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Anglia Television Football Highlights
This page has been written & compiled by Mark Bunn
The two year TV deal signed in July 1983 saw the end of ITV regional football in the form that had served the armchair fan since 1968 (and in Anglia since 1962).  ITV were now allowed to show networked live league matches from October 1983 plus networked highlights. "About Anglia" also sent a single camera to selected matches for Monday news goals reports for local games not covered by full highlights. Ipswich Town did not appear on ITV at all during 1983/84, whilst Norwich City's 6-1 win over Watford was shown on The Big Match with Brian Moore commentating, as was the Canaries FA Cup 5th round defeat at Derby County. Luton Town were shown live in February 1984 taking a 5-0 hammering by Manchester United. There were further Norwich appearances the following season with the home games against Watford (again) and Newcastle, whilst the League Cup Semi-Final 2nd leg between Norwich and Ipswich at Carrow Road saw the return of Gerry Harrison, City's win that night led to their first ever live TV appearance in the final against Sunderland (shown on the BBC).
The dreadful events at the end of that season (including a riot at the Luton Town v Millwall FA Cup Quarter-final) culminated with the Heysel disaster which saw all English teams banned from Europe until 1990, it was harsh on Norwich who should have been playing in the UEFA Cup in 1985/86 (in spite of suffering relegation) due to their Wembley League Cup final win.

TV blackout
Following a TV football black-out during 1985/86, an interim deal allowed for coverage of the second half of that season and on 5th April 1986 the Anglia cameras and commentator Gerry Harrison returned to Carrow Road to cover Norwich v Brighton & Hove Albion in what turned out to be a promotion winning season, the footage was shown after Liverpool v Southampton FA Cup Semi-final highlights on Sunday afternoon. Harrison was at Portman Road three weeks later as Ipswich Town fought a relegation six-pointer against Oxford United, the game was shown under The Big Match banner on Saturday night along with highlights of Liverpool v Birmingham and Nottingham Forest v Everton.
In the summer of 1986 ITV and the BBC signed a two year live match deal which also allowed for highlights of league games, but it was left to the individual regions to decide whether or not to bother. The BBC took the decision to suspend Match of the Day as a regular highlights show, it only now appeared on FA Cup 4th and 6th round day in its' traditional Saturday night slot. During 1986/87 Anglia showed a number of games either as The Big Match or Soccer Special. Luton and Norwich enjoyed successful seasons (both finishing in the top seven) and, although neither side were shown live on ITV, they did feature in a few highlights packages on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons, as did Ipswich Town who had been relegated to the 2nd tier. 1987/88 followed much the same pattern with intermittent highlights shown from region to region, whilst over on BBC1 Match of the Day did cover a few more Saturday matches. In April 1988 Luton Town became the third Anglia club to lift major silverware within ten years as the Hatters beat Arsenal 3-2 (live on ITV) in one of the most thrilling League Cup finals of all time.

Exclusive deal for ITV
In the summer of 1988, ITV signed an exclusive deal with the Football League and but coverage was now largely focussed on the big five (Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Everton) although Norwich made a genuine title bid and featured in three live league games that season, there were only a handful of highlights programmes.
At the start of the 1989/90 season, Anglia re-introduced Sunday afternoon highlights as East Anglian Soccer Special with highlights of Norwich City v Tottenham Hotspur, but the show only ran for six weeks before the resumption of live networked matches (Norwich were featured live twice that season), highlights returned towards the end of the campaign to cover a few more local games, a similar combination of local highlights and networked live games was repeated the following season.

"Goals Galore"
For 1991/92 Anglia announced a new show that would run every Sunday lunchtime around 12.30 called Goals Galore, this would feature highlights of one local game plus a goals round-up of the games featuring the region's other teams. Norwich and Luton were still in the top flight, and Ipswich, Cambridge and Southend all in the 2nd tier. Peterborough United were also promoted via a Wembley Play-off final v Stockport and highlights of this were shown that night on Anglia.

