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By 1960, it was already possible to talk about a ‘national’ television audience in Britain. Eurovision was, however, relatively new, having been founded in 1954. The European Cup Final of 18 May 1960, played in the Scottish national stadium, was the first European Cup match to be broadcast live in full on national TV in Britain and to 12 other countries on Eurovision.1 The match attracted a record crowd to Hampden Park, Glasgow, mainly comprised of Scots. Compare this to the international meeting of two weeks earlier in the same stadium between Scotland and Poland, which attracted only 30,000 fans.
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Hare, G. (2015). Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: The Case of the 1960 European Cup Final. In: Pyta, W., Havemann, N. (eds) European Football and Collective Memory. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450159_6
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