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We have many historic Meet the Editor interviews lined up but I recently came across an almost new print fanzine in Scotland when editor David Martin got in touch and started to tell me the fantastic story of Allez Les…
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“These autonomous publications used for staging, communication and the construction of collective identities…they meant self-empowerment, the overcoming of isolation and the constitution of a social and cultural community.” Football fanzines writ large…except that quote is from a rather weighty academic…
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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…
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We’ve mentioned before (https://footballfanzineculture.blog/2025/05/22/football-fanzines-and-the-media-today/ ) some of the many famous people who started out in fanzines, Danny Baker and Steve Lamacq to name two but there more who were involved specifically with football fanzines during the boom period of the…
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