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VOTV - RIP

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  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,959
    The most influential fanzine in football - bar none. Thanks Rick for everything.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,891
    Off_it said:
    I think @Airman Brown should consider relaunching it as a NFT. 

    It's the future!
    Can I pay with some magic beans?
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    I'm SO looking forward to the final edition thumping down onto my doormat like a brick erupting through the letterbox ! 

    I can't wait to see whether there are any major revelations inside that will knock our (cotton) socks off .....but I know it will be worth every penny. 

    It will be a sad day but hopefully the springboard for bigger things to come from our very own Airman Brown. 
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    Please can we have one last “red faces”. 
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    I used to queue up outside Selhurst every time the next edition came out and it  always has been a great read, but that feels like a lifetime ago now. I'm off to have a rummage to see if I saved my copy of the very first issue, but I had a ruthless clear out a few years ago in a moment of madness, so I'm not hopeful.

    My earliest programme is M'bro away  in March 1972 btw, not that I was at that game. Long story given that I'm not a collector. Couldn't tell you the result.
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,718
    edited August 2022
    Its shows you how things have changed re communication, no internet in those days!. VOTV was my main way of finding out what was going on, and an inspiration to join the Valley Party. Gutted I had moved from Greenwich a short time earlier to Bexley and couldn't therefore be an actual candidate. Didn't wait for a Selhurst game, I would pop into Embassy Court Welling to the newsagents to get the latest copy. Had the right hump if he didn't have them yet or had sold out! I also remember ringing clubcall many many times praying for an update!   I think the Airman Brown section was always my favourite bit.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    Valiantphil said:
    Please can we have one last “red faces”. 
    Or alternatively, a ‘Top 10’ of the most notorious ‘Red Faces’ - my nomination for the most notorious (which I appreciate will have major competition from many, incl Ralph Milne) is Shane Westley - truly dreadful 
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Fanny Fanackapan said:
    I'm SO looking forward to the final edition thumping down onto my doormat like a brick erupting through the letterbox ! 

    I can't wait to see whether there are any major revelations inside that will knock our (cotton) socks off .....but I know it will be worth every penny. 

    It will be a sad day but hopefully the springboard for bigger things to come from our very own Airman Brown. 
    Blimey Fanny! I had to read that twice.

  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    man_at_milletts said:
    Fanny Fanackapan said:
    I'm SO looking forward to the final edition thumping down onto my doormat like a brick erupting through the letterbox ! 

    I can't wait to see whether there are any major revelations inside that will knock our (cotton) socks off .....but I know it will be worth every penny. 

    It will be a sad day but hopefully the springboard for bigger things to come from our very own Airman Brown. 
    Blimey Fanny! I had to read that twice.

    @oohaahmortimer ...that one was for you ! 
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    swordfish said:
    I used to queue up outside Selhurst every time the next edition came out and it  always has been a great read, but that feels like a lifetime ago now. I'm off to have a rummage to see if I saved my copy of the very first issue, but I had a ruthless clear out a few years ago in a moment of madness, so I'm not hopeful.

    My earliest programme is M'bro away  in March 1972 btw, not that I was at that game. Long story given that I'm not a collector. Couldn't tell you the result.
    I'm delighted to report that, following a frantic search last night, I found my copy of  Issue No 1 of VoTV (Feb 88 30p), in very good condition I might add given its paper form, @Airman Brown''s viewpoint stating his ambition to score a hat trick in the Simod Cup Final. 🤣

    I seem to have kept select issues covering the significant victories in the many trials and tribulations of the Club up to the turn of the Century.

    I'm  looking forward to owning a copy of the final edition too. Do I place my order on the VoTV website?
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  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,742
    swordfish said:
    swordfish said:
    I used to queue up outside Selhurst every time the next edition came out and it  always has been a great read, but that feels like a lifetime ago now. I'm off to have a rummage to see if I saved my copy of the very first issue, but I had a ruthless clear out a few years ago in a moment of madness, so I'm not hopeful.

