Dev's relum comets cheap and substantial. It was Puma Martin Chiver's for me and no I never wore shinnies.
Puma Martin Chivers? Yep, that's about teh Era of the Comet alright I had Adidas Beckenbauer and a pair of Gerd Muller Hatrick's.
I remember them, but what's that all about? You can understand the Kaiser, Gerd Muller and all, but boots named after Martin Chivers?
I had a pair of Patrick Keegan Top, they were good boots even if I could'nt stand Keegan. Belive it or not they were made from Kangaroo hide, I could jump about 6 feet in the air with those beauties. please log in to view this image
Ah, Dead shot Keen's old Boots? As good a player Dead Shot was he could not lace the boots of Roy Race.
Agreed Dev. My wee brother used to read it and I'm sure I remember latterly before they cancelled the comic Roy Race ended up either in a wheelchair or having his legs amputated after a helicopter crash or something. How is it that people always remember such trivial ****?
sorry to come in on this at a late stage. the best football boots are / were addidas world cups or cops mundials for the summer months. great boots. with regards to the shin pad debate, i could never wear those big clunky shinnies. just never seemed right.. rightly or wrongly when i saw someone in a pair of those type shinnies straight away i decided they were ****e at football
Last night my shinnies saved me from a broken leg 50/50 with the goalkeeper, both slid in and I got his stubs in my shin. My calf is now almost as thick as my thigh <lovethyshinniesmuir>
you know i have to say i was wrong about the offside thing - i had always thought there had to be clear daylight between the attacker and defender but having looked it up again i must admit i got it wrong - i wonder if thats why we used to concede so many on a saturday afternoon...... not to counter your lenny thing mr t but i turned up after my wife and her pal had been there for an hour or so and he was really really nice - that said he was also sober and a few drinks can change many a man an oneill?? martin was a gentleman but refs were not spared his wrath if you remember - nor were opposition players at times im not saying lennon doesnt need to reel it in a bit - ive lost count of the number of times ive said that here - but the overreaction to some of the things is "criminal"
I don't remember that but I do remember the bus crash in some Arabian pre-season tour which wiped out half the team - conveniently this happened when a new format of "Rovers" was coming out, the Melchester kit changed etc.. They brought in foreign players, I'm sure, but they replaced the clugging centre half with his son
My favourite melchester player was Duncan McKay, the bearded Scottish fullback. It was clearly Danny McGrain. Whit a player.
I just had a quick swatch on the Roy of the Rovers website - there's a tribute page to the players who died in "The Basran Disaster" http://www.royoftherovers.com/whoswho/melchester_rovers/rip_1986.aspx One of them was called Kenny Logan
http://www.royoftherovers.com/whoswho/melchester_rovers/mckay_duncan.aspx I was wrong, it was Duncan McKay.
Anyone remember "Action" comic? Every issue to read online. http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/issues/completenightmare.htm
http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/complete/issue01/13.htm They don't make em like this any more. Play Till You Drop! Alec Shaw is a top striker for First Division Rampton City. Football is his love, and he isn't interested in sponsors or their money. During the first match of the season he goes off injured. Vernon Grice from the Daily Comet visits Alec and tells him that his famous footballing father Tom Shaw was taking bribes. Grice wants money not to show photographs to the press, and Alec pays up. Unfortunately this is just the first payment and Alec's troubles are just beginning.
