Fanzine

The story of football’s alternative press
The vivid story of the fanzine movement that gave supporters a voice and changed football forever

A love letter to an era that needed its story told’ Josh Widdicombe

This is an absolutely fabulous book’ Duncan Hamilton

The vivid story of the fanzine movement that gave supporters a voice and changed football forever

Demonised and left to watch games in decrepit stadiums, life as a football supporter in the 1980s was a demoralising experience. While some fans turned to violence, many more turned to typewriters, Tippex and staple guns to create a mass movement that transformed a bleak time into a hopeful one.

Adopting a DIY punk ethos, fanzine founders spread their pages across the land. Their funny, articulate and occasionally scandalous creations were sold outside grounds from Inverness to Torquay, with most British clubs covered