The British Football Comic Podcast

Yes we're back with more football comic World Cup nostalgia! This week we review the 1982 "Roy of The Rovers" Summer Special which had a strong World Cup theme, we go through the "Goals of Jimmy Grant" story in the 1990 Victor annual when he played for England and we finally re-tell a "story" from the pages of "The Hotspur" written and published in May 1...

This week there's a definite World Cup flavour in the show - Bygone Berrigan does a Judith Chalmers and takes us to Mexico, back to June 1986 when the very first "Football Picture Story Monthly" was published and tells us the story of when Jon Stark "Matchwinner for hire" appeared in the 1986 World Cup for England...against some interesting countries....then Time Traveller...

This week Golden Ian, our resident Welsh Time Traveller takes us back to the eventful 1986/87 season in the comic - what new stories were introduced? Which ones were his favourites that year? And then Mute Button Matt gives us the next instalment of the "Blackie Gray Story" - we're into 1976 now....plus a Collectors Corner, what new items have the team been purchasing....

This week our Welsh Time Traveller re-tells the story of "David and Goliath" from Football Picture Story Monthly 75, based upon a true story.......and Bygone Berrigan reviews an All-Action Monthly from 1987 remembering "Tallon of The Track" "Racey's Rocket" amongst others..

Episode 131 is a sad show to have to do. The first one since the passing of the comic book legend, and dear friend, Barrie Tomlinson. The guys share their thoughts and pay tribute to the great man. And of course thanks to the work of Barrie we have lots more football comic content to go through, so Ian covers the 1985/86 Roy of The Rovers season, plus Tangent covers week 24 of "We Are United&...

Geoff Boycott is the new Melchester Rovers chairman...what impact will that have on the club? Are they entering a corridor/season of uncertainty? Tune in to find out! it is also week 23 in the "We Are United" story - is there another dream sequence look back?......and finally we have a very big Collectors Corner this week - more a partitioned off room, what have the chaps been acquiring...

Tangent and Mute-button give an update on their day trip down to the South coast, specifically to Portsmouth to meet former "Roy of The Rovers" editor Ian Vosper and then to interview legendary comic artist Barrie Mitchell...the man who drew "Jack and Jimmy", "Stark"- Matchwinner for hire, "Cast-Iron Bill", "Twisty", "Kid Cox", "The...

Matt covers part 4 of the Blackie Gray story this week when he Roy and their girlfriends have a summer trip to Spain...what could possibly go wrong?.... Paul "Tangent" Richardson re-tells the story of week 22 of the "We Are United" story...and there are two special announcements this week, Ian Golden, our Welsh time-traveller gives us details of his book "ROTR @50" re...

You've of course heard of the famous "Tiger" comic where "Roy of The Rovers" began and and "Billy's Boots", "Nipper" and "Hot-Shot Hamish" all graced the pages of.... but did you read or hear about the Tiger Sports Library? Bygone tells us about it this week...and what is happening in "We Are United" this week? Tangent gives us an...

Big 1984 vibes this week...what were you doing then? listening to Frankie Goes to Hollywood? Prince? or maybe you were a miner on strike....anyway our Golden Time Traveller takes us back to the 1983/84 season in "Roy of The Rovers" when Roy came back from Walford...then Tangent takes us back to "We Are United" in 1984....or is it 1984? more time travelling but this time no Tard...

Another boring season in the "Roy of The Rovers" comic?...no definitely not! Ian takes us through the season when Roy joined another Rovers....Bygone has a look back at the very first Football Picture Story Monthly, the 2nd story in that edition "The Reject" and also from the pages of "Scorcher" Mute covers "Royal's Rangers" and the amazing story of Fred...

He's back! Our Golden Time-Traveller Ian Golden is back from Australia and his Gola sponsored Tardis has landed in the 1981/82 season. What are his favourite strips in this momentous season in the comics' history?......We also discuss Mute-Button Matt's recent visit to the brilliant Barrie Mitchell exhibition and we also have a Collectors Corner to see what recent purchases the boys ha...

Tangent tells us about when two stories collided, when Melchester Rovers popped up in "City" in 1988. Bygone covers the Roy of The Rovers story from the 1989 Winter Special and Mute covers part 2 of the Blackie Gray story - when Melchester are in the European Cup Final and Blackie meets the beautiful Suzanne Cerise....

Who is William Gray? When did he first meet Roy? What did he get for his birthday in 1955? Why was he at a circus? Did he set fire to Melchester Stadium?...all these questions and loads more will be answered if you tune into the first part of a five part biopic of this comic colossus....Plus has Hot-Shot Hamish met his nemesis?!! A goalkeeper who can save the famous hot-shot?!! and finally we have...

It's week 13 of the "We Are United" story in the pages of "Champ" comic and we've followed all their ups and downs. It's now the final game of the season against Cardsea City...will they do it? Tune in to find out! Plus Bygone shows us a special personalised copy of Roy of The Rovers and there's another Collectors Corner with a very interesting purchase by the Melvster himself!

He's back! Legendary IPC Comic Group Editor and of course editor of "Tiger" and editor and creator of the "Roy of The Rovers" comic, Barrie Tomlinson for this years Christmas Special! in this we go through the 1981 Tiger Xmas edition and the first ever Xmas Roy of The Rovers from 1976....enjoy!

"Snow is falling, all around me, children playing having fun"...yes in the immortal words of Shakey we're moving into the Christmas season so what better to do than sit down with a Roy of the Rovers "Winter Special"? in this weeks episode Bygone takes us through the first one produced back in 1988...Golden Boy Time Traveller Ian reviews the exciting 1980/81 season in the "Roy of The Rovers" comic...

Creator of "Striker" and of course friend of the show, Pete Nash is back! He is here talking about his incredible new venture, utilising AI to produce new "Striker" content! it's an exciting, and perhaps controversial move, and here he is to tell us all about it and answer questions which some "Striker" followers might have...enjoy!

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!

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!

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 fanta...

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...

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 the gang as we are joined by regular contributor, Ian Golden, who has started to read from cover to cover all the "Roy of The Rovers" editions from number one in September 1976. onwards. This is his first review of that first season in the new self-titled comic. Plus we get an update on "We Are United" from Tangent and we have a Collectors Corner as the guys share some of their latest purchas...

School's out for Summer! Yes it's school holiday time and what was better than picking up a special issue of your favourite comic to take away with you! Comic legend Barrie Tomlinson is back and in this episiode we reminisce about these specials and flick through a few, the 1976 Tiger Olympic Special, the 1979 Tiger Holiday Special and the 1980 Roy of The Rovers Holiday Special!