Tag: soccer
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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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We have many historic Meet the Editor interviews lined up but I recently came across an almost new print fanzine in Scotland when editor David Martin got in touch and started to tell me the fantastic story of Allez Les…
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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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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” is a commonly stated phrase supposedly invented by Mark Twain, but it was actually created by Benjamin Disraeli…statistics being used incorrectly, oh the irony. I suppose we shouldn’t complain,…
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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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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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A tale about either non league fandom or the perils of “tired and emotional” late night forays onto eBay, you decide….When I opened the latest late night eBay bounty package yesterday, 20 old football fanzines spilled out and I had…
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