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Shoot Magazine
What is called “Shoot Magazine”?
What are the features of the magazine?
What is the magazine known for?
Shoot (often written Shoot!), or Shoot Monthly, was a football magazine published in the UK between 1969 and 2008. It began publication as a weekly and was the strongest magazine in this market until the mid-1990s. It later became a monthly, before reverting to a weekly, and is now available as an interactive application.
Shoot was noted for the quality of its news stories and articles on all aspects of football in England and Scotland. Every week’s edition featured a colour two-page centrefold photo of a team, and several other glossy colour photographs of players from the top teams, usually but not exclusively in the first division.
The magazine also had a “Focus On” feature that, along with the colour photo of a player, asked them to reveal some basic biographical information as well as some personal information, such as their favourite entertainer or their least favourite opponent. The interviewed players’ answer to ‘person in the world you would most like to meet’ was overwhelmingly boxer Muhammad Ali.
The magazine was known for its “Star Writer” features. Each season a selection of big-name First Division players, including Alan Ball, Billy Bremner, Kenny Dalglish, Kevin Keegan, Bryan Robson and Charlie Nicholas, wrote (or had ghost-written for them) columns on their football lives. This feature continued in the monthly incarnation of the magazine, with stars including Joe Cole and Danny Mills penning regular columns.
The magazine also featured Paul Trevillion’s “You Are The Ref” comic strip for many years. This strip was collected in book form.
The weekly magazine was also known for its annual free gift of “Shoot League Ladders”. This consisted of a thin cardboard sheet on which was printed slitted league tables for all the divisions of the Football League and Scottish League. Included in the package were tabs for all the teams, done up in the teams’ colours, which could be fitted into the slits to reflect every team’s position in the standings. As the season progressed and teams moved up and down the table, their tabs could be adjusted accordingly. Old league ladders are still regularly sold on eBay.