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Featured in #FloodlightFriday last week we’ve decided to return to the Winter 1990 issue 4 of West Ham fanzine Never Mind The Boleyn for reasons. We should point out at this stage that in true fanzine style this winter 1990…
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This week’s crystal clear photo of a floodlight comes to you from the winter of 1990 and the fanzine for “groovy West Ham fans everywhere” Never Mind The Boleyn issue 4 A great little fanzine, promise of Gorby and Kinnock…
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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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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” is a commonly stated phrase supposedly invented by Mark Twain, but it was actually created by Benjamin Disraeli…statistics being used incorrectly, oh the irony. I suppose we shouldn’t complain,…
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When people ask me what my favourite fanzine is it’s impossible to answer, there are just so many to choose from BUT I always recommend people look at lower league fanzines in general because they were often the best in…
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The second of our blogs about the amazing stories behind just a few of the vast array of football fanzine names on the first comprehensive list of all fanzines that existed over the past 60 or so years, a very…
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25 September 1976 was a VERY important day. The 1st edition of Roy of the Rovers as a standalone comic was published with an exclusive article by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in which he exclusively revealed exclusively that in…
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In other blogs we have talked about fanzines and the media personalities that grew from them. In this blog we’ll look at the case of a much bigger fanzine, acknowledged as the first general football fanzine and how they were…
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Last season’s FSA led initiative with fan groups staging #StopExploitingLoyalty protests at many premier league games demonstrated that the potential for organised protest does still exist in football and can be mobilised despite the horrific changes in law brought in…
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We’ve mentioned the rich history of people starting out in fanzines before moving on to “bigger” things. The A side of this 7” blog covers a largely unknown fanzine that was followed by an extraordinary roller coaster of a ride…
