Fanzines Part Two: The Punk Spirit of Football's Alternative Press (with Daniel Gray)

Rob and Jonathan conclude their two-part series on football fanzines with Daniel Gray, editor of Nutmeg, host of the When Saturday Comes podcast and author of Fanzine: The Story of Football's Alternative Press.

This time they turn to the serious side of the movement. They look at how fanzines warned for years that a disaster like Hillsborough was coming, and how they fought back against the blame put on supporters, including The Sun's notorious front page. They talk about the campaigns that brought fanzines together: opposing Margaret Thatcher's ID card scheme, resisting all-seater stadiums, taking on the National Front at Leeds and helping Charlton get back to The Valley.

They also remember the joys of fanzine culture: guides to away grounds, ideas borrowed from other fanzines, and the expensive Club Call phone lines. Then they ask whether Fever Pitch, Fantasy Football, Standing Room Only and the early days of 606 took the fanzine spirit mainstream, or killed it off?

00:58 Foreshadowing Hillsborough
04:03 "It Must Be Our Fault Again"
04:41 The Fight Against ID Cards
09:34 Taking On The Sun
11:30 Standing vs All-Seater Stadiums
13:59 Fanzines Against Racism
16:38 Back to The Valley
19:32 Did Fanzines Reduce Violence?
21:43 Dissent and Contrarians
22:34 What Fanzines Got Wrong
23:42 Away Guides and Borrowed Ideas
25:42 The Club Call Rip-Off
30:04 Fanzines Go Mainstream
31:36 Standing Room Only and Fantasy Football
33:34 The Premier League and Fever Pitch
37:07 606, Then and Now
43:33 The Return of Inflatable Bananas
45:14 From Fanzines to the Hillsborough Law
46:37 Fanzines Today
49:41 Fans vs the European Super League
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