Latest update November 2009 (see foot of page for details)
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Odds & Ends

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1955-1968 section.....

21st November 2009:- Thanks to Glen Isherwood who e-mailed to say; "A friend of mine, who writes for the Burnley match programme, discovered that the League Cup quarter-final between Burnley and Arsenal on 29th November 1967 was shown live by the coin-slot 'Pay-TV' service, which was only available in Westminster and Sheffield. Maurice Edelston was the commentator and wrongly reported that Peter Storey had been sent off, instead of Bob McNab. Miss Great Britain was paraded at half-time for the TV cameras, not the usual interval entertainment for a wet November night in Burnley!". A little digging around has also uncovered another live game on 'Pay-TV', details of which have been added to the Odds & Ends page (Thanks again Glen!!!).

20th November 2009:- The very first match to be covered by ABC's "World of Soccer" on 07/Nov/1965, according to a contemporary listings mag, was the 2nd division clash between Preston and Wolves, the same magazine also implies that Blackpool v WBA would be shown the following week (Thanks Robin!!!). There is now a Home Internationals page up that has details for 1964/65-1967/68 (Thanks to Robin and Dan for providing commentator details!!!).

9th November 2009:- The basic details of the 1966 World Cup are now up (Thanks to Daniel Mann for providing all the commentators for the finals and to Robin for filling in qualifier/friendly blanks!!!), I'll be adding further details to this page at some point in the future. All references to schools, youth, U21 and U23 matches have now been moved to the 'Odds & Ends' page.

1st November 2009:- A 1958 article on Granada commentator Gerry Loftus is now available, part 1 here, part 2 here (Many thanks to Robert Pedley!!!)

30th October 2009:- I've now finished adding BBC games to the Odds & Ends page (Thanks again to Robert & Robin!!!). Basic details for European finals are now up here, and there's also a page up for Euro 68 which, again, is not finished, but the basic info is available here.

15th October 2009:- Sheff Wed 2 Sheff Utd 2 was the missing ABC game for 24/Sep/1966 (Thanks to Peter Sharpe!!!). Two additions to the new Sports Special list; 18/Aug/1962 Man Utd 2 WBA 2 - this was Denis Law's debut in which he scored, footage survives, and 30/Mar/1963 Coventry 1 Man Utd 3 - Bobby Charlton scored twice and again the footage survives (Thanks to Danny Morgan!!!). The 2nd half of 19/Mar/1957 Chelsea 2 Spartak 0 [Friendly] was shown live on ITV, 18/Apr/1957 Man Utd 2 Real Madrid 2 [European Cup SF 2L] was shown live on Granada, although they missed the first 4 minutes because the ref began the match early when the ad break was on, the other regions joined for the 2nd half (Thanks to Robert Pedley!!! I'm currently going through Robert's huge lisr of BBC Sports Special and mid-week games and adding them to the Odds & Ends page).

12th October 2009:- We now have a pre-1968 'Odds & Ends' page up for which Robin Carmody has written and compiled an article on the BBC's Sports Special programme, which was of course a forerunner to Match of the Day and indeed ALL football highlights shows. All known games scheduled from season 1958/59-1963/64 are listed.

27th August 2009:- Added season by season footnotes to the ABC page. Apparently there was an ABC match in which a goal was scored whilst the goalkeeper was busy tying his laces! Does anybody remember which match this was?

14th August 2009:- A final batch of ABC matches added, all from 1967 and listed in the Yorkshire Evening Post (Thanks again to Brian!!!)

10th August 2009:- More matches added to the ABC page from September-November 1966 courtesy of the Yorkshire Evening Post (Thanks Brian!!!)

1st August 2009:- Added a bunch of matches to the ABC page, these were all found listed in the Yorkshire Evening Post, also 12/Apr/1967 Spurs 6 Birmingham 0 [FA Cup QF Replay] was networked by Rediffusion, so this has been added to the ATV London page (Thanks again to Brian for all his research!!!)

23rd July 2009:- Saturday Yorkshire Evening Post for 31/Dec/1966 states that Manchester United 0 Leeds United 0 would be shown on ABC the next day (Thanks Brian!!!)

13th July 2009:- You tube video link - the goals from 07/Oct/1967 West Ham 3 Stoke 4 with Hugh Johns commentating for ATV London (Thanks Richard/Hubbel!!!)

16th June 2009:- More missing scorers added (Thanks to Kelvin Walker!!!)

14th June 2009:- Added missing scorers for 1967/68 season.

16th May 2009:- Footage from 13/Jan/1968 Leeds 5 Southampton 0 (ABC) and 16/Mar/1968 Newcastle 1 Leeds 1 (Tyne Tees) are both included on a VHS video "Leeds United Greatest XI" (Thanks Kelvin Walker), some missing scorers also added (Thanks again to Kelvin!!!).

7th May 2009:- Tyne Tees produced a special programme to celebrate Sunderland's return to the top flight in August 1964 called "Back To The Top", it was presented by George Taylor (Thanks Geoff!!!)

15th April 2009:- Southern match for 22/Apr/1967 was Southampton 0 Tottenham Hotpsur 1 (Thanks to Terry Dingham!!!)

1st April 2009:- Added 1966/67 games to the ATV London page, some 1967/68 televised fixtures to ABC, various matches to the Southern page and a few blanks have been filled on the Anglia section.

29th March 2009:- A bunch of games have been added to the Tyne Tees page, in green for now (Thanks to Graham Lamb!!!). ITV showed live 2nd half coverage of three FA Cup ties in 1956, see ATV page (Thanks Dan!!!). I've also added a near complete list of ATV London games for season 1967/68.

