The Roy of The Rovers comic - season 1979/80 & the "We Are United" story wk 11 | Champ/We Are United Ep 117
Yes it's season four of our Time Traveller Ian Golden's reviews of the Roy of The Rovers comic...1979/1980....what memories will this bring back for you? Tangent Paul carries on telling us the story of "We Are United" from the pages of Champ - and we have another Collectors Corner! Tune in!
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"Billy's Boots" - the stats! | Champ/We Are United Ep 116
How many goals did Billy Dane score? How many teams did he play for? And more importantly......how many times did he actually lose those bloomin' boots!!....find out all this and more as "Friend of the Show" Hamish Whitta (He's on Twitter - now X) has done a deep-dive analysis into this ....plus more We Are United and the 1980 Scorcher Summer Special!
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The David Hunt Special! | Champ/We Are United Ep 115
David Hunt worked on Tiger in the early 60's then edited the very first football-only comic the famous "Scorcher", which of course brought us the famous stories "Billy's Boots" and "Hot-Shot Hamish" as well as many others, he then went on to edit the iconic war themed "Battle", "Speed", the re-launched "Eagle", "Hot-Shot" and then the last few years of the weekly "Roy of The Rovers"...a huge fantastic career in the comic industry and it was a joy to meet and chat with him - join us!
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The Roy of the Rovers comic - season 1978/79 & the 1991 Victor Summer Special | Champ/We Are United Ep 114
More UK football comic nostalgia from men who have nothing better to do. Ian "Golden Boy" Golden takes us through season 3 of the Roy of the Rovers comic giving his view on the stories and Bygone Berrigan takes us through "The Goals of Jimmy Grant" from the pages of the 1991 Victor Summer Special - plus a Collectors Corner - what have we been wastin....I mean spending our money on recently - tune in to find out!
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The Roy of The Rovers comic season 1977/78 & the 1980 Tiger Holiday Special | Champ/We Are United Ep 113
More football comic book fun! Ian Golden is back to take us through the 1977/78 season of the "Roy of The Rovers" comic...and Bygone covers the 1980 Tiger Holiday Special, including Billy's Boots, King of the Track and Hot-Shot Hamish.....enjoy!...there were a few technical video problems in this show - but it shouldn't spoil your audio enjoyment!
Join Gull, Matt, Ridders, "Tangent" Paul, Simmo and Neil as they discuss classic UK football comics and stories from the past such as "Roy of the Rovers", "We Are United" from "Champ", the classic Football Picture Story Monthlies, Tiger, Scorcher, Victor, Striker and much much more. There are exclusive interviews and we'll also dive into other comic genres whenever we feel like it :)
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