About collecting football programmes
In general you find a number of different types of collectors within the football programme communiuty. There is the potential collector who has a passing interest in beginning a programme collection, there is the latent collector who collects programmes infrequently, there is the casual collector who may collect old football programmes without having a specific theme to their collection, and also there is the confirmed collector who has precise aims and regularly tries to purchase programmes in order to enhance his or her collection.
There is no maximum or minimum size to a programme collection, and the only limitations to it come in the form of your available funding. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly sort after programmes, just simply something that brings pleasure or a sense of achievement to the collector. Programme collectors come from all walks of life.
In the early stages of a collection, a collector may try to buy everything they can find to their collection as soon as they can in order to give it some substance. However, with this comes a loss of focus, and later when restrictions may mean a particular theme will have to be chosen and explored in order to further a collection.
There truly are a limitless number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are a number of traditional ways to build a collection. For example, for example all those programmes involving a particular team, all those concerned with a particular competition, etc. Whilst collecting a person is likely to experience the highs and lows of acquiring a rare old football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is vital to your collection.
Those casual collectors will usually own a small number of important programmes for cup finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally support, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other big cup ties. These can basically be classed as a Big Match programme.
If you have a big affection for a particular football club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply buy all issues for your favourite team. In addition to the normal league matches and cup-ties, you may also be tempted to collect programmes from friendlies, foreign tours, reserve teams, and youth teams.
One way of increasing the depth and scope of your collection is by setting an earlier date for the time period for which you’re collecting. You could, for example, decide to collect back to 1970, 1960, 1950, etc.
A collector who is neutral in their affiliations, and just has a general passion for football will tend to widen the scope of their collection. In these sorts of collections you may find football programmes from a number of teams at varying levels (including non-league). For the more adventurous collector, football programmes may have been bought from countries other than his or her own.
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