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VOTV - RIP

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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    A compendium of the best articles over its history would be a lovely thing.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Wheresmeticket? said:
    A compendium of the best articles over its history would be a lovely thing.
    Print the entire series of “Red Faces”. 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    All things must pass, somebody once said.
    Iconic part of our history now.
    Thanks Airman and best wishes in future endeavours.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Very sad to see it go, VOTV was a great help in getting us back to the Valley
  • h
    h Posts: 144
    Thanks Rick and all contributors for keeping me going through the dark and even darker days. I salute your efforts. 
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,625
    Can fully understand why Rick has done this but I’m actually very sad to see it go. VOTV has been a true champion of our football club. 

    Isn’t too silly to think it could be admitted into the hall of fame ? I think it’s a good shout.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,263
    Very sad to see this, been too busy to open the envelope so far today. Big thanks to all the contributors over the years but mainly of course to Airman for his huge contribution & breaking many stories re the bullshit that has been so much a part of our club for so long. Never forget the printing of Varneys emails & some idiots still believing Pinocchio's lies that "Reg" was only coming out with all this to get himself a pay rise.

    Thanks Airman, I wonder where we would have been without VOTV ?
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Sorry to see it go. It's been the best source of balanced news and largely accurate gossip on the club in my lifetime. However, I am sure Rick will continue to speak up and speak out on all things Charlton and he says we can look forward to "one-off publications." Anyone for a Christmas edition of Battle for Charlton Athletic?
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    A behemoth of football fanzines. 
    End of an era. 
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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    I've still got the first +/- 15 years of VOTV.
    I also have some of the other old great fanzines from the early nineties like The City Gent (Bradford), Brian Moore's Head Looks Uncannily like the London Planetarium (Gillingham). I used to go to Sportspages every week and buy a couple.

    VOTV is a piece of not only Charlton, but football, history. It's sad to hear of its end.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,150
    Great read and wonderful to read all those interviews with some greats and read the fans view section that went in recent years. Great stuff always bought it when i saw it available and did have a subscription a few times.

    We owe Rick a great deal. Top man. A genuine Charlton legend.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    I'm not one to moan but I've just paid £22 by PayPal for this year’s subscription. Will I get a refund You can donate what you owe me to the Upbeats @Airman Brown
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,527
    I do so hate RIP threads on Charlton Life but in this case at least Rick and his wit, wisdom and doggedness live on.

    The personal service of posting out to subscribers always went above and beyond - did I want it delivered to Glasgow or the Mull of Kintyre? 

    Huge thanks from me for all the time, effort, wry smiles and gossip - and support of CAST - over the years. 

    Live, love, laugh and read (one last copy) of Voice of The Valley. 
  • Ferryman
    Ferryman Posts: 2,921
    No spoiler alert mine hasn't arrived yet?
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,136
    Sad news, given VoTV's unremitting quality over the decades, but I totally understand Airman's need to carve out some time for other commitments and future projects. As Charlton supporters, we owe him a huge debt of gratitude for his insight, tenacity and leadership over many turbulent years.

    A big thank you also to the many excellent regular contributors and to the others who have stood outside The Valley - and Selhurst and Upton Park - in the rain and cold over the years to ensure that we got our monthly read.

    Good to see that the VoTV website will remain active with new content and that Airman has future publications in mind.

  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,596
    As someone who's been buying it since I started to attend games regularly in 89/90 when my own football career stumbled to a halt, and in more recent years as a subscriber, I'll be sad to see it go, but also understand why - thanks Airman for the Stella service over many years - I just hope there's a mention of Tuggy from the club shop one last time  :D
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,861
    Always hard to stay relevant in print when everything is now instantaneously available online, but what a service this fine fanzine provided us through the years. 
  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
    Gutted about this. Massive thanks to @Airman Brown.

