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FOOTBALL ON GRANDSTAND

Sam Todd looks back at a much loved television programme from yesteryear...

FOR those of us who became hooked on sport by watching BBC One on Saturday afternoons, it can be discombobulating to see the schedules filled with Bargain Hunt, Money For Nothing, Escape To The Country and Garden Rescue repeats.
It’s hardly ‘Today’s Sport As It Happens’, as promised 65 years ago -in bold white upper case font over the top of an outside broadcast camera -when the nation settled down to watch what would become the Beeb’s flagship sports show and the world’s longest running live programme of its kind.
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