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Here we go here we go here we go here we go this is it

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

Pow bow bow I'm sound lifted to Laini so. Welcome along. It's another

Manchester Odyssey and we're looking at the issue

dated 6th of October, 1984. Roy of the Rovers. It's in my left hand

in case you're bothered about that kind of thing.

Brilliant, brilliant cover, but we'll get to that in a moment.

As usual, we'll play the guessing game.

Where across the top it says sign please Dundee United Star

tricky tricky that that's got to be Jim. Oh, what's his name? The one who managed Villa and

Birmingham. Oh, fucking how my mind's going to go. Alex McLeish, yeah, he was not a badeen.

Okay, in fact, well it's not him then, is it?

I don't know. I remember Dundee United had a great team in the mid-80s because they won yeah they they won like

Was it the Cup winners cup or the way for a cap yeah but I'm trying to think who their stars were didn't they

must have been late as they had like and they have like mixu pat-a line and I

think that was much later.

Yeah, the Aberdeen team were really memorable but not so much the Dundee United one for some reason.

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