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This is top flight time machine.

I am Andy on body Dawson Poppabbo.

I'm so nifty today and he say what?

Welcome along to the Manchester Odyssey

it's the 200th one Sam.

Wow.

200 weeks that's almost four years. We have or more like hasn't Roy done well and

the brains behind Roy the Rovers. Haven't we exploited this piece of content for almost four years now to a

reasonably successful level? Long back continue. Exactly.

We're only up to 1984 and I think the comic went on until about 1993 before they knocked it on the head.

Although I don't know, I've looked at some later issues and I don't know how

Divable it gets well we know how it ends because we went to the national football museum that time didn't we in Manchester and was it a Roy the Rose exhibition or was it something? Yes. Yeah. So we got to see the early ones which of course I've read because I've got the 50s

annual on the 60s annual all of which are very diveable should we ever choose to do

that but then we saw how it ended in the 90s by which stage we tuned out

because we were too busy.

We were on the Catharies by that stage won't we?

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