Generational issue
The Square Ball: Season 35, Issue 03
This is the third issue of TSB’s 35th season and Leeds United’s 2024/25 title-winning campaign.
Rob Palmer’s beautiful cover art celebrates the man of the moment, generational talent Ao Tanaka.
As well as all your favourite regular contributors, we’ve also revamped the front section with a lot more fun, shorter bits and pieces that would look great if you posted photos of them on your Twitter or Instagram feeds. Just sayin’!
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- Rob Conlon interviews Chris Toft, collector of weird Leeds United kits, about what it feels like to own a Noel Hunt shirt
- Anthony Crewdson chats with Emily Tartanella, ace illustrator of our new charity calendar, about falling for Leeds across the Atlantic
- Paddy Gunn with the third instalment of a series revisiting the chaos of Massimo Cellino and the 2014/15 season, ten years on, featuring the short-lived fantasy of Adryan
- Our new agony aunt — AKA Michael Normanton, AKA Problem Chimp — answers consumer questions about batteries
- Plus sixty years of The Battle of Goodison Park, great Gary Speed goals, and scoring from a corner!
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If you don’t want to subscribe — why not?! — you can buy this issue on its own by clicking here, and we’ll post it out as soon as it’s printed.
Can I buy the magazine at Elland Road?
As always since 1989, barring pandemics and badly timed World Cups, The Square Ball magazine will be on sale outside Elland Road, for the match against Plymouth on Saturday 2nd November 2024. Just look out for our windswept but friendly sellers by the Lowfields tunnel, Billy’s Statue, the Kop gates, and anywhere else someone is holding a fanzine in the air, until about fifteen minutes before kick-off.
I’m a TSB+ member, where is the online magazine?
TSB+ members can read the magazine online now, either of two ways:
What else is in this issue?
Our now eleven times-nominated and two-times FSF Award winning fanzine, plus one for the podcast and as of 2022 one for ‘Fan Media’, includes lots of pages of articles and artwork about what used to be the pain but now is the glory which still involves pain of being a Leeds United supporter, for more than 100 long, long years.
Can I read something now? For free? Ah go on?
Free to read from this issue is an interview by Rob Conlon with Leeds fan on shirt collector Chris Toft, on what it’s like to own a Noel Hunt shirt and why would anyone buy a Paul Rachubka goalkeeper kit — click here to read that for free.
Also free in this issue, Problem Chimp — aka Michael Normanton — solves your problems with advice on watching Leeds sober and the best value batteries to buy click here to read that one.
You can order paper copies of issue three from our online shop now, and they’ll be sent out as soon as they’re printed. To read a digital version online, please become a TSB+ member, with a one month free trial, here.
As Howard Wilkinson always used to say, thank you for your magnificent support. ⬢
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