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Is it the hope that kills you or the knowledge that it’s the hope that kills you, that kills you? As I sit here trying to compose my thoughts, the nicotine of football coursing through my veins, I’m trying to make sense of it all. How? How can a team that has been so rank for so long this season pull out a result like that against the prototype League 2 juggernaut of team in Oldham? How can a team that’s had bugger all luck all season score a goal like Gordon’s? How can we st

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ABOUT US

I think it best to start at the beginning and ask ‘Why create ‘Give ‘em Beans’’?

Give ‘em Beans, like many other football fanzines, came about as a response to the problems that football and society were facing in the mid-eighties. Fanzines, such as Beans, were proudly DIY & nearly always self-published - they attempted to give voice to the thoughts and feelings of somewhat disenfranchised football fans....