_{(1) 'Shanks for the Memory'. (fanzine) One issue seen. January 1994. Cost £1:00. Very much a home made effort from Geoff in Skelmersale. Featured 'A Kopites Diary': game by game match reviews. Interview with Tommy Smith. A retrospective of our 75-76 UEFA Cup/Championship double season, and some extremely dodgy fonts that left me gozzy. However, very much a labour of love and a great pic of Shankly on the cover. I would have liked to have seen more.}

_{(2) 'The 'Pool'. (fanzine) One issue seen, though it said Issue 3 on the 'Christmas Special' cover. (Xmas '96'). Again very 'home made' by someone with some desktop publishing software (actually a one-man effort by Richard Garnet). Offered no postal address, just an e-mail address. No wonder he got no contributions. Big A4 pages with big 12 point type. You could read the 16 pages in well under 10 minutes. Usual space fillers: quiz, Best ever Liverpool XI and game by game reviews. Best bit? Shankly quote: "If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be."}

_{(3) 'When Sunday Comes' (fanzine) Dates from '88 I believe. Edited by Ian Tilley and based in Woking. Earliest Reds' fanzine I found. I've a copy of issue 3 from 'Oct 88 which is a real 'fanzine': typed on typewriter, headlines stencilled and all glued and cobbled together on the bedroom floor by the look of it. A4 to begin with, then around 1990 (Issue 11) it went A5 and looked much-better for it. My last copy was Issue 18, from Sept '95. Consistently good but not averse to filling a full page with a player caricature or a list of fixtures. Sorely missed but still listed in 'When Saturday Comes' nearly 3 years after the last issue? Pull yer finger out, Tilley, and get typing.}

_{(4) 'All Day & All Of The Night' (fanzine) From N. Ireland (Cookstown - Co. Tyrone, actually, where I was manacled, sorry, married). Born in summer 94 and that's about all I can say about it, really. I saw one copy (Issue 2, Autumn 94) and vowed never to go near it again. Extremely poor. A5 unstapled pages. Packed with adverts and space filler and said absolutely nothing of interest at all. Sorry. Maybe later issues were better but I never saw one. Very difficult to spot being sold at the match too, which may have helped in their demise. Has probably attained cult status now amongst LFC completists.}

_{(5) 'Our Days Are Numbered'. (fanzine) The work of Jay Crawley. I rather liked this one, though it only ran to 4 issues - in which time it improved in look and content a hundred fold. Gloriously bold, bright Red covers and probably the 32nd fanzine that Gareth Hayes & Barry Stone have written for. Always campaigning and ripping the piss. A5 in size, originally £1:00 but issue 4 (somewhat slimmer) cost just 50p, A bargain! I blame Jay for my disgraceful behaviour on Cup Final night in 96, thanks to the litre bottle of Pernod and orange he gave me on the coach back to Liverpool.}

_{(6) 'One Minute To Go' (later became 'Another Wasted Corner') (fanzine) Early A5 issues featured hand-drawn headings and letraset/stencil type everywhere. By issue 5 it was unrecognisable as the editors (Paul and Tosh, both Clash fans so they couldn't have been all that bad) got hold of a decent word processor. Issue 6 went A4 and rose in price to £1:00 (getting cocky, eh lads?). Kept a comforting home-made feel to it up until Issue 11 (the last I got). Always concerned with 'fan' stuff: attendances, ticket allocations and taking the piss out of the blues and the mancs. Fell by the wayside when the dynamic duo went to University (or so I believe). It's almost time for them to get out, so what chance a reprise? (Unless they've gone all studenty and are now into 'The Fast Show' and 'The League of Gentlemen' ...)}

         
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