Final Whistle For Shoot Magazine After 40 Years

holyland red · 18th June 2008, 09:43

IT`S ALL OVER FOR SHOOT
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Shoot magazine is no more after almost 40 years in the children's football magazine market.

It was launched in 1969 and during the Seventies and Eighties it was essential reading for most young boys every week as it dominated the market.

It's popularity waned in the Nineties as Match became the market leader, with Shoot switching to a monthly schedule.

Earlier this year they returned to a weekly format to go head-to-head-to head with Match and the newly-launched Match of the Day magazine, but publishers IPC have now admitted defeat.

They are in talks to keep the name alive and protect the famous Shoot Annual, but the magazine is no more.

"It is with great regret that we have had to make this decision," said Paul Williams, the managing director of IPC Inspire.

"We are of course in consultation with the six permanent staff directly affected by the proposal, and every effort will be made to find alternative jobs if this becomes necessary."

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There goes a piece of history. Was a good read way back in pre-internet days of the 80's.

kristinson · 18th June 2008, 09:45

was a good read as a kid, but definately preffered Match!

Partizan · 18th June 2008, 09:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by holyland red

IT`S ALL OVER FOR SHOOT
Posted 17/06/08 15:25EmailPrintSave

Shoot magazine is no more after almost 40 years in the children's football magazine market.

It was launched in 1969 and during the Seventies and Eighties it was essential reading for most young boys every week as it dominated the market.

It's popularity waned in the Nineties as Match became the market leader, with Shoot switching to a monthly schedule.

Earlier this year they returned to a weekly format to go head-to-head-to head with Match and the newly-launched Match of the Day magazine, but publishers IPC have now admitted defeat.

They are in talks to keep the name alive and protect the famous Shoot Annual, but the magazine is no more.

"It is with great regret that we have had to make this decision," said Paul Williams, the managing director of IPC Inspire.

"We are of course in consultation with the six permanent staff directly affected by the proposal, and every effort will be made to find alternative jobs if this becomes necessary."

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There goes a piece of history. Was a good read way back in pre-internet days of the 80's.

Christ, there goes part of my childhood. Fair well old friend.

Dublin · 18th June 2008, 10:16

Good article in the Guardian about Shoot's questionnaires.
God I remember them!!

Shoot! Closed down! What next?
After 39 years of service, Shoot's demise means no more of their legendary questionnaires
Will BuckleyJune 17, 2008 5:19 PM
For those of a certain age Shoot! magazine was fundamental to one's footballing education. For fantasy and kick-back enjoyment you might turn to Scorcher and Score or Roy of the Rovers, but for close textual analysis, breaking news stories, hard-hitting questionnaires, beautifully reasoned player columns and, of course, 'You are the Ref' it was to Shoot! you would turn every time. Shoot! was what one read before graduating to Hugh Mcllvanney. And now it is gone. Killed off at 39 years of age.

The first issue sold over 300,000 copies and they sustained these figures throughout the magazine's first two decades with a ground-breaking Panini stickers edition hitting half-a-million. Its pinnacle came in the 1970s when footballers played hard, drank hard and had a miscellaneous dislike of ignorant people. It was a time before agents, when the game was taken less seriously and the players would fill in questionnaires themselves rather than ask Hunter Davies to ghost their answers for them.

The columns written by Bobby Moore and Alan Ball, Kevin Keegan and Billy Bremner were wonderfully innocent and free from product placement. An early gem from Moore, entitled 'A Hobby Takes Your Mind off the Game', revealed that not only did Frank Lampard [Snr] "bring back matches whenever we go abroad... and it's interesting to browse through them sometimes and recall memories of places and events abroad" but also "lots of other players - far too many to mention - collect beer mats". Then there was Ball who truly called it as he alone saw it: "Gerd Müller is not my idea of a striker. A glance at his goalscoring record makes me an isolated case ... but that's my opinion all the same."

Best of all were the questionnaires. A while ago I spent a week trawling through the first 500 issues of Shoot! searching for the perfect answer. Here is a baker's dozen of the contenders:

John Ritchie (Stoke City)
Which person in the world would you most like to meet?
Frank Sinatra (Head of the Mafia).

Mark Lawrenson (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Favourite food and drink?
Lasagne and Lambrusco.

