Shoot - RIP

[captainmorganrum]

We are talking about it, actually

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Mum's the word then, say no more guvnor.
You know it makes sense.
I'll buy it!!!!

 

[Stevie Boy]

thats a shame, going back about 15 years ago i won a competiton in shoot for a complete football kit fro my football team, best thign was they never picked me, so thought f*** em, i got to pick a load of stuff for myself, still got some off it now

 

[The Large One]

There was an interesting article in WSC last month picking up on exactly tha. It compared football magazines nowadays with how they were20-30 years ago. Back then you had a decent layout with stories and articles presented in almost "proper" newspaper-fashion.

These days, the headlines are vast, the colours migraine-inducing, none of the sentences end without an exclamation mark or three, the writing is tilted and wrapped all over the shop, and its all presented in glorious text-speak.

Sign o' the times.

I worked on a kiddie pop magazine (SMTV / CD-UK, with Ant & Dec) and we didn't use exclamation marks and 110-point garish headlines.

It closed after four issues.

 

[clapham_gull]

"Argus, Shoot or match"

I was about to post exactly the same thing.

 

[chickrun]

bring back- Scorcher and
Score and later Score n Roar

 

[Spunk Bubble]

Getting the League Ladders was the highlight of my footballing year!

Aah...so many memories

 

[Gwylan]

That Guardian article is quality, imagine a player now claiming they'd love to be a bookie when they wound up playing, as Leicester's Gary Lineker does.

Far more poignant is the quote from Kazi Deyna

"Favourite car
Don't have one"

Deyna, of course, was later to die in a car crash.

 

[Gwylan]

I worked on a kiddie pop magazine (SMTV / CD-UK, with Ant & Dec) and we didn't use exclamation marks and 110-point garish headlines.

It closed after four issues.

Yeah, with my Palace-supporting mate Andy.

Andy also worked with me on an IT weekly (now closed), on Shoot (now closed) and is currently on Loaded (looking poorly)...someone to steer clear of

 

[Mick Beard BHA]

The Table Tabs were the best thing ever invented.

Totally agree.

Some of yous have been saying that the beginning of the end for Shoot was when it went 'weekly'- when the hell did Shoot go to being a 'monthly'? I always used to get it weekly when i was a lad (late 80's early '90's)..

 

[Trufflehound]

Awww, that big-eared Gary Lineker chappie - whatever did happen to him?

I believe they present his silver-plated head as a trophy at Wembley every May. Portsmouth won him this year.

 

[Trufflehound]

Ah yes, the League Ladders, that moment before the start of the season where you could optimistically place the Albion at the top of the table

It was a brief window of excitement for me though. In my league ladder years we usually ended up 19th in the old Div 3. I switched to NME in 1976, just as we started to become good.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Totally agree.

Some of yous have been saying that the beginning of the end for Shoot was when it went 'weekly'- when the hell did Shoot go to being a 'monthly'? I always used to get it weekly when i was a lad (late 80's early '90's)..

Hmm...good point. It was a while back, three or four years ago, I think. Maybe that initially lost it some readers to Match, too. The point was it ended up with a bit of an identity crisis, not knowing whether it was a mag for 7-12 year olds, or for 11-15 year olds. Is sad, though, end of an era and all that.

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[Rambo]

Ooh, and can we have a proper, retro Panini sticker album then too? From around the Mexico 86 era please.

I'll swap you Olaf Thon, Steve Hodge, Hugo Sanchez and Cha Bum Kun for Kerry Dixon and a silver Canada team badge.

Cha Bum Kun, classic, the source of many playground jokes.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

My lad has had team tabs, each of the last two seasons, courtesy of MATCH.

They never stopped doing them, as well Tim knows, the little TINKER.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

But Tim's mags are pretty good, especially NGKids which my younger boy loves.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

My lad has had team tabs, each of the last two seasons, courtesy of MATCH.

They never stopped doing them, as well Tim knows, the little TINKER.

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[eastlondonseagull]

But Tim's mags are pretty good, especially NGKids which my younger boy loves.

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[The Large One]

Yeah, with my Palace-supporting mate Andy.

Andy also worked with me on an IT weekly (now closed), on Shoot (now closed) and is currently on Loaded (looking poorly)...someone to steer clear of

I forgot about him. He was actually made redundant the day he started.

I wasn't particularly upset - his opening pleasantry was 'so you're a pathetic seaweed, are you...?'

 

[Easy 10]

I worked on a kiddie pop magazine (SMTV / CD-UK, with Ant & Dec) and we didn't use exclamation marks and 110-point garish headlines.

It closed after four issues.

But in fairness, how many kids want to discover how a traction steam engine works, or be given in-depth advice on index-linked pensions ?

 

[Storer68]

Can one still purchase Charles Buchan's Football Monthly in the newsagents?

I happen to have a lifetime membership to that publication, the benefit of which was, if I remember rightly, simply the ownership of a cardboard membership card and a little plastic pouch to keep it in. I treasured my card and I still have it somewhere.

http://www.charlesbuchansfootballmonthly.com/