| Tip: to find a specific player, team, etc. press Ctrl-F on your keyboard. | | Scorcher Issue 71- 15 May 1971 Bobby Charlton plays in defence for England
Price: £5.25
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Contents:
Front Cover: When the Crowd Roared: Bobby Charlton plays in defence for England in 1965 with brother Jack
My favourite player (colour photo) :Gordon Banks Stoke
My most memorable match (colour photo) : Brazil v Italy World Cup final 1970
How I Began:Chris Garland bristol City
Floodlight On:Derek Dougan Wolves
Scorcher Team of the Week:Lencarnisiog primary,Anglesey
Short Story: Forward from Rome
Match Day Highlights: Current football stars
Comic Strips:
Billy's Boots:Billy Dane wasn't any good at football until he discovered a pair of old football boots. The football boots had once belonged to "Dead Shot Keen, the old centre forward for England." Wearing the boots gave Billy the ability to play football like the old star.
· The Amazing Strollers:
· Bobby of the Blues: Bobby Booth plays for Everpool City, nicknamed "The Blues" because of their colours.
· King of Football:
· Lags Eleven: Willie Smith, known to his friends as "Brilliant Genius", was the greatest super-crook in Britain, having been the master-mind behind numerous bank-raids, jewel-robberies and wage-snatches. Unfortunately for him he'd been caught and was doing a ten-year stretch in Bankhurst Prison, where he decides to start a football team as part of a master plan to escape during the first away match.
*Charlie Ironsides :Robot footballer
*Manager Matt
*Spot the star
*The East mound Mob
Besides the comic strips there were other regular features:
· How I Began: each week the story of how a different top star got started in the game.
· Floodlight On: photographs and mini-biography of a different star each week.
· Scorcher Team of the Week: a different schoolboy team featured each week has their team photograph published and wins a Scorcher football.
· Goal Post: Pete, "the office junior", answers readers' letters, and each one published wins £1 for the sender.
· Know-All: Know-All, "Soccer's Mister Big-Head", makes 10 statements about football and the reader has to spot where he goes wrong.
· Challenge Your Chum to quiz football: a quiz for readers to move a ball up and down the printed pitch into the goal by answering football questions.
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