TELEVISED FOOTBALL

The first televised live football came from Highbury in 1937 (the link below tells more). On 9th April, 1938 the international between England and Scotland was televised as was the Huddersfield Town v Preston NE FA Cup Final, but there were more in the stadium than watching on tv sets.

It was obvious that the Football Association and the Football League would put barriers between the clubs and TV, protecting their "investments".

The first live World Cup in the UK was shown in 1954. 

By the 1960-1, 26 live league games were allowed, the first Blackpool v Bolton Wanderes on September 10th 1960, I watched on a "grainy" black and white small screen. Then Anglian TV invested in Match of the Week so I had to suffer that on Sunday's in the East Anglian region for 4 years.

On this day, August 22nd, in 1964 was the debut of Match of the Day on BBC1, showing Liverpool v Arsenal entertaining an audience of less than 100,000 in Black and White. 

 The first colour broadcast was on 15th November 1969 from Anfield against West Ham with a 2-0 win to the home side. Very few people had colour sets and much of the commentary was referring to "black and white". The classic John Motson's commentary, amongst many, was "For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all yellow strip".

The 1970 FA Cup Final replay between Chelsea and Leeds Utd at Old Trafford attracted  28.5 million, becoming the 6th most watched in British TV. Apparently greater than Charles and Di's wedding 1981 and the Apollo 13 splash down in 1970. 

The Premier League' second day, in 1992, with Sky TV rights, featured Nottingham Forest v Liverpool on Sunday 16th August.

23rd April 2007 Jacqui Oatley was the first female to commentate when Fulham played Blackburn Rovers.

On January 31st 2010, at the Emirates, Arsenal lost 1-3 to Manchester United at the World's first live 3D sports' event. Sky experimented this broadcast in 9 pubs. 

There's more about the history of televised football below: 

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