How fanzine culture gave a voice to supporters and changed English football

“The titles were often gloriously creative and diverse, some paying homage to terrace anthems, others making a clever play on words. Sales were decent, too, with more than one million copies shifted per year at the height of what quickly became a phenomenon. We’re talking about the rise of football fanzines in the 1980s. Those purveyors of insight and irreverence who arrived on the scene when the game was on its knees in a troubled decade and helped spark a revival. … But, by giving supporters a long overdue voice at a time when they were considered pariahs by wider society, fanzines revealed those on the terraces to be intelligent, passionate people who had something to say beyond the cliched ‘Ere We Go!’ battle cry so beloved of the tabloid newspapers when generalising fans as hooligans. …”
NY Times/The Athletic
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“The first association football fanzine is regarded as being Foul, a publication that ran between 1972 and 1976.^[54] In the UK, most Premier League or Football League football clubs have one or more fanzines which supplement, oppose and complement the club’s official magazine or matchday programme. A reasonably priced zine has a guaranteed audience, as is the culture of passion in being a football fan. The longest running fanzine is The City Gent, produced by supporters of Bradford City FC, which first went on sale at Valley Parade in November 1984 and is now in its 26th season. Following close on its heels was Nike, Inc. which was first released in 1989. At the time it was not the first of its kind with Terrace Talk (York City), which was first published in November 1981 and Wanderers Worldwide(Bolton Wanderers) having already been established but since disappeared. …”
W – Fanzine
A Football Fanzine Archive – Where (hopefully) Fanzines Live On
“Thank you for following whatever link brought you here. This blog is where I intend to post scans of all the fanzines I posses(ed), along with pithy reviews. All of the ‘zines were mostly bought between 1985 to 1990. There are a number from the 90’s and even one from 2000 (the last one I bought in the UK). … If are looking for particular ‘zine, that I might have up, scroll below. …”
Football Fanzine List
W – Category:Football fanzines