Programmes

& fanzines

Pile them up in the spare bedroom

Season 2000-2001 (so far)

Bristol City (13 Feb) by Daniel Jennings

Cost: £2.
Pages: 52 including covers.
Good things: 'Latest news on City', pp.4-5; 'Memory Bank' - BC v Wrexham in 1997; also good info on the next away game. 
Bad things: Front cover - in your face!
Bizarre things: That front cover again!
Great one-liner: 'The average height of current Premiership keepers is 6ft2 - three inches taller than keepers from 30 years ago' (p.29).
Verdict: Plain - 6/10.


FANZINE
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/redrobins/
This is an unofficial City website - and a pretty basic one at that. There's all the usual stuff: latest news, outrageously biased comment, links to other BC sites, and lots of ant-Rovers nonsense. The only problem is topicality. The site was last updated on September 4th 1999.
Peter Davies


Rotherham (20 Feb) by David Jennings 

Cost: £2.
Pages: 48 including covers.
Good things: Where as in the Oldham programme it was hard to find any bad things, it was hard to find any good things in this effort of a programme. The only two articles that which stand out above average are the ‘Opposite View’ and the ‘London Millers’ columns.
Bad things: The amount of adverts, which were, printed anywhere and everywhere with 70 in total not including the match sponsors etc! The other bad thing was the predicted stating eleven and not the squad lists on the back cover.
Bizarre things: The size – smaller than most programmes and about the same size as the 92-93 season programmes.
Great one-liner: Ronnie Moore on the Cambridge match: 'It would have been nice if we had got an earlier goal because we could have got five or six goals and it would have kept their coach quite because he is quite an arrogant type of person.'
Verdict: A very average programme not quite as bad as Scunthorpe’s last season! 5/10. 


FANZINE
Moulin Rouge 
No salesmen visible on the night Wrexham were in town, so we'll have to take a look at a back copy (Feb/Mar 1997). It's 48 pages for £1 and is quite cutting about the club, the team, and ex-centre-forward Lee Glover (who Brian Clough once idolised). MR also seems to have a problem with the town's rugby union side - a bit like Wigan's fanzine has a problem with the rugby league team that now shares the JJB Stadium. Oh, and an excellent back-page advert for Shahjahan - 'Rotherham's first Balti Restaurant'. £8 for a four-course meal - sounds good to me. 
Peter Davies