The Fiver | A long way from the innocent days of ITV and Elton Welsby

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Back in the late 1980s, when the Fiver was a fresh-faced, gender-fluid football obsessive, watching live matches on ITV was a family event. We marvelled at the end-to-end thrills of Coventry City 0-0 Nottingham Forest while Weird Uncle Fiver and Daddy Fiver communicated entirely through broken wind and windmilling fists. Football has changed a bit since then, and on Thursday it was confirmed that Amazon are to become the first legal streaming-only service to legally show Premier League football, legally!

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