Gerald CJ Francis (Queens Park Rangers)
Favourite players?
Myself followed by team-mate Stan Bowles and West Germany's Uli Hoeness.
Favourite Singer?
Captain Beefheart.
Which person in the world would you most like to meet?
Patrick McGoohan.

Diego Maradona (Argentina)
Favourite food?
Oven-roasted meat.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
Injustice.

Alan Birchenall (Leicester City)
Which person in the world would you most like to meet?
Hitler (if still alive) - or Neil Diamond.

Alan Ball (Arsenal)
Likes?
All foods, lager.
Dislikes?
Women cigarette smokers.

Michael Robinson (Manchester City)
Best friend?
I like to think I have many.

Kazimierz Denya (Poland)
Car?
I don't have one.
Favourite food?
Vegetable soup.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
Noise.

Gary Lineker (Leicester City)
Favourite newspaper?
Daily Star.
Nickname?
Link.
Career after playing?
Hopefully a bookmaker.

Peter Borota (Chelsea)
Favourite newspaper?
IPC's Homes and Gardens.

Craig Johnston (Liverpool)
Favourite food and drink?
Big steaks and, of course, a tube of Foster's.

Dave Hodgson (Middlesbrough)
After-match routine?
Out to the pub and then on to a nightclub.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
People who misjudge you before meeting you.

Tony Currie (Sheffield United)
Miscellaneous likes?
Good food, good refs.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
Ignorant people.

holyland red · 18th June 2008, 10:30

Weren't these questionnaires called "Focus on (name of player)"?

Brad · 18th June 2008, 10:44

I was a 90's Match man, I played my part in Shoots demise

Inferior product. Had to go. You're fired

thoward · 18th June 2008, 14:19

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/20...t_next_th.html

Shoot! Closed down! What next? The Guardian?
After 39 years of service, Shoot's demise means no more of their legendary questionnaires
Will BuckleyJune 17, 2008 5:19 PM
For those of a certain age Shoot! magazine was fundamental to one's footballing education. For fantasy and kick-back enjoyment you might turn to Scorcher and Score or Roy of the Rovers, but for close textual analysis, breaking news stories, hard-hitting questionnaires, beautifully reasoned player columns and, of course, 'You are the Ref' it was to Shoot! you would turn every time. Shoot! was what one read before graduating to Hugh Mcllvanney. And now it is gone. Killed off at 39 years of age.

The first issue sold over 300,000 copies and they sustained these figures throughout the magazine's first two decades with a ground-breaking Panini stickers edition hitting half-a-million. Its pinnacle came in the 1970s when footballers played hard, drank hard and had a miscellaneous dislike of ignorant people. It was a time before agents, when the game was taken less seriously and the players would fill in questionnaires themselves rather than ask Hunter Davies to ghost their answers for them.

The columns written by Bobby Moore and Alan Ball, Kevin Keegan and Billy Bremner were wonderfully innocent and free from product placement. An early gem from Moore, entitled 'A Hobby Takes Your Mind off the Game', revealed that not only did Frank Lampard [Snr] "bring back matches whenever we go abroad... and it's interesting to browse through them sometimes and recall memories of places and events abroad" but also "lots of other players - far too many to mention - collect beer mats". Then there was Ball who truly called it as he alone saw it: "Gerd Müller is not my idea of a striker. A glance at his goalscoring record makes me an isolated case ... but that's my opinion all the same."

Best of all were the questionnaires. A while ago I spent a week trawling through the first 500 issues of Shoot! searching for the perfect answer. Here is a baker's dozen of the contenders:

John Ritchie (Stoke City)
Which person in the world would you most like to meet?
Frank Sinatra (Head of the Mafia).

Mark Lawrenson (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Favourite food and drink?
Lasagne and Lambrusco.

Gerald CJ Francis (Queens Park Rangers)
Favourite players?
Myself followed by team-mate Stan Bowles and West Germany's Uli Hoeness.
Favourite Singer?
Captain Beefheart.
Which person in the world would you most like to meet?
Patrick McGoohan.

Diego Maradona (Argentina)
Favourite food?
Oven-roasted meat.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
Injustice.

Alan Birchenall (Leicester City)
Which person in the world would you most like to meet?
Hitler (if still alive) - or Neil Diamond.

