Awful and expensive programme

[Auchinleckian]

Have just taken delivery of a small number of Wigton and Bladnoch vs Buckie Thistle programmes from this season's Scottish Cup. The club were obviously taking the piss when they charged £2 each for them. They are glossy 8 page affairs, and the pages are filled with not much, but all in large type. Have never seen such a blatant rip off. However, they are thin on the ground and likely to be collectable so it might not be so bad after all?

[BertD]

Some of the early AFC Wimbledon away programmes were shockers too.

One that stands out in my memory was at Withdean 2000 (or Withdean £2000 as they became known to us) who issued a couple of folded pages of adverts and a line-up inside a pre-printed cover, for £1 in 2002.

This almost helped caused a riot when the visiting fans found out that not only had the admission prices increased (the usual "more stewards required" argument over-ruling the "extra 1000+ fans at a Park+1 game"), but that the programme was also double the price of a similar effort for their last midweek home game. The tipping point was the above price scheme was in effect unless you knew the gate-man, in which case you got in for the normal price and paid the usual price for the programme.

Substandard and over-priced, never a good combination.
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Newest programme wanted:
11-08-1976 Wycombe Wanderers v Wimbledon (Friendly)