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GA-GA FOR FOOTBALL ON THE RADIO…

ADAM CARROLL-SMITH gives us a taster of his new book, The Pictures Are Better on the Radio: A fan’s love affair with sport on the wireless, published by Pitch Publishing...

MY first radio was a Sony Walkman. I got it around my ninth, maybe tenth, birthday. It was shiny and black with a mess of small buttons on the front, like Darth Vader’s chest panel, only with better AM/FM reception than he probably got.
Along the left-hand side were a series of tiny switches, and on the back, a belt clip. I actually used the belt clip a lot. I thought it made me look cool. And still do,...

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