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Phoenix wrote:In my view, it was the best football series since the eight serials in Adventure about Baldy Hogan and Burhill United between 1946 and 1952, which did the same thing in text form on a much wider canvas. Manager Mills is not so taken with Jimmy (“the real footballer” in the family, according to Jack) who he regards as “certainly an eager beaver, a glutton for work … but too much of a lone wolf”. Before the month is out Jimmy’s hat-trick against Ringhurst (“Jimmy fooled the goalkeeper – by not shooting! A single page dealing with 1930s football stories notes three moonlighting film stars and Steve Bradshaw, whose alternative skill was cracking safes.

The original serial, The Goal Maker, was in The Wizard in 1948/49, repeated as The Goalmaker in the same paper in 1956/57. yr old now and still get a wee nostalgic nudge when I think of my youth and my weekly Shoot magazine. Do remember the character in the Victor or some other comic who was a Lord or something and would turn up for parts of the game in his limo. Phoenix: I can only imagine that Rocky is just a pet/nickname his parents gave him as a child growing up, whereas his real name would also be Roy.

Bernard turning up was like manna from heaven, in precisely the same way as Charlie 'Iron' Barr's in 1983.According to the British Library "Striker" launched on 10th of January 1970 and ran until 4th March 1972 when it was incorporated into "Inside Football".