Once musicians were too cool for the terraces – not now

There was a time when music shunned sport – then something changed: sport started generating more money than musicIn the mid-80s, when John Peel was the compere at Reading festival, the Liverpool-supporting DJ was fond of reading out the results of that afternoon's football matches from the stage. These days, you'd imagine such a thing would be greeted warmly and with playful partisan banter from the crowd. But when Peel did it, he was booed.That's because, back then, for many people, football...

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