This Is Anfield: The Illustrated History of Liverpool Football Club’s Matchday Programme

was published today by Reach Sport.  

This official book showcases a spectacular array of front covers and inside pages from every era: the must-read managers’ notes and the captains’ columns; the star interviews and opposition analysis; the vital stats, match reports and reaction from the team’s finest hours; and of course the fashions! 

Compiled by LFCProgMan, sharing many unseen images from his comprehensive archive, and club programme editor David Cottrell, it’s an evocative guide to an Anfield institution. 

It's the final day of printing for 

This Is Anfield: The Illustrated History of Liverpool Football Club’s Matchday Programme

I had the pleasure of seeing the covers being bound to the rest of the book before the full shipment left Glasgow, bound for Liverpool. It will be in the shops next month.

Issue 193 of The New Liverpool Programme Collectors Club published by Keith Stanton and LFCProgMan is now being sent out to subscribers. Please use the contact page to get in touch and find out how to subscribe

Back Issues returns. LFCProgMan looks back at programmes from the 2014/15 Champions League group-stage double-header between Liverpool and Real Madrid. Buy your copy of the programme to read on.

LFCProgMan is delighted to announce profits from his first book have now exceed £22K. 

A second donation to the LFC Foundation has just been made for £10,187

This second donation will be specifically earmarked for an upcoming project for young people across the Merseyside area, particularly those that are disadvantaged. 

After a heavy few months of work, the initial  draft of This Is Anfield: The Illustrated History of Liverpool Football Club’s Matchday Programme is complete. A few chapters now require writing. Above, just one of the home programmes we discuss. 

Issue 192 of The New Liverpool Programme Collectors Club published by Keith Stanton and LFCProgMan is now being sent out to subscribers. Please use the contact page to get in touch and find out how to subscribe.

Work has now started on my third book. Written and researched with Dave Cottrell, the LFC matchday programme editor. It will take you on a journey from the very first LFC home programme to the present season. The Official Liverpool book will be published by Reach Sport and release is anticipated for April 2023.

'Back Issue' by LFCProgMan in the SSC Napoli UEFA Champions League issue recalls the 2010 matchday programmes for the Europa League group games.

A first for LFCProgMan. A four page feature article appeared in UEFA Champions League SSC Napoli programme yesterday. It tells the story of the Reds double-header with Gradjanski in 1936.

In the matchday programme for Rangers the 'Back Issues' by LFCProgMan looks back at the matches with Aberdeen 80/81 en route to Liverpool winning their third European Cup.

LFCProgMan is now assisting Keith Stanton in the production of The New Liverpool Programme Collectors Club bulletin and Offers List. Please use the contact page if you'd like to subscribe. Just £5 per season and you'll receive a 28 page bulletin (including catalogue) and Offers List quarterly.

Costco has now taken stock of the 

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide for three of their North West warehouses - Chester, Haydock and Liverpool

LFCProgMan returns with the 'Back Issues' feature in the matchday programme. This will again be in each of the Champions League issues this season. This time it features programmes from the 1966 matches between the two sides.

Some of the profits from the book have 

been donated to the LFC Foundation. 

The £11,872 will go will go towards the funding of a partnership the Foundation are developing with the Museum of Liverpool.  It will use the history of Liverpool FC and football as a tool to support people with dementia.

It is 130th anniversary of Liverpool Football Club today. To mark the occasion the author of 

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide 

was asked to select ten of some of the rarest matchday programmes to feature in the book.

The Sports Boook Awards 2022 in association with The Sunday Times: 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner and Awards saw 

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide 

pipped at the post by Toon In!

in the Illustrated Book Of The Year category

As author, I am proud to announce that Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide 

has today been shortlisted in the 

Sports Book Awards 2022 

in association with the Sunday Times

 Illustrated Book Of The Year category

It's Spanish opposition - Athletic Bilbao and Deportivo La Coruna -  for the Back Issues feature. Again written by LFCProgMan in Official Liverpool FC Matchday Programme. Villarreal the visitors in the UEFA Champions League Semi-final first leg.

