Stringy Rovers' striker eats a bit of pasta (4)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

ROY (of the Rovers) eats [ a bit of ] P (asta) For non-Brits, Roy Race, aka Roy of the Rovers, was a footballer in an eponymous comic strip which first appeared in a comic called Tiger in 1956, but which eventually became a comic of its own.