Transfer (association football) to Derby County for £24,000 in March 1949. The record was broken seven further times between 1949 and 1961, when Luis Suárez was sold by Barcelona to Inter Milan for £152,000, becoming the first ever player sold for more than £100,000. In 1968, Pietro Anastasi became the first £500,000 player when Juventus purchased him from Varese, which was followed seven years later with Giuseppe Savoldi becoming the first million pound player when he transferred from Bologna to Napoli. In English football, the first £1 million fee occurred in 1979, when Nottingham Forest signed striker Trevor Francis from Birmingham City. Later
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