The British Football Comic Podcast

When did Billy Dane first swap his Dead-Shot Keen football boots for Dead-Shot Keen's cricket boots??.... what is happening in the "We Are United" story? .....and what have the guys recently bought to add to their collections?...tune in and find out!

Wow this is a VERY special episode. Today we met and chatted with two of the creators of the "We Are United" story in Champ...who also just happened to create the "Football Picture Story Monthlies". Both Bill and Martin worked for DC Thomson for over 40 years, on many many comics and it was a privilege to get the chance to chat with them. We are sure any football comic fans will enjoy this episode...

Join the "boys" for some more nostalgic football comic fun....Tangent, Bygone and Mute-Button recall and review the 1981 "Roy of The Rovers" Summer Special and we have a Collectors Corner when we talk about our recent purchases......there's also a special appearance towards the end of the show...

A show with a difference this week! friend of the show Ian Golden is back to talk us through the times that football storylines appeared in Doctor Who comics.....plus we cover a "Safest Hands in Soccer" story from the 1979 Roy of The Rovers annual, and there's another Collectors Corner with some recent purchases from the Melvster himself!

Join Tangent, Bygone and Mute as they cover more 70's and 80's football comic stories....Tangent updates us on the "We Are United" story in "Champ", Bygone re-tells the Hot-Shot Hamish story from the 1984 Tiger Holiday Special and Mute covers the iconic "Football Family Robinson" which first appeared in "Jag" , then "Tiger" and eventually "Roy of The Rovers"...plus another Collectors Corner - enjo...

Join Gull, Tangent, Bygone and Mute as they go back to the golden days of football comics...Tangent takes us through week 6 of "We Are United" from the pages of "Champ", Bygone re-tells a "Billy's Boots" story from the 1984 Tiger Holiday Special, and Mute reviews "Rocky Goes for Goal" the latest "Soccer Diaries" book. Hosted by Gull - enjoy!

Join the Tangential One, Mute-Button, Gull (and Dot) as they recall the comic life of Melchester Rovers star Mervyn Wallace....how did he join Rovers? Did he win the 1976/77 Goal-Rush competition? Was he English? Was he Welsh? Was he coach? Did he end up as Rovers Manager?......listen/Watch and find out! Plus some more Collectors Corner stuff...enjoy!

A special show today, with a special guest! We are joined by show listener, friend of the show, Ian Golden! He has created a timeline for the "United" story and in this show he presents it back to us, and you the listener (or viewer!). Listening in and watching are Gull, Ridders, Simmo, Bygone and Mute-Button....enjoy!

Roy Race has been shot! but who dunnit!? Arnie Meckiff? Arthur Logan? Elton Blake? Vic Guthrie or is it Trevor Brinsden....join Tangent Paul, Mute-Button Matt, Ridders, Bygone Berrigan and Simmo as they find out...plus hear about Ridders own fan-fiction project with new "United" stories and there's also a "Billy's Boots" story from the 1985 Tiger Holiday special - enjoy! Here is the link to Ridder...

They're back! still recovering from the after show party from the 100th show, Gull, Matt, Simmo and Neil take the show into it's second 100 shows! This week Simmo is up to week 5 of the "We Are United" story where we are introduced to an exciting young forward. And Matt does part 1 of the most famous story ever from the pages of "Roy of The Rovers"....I'm not saying what it is as you can tell from...

100?!!.....yes 100....join Mute-button Matt, Gull, Tangent Paul, Bygone Berrigan, Simmo and Ridders (yes he's back!) as we celebrate reaching our 100th show with a look back over the previous 99...we've covered all-sorts, from Roy of The Rovers, to Riverton United, from Striker to Scorcher, Tubby Morton to Tug Wilson, Billy's Boots to Bobby of the Blues and Hot-Shot Hamish to Hedgehog Jones and ma...

Episode 99!!! join Gull, Simmo, Bygone, Mute and the Tangential One as they cover "The Iron Man" FPSM, continuing the adventures of Kline and Powell, we do the short comic life of "Sammy Spangler", Melchester Rovers big new discovery! and we also continue the story of United in "We Are United" - a few technical problems in this show so apologies...but it all adds to the, er, excitement...enjoy!

