Melchester Rovers
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| Full name | Melchester Rovers Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Rovers |
| Founded | 1888 |
| Ground | Mel Park, Melchester |
| Capacity | 56,000 |
| Managers | see list |
| League |
FA Premier League Football League First Division Football League Second Division (fictional) |
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Charlie
CARTER Noel
BAXTER Lofty
PEAK Duncan
MCKAY Jimmy
SLADE Gerry
HOLLOWAY Blackie
GRAY Geoff
GILES Vernon
ELIOT Mervyn
WALLACE |
| Melchester Rovers 1976/77 |
Melchester Rovers are a fictional football team with whom Roy Race spent most of his illustrious career in the British comic strip Roy of the Rovers, which first appeared in Tiger at its inception in 1954.
According to the comic strip's continuity, Melchester Rovers were founded in 1885 winning at least three League Championships and a number of FA Cups during the pre-war years of their existence (three titles in succession and four FA Cup finals in the 1930s). But, according to the Annuals, Melchester Rovers were a third division struggling club in the 1930s, until they gained promotion to the top flight in the 1940s. And they finished runners-up in 1949, losing the title to North Ham just in the last game of the season. In 1954, however, the first Roy of the Rovers strip appeared, telling the story of the club and its star striker Roy Race (whose grandfather, Billy Race, had played for the club in the early part of the 20th Century). Melchester finally became League Champions in 1958, and won the FA Cup the following season, by which time Race was captain.
It was in the 1960s, however, that Rovers became a footballing force to be reckoned with. The decade brought three league titles, two FA Cups, two European Cups, one European Cup Winners' Cup and one Intercontinental Cup. It wasn't a decade without its problems, though, and in an example of the topsy-turvy nature of the history that would follow, Rovers only narrowly avoided relegation at the end of 1967, the same year they won the Cup Winners' Cup.
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