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Roy of the Rovers, the Glossary

Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer and later manager named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers.^[1]

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1954 comics debuts
1995 comics endings
2001 comics endings
Association football comics
Comics characters introduced in 1954
Fictional association football players

AC Monza

Associazione Calcio Monza, or simply Monza, is a professional football club based in Monza, Lombardy, Italy.

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Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer CBE DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English football pundit and former professional player who played as a striker.

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Alf Ramsey

Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey (22 January 1920 – 28 April 1999) was an English football player and manager.

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Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC (short for "Colour Personal Computer") is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

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Andrew Mullen Gray (born 30 November 1955) is a Scottish football broadcaster and former player.

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Annual publication

Annual publications, more often simply called annuals, are periodical publications appearing regularly once per year.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Barrie Tomlinson

Barrie Tomlinson is a former editor and writer of British comics in the 1970s and '80s.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Sport

BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.

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Billy the Fish

Billy the Fish is a long-running cartoon strip in the British comic Viz that first appeared in 1983. Roy of the Rovers and Billy the Fish are association football comics and fictional association football players.

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Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the, the second level of the English football league system.

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Robert Primrose Wilson (born 30 October 1941) is a former Scotland international football goalkeeper and later broadcaster.

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Bobby Charlton

Sir Robert Charlton (11 October 1937 – 21 October 2023) was an English professional footballer who played as an attacking-midfielder, left-winger or centre-forward.

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Bobby Moore

Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore (12 April 1941 – 24 February 1993) was an English professional footballer.

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British comics

A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips.

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Captain Condor

Captain Condor is a British comic character who has appeared in eponymous strips published by Amalgamated Press and Fleetway Publications. Roy of the Rovers and Captain Condor are British comics characters.

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Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Dallas (1978 TV series)

Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991.

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Derek Birnage

Derek Arthur William Birnage (13 June 1913 – 18 January 2004) was a British comics editor and writer and newspaper editor, best known as the founding editor of the weekly sports comic Tiger and as a writer of Roy of the Rovers.

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EFL Championship

The English Football League Championship, known simply as the Championship in England and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet Championship, is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system, after the Premier League, and is currently contested by 24 clubs.

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EFL Cup

The EFL Cup (historically and colloquially referred to as the League Cup), currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual knockout competition in men's domestic football in England.

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EFL League One

The English Football League One, known as Sky Bet League One for sponsorship purposes or simply League One in England, is the second-highest division of the English Football League and the third-tier overall in the English football league system.

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Egmont Group

The Egmont Group (officially Egmont International Holding A/S; known as Gutenberghus Group until 1992) is a Danish media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Emlyn Hughes

Emlyn Walter Hughes (28 August 1947 – 9 November 2004) was an English footballer.

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The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.

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The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales.

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European Champion Clubs' Cup

The European Champion Clubs' Cup, also known as Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens, or simply the European Cup, is a trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that wins the UEFA Champions League.

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FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in domestic English football.

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Fictional country

A fictional country is a country that is made up for fictional stories, and does not exist in real life, or one that people believe in without proof.

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Fleetway Publications

Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London.

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The Football League First Division was a division of the Football League in England from 1888 until 2004.

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In the sport of association football, a forward (attacker or striker) is an outfield position which primarily plays further up the pitch than midfielders and defenders.

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Frank S. Pepper

Frank Stuart Pepper (8 February 1910 – 11 December 1988) was a British writer of comics and story papers for Amalgamated Press, best known as the creator of Roy of the Rovers and Captain Condor.

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Gary Lineker

Gary Winston Lineker (born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer.

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Geoffrey Boycott

Sir Geoffrey Boycott (born 21 October 1940) is a former Test cricketer, who played cricket for Yorkshire and England.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.

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Hummel International

Hummel International Sport & Leisure A/S, commonly known as Hummel (stylized hummel), is a German-founded Danish manufacturing company of sportswear brand based in Aarhus.

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J. R. Ewing

John Ross "J.R." Ewing Jr. is a fictional character in the American television series Dallas (1978–1991) and its spin-offs, including the revived ''Dallas'' series (2012–2014).

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Joe Colquhoun

Joe Colquhoun (7 November 1926 – 13 April 1987) was a British comics artist best known for his work on Charley's War in Battle Picture Weekly.

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Kim Raymond

Kim Raymond (born 1957) is a British comic book artist and animator.

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Malcolm Macdonald

Malcolm Ian Macdonald (born 7 January 1950) is an English former professional footballer, manager and media figure.

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In association football, the manager is the person who has overall responsibility for the running of a football team.

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Martin Kemp

Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961) is an English musician and actor, best known as the bassist in the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in EastEnders.

