, this usually means grabbed at random from the pile under my desk) is Sheffield Wednesday’s Half Day Closing, issue 1 from Septemberish 2000. Lovely cover, the club’s stripes, a price and sort of…
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OK, this hashtag and the resultant blogs are supposed to include floodlights pictures for people to say oooh to but…well nothing was ever straightforward with fanzines so the back cover of The Tea Party issue 10 from March 1992 gives…
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Bored with the World Cup? Yeah, me too so this week I decided to look for another blog idea and as I was looking I realised that it was right there in front of me, fanzine covers. The strange thing…
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Today’s #FanzineoftheDay was In Dublin’s Fair City until this issue, number 21 in late 1998 when it became Peeping Tom but stayed with Coventry City (could have restarted the numbering lads…). The special offer on the front cover is superb,…
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For any American listeners, it’s pronounced Leicester. This week’s floodlit extravaganza takes us to the home of insipid cheese, ol’ jug ears and crisps as we dip into a best of edition of the venerable old boy, The Fox in…
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The World Cup trundles on in it’s latest hideously bloated, dull incarnation so we’ll keep on trawling the archives for more Mundial news from fanzines past. Hell, I’m not sure if I’ll still have the energy to be doing this…
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Issue 7 of this unofficial organ appeared in 1991 and covered August/September. We join our heroes from Simon’s Haircut at the start of the season, back in the GM conference again after winning the Southern League title in the final…
