Thursday 19 June 2008
Shoot no more
I missed this the other day, not sure if you did but IPC Media have axed Shoot magazine after almost 40 years.
"It is with great regret that we have had to make this decision. We are of course in consultation with the six permanent staff directly affected by the proposal, and every effort will be made to find alternative jobs if this becomes necessary." (more)
Very sad day indeed, although to be fair in the early '80's when football took my life away I was more of a Match Weekly boy myself and the weekly still dominates that market. I moved onto World Soccer in teen life, I used to suck that global footie stuff in and created whole Subbuteo competitions around the stories, interviews and stats that Brian Glanville and others provided.
In it's heyday Shoot used to sell 120,000 copies a week, but that was down to just 30,000 a month recently as kids turned their noses up at what had became a shadow of it's 80's read. My son has never shown any interest in Shoot or Match whenever we have been trawling through newsagents, why would he when he goes home and either puts the tele' on or jumps on the internet?
Do you remember those league ladders that Shoot used to produce? I found a photograph here, look Charlton and Millwall in Division 1 in 1989! Brilliant.
A gloomy tale then as Shoot joins Top of the Pops, Texan Bars, The Hitman and Her, the Radio 1 Tuesday lunchtime chart show and Black Jack's in the category marked 'treasured memories.' ¶ 12:50
"It is with great regret that we have had to make this decision. We are of course in consultation with the six permanent staff directly affected by the proposal, and every effort will be made to find alternative jobs if this becomes necessary." (more)
Very sad day indeed, although to be fair in the early '80's when football took my life away I was more of a Match Weekly boy myself and the weekly still dominates that market. I moved onto World Soccer in teen life, I used to suck that global footie stuff in and created whole Subbuteo competitions around the stories, interviews and stats that Brian Glanville and others provided.
In it's heyday Shoot used to sell 120,000 copies a week, but that was down to just 30,000 a month recently as kids turned their noses up at what had became a shadow of it's 80's read. My son has never shown any interest in Shoot or Match whenever we have been trawling through newsagents, why would he when he goes home and either puts the tele' on or jumps on the internet?
Do you remember those league ladders that Shoot used to produce? I found a photograph here, look Charlton and Millwall in Division 1 in 1989! Brilliant.
A gloomy tale then as Shoot joins Top of the Pops, Texan Bars, The Hitman and Her, the Radio 1 Tuesday lunchtime chart show and Black Jack's in the category marked 'treasured memories.' ¶ 12:50
