PETER O’BRIEN explains how his Dad winning a crisps competition opened up a whole new world…

ON HEARING of the recent passing of the 1970 World Cup-winning Brazilian captain Carlos Alberto, it got me thinking how I developed my passion for the beautiful game.
I was born in June 1961 and sometime in early 1970 my Dad entered a competition with a local crisp company -he had to make up some ditty about the crisps. Anyway, he won and got a transistor radio as a result.
My Dad gave me the radio and it opened up a whole new world for me as regards sport and, especially, football...