In typically funny Ken Reid fashion, the strip featured numerous consequences leading to brilliantly rendered comic violence. Manager Matt himself was a somewhat unusual, and more cartoonish, design for a Ken Reid character, with his head and body out of proportion to his limbs. Ken's characters usually had fairly normal proportions, so I'm wondering if the artist was perhaps following a design by the art editor? In any case, it made no difference to the stories which for the most part were as funny as any of Ken's great works.
Here's a selection of strips from that 29 week run. Click on each page to see it larger.
Here's a cross-reference of all the other series that Ken Reid did for Scorcher. Have fun!
SUB (1970:
FOOTBALL FORUM (1970/71):
MANAGER MATT (1971):
HUGH FOWLER (1971/72):
THE SOCCERNAUTS (1972):
HARRY HAMMERTOE THE SOCCER SPOOK (1972/73):
JIMMY JINX (1973/74):
TRIPTOE TRIERS (1974):
