Category: Football
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The Eighty-Three Roads To Wembley: Part Two
Back with the next stage of our wander down Wembley Way (briefly taking in Westgate Street, Cardiff), but first a quick whip-pan back to the 1940s. In the last part, we looked at how the billing for the first televised post-war Cup Final was advertised as airing from 4.05pm to 4.45pm, the Radio Times promising…
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The Eighty-Three Roads To Wembley: Part One
With the FA Cup Final set to kick off soon (this year, Man City v Chelsea, or “The Neutrals’ Nightmare”), it’s time for bloggers, posters and podcasters to begin the annual pissing contest of How Early Cup Final Coverage Used To Begin. It started as early as 10am! No, 9am! Well, of course, I remember…
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“The Curse of ITV”: A Deeper Dive
With England set to take on reigning world champions France in the Quarter-Finals of the 2022 World Cup in The Place Where Human Rights Go To Die, there’s been a lot of attention paid to the channel set to broadcast the match in the UK. Word is, it’s a channel that – whenever it broadcasts…
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