Degsy’s Midnight Runners

In the summer of 2008 not much was happening. That useless tw*t McClaren had ensured England weren’t at the Euros and the season couldn’t come round quick enough. Boredom had definately set in for yours truly.

With nothing better to do I set about trying to revive the long lost mouth piece of the football fan at Deepdale, a football fanzine. Although I began on my own fortunately for me I have plenty of people step forward to offer advice and also their writing talents, I was in business so to speak.

Personally one of my favourite things to date about this fanzine is the name – Degsy’s Midnight Runners. And I can take absolutely no credit for it. Through PNE-Online (See links!) numerous names were put forward and opinion was canvassed with DMR the clear winner.

The first issue was released in August of this year and received nationwide praise. Well maybe not that far but it continues to sell well and is expected to completely sell out. Actually we best make that worldwide praise (!) as copies of DMR have been sent out as far as Canada and Australia.

The mag was filled with terrace-humour type articles and ironic writing. We really wanted to stay independent from the club and keep away from mainstream type production to try to emulate previous fanzines such as 53MWOV and Pie Muncher of the late 1980s and early 90s. The feedback so far is promising and hopefully DMR will develop a strong fanbase and subscriber database for the exiles.

And basically that’s where we are up to at the current point. Rather than me tell you what I think of DMR any further, I’ll leave you with the only “review” we’ve had to date, courtesy of Prestonaway (Again, see links!):

Its rough and its ready, it looks like its been run off a home P.C. but I fucking love this set up. It black and white internally and obviously being carbon foot print conscious he has followed articles one on from the other instead of just making it a article a page and making the wording bigger to fill the space. This is the working class mans rag. The people who feature in it will no doubt agree with me when I say its absolute characters that have made this possible and I think that sums it up.

If DI is a bit like the Daily Mail, this is the Daily Sport.  It brings out the laughs and actually mocks itself which is why this will be a continued favourite, its like a pressure release cooker that you can read and having had a little giggle can leave for the day rejuvenated. The Billy Davies joke makes it worth buying alone.