Alan Ball (Arsenal)
Likes?
All foods, lager.
Dislikes?
Women cigarette smokers.

Michael Robinson (Manchester City)
Best friend?
I like to think I have many.

Kazimierz Denya (Poland)
Car?
I don't have one.
Favourite food?
Vegetable soup.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
Noise.

Gary Lineker (Leicester City)
Favourite newspaper?
Daily Star.
Nickname?
Link.
Career after playing?
Hopefully a bookmaker.

Peter Borota (Chelsea)
Favourite newspaper?
IPC's Homes and Gardens.

Craig Johnston (Liverpool)
Favourite food and drink?
Big steaks and, of course, a tube of Foster's.

Dave Hodgson (Middlesbrough)
After-match routine?
Out to the pub and then on to a nightclub.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
People who misjudge you before meeting you.

Tony Currie (Sheffield United)
Miscellaneous likes?
Good food, good refs.
Miscellaneous dislikes?
Ignorant people.

Vote early, vote often, and feel free to add your own candidates.

Smash-E · 18th June 2008, 14:24

Final Whistle For Shoot Magazine After 40 Years

but your thread has more info

redfromcanada · 18th June 2008, 14:27

Shoot was my source for English football when I started following it in the late 70's and early 80's. It was a publication that I really enjoyed reading. This development isn't surprising given my prior background in the magazine business here. The internet has really affected the industry as a whole, cannibalizing most magazines, especially those that are information based.

Phil · 18th June 2008, 15:26

Match any day.

MelvinYeo · 18th June 2008, 15:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by redfromcanada

Shoot was my source for English football when I started following it in the late 70's and early 80's. It was a publication that I really enjoyed reading. This development isn't surprising given my prior background in the magazine business here. The internet has really affected the industry as a whole, cannibalizing most magazines, especially those that are information based.

FFT is still going strong isn't it, still read it regularly after discovering it when I was 12 or thereabouts

1871_Biscuit · 18th June 2008, 15:50

Match is shit these days. It tries to use "cool" language and just sounds gay.

Utd heap · 18th June 2008, 15:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1871_Biscuit

Match is shit these days. It tries to use "cool" language and just sounds gay.

You do realise it's aimed at 10 year olds?

holyland red · 18th June 2008, 16:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Utd heap

You do realise it's aimed at 10 year olds?

1871_Biscuit · 18th June 2008, 16:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Utd heap

You do realise it's aimed at 10 year olds?

Yeh but shoot managed not describe everything as "wicked" and last for 40 years.

golden_blunder · 18th June 2008, 16:32

used to like reading them both when i was a kid

they both changed their formats then though to have more and more posters and less articles so stopped buying them. Used to like the articles such as who had the hardest shot, who was the quickest etc

Red Hand Devil · 18th June 2008, 17:01

I used to buy one & rob the other by placing it inside the one purchased... used to do that with United mag aswell... got caught once but played the stupid Paddy: "someone must have put that in there... i always buy both...you know that.."

My walls used to be covered with posters from these mags, didnt matter who the fuck he was - i put it up! Remember having Stevie Bruce on my wall when he played for Gillingham

Name Changed · 18th June 2008, 17:26

I used to cover my walls in posters as well. United players, Irish players, and my favourite other players. I remember having a Grobelaar poster in the room didn't go down well. I just thought he was brilliant.

Elliott · 18th June 2008, 17:31

I've a feeling Alan Birchenall and Tony Currie wouldn't get along.

duffer · 18th June 2008, 18:27

90 Minutes magazine was so much better than Shoot magazine.

golden_blunder · 18th June 2008, 19:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by duffer

90 Minutes magazine was so much better than Shoot magazine.

it was when it first came out, good articles

pillory · 18th June 2008, 20:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dublin

Gerald CJ Francis (Queens Park Rangers)
Favourite Singer?
Captain Beefheart.

Good man.

jasonrh · 18th June 2008, 20:45

IPC is total rubbish.

They nearly killed 2000AD as well, so their not managing to keep Shoot! afloat doesn't surprise me.

RIP Shoot!.

Steev · 18th June 2008, 23:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Name Changed

I used to cover my walls in posters as well. United players, Irish players, and my favourite other players. I remember having a Grobelaar poster in the room didn't go down well. I just thought he was brilliant.

