The team gets its name from the legendary comic heroes of Melchester Rovers FC. We cannot always live up to the drama and high jinx that Racey and the boys got involved in but we strive to entertain the punters at every game.
Here's a bit more background I grabbed from a fine page that delves into the history of comics at The
Top Shelf.
ROY OF THE ROVERS (1976-1993)
UNMISSABLE football adventure compendium - spun-off from Tiger - anchored by the saga of ageless, blond-mulleted striking sensation turned canny player-manager Roy Race. Roy steered Melchester Rovers through European triumphs and cup finals aplenty, with plenty of last-minute hat-tricks, adventures and kidnappings. When Racey was shot in 1981, a record-breaking 14-0 win from Rovers woke him from his coma, a moment that still causes at least one grown male to go all misty-eyed. Ahem. Trademark of the Racey strips were the comments from fans 50 yards apart, in lieu of exposition (as satirised by Billy The Fish) : 'What's Racey doing taking off Blackie Gray?' '...It looks as if he's going to bring on our new Spanish signing Paco Diaz' '...Racey's unleashed his Rocket!' (insert David Beckham gag here). Never really recovered by bringing in two members of Spandau Ballet as new signings in 1985, despite killing off half the team in a terrorist bomb blast the following year. Other great ROTR stories included 'The Safest Hands In Soccer', 'Millionaire Villa' (!), 'Tommy's Troubles', 'The Marks Brothers' and 'The Hard Man', featuring the antics of Danefield United's Johnny Dexter (surely the template for Tony Adams) who had the ability to do diving headers*horizontally. His boss, Eastern European Viktor Boskovic, predated the trend for continental coaches by a good 15 years.