• I meant to do a blog about the world cup in fanzines last week but in true fanzine style just didn’t get round to it. This week I started to trawl the archives to look for the many and varied…

    The Pit Pony Express World Cup Special
  • This week we journey to the home of Dennis The Menace with Derry Rumba, a rambunctious fanzine in favour of Dundee FC (the dark blue ones). Issue 4 covers Sept-Oct 1989 and has Keith Wright on the cover bemoaning the…

    FOTD; Derry Rumba, Dundee FC
  • In honour of the start of the secondary of the two World Cups taking place over the next few weeks, this week’s #FloodlightFriday adventure takes us to the beating heart of the people’s republic of South Yorkshire, Doncaster. This via…

    #FloodlightFriday; Raise The Roof II, Doncaster Rovers
  • Featured in #FloodlightFriday last week we’ve decided to return to the Winter 1990 issue 4 of West Ham fanzine Never Mind The Boleyn for reasons. We should point out at this stage that in true fanzine style this winter 1990…

    FOTD; Never Mind The Boleyn, West Ham
  • This week’s crystal clear photo of a floodlight comes to you from the winter of 1990 and the fanzine for “groovy West Ham fans everywhere” Never Mind The Boleyn issue 4 A great little fanzine, promise of Gorby and Kinnock…

    #FloodlightFriday; Never Mind The Boleyn, West Ham
  • This week we’ll trawl through yet more great features in fanzines, looking at the quite incredible breadth and depth of fun, borderline insanity, outright stupidity but most of all the displays of passion and breathtaking creativity that appeared in football…

    CREATIVITY!
  • This weeks fanzine is another that called itself a magazine but it’s content, being printed independently and focussing on Scottish Junior football it’s hard not to consider it a niche, devoted fanzine entity. We join The Game at issue 4…

    FOTD; The Game, Scottish Junior Football
  • This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes from issue 34 of Watford classic Clap Your Hands Stamp Your Feet! with some of the most grainy, awful and some might say spurious photos we’ve published so far. The cover displays keeper Steve Cherry…

    #FloodlightFriday; Clap Your Hands stamp Your Feet! Watford.
  • A Venn diagram of people who created fanzines and music lovers would be more or less a circle. Less likely to be a circle is the Venn diagram of music lovers and people who heard Brian Clough sing. Anyway, there…

    Brian Clough Sings
  • Today’s fanzine of the day is in honour of PL champions Arsenal and comes to you from late summer 1991 with Arsenal having won the Football League under George ‘1-0’ Graham. An Imperfect Match is also an imperfect fanzine as…

    FOTD; An Imperfect Match, Arsenal