31/05/2026
"That's real Roy of the Rovers stuff!"
You'll hear that every time there's a fairytale result in football. Or a 16 year old bangs in a hat trick on their debut.
Butbthis isn't really about football.
It's about all those fairytale moments.
I remember when I was 22, I'd not long gone back to work following a grand mal seizure and I was feeling pretty glum, when a manager said to me, "You're 22, Matt. (that's half my life ago now, yowza!). You've got a lot of career ahead of you. You won't be here forever, you might even have your own business one day."
"That would be real Roy of the Rovers stuff!", I replied (and we then spent half a day talking about Roy of the Rovers π).
But he wasn't wrong.
Since then I've written and released a book of short stories and a follow-up novel, started my own business and worked with some pinch-me dream clients, like , and
They really were "Roy of the Rovers stuff" moments!
But what else do I want to achieve?
Well, for me, I think something I want to achieve is to write for comics. The Beano would obviously be the dream, an extrenemy hard one to achieve, but even so, one I'd love to accomplish and follow in the footsteps of current writers, like , and Danny Pearson.
And writing for The Phoenix comic would be an achievement too.
They'd be real Roy of the Rovers moments in my career for sure.
What about you?
What have you done or would you love to do that would be classed as real "Roy of the Rovers stuff"?