The Melchester Odyssey - Part 62
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Starting a London knees-up, Sir Alf’s rules and a book break, and an unconventional half time ritual. (Rec: 6/8/20)
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| 0:45.8 | I'm 70 to 90 so well. It's the Melchester Odyssey again it's episode 62 |
| 0:51.6 | from the best of Royal The Rovers, the 1980s, widely available online for about 400 quid now |
| 1:00.0 | because we've ramped the prices right up as a result of this, but a scouring charity shop so |
| 1:06.0 | right, if you try and get a copy. Here we are, I'll just read what it says at the beginning of |
| 1:11.8 | this week's episode it says, Royal Race was still lying unconscious in hospital after being |
| 1:17.6 | shot down by an unknown gunman and former England manager Alf Ramsey had agreed to become |
| 1:22.8 | caretaker manager of Melchester Rovers, so Alf caused an immediate sensation by bringing back |
| 1:28.3 | Super Brat Vic Guthrie who had been questioned by the police about the shooting for an aware |
| 1:33.1 | game against Westbury. What's what's what's what's what you think in about bringing back |
| 1:38.9 | you back Vic Guthrie. You got your age. I hear you're on the suspicion of shooting Royal Race. |
| 1:46.0 | I like how the man I wanted this fucking tea. I like that. It's bullseye. It's the sort of thing my |
| 1:51.0 | old my old uh my old friend Nobby Styles might have done. Back when we ran the wild cap. I need |
| 1:58.8 | a whole world cup campaign to kept me on my fucking toes. I always thought I was under threat of |
| 2:02.7 | assassination from styles. He thought that I knew that he was going to do it. He kept his |
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