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Editorial
Voices in Football (V.I.F) was created and put together by the current editor Damon Main, a football fan who lives in Scotland. He is a
graduate of Aberdeen University and Strathclyde University Business School in Glasgow. As well as V.I.F he has written and had a variety of articles and photographs published in a number of online and print publications; these include TFS Magazine the official magazine for the FSF. His main areas of interest are European Club Football, Football Stadia and Fan Culture in the UK and abroad. Events he has attended include UEFA Euro 2004, Euro 2008, UEFA Cup final 2007, World Cup 2006 and the opening draw for 2012 in Warsaw. When not visiting football grounds and watching football matches he currently lives in Scotland. The editor has official UEFA events media accreditation through F.A.M.E.
In recent years the traditional football fan produced paper fanzine has been complemented by the emergence of the webzine or e-zine. One of the main reasons behind this drive is that the web has the potential to reach an ever larger, possibly more global audience. The traditional fanzine is more commonly sold outside the ground to a smaller readership. Our aim at Voicesinfootball was to produce and develop a webzine offering an alternative look at football fan and terrace culture. However, the aim is to complement this by producing our own paper fanzine. Please keep returning to the site to find out more soon.
Most clubs have one or sometimes more than one fanzine. These publications often supplement club ideals on an unofficial basis but more commonly these oppose the mainstream media or club's official stance through offering an alternative fan point of view on events. Consequently, these fanzines and webzines operate in a different way to official club websites or matchday programmes which are traditionally more expensively produced by clubs.
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He will endevour to reply to any constructive correspondence as regards the site or possible articles. Any non-constructive communications may be deleted. Please note images used will be sourced or taken by the site only. The aim is for the site to use images that were captured by fans for viewing by other fans.
Submissions/Contributions
Voices in Football now invite submissions on original topics on all
aspects of football fan and terrace culture. Interested parties should send these to the site at the address:
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Please note that any submissions may be subject to editing depending on content and size. Any ideas site users have for articles are also welcome and may be used depending on subject matter.
Regular Contributors
The editor writes extensive amounts of material for the site and is responsible for a great deal of the photographic images shown on the site. He regularly attends club matches around Europe; meets fans from other countries and has an wide ranging interest in fan and terrace culture around Europe. He has been in attendance at the last two European Championships in both Portugal and recently in Austria/Switzerland during 2008. He spent the summer of 2006 with football fans from Germany travelling the length of the country at the World Cup. He has attended the Champions League Final and UEFA Cup finals. A range of other site materials such as photos, recommendations and article ideas have been donated by a number of regular site visitors.
Photo Credits
The Voices in Football masthead image is an image taken of the Berlin ground 'Sportforum Hohenschönhausen'. The image is a favourite of the site and was taken in June 2006 during a visit to Germany for
the 2006 World Cup Finals. Many of the images seen within the galleries section are original images.
Other images utilised on the homepage are of the U-Bahn Station at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the Curva Nord at the Stadio Olympico in Rome during Lazio v Fiorentina 'Serie A' 2005 and of the Hardturm Stadium, Zurich. Images used on the homepage are property of V.I.F and are adapted with permission from photographs by Damon Main.
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