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Sep 25, 2026
Jim WhiteGUEST
What happens if no one else comes? What happens if you've just got this superstar and all the blokes who are already there? It becomes a one-man team, doesn't it?
Jon HolmesHOST
I mean, Roy of the Rovers, he
Colin ShindlerHOST
was doing it for
Jon HolmesHOST
years and years and years, wasn't
George HamiltonHOST
But, you know, when you think he...
George HamiltonHOST
He mentioned Jack Moylan and Roy of the Rovers.
George HamiltonHOST
Try Parrott and Roy of the Rovers.
George HamiltonHOST
You get a move from Altmar and you go straight in the team at Real Betis.
George HamiltonHOST
And one of your first matches is against Real Madrid and you score the winner.
Max ConwayGUEST
It's almost like
Paul HawksbeeHOST
something from Roy of the Rovers.
Paul HawksbeeHOST
That is
Max ConwayGUEST
fantastic.
JamieHOST
On the basis, it's too hard to say on the basis so far.
JamieHOST
I was going to say on the basis so far, but we can't really... judge him too much about future expectations but for me at the moment I think he really wanted to have a Roy of the Rovers moment when he just needed to take a breath and not you know pad it in rather than go hell for leather on it particularly with that one he missed altogether and also made me think in the Falkirk game where he missed or it seemed like a decent save you just think that's one Wilson would have put away right
JohnHOST
yeah even the header that he missed you
JamieHOST
know
Dave WattGUEST
A lot of people...
Dave WattGUEST
Myself included, thought that he would be the talismanic figure that we would all have to rely on, Roy of the Rovers type stuff.
Dave WattGUEST
You know, he would be the one that if we hold on to him, he'll be the one leading the charge, possibly with the armband, saying, right, lads, get behind me, I'll do everything.
Dave WattGUEST
That being said, him and Paddy Burns seem to have... sparked up a rather tasty relationship I think nearly all of Paddy's goals this season which is four or five already have come from Peter's corners or free kicks and he nearly had a couple on Saturday from him as well so I think because other players are playing so well it's allowed Peter to go under the radar a little bit but he still is effective and still is important for us.
Andy DawsonHOST
And another one shout for Walford, stop him, Joe! And to find out what happens, we go over to the centre pages.
Andy DawsonHOST
Roy of the Rovers continued, it says.
Andy DawsonHOST
Not for nothing had Joe Macon, the Walford centre-back, been nicknamed King Kong by his fans.
Andy DawsonHOST
Not for nothing.
Paul OwensGUEST
But it's real life, isn't it? It's not films.
Paul OwensGUEST
It's not Roy of the Rovers stuff.
Paul OwensGUEST
And then there are some really, really tricky times after that.
Paul OwensGUEST
There's the...
Andy DawsonHOST
Further humiliation there for you, Robert.
Andy DawsonHOST
Jumbo Trudgeon was actually a player for Melchester Rovers in Roy of the Rovers throughout the 1970s.
Bob MortimerHOST
Okay.
Andy DawsonHOST
Fourth of five.
Andy DawsonHOST
Right, the 300th Melchester Odyssey.
Andy DawsonHOST
I have in my left hand the 11th of January 1986 issue of Roy the Rovers.
Andy DawsonHOST
That hasn't got any Roy the Rovers on the front of it.
Andy DawsonHOST
So that's a bit of a letdown.
Andy DawsonHOST
It does say nine soccer stories in this issue, so that's something to be proud of.
Andy DawsonHOST
So we've just got three pages of it this week.
Andy DawsonHOST
So let's have a look.
Andy DawsonHOST
Where are we up to? It says, brilliant defensive play by Malchester Rovers, including the goalkeeping of Bob Wilson.
Tam CowanHOST
If you like that and you're a sentimental sort.
Tony HaggertyGUEST
if you like Kenneth Wilson's home Dennis Law John Robertson Roy the Rovers a great serendipitous moment myself I loved Roy the Rovers growing up you'd been practising saying
Tam CowanHOST
serendipity before the show that's the first
Tony HaggertyGUEST
time it's been used on the show can't spell it but yeah and Barry Tomlinson, the editor of Roy the Rover, sadly passed away earlier this year and I was very friendly with Barry on social media and his daughter Jennifer Tomlinson invited me down to St Albans for a celebration of his life and I read the chapter out to family members and guests and for me, Tam, it was just, we talk about nostalgia, it's absolutely brilliant and
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