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Peter Hooton recalls his favourite articles from The End with Sabotage
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It was the very first football fanzine, and believe it or not, sandwiched somewhere between the jibes at Yorkshiremen and poems from prison inmates, th ere was actually some articles about football....
Some of my favourite articles in The End were related to football.
The Secret World of Amateur footballers Vol 14 was simply an observation that sometime back in the 1980’s people stopped using normal sports bags and ended up walking into the pub before and after their match with a massive bag (usually Head) that were meant for tennis players on a world tour. We used to see these characters after the match when the bags would be piled up obstructing your way to the bar or the toilets. You dare not ask them politely to move these as you were likely to incur the wrath of the whole team. These bags were a badge of honour the bigger the better but they also looked hilarious. What on earth did they have in those bags?
Another favourite was What’s Wrong With Football? in Vol 16 which pointed out that the game had lost much of its appeal due to the lack of genuine baldness on the pitch. Not the modern crop haired variety but the lack of genuine comb over baldies like Ralph Coates, Nobby Stiles, George Cohen and Bobby Charlton. The golden age of British football we argued had been full of them but the 80’s seemed to lack the once ubiquitous comb over. This was obviously the main problem with the game in that period and we knew it..
Even though The End wasn’t primarily a football fanzine we were however obsessed with football terrace fashions. The Disappearing World of The Wool was basically a back- handed compliment to Leeds fans who had started to become fashionable.
Mexico 1986 Vol 18 also came under the spotlight as we analysed why pundits on panels thought it was essential to attempt humour when they weren’t naturally gifted in that department. They failed miserably of course but the BBC was trying to keep up with the Saint & Greavsie show which did have its moments. On The Ball we argued was great because it was spontaneous but as soon as the TV executives decided Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves were ‘sit down’ comedians it all went downhill very quickly. We also looked at the actual sayings the commentators came out with during games and what they really meant i.e. ‘ferocious in his appetite for the game’ really meant ‘a dirty little bastard’ ‘nice controlled football’ a crap boring England performance (some things never change)
Even though The End wasn’t primarily a football fanzine we were however obsessed with football terrace fashions. The Disappearing World of The Wool was basically a back- handed compliment to Leeds fans who had started to become fashionable and had abandoned the scarves around the wrist syndrome and started to dress in a casual style. Some people got it some didn’t but The End seemed to strike a cord with many and still seems to raise a laugh as it concentrated on boasters and bullshitters who we all know are still very much in abundance.
The End is on sale at www.sabotagetimes.com and in selected shops -
Waterstones: Liverpool Bold St, Liverpool 1, Ormskirk, Chester, Birkenhead, Southport.
HMV: Liverpool South Street, London Oxford Circus
News From Nowhere, Liverpool
Pritchards, Crosby
Hat, Scarf or Badge, Liverpool
Ran, Bold St Liverpool
Hairy Records, Liverpool
Jumbo Records, Leeds
Oi Polloi, Manchester
Garbstore, London
Superdenim, York
Shed, Ashton Under Lyne
The End Book Reviewed by Scrapingthebarrel"I feel daft that I’m only just getting round to doing a write up on this. The truth is I only managed to get hold of a copy last week, I was hoping to pick this up back at Christmas just gone but as that was to no avail I’m just getting round to it now and my word it has been worth the wait. I don’t think I really need to discuss the in’s and out’s (no pun intended) of The End to anyone, as most people who are reading this are fully aware of how important it’s precense was in Liverpool during the 80′s. Personally, I only became aware of the world of The End about 3 years ago as, and I’ll be honest here, I wasn’t around to experience it at it’s peak and it’s been one of Liverpool’s best kept secrets for a while. I was only exposed to it via a kind chap who I used to speak to on a forum a few years back. At the time I was trying to get my hand on some old back copies of the Everton fanzine “When Skies are Grey” when the chap in question kindly scanned a few old copies of the Everton zine along with a few original copies of The End and sent them through to me via PDF format, instantly I was hooked and started researching.
Over the last few years there has been talk of the legendary Scouse mag making a return or the possibility of a repress of the old copies, however it was only last year that, finally, the lads behind the mag along with the folks over at Sabotage Times finally got together and made the talk a reality via this very smart, well presented book that contains all 20 issues of the brilliant mag that made it’s way around the terraces of most of the 80′s football grounds. The book certainly does not disappoint whatsoever"
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