the Old Man, a Tottenham Hotspur F.C. fan who was regularly portrayed as a minor tyrant who became angry if Pete didn't make him 48 cups of tea every day. Various other members of the editorial or art staff were mentioned from time to time. Each week, Pete answered a handful of readers' questions on any aspect of football, often settling bets or other disputes over matters of football fact, and paid £1 to the reader for each letter featured. Despite all this, he often had to reassure concerned readers that he was a real person and not just an invented cover-all name for whoever's duty it was to answer the letters that week. After joining with Tiger Pete's function was to select a dozen of the readers' best jokes to feature as cartoons on his page, and no longer answered questions. References External links Scorcher at britishcomics.com 1970 comics debuts 1974 comics endings Association football comics Comics magazines published in the United Kingdom Defunct British comics Fleetway and IPC Comics titles Magazines established in 1970 Magazines disestablished in 1974 Magazines published in London Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom