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Online Chico Hamilton III

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slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« on: February 23, 2012, 10:11:02 AM »
My youngest is 6 next week and has very recently discovered a passion for anything football related. I took him to his first Villa game last year against FC Smethwick ( what an introduction to Villa - seeing us lose at home against Albion for the first time in 32 years...) and he loves the Villa. He's Matchattax mental as well

Thinking of getting him a subscription to a football magazine for a present. He's a bit young for an H&V subscription . Any ideas what the best kids' football magazine is? it's been over 30 years since I last collected my Shoot league ladders. I'm guessing that all magazines nowadays are very much adverts for the big 4 clubs?

Any (serious) suggestions?

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2012, 10:24:52 AM »
Chico MOTD mag is a bit like a comic but certainly suits my 9 year old. Generally has some good pics in as well! The last one I saw had a poster of Petrov in. Match Attax give aways are fairly common as well.

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2012, 10:31:06 AM »
Cheers Chief - didn't realise there was an MOTD magazine. I'll take a look

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2012, 10:39:11 AM »
MOTD magazine eh?  Are the Villa articles all on the back page in the last sentence?

Offline Damo70

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2012, 04:31:37 PM »
My son gets Match and Match Of The Day. Both come out every week on a Monday or Tuesday. Lots of free Match Attack cards and although there is always a poster of a player from one of the 'big clubs' there are a few posters in each week so he gets his fair share of Villa ones over a season. He likes reading the transfer gossip out loud to me too so that can't be a bad thing. And don't worry, to my knowledge MOTD mag has never included an audio CD of 'Lawro's' views on the game.

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2012, 05:23:05 PM »

There has to be a gap in the market for something like this......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/sep/17/football-comics-will-buckley-sport

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2012, 05:48:06 PM »
Cor, league ladders. They bring back some memories.

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2012, 05:51:25 PM »
Is Claret and Blue magazine still going? Although if he's 6 he might be a bit old for it.

League ladders were ace. Until you lost half the tabs.

Offline DeKuip

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2012, 06:42:50 PM »
This particular league ladder wasn't the best though - but happy memories nevertheless.

http://retrodundee.blogspot.com/2010/06/shoot-league-ladders-196970.html

By the way, anyone interest in old football memorablia/junk should get hold of Derek Hammond's "Got, Not Got" which came out just before Christmas. Brilliantly and lovingly written – the sort of book you can't put down once you start.
Some cracking stuff in there for those of us brought up on subbuteo, Casdon Soccer, league ladders, the Wembley board game, Roy of the Rovers, the Park Drive Football Annual, The Football League Review and Esso World cup coins etc etc.

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2012, 06:55:41 PM »
Chico - I've got some old copies 'N. Soul' magazine if he wants them.

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2012, 08:39:08 PM »
Back in the day it was:
Blue Peter
Shoot
TISWAS
The Left Side
Celtic


... oh, what? Mags, today? No idea, Chico!

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2012, 08:46:04 PM »
MOTD magazine is the ideal companion to the TV programme in that it is has similar patronising style suited to those whose football brain is not yet fully developed.

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2012, 09:01:26 PM »
I thought Gary Penrice was a good signing after reading some back issues of Match.

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2012, 01:44:50 AM »
Think there is (or was until recently) a 'Kick' magazine for kiddies which has a lot of posters in it.

I bought Match until into my teens. Those team trackers were a nightmare. Spend all evening carefully rearranging the tabs after the latest set of results only to be woken-up at 3am by the feckin' chart falling from the wall due to the weight and all the tabs falling all over the shop. I usually gave-up by the end of August.

Match seemed to dumb down a lot. In the early 90's it was quite witty, aimed at teens I suppose but gradually they changed their demograph. Must have realised that the money was to be made from under-12's buying it via their parents.

90 minutes was also a decent read back in the day.

WSC is the one quality regular football magazine on the go these days. Great to see that it's still surviving, and with next to no advertising in it too.

Online Chico Hamilton III

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Re: slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2012, 09:30:01 AM »
Quote
Think there is (or was until recently) a 'Kick' magazine for kiddies which has a lot of posters in it.


I got him that a few weeks ago - poster of Robbie Keane in the middle. Looked a bit crap though ( I read it from cover to cover on the bog).

Does Shoot still have "Tartan Talk" with Danny McGrain ( alternating with Derek Johnsotne) and Andy Gray's column?

 


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