Author: Cole Morton meets Roy of the Rovers
But the fans who screamed for him wore football scarves, carried rattles and had a remarkable talent for dissecting a game in the split second it took for the ball to travel from his boot to the goal. "It's Racey's Rocket!" Even now, as he nods a greeting, the thoughts of the two dog walkers who have also stopped to watch the game seem to float above their heads in unfeasibly long speech bubbles. "Oh I say, the striker's through on the goalie and if he can just ... hang on, isn't that old Racey over there, talking to a gentleman of the press?" "Yes, I wonder if he has revealed anything about his life, now that the comic in which he starred for 40 years and which sold nearly half a million copies a week at its peak is to be reintroduced to the news-stands?"
