The British Football Comic Podcast

Join Matt, Ridders and Paul as they once again take us back to the golden days of UK football comics...Ridders reviews "The Winners" Football Picture Story Monthly No.91 featuring "Kline and Powell" and Paul does part 1 of his replay of Kingsbay's UEFA Cup run in 1980/81....and it finishes on a cliffhanger in true Roy of the Rovers style! We are also joined by a very specia...

Join Matt, Gull and Simmo as they take us back to the glory years of british football comics...Matt relays how the love/hate bromance between Johnny Dexter and Viktor Boskovic began in "When Johnny met Victor", Gull takes the MasterChamp challenge (which band is in the studio to do the theme tune this week?) this episode it's on the cult Twin Peak TV series, questions put to him by &...

Join Gull, Paul, Simmo, Ridders and Matt as they talk football comics! (and other stuff...) Ridders reviews "The Goalmaker" Football Picture Story Monthly no.76, Paul "The Tangent" manages to keep on topic (well most of the time..) and talks us through his comic storage system and it's the return of the MasterChamp Challenge as Simmo tests Ridders on his knowledge of the To...

Join Gull, Paul and Matt as once again they chat (yes he's STILL talking) with the legendary Roy of the Rovers artist, David Sque! From the early days of his career (where he corrects a few things) to the golden Roy years, and what he's currently up to in the last year...it's a joy to chat with him. We cover speedway, Postman Pat and Ann Summers. Just a typical podcast episode really.

Join Matt and Ridders for the latest episode of our UK football comic podcast where Ridders reviews "The Dream" FPSM 417, and Matt takes us back to the very beginning of the famous "Mighty Mouse" strip in June 1979.....plus we look ahead to the next episode with the return of "Friend of the show" David Sque, the legendary "Roy of the Rovers artist", we also talk about recent comic purchases. Oh an...

Welcome to the latest episode of the podcast where Ridders, Simmo and Matt chat away about comic football related comic stuff, again. Ridders reviews the Football Picture Story Monthly book, "On the Cheap" which follows United as they have an up and down season...Matt talks about the recently announced new Rocky Race book and then goes on to talk with the guys about Scoop comic, and review the Sco...

In this episode join the boys as we focus entirely on the comic and story which the podcast is named after, the "We Are United" story initially found within Champ comic, then Victor and finally Football Picture Story Monthly. Ridders talks about the local rivals to United, Simmo takes on a United Master Champ Challenge, and finally Ridders talks about the database he's creating recording all the a...

Welcome back to our football comic podcast! In this episode Matt takes us back to the controversial, but also popular storyline of when Roy became Roy of "another" Rovers.....Gull talks us through the merger of Gary Lineker's Hot-Shot and Roy of The Rovers in 1989, we review the new "Best of 80s" volume 2 Roy of The Rovers book just released by Rebellion....and we're joined by Simmo "The Voice of...

Hello! Welcome to the latest episode of our football comic podcast, this edition is slightly different as Gull and Matt meet and have a chat with Paul Richardson, a big football comic fan, and we hear about his comic reading/collecting story, including discussing his collection of over 4,000 physical comics, there is so much to cover - hence its a slightly longer episode than normal, but it's...

Hello there listeners, another football fun packed episode! - Ridders reviews another FPSM title "Fallen Heroes", Matt takes us back to the 1976/77 Melchester Rovers championship winning season, Simmo is the voice of reason, oh and Gull talks Eurovision song contest. Obviously. Yes something for everyone!

The half century! Gull, Simmo and Matt welcome back, for a special 50th episode show, the show legends, Rab and Ridders. Join them all as they talk the controversial Roy of The Rovers retcon in the mid 90's, Ridders reviews the FPSM book "Superstar", when the world famous "Maladonna" joined Riverton United for a season, Rab gives us an update on his groundhopping exploits a...

What's this? Another episode? but that's 2 weeks in a row?! ....yes we've squeezed another episode out of the excellent 2000 Roy of The Rovers annual, Matt and Gull cover a couple more articles from that, plus Simmo challenges Gull on his knowledge of Duran Duran (I know what's that got to do with UK comics? And you're right, nothing..) - and we have exciting news of special gu...

