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A tale about either non league fandom or the perils of “tired and emotional” late night forays onto eBay, you decide….When I opened the latest late night eBay bounty package yesterday, 20 old football fanzines spilled out and I had…
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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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In the 80s there wasn’t much in a rural Derbyshire village beyond riding over hill and dale, sci fi from the library and the music of the John Peel show. Oh yeah, there was football obviously, playing and watching it.…
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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…
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So how do we summarize Francis’ career? He clearly feels that under Raich Carter he was not given enough opportunity, maybe not because of Carter but he did feel that someone at the club was not happy with him being…
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In the first blog of this series we looked at how Gerry Francis came to Elland Road. In this edition we’ll look at his playing career at Elland Road. Though he took some time to adjust from the fast, hard…
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