Roy of the Rovers 1983 Roy swapped Melchester Rovers for ambitious London side Walford Rovers after a fallout with the Melchester directors, but his stint away was short-lived and he was back at his spiritual home by the end of the year. In July 1986 eight members of the Rovers team were killed during a club tour of the fictional Middle Eastern country of Basran, when terrorists accidentally crashed a bomb-laden car into the team bus. Roy escaped with a dislocated shoulder. Author Mick Collins has commented that "Even as youngsters, we knew that this certainly bordered on bad taste, and probably overstepped the
Englefield Green Rovers F.C. Englefield Green Rovers F.C. Englefield Green Rovers F.C. was a football club based in Englefield Green, near Egham, England. They were members of the Surrey FA. Englefield Green Rovers were founded in 1927. They won the Windsor, Slough & District League Division 3 in the 1984–85 season, and joined the Chiltonian League Division One in 1996, becoming members of Hellenic Football League Division One East when the two leagues merged in 2000. They left the Hellenic League in 2009, and did not play in the 2009–10 season. The club played at Coopers Hill Lane in Englefield Green., until their lease