Tag: sport
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Food is a very important part of going to the match, the timing of the game critical to choices such as eat/drink before /on the way to/ at the ground or all three. Food was therefore at the front of…
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As it is Non League day today we take another fanzine dip down the leagues with the 50p, 32 page issue 19 of Basingstoke’s amalgamated fanzines from October 1993, great detail on the cover lads. The cover also reveals a…
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Following on from my post earlier in the week we revisit Pollok for issue 10 of Fulton, One-nil from 1991, a #FloodlightFriday adventure and our 2nd Voyage of Discovery. These are the days well before drones were even a twinkle…
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August 1981, MTV went live for the first time. (Everyone knows the first track played but what about the second?) In his pre-Glasnost era President Reagan gave the go-ahead for U.S. production of the neutron bomb, and IBM introduced the first…
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Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is another belter from Scottish Junior football, issue 2 of Fulton, One-nil from Newlands / Glasgow giants Pollok FC. Produced in 1990 with the classic A5 photocopied format and 2 staples (They would revert to one for later…
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Tuesday this week, 17th March was a special day for some as it marked the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of a young scallywag called Dennis the Menace. Beside the obvious trouble making antics why is this important to…
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We move to the flatlands of East Anglia for today’s #FanzineoftheDay with issue 81 of Those Were the Days or TWTD.co.uk as the cover displays along with the date, March 2006 an the price £1.50…a curators dream. Bit miffed at…
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Today’s #FOTD is issue 5 of long running Leeds fanzine The Hanging Sheep and comes with an ulterior motive. First though, let’s have a look through the excellent contents of this 40p belter from April 1989. The cover has the…
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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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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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