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Welcome along to episode 77 of the Melchester Odyssey. This is a second attempt at the one that we

did last week. We got to be distracted by music centres, show jumping, catalogs,

and... Lovely catalogs. Well, buying stuff that we don't need just because we can. Lovely buying

stuff we don't need just because we care. There's nothing better. No better a pastime for a middle age

man. It's still under you've got a lock up, is it? Really? Yeah, yeah. Right, so let's try again.

It says Roy had made such a rapid recovery from the gunshot wound which had almost killed him

that he'd been pronounced fit to make a comeback for Melchester Rovers against Hunterford

in his second division league match and his kickoff time approached even the most famous

player manager in football for the little anxious. So we've had the bit last week where he says,

how do I look lads? And that goes and says, like you've never been away, Ray she?

And no backster says is, the question is, how do you feel?

But then Robert Powell, of course, as Jesus Christ comes in, the Hunterford captain,

and says, hey Roy, we're ready when you are. Roy puts a hand on to, it's not Robert Powell,

it's Frank. What's he called? Frank Douglas, the Hunterford skipper, and Roy says,

...