Tag: fanzines
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We’ve discussed this before… It was inevitable that with the age and profile of fanzines and their editors that certain games and activities should receive more than a few mentions, part of growing up and a great way of filling…
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Todays #FanzineoftheDay is general fanzine Blow Football issue 1 from August/September 1989, a date that will be important to remember in this week’s Subbuteo blog. Published from Birmingham by some old university pals it quickly became a very well respected…
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Todays #FanzineoftheDay is issue 9 of From Behind Your Fences (FBYF) coming in at the pocket busting size of 44 pages but the penny pinching price of 60p. Promising no more than 3 pages on the world cup, away day…
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This week’s #FloodlightFriday caper comes to you from the still active Leeds stalwart, The Square Ball. This is from some time ago though, season 1992-93 issue 2 (get that numbering system sorted out lads, it’s RIDICULOUS). A two page spread…
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I’m dedicating this blog to all the fantastic people at Leeds central library without whom none of this madness would have started and to Antony Ramm in particular who has been asking me to write a blog about fanzine poetry…
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Issue 3 of Missing Sid comes to you from September 1993 with Villa fans in a dudgeon about Man United fluking the PL by finishing 10 points ahead of Villa the previous season. To make matters worse after just 3…
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Today’s fanzine of the day is issue 2 of Portsmouth’s The Greatest City from February 1988 revealed only by trawling web sites for match results…Portsmouth IS the UK’s only island city and was “the world’s greatest naval port” according to…
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For #FloodlightFriday today we travel back to August 1991 and issue 50 of the Stoke City classic The Oatcake. Our heroes fancy a bit of international football to round out the season. Having shunned Cameroon (minus Roger Milla who refused…
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Jim Ratcliffe, a tax dodger living in Monaco who doesn’t speak the language, is the latest in a long line of people in high profile roles who have outed themselves in the most horrific manner with their utter, hateful bile.…
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Todays fanzine of the day is issue 20 of Heart’s fanzine Always The Bridesmaid from September 1996. The name of course refers to Hearts long run of Hampden heartbreaks which has continued up to the current day with a 2025…
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