The new issue of true faith is out now and will be in the in-boxes of our beautiful readers tf115_cover_ipadfrom Byker to Brazil right now.

Once again, it’s rammed chocca block with completely original content with some of the best fanzine writing anywhere in the country. We have loads of writers who have been scribbling with us for donkey’s years and and in keeping up our tradition of having at least one new writer in every new issue we have several new scribes making their debuts.

This issue is over 100-pages of superbly designed fanzine with more bells and whistles than the Hoppings on E.

Naturally, our biggest focus is on Newcastle United and we have extended detailed pieces on the club’s finances, Ashley’s manouverings, Pardew’s position, de-Jong’s fitness, Coloccini’s capability to captain the team, Aarons potential and loads of other stuff. Naturally, we’re looking at the wider issues of football and have pieces well-timed in light of the Labour Party’s recent announcement about Supporters Trusts and clubs as well as a great piece covering the recent session hosted by the Newcastle United Supporters Trust regarding their emerging political strategy. Again, we couldn’t have timed those pieces better if we’d had inside information.

We know our readers love a bit of history and nostalgia and so we have got all that covered tf115_60sec_ipadwith the excellent 60 Second Season, covering a season in our glorious Edwardian era as well as some memories of the much respected and admired Paul Goddard who was a favourite of many on the SJP terraces in the 80s, myself included. Someone might fancy telling Denis Wise, he’s a cockney as well.

As we consider ourselves (ahem) a somewhat erudite and eclectic publication we also go off piste occasionally and we’ve got a brilliant selection of stuff in our Drums & Wires pages from yon Emile Strunz as well as Girl Afraid who has been shaking her thang to Martha Reeves & the Vandellas of late.

Not only that but Durham’s finest, Ted Edwards has been casting his mind back a few years to recall some classic casual clobber that will get some ageing dressers of a certain age going weak at the knees.

As you all know, we’re internationalists with our Geordie diaspora reporting in from tf115_totti_ipadSpain, Brazil, South Korea, Italy and the mean green fields of North East non-league football.  As ever brilliant writing to occupy as autumn turns to winter and you are doing your best to avoid some shitty reality TV show on the telly.

true faith has been published since 1999 and over the last 15 years has established itself as one of the most respected, widely read and best known club fanzines in the UK.  For the last three years, from a field of hundreds of titles, true faith has reached a shortlist of six in the Football Supporters Federation’s prestigious Fanzine of the Year Awards.

Over that time since we published our popular fanzine we have added an extremely well-used website, podcasts, video-blogs and embraced social media. Our free Saturday Special newsletter goes out each week to God knows how many readers and we see that as our match-day reading for Mags on the way to the match be it at SJP or all points south.

The profit we hope to make from the subscriptions on the fanzine will be reinvested in tf115_goddard_ipadmaking improvements to everything that we do. This isn’t a business in the usual sense of the word but it is something we do with a bit of thought we’d like to think.

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