Category: Thursday Blog
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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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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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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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Bury F.C now exist as an 8th tier pyramid club way down in the Northern Premier League Division One West, but there are signs of hope. They are back at Gigg with a fan ownership model, the dark days of…
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This week we’ll trawl through yet more great features in fanzines, looking at the quite incredible breadth and depth of fun, borderline insanity, outright stupidity but most of all the displays of passion and breathtaking creativity that appeared in football…
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A Venn diagram of people who created fanzines and music lovers would be more or less a circle. Less likely to be a circle is the Venn diagram of music lovers and people who heard Brian Clough sing. Anyway, there…
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This week’s blog comes to you with thanks to the author Billy Morris (@Yorkshire_Tales) for the inspiration. He recently posted this extraordinary page from a newspaper way back in the 1970s commenting “Looks like this artist ran out of time…
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Adverts popped up in fanzines as a way of promoting friends, cutting losses, supporting local businesses or just making a joke. So, this week we return to the wacky world of ads with a nod to the superb Victor Lewis…
