They’ve been kicking around for decades, but what exactly is – and isn’t – a fanzine? WILLIAM ABBS tries to explain...

LAST year seemed to represent a milestone in the history of independent-minded, freespirited football writing. When Saturday Comes celebrated a quarter of a century of being Britain’s best ‘half decent football magazine’ and Jonathan Wilson assembled a flotilla of the world’s finest writers on the game, firing out their work on a quarterly basis via the pioneering venture The Blizzard. There was also, of course, the launc...