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With an increasing number of sports pages devoted to the sport, a number of magazine and countless
websites all purporting to cover every angle of the game of football, it is difficult to see any
room for new publications.
Yet they come nevertheless. The latest is Football Punk, an offshoot of the successful Golf Punk
magazine which is owned by former Liverpool defender Phil Babb.
Growing up as a football mad teenager, the weekly purchase of Guerin Sportivo was a must. The
Italian magazine was cheap enough and, in any case, I could easily get the money for it off my
parents with the excuse that it was helping me learn Italian.
But what made it such a must read in the eyes of a kid fed up with the banalities that proliferated
what were roughly the English equivalents of Match and Shoot was the serious edge to its writing.