Losing the rights to the top flight
Shortly after the end of the season in May 1992 it was announced that SKY had won exclusive rights to the new FA Premier League. ITV then signed an exclusive deal with the Football League to cover the 2nd, 3rd & 4th tiers and League Cup ties on a regional basis. Despite Norwich City and Ipswich Town now being in the Premier League, Anglia still had four clubs in the 2nd tier; Luton Town, Cambridge United, Peterborough United and Southend United, and it was assumed by most that Anglia would show regular coverage of these clubs, unfortunately that didn’t prove to be the case. It was announced in August that Goals Galore had been cancelled because they were unable to show Norwich and Ipswich games. With the majority of the other regions showing live games on a weekly basis, Anglia viewers had to wait until mid-October for the first live Football when they showed Central coverage of Leicester City v Peterborough United, and then Southend United v Cambridge United a week later, the local derby between Luton Town and Watford followed in November and that was it until April! Even when Peterborough United were covered (home and away) by Central and Southend United by LWT, Anglia decided to show films instead. As the end of the season approached, and after massive viewer pressure, Anglia finally relented and started showing live games - the first being LWT coverage of West Ham United v Leicester City with highlights of Peterborough United v Cambridge United (played the day before with Gerry Harrison commentating). On the final Saturday of the season highlights were shown at 5.15 on the Saturday evening of the game between West Ham United and Cambridge United (with Gerry Harrison commentating from Upton Park), this was also shown on LWT. Tony Jones, who was being groomed to replace Harrison as Anglia’s commentator was at Southend United for their game against Luton Town. Anglia then bizarrely showed all this action again the next afternoon, before the live second half of Newcastle United v Leicester City. Gerry Harrison was later to admit that Anglia’s coverage during the previous season had been a mistake and that they should have shown more games, but the executives above him had over-ruled him.

Gerry Harrison leaves Anglia
Harrison left Anglia in November 1993 for an American company producing Champions League and World Cup coverage*. The role of presenting was taken up by Kevin Piper, with Tony Jones now the regular commentator. Anglia attempted to find the middle-ground during the 1993/94 season, they started with a live game on the first Sunday of the season showing Southend United v Nottingham Forest (as did LWT, Meridian and Central) and then showed live games almost every other week from October (with films being shown on non-football Sundays). But there were still problems - For example, it was printed in the TV listings, newspapers etc. that the West Bromwich Albion v Wolverhampton Wanderers game was going to be shown live, only for it to pulled at the last moment for no apparent reason and replaced by a 1950’s Doris Day film prompting a letter to the “Norwich Evening News” which referred to ITV's advertising slogan; "Football’s free on ITV", adding "...if they bother to show it of course!!!!!".  In spite of Cambridge United's relegation, Anglia still had three teams in the 2nd tier; Luton, Peterborough and Southend, and all were shown live during the season as well as Anglia picking up the Central TV games when not showing a local match.
The Anglia cameras travelled to Wembley in May 1994 to cover the FA Vase Final between Norfolk team Diss Town and Taunton Town. As with the previous year's Cambridge game, highlights were shown at Saturday tea-time, and then almost the whole match was shown on Sunday afternoon (despite them being billed to show the LWT game between Crystal Palace and Watford).
*Gerry Harrison continued to cover the occasional match as a freelancer for another three seasons, his last game for Anglia would be the 14th April 1996 derby match between Ipswich and Norwich.

"Kick Off"
During the summer of 1994, Anglia announced that it had listened to the criticism over its coverage of the previous two seasons and decided to launch a weekly show from October called Kick-Off, described by Kevin Piper as Match of the Week for the 1990’s. When not showing a live match, extended highlights of a local game would be shown instead. Co-presenting would be the former Ipswich Town striker Alan Brazil (This would be the show that would launch Brazil’s career in the media). During the season, all of the local sides Anglia were able to cover were shown (Luton, Southend, Peterborough, Cambridge, Colchester and Northampton). On November 12th cameras covered the game between Watford and Southend United at Vicarage Road for Kick-Off with Garry Bloom commentating.
*Watford was just outside Anglia’s area, but if you had an aerial in the right direction in the north of the town, you could get very fuzzy pictures from Anglia. LWT were covering a Charlton game live the next day and it was assumed that they would show some of the highlights of the Anglia game (at the game it was announced “watch the highlights tomorrow afternoon”) but all that was shown on LWT was the goal voiced-over in a brief report.

