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Ox4Eva said:
Anyone else miss the fanzines?

I used to really enjoy buying fanzines, ours and also many from other clubs that used to be a great read and a real good idea of how fans from various clubs felt about the game!
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yep .... most if not all have been killed off by the internet, blogs n the like
 
Always bought Raging Bull when it came out, was a great read and a shame it (after it changed to Rage On) came to an end.
 
Yes, really miss Rage On and it’s predecessor. Have all the back issues somewhere in the loft.
 
Thomas/Brock/Jones said:
Remember buying the first one , waiting outside the London rd before the gates opened...might have even been from Martin Brodetsky !
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Yeah MB was usually there selling them. I had a couple of things published in there, can remember doing a pic of the half built KasStad and turning into a donkey Kong level which went on one of the covers.
 
Yes miss Raging Bull.
Always a good read.
Didnt Paul Beasley write regularly as thin man in raging bull?
 
Yes I miss the fanzines . Back in the day I remember being able to phone into radox and listen to the commentary have to admit the internet is a bit of an improvement!
 
Ox4Eva said:
Does any club still a good old fashioned fanzine or did they all die off?
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most , if not all , sucumbed to 'online' 'zines/ sites etc ...and also some replaced with individual online blogs n vlogs it seems
 
Ox4Eva said:
Shame that, most of the good old football magazines also disappeared too.
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agreed .... my day job is generally for (old fashioned) printed monthly magazines, although there is an online webzine , for the time being, specialist subject (ooh eer) magazines are surviving well.... in ten years time that might change of course ( ill be long retired by then), core readers tend to be in the main over 30 years old, which generally equates to a preference for a publication that you can hold, keep and even collect - which 'online' equivilants tend not to allow
 
I have a monthly subscription for a magazine called 'Edge', have done for 20 years or so now. I don't know anyone else who still does that, why wait a month when you can get everything instantly with a click? Much prefer paper to a screen (he typed into his phone... ?)

Who has ever stumbled across a box of websites in their loft and spent an afternoon going back in time? No one.
 
May I?

SteMerritt said:
I have a monthly subscription for a magazine called 'Edge', have done for 20 years or so now. I don't know anyone else who still does that, why wait a month when you can get everything instantly with a click? Much prefer paper to a screen (he typed into his phone... ?)
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Well, f**k, almost nothing on a website has the detail and depth that paper 'journalism' has.

SteMerritt said:
Who has ever stumbled across a box of websites in their loft and spent an afternoon going back in time? No one.
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Back when I used to work I I used to spend afternoons in the weedy depths - one time I googled "Terry Scott Transporter Bridge" and ended up in a rapist (Middlesbrough FC) forum thread about the old days - fascinating. So I have one vote for doing that.
 
I remember once being at Abingdon Town v Aveley and an Aveley supporter turned up with a bunch of their fanzines, IIRC they were called "There's Only One Reggie Harris", whoever that was, but what sticks in my mind was the price was -1p as he gave them away and they had a 1p sellotaped to the cover of each!! I thought that was great!
 
I used to work in a newsagents and Martin Brodetsky walked in. I didn't know him but he had some U's badges on, so got chatting. Couldn't stop him :-), a big queue of customers soon formed.

I remember sitting on the bus back reading Raging Bull, a great read.
 
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