Same here. Except I never had any Liverpool players - my dad would have killed me. But I would try to paper my entire room with United posters until I ran out - then I would have random players like Eddie Niedzwiecki and Graham Roberts just to fill in the extra space.

My favourite poster was a double pager of Bryan Robson (which was from Shoot, now I think about it).

Does anyone remember the "league ladders" that Shoot used to do. Usually got bored of that two weeks into the season, mind. Too much hassle.

M160RA · 18th June 2008, 23:21

I used to read it in the nineties. RIP.

Mr. MUJAC · 19th June 2008, 00:15

Loved Shoot and Goal.....Match was aimed at kiddies......and still is!

Shoot had good stats and good reporting.......

Part of my childhood and an introduction to the game....

I remember in the early to mid 1970's, with those football tabs....I could name every first team player for both the first and second division and knew every clubs home ground. Even Scottish football was good in those days.....

Also over the years collected the teamgroups and individual players poster and put them all over the wall......Jim McCalliog, Gerry Daly, Steve James, Stewart Houston, Alex Forsyth....eventually ran out of space!

dicko · 19th June 2008, 00:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. MUJAC

Loved Shoot and Goal.....Match was aimed at kiddies......and still is!

Shoot had good stats and good reporting.......

Part of my childhood and an introduction to the game....

I remember in the early to mid 1970's, with those football tabs....I could name every first team player for both the first and second division and knew every clubs home ground. Even Scottish football was good in those days.....

Also over the years collected the teamgroups and individual players poster and put them all over the wall......Jim McCalliog, Gerry Daly, Steve James, Stewart Houston, Alex Forsyth....eventually ran out of space!

I was a goal man too. We're showing our age there.

Also covered the bedroom walls. I didn't take the pictures down until the home was sold in 1978 but stopped buying 1n 1973 when I left school. (How can you sell a house in Birkenhead when one bedroom has all walls covered in Man Utd pics?

).

Youngie · 19th June 2008, 00:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elliott

I've a feeling Alan Birchenall and Tony Currie wouldn't get along.

Oh they got on all right!!!
But you knew that didn't you??? Or is this some crazy coincidence?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle176512.ece

Pat_Mustard · 19th June 2008, 01:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Red Hand Devil

I used to buy one & rob the other by placing it inside the one purchased... used to do that with United mag aswell... got caught once but played the stupid Paddy: "someone must have put that in there... i always buy both...you know that.."

My walls used to be covered with posters from these mags, didnt matter who the fuck he was - i p

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holyland red First Team Sub Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Haifa, Israel Posts: 9,270	Final Whistle For Shoot Magazine After 40 Years IT`S ALL OVER FOR SHOOT Posted 17/06/08 15:25EmailPrintSave Shoot magazine is no more after almost 40 years in the children's football magazine market. It was launched in 1969 and during the Seventies and Eighties it was essential reading for most young boys every week as it dominated the market. It's popularity waned in the Nineties as Match became the market leader, with Shoot switching to a monthly schedule. Earlier this year they returned to a weekly format to go head-to-head-to head with Match and the newly-launched Match of the Day magazine, but publishers IPC have now admitted defeat. They are in talks to keep the name alive and protect the famous Shoot Annual, but the magazine is no more. "It is with great regret that we have had to make this decision," said Paul Williams, the managing director of IPC Inspire. "We are of course in consultation with the six permanent staff directly affected by the proposal, and every effort will be made to find alternative jobs if this becomes necessary." -------------------------------------------------------- There goes a piece of history. Was a good read way back in pre-internet days of the 80's.

