Bottled: the relationship between alcohol and football, from sponsors to players

Aug 29, 2019, 09:11 AM

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Alcohol and football are strange but longstanding bedfellows. From the earliest origins of the game, the financial support of brewers and distillers has driven development. However, this relationship has hardly been chronicled. Bottled, by Ben Roberts, fills that gap and he joins us to discuss how alcohol has been and remains an important, divisive and tragic element in football.