Relive the highs, lows and amazing scrapes of football's most enduring and best loved superstar. 40 odd years of last minute winners, European triumphs, kidnaps, shootings, relegation battles and much more condensed into the size of the traditional and much loved annuals. Quality.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1094110 in Books
• Published on: 1994-09-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
From his 1954 debut for Melchester reserves to the helicopter crash which ended his career in 1993, generations of fans have thrilled to the prolific goal-scoring exploits of Roy Race - Roy of the Rovers - the king of soccer. Reproducing original comic-strip action first seen in "Tiger" (1954-1976), and then in "Roy of the Rovers", this book provides a season-by-season celebration of the greatest player in the history of the game. This is a book for everyone who ever dreamt of emulating Roy Race, player-manager and captain of Melchester Rovers. As this book reveals, Roy's ultimate achievement was his ability to conjure up victories against seemingly impossible odds with the awesome finishing power of his famous left-foot `rocket'. Winning trophie, league championships and breaking records appeared to be an everyday occurrence for "Racey", although even Melchester Rovers had their occasional off-days.

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Customer Reviews

Racey's Rocket
Our beloved Roy Race is back after his tragic helicopter accident back in 1993. This book is a real bible for Racey's fans all over the world. It contains the full story from the 50's to the 90's season after season, including full comic pages from the weekly editions of "Roy of the Rovers". Of course, as the authors say, it's very difficult to summarise 6,500 pages of comics into a 214 page book. So, they focus on the key matches of every season and all the other facts appear as newspaper reports, match programmes' extracts, radio broadcasts etc. It's a hard work which is done perfectly. "The playing years" is a really great book and it's not only for the full of memories boys and teenagers of the past, but also for the children of today who don't have a real football hero to admire like our Roy. Buy it and you won't regret it. It's worth every penny!

Dream of all RotR fans around the world
One of my beloved comic heroes of past, was the amazing footballer, captain of Melchester Rovers, Roy Race, who's adventures I was reading during the years 1971-83, through the pages of two Greek Magazines. And now, I 've got all this stuff in a great book, a really "comic-bible" for me!
The authors have done excellent work, searching for months into the "deapths" of the bublishing company, to present this wonderfull result!!!
Many, many congratulations again and again!