Music and football have a long and enduring connection, whether it’s fans taking inspiration from chart-topping singles to create terrace chants or indie bands creating world cup anthems and sponsoring non-league clubs.

This event will explore how the earliest football fanzines took inspiration from the punk movement and developed into a scene that saw football become woven into music, magazines, fashion and wider culture. The event will feature: lead singer of The Farm and founder of the influential zine The End, Peter Hooton; author of Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976–88, Matt Worley; Alternative Wales zine contributor and Welsh Music Podcast co-host, James Cuff; and academic Alice Hoole, whose work examines participation in subcultural football spaces.

Part of Voice of the Fans, an exhibition co-produced by the British Library and Leeds Libraries, which explores over 60 years of fan-made media from their collections that has defined the beautiful game. At Leeds Central Library from 9 May to 10 August, with a smaller display touring to Leeds branch libraries throughout autumn/winter 2025.