Category: History
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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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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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“I didn’t get round to it.” Last week I revealed that in true fanzine style I hadn’t prepared my World Cup In Fanzines blog extravaganza. So, this week I got organised, resolved to ignore The Pit Pony Express ( https://footballfanzineculture.blog/2026/06/18/the-pit-pony-express-world-cup-special/)…
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I meant to do a blog about the world cup in fanzines last week but in true fanzine style just didn’t get round to it. This week I started to trawl the archives to look for the many and varied…
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As part of the discussions about the Leeds Central Library exhibition on football fanzines and culture I started thinking about how many fanzines there had been. I assumed that this would be an easy task and was sure a list…
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Throughout spring and summer 2025 the Leeds central library will host an exhibition called Voice of the Fans, a celebration of football fanzine culture. This article looks back at fanzine development and what that means today Fanzines in print form…
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Crystal Palace have won the FA Cup! Obviously, it’s a welcome relief that football’s money bags haven’t snaffled up all the trophies again this year. Let’s not fool ourselves here though, the Palace squad has a value of £370m and…
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It was FA Cup Semi final weekend last weekend so here is my take on the games; I HATE VAR WITH A PASSION, despise it. The ridiculous decision to include it from the 5th round on, the gulf it creates…
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Another story from the microfilm archives at Leeds central library, researching the story of professional football and football supporting in the Leeds as background for the 2025 exhibition on Fanzine culture at the library, Voice of the Fans. One of…
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Let’s look at another kit related mystery that has revealed itself during our research for the Voice of the Fans exhibition in the incredible newspaper archives at Leeds central library. There are of course direct links from Leeds United to…
