How old is the Gooner fanzine

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

I'm asure this will end up in the basement but just wanted to know how old the gooner fanzine is, SSN says the "City Gent" Bradford City fanzine is the oldest in the country, 25 years.

I have read somewhere that the Gooner started in October 87 but not sure if that is correct.

Over to you sad fuckers.....

[Dan_85]

I'm asure this will end up in the basement but just wanted to know how old the gooner fanzine is, SSN says the "City Gent" Bradford City fanzine is the oldest in the country, 25 years.

I have read somewhere that the Gooner started in October 87 but not sure if that is correct.

Over to you sad fuckers.....

Sounds about right, late 80s I think? Isn't Gunflash the oldest fanzine in the country? Started in the 50s or something?

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

I'm asure this will end up in the basement but just wanted to know how old the gooner fanzine is, SSN says the "City Gent" Bradford City fanzine is the oldest in the country, 25 years.

I have read somewhere that the Gooner started in October 87 but not sure if that is correct.

Over to you sad fuckers.....

Sounds about right, late 80s I think? Isn't Gunflash the oldest fanzine in the country? Started in the 50s or something?

Cheers Dan, I don't know about many other fanzines but just thought that 25 years was surely not the oldest in the country.

EDIT:

Seems you are right Dan, just lifted the below off of Gunflash website.

"You may or may not be aware, but Gunflash began life in 1949, and we believe that this makes it the world''s oldest and therefore, original fanzine".

Right I'm emailing them useless crunts at ssn

[Basil is a Gooner]

The Gooner is 25 years old!

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

The Gooner is 25 years old!

Cheers Basil, I have emailed SSN about the Gooner and the Gunflash (started in 1949) and they have replied stating that if they a do a follow up piece they might mention this..........course they will

[JMascis666]

They have the first "issue" of the Gunflash up on the wall in the Supporters Club bar, it is little more than a one page newsletter trying to get like minded Arsenal fans in the local area together to socialise on non matchdays.

Bar Skittles at some place on Caledonian Road I think it was.

[Mike1]

As Basil correctly said, 25 years old last October. Still hoping to make it to 26, 27, 28...

City Gent was one of the original breed of fanzines in the mid-late 80s. Definitely out before The Gooner. When we started, all the fanzines used to get laid out on the floor of the old Sportspages bookshop in Charing Cross Road which was a mecca for fanzine people and indeed for fans of all sports such was the range of books they stocked. Sadly no more.

I think Gunflash rebranded itself as a fanzine after the others took off. It was (and still is) the Supporters Club newsletter/magazine, although quite what the difference is between that and a fanzine, I'm not exactly sure.

We've been blessed as Arsenal fans with some terrific fanzines - AIM, Arsenal Echo Echo, Highbury High, One Nil Down and Up The Arse (still going) to name the key ones.

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

As Basil correctly said, 25 years old last October. Still hoping to make it to 26, 27, 28...

City Gent was one of the original breed of fanzines in the mid-late 80s. Definitely out before The Gooner. When we started, all the fanzines used to get laid out on the floor of the old Sportspages bookshop in Charing Cross Road which was a mecca for fanzine people and indeed for fans of all sports such was the range of books they stocked. Sadly no more.

I think Gunflash rebranded itself as a fanzine after the others took off. It was (and still is) the Supporters Club newsletter/magazine, although quite what the difference is between that and a fanzine, I'm not exactly sure.

We've been blessed as Arsenal fans with some terrific fanzines - AIM, Arsenal Echo Echo, Highbury High, One Nil Down and Up The Arse (still going) to name the key ones.

Cheers Mike

[StuartL]

As Basil correctly said, 25 years old last October. Still hoping to make it to 26, 27, 28...

City Gent was one of the original breed of fanzines in the mid-late 80s. Definitely out before The Gooner. When we started, all the fanzines used to get laid out on the floor of the old Sportspages bookshop in Charing Cross Road which was a mecca for fanzine people and indeed for fans of all sports such was the range of books they stocked. Sadly no more.

I think Gunflash rebranded itself as a fanzine after the others took off. It was (and still is) the Supporters Club newsletter/magazine, although quite what the difference is between that and a fanzine, I'm not exactly sure.

We've been blessed as Arsenal fans with some terrific fanzines - AIM, Arsenal Echo Echo, Highbury High, One Nil Down and Up The Arse (still going) to name the key ones.

I was a Gooner fanzine buyer from the start and even have a letter from Mike somewhere saying I have the last copy of issue 1, I also bought the Echo Echo and loved its offbeat humerous pisstake style (Stevie Williams ate my hamster headline for eg) 1 nil down 2-1 up I think took itself a bit too seriously, maybe some contributors had journolistic ambition and lacked the humour that I think a fanzine should contain ?

[Dan_85]

As Basil correctly said, 25 years old last October. Still hoping to make it to 26, 27, 28...

I get the impression Mike from this, and from the Editorial in the latest edition, that the future of the print version of The Gooner might be in doubt? Hopefully not...

[flash gunner]

I was a buyer of the Gooner from issue one and also Arsenal echo echo which was piss take throughout. I remember a few years ago I bought in Sportspages book shop the first 5 or 10 issues of the Gooner in book form, was amazing the difference compared to these days