Dylan’s positively forthright views on the sporting life

ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN turned 70 this week.

Those who have spun Bob Dylan’s records in their bedrooms as youths or slipped a CD copy of Blonde on Blonde into the car stereo down the years may not have realised the sporting thread that weaves through his work. But like the biblical references, Shakespearean allusions and nods to 20th century icons, so too football, baseball and inter-county hurling run through his body of work. All you have to do is look:

1. Positively Fourth Street