Category: Floodlight Friday

  • 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…

    #FloodlightFriday; SAM, Maidstone United
  • 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…

    #FloodlightFriday; From London To Manchester
  • 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…

    #Floodlightfriday; Off The Ball, Scunthorpe United
  • 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…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Tea Party, Stockport County
  • 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…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Best of the Fox 21-30, Leicester City
  • This week’s #FloodlightFriday takes us to leafy Leamington Spa, home of Regency architecture and broad boulevards, colonnaded Royal Pump Rooms and a 19th-century bathhouse. Plus The Brakes who have just suffered the ignominy of being relegated from the North…the National…

    #FloodlightFriday; Windmill Wonderland, Leamington FC
  • In honour of the start of the secondary of the two World Cups taking place over the next few weeks, this week’s #FloodlightFriday adventure takes us to the beating heart of the people’s republic of South Yorkshire, Doncaster. This via…

    #FloodlightFriday; Raise The Roof II, Doncaster Rovers
  • 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…

    #FloodlightFriday; Clap Your Hands stamp Your Feet! Watford.
  • This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes to you from Volume 19 Issue 27 of The Football Traveller. £1.25 covering Thursday 2nd March to Friday 10th March 2006. I worked out the year only by looking up the quarter final fixtures for…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Football Traveller
  • This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes to you from Not The 8502, the classic AFC Bournemouth (sic) fanzine. Issue 30 covers March and April of 1993 with the team about to finish 17th in the 2nd (3rd) division, a young chap…

    #FloodlightFriday Not The 8502, AFC Bournemouth.