Matchday Programmes

[Eboue-Why?]

Do you collect them all? If so, how many you got?
Or do you buy them and then bin them?
Got any valuable ones?
etc etc

I stopped years and years ago. Complete waste of wonga

[QuartzGooner]

Only keep ones from special games or some first day of season or end of season ones.
Not got the cash to buy them every game, or the space to store them.

[g88ner]

Used to collect them as a kid. I've got pretty much every FA Cup final programme from 1970-2000 somewhere in the attic

I was at the last game on the KOP (Liverpool v Norwich??) so have a programme for that as well. Loads of Arsenal from 1993-2004 as well. Stopped buying them after that.

Pointless hobby I suppose; I grew out of it when I was a teenager.

[VoiceOfReason]

Used to buy them out of habit, but stopped in 2008. All the information was already available for free online, and was more up-to-date in most cases.

Back in the 1990s, information about your club was a rarer commodity than it is now, so an entire publication devoted to it was a real novelty. But as I said, in this day and age, when you can fill your boots with all manner of AFC information 24/7 online, there's no real point to it.

£3 is pretty steep too, especially when most of it is inane propoganda and interviews that all tow the company line.

[StuartL]

Nope, not me, no interest whatsoever.


Used to buy them, still got lots going back to the eighties / early nineties and quite a few "specials"

[safcftm]

Bought them every week when I first started going to matches. Eventually I realised that they never got read (even on the day I got them I'd tend to just flick through them), they'd never be worth anything and they just took up loads of space. At that point I opted to buy the monthly fanzine instead (a bit better reading, less expensive and less storage space) and shortly afterwards I stopped altogether. Just get very occasional programmes now (got one for our last ever visit to Highbury etc). Waste of money generally and in terms of an "I remember that game" memento I'd rather just keep my ticket stub (for away matches)

[MegaGooner]

Nope, not me, no interest whatsoever.


Used to buy them, M_I_G got lots going back to the eighties / early nineties and quite a few "specials" for free

fixed.....thank you

[augie]

On the odd occasion that I used to get over to games I would have bought them up until around year 2000 and then I stopped because I felt it was just club propaganda and I wasn't going to feed their pr machine.

[Den10kamp]

bought programmes at highbury but never bought one at the emirates as its pretty much full of propaganda from the website.....

got a programme framed signed by vieira from the last time we played bayern munich (pv4 was on the front cover)

I knew a girl in the matchday box office who i picked up my tickets off and by chance she said that she could get pv4 to sign our programmes if we waited for 5 mins .....

no brainer

[StuartL]

bought programmes at highbury but never bought one at the emirates as its pretty much full of propaganda from the website.....

got a programme framed signed by vieira from the last time we played bayern munich (pv4 was on the front cover)

I knew a girl in the matchday box office who i picked up my tickets off and by chance she said that she could get pv4 to sign our programmes if we waited for 5 mins .....

no brainer

but what were her tits like ??

[Macca]

And her personality?

[arsenalmorris]

I still buy these, have one for every game I have ever been 2, unsure why to be honest, although I do like to flick through the odd one now and then

[JMascis666]

I used to get one every game I went to, nowadays I don't bother.

I've got loads up in the attic, like most of you guys I imagine that have not been touched in years. Just collecting dust.

[jacko-arsnl2]

I buy a programme for every game i go to, i only really read it at half time and on the way home but its force of habit that i cant get out of.
Only two games that ive seen where i didn't manage to get a programme was Patizan Belgrade away a few years back and Everton away when we lost 1-0 to a James beattie goal in 2005 because i was late to the game.

[shu]

i used to buy them all of the time but preferred to buy the Gooner. Most of the big finals i have bought them but still need Parma and the Sheff Weds reply in 93.