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In the spirit of transient positivity that is unique to either the start of the new football season or the beginning of a fresh year, WSC hereby presents its Web Awards for the best five independent club-based fan sites, and for the best five general sites. The judge has scrupulously retained his penchant for wang-eyed subjectivity and has failed to cast off irrational prejudices, but would like to emphasise that originality, wit and the quality of writing played a considerable part in his selection of the following webzines, which appear in no particular order. Top five independent club sites Blind Stupid and Desperate A Watford FC webzine that is short on visual thrills but high on consistently strong prose. This summary of the merits of a First Division rival reflects the general tone – “Sheffield Wednesday: A damp catherine wheel that failed to go off last year, still nailed forlornly to a wonky post.” A primary lesson to all webzine editors – snazzy graphics count for nothing without well-thought words. Rage Online Long-running site at the forefront of campaigns to stop Oxford United sinking, though, as one match report points out following the demise of this season’s early optimism: “Unfortunately, when you’re not at rock bottom then there’s always rock bottom to reach.” Also boasts funny, apposite headlines, such as the one following Oxford’s first round FA Cup exit: Rubbish Dumped. Poems For Football Fans When WSC reviewed this site early last year, they immediately wrote us a poem on the subject of a game between Lebanon and Kazakhstan, which is now hung and framed above the web editor’s desk. Undergoing a redesign to accommodate the burgeoning ranks of football wordsmiths, this site remains a crater of creativity on the internet’s vast and mediocre moonscape. Footie51 Arguably the best general site of all for its range and level of journalism. Interesting features (on the history of the football song or football on film for example), well-informed commentaries, regular fanzine and book reviews, and lower-name interviews should all combine to place Footie51 at the top of any bookmark folder headed “Football Culture”. All The Pies Notable for failing to write a single serious feature on anything, this webzine is approaching its second birthday staying true to the principles on which it was founded – namely, we don’t know much about football and we don’t care. Done for fun, not money, this site believes that all persons or institutions within the game of football are worthy targets for mockery and parody. From WSC 179 January 2002. What was happening this month Comments (0)
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