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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for this, that article appearing in all the great humour is a stark reminder that the 80s and 90s weren’t always the universally great times that people would have you believe.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

I feel very privileged to have had 6 early issues of this brilliant fanzine sent to me with a suitable donation to charity made in return. Any and all other donations greatly received and made.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

The adverts alone are worth it. The sadly departed Murdoch soups and pies were legendary at Aggborough and obviously gave the fanzine its name. AND I managed to find a picture of the Fair (Stourport) shopfront...as appealing as the ad'

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing is normal or remotely dull about this fanzine, even the match reports are great, chants, promises of an unpredictable bladder investigation and pub guides. There is confirmation if you needed it that even 35 years ago having a Tory MP is a complete and utter waste of time

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

There is a shocking report about crowd violence at Kettering. You really don't expect to see this sort of thing in non league football but the 90s were a different time and thankfully the police aren't quite as incompetent and stupid today, close though it might be sometimes.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

There's an amazing skit of Shoot! player profiles. The steak, lager and Dire Straits guide is majestic. Though I've no clue who this player is I think Shoot! missed a trick not including a "Person most like to sleep with" question. Great spreadsheet potential for @theskystrikers.bsky.social

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 2d

Today's #FanzineoftheDay is issue 3 of Classic The Soup from Kidderminster Harriers in April 1990. Renamed The Satanic Soup for this issue with a very frisky front cover.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re from or lived in Leeds you’ll know this well.

Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

More details here
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/music-leeds-...

Music Leeds Us: Celebrating 60 Years

10 October 2025 - 28 June 2026 | Leeds City Museum | Marking 60 years of Leeds Conservatoire, this special exhibition celebrates the people, places and magic moments that have shaped the city’s musica...

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

I’m here at Leeds museum giving tours today, fanzines and much much more, (including a Leeds shirt) come on down.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

A reminder of the 80s, managers/players going down the leagues for one last payday, fanzines/printed records that we should cherish, local ads, very average print, B&W action photos, 10p programmes, jumpers for goalposts, forgotten clubs, the GMVC and Graham Westley being crap.

Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

Don't recognise many of the names on the team sheet but I'm sure some do... except there is Graham Westley, he of Stevenage and not much else managerial fame.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

He clearly didn't have a very high opinion of Tommy Docherty but it's nice to hear Graham Bressington was being given a rest. That's the other thing, Tommy D at Altrincham...again I'd forgotten that this was his last managerial port of call.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

Fanzine adjacent? Clearly it wasn't one but the raison d'etre of the league (explained here) allowed the programme editor to be freer than he might have been in an official programme and I'm not sure he would be paid for this work. That league table is very "fanzine" though.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

All of the final tables are archived here in case you were interested in killing about 2 hours like I did this afternoon, it ended up with 3 sections web.archive.org/web/20131224...

Capital Football League

Capital Football League. THE FRIENDLY LEAGUE - FOUNDED IN 1984.Providing quality, competitive football for reserve teams in and around The Capital.

web.archive.org

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

The Capital League I hear you cry? Well I wasn't aware of or had forgotten this & there is very little about it online. (Ran 1984-85 to 2014-15 and that's about it) The early season table with a great logo is here (clubs didn't play the same number of fixtures, it was very casual)

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 4d

Today we're going to do a special #NotQuiteaFanzineoftheDay.

Quite often when I buy job lots of fanzines little oddities get thrown in that are, well, fanzine adjacent. Take this for example, the 10p programme for a Capital League fixture between Wycombe and Brentford.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 5d

Home end was no better for queues by 5 to 3, mainly because everyone had tried to fit a last pint from the social club in before KO

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 5d

The bit between the floodlights in that photo was the uncovered away end. Many a happy Saturday afternoon was spent laughing, singing and shouting at away fans getting absolutely soaked in the pouring rain as the pitch, for the millionth time, became a mud bath.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 5d

It's Thursday and that can mean only one thing; a new blog is up. This week we talk about the Scottish Premier League of fanzines per club and speak to a resident of St John's Toun.
footballfanzineculture.blog/2025/10/09/m...

Meet the Editor; Allez Les Blues!, St Johnstone.

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 fantast…

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 7d

Oh now that is a sensational claim to fame, going to dig some out tomorrow

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 7d

Because you do I looked and the wobbly legged keeper also played for single games for Bury, Hellenic, Northwich Victoria and Glasshoughton Welfare and TWO games for Lincoln around that time. Lovely stuff.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 7d

Finally there is a fairly anodyne match report reminding us that incredibly Bruce Grobbelaar played for Chesham United in 1998 (4 app, 0 gls) I'm sure many other fans asked Brucie the same question during quieter moments in a game.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 7d

The ground previews gives a lovely little insight into non league life, I'd have given up on that burger at Hampton well before 40 minutes.

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