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WHEN FANS GOT A VOICE

Fanzine - The story of football’s alternative press, by Daniel Gray, published by Bloomsbury Sport, Price: £20
DANIEL Gray’s new book explores the fanzine phenomenon during the peak years of the 1980s and 1990s. It offers an alternative history of football during a troubled and transformational time as witnessed by supporters.
Gray neatly summarises the birth of fanzines.
“They sprang from a time of despotic club chairmen and intransigent administrators of the game who cared not a fig for the supporters and the derelict conditions in which they watched foo...

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