Tag: football
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Tuesday this week, 17th March was a special day for some as it marked the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of a young scallywag called Dennis the Menace. Beside the obvious trouble making antics why is this important to…
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We move to the flatlands of East Anglia for today’s #FanzineoftheDay with issue 81 of Those Were the Days or TWTD.co.uk as the cover displays along with the date, March 2006 an the price £1.50…a curators dream. Bit miffed at…
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Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is from the Peak District, issue 17 of Matlock’s “Keep Off The Fence” from winter 1995. Excellent cover, news from the social club, lots of info about what is inside, the issue number date and price clearly visible.…
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This week’s #FloodlightFriday comes from Brentford’s Beesotted issue 39 in 1996. Simple but effective today; A picture of the “long established” Springfield Park’s boundary wall with the floodlights rising majestically above, all in black and white obviously. The caption inserted…
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It’s all about fandom nowadays, fandom this, fandom that but what does that word mean? It’s has only really come into common use in the past 20 years. As a noun it’s definition is “the state or condition of being…
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Today’s #FOTD is issue 5 of long running Leeds fanzine The Hanging Sheep and comes with an ulterior motive. First though, let’s have a look through the excellent contents of this 40p belter from April 1989. The cover has the…
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In honour of their cup win earlier today, Todays’ #FOTD is The Vale Park Beano issue 4 from 1998. Beano was a late entrant to the fanzine landscape, and trying to replace the massive void left when Seth Bottomley disappeared…
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This week’s #FloodlightFriday comes to you from issue 15 of Charlton fanzine The Valiants Viewpoint from September 1989 with a superb cover photo sharing the sad news that the now deserted Valley has had it’s floodlights removed after just 28…
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This edition of “Editor” is a bit different as I’ve not actually been in touch with the editor, it’s just fallen in my lap so to speak. I recently bought a copy of issue 50 of superlative Cambridge United fanzine…
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Following on from yesterday’s “Fanzines sort of named after a film” we travel to September 1994 to look at Issue 8 of Walsall’s Blazing Saddlers for today’s #FanzineoftheDay (If anyone has a copy of Glentoran fanzine A Nightmare on Dee…
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