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If you think for one minute that we'll go under a less "offensive" name don't bother - you'll save yourselves a wasted email.
Nicky Campbell said "arse" on Radio Five so why do you think we should change our name?

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All About Your Arse!

Up The Arse! has been published for the last seasons and is Arsenal's second longest running fanzine after The Gooner The first issue was in October 1992.

Arse History

Up The Arse! started as leftover bits from the The Gooner's North Bank Times and two spoof fanzines "One-Nil Down, Three One Down" and "The Goner". Our "Highbury High" parody finally saw the light of day in issue 50.
Our working title was "...And Going Off Is Number 11" - a reference to Anders Limpar for you youngsters. The front page became the cover of UTA! #1. There were 32 copies were produced, of which the editor still has 16! Don't be suckered by dealers - if you've got one, it is still worthless!

We've had a lot of fun over the years. Our celebrated run in with Hewlett Packard's lawyers finally led to them dumping their sponsorship of T*ttenh@m H*tspur after we named and shamed them in public.

Other successes include:

• The editor having a go at Spurs web sites on the BBC's "Big Byte"
• Successfully surviving the bad taste cover of issue 9
• Avoiding arrest when a Policeman objected to the editor shouting out "Up The Arse, Only 50p"
• Outing Kate Hoey as a Cockney Red
• Dodging the threat issued in front of several Police Officers by Alan Esparza of the "Arsenal Action Group" (sic) to burn the editor's house down over an article in  issue 36.
• Getting ourselves on the banned email list of the FA Premier League's weasel lawyers.

Web History:

The web site was started in January 1996 when we were the first Arsenal Fanzine on the web. The original pages were on CompuServe, so if you've come here from that link, you'd better update your favourites pretty damn quick! We moved to Demon Internet in September 1996 and were quite happy there for 4 years. However, since Mr. Aardvark does this sort of stuff for a living, we moved to Active ISP (now Active 24) in August 2000 so that we can bring you more interactive pages.

Criticism is always welcome, especially from Spuds fans... after all, it's what fills our letters page. However, if you want to complain about the use of frames, tables, targeting Microsoft browsers or anything else web related, don't waste your time... we don't care!

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Copyright!

Please note that all stuff on this site and in the fanzine is copyright, a concept that the mainstream media thinks only applies to their stuff. We don't write this stuff as free filler for journalists who are too bloody lazy to do their jobs properly.
However, we don't mind fair use by other genuine fanzines as long as you don't use the whole bloody issue and give us some credit.