    My earliest programme is M'bro away  in March 1972 btw, not that I was at that game. Long story given that I'm not a collector. Couldn't tell you the result.
    I'm delighted to report that, following a frantic search last night, I found my copy of  Issue No 1 of VoTV (Feb 88 30p), in very good condition I might add given its paper form, @Airman Brown''s viewpoint stating his ambition to score a hat trick in the Simod Cup Final. 🤣

    I seem to have kept select issues covering the significant victories in the many trials and tribulations of the Club up to the turn of the Century.

    I'm  looking forward to owning a copy of the final edition too. Do I place my order on the VoTV website?
    Shortly.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,009
    Airman Brown said:
    Final issue of VOTV, running to 84 pages, will be out on Saturday, with subscriber copies in the post ahead of that. More details here, where you can also order it by post. Cover price is £5.

    I've got a few subscribers to contact this week - mostly people who paid by cheque or online banking and whose subscription have expired. The vast majority of PayPal subscriptions have been settled - there are small number still to collect £2.75, after which they will close automatically.
    excellent
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    Can't wait although feeling sad at its demise.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,829
    stonemuse said:
    Airman Brown said:
    Final issue of VOTV,
    excellent
    Very harsh @stonemuse its been a great product over many years. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,009
    AFKABartram said:
    stonemuse said:
    Airman Brown said:
    Final issue of VOTV,
    excellent
    Very harsh @stonemuse its been a great product over many years. 
    🤣
  • Pico
    Pico Posts: 1,029
    Come to the Back to The Valley 30 celebration evening on October 21st where CAST will be making a special surprise presentation to Airman (don't tell Rick).

    Details of the event:

    https://www.castrust.org/2022/09/there-will-be-cake/


  • ParkinsonOut
    ParkinsonOut Posts: 1,467
    It will be a sad moment when the final VOTV drops through my letterbox. I’ve got every issue & have enjoyed reading the variety of contents within those pages. So, a big thanks to  @Airman Brown for all his hard work in producing 176 issues - & I can’t help but wish that, as the club teeters on the edge of yet another crisis, Rick hadn’t called time on VOTV.
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Does Thomas get a complimentary copy? 😎
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  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Airman Brown said:
    swordfish said:
    Does Thomas get a complimentary copy? 😎
    Not sure you mean "complimentary"...
    Oh dear! No specially edited edition for him then!🙄
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Just ordered via PayPal, looking forward to this edition 
  • Phil
    Phil Posts: 613
    Sad occasion. It’s always been a good read aside from its importance in helping to galvanise supporters back in the day. It will be missed as much as the sight of Airman outside the ground pre-match on a Saturday.
    Anyway congratulations on many editions over the years and thanks.
  • Isawlearyplay
    Isawlearyplay Posts: 273
    Been a wonderful project Ric. You are to be congratulated for first the original initiative then for broadening the campaign to ensure we were always informed of current threats. Perhaps what has not yet been mentioned is your unfailing support , the editorial freedom, and the kindnesses shown to those of us who have risked the occasional contribution.
  • Oh Eddie Youds...
    Oh Eddie Youds... Posts: 1,320
    Airman will pop up somewhere else soon.

    He’s probably part of the Andrew Barclay & Peter Varney consortium looking to takeover the club 😉
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    Oh Eddie Youds... said:
    Airman will pop up somewhere else soon.

    He’s probably part of the Andrew Barclay & Peter Varney consortium looking to takeover the club 😉
    Many a true word spoken in jest, Eddie....
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,625
    Still gutted about this. 
  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,442
    Will get there slightly earlier than usual Airman, with the right money for once 😊. 
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,742

  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,409
    This is going to be missed by many football people and sadly for Charlton fans we will have to find inside information elsewhere.
     
    Thanks for all those years Rick and of course all your helpers.

    Just seen the new T Shirt brings back memories of we don’t give a xxxx for Selhurst Park.

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