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One More Point - The Book (Covering fanzines, Palace and football in the 80s/90s)
Mark it down - 17 July 2015 - some 12 years after I should have started it, is the day I finally write the 'One More Point' book. Set a target of 10 pages this weekend and already the first four page have flowed like the old days.
Finally got the motivation and the reason I'm writing this post is that I want you people reading to shame me if it ever looks like I'm slacking in any way or not staying focussed enough. Palace fans on here who remember the OMP days - if you have any comments/stories you remember then thrown them my way. There will be stuff I've forgotten that you can remind me of that can go in the book. After all this time I've realised that I don't want this to be a book just about fanzines and the hassles/stories/fun that come from writing and selling on the streets but I want it also to capture the essence of football from 1990 to 2003. OMP started in 1993 but I'll also dip into what the fanzines before mine were doing. Eagle Eye was the daddy of Palace fanzines and will certainly get a lot of love but I'll also add in memories I have of other teams fanzines. I want it to be a footnote so that people under 30 realise you could have a whole day out (beers, travel and match ticket) to West Brom or Norwich or Leicester etc. and still have change from £30. There have been scores of books on football hooliganism but to my knowledge NONE on fanzines written by someone who was part of the scene. Feel free to throw any thoughts down, good or bad, about OMP. Also thoughts on Eagle Eye, Eastern Eagles and even any of the smaller ones like Suffer Little Children. Sportspages in Charing Cross was like heaven to me in the 90s. I bought such a wide variety of fanzines. All sorts of clubs. Did you have a fave fanzine of a club you didn't even support? I liked Ipswich's Those Were the Days and Sheff Utd's Flashing Blade for instance. There were some stories that were never printed for all manner of reasons so some of those will finally get written. Some items actually suit being written with the benefit of hindsight. And if someone can think of a goddamn title I'll be grateful. Just like the old days - I could write 2000 words off the top of my head no problem but trying to think of a headline for articles was a nightmare. Working title, for now, but I'm sure it'll change is 'Is that the Programme?' |
One of the worst things to hit SE25. Don't start re-writing history. Let it be.
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Used to love OMP, the away days part was probably my favorite.
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Looking forward to buying and reading this, might give me some inspiration for FYP too
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I loved OMP. The shenanigans of Spud & co on away days, the fiasco at Pompey away on a wet Saturday on an open terrace, "Canoe Gate"
great memories :p |
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Desperately trying to remember what 'canoegate' was. I did do a dopey prank with a canoe after a party but pretty sure that wouldn't have made OMP as it was not part of a Palace day out. |
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We got some weird stuff into grounds - inc ammunition and a chunk of Cambridge United's roof! But a can of Lynx? No chance!! Stewards are weird! :clown: |
Not particularly weird, but l do remember one Villa away game when a Palace fan brought the biggest naan bread l had ever seen into the away end.
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Guilty as charged!
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Looking forward to this. Used to read OMP and having it sent to me in Norway at time when Palace News was scarce over here. Will be happy to contribute about the Norwegain Palace fanzine (now running in its 25 year!) if wanted.
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Used to read OMP when I was younger thinking these loads were the bees knees, a bit like Tony and Gary in Men Behaving Badly.
When in hindsight.... |
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it up there in Norway and a general overview of what it was like pre-internet following Palace. Great to hear from you!! :p |
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The good vibes obviously worked as four days later we won at Newcastle for our first win in something like three months! |
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The One More Pint section was tricky in a way. It was generally the only part that people would moan about when buying a copy from me 'Hope there's not too much drinking stuff in there this time mate' 'No, no. I've cut it back this time, sir" (Translated as - it's gone from 4 pages to 5 but I'm hoping you're not keeping count) On the flip side every single year it won 'Article of the Year' and was also the most loved section when talking to fans in general, hence the Men Behaving Badly comparison is pretty accurate. |
OMP, and Eagle Eye before it, were the connection to fellow fans before many of us had t'internet in the home, or in my case, before we had it at work even. Even when we did, alongside CPFRIS, and subsequently the BBS, it was an essential part of feeling part of a bigger group that you didn't know personally but helped you increasingly feel like you did. '93 was about the time that I started going to games with a small group of fans I'd got to know through stevek who I met through work. OMP was an extension of that. For me personally, it filled in many gaps that had formed from too many years of barely keeping in touch with my hometown team via the odd media coverage.
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Perfect mik59 - I'll copy and paste that paragraph for Chapter 3!
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Loved one more point, do you still live up in Grimsby?
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