    Would we have ever known about Jonathan Ackworth if it weren’t for VOTV? Would we have ever known about Steve Portway if it weren’t for VOTV???!!!
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    One of the sellers back in the old days was a really handsome lad.

    It leaves a great legacy.


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  • Coyotejohn1947
    Coyotejohn1947 Posts: 1,163
    Henry Irving said:
    Went downhill after the 5th Column went obviously but Echos across the Valley is and was always essential reading and some great campaigning articles during the protest eras.

    My Only Desire is good but not a news and gossip fanzine, which are the bits of VOTV I enjoyed most, more, unlikely as it might seem, than the historical articles which came to fill many of the pages in recent years.
    Hmmmm,

    Went downhill after The Lone Gunman's Bullet Points went obviously but Echos across the Valley is and was always essential reading and some great campaigning articles during the protest eras.
    Henry Irving always suspected that Bullet Points had 'plagiarised' the format of the 5th Column - we couldn't possibly comment !

    What is true is that both owed everything of course to VOTV and over two spells (with that big gap inbetween) it was a joy to write for.

    Thank you Rick.
  • Ben
    Ben Posts: 2
    edited April 2022
    Rick is up there with the people who have made a real impact at our club. We are lucky to have had a publication that has not only ran effective campaigns but also held high principles in journalism.

    You might not agree with him but when it comes to Charlton he is usually right (which is very annoying as his mate I can assure you) and as supporters we owe him a debt of gratitude. 

    Well done Rick, you created change, had a positive impact and stuck by your principles.
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351
    edited April 2022

    It's not so much a fanzine as true journalism, reliably informative, superbly written with great clarity, well laid out and always soundly edited, with every page produced to the same rigorous and consistent standard.

    I think the very first magazine was the one which got me hooked. Charlton's worst ever team: Hewie; Hewie, Hewie; Hewie, Hewie, Hewie and Hewie, Hewie, Hewie, Hewie and Hewie.

    Very best wishes to Rick and his family, and all contributors. Let's hope there is something exceptional being planned.

     
  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351
    edited April 2022

    Besides VoTV my favourite fanzines were From Behind Your Fences and Light At The End Of The Tunnel. In ragged memory they lurk as phantoms alongside many kindred publications as well as such glorious ephemera as inflatables. And while we still have our villains nowadays, who can forget the punishment routinely dished out to Rick's long-running targets Andy Bryant, Arnie Warren and Chris Tugwell. I hope that someday a worthy author will step forward to recreate that far distant world. 

  • TootingRedArmy
    TootingRedArmy Posts: 397
    My 86yr old father texted me with news that VOTV was closing yesterday, my father first game was Sept 1st, 1945, we were both gutted that it is to be no more.  We would always talk about what we had read when a new VOTV arrived his in Somerset and mine in Tooting. Without doubt VOTV has been the best football fanzine bar none in English football. I remember regularly going to Sportspages in Charing X road, back in the day and feeling proud that Charlton had the best fanzine bar none.
    VOTV was the lighthouse which shone a light in the dark days of Selhurst and has a special place in Charlton's history for campaigning to bring Charlton home and seeing off the crooks and chancers who have plagued our club. I trust that Rick / airman will come out of his retirement home if it all goes tits up with Thomas or if anyone dares try to move Charlton away from the Valley. Thank You Rick and all the best with working on your book and please keep posting on VOTV twitter and Charlton Life, your flying miles aren't over Airman just yet as you clearly have your ear to the ground with whats really going on with our club.
  • RickAddick
    RickAddick Posts: 1,198
    RiP VOTV.
    You will be missed. Sadly. 
  • Isawlearyplay
    Isawlearyplay Posts: 273
    Thanks Rick for providing such a good read for so long
    That you published some of my occasional rubbish always astounded, but appreciated. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,730
    It is and we always be a part of our history and a very important part of it at that. Thank you Airman.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,024
    razil said:
    I’m obviously out of the loop but why is it stopping?

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