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

Po Papa I'm so mystery delaney so what

You look well look it's the Manchester Odyssey once again, and we are once again looking at the 15th of September

1984 Special Celebration Issue, which I have... special celebration issue

which I have in my left hand and inside birthday greetings from the stars

which we covered last time.

Because it means that Roy of the Rovers, or Roy himself, it's not really confirmed what it is, is 30.

So it's all a bit weird. confirmed what it is is 30.

So it's all a bit weird because obviously the 30 years ago when he first appeared in

as was Tiger comic, he didn't appear as a newborn baby.

No he wasn't like the first episode he gets spotted playing for like his school team.

Because I've got it in the compilation of Roy the Rovers 1950s yeah which is

fucking great and well worth a look if there's any real hardcore completest's out there

can't recommend 50s 60s and 70s books enough, but yeah, he's, he's scouted, but it would be mad if he was scouted as a newborn. Yeah in the hospital ward. Yeah.

Manchester Scout goes along. They used to have like lines of babies in the little cots didn't

they? They did, yeah.

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