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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2008 21:39:42 GMT
Jon, firstly, take a look at the name below yours in the list of subscribers for the centenary history... Well remembered with the Foul skit on the TV line-up for the 1973 Cup Final. Reproduced below with pages from the Aston Villains programme featuring the great Arthur Scagfoot - not forgetting Mrs Rita Scagfoot of course. A Cherry-flavoured Yorath.....brilliant!
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Post by Jon on Dec 30, 2008 22:21:17 GMT
Well remembered with the Foul skit on the TV line-up for the 1973 Cup Final. Reproduced below Thanks for that - FA Cuppa, that was it! At the time I read this the MMB was actually sponsoring the League Cup - so it was so wierd to see it in an over-the-top spoof. The League Cuppa would have sounded so much better than the Milk Cup. I tell you what. I'll lend you my Lownds Pateman if you'll lend me your Foul book. Nice to put the name to face that I'd put to the user name. What is it they shout when you fill your card at bingo?
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Post by merse on Dec 31, 2008 4:33:47 GMT
Nice to put the name to face that I'd put to the user name. What is it they shout when you fill your card at bingo? Err, Bingo? That's it, Bingo......................"Bingo, you're nicked!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2008 13:24:53 GMT
Yep, sounds a fair swap to me, Jon!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2012 19:50:56 GMT
I'm bumping up this ancient thread because Wildebeeste has recently been browsing through my two Foul! compilations from the 1970s. For those who aren't aware Foul! was an "alternative" football magazine, cheaply produced, that was - generally speaking - more Private Eye than When Saturday Comes. For a time it developed something of a cult following.
I guess this was largely due to the fact there was nothing else like it as it preceded the fanzine era by a good ten years. That made it stand out regardless of its merits or otherwise. Indeed, if truth be told, it was something of a curate’s egg: good in places; ropey in others. In that way I’m not sure if it’s stood the test of time. That, to my mind, is also true of Monty Python – and various other forms of “humour” – which now appear tired and dated. Or does it? That’s up to you I suppose. You may say that, because you loved something years ago, you’ll always love it. Or you may admit that you and the world have moved on in the intervening years.
In that way Foul!, just like Soccer Star which still had a whiff of the 1950s in 1969, was a product of its time. It may now seem, by our more enlightened standards, rather racist and sexist in places. If that’s the case, I think that’s an encouraging sign of how we’ve moved on that type of thing. But, come what may, the thought of Rupert meeting a couple of skinheads in the park still makes me laugh.
As for the present, I’ve reached the stage where I hardly look at football magazines. I’ve subscribed to When Saturday Comes since its inception and, if I was coming to it fresh, I’m sure I’d think it was excellent. But maybe I’m jaded and have now heard the same things said about football rather too many times. And, besides, I believe there’s been a transition where we’ve become writers rather than readers. We should never neglect our reading - and Wildebeeste now has the Chris Hargreaves book to review - but here’s to continued good writing on this forum and elsewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2012 20:43:20 GMT
And now fanzines themselves have become obsolete because of the internet, which is not always a good thing. My home town team's forum is frankly horrible. I dipped into it yesterday after John Sheridan was sacked in case anyone had anything interesting to say but I didn't hang around because the same bigoted dunderheads who were on it the last time I looked were still there, and still full of hatred for everyone, including their own players and fellow fans. Today our most promising young player is on the verge of a big transfer but there's no way I am going to read about it on the message board because I should need to have a bath afterwards.
On the other hand the Torquay Fans Forum is the best of its kind that I have ever come across. Barton is absolutely right that the contributors on here are better described as writers than readers, and many of them (of you!) are actually and more eloquent and interesting writers than the bright young Oxbridge boys who produced Foul! The history and programme pages, in particular, are absolutely marvellous.
Don't ever take the TFF for granted because it is something to be proud of and an absolute credit to Torquay. And yes, I have tried Beyond the Penn Inn Roundabout , which, in my opinion, suffers from one of the same drawbacks as Foul! i.e. not quite as smart as it thinks it is.
The TFF exudes enthusiasm, shuns cynicism and bigotry, and is a pleasure to read. In a perfect world, all football websites would be this good.
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