BEN ROBINSON suggests it’s time to give football programmes a swerve and move with the times…

BEN ROBINSON

WITH the cost of football rising rapidly, an easy way to save money is to bin the old outdated paper programme and instead embrace digital media.
The programme has been part of our footballing history since the 1880s, when they would have been a single card or sheet with team names and player positions.
Aston Villa were one of the first clubs to publish a programme with the ‘The Villa News and Record’ which from the beginning was designed t...