Tag: sports
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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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Todays #FanzineoftheDay is issue 9 of From Behind Your Fences (FBYF) coming in at the pocket busting size of 44 pages but the penny pinching price of 60p. Promising no more than 3 pages on the world cup, away day…
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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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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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Today’s fanzine of the day is issue 2 of Portsmouth’s The Greatest City from February 1988 revealed only by trawling web sites for match results…Portsmouth IS the UK’s only island city and was “the world’s greatest naval port” according to…
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Jim Ratcliffe, a tax dodger living in Monaco who doesn’t speak the language, is the latest in a long line of people in high profile roles who have outed themselves in the most horrific manner with their utter, hateful bile.…
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Today’s fanzine of the day is South Riding issue 12 all the way from Barnsley in September 1991 with our heroes contemplating their 11th successive unsuccessful season in Division 2 (championship). I looked it up and to give you an…
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I’ve been driving up and down motorways recently, something that is wearing to say the least. On my travels I thought about the many articles in fanzines about the “joy” of travel as a football supporter. So, this week we’ll…
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Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is issue 12 of On Cloud Seven a Hull fanzine from September 1991. Hull are newly relegated to the 3rd Division (League one) in their 88th season. The brilliant name stems from manager Colin Appleton’s idiomatic faux pas…
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If there are any members of the Office for National Statistics watching I apologise for what is to come, although based on the criticism politicians have been doling out, maybe you can pick up some tips here lads. In 2020…
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