Adam LeBor on Television
May 27, 2021
3 minutes
T WAS MARCH 1989, the Berlin Wall was still standing and Albania was Europe’s most repressive Communist dictatorship. We were sitting in a hotel bar in Tirana, the capital, when three drunken English football fans lurched at us, raring to fight. I had travelled there on a trip organised by , a football magazine, to see England play Albania in a World Cup qualifying match. I had no interest in football, but I was very interested in Albania, which was then almost impossible for journalists
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