Tag: premier-league
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I’ve wondered a few times if I could get a magazine sized piece (about 2000 words) from researching and writing about a “randomly” chosen fanzine so let’s find out, shall we? For an added bonus there will be Chesterfield FC…
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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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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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Crystal Palace have won the FA Cup! Obviously, it’s a welcome relief that football’s money bags haven’t snaffled up all the trophies again this year. Let’s not fool ourselves here though, the Palace squad has a value of £370m and…
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It was FA Cup Semi final weekend last weekend so here is my take on the games; I HATE VAR WITH A PASSION, despise it. The ridiculous decision to include it from the 5th round on, the gulf it creates…
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Another story from the microfilm archives at Leeds central library, researching the story of professional football and football supporting in the Leeds as background for the 2025 exhibition on Fanzine culture at the library, Voice of the Fans. One of…
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Let’s look at another kit related mystery that has revealed itself during our research for the Voice of the Fans exhibition in the incredible newspaper archives at Leeds central library. There are of course direct links from Leeds United to…
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So how do we summarize Francis’ career? He clearly feels that under Raich Carter he was not given enough opportunity, maybe not because of Carter but he did feel that someone at the club was not happy with him being…
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In the first blog of this series we looked at how Gerry Francis came to Elland Road. In this edition we’ll look at his playing career at Elland Road. Though he took some time to adjust from the fast, hard…
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