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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 13, 2020 13:32:04 GMT
Were these real people on an actual team called the Rovers? Or was it all a bit of make-believe from the land of counterpane? One presumes the latter. "Is Tubby a Traitor???" OH the HORROR!!! cheers, H. Roy of the Rovers is as real as Andy Capp.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 22, 2020 18:15:11 GMT
Roy of the Rovers Annual 1962 Continued. The R.A.F. Sharpshooters come under enemy fire in Operation Football Goals ā or Gaol !: He Refused to Sign for a Foreign Club ā and Found Himself on a Murder Charge!. When Seamouth Rangers hammer Perula FC during a South American tour, Don Pedro Gonzalez, the home side's managing director and wannabe Dictator of Barildia, makes a huge cash offer for Mike Adams, Rangers' blonde bombshell inside forward. On turning him down, Mike is promptly arrested and imprisoned on a murder charge! Maybe now the Senor will see sense? "As it happens, I have a contract in my pocket. Your signature on it and you can be gone from the foul air of this house of goats." Will the hot shot number ten sell out to the swarthy foreigner? All seems lost - unless plucky street kid Juan Periera, captain of an impoverished local junior side, can somehow spring his idol from jail and thwart an insurrection! The reigning Home Counties Combination League Champions, 1960-61. Mistaken for His Big-Time Brother: Second Best - But Then Dick Tried a Daring Bluff! Richard 'Dick' Robinson, radio ham and electronics whizz-kid, is a skilful amateur footballer seemingly doomed to live in the shadow of big brother. For the elder Robinson son is none other than Bobby, the Chapwell Wednesday goal-machine and England centre forward! Just when things couldn't get any more demoralising, some bounder has stolen Dick's latest invention; a revolutionary transistor circuit, co-created with a "chunky little Scot" Jack Bruce, Dick's Hyfield Town team-mate. Can Dick catch the thief, retrieve the device, and sign for first division Burnaby City in time to score a debut hat-trick?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 8, 2020 18:07:26 GMT
Damned Foreigners offering us Brits jobs....
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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2021 11:08:19 GMT
Jimmy Greaves & Norman Giller - The Final (Coronet, 1980: originally Arthur Baker, 1979) Blurb: JACKIE GROVES Meet football's greatest superstar, United's big hope to win both league and Anglo-American cup
JACKIE GROVES Soccer's Casanova, the striker who's as deadly between the bed posts as the goal posts
JACKIE GROVES Loner, boozer, troublemaker, who receives an anonymous death-threat on the eve of his greatest match ...
JACKIE GROVES The star of a stunning new football series from the authors who know the game as it really is. Somehow this one has been festering on shelf of shame for over a year when everything about it screams, 'must read!' - and that's even before we consider the following testimony who did just that. Other novels appraised - several of which have featured on Vault, though God knows, that's nothing for either party to be proud of - include Derek Dougan's The Footballer, Dick Morland's Albion! Albion! ("Makes Clockwork Orange seem like gentle fantasy"), El Tel & Mr. Straw Dogs' They Used To Play On Grass, Leonard Gribble's The Arsenal Stadium Mystery and The White Hart Lane Mystery, Mel Stein's Danger Zone and various Richard Allen terrace tear-ups. The feature provides a splendid crash course for sure, though it's worth bearing in mind the article was written six years prior to the publication of Karren Bradey's United, so author can hardly claim to know the meaning of true suffering.
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Post by helrunar on May 27, 2021 12:42:31 GMT
Extraordinary. That's definitely one for the legendary "Down the back of the Vault" thread.
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2021 17:22:58 GMT
Extraordinary. That's definitely one for the legendary "Down the back of the Vault" thread. cheers, Hel There's just something about a haunted football kit girl ...
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 27, 2021 18:32:01 GMT
Extraordinary. That's definitely one for the legendary "Down the back of the Vault" thread. cheers, Hel There's just something about a haunted football kit girl ... No.
