Tag: sports
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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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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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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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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…
Football Fanzine Culture 