Tag: history
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If there are any members of the Office for National Statistics watching I apologise for what is to come, although based on the criticism politicians have been doling out, maybe you can pick up some tips here lads. In 2020…
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Mike Amos edited the fantastic fanzine Northern Ventures, Northern Gains for 27 years chronicling dog raffles, Kevin Keegan eating pie and peas, the death of a spongeman and 80p burgers the size of a tea plate in the Northern league.…
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There aren’t many football clubs in the UK that date back over 150 years, only around 17 in total I believe (someone will correct you- Ed). There are 8 in the top 4 leagues of English football – Notts County…
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I saw an advert for the current tour of “Dave Hill’s Slade” the other day (yes, they play it and yes, they stop and the crowd sings it for them..) anyway, this made me think of the way fanzines marked…
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I was out for a few celebratory drinks with a bunch of librarians the other week …This is not the start of a Bob Monkhouse monologue, it’s true as we celebrated winning the Sporting Heritage award for volunteer team of…
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Creativity comes from all sorts of people and places. A man once said “We wanted to make it funny and it was a despondent time and we wanted to take the piss. We didn’t want to sit there and be…
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An interview with the CEO of Google appeared on the BBC this week, interesting only for the fact that one tech’ company is finally coming clean on what utter rot AI is when you are searching for facts or even…
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This week I opened the Cardiff fanzine Thin Blue Line issue 67 from 2008 which covers a story I though must have been a spoof about Hamburg SV opening a cemetery for fans, a cemetery shaped like the ground with…
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In a previous blog to we looked at protest and protest culture on a national level in football fanzines; anti-racism, anti-Thatcher, the appalling state of grounds, police behaviour, anti ID cards, anti-discrimination and much more. Fanzines also focussed on local…
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Icymi (as the kids say) this is now officially an award-winning blog, well the research that goes into it is anyway. No big deal or changes, you just have to call me Sir now or something. Thanks to everyone who…
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