The old ones are still the best

This Christmas, many a greying football fan will be looking forward to some light reading. Michael Moynihan goes back to the football magazine that everyone grew up with for a Yuletide read.

LEAGUE Ladders. You Are The Ref. If those terms mean anything to you then it is likely you are over 35 and that this Christmas you will surreptitiously slide a particular football annual into your shopping basket.

Not a club annual or a fanzine, mind. A proper annual, like the Shoot Annual 2006. You don't read Shoot? For shame. When there were only three or four live football games a year, Shoot was the bible.