The Matchday Programme

Do you buy one?
And what do you do with them?
I've always bought a programme,it's been part of my routine since the year dot,but I've accumulated so many I'm beginning to wonder what I'm going to do with them all. 
I'm a hoarder when it comes to this sort of stuff,and apart from the Wanderers programmes,I've got hundreds of others I started collecting as a teenager,some of which are worth a few bob,yet I still can't bring myself to sell them.
It's not like you can display them. They just sit there in boxes until someone feels a nostalgic need to have a look through them.
I had a look through some of the older ones yesterday,and I must say they're a lot more stylish than their modern counterparts,although with considerably fewer pages.
I sometimes look through the 1958 Cup Final programme,and give it a quick sniff. Does me the world of good.
So do you buy and keep,or is it straight in the bin? Can you afford to waste three quid?

I will be on saturday

I bought the Nat Lofthouse one, the first game after he died was against Chelsea, i don't really bother now.

Taking my missus' canadian cousins to the game.  7 of us altogether including my lad.

I've got a box in the loft full of ones from the 80's and early 90's but I stopped buying them because I kept leaving them in the pub.

Remind me to tell you about my lapel badge collection.

Let me guess.......

Sorry to disappoint. They're all football related.

Apart from my Blue Peter badge.

And my Desperate Dan Pie Eaters Club badge.

Anyone want to buy the Nat Lofthouse programme, or any other .

Breadman wrote:I've got a box in the loft full of ones from the 80's and early 90's but I stopped buying them because I kept leaving them in the pub.

Full of shit.

boltonbonce wrote:Sorry to disappoint. They're all football related.

Apart from my Blue Peter badge.

And my Desperate Dan Pie Eaters Club badge.

My lad got a green blue peter badge a couple of weeks ago

Well done to him. Didn't have the green ones in my day.

boltonbonce wrote:Well done to him. Didn't have the green ones in my day.

They do different colours for different activities.  I think his was for doing a drawing of something environment related.

y2johnny wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:Well done to him. Didn't have the green ones in my day.

They do different colours for different activities.  I think his was for doing a drawing of something environment related.

Mine was for drawing Petra,the BP dog. Not a very good drawing either if I remember rightly.

Like grandad like grandson

boltonbonce wrote:Sorry to disappoint. They're all football related.

Apart from my Blue Peter badge.

And my Desperate Dan Pie Eaters Club badge.

What about your Jim Fixed it for me badge, or are the memories too painful.

Chris Trace, the original presenter of Blue Peter was my dad's officer when he was in the army. My dad wrote off to him and we got signed photos back. haven't a clue what happened to them.

I won a football signed by all the Bolton players at a quiz at the old Burnden Park Supporters Club way back in the late seventies and had a photograph with Ian Greaves and John Ritson. Neither of which I still have along with my program collection which has also gone.
I never get one now as I think they're a rip off, I guess the fact that I'm an old git diminishes the appeal of them.

i haven't bought one for years, the only ones i still have are the ones from the Sherpa Van final against Torquay, the last game at Burnden and the first game at the Reebok