slight% Villa. Shoot, Match etc

[Merv]

Kick has closed.

You're looking now at MOTD mag or Match; they're pretty much the same in terms of content. But as a former employee of Match I wholly recommend buying that!

[eric woolban woolban]

Is World League Soccer still going?

Also, does anyone remember a comedy football mag called the 'Onion Bag' Circa 1992

[dave.woodhall]

Is World League Soccer still going?

Also, does anyone remember a comedy football mag called the 'Onion Bag' Circa 1992

I do. I think former H&V cartoonist Jon Mulcreevy did something for them.

[PeterWithesShin]

Just make sure what you get him has something like this in it.

[andyaston]

How about 90minutes?

[PeterWithe]

Just make sure what you get him has something like this in it.

Takes me back to one of my favourite ever fanzine pieces from a Rangers jobby called Follow, Follow, in the aftermath of the Durrant/Simpson unpleasantness. The 'you are the ref' question was 'Jim Bett stabs Rangers Ian Durrant to death and buries him in a shallow grave on the touchline, do you:

A - Call the police and abandon the game.
B - Show a yellow card to Bett and warn him about his future conduct
C - Show a yellow to Durrant for leaving the pitch without permission.

[PeterWithe]

Favourite car - Sierra XR4i
Favourite food - Steak & Chips
Person you'd most like to meet - The Queen on Cup Final Day
Music - Phil Collins

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I kept going with the same set of League ladders for about 5 years when I was a schoolboy. Of course the cardboard tags started falling apart with some and you had to use a sliver of cellotape to hold them together. When Cambridge United and Hereford were elected to the league to replace Bradford PA and Barrow, I made my own cardboard tags for them complete in appropriate team colours. Very Blue Peter I know - although I found bog roll cardboard too thick to fit into the slits on the ladders so had to cut them out from my packet of Woodbines.

[Dave Cooper please]

League ladders were my forerunner to Football Manager.

I put each division's teams into a hat and drew them out randomly, first team out finished bottom, next one second bottom and so on until the last one out were the champions (and no cheating). Do this for all four divisions and carefully annotate the resulting tables into a notebook.
 Then relegate / promote the teams in the relegation / promotion positions (and make a new team for a random non-league team to replace the team bottom of division four, always Tamworth first up of course!), and do it all again.

I think I had about fifty seasons in the notebook, don't remember many details but I know Villa only won the first division once and were a bit of a yo-yo club, Cardiff city were very succesful as I remember, and Leeds amusingly dropped all the way down the leagues into non-league obscurity never to be seen again.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I did something similar with my league ladders during close seasons. But instead you would actually play out an entire seasons set of fixtures determining each result by utilising one of the rollers from the Owzthat cricket game. If it came up Owzthat that counted as scoring nil.

 However, because the Owzthat roller had no five on it I eventually made my own roller. This involved writing the goals to be scored on a six sided pencil and rolling that instead. Of course you quickly learnt how to roll the pencil to your advantage and the Villa always seemed to do rather well.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Favourite car - Sierra XR4i
Favourite food - Steak & Chips
Person you'd most like to meet - The Queen on Cup Final Day
Music - Phil Collins

 
Miscellaneous dislikes - Smoking, long journeys home after an away defeat
Favourite away ground - Anfield
Favourite all time XI - Brazil 1970
If you weren't a footballer what job would you do - P.E teacher

[Charlie8182]

Favourite car - Sierra XR4i
Favourite food - Steak & Chips
Person you'd most like to meet - The Queen on Cup Final Day
Music - Phil Collins

 
Miscellaneous dislikes - Smoking, long journeys home after an away defeat
Favourite away ground - Anfield
Favourite all time XI - Brazil 1970
If you weren't a footballer what job would you do - P.E teacher

Favourite newspaper - The Sun
Music - Diana Ross/George Benson

[Big Dick Edwards]

When I was a pre-teen kid, there was a football magazine called Goal. Anybody old enough to remember it? It was a brilliant read at the time. I've still got some of the issues from 1969/1970. I'm a bit of a hoarder...

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I did something similar with my league ladders during close seasons. But instead you would actually play out an entire seasons set of fixtures determining each result by utilising one of the rollers from the Owzthat cricket game. If it came up Owzthat that counted as scoring nil.

 However, because the Owzthat roller had no five on it I eventually made my own roller. This involved writing the goals to be scored on a six sided pencil and rolling that instead. Of course you quickly learnt how to roll the pencil to your advantage and the Villa always seemed to do rather well.

Sometimes an extra roll would be necessary for time added on or a ridge in the carpet.

[Chris Jameson]

My 8 year old has a subscription to MOTD and enjoys it, if only for the free Match Attax cards that seem to be a regular giveaway.

Chico, I went onto the Match Attax site and did one of the personalised cards for him and stuck a couple in some packs, his face was a picture when he found himself in the packs, easy to do and think it was only a fiver.