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thoward First Team Sub Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Paddy Crerand is a legend "If i was playing in the match against Arsenal at OT IN 03/04 Martin Keown wouldnt have been able to walkoff the pitch at the end" Posts: 9,906	Shoot Magazine closed down http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/20...t_next_th.html Shoot! Closed down! What next? The Guardian? After 39 years of service, Shoot's demise means no more of their legendary questionnaires Will BuckleyJune 17, 2008 5:19 PM For those of a certain age Shoot! magazine was fundamental to one's footballing education. For fantasy and kick-back enjoyment you might turn to Scorcher and Score or Roy of the Rovers, but for close textual analysis, breaking news stories, hard-hitting questionnaires, beautifully reasoned player columns and, of course, 'You are the Ref' it was to Shoot! you would turn every time. Shoot! was what one read before graduating to Hugh Mcllvanney. And now it is gone. Killed off at 39 years of age. The first issue sold over 300,000 copies and they sustained these figures throughout the magazine's first two decades with a ground-breaking Panini stickers edition hitting half-a-million. Its pinnacle came in the 1970s when footballers played hard, drank hard and had a miscellaneous dislike of ignorant people. It was a time before agents, when the game was taken less seriously and the players would fill in questionnaires themselves rather than ask Hunter Davies to ghost their answers for them. The columns written by Bobby Moore and Alan Ball, Kevin Keegan and Billy Bremner were wonderfully innocent and free from product placement. An early gem from Moore, entitled 'A Hobby Takes Your Mind off the Game', revealed that not only did Frank Lampard [Snr] "bring back matches whenever we go abroad... and it's interesting to browse through them sometimes and recall memories of places and events abroad" but also "lots of other players - far too many to mention - collect beer mats". Then there was Ball who truly called it as he alone saw it: "Gerd Müller is not my idea of a striker. A glance at his goalscoring record makes me an isolated case ... but that's my opinion all the same." Best of all were the questionnaires. A while ago I spent a week trawling through the first 500 issues of Shoot! searching for the perfect answer. Here is a baker's dozen of the contenders: John Ritchie (Stoke City) Which person in the world would you most like to meet? Frank Sinatra (Head of the Mafia). Mark Lawrenson (Brighton & Hove Albion) Favourite food and drink? Lasagne and Lambrusco. Gerald CJ Francis (Queens Park Rangers) Favourite players? Myself followed by team-mate Stan Bowles and West Germany's Uli Hoeness. Favourite Singer? Captain Beefheart. Which person in the world would you most like to meet? Patrick McGoohan. Diego Maradona (Argentina) Favourite food? Oven-roasted meat. Miscellaneous dislikes? Injustice. Alan Birchenall (Leicester City) Which person in the world would you most like to meet? Hitler (if still alive) - or Neil Diamond. Alan Ball (Arsenal) Likes? All foods, lager. Dislikes? Women cigarette smokers. Michael Robinson (Manchester City) Best friend? I like to think I have many. Kazimierz Denya (Poland) Car? I don't have one. Favourite food? Vegetable soup. Miscellaneous dislikes? Noise. Gary Lineker (Leicester City) Favourite newspaper? Daily Star. Nickname? Link. Career after playing? Hopefully a bookmaker. Peter Borota (Chelsea) Favourite newspaper? IPC's Homes and Gardens. Craig Johnston (Liverpool) Favourite food and drink? Big steaks and, of course, a tube of Foster's. Dave Hodgson (Middlesbrough) After-match routine? Out to the pub and then on to a nightclub. Miscellaneous dislikes? People who misjudge you before meeting you. Tony Currie (Sheffield United) Miscellaneous likes? Good food, good refs. Miscellaneous dislikes? Ignorant people. Vote early, vote often, and feel free to add your own candidates.

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kristinson Reserve Team Player Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Dubai Posts: 940	was a good read as a kid, but definately preffered Match!

