Tag: history
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“These autonomous publications used for staging, communication and the construction of collective identities…they meant self-empowerment, the overcoming of isolation and the constitution of a social and cultural community.” Football fanzines writ large…except that quote is from a rather weighty academic…
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When people ask me what my favourite fanzine is it’s impossible to answer, there are just so many to choose from BUT I always recommend people look at lower league fanzines in general because they were often the best in…
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The second of our blogs about the amazing stories behind just a few of the vast array of football fanzine names on the first comprehensive list of all fanzines that existed over the past 60 or so years, a very…
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25 September 1976 was a VERY important day. The 1st edition of Roy of the Rovers as a standalone comic was published with an exclusive article by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in which he exclusively revealed exclusively that in…
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We’ve mentioned the rich history of people starting out in fanzines before moving on to “bigger” things. The A side of this 7” blog covers a largely unknown fanzine that was followed by an extraordinary roller coaster of a ride…
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We’ve mentioned before (https://footballfanzineculture.blog/2025/05/22/football-fanzines-and-the-media-today/ ) some of the many famous people who started out in fanzines, Danny Baker and Steve Lamacq to name two but there more who were involved specifically with football fanzines during the boom period of the…
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Side 4 of our gatefold magnum opus. More puns, ‘taches and mullets, the list has grown to. 104 songs and is now 6 hours 34 minutes long but I’ve left “Freed from Desire Out” because I hate it with a…
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On the face of it, a bit of a niche fanzine blog this time; Subbuteo and fanzines. However, as we will see, the two have been strongly linked since the start of the golden (goalden? – Ed) era of fanzines.…
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The one where we add a few songs linked to terrace culture and found a link between one of the best-known artists of the past 25 years and a fanzine. Now 102 songs and 6 hours 29 minutes long the…
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We’ve discussed how we created “The List”, what is we think the first and most comprehensive catalogue of all the football fanzines that have existed for sale on the British Isles. The List was created as part of the preparation…
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