In general you find a few different types of collectors within the football programme communiuty. 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 distinct aims and regularly tries to purchase programmes in order to enhance his or her collection.
There is no minimum or maximum size to a collection, with the only limitations to it come in the form of your available funding. To be a collector, there is no need to own highly expensive programmes, just simply something that brings pleasure or a sense of satisfaction to the collector. Programme collectors come from all sorts of backgrounds.
In the early stages of a collection, a collector may try to buy everything they can find to their collection as quickly as possible in order to give it some bulk. However, with this comes a loss of tangible meaning, and later when restraints may mean a particular theme will have to be chosen and explored in order to further a collection.
There really are an unlimited number of themes and sub-themes of programmes that can be collected. However, there are a number of traditional ways to build a collection. For example, for example all those programmes concerned with a particular club, all those played in a specific competition, etc. Whilst collecting a person is likely to discover the highs and lows of acquiring a rare old football programme, or the frustration of not being able to find a source for one that is key to your collection.
Those casual collectors will usually own a limited number of important programmes for major finals or semi-finals for the team that they personally support, internationals, testimonials, special fixtures, or other big cup matches. These can basically be classified as a Big Match programme.
If you have a strong affiliation to a particular soccer club your mission in programme collecting may be to simply acquire all issues for your chosen team. In addition to the regular 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 for the time period for which you’re collecting. You might, 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 often 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 bought from other countries.
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