Norwich & Ipswich drop into the 2nd tier
Kick-Off carried on for the duration of 1995/96 and benefited from Ipswich and Norwich dropping back into the 2nd tier. In November 1995 Anglia were able to cover a derby game live for the first time. The issue of Luton Town and Southend United being shared with LWT reared its head again a number of times during that season - On the opening Sunday of the season, Anglia covered the Luton home game against Norwich City, but LWT refused joint coverage, then they showed Luton Town when Anglia showed a Norwich game, but refused to let Anglia have pictures of the game to show at half-time and full-time, and the same happened when Southend United v Crystal Palace was shown on LWT and Meridian when Anglia were covering Norwich v Ipswich. Just before Christmas, Anglia were at Luton Town for a live game against Wolverhampton Wanderers but LWT decided against showing this game. When the contract came up for renewal at the end of that season, the petty bickering between LWT and Anglia could not have helped ITV’S bid, and it was SKY who took the contract ending ITV's era of regular live league match coverage. Anglia were one of the few to continue to bother with regional highlights from October 1996 onwards* (still under the Kick-Off banner), Peterborough United Manager Barry Fry was now chief pundit having replaced Alan Brazil who had left for SKY.
*Networked highlights/goals round-ups could be watched late Monday night/Tuesday morning from 1994 to 2001.

"Soccer Sunday" & "Anglia Soccer Night"
Norwich City struggled in mid-table during the late 1990's whilst Ipswich Town missed out in the play-off semi-finals for three consecutive seasons before winning the last play-off final to be held at the old Wembley in 2000. ITV's new football contract, beginning with 2001/02 (which included Premier League highlights), saw the return of regional Sunday afternoon football to all areas under the collective banner of Soccer Sunday, the half hour shows being individually produced by the main ITV regional stations to cover the 2nd, 3rd & 4th tiers, but the quality varied from region to region. The same title was also retained for a handful of regional live games, otherwise live 2nd, 3rd and 4th tier fixtures were screened on the new digital ITV Sport Channel, a short lived subscription service which was closed at the end of the season, the 2nd tier final between Norwich City and Birmingham City was networked live - this, to date, was the last time a Play-off Final was shown live by ITV. SKY then stepped in and resumed live coverage of the lower leagues in 2002/03, ITV eventually a signed a deal for highlights which returned at the start of November. From 2004/05 the regional variations of Soccer Sunday were dropped and replaced by a networked show called The Championship broadcast on Sunday mornings which mostly concentrated on the 2nd tier, regional football coverage was banished to a late night mid-week round-up slot called Soccer night (usually pre-fixed by the region producing it) which lasted until the end of 2007/08.

 Season 1986/87
11/Oct     Luton Town 0 Norwich City 0 *tx'd as "Soccer Special" on Sunday afternoon
18/Oct     Possibly Norwich City 1 West Ham United 1 *Saturday night, Peter Brackley commentating (not scheduled)
15/Nov    Possibly Luton Town 4 Nottingham Forest 2 *Saturday night, Brian Moore commentating (not scheduled)
26/Nov    Cambridge United 1 Tottenham Hotspur 3 [League Cup R4] *networked ITV coverage, Martin Tyler commentating
13/Dec     Possibly Norwich City 1 Arsenal 1 *Saturday night, Martin Tyler commentating (not scheduled)
27/Dec     Possibly Ipswich Town 3 Crystal Palace 0 *Sunday afternoon (not scheduled)
07/Feb     Possibly Ipswich Town 0 Portsmouth 1 *Saturday night (not scheduled)
04/Apr     Possibly Ipswich Town 0 Derby County 2 *tx'd as "Soccer Special" Saturday night, Gerry Harrison (not scheduled)

