Match or Shoot?

[the full harris]

That thread about stuff that reminds you of being kid made me think of the football magazine I used to get. I read Match magazine but some of my mates read Shoot. Which one did you read?

 

[Safeway]

Shoot, but 90 Minutes pissed on both of them.

 

[Trigger]

Shoot mainly for me aswell but i did dabble with Match too.

 

[Gritt23]

Shoot, it was always shoot. Start the season with free league ladders and the latest Panini album. They'd even throw in your first few stickers. You couldn't argue with that. It was also my first experience of being fooled on April 1st as I was reading out to my mum the story about the new £2m sensation, Freddie Blanket. My mum was quite dismissive, and I felt rather foolish.

 

[Trigger]

Those League Ladders were AWESOME, i couldn't wait to get my hands on those each season...!!!

 

[the full harris]

I always lost a few of the little team tabs (or whatever they were called) you put in the league ladder by September though rendering it useless!

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Shoot every time. Match was for kids. Speaking of the league ladders, did anyone keep them updated all season? I'd get bored after a couple of weeks and would only do the top three of the first division.

 

[Jason Speaks]

Match, wasn't it annoying though how it always seemed to be at least 2 weeks out of date with news and results.

The best ever feature in Match was splitting image where they cut squad photos in half and duplicated the left side on the right to make all manner of freakish footballers.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Shoot, but 90 Minutes pissed on both of them.

Too right, 90 Minutes was quality. On the predicition league they used to have that Palace twat that always said we would lose by at least 5 goals

Still these days it is When Saturday Comes for football reading.

 

[Scarface]

I always lost a few of the little team tabs (or whatever they were called) you put in the league ladder by September though rendering it useless!

I used to hang it over my bed. Updated it for a few weeks then couldnt be bothered. Found loads of the tabs under my bed years later!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

90 minutes. By the far the best footie mag ever made

 

[Braders]

match , now i just get fourfourtwo

 

[Trigger]

I knew i had them somewhere!!! I've just found some old Team Tabs from when Maidstone & Aldershot were around in league football.

 

[SussexSpur]

Got them both but preferred Match - so proud to have a letter published in it once (outraged about Paris St Germain offering a paltry sum for Glenn Hoddle), though sadly missed out on the "Letter of the week" prize of a pair of Gola football boots. . . Still find it hard to deal with the trauma now. . .

Also got Roy Of The Rovers and the short-lived Gary Lineker's Hotshot for a while.

And then, when I grew up a bit, 90 Minutes which was excellent though got a bit up its own arse towards the end.
Did some work experience on it for two weeks after my GCSEs, great fun. Shared offices with Shoot, Soccer Stars (for ver kids) and World Soccer. Happy days.

Still much more fun than FourFourTwo, the Mojo of football mags...

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Too right, 90 Minutes was quality. On the predicition league they used to have that Palace twat that always said we would lose by at least 5 goals

Still these days it is When Saturday Comes for football reading.

That Cr***a* P***** twats name was Dan Goldstein and he went on to be editor of the mag.

His predecessor was Paul Hawksbee who co-presents the Hawksbee & Jacobs show on Talk Sport.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[Max's Dad]

WSC is good, I beleive you can submit an article to them to publish, if they like it enough.

... and if the spelling is good enough.

 

[Turkey]

Match.

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

Match.

 

[Sonic The Hedgehog]

When I were a lad, Match didn't exist, so it was Shoot. There also used to be another magazine called Goal, I think, at that time.

And as for League Ladders, getting them was the sign that the season was starting. I updated the whole lot all the time.