Programme design changed during the same season.

[hydemaine]

Looking at some of my Manchester United collection.

I noticed that both the 1946/47 and 1947/48 seasons had design changes
usually after Christmas and into the New year.

The Sponsor Afrikander had different designs but generally the same sort of message.

For example December 1947

Changed to


By January 1948.

I was wondering if any other clubs changed the design of their front cover during the same season ?

Has anyone got examples of this ?

[Wullie]

My favourite cover of them all. Associated with one season 1950/51. But oddly made a reappearance if I remember correctly v Manchester City 1953. Also used later years for reserve and the odd friendly game.

[bisphamseasider]

Just off the top of my head I can think of one obvious Blackpool season.

This was 80/1 when we started the season with Alan Ball as manager. He featured on the cover until he was sacked.

The cover then changed to a large version of the tower logo which I thought looked quite good.

I don't have access to my images at the moment but can post an example tomorrow.

[GreatBarrWolf]

I think Doncaster Rovers had a drastic change in the season they lost league status (late 90's without checking). Started off with a glossy colour cover and ended with something like 16 pages in red and black on white normal paper. All due to financial restrictions I think.

[Karb]

1966-67, Sunderland changed both design and size around New Year

[grantham]

A new feature I'm currently working on at www.thefootballarchives.com is to show an example of the programme covers through the years for each club, this has got me thinking though.

It's still work in progress and not the final design, but if you have an account (if not why not), take a look here:

http://www.thefootballarchives.com/network/club.php?ID=741&TID=736
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[manchesterunitedman1]

In season 1946-1947 The home game v Chelsea on the 18th September was the first programme to be numbered on the cover that season[4].

In season 1947-1948 the first action photos appeared inside the programme but not until number 17 v Sunderland since the War.

In season 1948-1949 An action photo appeared on the front cover for programme numbered 3 v Huddersfield Town.

Season 1950-51 It was not until programme number 7 this season v Portsmouth on 21st October that the opponents name appeared on the cover.

Not a switch during the season but the first home match of 1956-7 v Birmingham City included for the first time ever the printed token and the token sheet, this lasted until the end of the 1991-2 season. From 1992-3tokens were then printed on home match tickets.

Manchester United programmes were always sold inside the ground but they broke with tradition at the start of the 1993-1994 season and sold them in kiosks around the stadium.

[grantham]

Would it be fair to say then, we could take a 3 game sample over the course of a season to get a true reflection of cover design.

First home game, Christmas fixture, Final home fixture

Not sure how I could display this yet, but thoughts are welcome

I know I could do it with 2 images, but not really a fair reflection. A simply hover change would do that
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[Wullie]

Karb wrote:

1966-67, Sunderland changed both design and size around New Year

A dramatic change, almost certainly it had something to do with the introduction of the Football League Review magazine. But why mid season ????

[dcfc46]

79/80 Season Derby County did A glossy programme for the first 10 games then a newspaper for the rest of the season.

[drfc4ever]

GreatBarrWolf wrote:

I think Doncaster Rovers had a drastic change in the season they lost league status (late 90's without checking). Started off with a glossy colour cover and ended with something like 16 pages in red and black on white normal paper. All due to financial restrictions I think.

The above is true, also during the the early 80s 82/83 & 83/84 from memory we changed cover designs midway through the season. Why, who knows ?

Pics are on my Flickr site if interested.
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[bisphamseasider]

Further to my earlier post, these are the 80/1 programme covers with the change coming in March after Alan Ball was sacked.

[Mtbhull]

In those dark days of 1982 and the receiver became the manager.

Although the cover doesn't give anything away the inside does



I'd forgotten the receiver was our manager for a while



The cover for the rest of the season

[grantham]

Example of the programme page @ www.thefootballarchives.com



As the site continues to grow, this feature will get better and better for each club. Currently have around 40,000 covers in the database
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[hydemaine]

manchesterunitedman1 wrote:

In season 1946-1947 The home game v Chelsea on the 18th September was the first programme to be numbered on the cover that season[4]. In season 1947-1948 the first action photos appeared inside the programme but not until number 17 v Sunderland since the War. In season 1948-1949 An action photo appeared on the front cover for programme numbered 3 v Huddersfield Town. Season 1950-51 It was not until programme number 7 this season v Portsmouth on 21st October that the opponents name appeared on the cover. Not a switch during the season but the first home match of 1956-7 v Birmingham City included for the first time ever the printed token and the token sheet, this lasted until the end of the 1991-2 season. From 1992-3tokens were then printed on home match tickets. Manchester United programmes were always sold inside the ground but they broke with tradition at the start of the 1993-1994 season and sold them in kiosks around the stadium. Also issue 1 and issue 20 have the exact same cover pic of Johnny Carey in the 1948/49 season. (v Sunderland and Derby County) One introducing him as Captain and the later one presenting him as footballer of the year.

[andrewesq]

Tranmere changed mid season 1998/99 when the chairman changed !

[andrewesq]

Also 84 -85 when the terrible fold out was replaced after 6 games to a normal looking programme!

[Karb]

Completely useless information, but I played cricket against Graeme Hedley, the Hartlepool no 7 in the post above. Excellent cricketer

[derby1884]

Derby changed their design not once but twice within a space of 10 weeks back in 1968/69.

I think I like the discarded second one the best.







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[dangerman]

ayr united changed there programme in the 1960-61 season from there shield and a man with a ball to the team picture on the front. then they went back to the original design