Season 1987/88
07/Oct    Possibly Northampton Town 2 Ipswich Town 4 [League Cup 2nd Round 2nd leg] (not scheduled)
10/Oct    Possibly Norwich City 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1 *tx'd as "Soccer Special" on Sunday afternoon (not scheduled)
17/Oct    Possibly Ipswich Town 3 Manchester City 0 *tx'd as "Soccer Special" late Saturday night (not scheduled)
07/Nov   Possibly Ipswich Town 2 Reading 1 *Sunday afternoon (not scheduled)
17/Nov   Possibly Ipswich Town 0 Luton Town 1 [League Cup 4th Round] (not scheduled)
05/Dec    Possibly Luton Town 1 Norwich City 2 *Saturday night (not scheduled)
16/Jan     Possibly Norwich City 0 Everton 3 *tx'd as "Soccer Special" on Sunday afternoon (not scheduled)
06/Feb    Possibly LWT coverage of Luton Town 7 Oxford United 4 *Peter Brackley, also shown on "Saint & Greavsie" the following week
05/Mar    Possibly Norwich City 1 Manchester United 0 *tx'd as "Soccer Special" on Saturday night (not scheduled)
24/Apr    Networked LIVE coverage of the League Cup Final - Luton Town 3 Arsenal 2

Season 1988/89
Highlights shown on late on Saturday nights.
22/Oct    Norwich City 3 Tottenham Hotspur 1 *Martin Tyler commentating
24/Nov   Norwich City 2 Luton Town 2 *Brian Moore commentating
10/Dec    Norwich City 0 Arsenal 0 *Martin Tyler  for "Sports Special" (also Boxing and Snooker)
27/Dec    Norwich City 2 West Ham United 1 *LIVE* *Martin Tyler and Ian St John commentating for networked bank holiday coverage
22/Jan     Showed LIVE coverage of Millwall 2 Norwich City 3 *Brian Moore and Jimmy Greaves commentating for networked coverage
12/Feb    Showed LIVE coverage of West Ham United 0 Luton Town 3 [League Cup SF 1st Leg] *networked
01/Mar    Luton Town 2 West Ham United 0 [League Cup SF 2nd leg] *Networked highlights with Brian Moore commentating
25/Mar    Norwich City 0 Newcastle United 2 *Gerry Harrison commentating
01/Apr    Norwich City 0 Liverpool 1 *Gerry Harrison commentating
08/Apr    Coventry City 2 Norwich City 1 *Martin Tyler commentating
09/Apr    Showed LIVE coverage of Luton Town 1 Nottingham Forest 3 [League Cup Final] *Brian Moore commentating for networked coverage
01/May   Showed LIVE coverage of Arsenal 5 Norwich City 0 *Alan Parry commentating on this networked bank holiday fixture
13/May   Luton Town 1 Norwich City 0 *Gerry Harrison commentating

Season 1989/90
All Anglia highlights tx'd as "East Anglian Soccer Special" this season.
23/Sep    Norwich City 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2
30/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 Stoke City 2
07/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 Newcastle United 1
14/Oct    Norwich City 2 Chelsea 0
21/Oct    Luton Town 4 Norwich City 1
28/Oct    Norwich City 1 Everton 1
21/Jan     Norwich City 2 Manchester United 0 *LIVE* *Sunday afternoon "The Match", Brian Moore & Jimmy Greaves commentating
10/Feb    Norwich City 0 Liverpool 0 *Saturday night
17/Mar    Norwich City 1 Millwall 1 *Sunday afternoon
31/Mar    Norwich City 2 Luton Town 0 *Sunday afternoon before a live game
21/Apr    Luton Town 2 Arsenal 0 *Sunday afternoon
05/May   Derby County 2 Luton Town 3 *Sunday afternoon, Anglia coverage outside the region with Gerry Harrison commentating

1989/90 season footnotes to be added.

Season 1990/91
25/Aug    Norwich City 3 Sunderland 2
08/Sep    Luton Town 1 Leeds United 0
22/Sep    Luton Town 1 Coventry City 0
29/Sep    Norwich City 1 Luton Town 3
13/Oct    Ipswich Town 3 Port Vale 0
20/Oct    Norwich City 1 Liverpool 1
27/Oct    Luton Town 1 Everton 1
20/Apr    Luton Town 1 Sunderland 2
11/May   Luton Town 2 Derby County 0

1990/91 season footnotes to be added.

