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This is top flight time machine. I am Andy hot body Dawson pau pau pau

I'm Sam nifty del Delaney so what?

Welcome along to the Manchester Odyssey once again. It's Thursday and we're looking at another issue of Roy there over.

This one we've already tried to look at last time.

I have in my left hand the first of

September 1984 issue of Roy the Rovers the nice yellow band across the top and in letter set which we discussed last week the

standard letter set font arsenal starting sign please recorded that about three weeks ago.

Can't remember who it was now.

Uh... I genuinely forgotten who it was.

Yeah, I've forgotten too. Paul Mariner. Of course yeah. It wasn't really an arsonist thought.

Paul Mariner's dead now any.

Pulmarra is dead. Yeah. Nice guy by all accounts. So they say, yeah. Oh well.

Gone too early. No age is at 69.

Okay, that's a moment of reflection there. It was nice that we had a bit of silence there for Paul Mariner.

Oh, we've stopped doing that thing that we started doing at the beginning of the episodes.

Oh yeah. And who are you? And how have you been?

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