Tag: history
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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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As St Totteringham’s day is upon us again I thought I’d travel back to happier times at White Hart Lane but that is never as simple as you’d think. With that title perhaps I didn’t really need to explain that…
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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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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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