Read all over the World
I’ve made the cut again.
I’ve made the cut again.
Well the favourite fanzine writer you never knew you had has gone and done it again, and made it a hat-trick of appearances in Liverpool Football Club’s longest running and now only remaining fanzine on the independent market. Following articles published in issues 290 and 291, I’ve made the cut once more for this month’s issue, and in the vernacular of my Liverpudlian friends, I’m “made up”.
To cut a two decades plus story down to size, I’ve read this fanzine (magazine, written by fans, hence “fanzine”) since the late 1990’s when, in league with several other independently created fanzines, it was A4 sized and an absolute must buy when attending games. Over the intervening years, other fanzines have come and gone to which finance, readership, the advent of the internet and the dwindling capacity for a wider public with a narrower and shortened attention span, is largely to blame. But “Red All Over The Land” resolutely remains standing tall and unapologetically socialist, independent, and a voice for the most devoted of fans wishing to read an independent point of view.
From reader to writer. Oh how my old friend “Steve The Taxi Driver” must be smiling at the transformation!
As you’ll see and read below, my old friend receives a number of namechecks amongst an elongated article that I’m rather proud of. So proud in fact that I badgered the editor of the fanzine to include it in a future edition as it fits perfectly with the Reds final League game this season, which is “Southampton Away”. My only quibble is that my article has been edited to fit four pages and so there’s a huge chunk missing whereby I introduce a number of my travelling companions over the years and so from nowhere, “Steve The Taxi Driver” appears, laughing uproariously at my predicament at being knocked clean unconscious on a bitingly cold February St Valentines night. Not exactly the way your humble fanzine writing lovebird wished to spend this most loving and romantic of evenings!
All of this and more is contained within the original article linked immediately below this paragraph and the edited version that appears in this month’s fanzine, and a fanzine that is, at the time of writing, going on sale for the first time this afternoon at Anfield as the Reds host the Premier League leading Arsenal. So in cars and buses, trains and aeroplanes, Reds all over the land will be reading my words once more and a personal lifetime story of sorts, and I’ll take this feeling of pride with immense gratitude.
A lifetime of “Southampton Away”
and how I got into an argument with Jamie Redknapp that almost resulted in a bloody St Valentines Day massacre!medium.com
Thanks for reading. There is a wealth of past and present articles within my “Liverpool FC” library here or alternatively, here are the related articles to my previous contributions to the Reds longest and last fanzine standing, a magazine written by the fans, for the fans:
Read All Over the World
I made the cut again!medium.com
Read All Over The World
A writing ambition achieved.medium.com
I’m a published writer! (kind of)
“Mr Writer, why don’t you tell it like it is?”medium.com