RIP "Shoot" (1969-2008)I wasn't aware until I "googled" and "WIKIed" around to know the demise of "SHOOT" magazine.
Quoted from the "wiki" page of SHOOT:
"Shoot's circulation fell from 120,000 copies per week in 1996 to 33,455 in Autumn 2007. [5]. It had changed to a monthly publication in 2000 as it faced massive competition from its long-term rival Match and a series of new titles including FourFourTwo, When Saturday Comes and other failed competitors such as 90 Minutes and Total Football.
Quoted from the "wiki" page of SHOOT:
"Shoot's circulation fell from 120,000 copies per week in 1996 to 33,455 in Autumn 2007. [5]. It had changed to a monthly publication in 2000 as it faced massive competition from its long-term rival Match and a series of new titles including FourFourTwo, When Saturday Comes and other failed competitors such as 90 Minutes and Total Football.
Its circulation in 2007 rose 7% year-on-year and it relaunced as a weekly magazine in late February 2008. [6] However, publishers IPC closed the magazine at the end of June 2008.[7]"
There's something you can't avoid - CHANGE and remain INNOVATING at ALL TIMES.
The demise of the "SHOOT" bears the best testament for this fact (see the tag above the word SHOOT - "Britain's BEST seller").
(P.S: Also found this relic during my tidying up months ago)
i got my first ever issue of shoot back in 1973 and kept it for years
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for many many years it was the best and indeed only thing out there about football
Long time since I cared about the EPL (i was able to pass myself off as Liverpool fan... just), but will never forget reading Shoot Magazine wehn I was like 9 years old... and those cardboard ladders are irreplacable.
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