Tag: culture
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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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During the research for the Voice of The Fans exhibition at Leeds Central Library about football fanzine culture we’ve created a list documenting all the football fanzines that ever existed (1,704 and counting). The list contains an extraordinary amount of…
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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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As I was creating the first comprehensive list of football fanzines that existed to support the Voice of the Fan exhibition, memories came flooding back of the sometimes-surreal nature of fanzine culture, names and the humour. Then, in a surreal…
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The Voice of the Fans exhibition that has spawned this blog starts tomorrow, 9th May. So it’s only right that we celebrate a remarkable fanzine event that happened recently, and went totally unremarked at the time! At the championship game…
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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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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.…
