IFS Unlocked: The Melchester Odyssey - Part 282

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Comedy, Sports, Sports & Recreation, Soccer

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

(Rec: 31/10/24) Revamps and redesigns, celebrity cruelty, a BBC takeover, the mullet, Roy becomes Souness, and a big-handed girl.

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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.
0:07.8	I am Andy Hopperty Dawson, pow, pow, pow.
0:10.1	I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what?
0:12.4	Welcome along, it's the Melchester Odyssey.
0:15.3	Once again, I have in my left hand the 14th of September 1985 issue of Roy of the Rovers with this ludicrous
0:23.7	new logo on the front is balloon lettering.
0:28.3	You've got to get over this, mate.
0:29.8	It's been a while now.
0:31.6	And it's still bothering you.
0:33.9	It is what it is.
0:35.5	Yeah.
0:36.0	I'll give you a little spoiler.
0:37.1	There is another redesign coming in the near future. this. Yeah. I'll give you a little spoiler. There is another redesign coming in the near future.
0:41.1	Yeah.
0:41.6	That's a bit quick.
0:42.8	That's admission of failure.
0:44.8	Yeah.
0:45.1	1988.
0:47.2	And when we're in September 85,
0:49.1	I don't think this current format lasts for as long as a year, to be honest.
0:54.4	That's a bit a mission of failure.
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