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About Soccer Review (Football League Review)
The Official Journal of the Football League
Weekly.
A very collectable item.A lot of people have a few of these but very few people have all 366 issues.
If you went to football matches from the late sixties and through to the mid-seventies you will remember the insert from the Football League that came inside your clubs match day programme. It started privately in August 1965 and only appeared in some clubs programmes originally called the Soccer Review. It was printed by Sport and Screen Productions in Leicester and was edited by Harry Brown.
Its' original purpose was to give clubs an interesting insert to help 'fill out' their own match programmes while obviously promoting the Football League's corporate messages of the time.
I only discovered by reading the magazine's obituary in the last issue that the "Soccer Review" was a private venture that was taken over by the League after one season and renamed "The Football League Review"
The Soccer Review/Football League Review ran for 8 and a half consecutive years between August 1965 and December 28th 1974.By the time of its demise it had had another rebranding becoming simply "League Football". The last ever issue was numbered 920 and featured an interesting editorial regarding the events that had led to the closure. The reason was economics. The League subsidized the magazine and had increased the price in September due to increases in printing costs but not enough clubs had agreed to continue supporting the venture.
(Thanks to Paul Bowser who helped me get to the bottom of the various riddles surrounding this publication.)
SOCCER REVIEW
1965-66 (Vol. 1) Aug 21-27 (No. 1), Aug 28-Sep 3 (No 2), Sep 4-Sep 10 (No 3), Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, (34)
FOOTBALL LEAGUE REVIEW
1966-67(Volume One) Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, (38)
1967-68(Volume Two) Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, (39)
1968-69(Volume Three)
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, (39)
1969-70
Nos. 40A, 40B, 40C, 40D, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, (39)
1970-71
50A, 50B, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, (40)
1971-72
60A, 60B, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 628, 629ph, 630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 637, 638, (40)
LEAGUE FOOTBALL
1972-73
70A, 70B, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718, 719, 720, 721, 722, 723, 724, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, 737, 738, (40)
1973-74
80A, 80B, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, (37)
1974-75
901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910, 911, 912, 913, 914, 915, 916, 917, 918, 919, 920, (20)
366 issues in total.
When the numbering stops on the front cover you have to look for tiny black number printed on the back cover at the bottom. It took me ages to work this out!!!!
It qualifies as a magazine in its own right as it was always available either by post or from your newsagent right from launch.
By the 1975, football programmes were beginning to evolve towards the magazine-type issues we have today, so the need for such a supplement reduced as clubs developed their own styles and were reluctant to pay the League for their content..
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