IFS Unlocked: The Melchester Odyssey - Part 276
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
(Rec: 19/9/24) Roy’s gas offer, new stories, bread rolls, Tubby’s battered eels, dialects, secret fencing, and the Crazy Gang.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it. |
| 0:05.9 | This is Top Flight Time Machine. I am Andy Hotbodied Horson, bow, bow, bow. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what? |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome along. It's another episode of the Melchester Odyssey, and I have, in my right hand, |
| 0:17.9 | the 10th of August, 1985 issue of Roy of the Rovers. |
| 0:23.0 | On the front cover, it's just a single image |
| 0:25.7 | from the ongoing benefit match, |
| 0:29.7 | Old Melchester versus current Melchester, |
| 0:31.8 | which we'll get into shortly, |
| 0:33.1 | but across the top, Sam, |
| 0:34.7 | where it normally says to us, |
| 0:36.5 | who's in the sign, please, sent a a spread or gives us a clue at the very least |
| 0:40.6 | this week it just says big news for all readers oh fuck i reckon it's that what year is this i reckon Roy's written an op-ed |
| 0:56.2 | on the privatisation of British gas |
| 0:59.2 | being overseen by Mrs Thatcher |
| 1:03.0 | and the reason it's big news is that |
| 1:05.9 | this is an opportunity for all of you |
| 1:07.9 | and your moms and dads to actually own a piece of one of our public utilities. |
| 1:13.9 | What could be better? |
| 1:17.1 | At last, |
| 1:18.4 | we will all be free from the socialist |
| 1:20.7 | shackles of the |
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