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All posts tagged "Long-range cameras pointing at tousled kickabouts"

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TV: Q is for...
Question of Sport, A

"SPORTING WIT AND BADINAGE", as Ceefax often had it
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Cream over Britain
World Cup TV through the years

Let's face it, the quadrennial battle twixt BBC and ITV come World Cup month has kept us all mightily entertained these last...
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A bit of business
Notes on the World Cup

TV Cream is penning its own theme for the BBC's World Cup coverage, safe in the knowledge the official one will fall...
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Sport AM

GNOMIC CELTIC ANCHORMAN BOB SYMONDS was your genial host for this Monday night third-rate sportsfest.
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TV: M is for...
Match of the Day

ONCE A Saturday night-only appointment, now a franchise seemingly wheeled out at any time of the day (it's World Cup Grandstand, dammit!).
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TV: G is for...
Grandstand

ONCE BOLTED firmly to the scheduling floor on Saturday afternoon, this prized presentational paddle-steamer was berthed only when it became silly to...
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TV: B is for...
Big Match, The

BRIAN MOORE-HELMED ITV rival to MATCH OF THE DAY
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Channel Four Sport down the ages

IN THE BEGINNING there was AMERICAN FOOTBALL on a Sunday teatime
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Grand Slam

MEMORABLE BBC Wales comic drama documenting misadventures of a bunch of valleys boys on a trip to Paris to watch the World's...
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Murphy’s Mob

"EVERYWHERE YOU go, everything you see/Someone's saying no - it's a tragedy!"
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TV: S is for...
Sportsview/Sportsnight/Midweek Sports Special

ALL UNDER the banner of the "weekly review of sport", these "sturdy" vehicles rounded up the action for the football-deprived midweek pundit.
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Striker

FOOTBALL-MAD SCOUSE tyke Harry (JOE GLADWIN) lived in a caravan with his hard-up Dad (GEOFFREY HINSLIFF) who just happened to be ex-football...

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