8th March 2009:- ATV London match for 11/May/1968 was Luton Town v Brentford, this TV appearance was referred to in a history book on the Hatters which also notes that Luton were presented with the 4th Division Championship trophy before the game (Thanks Mark Bunn!!!). We also have a Southern TV game for 30/Dec/1967, Gillingham's matchday programme for the visit of Brighton notes; "We now face the second half of our programme with the return visit of The Seasiders, and we hope that both sides give the after-lunch television viewers in the south something to enjoy tomorrow and to keep their eyes on Channel 10 without the natural desire to see the more illustrious performers on the other channel" (Thanks to Andrew Ford for spotting that one!!!).

1st February 2009:- All film inserts for TWW's "FA Cup Special" programmes of 1965/66 still exist! We now know exactly which matches were shown, including Swindon v Coventry which was played in snow and fog with the players sliding all over the place. There are also three Cardiff matches from later season's including the Cup-Winners Cup QF Replay v Torpedo Moscow with Hugh Johns interviews at the end, but the winning goal is missing! (Thanks Dan!!!)

4th January 2009:- ATV London match for 27/Nov/1965 was Fulham 1 Northampton Town 4, Rodney Marsh played in goal for Fulham after Tony Macedo was badly injured (broken jaw?), it was Northampton's first of only two away wins in their one season in the top flight. (Thanks to Steve Ellis!!!)

2nd November 2008:- ABC match for 13/Jan/1968 was Leeds 5 Southampton 0, ABC had planned to screen Sheff Wed v Spurs that weekend but the match was postponed (Thanks Brian!!!).

15th September 2008:- Re-write the history books! Tyne Tees were the first region (in England) to screen League football highlights, not Anglia! Shoot first aired on 08/Sep/1962 - two weeks before Anglia's Match of the Week. (Scottish TV had been showing action from North of the border since 1957).

11th September 2008:- The dispute which caused BBC2's Match of the Day to disappear off the screens during the early stages of 1965/66 season now seems NOT to have affected ITV, Tyne Tees' Shoot programme is billed in the Times from the start of that season whilst Anglia's Match of the Week tended not to resume until October anyway. Going through the TV listings for 1964/65; 05/Sep/1964 Norwich v Ipswich must have been newsreel, as would previously listed mid-week Tyne Tees matches - although 19/Apr/1965 Middlesbrough v Leyton Orient may well have been shown on the following evening's local Sportstime programme (7:10-7:30pm). The pre-season North East 64/65 friendly matches (which survive in some form) may have been test runs for Tyne Tees' new ob unit.
7th September 2008:- 08/Apr/1967 Chelsea v Sheffield Wednesday [FA Cup QF] was most probably covered by ATV London and Leeds v Manchester City was likely televised by ABC as the other two QF's were shown on MOTD. For 1968, no London clubs could be shown on ITV in that year's FA Cup QF's, so ATV London covered West Brom v Liverpool and therefore ABC most likely turned up at Leeds v Sheffield United (Thanks Richard!!!).

2nd September 2008:- The ATV LONDON page is now up, but currently we only have a handful of games listed; The first four matches covered were billed in The Times, whilst a goal from the 03/Feb/1968 clash between Spurs and Man Utd was apparently used on the original "Big Match" titles and a clip from 02/Dec/1967 Fulham v Liverpool turned up on a C4 documentary, the 04/Feb/1967 Arsenal v Chelsea game is described as a certainty by Adam from Ealing who recalls being caught by the cameras in a close up sitting on his Dad's shoulders in the crowd and then getting teased by schoolfriends the next day. Other 'probable' matches listed are all from the memory of a West Ham fan (Thanks Richard!!!). I have also detailed some England internationals on the regional pages, but only because they were screened on Sunday afternoon's where you'd otherwise expect to see league highlights, the other 1960's international games will appear on their own pages in due course. There's a chance that some London Star Soccer editions may survive in the ATV London Sports archive which was acquired by LNN about 5 years ago (who in turn were then swallowed up by Granada), sadly nothing has been heard of this archive since - perhaps the problem is that it's all on an archaic 405-line VT format which requires expertise and expense to convert.

28th August 2008:- This website is now being effectively divided into two and the 1955-1968 period now has its' own home page. Ideally the split would occur at the point ITV switched to colour - but as this was a staggered operation which happened after the major franchise reshuffle (as well as the launch of The Big Match etc.), it has to be 1968. The TYNE TEES, ANGLIA and SOUTHERN pages have all been split in accordance with this change, and there is now an ABC page up with a nice article on their live match experiment in 1960 - Sadly I have absolutely no ABC World of Soccer games to list, but there will be a few on the forthcoming ATV London page.

26th August 2008:- Added footnotes to the SOUTHERN page. In the 1960's, ANGLIA did not begin scheduling "Match of the Week" until September, all archive references to August matches are probably newsreels, Anglia also showed ABC's "World of Soccer" occasionally.

17th June 2008:- Update to the ANGLIA page, Mark Bunn has gone through old editions of the Eastern Football News (Norwich) and the Football Star (Ipswich/Colchester) and come up with a whole bunch of missing matches for season's 1966/67, 1967/68 and a few more thereafter.

7th June 2008:- We now have Gerald Sinstadt's first TV commentary pinpointed to 03/Dec/1966 Grimsby v Orient. (Thanks Robin!!!)