Tag: friday

  • We have a plethora of floodlights for #Floodlight Friday this week from one of the all time great fanznes, The Absolute Game with its legendary numbering scheme; issue 2nd Round 1st leg appearing to cover August and September of 1989.…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Absolute Game
  • OK, this hashtag and the resultant blogs are supposed to include floodlights pictures for people to say oooh to but…well nothing was ever straightforward with fanzines so the back cover of The Tea Party issue 10 from March 1992 gives…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Tea Party, Stockport County
  • For any American listeners, it’s pronounced Leicester. This week’s floodlit extravaganza takes us to the home of insipid cheese, ol’ jug ears and crisps as we dip into a best of edition of the venerable old boy, The Fox in…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Best of the Fox 21-30, Leicester City
  • This week’s crystal clear photo of a floodlight comes to you from the winter of 1990 and the fanzine for “groovy West Ham fans everywhere” Never Mind The Boleyn issue 4 A great little fanzine, promise of Gorby and Kinnock…

    #FloodlightFriday; Never Mind The Boleyn, West Ham
  • This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes to you from Not The 8502, the classic AFC Bournemouth (sic) fanzine. Issue 30 covers March and April of 1993 with the team about to finish 17th in the 2nd (3rd) division, a young chap…

    #FloodlightFriday Not The 8502, AFC Bournemouth.
  • Before we get to the #FloodlightFriday bit I need to clear up the obvious confusion here. This fanzine was “better” known as ‘The Keeper Looks Like Elvis‘ but by issue 12 in December 1996 they changed the name (temporarily I…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Keeper Looks Like Cliff, Kidderminster Harriers
  • Last week we enjoyed this tremendous photo of Leeds Road from issue 9 of Shrewsbury’s A Large Scotch. This, from May 1991, accompanied a grudging 2 word match report after a 4-0 reversal vs Fulham. (There was a report of…

    #FloodlightFriday; (Another) Large Scotch, Shrewsbury.
  • Issue 9 of the rather splendid long running Shrewsbury fanzine A Large Scotch came out around April time in 1991. It was a “relegation special” issue but we’re using it for #FloodlightFriday purposes today. At the time it looked like…

    FloodlightFriday; A Large Scotch, Shrewsbury Town.
  • 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…

    #FloodlightFriday;  TSB, Leeds United.
  • 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…

    #FloodlightFriday; The Oatcake, Stoke City