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The Day The Olympics Turned Bloody
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This week’s podcast is the first of several I’ll devote in the months ahead to sport in the 1970s. It was an age conspicuously different to our own. In some sports, like cricket and rugby union, an amateur dispensation prevailed.
Football, although professional, was, as we shall see, still trying to wrap its collective mind around epochal issues like advertising on shirts. The 1970s were more violent, more politicised, less televised, less legislated, less policed. The first football World Cup, for example, was televised only in 1970.
A LESS CONFORMIST AGE, it was also the age of great “characters”, ranging from George Best, to Muhammad Ali, to Pele, Ilie Năstase and the great West Indian cricket captain, Clive Lloyd. Later on in this podcast we’ll take a good look at one of these characters, a maverick Northern Ireland footballer called Derek Dougan.
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