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Friday, 21 May 2010

The Seagull Love Review



The Hovian over on www.thehovian.com sent me up a Brighton & Hove FC ( The only one at current down on the south coast) and I have to say it is a very good read and is a fantastic insite into a club 100's of miles from me and what goes on and how surporters feel about there club.
I find that the fanzine is quirky, The hand drawn pictures and comic strips which are about the current clubs position/Manager, The articles in it are top notch and I have to say are very well written, It even gives ours a run for the money.
I feel that the fanzine itself has a "innocent" look about it, As its ment to be a fanzine which can be read at half time/on the bog which gives you a laugh and you can read about fellow articles from your fans at your club.

The issue that I got and included articles about them pesky casuals and how there has been a transition between scrapping and to know standing out from the crowd etc....Very good and its also written by the hovian and I feel is what the sub culture is about today - Standing out from the crowd and just doing your own thing, Lead dont follow.

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Theater of Silence


The Theater of Silence by Mattew Bazell is a book about the demise off football,all seater stadiums and the amount of corporate seating and prawn sandwich's that is in today's football, Although some of his in-book jokes are bad, I reckon this book if taken seriously is quite good it takes note of a few things that is wrong with the current game, And I good point is Banning Orders and how they are generally being thrown about and are effecting normal-matching going fans.

He also goes into detail about how he has fallen out of love with his club - Arsenal FC and how it is not the club that he once loved and how it has changed and how he has found football that he loves again - at Millwall FC.

This book I found could have made a few more points in it more serious and the writing could have been touched up a bit,But overall a good read.

3 and a half bar scarfs out of 5

Thanks to my mate over at www.thehovian.com for sending me this book up and the latest fanzine from Brighton and Hove Albion FC.