Season 1991/92
A full season of Sunday lunchtime Anglia highlights broadcast as "Goals Galore".
17/Aug    Southend United 1 Bristol City 1
24/Aug    Luton Town 0 Liverpool 0
28/Aug    Norwich City 0 Manchester City 0
31/Aug    Norwich City 0 Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Lineker)
07/Sep    Ipswich Town 1 Southend United 0
14/Sep    Norwich City 2 (Fox, Gordon) West Ham United 1 (Small)
21/Sep    Peterborough United 1 Exeter City 1
28/Sep    Luton Town 1 (Gray) Notts County 1 (Johnson(pen))
05/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 Oxford United 1
12/Oct    Cambridge United 3 Sunderland 0
19/Oct    Luton Town 2 (Harford, Nogan) Sheffield Wednesday 2 (Hirst, Sheridan)
26/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Newman) Luton Town 0
02/Nov   Norwich City 0 Nottingham Forest 0 *This was also shown live on "World Wide Soccer" with Martin Tyler commentating for them.
09/Nov   Ipswich Town 1 Cambridge United 2
16/Nov   Cambridge United 0 Brighton & Hove Albion 0
23/Nov   Luton Town 2 (Harford, Dreyer) Manchester City 2 (Curle, Quinn)
30/Nov   Northampton Town 1 Burnley 2
04/Dec    Norwich City 2 West Ham United 1 [League Cup 4th Round] *networked coverage, Brian Moore commentated
07/Dec    Luton Town 0 Leeds United 2
14/Dec    *All games called off
21/Dec    Norwich City 0 Queens Park Rangers 1 (Bailey)
28/Dec    Ipswich Town 2 Blackburn Rovers 1
04/Jan     *No programme this weekend due to FA Cup being exclusive to BBC
11/Jan     Norwich City 1 (Beckford) Oldham Athletic 2 (Holden, Bernard)
18/Jan     Luton Town 0 West Ham United 1 (Small)
25/Jan     *No programme this weekend due to FA Cup being exclusive to BBC
01/Feb    Southend United 1 Watford 0
08/Feb    Luton Town 2 (Preece, Harford) Norwich City 0
15/Feb    Cambridge United 1 Charlton Athletic 0
22/Feb    Norwich City 3 (Woodthorpe, Fleck 2) Liverpool 0
29/Feb    Ipswich Town 2 Plymouth Argyle 0
07/Mar    Colchester United 2 Gateshead 0 *Anglia dipping into the Conference league
11/Mar    Luton Town 0 Tottenham Hotspur 0
14/Mar    Peterborough United 1 Shrewsbury Town 0 & Ipswich Town 0 Leicester City 0 *Kevin Piper commentating on the latter
21/Mar    Cambridge United 1 Ipswich Town 1
28/Mar    Ipswich Town 2 Derby County 1
04/Apr    Southend United 1 Ipswich Town 2
11/Apr    Ipswich Town 3 Newcastle United 2
18/Apr    Luton Town 1 (Harford) Manchester United 1 (Sharpe)
25/Apr    Cambridge United 4 Port Vale 2
02/May    Ipswich Town 3 Brighton & Hove Albion 1
10/May    Cambridge United 1 Leicester City 1 [Play Off SF 1st Leg] *Shown at around 6pm on the day of the match, Leicester won 2nd leg 5-0
24/May    Peterborough United 2 Stockport County 1 [3rd Tier Play Off Final]

1991/92 season footnotes to be added.

