Shoot and kickabout

Last year it was the 50th year of Shoot which like a number of publication scaled down production this century from weekly to monthly before going online only in the last decade

It was geared around a teen boy audience, upper years at Prep school or State Secondary, who loved football which was pretty much all of us at that point  playing at school and any spare moment outside of things like scouts.
In its favour it had real football legends writing for it so it gave good advice on areas of the game,  discussion of rules issues and a breakdown of the weeks action and any international/home nations matches

The quality of writing was second to none which is something some magazines could do with revisiting these days.

And - hurrah - you had posters to take out and put on your bedroom wall, men you could look up to.

Arriving slightly late here which was why it missed the Crimbo post was that 50th Anniversary annual that has a lot of features from the 70's and 80's like that picture of Man U's George Best  who as a Wolves fan I'd have to say at his best was Brilliant (and at his personal life worst makes this boy cry).

Arriving and not altogether unconnected is a pair of vintage Puma Shorts from those days when the teen me played when shorts were short  not like your grannies big bloomers, down to just below the knee.
If past lives are being revisited then to me it makes sense to have a pair of shorts for footie that were of that past when Nylon was king.