Finally, in the last minute of the Cup Final at Wembley, you have been awarded a free kick, will you score the Winner. It's funny to think how I really looked forward to Shoot, ROTR and Scoop as we were so starved of any football related stuff. As you pointed out, aspects of the concept frequently surfaced, Larsen in The Wizard in 1975 being a perfect example, but the serial that had the greatest affinity with The Goal Maker was The Face Of Romany Fortune, which appeared in Thomsons' girls' paper Spellbound 36 - 48 in 1977. It genuinely felt, for at least 2 quarters, like we were about to live in a world where the Detroit Lions were in the Super Bowl.

This almost feels like we are heading for a game where the Chiefs go up early and the 49ers come back to win it, like a reverse 2019 SB. Here's some links to some of these comics in CBR/CBZ format - they're essentially jpegs in a RAR/ZIP wrapper and you should be able to open them without any hassle. Goal" slowly declined whilst "Shoot prospered and "Goal" was officially incorporated (closed) into Shoot on June 15th 1974. On the 25th September 1976 the star of "Tiger" struck out on its own with the "Roy of the Rovers" comic and lasted for a commendable 17 years until 20th of March 1993.

There was, of course, Billy’s Boots, which over the years comprehensively depicted every conceivable way in which a young boy could lose his football boots. It wasn’t until Roy of the Rovers debuted in 1954 that editors realised football itself provided enough drama.

But the Chiefs still can’t score and the Ravens defense came to play so the game was never out of hand.Talk here about just about anything associated with British comics or story papers and the industry that does not fit in any other forum. Also the wonderment of the Scoop "computer" feeding in all the info on us and them and working out the passages of play and final score. The comic had them playing in respective games say like Jimmy played in score and Jack in scorcher and when it came to the Derby they had first half of game in one comic and second half in other. Read many times over and so proud shown to all very exciting gift - gift box a nice touch I would highly recommend great for a gift with a difference ! The Chiefs winning the game would make a very irritating type of person very mad, and that thought brings me joy.