Champ/We Are United Episode 72: Interview with football comic fan - Neil Berrigan
Description
It's always interesting hearing other football comic fans thoughts and memories of their favourite stories, storylines, characters etc...and on this weeks episode we meet and hear from, podcast listener Neil Berrigan! Neil's first Roy of The Rovers was 28th September 1985..an interesting period in the comic's history, and since then he's read and collected loads more, and also is a huge Football Picture Story Monthly and Champ/We Are United fan - it was great fun speaking with him, expertly interviewed by Tangent Paul, supported by myself Matt and Gull of the many voices...
Here is the "downthetubes" article regarding circulation figures.
https://downthetubes.net/british-comics-reference/the-british-comic-industry-questions-and-answers/british-comics-sales-figures-the-good-old-days/
Here's also the link to the "Whenshortswereshorts" Barrie Tomlinson episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nbsYXOZSxWeZQYeEIDh4l?si=jra3h8CZT1KkubTpJKEAHw
Join Gull, Tangent Paul and Mute Button Matt as they do another "Collector's Corner" covering some strange missing copies of Tiger...and then they recall the famous story from Roy of The Rovers, "Tommy's Troubles" and how Tommy Barnes and his mates first formed Barnes United. Enjoy!
Published 11/04/24
In this special episode Matt, Paul and Neil meet Stratos and Nikos from the excellent Greek Unofficial Roy of The Rovers fan club, we talk about how the story reached Greece, when and in what format, how did they first start reading it themselves, we ask about the fan club and also recap some...
Published 10/27/24