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This is Top Flight Time Machine, I am Andy Dawson, Pao Pao.

I'm Sir Mr Delaney, so what?

Welcome along to another episode of the Melchester Odyssey, we're going through the book

the best of the Roy the Rovers 1980s. We're at a stage now, I'll read the little bit at the

beginning that tells us exactly where we're at. A massive crowd had welcomed Roy back to managerial

duty following his recovery from a gunshot wound but the expected celebration victory over Dalton

failed to materialize as Melchester Rovers turned on a chaotic display of skilled but reckless football.

Oh, it almost kind of, when was this? This was lit, 82 wasn't it? No, this is March 82. It almost

preempts that Brazil side, the 1982 World Cup. Yes, skillful but ultimately.

But reckless. Slightly reckless, yeah. I like that, it's the best sort of team, let's be

honest, skillful but reckless. I don't like skillful but also somehow conservative. Do you know what I mean?

They're really good going forward but they're really tight at the back and out of possession,

fuck that. I like a team where when they lose possession, they lose it from someone just being

a silly camp and trying to do a nutmeg on the edge of their own area. But when they lose it,

the player just fucking gets the ump and strolls backwards. Yeah, I was just about to agree

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