Roy of the Rovers "Best of Roy of the Rovers" books, featuring successive runs of strips from the 1980s and 1970s, were published in June 2008 and 2009 respectively. As of August 2016, Roy of the Rovers and the rest of the Fleetway comics library is owned by Rebellion Developments. The story followed Roy Race, a striker for the fictional football team Melchester Rovers, based in a town of the same name in an unspecified part of England, where Roy lived with his family. In the first episode, a teenaged Roy and his best friend, Blackie Gray, signed for the Rovers after being spotted
Rovers Football Club WAFA. After several competitive seasons, Rovers won the premiership in 1891, but the establishment of electorate football was the beginning of the end, as the club finished second last in 1892 and 1898, and won four wooden spoons between 1893 and 1897, including a winless 1893. After losing the first eight games of 1899, Rovers dropped out of the competition and folded, being replaced by First Rate Junior Association side Perth; many players transferred to the new club. Rovers Football Club The Rovers Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the Western Australian Football Association (WAFA)