A British comic strip about a blond centre forward who…

A British comic strip about a blond centre forward who captained Melchester, first printed in the boys' paper Tiger in September 1954 and given its own weekly title in 1976. Frank Pepper wrote the early scripts and Joe Colquhoun drew them. Improbable last-minute winners made the hero's name into a byword for unlikely sporting drama, and real footballers were sometimes written in as teammates. His surname, Race, completed the pun.

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