Alan Moores football comic strip

With the 2026 Football World Cup currently underway I thought it would be fun to take a look at some UK football comic strips. In order to make this more interesting for the many non footy fans out there, I thought I would start with a strange strip written by the legendary Alan Moore. Written in 1982, at a time when Moore was working in UK comics, this 3 page tongue-in-cheek strip appeared in the Marvel UK one shot "Not the World Cup". Its not one of his best but it is a fun tale nicely illustrated by the then Roy of the Rovers artist Barrie Mitchell ( above - cover to "Not the World Cup" by John Higgins).

For those interested Italy won the 1982 World Cup with England finishing 6th. Scotland as usual failed to get out of their tsection despite a good performance only losing 1 of their 3 games to Brazil. Next up my top 10 favourite UK football comic strips.