79 episodes
"Champ/We Are United" - UK football comics Matt Richards
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Join Gull, Matt, Ridders, "Tangent" Paul and Simmo as they discuss classic UK football comics and stories from the past such as "Roy of the Rovers", "We Are United" from "Champ", the classic Football Picture Story Monthlies, Tiger, Scorcher, Victor, Striker and much much more. There are exclusive interviews and we'll also dive into other comic genres whenever we feel like it :)
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Champ/We Are United Episode 79: "When Roy Race plays for England", "The Brothers" FPSM 36 and a Euro 2024 preview!
How many times did we see Roy Race play for England? listen to the boys discuss this...also Bygone Berrigan takes us through "The Brothers" from Football Picture Story Monthly 36 and as the Euros start on 14th June we look ahead to the tournament and assess England's chances...
Timings
1. FPSM from 17 mins
2. Euro pre-view from 41 mins
3. Roy Race plays for England from 67 mins -
Champ/We Are United Episode 78: "Nipper", "Highland Fling" and "Secret Wars"
This weeks episode has Matt telling us about the comic life of that football comic strip legend "Nipper" from the pages of Score and Roar, via Scorcher and eventually Tiger..Gull tells us about the latest "Secret Wars" news and Bygone Berrigan replays another Football Picture Story Monthly story, this one from FPSM 108 "Highland Fling"...ably supported by Voice of Reason Simmo and hosted by Paul "Tangent" Richardson - enjoy!
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Champ/We Are United Episode 77: The 1989 "Football Picture Story Special", "Rocky's Big Move" & "We Are United" comic XI
In this weeks show we have Neil "Bygone" Berrigan rejoin us to review the pretty rare 1989 "Football Picture Story Special", Matt reviews the latest Rocky Race book, "Rocky's Big Move", and Simmo picks his best XI from "United" during the Champ/Victor years...be prepared for a controversial pick!
The team also includes Tangent Paul and the return of Gull!
It's a long show (apologies - we're useless at timings) so here are rough timings if you want to fast forward to a section...
1989 "Football Picture Story Special" - from 17 mins
"Rocky's Big Move" - from 75 mins
"United" XI - from 81 mins
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Champ/We Are United Episode 76: "Roy Race goes in goal", "The Goals of Jimmy Grant", "Danefield United/Kingsbay XI"
Join "Tangent" Paul, Simmo and Matt once again for a football comic journey into the past...Simmo replays the "The Goals Of Jimmy Grant" the season when he played for "United" in the pages of "Victor", Paul gives us his comic XI made up from Danefield United and Kingsbay players and Matt covers all the times Roy Race went in goal from 1954/1993...how many times did he do it????
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Champ/We Are United Episode 75: An audience with Paul Trevillion!
Welcome to another interview special! this time we talk to Roy of the Rovers artist from 1963 - 1965, Paul Trevillion! Roy is just one part of Paul's incredible career as a sports artist, he is also famous for creating "You Are The Ref!" which appeared under various guises in various publications but probably most famous in the pages of "Shoot". He is an incredible character, and so much fun to meet and interview. Enjoy!
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Champ/We Are United Episode 74: Pete Nash, creator of "Striker" special!
He is back for the 3rd time! We are proud to welcome again, creator of "Striker" Pete Nash, book 26 is due out soon and so he popped into Champ Towers to have a chat about that and other bits and pieces...Gull and Tangent Paul do the interview, Matt is joined in the wings by Simmo! yes the voice of reason is back! Enjoy!