The Football Programme

Football programmes are a peculiarly British phenomenon.

For the football romantic they represent a tantalising link back to another age; the swaying of fans on the terrace, the smell of cigarettes, paying in pennies rather than pounds to squeeze through a clacking turnstile.
For the most part, those times are gone. And so it is with football programmes, which since the 1980s have become corporate glossy magazines, slick and bland.
But it wasn't always so...
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