We're back again chatting about UK football comics and other random stuff. In this episode Gull and Matt start reviewing the Roy of The Rovers annual from the year 2000, Simmo takes the MasterChamp challenge on Geography and Gull reviews a Champ comic from August 1985, edition 78, keeping us up to date with what was happening with Riverton United that week...

Well hello! welcome to the latest episode! This week Gull reviews the Football Picture Story Monthly - edition 43 "The Rivals" which covers Alex Jones and Terry Evans from "United", Simmo challenges Matt on his knowledge of 70s and 80s football and Matt takes us back to the first time Melchester Rovers won the League Cup...plus the guys talk about the sad news of John Motson and Dickie Davies rece...

Lock up your comics, the gruesome threesome are back - join Gull, Simmo and Matt as they review the 1967 Roy of The Rovers Annual, test Gull's knowledge of Torquay United and catch up on their football teams latest endeavours, plus look ahead to some future planned features...enjoy! 

We're joined this week by a very special guest - Pete Nash, the creator of "Striker". Listen in as Rab (Yep he's back!) and Gull pose listener questions to Pete and we find more about possible new Striker projects...

They're back! (again)...well not all of them, Gull has technical issues so it's Simmo and Matt as your hosts, doing an extremely topical (well not really) World Cup wrap-up, then swiftly moving onto very exciting news about next weeks pod with some very special guests. Then they do a Roy Of The Rovers/Champ comic comparison and Simmo is next in the MasterChamp chair answering questions on Blakes 7...

World Cup special number 5! Simmo, Matt and Gull discuss England's exit, answer last weeks question, Gull covers who is Melchester Rovers greatest goalkeeper, tells us about some exciting news coming in 2023 and we talk Roadrunner and Depeche Mode...

World Cup special number 4! Join Matt and Simmo as they give their latest views on the 2022 WC, Matt tells us how Roy of The Rovers covered the 1982 World Cup, we give the answer to last weeks question - and set a new one, plus the boys reminisce over their favourite World Cup memories...

Yes they're still going! Simmo, Gull and Matt give their thoughts on the World Cup so far, Matt goes through a classic story from the ROTR vaults when Roy Caretaker-Managed England in 1978! Gull gives us part 3 of his World Cup songs feature - this time covering Scotland and Wales and Simmo takes the 5th MasterChamp challenge, testing his knowledge on James Bond films...how does he do? How would y...

Join Gull, Simmo and Matt as they review the World Cup so far, review "The Roy of the Rovers World Cup Special", quiz Matt on his knowledge (can he beat Gull and Simmo?) discuss more England World Cup songs, Gull talks about the latest exciting news regarding new Doctor Who comics (and the World Cup link!) and sets a question for Striker fans! 

The boys kick off their first World Cup special! Matt tells us about his visit to see Fantasy Football League recorded, there's a World Cup preview (well everyone else has done one!) Gull does a section on England World Cup songs (Pt 1), we test Gull's knowledge of 80s pop - there's a review of ROTR from 20th October 1979 - and Matt tells us when the term "Racey's Rocket" was first used......

Ignoring public opinion the boys are back! Refreshed from a summer hiatus the three amigos/stooges/fun boy three....Gull, Simmo and Matt are back talking rubbish, with a bit on comics, football and other stuff, including Matt's review of the Roy of The Rovers 1982 Summer Special, Gull talks about exciting film news regarding Secret Wars and Simmo eats his dinner. Then takes on the "World Cup Maste...

He's back! Gull, Matt and Simmo are joined by the legendary Roy of the Rovers artist, David Sque as he talks (and he can talk!) about his career in comics, including, as well as Roy of the Rovers, his time illustrating Scorer. He talks about the latest ROTR book, "The £100 Million Game", how he works, some of the logistics involved in creating his art and we put your questions to him....and much m...

Gull, Simmo and Matt are together again discussing some more comic "related" stuff, with Gull covering the Beano Comic Library, Matt gives some hints (with no spoilers) of the just out Roy of The Rovers £100 Million Game - and they also touch on the Women's Euros, the soon to happen demise of Neighbours, and Gull takes on the first (and possibly last...) Champ MasterMind Challenge on 80's music...