Season 1992/93
07/Oct    Norwich City 2 (Sutton 2) Carlisle United 0 [League Cup 2nd Round 2nd Leg]
18/Oct    Showed LIVE Central coverage of Leicester City 0 Peterborough United 2
25/Oct    Southend United 1 Cambridge United 1 *LIVE* Sunday afternoon Anglia coverage, Gerry Harrison commentating
28/Oct    Blackburn Rovers 2 (Shearer, May) Norwich 0 [League Cup 3rd Round] *Anglia coverage, Granada were at Man City v Spurs
29/Nov   Showed LIVE LWT coverage of Luton Town 2 Watford 0 *Brian Moore commentating
01/Dec    Cambridge United 1 (Rowett) Oldham Athletic 0 [League Cup 4th Round]
15/Dec    Ipswich Town 1 (Dozzell) Aston Villa 0 [League Cup 4th Round Replay]
19/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Whitton) Sheffield Wednesday 1 (Sheridan) [League Cup QF] *Ipswich lost the replay 1-0
10/Apr    Peterborough United 1 Cambridge United 0 *highlights shown as part of live broadcast of another match
24/Apr    Peterbrough United 3 Leicester City 0 *highlights shown as part of live broadcast of another match
01/May   Luton Town 0 Peterborough United 0 *highlights shown as part of live broadcast of another match
08/May   Southend United 2 Luton Town 1 *highlights shown as part of live broadcast of another match, also West Ham 2 Cambridge 0

Season 1993/94
15/Aug    Southend United 1 Nottingham Forest 1 *LIVE* *LWT & Meridian also showed this
07/Nov   Showed LIVE LWT coverage of Luton Town 1 Charlton Athletic 0 *Brian Moore commentating
06/Oct    Norwich City 3 (Ekoku, Fox, Sutton) Bradford City 0 [League Cup 2nd Round 2nd Leg]
26/Oct    Arsenal 1 (Wright) Norwich City 1 (Crook) [League Cup 3rd Round] *Anglia coverage
09/Nov   Peterborough United 2 (Rush, Bradshaw) Blackpool 1 (Howarth(og)) [League Cup 3rd Round Replay]
10/Nov   Norwich City 0 Arsenal 3 (Wright 2, Merson) [League Cup 3rd Round Replay]
05/Dec    Southend United 0 Leicester City 0 *LIVE* *LWT also showed this
19/Dec    Showed LIVE Central coverage of Peterborough United 1 Derby County 1
05/Mar   Possibly Peterborough United 3 (Adcock, Spearing, Charlery) Southend 1 (Poole) *might have been Central only
07/May   Diss Town 2 Taunton Town 1 [FA Vase Final]

Season 1994/95
Anglia's weekend football programmes now titled "Kick-Off", midweek highlights went out as "Anglia Sport Special"
05/Sep    Bolton Wanderers 1 (Sneekes) Ipswich 0 [League Cup 2R 2L] *Anglia coverage, Tony Jones commentating
21/Sep    Ipswich Town 0 Bolton Wanderers 3 (McAteer, McGinley, Thompson) [League Cup 2R 1L] *Gerry Harrison commentating
09/Oct    Showed LIVE Central coverage of Stoke City 1 Luton Town 2
16/Oct    Showed LIVE LWT coverage of Southend United 1 Derby County 0
22/Oct    Northampton Town 1 Wigan Athletic 0 *Northampton's last game at the County Ground
26/Oct    Tranmere Rovers 1 (Aldridge) Norwich City 1 (Polston) [League Cup 3rd Round] *Anglia coverage, Tony Jones commentating
29/Oct    Unknown highlights
05/Nov    Northampton Town 0 Fulham 1 *Northampton's first game at Sixfields
09/Nov    Norwich City 4 (Prior, McGreal(og), Polston, Newman) Tranmere Rovers 2 (Irons, Nevin) [League Cup 3R Replay] *Tony Jones commentating
12/Nov    Watford 1 Southend United 0 *Garry Bloom commentating
19/Nov    Luton Town 2 Portsmouth 0 *Tony Jones commentating, also showed Meridian coverage of Southend 4 Reading 1 with Peter Brackley comm
26/Nov    Colchester United 4 Scunthorpe United 2
30/Nov    Norwich City 1 (Eadie) Notts County 0 [League Cup 4th Round] *Peter Brackley commentating
03/Dec    Luton Town 3 Sheffield United 6
11/Dec    Luton Town 0 Derby County 0 *LIVE* *Also on LWT
17/Dec    Southend United 0 Milwall 1
11/Jan     Bolton Wanderers 1 (Lee) Norwich City 0 [League Cup QF] *Anglia coverage, Gerry Harrison commentating
14/Jan     Colchester United 1 (Putney) Barnet 1 (Hodges) *Tony Jones commentating
21/Jan     Cambridge United 2 (Butler 2) Bournemouth 2 (Pennock, McElhatton) *Tony Jones commentating
04/Feb    Cambridge United 1 (Corazzin) Crewe Alexandra 2 (Murphy, Collins) *Tony Jones commentating
18/Feb    Luton Town 3 (Horlock(og), Marshall 2) Swindon Town 0 *Peter Brackley commentating
25/Feb    Southend United 0 Sunderland 1
11/Mar    Southend United 3 (Jones, Thomson, Dublin) Luton Town 0 *Tony Jones commentating
26/Mar    Showed LIVE coverage of Luton Town 1 Watford 1 *Brian Moore commentating
01/Apr    Cambridge United 1 Plymouth Argyle 1 *shown prior to the League Cup Final
13/May    Arlesley Town 2 Oxford City 1 [FA Vase Final] *Tony Jones commentating

