The 80's was THE era for music. The Magic channel is now showing "When 80's cheese ruled. Just seen Toni Basel and "hey Micky", the one before was Bucks Fizz and "making your mind up. F*** this board for tonight!
EFL clubs are meeting next month to discuss whether a rule can be put in place allowing clubs not to have to produce a programme. Worrying times for us collectors.
I have been collecting programmes since I first went to Charlton at seven years old. My overriding memories of going to Charlton are Programmes, the smell of Old Holborn, pissing up against a wall, roasted peanuts and seeing the half time scores on boards around the ground. As Royston says it is part of our heritage. It should definitely stay.
I should think any league Club deciding not to produce a match-day programme anymore wuld face stiff opposition from its own fans, not to mention its sponsors. And if the Club ignored their opinions and scrapped its programmes anyway then the local Supporters' Trust would probably step in and produce one of their own. It would then be up to the Club to decide how much access the new programme would be given to 'official' material and information (badges and logos, interviews with manager and players etc.) No football Club would be well advised to try and oppose publication of an independent programme created by its most recognised fans' organisation if it decided not to produce one itself anymore.
Threw one of these away (the machine) just before Christmas, from a store cupboard at work. I remember when I started with the company, 28 years ago, we had some technical discs for training purposes. When I slung it, I did comment to a colleague that it was probably worth a few quid.