Roy of the Rovers focus switched to Roy's son Rocky, who also played for Melchester. This publication was short-lived, and folded after only 19 issues. The adventures of the Race family were subsequently featured in the monthly "Match of the Day" football magazine, in which father and son were reunited as manager and player respectively. These strips began in 1997 and continued until the magazine's closure in May 2001. Football-themed stories were a staple of British comics for boys from the 1950s onwards, and Roy of the Rovers was the most popular. To keep the strip exciting, Melchester was almost every year either competing
Peebles Rovers F.C. Peebles Rovers F.C. Peebles Rovers Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Peebles, Scottish Borders. Founded in 1893, they play their home matches at Whitestone Park. The club are members of the East of Scotland Football League (EoSFL), in the sixth tier of the Scottish football league system. They were briefly members of the Scottish Football League, between 1923 and 1926. In 2006, Peebles Rovers merged with local youth teams to form a new community club. The new Peebles F.C. took over Rovers' EoSFL place until 2010, when Rovers demerged re-established themselves as a separate senior club. Peebles