Are podcasts the natural progression of fanzine culture?

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My first exposure to football writing of any substance came when I started to leaf through my dad’s copy of The Oatcake on Stoke City matchdays.

As a devoted Match Magazine and club programme reader, The Oatcake – then a no-frills, black and white effort – initially seemed to have little to offer me beyond a couple of cartoons and jokes about Port Vale.

The fanzine was sold dutifully outside the ground every home game, and as I got older I began to appreciate it more – mainly because unlike the programme, it was honest and prepared to talk about how crap we were.

The Oatcake is still running after almost 30 years, a remarkable feat given the perceived gradual disintegration of fanzine culture. Though certain fanzines have found an audience and continued to thrive, others have ceased to exist. The explosion of football ‘content’ on the internet has meant the traditional printed mag, to many, is no longer the essential purchase it once was.

Meanwhile, podcasts, the…

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