A second #FloodlightFriday trip to Leamington, the Brakes and the excellent Windmill Wonderland fanzine. I think I’ve explained this before, the club was established in 1933 as the works team…

This week I was down the smoke again to listen to an excellent Seb White1 interview with author and Nutmeg editor Daniel Gray about his brilliant book, Fanzine. As I’ve said before I can&#821…

Issue 4 appeared of Gwladys sings The Blues appeared in March 1995. The cover predicts the climax of the season as Everton would beat Manchester United 1-0 with a goal from Paul Rideout and a strin…

Today’s news is obviously going to be awash with stories about financial misreporting or cheating as it’s more commonly known so I realise that we will have to pull out all the stops wi…

This weeks blog starts with some pissed up mates in the pub making a list of all the things they’re fed up about. This sounds like a great idea for a sitcom, the start of Men Behaving Badly perhaps…

Unfettered by the truth we travel back to March 1992 for issue 34 of the always superb Chesterfield fanzine, The Crooked Spireite. The cover is a classic fanzine appeal/protest of sorts asking fans…

I’ve been a bit busy this week so after the highs of four “sets” of floodlights this week we’re down to zero actual pictures BUT we do have an extensive article..well, a pot…

Those of you of a certain vintage will immediately recognise this as the title of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s third studio album. Well done but did you also know that the title was su…

The 92nd Club issue 5 appeared in October 1990 with a great cover, a well drawn logo, all the information you could ever need and a cover cartoon highlighting an issue that would cost Terry Dolan t…

This week’s #FloodlightFriday bonanza takes us back to Bournemouth and initially to Dean’s Court. One of the floodlights “sort of” appears on the cover or at least the glare…

There was an explanation about the name of Sunderland Fanzine It’s An Easy One For Norman fanzine in Mike Amos’ always excellent blog this week. Always a brilliant read, you can read th…

Issue 6 of Motherwell’s Waiting For The Great Leap Forward appeared in September 1990 as the ‘well started what would be a successful season with a first Scottish cup since 1952. Yet an…

This weeks #FloodlightFriday comes to you from Ireland with issue 2 of a general Irish League fanzine Head The Ball dated February 1989. To say it has such a niche subject it’s a pretty good …

The other week I mentioned an ad that appeared in the following post When I first saw it I just thought it was just a bit of fun to put out there but then Simon Wright, the legendary editor of Gror…

Let’s travel back to January 1995 and visit Welling United to review issue 12 of Winning Isn’t Everything. The Wings have only been in existence since 1963 and only really moved into th…

This week we venture north of the border and way back to 1989 for our #FloodlightFriday escapade. It is actually a return to Only the Lonely which was the biggest and best Airdrie fanzine (OK it is…

One of the joys of doing this blog is that there is always something to fall back on. Some weeks a thought just won’t drop into place and inspire me but when that happens I can fall back on m…

Earlier in the year we ran a piece on Villa fanzine Missing Sid. ( Our heroes had called their fanzine this in honour of Gordon “Sid” Cowans who had been transferred to the newly minted…

April 1993 and Wycombe are enjoying the Martin O’Neil wind in their sails, about to be promoted to the promised land of the football league with a non league double to boot. You’d think…

This story appeared this week, further proof that “the game’s gone”. It’s like they think that “The only team in the UK to have a Michelin guide recognised offering&#8…

Back to 1991ish for this edition of #FanzineoftheDay. I’d be surprised in many people remember The One and Only. Only 50p and might just have been a general football fanzine and not connected…

Premier League club Fulham FC will this week announce a Michelin Guide-recognised dining experience at their Craven Cottage home, City AM can reveal. Adam Byatt-directed Constance – based at Fulham Pi...

We have a plethora of floodlights for #Floodlight Friday this week from one of the all time great fanznes, The Absolute Game with its legendary numbering scheme; issue 2nd Round 1st leg appearing t…

It is time for another thought / writing exercise that proves little except that fanzines are packed full of social history, excellent writing, design, mysterious bodies and stories, excellent desi…

One of the great joys of collection fanzines is 1st issues…after thirty or so issues fanzines are much more slick and have developed a style that some stick slavishly to for the rest of their…

Believe it or not there are 11 fanzines on the list that were written in English and sold in the UK but were entirely devoted to football and fandom in another country. Belgium, France, Germany, Sw…

The titan of print, Encyclopedia Britannica is still around but only as a website now, it even has a chatbot (No thank you) and it tells me that “Expressionism is a 20th-century artistic move…

Today’s pick from the pile for #FOTD is Never Mind The Danger “written by supporters for supporters” fanzine (that’s a given lads) looking at a vintage year for Norwich City…

First of all an apology, I was wrong and this is the second time a fanzine has appeared as Fanzine of the Day and a #FloodlightFriday post in the same week. Search for Pollok FC in the new improved…

In the days of Xg and bollocks like that we all sit back and tut at the crude and stupid clickbait it produces but sometimes, sometimes you just have to stand back and admire things. Take this for …

Todays Fanzine of the day comes to you from late 1985 as Maidstone United plied their trade in the Gola league. SAM is one of those “sort of a fanzine” issues, something from round the …

In the post this week this beautiful little fanzine arrived. I’d never even heard of From London To Manchester before but eBay turns up all sorts of wonderful things. Issue 3 seems to be from…

It was Bill Gates who coined this phrase in a 1996 essay which predicted that “high-quality, engaging material” would be where the real money is made on the internet. It’s clear i…