The North South Divide

So it was to an industrial estate adjacent to a Tyne and Wear metro station named after the venerable Bede (not to be anal, but it's more towards Jarrow than South Shields itself) that a cursed 2025-26 campaign drew to a close in the pouring rain for your correspondent here on Tyneside. South Shields, the second placed team in the National League North narrowly losing out to our old friends AFC [Swearfilter] in a two horse race, the young upstarts

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The North South Divide

So it was to an industrial estate adjacent to a Tyne and Wear metro station named after the venerable Bede (not to be anal, but it's more towards Jarrow than South Shields itself) that a cursed 2025-26 campaign drew to a close in the pouring rain for your correspondent here on Tyneside. South Shields, the second placed team in the National League North narrowly losing out to our old friends AFC [Swearfilter] in a two horse race, the young upstarts

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This is the End

I know… I KNOW. It's just a small town's football team going from one place to another. Hardly more than a footnote in the local news. Ten seconds of faux concern on North-West Tonight. A blip on an agent's CV to be explained away. A fixed point on a graph as the line heads downward. I know, alright?

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Barrow Circle the Drain in Cambridge

Barrow succumbed to a miserable defeat against Cambridge United which, when combined with Bobby Kamwa's 108th minute winner for Newport County against Oldham Athletic, meant our final day remit against Newport went from a highly improbable sizeable victory to not mathematically, but to all intents and purposes, relegated from EFL League Two following six seasons at this level.

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There's no such thing as a free lunch

"Hello, yes, do come in. Mind the step. Just grab a seat on the couch. Or take the chair if you'd prefer a more upright experience, only the springs have gone a bit on the left side, so forewarned is forearmed."

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ABOUT US

I think it best to start at the beginning and ask ‘Why create ‘Give ‘em Beans’’?

Give ‘em Beans, like many other football fanzines, came about as a response to the problems that football and society were facing in the mid-eighties. Fanzines, such as Beans, were proudly DIY & nearly always self-published - they attempted to give voice to the thoughts and feelings of somewhat disenfranchised football fans....