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Goodbye SHOOT !! RIP

What was your favourite Footy Mag ??

  • Match

    Votes: 9 42.9%
  • Shoot

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .

C0YS

Just another member
Jul 9, 2007
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I'd check eBay prices if I were you.

I would too, if they where sellable quality, because they where in an art department, people cut bits off and stuck them to their art work...until I noticed them so their in bits.....
 

TrueYid

Active Member
Jul 29, 2003
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Growing up I used to get both religiously, I used to collect all the posters and have them in teams. I used to love them...

Then I go a bit older and started to buy 90 minutes...

Then I got Internet... I do sit in borders from time to time and read 442 whilst having a cuppa since I moved down here.

Shoot and match were an integrual part of my football education... sad to see them go but the times have moved on.
 

Fordy

Is my shit together or is my shit together!
Jun 27, 2005
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92
ah man i used to get Shoot! and Match every week. still remember how crinkly the quality of the paper was on shoot!

90 Minutes was better though, Paul hawksbee et al.
 

TheChosenOne

A dislike or neg rep = fat fingers
Dec 13, 2005
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I always remember this story in Charlie Buchan's football monthly...
(stolen from Wiki)

Johnny Summers born 1928, (died 1962) was a soccer striker who scored 104 goals for Charlton Athletic F.C.

Johnny engineered one of the most remarkable comebacks in football history; Charlton were 5-1 down against Huddersfield with half an hour to go with only 10 men; they won 7-6 in the Second Division at The Valley, 21 December 1957. Johnny scored five goals set up two and scored a six minute hat-trick. Summers later revealed that he changed his boots at half-time after his old pair had started falling apart.

Johnny Summers played for Norwich City, Fulham and Millwall, prior to his Charlton career. He made his debut for Millwall in 1955 in the opening match of the 1955-56 season, against Brighton and Hove albion, in front of a 25,000 plus crowd at The Den. In a 2-0 win, he disappointed the fickle crowd and after a few weeks disappeared into the Reserves, surfacing again the following January, as a left winger. From that time, he never looked back, and was one of the most fearsome and lethal forwards seen at The Den in years. His transfer to Charlton Athletic, for their last season in the old First Division, was regretted by Millwall fans, but seen as inevitable.

He died at the age of just 34 in 1962 of cancer



Although I thought it was the fact he was wearing new boots for the first half but came out in the 2nd half with his old boot held together with sticking plaster.
 
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