The LFC Foundation Legends Charity Match programme features the Liverpool Football Programmes: The Definitive Collector's Guide, describing it as a "Labour Of Love, it's possibly the biggest Reds book ever and all profits from its sale will go towards the LFC Foundation's life-changing projects".

This time around the Back Issues story from LFCProgMan follows two previous matchday programmes involving Benfica and on both occasions Liverpool lifted the European Cup.

LFCProgMan has written the "Back Issues" section for the Inter Milan Champions League fixture. The article features the last three visits by the I Nerazzurri, including a pre-season friendly match with the Pirelli Cup for the winners.

The Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide

can now be purchased in North America. 

It is available to order direct from anfieldshop.com

The author would like to extend his gratitude to

Alisha Weiss for making this possible.

Andy Marsden is announced as 

LFC Foundation Champion of the Month for January 2022

The Foundation reported, "Andy, a local author and lifelong LFC fan, was nominated by our fundraising manager Rachel Bates. This was in recognition of his pledge to donate 100% of the profits from his newly released book, Liverpool Football Programmes: The Definitive Collector's Guide, to The LFC Foundation... Every penny of the profits will go to benefit those in the Liverpool region from projects led by the Foundation. In this way, the book will support two key areas that are important to me and the community: giving young people a chance of a better future and providing support to those affected by dementia"."

You can read the full story here.

Finally, after appearing in the top three of Amazon UK's Most Wished For Liverpool FC book, the Liverpool Football Programmes:

The Definitive Collector's Guide debuts on amazon.co.uk today. 

You can now order the book using your Amazon UK account.

Phil Brough reviews the

  Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide in the 

Programme Monthly & Football Collectable, Issue 490, February 2022

"A number of books have been written about a clubs' programmes but none as comprehensive or as wonderfully illustrated as this". Perhaps, though, the best comment "If this volume had been written under the auspices of a University, Marsden would be honoured and acclaimed."

As the announcement states the 

"LFC Foundation set to receive all profits from book, ‘Liverpool Football Programmes: The Definitive Collector’s Guide’."

 "Andy Marsden has selflessly pledged that all profits will be donated to the Foundation." 

Why donate to the Foundation? 

Simply to give back to the city I love! 

"By donating all profits, the Foundation can continue to work in areas of high need and deprivation across the Liverpool City Region, aiming to deliver sustainable and long-term change for communities and to ensure that this work continues to benefit future generations."

"The LFC Foundation would like to extend it’s gratitude to Andy for tirelessly working on this project spanning 5 years, and donating every single penny."

You'll Never Walk Alone January 2022 

(Issue 4), the magazine of the Official Supporters Club from Aalborg, Denmark. Steven Horton's "Talk of the Town" describes 

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide 

as "The Bible of the Match Programmes", and continues "I myself have about 4,000 programmes, so it will be exciting to see which 1,000 I am missing. Then I have to start finding them. The biggest challenge is what they cost on eBay, for example." 

The LFCProgMan website is officially launched to promote the 

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide 

and Liverpool football programmes in general.

The Official Liverpool FC Monthly Magazine February 2022 (Issue 113) describes the Liverpool Football Programmes: The Definitive Collector's Guide as "a colossal, metatarsal-crushing, limited-edition paean to Liverpool FC matchday programmes”. And dedicates a double-page spread to the book.

"A Book That Has Provoked Memories Both Happy And Sad" featured in

Red All Over The Land, Issue 279. 

Rob Clague aka @RedOnTheBay notes

"Strongly recommended, a real page turner. What a work it is, a real labour of love. Hats off to you Andy" and acknowledges how it

"stirred a few memories for me, happy, funny, and sad." 

After five years in development the

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide

is published today.

 The Official Liverpool FC Matchday Programme for the UEFA Champions League Group B - Matchday Five game with FC Porto features a double-page spread on my book, the Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide. 

Gutenberg Press Limited, Tarxien, Malta have been awarded the contract to print

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide  

 The Kopite (No. 297) magazine from the Official Supporters Club, Norway dedicates five pages to the upcoming Liverpool Football Programmes book. Or should that be 

"Bibel Om Røde Programmer"

Andy Marsden, author of 

Liverpool Football Programmes: 

The Definitive Collector's Guide, announces that all profits from the book will be donated to the LFC Foundation.