About collecting football programmes
In general you find four 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 occasionally, there is the casual collector who may collect old or new football programmes without having a specific theme to their collection, and also there is the confirmed collector who has distinct aims and regularly tries to acquire programmes in order to enhance his or her collection.
There is no exact size to a collection, and the only limitations to it come in the form of your financial restraints. 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.
When they first start collecting, a collector may try to add everything on offer to their collection as quickly as possible in order to give it some substance. However, with this comes a loss of focus, and later when restrictions may mean a particular theme has to be selected and explored in order to further a collection.
There really are a limitless number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are certain traditional ways of building a collection. For example, for example all those programmes involving a particular club, all those concerned with a particular competition, etc. Whilst collecting a person is likely to discover the highs and lows of acquiring a sought after football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is key to your collection.
Those casual collectors will usually own a limited number of special programmes for cup finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally follow, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other major cup matches. These can basically be classified as a Big Match programme.
If you have a strong affiliation to a particular soccer club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply purchase all editions for your chosen team. In addition to the normal league matches and cup-ties, you may also try 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 choosing an earlier date for the time period for which you’re collecting. You could, for example, decide to collect back to 1965, etc.
A collector who is fairly neutral in his or her affiliations, and just has a general passion for football will often widen the scope of their collection. In these sorts of collections you often find football programmes from a range of clubs at varying levels (including non league). For the more adventurous collector, football programmes may have been bought from other countries.
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