GUNNERS, CANARIES AND TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhjTX39xKB4  Historically, an important film....well I think so!

There had been televised football by the BBC as early as 1936, although it was nearly a year before the very first televised match of football was screened – a specially-arranged friendly between Arsenal and their Reserves at Highbury on 16 September 1937. This was followed by the first televised international match, between England and Scotland on 9 April 1938, and the first televised FA Cup final followed soon after, on 30 April the same year, between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. 

The first attempt to offer the British TV public regular live League football started – and finished on October 1946, there was a televised football match broadcast by the BBC from Barnet's home ground, Underhill. Twenty minutes of the game against Wealdstone were televised in the first half and thirty five minutes of the second half before it became too dark.

On 10th September 1960 when ITV broadcast the Saturday evening fixture between Blackpool and Bolton. In 1953 those two clubs contested a famous Cup Final but by 1960 they were both struggling in the First Division and the fixture was missing its star player – Stanley Matthews – because of injury. It was a dismal match with poor TV ratings and the following Saturday (17th) Arsenal refused permission for their match against Newcastle to be televised as did Spurs the week after that (24th) for their match against Aston Villa. As a result ITV abandoned the project and nearly a quarter of a century passed before there was another live League match on British TV – Tottenham v Nottingham Forest on 2nd October 1983.

Thankfully things eventually changed. You could be watching Arsenal, for example, who play Norwich City tonight and seriously need a result to give Arteta a chance of continuing to have a job. So far  Arsenal have won 29, Norwich 11 times,  and draws = 20.

The two clubs first met on January 21st 1952 in the FA Cup 3rd Round, at Carrow Road and Arsenal won 0-5. They have met in the FA Cup 3 times, Arsenal winning one and Norwich 1, the last a 0-1 win for Arsenal, away in 1974. 

They met in Division One (then the top div) on September 23rd 1972, a 3-2 win by Norwich. They then met in Division One on 8th April 1992 at Norwich a 1-3 victory for The Gunners. There have been 5 League Cup meetings, Norwich winning 1, drawn 1 and Arsenal winning 3.

The first Premier League meeting was the following season, on August 15th 1992, at Arsenal again, Norwich winning 2-4.

The latest meeting in the PL, was on 1st July 2020, Arsenal winning 4-0 at home.