1987–88 in English football The "Today" newspaper cancels its sponsorship of the Football League after just one year, and less than two weeks before the new season is due to begin. 6 August 1987 – Peter Beardsley becomes the most expensive player to move between British clubs when he joins Liverpool in a £1.9 million deal from Newcastle United. Britain's first million-pound player, Trevor Francis, returns to Britain when Graeme Souness signs him for Rangers in a £70,000 deal from Atalanta of Italy. 7 August 1987 – Portsmouth midfielder Mick Kennedy is fined £5,000 for claiming in a national newspaper that he was "the
The Million Pound Radio Show Hamilton players such as Felicity Montagu also turned up and Harry Enfield appeared in some programmes. The show became popular in the UK through a sketch involving Pirates requiring better employment conditions (""We wants a training day!" "Aye! And a creche!"") being repeatedly played on BBC Radio 1; the only cassette release of the series capitalised on this and had "Includes the famous pirate sketch!" emblazoned on the cover. "The Million Pound Radio Show" is today quite frequently broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 Extra channel, on digital radio and the internet. In an interview given on BBC Radio 7's