Collecting football programmes
In general you find a few different types of collectors within the football programme world. There is the potential collector who has a passing interest in beginning a programme collection, there is the latent collector who collects programmes very sporadically, there is the casual collector who may accumulate old or new football programmes without having a specific theme to their collection, and also there is the confirmed collector who has specific aims and regularly tries to buy programmes in order to enhance their collection.
There is no minimum or maximum size to a collection, with the only limitations to it come in the form of your financial restraints. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly sort after programmes, just simply something that brings enjoyment or a sense of achievement to the collector. Football programme collectors come from all sorts of backgrounds.
When they first start collecting, a collector may try to acquire everything they can find 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 restraints may mean a particular theme has to be selected and explored in order to enhance a collection.
There really are an unlimited number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are certain traditional ways to build a collection. For example, for example all those programmes involving a particular team, all those played in a particular competition, etc. Whilst collecting a person is likely to experience the joys and pitfalls of acquiring 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 small number of special programmes for cup finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally support, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other big cup matches. 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 purchase all editions for your favourite team. In addition to the normal league and cup matches, you may also attempt 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 1940, 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 may find football programmes from a range of teams at varying levels (including non league). For the more adventurous type of collector, football programmes may have been acquired from other countries.
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