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This is top flight time machine, I am Andrew Dawson, pow, pow, pow, I'm Sander Laney, so what?

It's the Manchester, yeah whatever, the Manchester honestly part 52, it's been a year,

imagine that one hasn't, because we put two episodes out the first week, so next year is actually

the first anniversary, but whatever, what a year it's been, we're nowhere near the end of the book

I'd say we're two thirds of the way through, I've been seeing that for months,

um, right, I feel like we're in the final straight now.

Yeah, and then we go back to the 70s, right, we've got the latest episode,

the latest issue, it says at the top, Roy's handling of his greatest fan in inverted commas

was sensational. Roy! And let's just let the little yellow box in the top left-hand corner tell

us where we're at, although relegated to the second division, Manchester Rovers were unbeaten in

the league despite off-field problems which were building up for Roy, it said that for weeks

to be fair, which is true. One of these problems was Trevor Brinston, a fan who stirred up trouble

in a horn match against Northfield, and at half time, dot, dot, dot. And what Roy's done is,

if you remember last week, Trevor Brinston with a loudhealer got behind the goal just as

Duncan McKay was a better ticker penalty, and he shouted, Missed! Through the loudhealer, I'd

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