The Melchester Odyssey - Part 71
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Roy and Sir Alf finally meet, we ponder the human mind, the net closes, and there’s no team talk. (Rec: 8/10/20)
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| 0:43.3 | This is tough like time machine I have any thoughts in pop-up-up-up. I'm Sandalini, so what? |
| 0:49.1 | It's the malchester odyssey. We've reached a very very important part of the story here, Sam. |
| 0:56.7 | We're looking at the front cover of the 20th of March 1982. It says right across the top |
| 1:04.6 | of the front cover, Roy of the Rovers Returns. I don't think it's been aware, has it? |
| 1:14.3 | That's it, is it been aware? No, they're just trying to make it sound more exciting. That's |
| 1:19.6 | marketing because they're saying by the letter of the law, Roy of the Rovers, that being Roy |
| 1:26.6 | race, is returned to malchester. I'm just worried that there hasn't been like a strike or anything |
| 1:33.1 | because there were strikes all the time back then, wasn't there? Stuff just stopped. There's a strike |
| 1:38.0 | at the top of the pops, it was off for six months right? Yeah, there'd be like an announcement. It |
| 1:42.0 | has been announced that the Roy of the Rovers, the people who produce Roy the Rovers are going |
| 1:47.2 | on strike. They union, they union, which is for Roy of the Rovers workers only voted at their |
| 1:56.7 | annual conference and yeah, they're looking for an increase because it was actually a publicly |
| 2:02.7 | funded comic. It was like BBC. Yeah, it was like BBC, it was run by the government. And that |
| 2:12.3 | it was like, no, we want to privatise it and they were disgusted. So they went on strike. |
| 2:17.7 | Well, strike for a week. So yeah, it says Roy of the Rovers returns. 16 pence, Ali for money. |
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