98!! Yes those football comic guys are back, for another 2 hours of chatting about stuff which was published over 50 years ago, this is where you come for up to date podcast content! Simmo does week 3 of "We Are United" from the pages of "Champ", Bygone does FPSM 19 "Divided City" the first time we meet Kline and Powell and Mute Button tells us about "Jack of United" and "Jimmy of City" from the p...

Join the podcast gang as Tangent Paul finishes his review of the 1984/85 Melchester season as Rovers play in the Cup Winners Cup final, and listen out towards the end of the show for Simmo's week 2 of "We Are United" from the pages of "Champ"...

Join the team for another journey back to football comic world...Tangent does part 3 of Rovers 84/85 Cup Winners Cup campaign, Bygone talks to us about "Bullet" and the 1977 Sport Special and Simmo is back! he begins to tell the tale of "We Are United" from the very beginning...enjoy! Also on YouTube https://youtu.be/Z-rmGgj0TJ8

Join the team and legendary comic editor Barrie Tomlinson ( or is it Santa?) as they look back at the famous Christmas editions of "Tiger" and "Roy of The Rovers" from the 70s and 80s...hear about Morecambe and Wise, Mike Yarwood, Suzanne Dando, Nookie Bear....all the stars! Ho Ho Ho!

More classic British football comic fun! Tangent Paul does part two of Melchester Rovers legendary 1984/85 season...Bygone Berrigan tells us about the "1972 Boys Birthday Book" and Mute-Button Matt re-tells a Christmas Hot-Shot Hamish story from the 1987 Tiger Annual...all expertly hosted by Gull!

Join Paul, Neil and Matt on the "Number one football comic podcast"....this week we begin charting Melchester Rovers 1984/85 Cup Winners Cup campaign, we re-tell a "The Safest Hands in Soccer" annual story and we also talk about a little known "Roy of The Rovers" novel from 1977...or is it ? ...Find out more, have a listen!

Join Gull, Tangent Paul and Mute Button Matt as they do another "Collector's Corner" covering some strange missing copies of Tiger...and then they recall the famous story from Roy of The Rovers, "Tommy's Troubles" and how Tommy Barnes and his mates first formed Barnes United. Enjoy!

In this special episode Matt, Paul and Neil meet Stratos and Nikos from the excellent Greek Unofficial Roy of The Rovers fan club, we talk about how the story reached Greece, when and in what format, how did they first start reading it themselves, we ask about the fan club and also recap some Greek related storylines over the years.

It's February 1983.....Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister.....Kajagoogoo are number one with "Too Shy"...Liverpool are on their way to another league championship...in Sedgefield a young Tony Blair is attempting to become an MP......and a young Malcolm Dickenson decides to enter a competition in "Roy of The Rovers" to win a 2 week holiday in Disneyworld Florida....listen to what happens next!

Join Gull, Matt, Paul and Neil as they travel once more back to the past world of UK football comics! Bygone Berrigan recalls the tale of when a very young Gordon Stewart met Roy Race...Tangent Paul talks us through the famous signing of superstar striker Kevin Nicklish for United, "Gull has issues" covers Hot-Shot, and Matt tells us about a couple more times Roy Race went in goal...all this and m...

A very different episode! Brett and Karsh talk about one of Brett's "other" hobbies, his creation....The Parkrun 92 Club Challenge! tune in to find out more!

Join Bygone Berrigan, Gull and Mute Button Matt as they recall a couple of stories from the 1985 Roy of The Rovers annual and the FPSM story "Ghost Striker"...plus Gull has a new feature, this time on Scream! Enjoy!

Join Matt, Paul and Neil to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the very first "Tiger" comic, the first time the world ever saw Roy Race, and to do so we talk to comic legends Barrie Tomlinson and David Sque about how previous anniversaries were marked and commemorated within the pages of "Tiger" and "Roy of The Rovers".