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Post by ripper on May 28, 2021 9:58:45 GMT
Never heard of any fiction being written by the great Jimmy Greaves. Shame they couldn't have included the Saint as well...what a double act that was!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 8, 2021 10:02:16 GMT
Never heard of any fiction being written by the great Jimmy Greaves. Shame they couldn't have included the Saint as well...what a double act that was! "He traps the ball further than I can shoot" Greaves
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 9, 2021 13:16:48 GMT
Never heard of any fiction being written by the great Jimmy Greaves. Shame they couldn't have included the Saint as well...what a double act that was! "He traps the ball further than I can shoot" Greaves I have no idea what any of this means.
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Post by ripper on Jun 9, 2021 15:11:31 GMT
"He traps the ball further than I can shoot" Greaves I have no idea what any of this means. Jimmy Greaves was a prolific goalscorer in the 60s and 70s for club and country (England). Ian St. John, known as 'Saint', was a Scottish footballer around at the same time. They presented a very popular Saturday show in the 80s called Saint and Greavsie, looking at up and coming games and usually on just prior to World of Sport presented by Dickie Davies. They even had Spitting Image puppets. Sadly, Ian St. John passed away recently.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 9, 2021 15:17:20 GMT
I have no idea what any of this means. Jimmy Greaves was a prolific goalscorer in the 60s and 70s for club and country (England). Ian St. John, known as 'Saint', was a Scottish footballer around at the same time. They presented a very popular Saturday show in the 80s called Saint and Greavsie, looking at up and coming games and usually on just prior to World of Sport presented by Dickie Davies. They even had Spitting Image puppets. Sadly, Ian St. John passed away recently. Thank you. Sad yes. What does "He traps the ball further than I can shoot" mean? Obviously I know shoot.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 9, 2021 15:37:39 GMT
And here I thought the Saint was Simon Templar, International Man of Mystery (whistles tune).
H.
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Post by ripper on Jun 9, 2021 16:49:25 GMT
Jimmy Greaves was a prolific goalscorer in the 60s and 70s for club and country (England). Ian St. John, known as 'Saint', was a Scottish footballer around at the same time. They presented a very popular Saturday show in the 80s called Saint and Greavsie, looking at up and coming games and usually on just prior to World of Sport presented by Dickie Davies. They even had Spitting Image puppets. Sadly, Ian St. John passed away recently. Thank you. Sad yes. What does "He traps the ball further than I can shoot" mean? Obviously I know shoot. It means bringing the ball to the ground using chest, thighs or feet while retaining control and possession, generally after receiving via a pass, throw-in, goal kick and so forth from another player, or an interception from an opposing team's player. Players can do it while running and trapping the ball so it advances up the pitch and they can run onto it, but, of course, some are more skilled than others. I just remembered that Jimmy Greaves was a team captain on Sporting Triangles, ITV's answer to the BBC's A Question of Sport. He also had a short-lived chat show that I vaguely recall being supposedly set in his house.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 9, 2021 17:02:56 GMT
Thank you. Sad yes. What does "He traps the ball further than I can shoot" mean? Obviously I know shoot. It means bringing the ball to the ground using chest, thighs or feet while retaining control and possession, generally after receiving via a pass, throw-in, goal kick and so forth from another player, or an interception from an opposing team's player. Players can do it while running and trapping the ball so it advances up the pitch and they can run onto it, but, of course, some are more skilled than others. I just remembered that Jimmy Greaves was a team captain on Sporting Triangles, ITV's answer to the BBC's A Question of Sport. He also had a short-lived chat show that I vaguely recall being supposedly set in his house. I'll try football banter: "Georgie Best would be good at that." How did I do? I've been told to mention Georgie Best if football is ever mentioned. Edited to say Ripper I'm so pleased that you replied that next time someone has to duel a vampire on my behalf you are that man.
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