(Serial) match of the day – part 6

Sep 272012
 

Here is the sixth and final post in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Can you match the fanzine with the home nation?

  • Two left feet.
  • Que sera sera.
  • The dragon has landed.
  • Haggis supper.
  • The Italian job.
  • There’s a wee spot in Europe.

Here are some other football titles:

  • Miss-kick.
  • My favourite shirt.
  • Dial M for Merthyr.
  • Five jam parts.
  • The cage to the jungle.
  • Tomato soup and lentils.
  • Wonderful wedding venues in England and Wales : from castles to football clubs.
  • Off the ball.
  • United front.
  • Four Four Two: The Bobbing And Weaving Football Magazine.
  • Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees & Migration Controls.
  • The Gladwish Land Sales ultimate book of non-league players.
  • Balls! : the alternative football annual.
  • Nothing to write home about : the magazine of the London Clarets.
  • Offensive line coaches handbook.
  • Where’s the bar? : an alternative guide to non-league football.
  • The effects of television on college football attendance. (Published 1950)
  • The duffle.
  • Football punk.
  • When the ball moves : the Burnley fanzine.
  • One minute to go.
  • League of their own : a guide to the mid-Wilts youth and minor football league.

More information on these titles can be found by searching SUNCAT. Also take a look at SUNCAT for more football serials  and other weird and wonderful titles.

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(Serial) match of the day – part 5

Sep 192012
 

Here is the fifth in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Match the football club with the fanzine! All the answers can be found in SUNCAT. 

Fanzines:

  • The Gibbering clairvoyant.
  • One f.
  • In the loft.
  • Heroes and villains.
  • The water in Majorca.
  • Not the wee green book.
  • Purple reign.
  • Raging Bull.
  • One step beyond.
  • Give ’em beans.
  • No more plastic pitches.
  • The tricky tree.
  • Kicker conspiracy.
  • The square ball.
  • Pyramuddle.
  • The greasy chip buttie.
  • Winning isn’t everything.
  • Love shaq.
  • The giant awakes.
  • WALOC : What a load of cobblers!
  • Deranged ferret.
Football clubs:
Newcastle United; Queens Park Rangers; Leeds United; Nottingham Forrest; Newport; Burnley; West Ham United; Sheffield United; Manchester City; Northampton Town; Cork City; Lincoln City; Welling United; Barrow; Motherwell; Dumbarton; Aston Villa; Oxford United; Falkirk; Celtic; Norwich City.
For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football blog posts.
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(Serial) match of the day – part 4

Sep 122012
 
Here is the fourth in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Match the football club with the fanzine! All the answers can be found by searching SUNCAT.
Fanzines:
  • Faithful through and through.
  • O bluebird of happiness.
  • Well red.
  • Waiting for the great leap forward.
  • A lot 2 answer 4.
  • Le de’ja-vu.
  • Always look on the bright side.
  • Where’s the vaseline?
  • Mad as a hatter!
  • Cockney rebel.
  • The Derry rumba.
  • No idle talk.
  • Revenge of the killer penguin II.
  • FOULmouth.
  • Hey big spender.
  • City down under.
  • Loadsamoney.
  • 38 hours from Vilnius.
  • War of the monster trucks.
  • Mr. Bismarck’s electric pickelhaube.
Football clubs:
Derby County; Swansea City; Heart of Midlothian; Barry Town; Meadowbank Thistle;  Celtic; Manchester City; Chelsea; Charlton Athletic; Oxford United; Motherwell; Sheffield Wednesday; Billericay Town; Mansfield Town; Blackburn Rovers; Dundee; Bath City;  Luton Town; Liverpool; Cardiff City.
Just as an aside, which of the football teams mentioned abovre re-located and changed its name to ‘Livingston F.C.’, and what year did this happen?
For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football blog posts.
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(Serial) match of the day – part 3

Sep 042012
 
Here is the third in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Match the football club with the fanzine! All the answers can be found by searching SUNCAT.
Fanzines:
  • Don’t run… trott!
  • When skies are grey.
  • Rave on!
  • Voice of the beehive.
  • Marlon’s gloves.
  • Remember, remember the 5th of December.
  • Windmill wonderland.
  • “Eh Mind O’ Gillie”.
  • City ’til I cry.
  • The oatcake.
  • Can you hear us on the box?
  • Hibees here, Hibees there.
  • The silence of the bann-she’s.
  • The East End bounce.
  • The clean sheet.
  • Hanging on the telephone.
  • The Jam piece.
  • Warboys is still God.
Football clubs:
Dundee; Charlton Athletic; Arsenal; Aberdeen Bon Accord; Manchester City; Dunfermline Athletic; Stirling Albion; Hibernian; Stoke City; Doncaster Rovers; Huddersfield; Leamington Spa; Heart of Midlothian; Burnley; Brentford; Glenavon; Everton; Stevenage Borough.
Just for fun, which of these football teams suffered a very heavy 36-0 defeat at the hands of Arbroath in 1885? This is the second largest margin of victory ever in professional football.
For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football blog posts.
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(Serial) match of the day – part 2

Aug 282012
 

Here is the second in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Match the football club with the fanzine! All the answers can be found by searching SUNCAT.
Fanzines:
  • Exceedingly goodpies.
  • Still, mustn’t grumble.
  • Only the lonely : the boo-boys banter.
  • Mass Hibsteria.
  • Nightmare on Terregles Street.
  • Fly me to the moon.
  • One nil down, two one up.
  • No-one likes us.
  • Brian Moore’s head.
  • Made in Brum.
  • Wendy who?
  • Love Street syndrome.
  • A fine lung.
  • Another Wasted Corner
  • The heavenly dancers.
  • Stark’s bark.
  • The Morning after.
  • Linesman, you’re rubbish
Football clubs:
Arsenal; Gillingham; Hibernian; Dundee; St Johnstone; Liverpool; Birmingham City; Middlesbrough; Heart of Midlothian; Airdrie; Aberystwyth Town; Millwall; Raith Rovers; St Mirren; Aberdeen; Queen of the South; Rochdale; Manchester United.
For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football blog posts.
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(Serial) match of the day – part 1

Aug 222012
 

It is the beginning of the football season and to mark this occasion here are some weird and wonderful football titles. In fact, there are so many that this is the first in a series. Many of the titles are fanzines for specific football clubs all around the country.Just for fun, can you match the fanzine with the football club?  Some are easier than others! All the answers can be found by searching SUNCAT.

Fanzine titles:
  • The blue Brazilian.
  • Half magpie, half biscuit.
  • There’s a store where the creatures meet
  • Mo Mo Super Mo.
  • It’s half past four … and we’re 2-0 down.
  • Sing when we’re fishing.
  • The alternative Queen’s speech.
  • The Foxy ferret.
  • Nay need to lose the heid.
  • Always the bridesmaid.
  • Singing the blues : the City fanzine that doesn’t like Un*t*d!
  • Who ate all the pies.
  • Where’s the tunnel?
  • Lard & Lager.
  • Now we want Pele!
  • Derek I’m gutted!!!
Football club:
Manchester City; Motherwell; Chesham United; Port Vale; Grimsby Town; Burnley; Heart of Midlothian; St. Mirren; Carlisle; East Fife; Bolton Wanderers; Queen of the South; Cowdenbeath; Montrose; Newcastle United; Dundee.
For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the football series of blog posts.
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