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Post by Cynical Shrew on Mar 10, 2005 20:47:54 GMT 1
Anyone remember this mid-nineties humorous football publication on the shelves of WHSmith.
Obviously it was the time of "Fantasy Football" on the box, so the laddish soccer magazine market was created with poor efforts like "What's the Score?" and those sub-Viz football comics (which were s**t but gave slap-headed Guardianista bore Nick Hornby some rightful stick).
The Onion Bag was a cut above, in that it was genuinely hilarious. Sadly I only have a couple of copies as I was too mean to pay the £1.50 cover price, and preferred at the time to read the more serious (and often tedious) articles in When Saturday Comes.
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Post by aleix on Mar 10, 2005 20:54:50 GMT 1
I've never found a WSC article tedious. I love that fanzine/magazine to bits. I spend a fortune to buy it over here but always worth it
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Post by Cynical Shrew on Mar 10, 2005 21:07:35 GMT 1
I've never found a WSC article tedious. I love that fanzine/magazine to bits. I spend a fortune to buy it over here but always worth it Never found anything tedious? Not the endless hand-wringing over "racism". Unreadable socialist-worker type crap from the likes of Ed Horton. Endless "when I was 14" rites of passage tales from sad thirty-somethings recalling the seventies. Make no mistake, there were interesting articles on overlooked clubs, but one always had to wade through the lefty crap to get to the decent articles, even in WSC's heyday. I gave up in about '96, when the crap:interest ratio reached 2:1 and increased mainstream media coverage plus the internet rendered the mag's purpose redundant.
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Post by aleix on Mar 10, 2005 21:17:40 GMT 1
Cynical Shrew in his most pure state!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2005 22:39:23 GMT 1
Never found anything tedious? Not the endless hand-wringing over "racism". Unreadable socialist-worker type cr@p from the likes of Ed Horton. Endless "when I was 14" rites of passage tales from sad thirty-somethings recalling the seventies. Make no mistake, there were interesting articles on overlooked clubs, but one always had to wade through the lefty cr@p to get to the decent articles, even in WSC's heyday. I gave up in about '96, when the cr@p:interest ratio reached 2:1 and increased mainstream media coverage plus the internet rendered the mag's purpose redundant. I never reply to Cynical normally but this was my favourite post of his ever. He genuinely is everything he despises about life itself, and a real sad parody of the angry racist intellectual that first tried to put himself upon B&A.
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Post by harmerhillshrew on Mar 11, 2005 10:15:21 GMT 1
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Post by Mediolanum Shrew on Mar 11, 2005 15:42:24 GMT 1
WSC was excellent in the late 80's, early 90's, but know seems lost in being the equivalent of the Economist in a football world. Grown up and lost its way, unfortunately the same goes for many fanzines.
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