Shoot/Match-Four Four Two

[Crouchinho]

Does anybody still buy these magazines? I had hundreds down the years of Shoot and Match then as I got older I used to get given the Four Four Two for free. Not bought a magazine in many years now though

 

[Cellarite]

I still buy 442. More out of habit than anything. I've been getting bored of the same shite every month for a while but have to say I usually enjoy the star answering readers letters and the main feature.

 

[jimharri]

Does anybody still buy these magazines? I had hundreds down the years of Shoot and Match then as I got older I used to get given the Four Four Two for free. Not bought a magazine in many years now though

As you get older, you tend to move on to, er, different magazines. Apparently. According to my mate.

 

[GunnerGer]

Does anybody still buy these magazines? I had hundreds down the years of Shoot and Match then as I got older I used to get given the Four Four Two for free. Not bought a magazine in many years now though

I remember being a young teenager and not being able to see my proper wallpaper because I had made new wallpaper out of all the posters from Shoot & Match. You properly couldn't see any wall!

I also remember going to Secondary School armed with my Shoot mag & selling a Manchester Utd team poster from it to a fellow classmate for £3, despite the fact the magazine only cost 50p and there was loads left in the shop! :-D

 

[foxy]

With online blogs, twitter, improved club websites, bbc sport, sky sports news, I wonder what effect these have had on football publications.

 

[waterloo blue]

I had a subscription for SHOOT for donkeys years,you are the ref,the divison ladders and colour pictures;were the best bits,the worst was the QA session in which you would find out that a majority of footballers loved George Benson,Luther Van Dross and Alexander O'Neill.

 

[Crouchinho]

Does anybody still buy these magazines? I had hundreds down the years of Shoot and Match then as I got older I used to get given the Four Four Two for free. Not bought a magazine in many years now though

As you get older, you tend to move on to, er, different magazines. Apparently. According to my mate.

Readers Digest?!

-- Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:17 pm --

Does anybody still buy these magazines? I had hundreds down the years of Shoot and Match then as I got older I used to get given the Four Four Two for free. Not bought a magazine in many years now though

I remember being a young teenager and not being able to see my proper wallpaper because I had made new wallpaper out of all the posters from Shoot & Match. You properly couldn't see any wall!

I also remember going to Secondary School armed with my Shoot mag & selling a Manchester Utd team poster from it to a fellow classmate for £3, despite the fact the magazine only cost 50p and there was loads left in the shop! :-D

lol, that could have potentially been a nice little earner if you kept on doing it<br /><br />-- Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:18 pm --<br /><br />

With online blogs, twitter, improved club websites, bbc sport, sky sports news, I wonder what effect these have had on football publications.

Shoot's circulation hit a high of 120,000 copies per week in 1996. It changed to a monthly magazine in 2001, selling in excess of 33,000 copies a month.

 

[Vienna_70]

I used to love the League Ladders that came free with Shoot! every year at the end of July / early August

I religiously updated them every Sunday, using the tables in whichever paper my dad bought that day.

 

[Barcon]

Does anybody still buy these magazines? I had hundreds down the years of Shoot and Match then as I got older I used to get given the Four Four Two for free. Not bought a magazine in many years now though

I buy them everytime I get on a plane from Toronto airport then give them away when I get back. I'll be buying it next thursday on my way to Punta Cana and I'll pass it to you when you buy me a pint ; )

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Yeah had Shoot as a kid and (as mentioned) loved the football league ladders but always gave up after like 3 games..... too much hard work.
FourFourTwo I would buy when going on holidays. The only time I'd get to read it from end to end.
I also subscribed to When Saturday Comes (is it still going??) from about issue 12 in the late 80's right up until moving 2 and a half years ago. To be honest, should have stopped the subscription a couple of years before - just felt it was changing from being ''about the fans'' to having player interviews and other mainstream articles - but out of sentimental reasons kept getting it.