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Match of the Day

Match of the Day (abbreviated to MOTD) is a football highlights programme, typically broadcast on BBC One on Saturday nights, during the Premier League season.

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Paul Trevillion

Paul Trevillion (born 11 March 1934) is an acclaimed sports artist, whose career spans over 70 years.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.

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Rebellion Developments

Rebellion Developments Limited is a British video game developer based in Oxford, England.

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Retroactive continuity

Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which facts in the world of a fictional work that have been established through the narrative itself are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work that recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former.

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Richard Keys

Richard Keys (born 23 April 1957) is an English sports presenter who has worked for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Talksport, Al Jazeera, Fox Sports, ESPN Star Sports, BeIN Sports; and has presented many top-level football matches.

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Rob Williams (comics)

Rob Williams is a Welsh comics writer, working mainly for 2000 AD.

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Roy of the Rovers

Roy of the Rovers is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer and later manager named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers. Roy of the Rovers and Roy of the Rovers are 1954 comics debuts, 1995 comics endings, 1997 comics debuts, 2001 comics endings, association football comics, British comics characters, comics characters introduced in 1954, comics set in the United Kingdom, Defunct British comics, fictional association football players, Fleetway and IPC Comics titles and ZX Spectrum games.

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Roy of the Rovers (comic)

Roy of the Rovers comic magazine was launched as a weekly on 25 September 1976, named after the established comic strip of the same name that first appeared as a weekly feature in the Tiger on 11 September 1954. Roy of the Rovers and Roy of the Rovers (comic) are 1995 comics endings, association football comics, British comics characters, Defunct British comics, fictional association football players and Fleetway and IPC Comics titles.

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Serie A

The Serie A, officially known as Serie A enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system.

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Shoot (often written Shoot!), or Shoot Monthly, was a football magazine published in the UK between 1969 and 2008.

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Sinclair User

Sinclair User was a magazine dedicated to the Sinclair Research range of home computers, most specifically the ZX Spectrum (while also occasionally covering arcade games).

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Sky Sports

Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet were an English pop band formed in Islington, London, in 1979.

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Steve Norman

Steven Antony Norman (born 25 March 1960) is an English musician who plays tenor saxophone, guitar, percussion and other instruments, for the English new wave band Spandau Ballet.

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Subbuteo

Subbuteo is a tabletop football game in which players simulate association football by flicking miniature players with their fingers.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Quarto Group

The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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They Think It's All Over (TV series)

They Think It's All Over is a British comedy panel game with a sporting theme produced by Talkback and shown on BBC1.

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TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

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Tiger (British comics)

Tiger was a weekly British comics periodical published by Amalgamated Press, Fleetway Publications and IPC Magazines from 11 September 1954 to 30 March 1985. Roy of the Rovers and Tiger (British comics) are 1954 comics debuts and Fleetway and IPC Comics titles.

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Titan Publishing Group

Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of the British entertainment company Titan Entertainment, which was established as Titan Books in 1981.

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Today (UK newspaper)

Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom that was published between 1986 and 1995.

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Tom Tully (writer)

Tom Tully (died 2013) was a noted British comic writer, mostly of sports and action-adventure stories.

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Tony Harding

Anthony John "Tony" Harding (9 January 1942 – 12 January 2014) was a British illustrator of boys' action comics specialising in football stories.

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Trade paperback (comics)

In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually presenting either a complete miniseries, a story arc from a single title, or a series of stories with an arc or common theme.

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Trevor Francis

Trevor John Francis (19 April 1954 – 24 July 2023) was an English footballer who played as a forward for a number of clubs in England, the United States, Italy, Scotland and Australia.

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.

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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions.

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UEFA Europa League

The UEFA Europa League (previously known as the UEFA Cup), abbreviated as UEL or sometimes UEFA EL, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_of_the_Rovers

Also known as Melchester, Melchester Rovers, Rocky Race, Roy Race, William "Blackie" Gray.

, Retroactive continuity, Richard Keys, Rob Williams (comics), Roy of the Rovers, Roy of the Rovers (comic), Serie A, Shoot (football magazine), Sinclair User, Sky Sports, Spandau Ballet, Steve Norman, Subbuteo, The Guardian, The Quarto Group, The Scotsman, The Times, They Think It's All Over (TV series), TI Media, Tiger (British comics), Titan Publishing Group, Today (UK newspaper), Tom Tully (writer), Tony Harding, Trade paperback (comics), Trevor Francis, Trope (literature), UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Europa League, UK singles chart, Viz (comics), Your Sinclair, Yvonne Hutton, ZX Spectrum, 2000 AD (comics).

Roy of the Rovers, the Glossary

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See also

1954 comics debuts

1995 comics endings

2001 comics endings

Association football comics

Comics characters introduced in 1954

Fictional association football players

References