Manager Mills is not so taken with Jimmy (“the real footballer” in the family, according to Jack) who he regards as “certainly an eager beaver, a glutton for work … but too much of a lone wolf”.

He finances Redburn Rovers and plays centre-forward when his schedule of meetings with foreign royalty permit. The first ever had Bobby Moore on the front cover and Franny Lee was on the back , might still have it in the loft somewhere. There is virtually no background, it looks as though only the minimum to get the story across has been done, it really does look amateurish. In the same year it debuted as a picture strip in The Victor, running into 1963 as Pickford - Past Master Of Football. 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.A number of notable football journalists have started their careers at Match, including Mark Irwin of The Sun, Hugh Sleight of Four Four Two, Paul Smith of The Sunday Mirror, Ray Ryan formerly with The News of the World and Rob Shepherd. The top scan below shows Roy on his first visit to Melchester's ground in September 1954, the second one, from August 1955, shows him spearheading the first team attack on the club's South American summer tour. The 49ers had to barely hang on to eek out a win against two teams they were supposed to be better than. Read many times over and so proud shown to all very exciting gift - gift box a nice touch I would highly recommend great for a gift with a difference ! Also the wonderment of the Scoop "computer" feeding in all the info on us and them and working out the passages of play and final score.

According to the British Library "Striker" launched on 10th of January 1970 and ran until 4th March 1972 when it was incorporated into "Inside Football". I bought the first, and many subsequent, issues of Tiger from 1954 onwards for a couple of years, and started again with the first issue of Roy Of The Rovers in 1976, which I then bought every week for two or three years. I'm prepared to be shot down over this so I'm posting the whole of episode six as a perfect example of the artist's efforts so that you can focus on his/her deficiencies or mine. 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.Will they get through the group’s stages, will they make the national final, the pinnacle for youth grassroots football players?

The Ravens would bungle 2 golden opportunities to tie the game up and score, first on Zay Flowers nightmare fumble and then with Lamar’s nightmare INT. 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. Definitely Roy of the Rovers (the Derek Parlane of Melchester Rovers), Hot Shot Hamish was a Teuchter twat who probably voted SNP. I think that there are legions of football fans out there who might not consider themselves “art lovers” until they see again the football comics they grew up reading, the trading cards they collected as kids, the programmes they treasured and the images they regularly share on social media today! Within a fortnight the brothers are both in their respective first team for “The match all of Castleburn was waiting for – United v City!For fans of all football memorabilia the 'Got Not Got' people have a whole series of books - some dedicated to individual clubs - which are a treasure trove of everything from Esso Squelchers to sew-on denim patches.

There was Bobby of the Blues, which detailed the exploits of Bobby Booth, legendary striker for Everpool (so much better than Liverton or, indeed, Arsesea). IPC launched "Shoot magazine , a football magazine for children on 16 August 1969 exactly a year after Goal (for grown ups!

If I remember right they were two comics and you had Jack of United and Jimmy of City who were brothers. Breck whose machine is able to take the skills of better players and implant them, using electro-hypnosis, into Bowman. Despite the fact that these comics are no longer in print, boys and men of all ages continue to show a sizable amount of interest in them, and the culture of the comic-book hero lives on.