Tag: publishing
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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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In other blogs we have talked about fanzines and the media personalities that grew from them. In this blog we’ll look at the case of a much bigger fanzine, acknowledged as the first general football fanzine and how they were…
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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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Throughout spring and summer 2025 the Leeds central library will host an exhibition called Voice of the Fans, a celebration of football fanzine culture. This article looks back at fanzine development and what that means today Fanzines in print form…
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The Voice of the Fans exhibition that has spawned this blog starts tomorrow, 9th May. So it’s only right that we celebrate a remarkable fanzine event that happened recently, and went totally unremarked at the time! At the championship game…
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In the 80s there wasn’t much in a rural Derbyshire village beyond riding over hill and dale, sci fi from the library and the music of the John Peel show. Oh yeah, there was football obviously, playing and watching it.…
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