 
| |  | The Football Supporter (tfs) 019 says stuff the league, this is the cup issue. With an upcoming World Cup, recently-held African Cup of Nations, and ongoing domestic and European cup competitions now back in full swing we say bring on the knock-outs! In tfs 019:
• The Guardian’s Jonathan Wilson tells tales of incompetent administration, heartless bureaucracy, and rubbish football on his return from the African Cup of Nations.
• tfs speaks to outgoing Football League chairman Lord Mawhinney on football’s financial meltdown.
• Free Lions’ Kevin Miles and Andrew Fleming explain how England are going to win the World Cup. Honest!
• What happens when that cup dream turns into a nightmare? Ex-Swansea stalwart Paul Raynor, spanked 8-0 by Liverpool and Monaco in consecutive seasons, explains.
It’s not just cup action though as there’s all the usual shorts, jokes and lunatic letters. Subscribe today!  |  | |
| |  | Tfs 018 has hit the shelves and it’ll blow your socks off, literally, here comes the The Fashion Issue. We get down to the sole (and that’s a pun, not a typo) of our game by looking at the terrace trends that shaped contemporary culture. Guardian guru Jonathan Wilson also fills us in on tactical trends since England wingless wonders took the ’66 World Cup along with all the usual fun and games. Get your copy today. Or else… | | |
| |  | tfs 17 features interviews with The Farm frontman, and football fanzine pioneer Peter Hooton, as well as an insight into the crazy football genius that is Eric Cantona from his biographer Phillippe Auclair. Along with features on a group of mad Wales fans who made it all the way to Baku in Azerbaijan for their World Cup Qualifier in a convoy of old cars, and all the usual fun and games, it’s one not to be missed. | | |
| |  | tfs 016 is packed as ever with the usual mix of informative features including a look at Blackburn's amazing new season ticket deal and Morecambe's new build which will be the first to incorporate safe standing. There's also the usual mix of rants, lists and letters. | | |
| |  | Fear not, the wait is over. tfs 15 is out now and worth every penny of your hard earned £3. Although the more on-the-ball among you will have already joined the FSF and received your free copy. Issue 15 features some real lost treasures including an amazing collection of photos from grounds past and present that tfs regular Stuart Clarke found in an old draw! The Art of Football theme continues with an interview with football’s foremost artist, Jody Craddock, and the ever-reliable Jonathon Wilson’s guide to football’s brushes with art. You can also find out why Weymouth fans were singing till the end, despite a 9-0 home slaughtering, while Matthew Briggs interviews Will Brooks, founder of MyFC, to find out what the future holds for Ebbsfleet United.
Lastly, you may have noticed the unusual cover for tfs 15 which pays respect to those who died at Hillsborough on April 15th 1989. 20 years ago 96 football fans left home to watch their team play and never returned. We remember them, their families, and their loved ones. | | |
| |  | TFS is now on sale and, topically enough, focuses on the policing and stewarding of football fans. There's a feature on the Stoke City supporters who found themselves served with a Section 27 and were kicked out of Greater Manchester by the police. As well as the serious stuff though, there's plenty more with the return of Feverbitch and TFS' prodigal son Jonathan Wilson. He even made the shortlist for William Hill Book of the Year 2008, don't you know. Buy TFS here or join the FSF and get it posted to your door, free of charge, six times per year. | | |
| |  | Here at the FSF we’re not an especially superstitious bunch, so tfs 013 holds no fears! Actually, it’s another cracking issue, so get buying. Or get reading if you’re already an FSF member as you’ll get six issues a year straight to your door.
Issue 013 features interviews with ex-England international Danny Wallace – telling us of his battle with MS and how he started his own charitable foundation – as well as the story of an Unhappy ‘Ammer who turned his back on the club following yet another round of price hikes. Read how he rediscovers his love for the game with Crawley Town. Our international man of mystery Vic Crescit also chips in with some South American escapades along with much, much more. | | |
| |  | If you haven’t already seen TFS012, give your head a shake. You’re obviously not up to speed these days, and it’s time you did something about it. Like joining the FSF! That way you’d get six issues a year of The Football Supporter sent direct to your door. The more mathematically challenged amongst you might prefer to send us £3 every couple of months instead.
Either way, if you had your act together, you’d have read our exclusive Nigel Reo Coker interview before the national press began half-inching bits of it. Our feature with Hull City boss Phil Brown would have provided with you the inside track on why the Tigers may not prove as tame as many predicted. In fact, you’d have devoured a whole host of tasty articles, be feeling better placed to comment on football matters than most, and, consequently, wallowing in the warm glow of popularity. | | |
| |  | Yes, it’s tfs, But this time, with a twist. Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you tfs 011 – The Love Issue. Not your stick some Barry White on and find the pink fluffy handcuffs kind of Lurve, you understand. That would be wrong. Nor is it a play on words ploy to tap into the “into tennis because Wimbledon’s on” market. No, what The Love Issue grapples with is the depth of fans’ love for football, the kind of heroics that love has inspired - and what becomes of the broken hearted.
For this issue alone, we have forsaken the footballers and famous people who generally grace tfs’ pages, in favour of a variety of features which highlight what passionate resourceful and capable people football fans really are. And, while we’re on about passion, we also examine how much of it was really on display at Euro 2008? Will the tournament be remembered for cauldron-like atmospheres, or crowds choreographed for the TV cameras?
For good measure, you’ll also find we’ve thrown all the usual stuff and nonsense, too. We hope you, er, love it. | | |
| |  | As you contemplate the full horrors of the forthcoming close season, compounded this summer by our national teams’ collective failiure to qualify for this summer’s European Championships, you may find that even the first rays of summer sunshine are failing to put a spring in your step. But fear not – there’s a brand new issue of our members’ magazine The Football Supporter on the streets. And it’s brimful of stuff and nonsense which we hope will soften the blow of the football season finishing.
tfs 010 features interviews with, amongst others, Britain’s favourite Agony Aunt Denise Robertson and Burnley’s visionary Chairman Barry Kilby, all manner of musings on football’s current buzz-word “Respect”, and all the usual stuff and nonsense which we know you simply can’t live without.
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