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The first association football fanzine is regarded as being Foul, a publication that ran between 1972 and 1976.

In the UK, most Premier League or Football League football clubs have one or more fanzines which supplement, oppose and complement the club's official magazine or matchday programme.

A reasonably priced ' zine has a guaranteed audience, as is the culture of passion in being a football fan.

The longest running fanzine is The City Gent, produced by supporters of Bradford City FC, which first went on sale at Valley Parade in November 1984 and is now in its 26th season.

Following close on its heels was Nike, Inc. which was first released in 1989.

At the time it was not the first of its kind with Terrace Talk ( York City ), which was first published in November 1981 and Wanderers Worldwide ( Bolton Wanderers ) having already been established but since disappeared.

In 1985 the emergent When Saturday Comes ( a fanzine without a specific club focus that was subsequently launched as a mainstream magazine ) promoted a ' fanzine movement ' that gave birth to many more club titles during the late 80's which was something of a glory period for fanzines.

Much of the energy that was put into football fanzines subsequently went into the development of supporters ' websites.

Examples of other UK football fanzines include A Love Supreme, TOOFIF, 4000 Holes and War of the Monster Trucks ( a Sheffield Wednesday fanzine named after a local TV station elected not to show the final scenes of an unlikely cup victory ).