With England now warming up to play against Italy later this afternoon, it is appropriate to remember Ken Reid’s Manager Matt and his Mudchester
Eleven and see how they tackled their
Italian opponents back in 1971. From the perspective of this day and age, the
set looks somewhat racist and it is difficult to imagine one like this being
included in a modern comic.
Now that I come to think of it, in the light of the recent banana incident during Italy's European Championship game against Croatia, the Frankie Stein episode in one of my previous football posts also comes across as racist.
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| From SCORCHER AND SCORE dated 17th July, 1971 |
I know I said my football posts were going to focus on
humour comics but as I was searching my collection for interesting examples to
show on this blog, I found an issue of TIGER AND HURRICANE with an episode of Roy
of the Rovers and most importantly – a rough copy of a letter written by
a young reader and long forgotten inside the paper. The boy was so upset with
the referee’s decision in that week’s installment that he had to sit down and
write this angry note to the editor. Isn’t it sweet to see how strongly the
kid (whose name I have whited out) felt for his favourite characters...
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