Season 1995/96
13/Aug    Luton Town 1 Norwich City 3 *LIVE*
13/Sep    Possibly Central coverage of Wolverhampton W. 0 Norwich City 2 with Anglia commentator
26/Sep    Norwich City 6 Torquay United 1 [League Cup 2nd Round 1st Leg]
08/Oct    Showed LIVE Central coverage of Birmingham City 2 Southend United 0
22/Oct    Ipswich Town 0 Luton Town 1 *LIVE*
29/Oct    Norwich City 1 Tranmere Rovers 1 *LIVE*
07/Nov   Possibly Yorkshire coverage of Bradford City 3 Norwich City 5 [League Cup 3rd Round Replay] with Anglia commentator
19/Nov   Norwich City 2 Ipswich Town 1 *LIVE*
25/Nov   Ipswich 3 Portsmouth 2 *Highlights shown following day during live "Kick Off" coverage of Watford v Norwich, Tony Jones comm
26/Nov   Showed LIVE LWT coverage of Watford 0 Norwich City 2 *John Helm & Dave Bassett commentating
29/Nov    Norwich City 0 Bolton Wanderers0 [League Cup 4th Round]
03/Dec    Showed LIVE Central coverage of Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Ipswich Town 2
10/Dec    Luton Town 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 *LIVE* *also showed highlights of Southend 2 Leicester 1 from previous day
17/Dec    Showed LIVE Central coverage of Leceister City 3 Norwich City 2 *Tony Jones & Mike Walker commentated for Anglia viewers
20/Dec    Showed Granada coverage of Bolton 0 Norwich 0 [League Cup R4] *Norwich won 3-2 on pens, Tony Jones comm for Anglia
10/Jan     Norwich City 1 (Fleck) Birmingham City 1 (Francis) [League Cup QF]
14/Jan     Showed Tyne Tees coverage of Sunderland 0 Norwich City 1
24/Jan     Central? coverage of Birmingham City 2 Norwich City 1 [League Cup QF] *possibly with Anglia's own commentator
04/Feb    Norwich City 1 Birmingham City 1 *LIVE*
17/Feb    Norwich City 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 *Tony Jones commentating
03/Mar    Ipswich Town 4 Leicester City 2 *LIVE*
02/Apr     Ipswich Town 1 (Vaughan) Derby County 0 *Peter Brackley commentating
14/Apr     Ipswich Town 2 Norwich City 1 *LIVE*
05/May    Ipswich Town 0 Millwall 0 *LIVE*

