anyone remember Shoot! magazine?

recylingbin

and in particular the 'focus on' section where they asked a set list of questions to players among which were...
fav food
fav drink
fav film
fav band

to which the answers were, invariably,
steak
beer (Ian Rush was milk iirc)
the italian job / raiders of the lost ark
U2/Genesis


How times have changed.

Nowadays
spaghetti carbonara
lucozade sport
Shawshank
Snoop, innit.

eh i dunno

Used to love Shoot..had about 500 issues til i moved and threw them out...the league ladders were the business and the team posters

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I remember the magazine.

I also remember BBC 5Live World Football Phone-In doing a piece exactly like this about three weeks ago

KevIRL

Was brilliant when it was a mag with actual articles and lots of reading, around about the time I was 14 or so though it went all tabloid-ey and crap.

The league ladders were great until about 6 weeks into the season when I'd get bored of them

5starpool

Used to get Shoot, Match, and Roy of the Rovers every week for years, but then when they all got crap, moved to 90 Minutes in the early 90's sometime.

theteal

Which one had the bigger posters, Match or Shoot? One did mostly single page A4 whereas the other did double page A3. That's basically how I chose my preference - still bought both though, they cost feck all iirc

Cantona's Collars

5starpool wrote: »

Used to get Shoot, Match, and Roy of the Rovers every week for years, but then when they all got crap, moved to 90 Minutes in the early 90's sometime.

90 Minutes was a great magazine,more grown up than Shoot and Match,recently resigned a load of them to the recycling bin.

Had a great laugh looking at an old copy of Shoot with a special on Liverpool winning the league-all the photo's were black and white.They haven't won it since.

5starpool

zerks wrote: »

90 Minutes was a great magazine,more grown up than Shoot and Match,recently resigned a load of them to the recycling bin.

They had brilliant cartoons in it as well. I remember they released a book of them once as an insert in the magazine, and I remember pissing myself laughing and bringing it into scholl to show everyone. It was genius, and I'd love to see it again.

stevoslice

favorite tv show- only fools and horses

Every single week. :-)

flahavaj

I used to love the Match Facts in Match, in the middle, gave all the results and line ups from the week gone by.

Melion

Can anyone remember another one that was out in the early 90's? I think it was called Soccerstars

Imhof Tank

The league ladders - were they the little tabs with some basic info on each club you slotted into slits in a cardboard backdrop? They were great in pre wall to wall tv days for getting information on Ayr Utd away colours or Lincoln City's nickname and that sort of trivia.

Another feature I remember was "You are the Ref" with Clive Thomas

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Imhof Tank wrote: »

Another feature I remember was "You are the Ref" with Clive Thomas

There is still a You Are The Ref feature on the Guardian website

parker kent

KevIRL wrote: »

Was brilliant when it was a mag with actual articles and lots of reading, around about the time I was 14 or so though it went all tabloid-ey and crap.

The league ladders were great until about 6 weeks into the season when I'd get bored of them

That pretty much sums up my relationship with Shoot. It was a proper read, well for the age I was anyway. Then it turned into a Match style magazine and I moved on to FourFourTwo.

Shoot was a big part in my early football development. Ray of the Rangers was a legend :pac:

I have a vivid memory of being 5 when Arsenal won the league in 1991 and reading the all time league ladder in Shoot with United on 7 leagues and thinking it would be amazing if they even won one in my lifetime.

eh i dunno

Used to love Shoot at the start of the season when they would have a team poster in the middle pages...used to hang everyone of them up.....then i discovered posters of women :pac:

Mushy

Melion wrote: »

Can anyone remember another one that was out in the early 90's? I think it was called Soccerstars

Yup but only got it very infrequently. Think they came out on different days of the week, or Soccerstars was'nt as frequent.

parker kent

Mushy wrote: »

Yup but only got it very infrequently. Think they came out on different days of the week, or Soccerstars was'nt as frequent.

I think it was a monthly, Shoot was weekly. Soccerstars was a bit shít (or aimed a different audience than the nerdy, obsessive football fan kid that I was :pac:)

sonic85

bought shoot one day when i was younger out of my pocket money and it had a big poster of ian wright saying 100 not out - thats what got me on the road to supporting arsenal. great mag in its day. is it still on the shelves

PiE

Melion wrote: »

Can anyone remember another one that was out in the early 90's? I think it was called Soccerstars

If it's the one I'm thinking on, it was printed on nice glossy paper (as opposed to Shoot's toiletpaper) and was a fair bit more expensive? I used to save up for that magazine over Match/Shoot - found it to be a better read and had better posters.

I had a huge poster of Marco van Basten, in his Milan jersey, jumping back to head a ball - loved it to bits. Think it was from that mag.

Richard Hillman

Mushy wrote: »

Yup but only got it very infrequently. Think they came out on different days of the week, or Soccerstars was'nt as frequent.

It was much better than Match and Shoot for posters.

yabadabado

shoot was a quality mag in its day.used to buy shoot and match and fill the bedroom walls with posters,huge dilemma when you started running out of space.I found a few old copies of shoot in the wardrobe a few months back from around 92/93 and had a good laugh reading them.apparently man city were tracking a young winger from portugal and would be buying him that summer,fella called Figo,wonder what happened to him.