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match in
Britain is the purchase of a matchday programme. Due to their initial expendable nature (like the ticket) it took many decades for the format to gain respectability as a collectible. Collecting football programmes became a common hobby among fans in Britain during the 1960s and a number of
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While, until the 1950s, programmes produced by individual clubs were typically limited to team sheets and advertising, some clubs started to introduce "more sophisticated" magazine formats. Modern programmes have more pages than their four or eight-page predecessors and are often full colour and
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medals, tickets and programmes, from early matches are highly collectible The 1926 All-Ireland football final was notable for torrential rain, which probably explains why programmes of the match are so rare. A slightly weather-worn example is coming up for sale in Fonsie Mealy
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styles, for example. Programmes from the 1940s and early 1950s are rarer due to recycling for paper shortages as part of the war effort and times of post-war austerity. The size of the programmes increased over the decades from a smaller pocket size to a larger
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and other details of the match. To some spectators, the purchase of a matchday programme is part of the "ritual" of attending football and hurling matches in
Britain and Ireland. Until 2018, the printing of matchday programmes was compulsory for
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is also rare; the game was played in torrential rain and fans used their programmes as part of their effort to cover themselves against the weather. An example, offered at auction in 2017, was estimated at between £3,500 and £4,500.
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Early programmes remained little more than a collage of team sheets and crude advertisements until the 1950s, which saw the gradual introduction - pioneered by clubs such as
Chelsea and, later, Coventry City - of more sophisticated
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size, but a number of clubs in the early 21st century have reverted to more convenient sizes. The FA Cup Final programme has, however, retained its larger size (customarily being sold with a carrier bag for this reason).
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A match took place on 6 December 1873 between alumni of the
English school Eton and American college Yale The four-page matchday programme, also one of the earliest recorded, sold at aution for £15,000 in
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Of particular interest for UK collectors is the FA Cup Final programme. The covers of FA Cup Final matchday programmes have had designs which reflected the age, with the late 1920s and 1930s covers bearing
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English league football, matchday programmes were used from the late 1880s as a scorecard which would have been a single card or sheet with dateline, team names, player positions and advertising.
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For many fans, though, there is, and never will be, anything quite like a programme in its most traditional form – on paper and on sale outside of the ground. Part of a lifelong ritual
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sold at auction for a world record of £35,250. The programme was sold by
Sotheby's in May 2013 to Old Etonians Football Club. The previous record for a football programme was for the
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games are also produced and collected. A programme from a
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as match referee, was sold in a 2011 auction for €1,500
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325:shop. The official matchday programme for the
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951:"All-Ireland Football Match Programme Covers"
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