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Top Flight Time Machine

IFS Unlocked: The Melchester Odyssey - Part 285

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Comedy, Sports, Sports & Recreation, Soccer

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

(Rec: 21/11/24) A disastrous redesign, judginess, A Question of Sport dress code, barley water, and teenyboppers.


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0:00.0

Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it!

0:06.0

This is Top Flight Time Machine, I am Andy Hotbody Dawson, bow, bow, bow.

0:10.0

I'm Sam Nisley Delaney, so what?

0:12.3

Welcome along, it's another Melchester Odyssey.

0:16.5

I have in my right hand an object which I barely recognise.

0:23.1

It is a redesigned Roy of the Rovers.

0:26.2

Well, I see a redesigned.

0:28.1

It's got that infernal logo on the front that we were introduced to a few weeks ago.

0:34.2

But I don't know if you can see this, Sam, through the camera, but the paper quality

0:39.0

has got so much worse from what we're used to.

0:44.3

It doesn't look good.

0:45.7

It doesn't look good.

0:46.6

The redesign, the changing paper quality, the switch to more black and white pages

0:52.7

over colour, the desperate move move some might say of drafting

0:57.4

in not just emmline hughes and bob wilson but but the spandah ballet laid straight after that

1:04.4

and that's the key thing is when someone makes a radical change right which they did first did, first with the redesign, right?

1:13.1

But then, the big thing was, let's draft in Emlyn Hughes and Bob Wilson.

1:17.2

I think it will lead to a spike in sales.

1:19.8

It only was a few weeks, Andy, between that and the Spandau Ballet Reveal.

1:24.6

So it's a, it's a tacit admission that the initial move to drafting Hughes and Wilson

1:31.3

had failed, right?

1:33.8

And suddenly, and you see this in real life football clubs all the time, it's just like

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