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STONE IS ON A ROLL

JOHN LYONS chats with a man combining two of his big loves – comedy and football – on TV

Ian Stone in the hot-seat

ASK Ian Stone how long he would like to continue presenting BT Sport’s The Football’s On and he doesn’t hesitate: “Into retirement would be nice.”
For the fervent Arsenal fan, the show is his “dream job”. In a nutshell, he gets his comedy pals to come on and chat about football for an hour on a Friday night. Names like David Baddiel, Micky Flanagan, Frankie Boyle, Clive Anderson and Omid Djalili aren’t bad eithe...

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