- Paperback: 208 pages
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1848560249
- ISBN-13: 978-1848560246
- Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 20.8 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 880 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,428,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Football comes to life!, Jan 26 2010
By Tim Lasiuta "Comic Fan 42" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Best of Roy of the Rovers: 1970's (Paperback)
You have to hand it to Titan Books to release another fantastic British treasure to the American public. They have given us Dan Dare, The Spider, and Modesty Blaise, now, Roy of the Rovers crosses the ocean to entertain and give us a glimpse into the rabid fans of English Football.This is my first exposure to this great series, and being more of a Canadian football fan, I can understand the super enthusiastic response that sports fans can possess. If you've never seen a Saskatchewan Roughrider fan wear a watermelon on his head, or emblazen his chest with a green helmet in October, you are missing something. Fans of the fictional Melchester team would make good Rider fans, actually, it could go both ways. Suffice it to say, I get this book, and what I though would be an okay presentation, is an enthusiastic wow!
Roy Race, manager-player of the Melchester Rovers squad is a true team player. Not only is he an outstanding athlete, but also a wise manager as well. He knows how to motivate his team through example, and sacrifice. He knows how to win, and how to gracefully lose. He exemplifies the Kipling poem that most fathers read to their boys, `you'll be a man my son'. Other than that, he helms a team that gels enough to almost win the FA Cup, yet win 28 straight games and hold their heads high. This book includes the epic Gold Rush challenge to score 50 goals, American football, and hooliganism. Roy Race becomes a father to twins, and amidst all of this, he is very likeable. Actually, he reminds me of great football players both sides of the US/Canada border and cross Atlantic.
This series clearly catered to the football fanatic readers in Britain. From the 1950's for many decades, it captured the euphoria of European football graphically. It is very well written and illustrated, and reproduced extraordinarily well for the book. I appreciate the football pieces inbetween as well, placing it in a very cultural context. By the way mom, make sure I get the Star Trek cereal box next week!
Best of the 1970's is a great collection that will awaken the football(soccer ) fan in all of us. It really is too bad that David Beckham couldn't be more like Roy Rover!
Go Rovers go!
Tim Lasiuta
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Comic, graphic novels and sports collections alike will relish this!, Aug 15 2010
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Best of Roy of the Rovers: 1970's (Paperback)
The Best of Roy of the Rovers: the 1970s offers a fine collection pairing all-color cartoon pages with a collection o the Roy of the Rovers comic strips from the 1970s. Any fan of football or graphic novels will find this a fun story of a soccer player who learns to play American football and who reflects a British interest in American football-themed sagas. Comic, graphic novels and sports collections alike will relish this!
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