SOCCER icon lifts lid on 38-year playing career - which began in weekly comic Tiger - in new autobiography.FOOTBALL superstar Roy Race has revealed the time his fiery Scots team-mate started a fight in an empty house.
The soccer icon’s new autobiography lifts the lid on the star’s remarkable playing career – which, at 38 years long, is unlikely ever to be bettered.
And like the other footballing Roy with a book out, he has pulled no punches about the antics of some of his team-mates.
Race lifted the lid on the outrageous behaviour of Scots hardman Duncan “Big Dunc” McKay, Melchester Rovers’ uncompromising centre-half, saying: “The mid-to-late 70s team holds a special place in the hearts of the fans and always will.
“There were the hardmen – and none harder than Big Dunc, who was famous for having started a fight in an empty house.
“The house in question was the one he had just moved into, over at Rollerton Grove, and he was waiting in for the removal men to arrive with his furniture when he looked out and saw some blokes on the other side of the pavement whom Big Dunc didn’t like the look of.
“Big Dunc threw up the sash and shouted, ‘Oi, you lot, want some?’ And just like that, this being the 70s, it was on. Apparently the ensuing scrap lasted for about four hours, with numbers swelled by the removal men who joined in.
“The altercation only stopped when everyone was exhausted and agreed to go to the pub – where, having taken time to recover and get their breath back, they resumed in the car park.”
It’s also revealed that Dunc once threatened a journalist with a pair of laundry tongs after the reporter had unearthed a story about Dunc’s wife and a male striptease ensemble called Pecs-Tacular.
The anecdotes are revealed in Race’s new autobiography, called Roy, in which he lifts the lid on his astonishing career.
The autobiography of Roy Race
Race recalls almost all of the 481 goals he scored mainly at the club he supported as a boy, Melchester Rovers. The striker was forced to retire after his legendary left foot was amputated following a helicopter crash 20 years ago.
He also survived five kidnappings, two earthquakes, an assassination attempt and a car bomb attack that tragically killed eight of his team-mates on a tour of Basran.
Race first appeared as a feature in weekly comic Tiger in 1954. The strip was later deemed successful enough to sustain its own magazine and Roy of the Rovers was launched in 1976. It ran for 851 issues until 1993. At its peak, about 450,000
copies were sold each week.
Roy: The Official Autobiography of Roy of the Rovers, by Roy Race, is published by Century, £16.99.
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