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Dublin ....wise choice for a Username or not? Discuss. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: I'm going to Old Trafford next year! Posts: 687	Good article in the Guardian about Shoot's questionnaires. God I remember them!! Shoot! Closed down! What next? After 39 years of service, Shoot's demise means no more of their legendary questionnaires Will BuckleyJune 17, 2008 5:19 PM For those of a certain age Shoot! magazine was fundamental to one's footballing education. For fantasy and kick-back enjoyment you might turn to Scorcher and Score or Roy of the Rovers, but for close textual analysis, breaking news stories, hard-hitting questionnaires, beautifully reasoned player columns and, of course, 'You are the Ref' it was to Shoot! you would turn every time. Shoot! was what one read before graduating to Hugh Mcllvanney. And now it is gone. Killed off at 39 years of age. The first issue sold over 300,000 copies and they sustained these figures throughout the magazine's first two decades with a ground-breaking Panini stickers edition hitting half-a-million. Its pinnacle came in the 1970s when footballers played hard, drank hard and had a miscellaneous dislike of ignorant people. It was a time before agents, when the game was taken less seriously and the players would fill in questionnaires themselves rather than ask Hunter Davies to ghost their answers for them. The columns written by Bobby Moore and Alan Ball, Kevin Keegan and Billy Bremner were wonderfully innocent and free from product placement. An early gem from Moore, entitled 'A Hobby Takes Your Mind off the Game', revealed that not only did Frank Lampard [Snr] "bring back matches whenever we go abroad... and it's interesting to browse through them sometimes and recall memories of places and events abroad" but also "lots of other players - far too many to mention - collect beer mats". Then there was Ball who truly called it as he alone saw it: "Gerd Müller is not my idea of a striker. A glance at his goalscoring record makes me an isolated case ... but that's my opinion all the same." Best of all were the questionnaires. A while ago I spent a week trawling through the first 500 issues of Shoot! searching for the perfect answer. Here is a baker's dozen of the contenders: John Ritchie (Stoke City) Which person in the world would you most like to meet? Frank Sinatra (Head of the Mafia). Mark Lawrenson (Brighton & Hove Albion) Favourite food and drink? Lasagne and Lambrusco. Gerald CJ Francis (Queens Park Rangers) Favourite players? Myself followed by team-mate Stan Bowles and West Germany's Uli Hoeness. Favourite Singer? Captain Beefheart. Which person in the world would you most like to meet? Patrick McGoohan. Diego Maradona (Argentina) Favourite food? Oven-roasted meat. Miscellaneous dislikes? Injustice. Alan Birchenall (Leicester City) Which person in the world would you most like to meet? Hitler (if still alive) - or Neil Diamond. Alan Ball (Arsenal) Likes? All foods, lager. Dislikes? Women cigarette smokers. Michael Robinson (Manchester City) Best friend? I like to think I have many. Kazimierz Denya (Poland) Car? I don't have one. Favourite food? Vegetable soup. Miscellaneous dislikes? Noise. Gary Lineker (Leicester City) Favourite newspaper? Daily Star. Nickname? Link. Career after playing? Hopefully a bookmaker. Peter Borota (Chelsea) Favourite newspaper? IPC's Homes and Gardens. Craig Johnston (Liverpool) Favourite food and drink? Big steaks and, of course, a tube of Foster's. Dave Hodgson (Middlesbrough) After-match routine? Out to the pub and then on to a nightclub. Miscellaneous dislikes? People who misjudge you before meeting you. Tony Currie (Sheffield United) Miscellaneous likes? Good food, good refs. Miscellaneous dislikes? Ignorant people.

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holyland red First Team Sub Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Haifa, Israel Posts: 9,270	Weren't these questionnaires called "Focus on (name of player)"?

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Brad The Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stockholm Posts: 19,245	I was a 90's Match man, I played my part in Shoots demise Inferior product. Had to go. You're fired

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Smash-E Reserve Team Player Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 1,955	Final Whistle For Shoot Magazine After 40 Years but your thread has more info

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redfromcanada Reserve Team Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 677	Shoot was my source for English football when I started following it in the late 70's and early 80's. It was a publication that I really enjoyed reading. This development isn't surprising given my prior background in the magazine business here. The internet has really affected the industry as a whole, cannibalizing most magazines, especially those that are information based.

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Phil Reserve Team Player Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,660	Match any day.

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1871_Biscuit Cock Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Tilehurst, Reading Former Name: Cock_Biscuit Posts: 5,002	Match is shit these days. It tries to use "cool" language and just sounds gay.

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M160RA Reserve Team Player Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 3,770	I used to read it in the nineties. RIP.

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Mr. MUJAC Talent spotter Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Louis Rocca started it all... Posts: 2,234	Loved Shoot and Goal.....Match was aimed at kiddies......and still is! Shoot had good stats and good reporting....... Part of my childhood and an introduction to the game.... I remember in the early to mid 1970's, with those football tabs....I could name every first team player for both the first and second division and knew every clubs home ground. Even Scottish football was good in those days..... Also over the years collected the teamgroups and individual players poster and put them all over the wall......Jim McCalliog, Gerry Daly, Steve James, Stewart Houston, Alex Forsyth....eventually ran out of space!