After 39 years of service, Shoot's demise means no more of their legendary questionnaires.
The first issue sold over 300,000 copies and they sustained these figures throughout the magazine's first two decades with a ground-breaking Panini stickers edition.
For those of a certain age Shoot! magazine was fundamental to one's footballing education. For fantasy and kick-back enjoyment you might turn to Scorcher and Score or Roy of the Rovers, but for close textual analysis, breaking news stories, hard-hitting questionnaires, beautifully reasoned player columns and, of course, 'You are the Ref' it was to Shoot! you would turn every time. Shoot! was what one read before graduating to Hugh Mcllvanney. And now it is gone. Killed off at 39 years of age.
P/s: the writer still own a library full of Shoot! & MATCH magazine. Any takers?
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