Daily: MAGIC MIC – Clive Tyldesley on football at the crossroads

<p>The European Championships begin this week against a backdrop of more political turmoil than the game has seen in years, from taking the knee to fans booing England’s own black players to the reverberations of the Super League. <strong>Clive Tyldesley</strong>, ITV’s lead football commentator for over 20 years, talks to Andrew Harrison about football at the crossroads, and brushes with legends from Dalglish to Ferguson in his new book <em>Not For Me, Clive: Stories From the Voice of Football</em>.</p><ul><li><em>“Football is the greatest meritocracy in the world. You can buy a football club. But you can’t buy your way into a team”</em></li><li><em>“The famous Fergie hairdryer just doesn’t work on modern-day footballers”</em></li><li><em>“If a political party could harness what we see in football every Saturday, they could take over Europe”</em></li></ul><p><em>Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>