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Magazines The Red Passion guide Shropshire’s Red Army The Shropshire Red The
Shropshire Red is the newsletter-cum-magazine of the Wrexham AFC Shropshire Reds
Supporters Club. The January 1999 edition was Volume 5 Issue 4 – so it’s a
firmly established, and also a very informative and lively production. The
Shropshire Reds are a incredibly well organised and impressively active supporters club.
Page 2 of the current edition indicates just this: a Chairman, a Secretary, a Treasurer
and two high-profile Honorary Members: Tim Vincent and Paul Burrell. The two most famous
living celebrity Wrexham fans? Discuss. The Reds, clearly, also have a thoroughly
well organised district rep system with contacts in Dedleston Heath & St.Martins,
Ellesmere, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Tanat Valley, Whittington & Gobowen. I think the
Bolshevik Party in Revolutionary Russia would have been proud of such an effective
on-the-ground organisation. The magazine also
includes an intriguing piece on John Humphreys’ recently-launched Wrexham AFC Shirt
Collection. The aim of the Shropshire Reds’ Chairman is to collect as many different
styles of Wrexham replica shirt as possible. This sounds like a fascinating project and we
wish him well. He’s seeking only those items that otherwise would be discarded or
destroyed – so please give John a ring on 01743 246702 if you can help him in any
way. The newsletter also
features a wide array of Shropshire Reds-related information: ‘Chairman’s
Chatter’, ‘Sumo’s Slimmed Down Secretarial Scribblings’, ‘Fanny’s
Fantasy League’, ‘Treasurer’s Tit Bits’ and ‘Shropshire Reds
Terrace Talk’. The publications also highlights the many forthcoming Reds’
supporters club events: quiz nights, nostalgia evenings and bi-monthly meetings. You can
also buy a Mold Road Stand brick through the newsletter or a tasty Shropshire Reds enamel
badge or even a Shropshire Reds retractable biro – depending, obviously, on your
taste. The Shropshire Reds
have close to 200 full members and raise staggering amounts of money for Wrexham FC –
and The Shropshire Red is an informative introduction to one of the most high-profile Reds’
supporters clubs. Peter Davies
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