Season 1996/97
05/Oct    Luton Town 3 Walsall 1
11/Oct    Norwich City 3 Ipswich Town 1 *Anglia showed Sunday afternoon highlights, it had been shown LIVE by SKY on the Friday night.
19/Oct    Luton Town 3 Peterborough United 0
26/Oct    Ipswich Town 0 Tranmere Rovers 2
02/Nov   Norwich City 1 Charlton Athletic 2
09/Nov   Ipswich Town 1 Southend United 1
12/Nov   Luton Town 1 Wimbledon 2 [League Cup 3rd Round Replay]
16/Nov   Southend United 2 West Bromwich Albion 3
23/Nov   Cambridge United 2 Leyton Orient 0
30/Nov   Norwich City 0 Birmingham City 1
07/Dec    Ipswich Town 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0
14/Dec    Norwich City 1 Crystal Palace 1
21/Dec
28/Dec    Norwich City 2 Bradford City 0
11/Jan
18/Jan
21/Jan      Ipswich Town 0 Leicester City 1 [League Cup QF]
01/Feb    Southend United 0 Ipswich Town 0
09/Feb    Sheffield United 2 Norwich City 3 *Played Sunday lunchtime, Anglia showed highlights during the afternoon
15/Feb    Norwich City 2 West Bromwich Albion 4
22/Feb    Ipswich Town 2 Oxford United 1
01/Mar
08/Mar
15/Mar
22/Mar    Norwich City 0 Bolton Wanderers 1
29/Mar
05/Apr    Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 Norwich City 2 *Tony Jones commentated
12/Apr
19/Apr    Luton Town 2 Shrewsbury Town 0
22/Apr    Ipswich Town 1 Manchester City 0
26/Apr    Peterborough United 0 Luton Town 1
04/May   Ipswich Town 1 Birmingham City 1 *Showed at around 6pm on Sunday
10/May   Sheffield United 1 Ipswich Town 1  [2nd Tier Play-Off SF 1L] *played on Saturday afternoon. Tony Jones commentated (at least for Anglia)
14/May   Ipswich Town 2 Sheffield United 2 [2nd Tier Play-Off SF 2L] *Ipwich lose on away goals
24/May   Northampton Town 1 Swansea City 0 [4th Tier Play Off Final]

Season 1997/98
04/Oct    Ipswich Town 1 Manchester City 0
11/Oct    Peterborough United 3 (Carruthers, Houghton, Quinn) Colchester 2 (Rankin, Adcock)
14/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 (Mathie, Tarrico) Manchester United 0 [League Cup 3rd Round]
18/Oct    Norwich City 1 Stockport County 1
25/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 Bury 0
15/Nov   Norwich City 1 Middlesbrough 3
18/Nov   Oxford United 1 (Beauchamp) Ipswich Town 2 (Dozzell, Mowbray) [League Cup 4th Round]
22/Nov   Northampton Town 0 Watford 1
29/Nov   Ipswich Town 0 Nottingham Forest 1
06/Dec    Norwich City 2 Sheffield United 1
13/Dec    Ipswich Town 2 Portsmouth 0
20/Dec    Norwich City 0 Stoke City 0
07/Jan     Ipswich Town 2 (Tarrico, Mathie) Chelsea 2 (Flo, Le Saux) [League Cup QF] *Chelsea won 4-1 on pens
17/Jan     Norwich City 1 Nottingham Forest 0
28/Jan     Norwich City 2 Sunderland 1
07/Feb    Norwich City 0 Manchester City 0
14/Feb    Ipswich Town 5 Huddersfield Town 1
18/Feb    Norwich City 0 Tranmere Rovers 2 (O'Brien, Kelly)
21/Feb    Ipswich Town 5 Norwich City 0
07/Mar    Ipswich Town 3 Charlton Athletic 1
21/Mar    Ipswich Town 3 Wolves 0
28/Mar    Watford 1 (Johnson) Northampton Town 1 (Peer) *On "Nationwide League Extra" with Tony Jones comm.
04/Apr    Norwich City 2 Bradford City 3
11/Apr    Cambridge United 1 (Kyd) Peterborough United 0
25/Apr    Norwich City 5 Swindon Town 0
10/May   Ipswich Town 0 Charlton Athletic 1 [2nd Tier Play Off SF 1L] *Sunday night highlights
13/May   Charlton Athletic 1 Ipswich Town 0 [2nd Tier Play Off SF 2L]
22/May   Colchester United 1 Torquay United 0 [4th Tier Play Off Final] *Friday night highlights
24/May   Grimsby Town 1 Northampton Town 0 [3rd Tier Play Off Final] *Sunday night highlights

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