There is innuendo in the name: the Internet domain fuck. co. uk was at one time held by fans of Viz who claimed to be promoting the Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klubb.

Born Roger Edward Paul Mellie in 1937 in North Shields, Roger was educated at Fulchester Mixed Infants, Bartlepool Grammar School, and the Oxford Remand Centre.

He is shown working on various TV networks and channels, the fictional Fulchester Television ( FTV ) and the BBC being his primary employers.

Recruited by Fulchester Television he became a popular TV personality and established his own production company, MellieVision.

Fulchester usually win a game with scores of around 5-nil – but if Billy is not in goal they instead lose by the same margin.

* Fulchester, the equivalent hometown for the characters of Viz comic.

Discs had the dubious honour of sponsoring the Fulchester United team, club of Billy the Fish in Viz comic.

Fulchester is a fictitious town in North East England where most of the comic strips in the humour-based Viz comic are set.

Viz comic featured a regular character, Sir Anthony Regents-Park, MP for Fulchester Sunnyoak, who appears to refer to Beaumont-Dark.

Initially, many strips were clearly rejected from Viz ; many set in Viz's fictional town of Fulchester, but with the ' F ' tippexed out ( thus Gas appeared to be set in Ulchester ).

The strip chronicles the football team Fulchester United F. C.

* Shakin ' Stevens, the famous pop star signed for Fulchester in an early strip, parodying the time when Spandau Ballet signed up for Melchester Rovers, the team featured in Roy of the Rovers.

One strip, lampooning the ' back from the brink ' plot type, had Fulchester narrowly beating a team of paperboys ( because their goalkeeper's mother called him in for his tea ) and then moving on to the FA Cup final the next day.

Later that week at Fulchester Stadium, the team coach Sid Preston has some bad news for Tommy Brown.

Most of the stories take place in the fictitious town of Fulchester.

Billy the Fish plays for Fulchester United F. C.

He often stays at his favourite lap-dancing club until gone three in the morning but lives in Fulchester with his 17-year old Thai wife and 15 Staffordshire Bull Terriers.

He lives at the Fulchester Community Housing For The Differently Tempered, and has had various housemates, all of whom have had severe anger management problems.

From the accents used and the cultural references, it is presumed that Fulchester is either close to, or based upon, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Despite born half man, half fish, has managed to have a long and successful career as a goalkeeper for Fulchester.

His catchphrase is " someone's out to make trouble for Fulchester United.

Later in the book series, he joined Grimthorpe City and teamed up with evil Gus Parker and Wilf his henchman to discredit Fulchester United and kill Billy Thompson for revenge.

) Parker is often behind highly contrived schemes to discredit Fulchester United.

Wilf helps his boss to discredit Fulchester United so Grimthorpe City can become winners of the league trophy.

The referee decided that because of their condition the goal counted double, resulting in Fulchester winning the game.

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