I’m excited about staging an exhibition that combines my two lifelong passions of football and art, and it’s a bonus that it launches in my native Manchester! I don’t even know if I am rooting for either team in this game but more against both teams in some way, thinking about who would be happy at the end and who I would find more annoying. I had the original Scorcher annual when Hot Shot Hamish was introduced, I think it was 1973, even though that was before I was born, I have no idea where I got it, I think it was from one of my mum's friend's sons, who was a bit older than me. The only problem with that explanation, MMi, is that, although the old guy on the touchline says, It was y'grandad that did it for me. The many hours spent by Adam Riches poring through the comics in the National Publication Archives make him the man to fill us in.

Jack opens the scoring from a short corner; Jimmy equalises near the end from a free-kick: “The Stadium almost exploded with excitement. Would you rather lay a fat egg all game after so much anticipation or take the lead and be in control before choking it away? I'm prepared to be shot down over this so I'm posting the whole of episode six as a perfect example of the artist's efforts so that you can focus on his/her deficiencies or mine. Today even journeymen players attract regular tabloid coverage, so it’s difficult to conceive that until the 1930s football was considered only of fleeting interest. Boys comics started to regularly include athletes of all stripes during the first half of the 20th century as participation and attendance at sporting events increased substantially, with footballers emerging as the clear favourite.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Plenty of stories are ludicrously contrived: a Nazi considering his best chance of concealment is among a football team, or a player targeted during a match by triads.

Strips included "Bobby of the Blues", "Paxton's Powerhouse","Lag's Eleven", "Billy's Boots" and "Kangaroo Kid".

If you want any other non-football related comics, I can post links to those, too, as most are covered (other than Shoot).

Nipper Lawrence played for Blackport and when the Jag was an independent comic, it's leading strip was Football Family Robinson. Over his four-decade career he has regularly graced the pages of soccer magazines Match, Match of the Day, Shoot! There is virtually no background, it looks as though only the minimum to get the story across has been done, it really does look amateurish. From 3rd July 1971 Scorcher merged with "Score" (originally "Score and Roar"), then finally with "Tiger" from 12th October 1974.The Ravens would bungle 2 golden opportunities to tie the game up and score, first on Zay Flowers nightmare fumble and then with Lamar’s nightmare INT. Anyone remember when Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse moved from Princes Park to 'Glengow Rangers' where they were followed by their old manager Ian McWhacker? Roy of the Rovers became synonymous with the Tiger comic and during the 1960's Tiger had a circulation of over 300,000 copies. only sixteen issues though despite the apparently long run, due to the paper appearing only on alternate weeks for its first four instalments, three weeks in four thereafter, just missing the strike covering the rest of March, which meant that after issue 1184 there wasn't another Adventure for four weeks. 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".

Also liked the magazine Football League Review which was given away free with programmes in England. He knew exactly where they were going and why, and he told them not to sign Stretton as he would be dead within a fortnight. Lamar also threw a terrible pick into triple coverage late in the game and probably sealed it with the pick.Vic’s Vengeance was probably the closest to the promised “rough tough” mandate, about a teenager vowing revenge on the London gangsters who caused his Dad’s death.