Football's Comic Book Heroes

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The Ultimate Fantasy Football Team is a distinctive, nostalgic overview of the football comic book phenomenon that has been thoroughly studied to explore the history and the narratives connected with these comics and its heroes. It leaves comics, and their predecessors, the boys’ papers, as a rare source of information as to how the game was perceived in the early days of professionalism, albeit skewed by demands for a sensational story that also encompassed edifying principles. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Eventually the Scorcher and Score was dropped from the title, with "Tiger and Speed" becoming the new name from 1st November 1980.

If the doubters had won that would have been end of story, but they don’t and … Jimmy “operating as a one-man forward line” scores all his team’s goals in their 7-3 win.

Anyone remember when Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse moved from Princes Park to 'Glengow Rangers' where they were followed by their old manager Ian McWhacker? At the same point, Charlie Barr was transferred from Darbury to Champ's resident club, United, claiming as he left that deep down, Darbury would always be his club. This personalised football comic featuring whoever you want and their grassroots football team is the perfect football gift.

I remember the Scoop had this computer league thingy with teams like Glasgow Wanderers and Pool City. But that’s not me rooting for the Chiefs, that’s me rooting for people I don’t like to be annoyed, and having my enjoyment of a game hinge on annoying people I don’t like being unhappy because of something barely related to the game at all is silly. Fair play is emphasised, and there are exhortations toward purportedly higher ethics including encouraging boys to join the army during the First World War.

They're all dated so it's simple to download a particular issue if you wanted the one from, say, your 10th birthday in 1980.

United and City play out another draw (Jack Chelsey’s late goal cancelled out by Jimmy Chelsey’s equaliser) in the league and are then drawn against each other in the third round of the Cup (Jimmy scores routine hat-trick, but City lose 4-3 as Jack scores routine last-minute winner). Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. This not only marked the highest point in the magazine's sales history, but the high watermark of the British football magazine market in the 1990s. Finally to make this a truly unique keepsake, add your personal message that appears on the inside front cover.

Feel the goosebumps as you enter the dressing room and notice your name on the back of the famous shirt. I was there when he played his first game in '54, it was the Roy we know who had his first game in 1954. A local reporter discovers that Pickford keeps in his caravan photographs of a number of previously successful teams all appearing to include a player who looks remarkably like Pickford. Jack spots Abbottown Albion’s goalkeeper is right handed and takes advantage by scoring a goal on his weaker side! MMi wrote:Phoenix: I can only imagine that Rocky is just a pet/nickname his parents gave him as a child growing up, whereas his real name would also be Roy.

Definitely Roy of the Rovers (the Derek Parlane of Melchester Rovers), Hot Shot Hamish was a Teuchter twat who probably voted SNP. As the comic didn't reach a very large audience at the time I thought it'd be worth scanning the complete ROTR episode from issue number 6, where Roy's troubled but talented son Rocky contemplates the huge legacy that everybody is expecting him to live up to.

Along with the annual wallcharts with pull out tabs that meant you could move teams up and down the league tables my other memory is when, I think Scorcher and Score , ran the first ever Fantasy League. A wealthy aristocrat who often turned up half way through the game, chauffeur driven with Angora wool sweater to save the day. I don't remember ever reading The Scoop, that Jon Stark character would have been a great read by the looks of it. In the face of such market dominance by "Match", during this period many of its rival titles either closed or, in the case of "Shoot", changed frequency to monthly.