08/09/2026
🍋🟩We’ve got our copies of Daniel Gray’s brilliant book FANZINE in stock. Look at those endpapers! Showcasing some of the current football fanzine movement torchbearers such as Dial M for Merthyr, A Love Supreme, Robert Nichols, The Leyton Orientear, GIVE ‘EM BEANS! and, of course, When Saturday Comes.
Through extensive archival research and interviews, Fanzine tells the story of the fanzine movement during its boom years. It offers an alternative history of football in a monumental period – from Heysel to the Premier League, via Hillsborough and Italia ‘90 – as witnessed from the stands. Deploying fans’ colourful and often sardonic words, Fanzine transports readers back to the terraces of old, for better or worse – bad Bovril and suspect pies are never far away.
As ever, if you can’t make it, tap the photo above and get yourself a copy. We’re also offering a signed copy preorder and ship worldwide!
We’re also hosting the London launch of the book at The Volley with Seb White (former MUNDIAL, STAND Football Fanzine) chairing. Last couple of spots remain via Eventbrite (link in bio).
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Praise for ‘Fanzine’:
“Beautifully nostalgic. If only we could ditch phone-ins and bring back fanzines.” — Kevin Day ()
“A beautiful love letter to an era that needed its story told. Captures the creativity, passion, and DIY brilliance of so many never forgotten publications and tells the story not just of fanzines but the last days of football before it changed forever.” — Josh Widdicombe
“Brilliantly evokes an era when football fans armed with Pritt Sticks, stencils, John Bull printing sets and access to the work’s photocopier changed British football for the better.” – Harry Pearson
“This is an absolutely fabulous book; and Daniel Gray is an absolutely fabulous writer.” — Duncan Hamilton
