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Shoot magazine ends after 40 years

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 57,918
edited June 2008 in Other Football and Sports
Publisher pulling plug after in unsuccessfully switched from a monthly to a weekly.

Used to love these as a nipper

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/17/ipc.pressandpublishing

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  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    oh no way - that is sad so sad.

    shoot mags always the best.

    got hundreds of the buggers from the 70's and 80's at my mum's
  • Amos on the wing
    Amos on the wing Posts: 1,802
    I used to love reading Shoot as a kid. Also Match magazine. Always remember getting excited as a kid when they mentioned Charlton (which was very rarely) in the 1980's!!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,935
    Always preferred Match myself.
    Just seemed more professional.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    That is a shame, I used to read MATCH more than SHOOT but its sad all the same.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,423
    Plaaayer has collected Match magazine since he was 8. He loves reading about Michael Owen, says he is "Ace!".
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Dam

    Always looked forward to getting my Shoot from the post boy
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,413
    This is terrible news. I am sure I read the first 100-200 issues. Have I kept them in perfect condition so that I can sell them to a collector? Er, no.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Amos on the wing[/cite]I used to love reading Shoot as a kid. Also Match magazine. Always remember getting excited as a kid when they mentioned Charlton (which was very rarely) in the 1980's!![/quote]


    Sad, but true!
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,003
    [cite]Posted By: Chunes[/cite]Plaaayer has collected Match magazine since he was 8. He loves reading about Michael Owen, says he is "Ace!".

    If it wasn't for me you'd still be platting your sisters hair!
  • Red_Pete_in_Dubai
    Red_Pete_in_Dubai Posts: 2,764
    What ever happened to Charles Buchan's Football Monthly? Now THAT was a proper football magazine!!

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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,918
    http://www.charlesbuchansfootballmonthly.com/
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,128
    Match was a far better read!
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,428
    shame. used to always read it as a kid.









    ********goes up the loft and dusts off 1979 seasons league ladders.*************
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
    Scorcher and Score, Billy's Boots, I've grazed my knee
    jumpers for goalposts, next goal's the winner then in for tea.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,687
    i've probaby still got the first dozen or so issues tucked away in a box along with the first 100 or so issues of Goal and bundles of old programmes...sad but true...
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,816
    I do remember Killer and Paddy being in it.
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,694
    Sad News ...... used to love those mags...
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,881
    Can remember as a little 7 or 8 year old wandering down every month to the Phoenix Pharmacy in town, in the door and up the stairs to the office where I'd ask whether my Shoot subscription had come in. They used to bring it in to Bermuda just for me. They'd check the cubby hole for it. It used to come rolled up like a poster and covered in brown paper. Funny, because that's what I remember about it. Can't remember a single thing else, like content or any specific centre pullouts etc!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,138
    edited June 2008
    Used to love getting the football ladder at the start of the season. Was always frustrated though that it tended to focus on "the big clubs", even before the Premiership.

    Face it, it had to go. It was a thing of it's time, a bit like Smash Hits which disappeared a year or so ago. Still NME is the new Smash Hits - what rubbish that has turned into.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Goal as i remember it was sorta the first "modern" footie mag-- loved it. Then Shoot came along and yes i did the ladder thing as well.


    and still have VoTV issue one in loft.

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