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About collecting football programmes
In general you find a few different types of collectors within the football programme world. There is the potential collector who has a passing interest in beginning a programme collection, there is the latent collector who collects programmes very sporadically, there is the casual collector who may collect old or new football programmes without having a specific theme to their collection, and also there is the confirmed collector who has precise aims and regularly tries to acquire programmes in order to enhance their collection.
There is no minimum or maximum size to a programme collection, and the only limitations to it come in the form of your financial restraints. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly collectible programmes, just simply something that brings pleasure or a sense of satisfaction to the collector. Football programme collectors come from all sorts of backgrounds.
In the early stages of a collection, a collector may try to add everything on offer to their collection as soon as they can in order to give it some substance. However, with this comes a loss of tangible meaning, and later when restrictions may mean a particular theme will have to be chosen and explored in order to further a collection.
There really are an unlimited number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are certain traditional ways of building a collection. For example, for example all those programmes concerned with a particular club, all those concerned with a particular competition, etc. During the course of a collection a person is likely to experience the highs and lows of acquiring a sought after football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is key to your collection.
Those casual collectors will usually own a limited number of important programmes for cup finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally support, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other major cup matches. These can basically be classed as a Big Match programme.
If you have a strong affection for a particular football club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply acquire all issues for your favourite team. In addition to the regular league matches and cup-ties, you may also attempt to collect programmes from friendlies, foreign tours, reserve teams, and youth teams.
One way of improving the depth and scope of your collection is by setting an earlier date from which to collect. You could, for example, decide to collect back to 1980, 1970, 1960, etc.
A collector who is neutral in their affiliations, and just has a general passion for football will often widen the scope of their collection. In these sorts of collections you often find football programmes from a range of clubs at different levels (including non league). For the more adventurous type of collector, football programmes may have been acquired from other countries.
Chris Rudolph is a football programme collector and dealer. He runs the programme collector website.
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