Football Programme Collections.

I know quite a few friends are football collectors does anybody on here collect ?

I have over 3,500 programmes mainly Watford but also Exeter, Tiverton and all FA Cup finals from 1970. I am always on the look out for anybody getting rid of theirs and they need a good home.

Good books to follow on the programme collecting front.

The Football Programme A History & Guide by John Lister.

Famous Football Programmes also by John Lister.

Happy Collecting

 

i was given a small stack of programmes a while ago, i don't even know how many, but i guess about 70-80. They're all Watford programmes and old. I don't know what to do with them, whether to keep them or not!

 

I am looking for a good home for about 1000 of my programmes, more space is needed at home. I have a list of them, but I am looking for some money.

Any offers?

 

You have HOW many programmes????

 

I stopped buying them 7 or 8 years but still have several boxes of them in the loft...perhaps 300/400 though I've never counted them. The Watford ones date back to 1983 and there are various others from around the country.

As I boy I had West Brom programmes from 1955-1963 and gave them away to the younger brother of my then girlfriend. We went our separate ways two months later but I never got my programmes back!

 

Oh dear there are rules on giving things away, and then there are rules for gifts to ex girlfriends!!!!

 

I used to but had to get rid of most because i didnt have the space to house them anymore

 

Ditto though not that many. Have thought many times about selling them, but looking on eBay it hardly seems worth it. I haven't even listed mine like you have.
They sit up there in the loft, doing nothing. I did drag them down about 8 years ago when a mate of mine was stopping over after a gig and we started reminiscing about 3 in the morning after the nth drink. Sitting like two ten year-olds on the floor shovelling through them all.
And yes, I still have to buy one at every game. I wonder if that freshly printed smell is somehow addictive?

 

Got about 3000 - oldest 1946. Have watford v Luton 1956 Rigby Taylor Cup final. Just got 120 Watford progs off E Bay (buyer collect!!). So might be in the market for these.....

 

I ought to do a list. They start at 1964. I've never done a full season, and there are plenty of seasons where I barely got to a game at all; lived 10 years in East Kent and the M25 wasn't built in them days. Mostly do about a dozen games a season- working Saturday nights not conducive to more.

 

I've got the majority of the programmes from GTs 1st 2 seasons and they're in binders (although I can't get all the ones from 78-79 in their binder) and somewhere, possibly at my Mum's house, I have the first WFC programme post-decimalisation as it's got both 1/- and 5p on it. When I was younger I got a programme at every game I went to and wrote on the back any changes to the line-ups, scorers and substitutions. Most of those probably ended up in my Mum's loft which my sister and brother-in-law were clearing out last week, so if they were up there, they're not any more. I do keep the ones from away games and have the match ticket inside as proof I was at the game.

 

The only times I wrote on my programmes was during my first season, when I was a ten year-old- I wrote the word 'Boo!' next to the away team's name on the front cover. Hope this won't spoil their value when they go on Antiques Roadshow.

 

Thats a programme collectors nightmare writting on a programme.

 

I generally only buy programs from big games, such as the QPR game at the vic, and the cardiff one. Or for the game after a big away game so i can get the write up of the previous game and see the pics