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Buy your copy now, and you can be the first kid in your street to own I WAS HOOKED. And the Old Football Ground Book of the Year makes a brilliant Christmas present!

It’s guaranteed to whisk you straight back to the 20th century – and the rather shabby old place you came to know as ‘home’…

Do you remember your big-match debut? The day you finally got the call, and made the step-up from park games and Match of the Day highlights to the thrilling adult world of a real football match? That first sight of the big green pitch. Your sticker-album heroes, in the flesh. The noise and the smell and the language a million miles from Subbuteo matches and comic strips.

I WAS HOOKED bombards you with shared memories that will bring flooding back all the emotions of your first experience of football. But just as great a gift are the hugely varied stories – the incredible, unfakable details – that enable you to relive the greatest game-changing day in the lives of other overexcited young fans.

Poignant, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, I WAS HOOKED offers an insight into the uniquely eccentric yet strangely familiar experiences of 79 other football families – all with different homes, backgrounds, scarves and rituals. Everyday, legendary tales from the Lost World of Football.

Do you still yearn for those early days of real footballing heroes, proper tackles and wafting fried onions?

You’re not alone.

Features a huge range of wildly diverse first match experiences, all leading to lifetime addiction… A feelgood insight into football’s ultimate ‘rite of passage’ burned into every fan’s memory… Contributors covering 79 English and Scottish League clubs… Programmes from every match, favourite player graphics, fan photos and collectables… A feast of bittersweet nostalgia for ‘proper’ football, lost grounds and first football companions…

CLICK HERE for more information – and to order your copy of I WAS HOOKED for just £16!

Order your copy now, and you can be the first kid in your street to own GOT, NOT GOT SUNDERLAND. 

The book is a treasure trove of memories and memorabilia – guaranteed to whisk you back in time to Roker Park and a red and white-tinted Golden Age of mud and magic.

Just like it says on the cover, this ‘Little Book of Mackem Memories’ is jam-packed with all the trappings of a Sunderland-mad 20th-century childhood. Open it up, and revisit the Lost World that revolved around miniature table-top football, stickers and comics as well as the sky-high promise of Saturday afternoons.

The book celebrates a more innocent era of football, lingering longingly over relics from the good old days – Sunderland shirts, petrol freebies and league ladders, badges, programmes and much more. Whether you made your big-match debut under Bob Stokoe, Peter Reid or Alan Brown, this is the book to recall the cult heroes – Hurley, Montgomery and Tueart; Gabbiadini, Quinn and Phillips – and the marvels of a vintage collection that’s 100 per cent Sunderland.

They don’t make fan favourites, rosettes or Cup Final singles like this any more!

CLICK HERE for more information – and to order your copy of GOT, NOT GOT SUNDERLAND for just £14.

It’s the perfect Christmas gift for every collector of Corinthians figures… get FOOTBALL CRAZY, CORINTHIANS MAD!

It’s the first in a series of books you’ve been waiting for ever since schooldays. A long-overdue celebration of collectable Corinthians, which delves deep into The Small World of Headliners, ProStars and MicroStars Figures.

No.1 in a series of pocket-size, expert guides to the small world of Corinthians. A must-have for collectors.

From the moment they burst on to the scene before Euro 96 with a squad of 16 sculpted miniature England players, plastic moulded Corinthian figures gained instant status as cult items among football-mad kids and obsessive collectors. Their attraction lay in the accurately painted kits complete with official team badge, sponsor logo and authentic name and numbering on the shirts – which prompted endless discussions around the accuracy, humour and even controversy innate in many of the sculpts.

Multiply the appeal of that first series by over 150 teams and 5,0000 players over a 15-year span; throw in countless variations, accessories and special editions; mix with the potent power of nostalgia, and that’s the story of Corinthians – presented here for the first time.

Author Craig Robinson’s CorinthianArchive.co.uk is global collectors’ first port of call for information. But now comes Craig’s long-awaited chance to show off the highlights of his own massive collection – historic firsts, oddities, unissued rarities, original moulds and figures with a story to tell. An irresistible treasure trove for Corinthian collectors.

CLICK HERE for more information – and to order your copy of FOOTBALL CRAZY, CORINTHIANS MAD!

Grab THE FOX ANNUAL No3 without further ado. It’s much more fun than this season! 

The Fox Fanzine followed the contrasting fortunes of Leicester City for 35 years from 1987 to 2022. This time span saw the lows of five relegation seasons, including a debut dip into the third tier, and a period in administration, to the highs of five promotions, a Premier League title, a journey to the Champions League quarter-finals and the lifting of the FA Cup trophy that had long eluded the club. Through the good times and the bad, we always tried to see the funny side.