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Student Till I Graduate
STIG is under new
editorship, and so has altered considerably. However, it remains the
fanzine with the most issues of any in the history of the League of
Ireland. It is produced every second home game and is available for
€1. An annual subscription can be purchased for €5
Sample Issues
Download
Issue 1 of STIG [pdf]. Yes, the first ever issue, from before we
figured out how to typeset correctly, effortlessly mock the FAI or write
everything the night before we're due to go to print. Highlights include
the guest column with Bono, the famous Swaninho hat photo and our very
first deathmatch.
Download Issue 32 of STIG [pdf]. The famous
end of 2003 issue when Mark Rooney’s mum successfully rigged the
New Player of the Year award, the Great Judas series ended with the title
of Grand High Judas awarded and a rare apology as we scuff the toe of our
collective shoe in the dirt and admitt that we robbed Shels of a couple
of points the previous week.
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Enjoy the latest edition !
You can also view many
previous articles in our articles section.
About STIG
STIG is our fanzine,
written by the fans, for the fans (and anyone else with a sense of
humour). You can get it from us at the games, by post if you’re
willing to send us money, or in our online shop when we eventually set it
up. At a mere €1, it’s as good a laugh as seeing Shels nearly
go under without the fixture uncertainty.
STIG was created by a
small group of UCD fans while drunk on the back of a bus in Galway. None
of them remembers why they were there, who the others were, or how they
were holding onto the back of a bus while drunk, but we’re sticking
to the story until we invent a better one.
It is, so far as our
scanty research tells us, the most prolific fanzine the League of Ireland
has ever seen. The current season should see us excede eighty issues.
Second place is the Cork fanzine Four-five-one, who stopped at a paltry
forty-six, and we beat them to that by over a year.
Reviews of Stig
From Down to the River to Play, the Finn Harps
fanzine
"...Something of a hidden
treasure..."
This is a cracking
little fanzine. At first glance, it seems a little flimsy. However STIG,
apart from having possible [sic] THE best fanzine title in the land has
some quality content, and even if the editorial team only have to print
about 5 copies to satisfy the demand from UCD’s home support, they
do it very well. We got sent 9 of these recently, and were amazed to
realise that they are probably the longest running Irish fanzine, with an
amazing 27 issues under their belts as of early July 2003. We also thoroughly
enjoyed reading them, as they are laugh out loud funny in places. STIG
could be accused of being formulaic, with the first copy we got looking
very much like the latest. However they can be forgiven for space fillers
such as "student cult topic quizzes" on things like Father Ted
and Star Trek, and old rope Sporting Quotes being a regular feature.
They’re students after all, laziness and all that.
The regular centrepiece
is a celebrity death match, played out in stick men, and featuring some
top sporting and political satire. STIG contains a perfect mix of
traditional funnies, clever piss takes, bizarre features (such as monthly
Celebrity Guest columnists ranging from George Bush to Andy Myler and the
intermittent Barry Ryan Playstation Game review) as well as general
rambling and occasional interviews (some real, some imaginary, some we
weren’t sure).
Possibly it’s the
witty studenty sense of humour which makes STIG something of a hidden
treasure, as well as the way editorials and match reports often descend
into the bemused ranting of die hard frustrated fans producing some
hilarious gems. We suppose its [sic] hard to take yourself too seriously
when you support UCD. Definitely worth going to Belfield for, possibly
the only thing about UCD worthy of staying in the Premier Division.
OVERALL RATING: 8/10
Disclaimer: The authors take no
responsibility for any damage to your vehicle while reading Stig. May
contain traces of nuts and bend the laws of space and time.
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