Starting a football programme collection
In general you find four different types of collectors within the football programme world. There is the potential collector who has a passing interest in starting a programme collection, there is the latent collector who collects programmes infrequently, there is the casual collector who may accumulate 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 acquire 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 financial restraints. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly expensive programmes, just simply something that brings pleasure or a sense of achievement to the collector. Football programme collectors come from all sorts of backgrounds.
In the early stages of a collection, a collector may try to add everything on offer to their collection as soon as they can in order to give it some substance. However, with this comes a loss of tangible meaning, and later when restrictions may mean a particular theme has to be selected 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 of building a collection. For example, for example all those programmes concerned with a particular club, all those concerned with a specific competition, etc. During the course of a collection a person is likely to discover the joys and pitfalls of buying a sought after football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is vital to your collection.
Those collectors who are more causal in their approach to the collecting of football programmes 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 ties. These can basically be classed as a Big Match programme.
If you have a strong affection for a particular soccer club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply acquire all editions for your chosen team. In addition to the normal league and cup matches, 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 from which to collect. You could, for example, decide to collect back to 1970, 1960, 1950, etc.
A collector who is neutral in his or her affiliations, and just has a general passion for football will tend to widen the scope of their collection. In these sorts of collections you often find football programmes from a number of teams at different levels (including non-league). For the more adventurous collector, football programmes may have been bought from other countries.
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