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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 25m

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

Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 30m

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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...

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 39m

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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.
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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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 3d

The game previews has a listing of fanzines available at the opponents, a feature I think is SUPERB! The Cloggers of the Year league has news of a certain bias for the manager but 16 bookings and 2 sendings off in the first 10 games of the season is impressive.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 3d

Reports appear mixed with some decent attempts at humour. Spot the Goalie is a good feature with our creators bitter about a recent loss. The end of the match report for that game combined with the start of the report for the next game show that managerial bollockings don't always work.

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 3d

The cover celebrates a poor start to the season for bitter rivals Woking but as Woking are a division above the Shots I'm not sure. The back cover is a nice halloween themed cut out and keep feature, a fake press pass to get you free entry to Ryman grounds..again hmmm

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Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social · 3d

Today's #FanzineoftheDay is from 1998 with no 3 of Aldershot's Redan Hill 90210. Redan hill is the former military practice ground next to the EBB. 90210 makes this the 2nd non league zine named after a TV show that next to Dulwich Hamlet's Champion Hill Street Blues.

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

Finally we have a rough guide to match ball sponsorship in the 80s which is absolutely tremendous and includes Frank Sidebottom. I need to find more copies of RR (named after Rodney Marsh who by now had even disappeared from the Tampa Bay Rowdies)

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

Niche; a piece on the upcoming American Professional soccer League (APSL) that was probably interesting to Mark himself but probably not many other people.

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

Interesting; A rather good letter from Eire about the way the English press had and still do twist things in a very sanctimonious way..and unfortunately in this case the fanzine itself.

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

Niche; A rather lovely piece about the history of cigarette cards

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