| Roy of The Rovers 14:12 - May 28 with 5101 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Did we all read it?
'The Safest Hands in Soccer' was my favourite strip. Gordon was the business and might well be the reason I became a goalie. Sometimes they'd put him up front for corners and the clown would forget where he was and catch the ball, but generally he was as cool as ice.
'Billy's Boots' was nonsense.
Billy was a useless fcuker, to be fair.
He was shite at football, found these priceless boots that made him brilliant, but would still lose the boots almost every single shagging week.
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| Roy of The Rovers on 14:32 - May 28 with 3486 views | Boston |
Wasn’t a reader of that publication. [Post edited 28 May 2021 14:32]
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| Roy of The Rovers on 14:37 - May 28 with 3473 views | QPRSteve |
I used to love the names of the opposition clubs - Everpool and Oldcastle spring to mind. Why they never played Chelscum is a mystery.
Do you remember another football strip called Legge's Eleven? Was in the Valiant I think.
Best sporting strip as to be Tough of the Track - about runner All Tupper sticking it up all those posh boys. | | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 14:41 - May 28 with 3467 views | A40Bosh |
Yes Brian,
Gordon Stewart was my hero as a youngster and maybe also the reason I always loved being in goal too. |  |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 14:51 - May 28 with 3455 views | Boston |
| Roy of The Rovers on 14:37 - May 28 by QPRSteve |
I used to love the names of the opposition clubs - Everpool and Oldcastle spring to mind. Why they never played Chelscum is a mystery.
Do you remember another football strip called Legge's Eleven? Was in the Valiant I think.
Best sporting strip as to be Tough of the Track - about runner All Tupper sticking it up all those posh boys. |
Was Alf Tupper in RoR then? If so I did read it a couple of times. | |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:05 - May 28 with 3418 views | Mick_S |
Played for England, as well.
Hair by one of The Nolan Sisters. |  |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:09 - May 28 with 3412 views | soops |
It was Billy’s Nan that kept throwing his boots out, God bless her the daft old bat!
Also loved the Kid from Argentina and Hotshot Hamish and Mighty Mouse - I think the last 2 were in Tiger & Scorcher but seem to recall it merged with Roy of the Rovers in later years. |  | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:13 - May 28 with 3406 views | Mick_S |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:09 - May 28 by soops |
It was Billy’s Nan that kept throwing his boots out, God bless her the daft old bat!
Also loved the Kid from Argentina and Hotshot Hamish and Mighty Mouse - I think the last 2 were in Tiger & Scorcher but seem to recall it merged with Roy of the Rovers in later years. |
I think the great man may have started his career in Tiger. He had proper hair then, too. | |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:15 - May 28 with 3402 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:09 - May 28 by soops |
It was Billy’s Nan that kept throwing his boots out, God bless her the daft old bat!
Also loved the Kid from Argentina and Hotshot Hamish and Mighty Mouse - I think the last 2 were in Tiger & Scorcher but seem to recall it merged with Roy of the Rovers in later years. |
Hmmm.... I may have been harsh on Billy, so. | |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:25 - May 28 with 3377 views | Mick_S |
Oh well, that’s this thread fecked, then. | |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:28 - May 28 with 3370 views | hantssi |
Brian, are you sure it wasn’t Billy the Fish? | | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:31 - May 28 with 3360 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:28 - May 28 by hantssi |
Brian, are you sure it wasn’t Billy the Fish? |
BTF was a complicated character.
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:35 - May 28 with 3348 views | hantssi |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:31 - May 28 by BrianMcCarthy |
BTF was a complicated character.
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He always had the latest Hoddle and Waddle hair cut!
I bet you look good with a mullet Bri! | | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:37 - May 28 with 3345 views | TomS |
I always thought that Blackie never got the credit he deserved. He did all the hard work and delivered all those crosses on a sixpence for the cult hero. All Roy had to do was put the ball in the back of the net. |  | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:41 - May 28 with 3335 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:37 - May 28 by TomS |
I always thought that Blackie never got the credit he deserved. He did all the hard work and delivered all those crosses on a sixpence for the cult hero. All Roy had to do was put the ball in the back of the net. |
Blackie was Melchester's Simon Barker - hard-working stalwart with serious skills but curiously underappreciated. | |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:42 - May 28 with 3333 views | Hayesender |
Not only read it, I even had the kit  |  |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 15:56 - May 28 with 3303 views | terryb |
| Roy of The Rovers on 14:51 - May 28 by Boston |
Was Alf Tupper in RoR then? If so I did read it a couple of times. |
I think Alf was in The Hotspur, but it might have been The Victory.
I had a strong dislike for Melchester Rovers. In my mind they were Manchester United using a different name! | | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:57 - May 28 with 3295 views | MrSheen |
I was fine with the kidnappings and plane crashes, but signing the Kemp brothers?
FTOOOM! |  | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 16:13 - May 28 with 3276 views | hantssi |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:42 - May 28 by Hayesender |
Not only read it, I even had the kit |
Me too!
Think I got it from TOFFS. | | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 17:06 - May 28 with 3210 views | HantsR |
But what a sad, bizarre end for Mr Race, losing his left foot in a helicopter crash  |  | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 18:12 - May 28 with 3136 views | soops |
Charlie ‘the cat’ Carter, Duncan McKay, Vic Guthrie, Blackie Gray, Roy Race -what a spine!! | | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 18:15 - May 28 with 3131 views | jtuck |
| Roy of The Rovers on 15:56 - May 28 by terryb |
I think Alf was in The Hotspur, but it might have been The Victory.
I had a strong dislike for Melchester Rovers. In my mind they were Manchester United using a different name! |
Alf Tupper, a true track hero who lived on a diet of fish and chips and worked as a lorry driver, was in The Victor comic. Every issue featured a front and backbpage strip with the story of someone who won the Victoria Cross in combat. | |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 18:16 - May 28 with 3131 views | GloryHunter |
James Milner has always made me think of Alf Tupper, the Tough of the Track. |  | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 18:20 - May 28 with 3126 views | R_from_afar |
Do you remember "Millionaire Villa"? A useless footballer who also happens to be loaded agrees to buy a cash-strapped football club, on the proviso that he gets to play in the first team.
It's a good thing Flavio didn't read Roy of the Rovers! |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Roy of The Rovers on 18:27 - May 28 with 3119 views | Myke |
Used to love RotR. Every Saturday that comic (which are now called 'graphic magazines- which always makes me feel uneasy) and a packet of silvermints was my 'pocket- money' in the late 60's early 70' | | | |
| Roy of The Rovers on 18:29 - May 28 with 3115 views | Addinall |
Showing my age here. The comics in my day were mostly in text. Wizard,Rover,Hotspur and Adventure. Can remember Limp along Leslie and Napper Todd. Only team I remember was Ironside Rovers. I remember the teams from different titles playing each other. | | | |
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