The Melchester Odyssey - Part 63
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Sir Alf considers the Moon and the downsides of fame, Duncan McKay gets angry about Zippy, the crowd explain corners, and Roy reaches for something soft and familiar. (Rec: 13/8/20)
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| 0:50.1 | Hmm, it's the Melchester Odyssey, part of 63 possibly, I'm not sure. It's the |
| 0:57.7 | the best of Roy the Rover's 1980s book, we're working out, we're through it. We've come a long |
| 1:02.3 | way over the 63 weeks and we've got a long long way at the go as well. In case you're new to this |
| 1:11.1 | Roy Reiss has been shot, we don't know who by, he was shot by an assailant in his office, he's now |
| 1:17.6 | currently languishing in a coma, he's on the danger list. Yeah, the Melchester General, his wife |
| 1:24.0 | Penny is by his side, constantly crying, constantly weeping, the doctors have got a radio wired up |
| 1:34.3 | to a commentary of Melchester's latest game which isn't really working because Melchester |
| 1:37.6 | losing one no. At the beginning of this week's instalment, it says it was a puzzled rovers as they |
| 1:47.4 | took the field for the second half. So they've got Sir Alf Ramsey who's come in as a temporary manager |
| 1:54.0 | in Roy's absence and it looks like Sir Alf Ramsey is about to puzzle them as they are. |
| 2:00.6 | Alf Ramsey in this scene is pulling, he's pulling a strange face, he's scowling. |
| 2:07.2 | They're all the players surrounding him, he's turning his back on them in the changing room, |
| 2:10.5 | and he's scowling at a clipboard. Fat knows what's on it, maybe it's a book of rules which was made |
| 2:16.8 | referenced in a previous episode. Let's just see what it says at the beginning in that very first |
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