0:00:06 > 0:00:1050 years ago, the first communications satellite,
0:00:10 > 0:00:13Telstar, was already up there.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16Television was going into space.
0:00:16 > 0:00:21Football 50 years ago was rooted firmly in the ground.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Wary of television, worried it might fracture the bonds between fans
0:00:26 > 0:00:30and their teams, kill the passion for the people's game
0:00:30 > 0:00:34and leave the soaring monuments of the urban landscape empty.
0:00:36 > 0:00:3950 years ago, a new programme was launched.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Wherever television was heading,
0:00:41 > 0:00:44this show was not going to threaten football.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49It was to make the bond stronger, a half century of Match Of The Day.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52It's like going to church, you know, it's a religious thing.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58The perfect playing partner for the national game.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02A great service to the football in this country.
0:01:02 > 0:01:03Football for all.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06For some, more than that.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10It provides the narrative of how football is perceived.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Special memories, an amazing programme.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Telling the story since 1964 of the 11 clubs to have won
0:01:18 > 0:01:22the league title, their successors, and more.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Match Of The Day - the best on the best.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28COMMENTATOR: Best. It's a goal!
0:01:28 > 0:01:31- Cantona.- Kevin Keegan, man.
0:01:31 > 0:01:32What a great goal!
0:01:32 > 0:01:35- Gerrard, Lampard...- Gary Lineker.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Bale!
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Ian St John, Emlyn Hughes...
0:01:41 > 0:01:44- Paul Scholes.- Zola.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Match Of The Day has it all.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08It's your memories of football, that music coming on,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12and mithering your parents to stay up late to watch it.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15My earliest memory of Match Of The Day is watching it as a kid
0:02:15 > 0:02:17and thinking, "How great is that?"
0:02:17 > 0:02:21It was one of the things I was always allowed to do by my parents,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24they always let me watch Match Of The Day.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26I used to look forward to it like...
0:02:26 > 0:02:28like you'd never believe.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32What I love now about it is, if I've been to the game,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36I love coming home and watching it, because you can reassess
0:02:36 > 0:02:40your thoughts, see if you were right, see if you were wrong.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44Something special about it, when I was younger, even now,
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Saturday night, I'll stay at home. I'll watch Match Of The Day.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52It is THE iconic football programme and I think it always will be.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55It's the story of English football week in, week out.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59You can watch all the live football in the world,
0:02:59 > 0:03:02but to get that fix in an-hour-and-a-half of everything
0:03:02 > 0:03:06that happens on that day, it really does work.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08COMMENTATOR: Keegan with a chance - and he has scored!
0:03:08 > 0:03:11COMMENTATOR: And a good shot and what a goal! What a goal!
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- COMMENTATOR:- It's Gascoigne, it's a brilliant goal.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16And that's what he can do.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17- COMMENTATOR:- What a finish.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24COMMENTATOR: Oh, and it's an unbelievable goal from Wayne Rooney!
0:03:24 > 0:03:27The televising of football is now such a massive business.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32But 50 years ago, how suspiciously the cameras were viewed.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36The FA Cup final and some international matches were
0:03:36 > 0:03:38shown live, but that was all.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Until a new channel was launched.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44Good evening. This is BBC Two.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49BBC Two planned to appeal to all levels of brow,
0:03:49 > 0:03:53but also to do things that no other network did.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55I am a communist and I'll tell you why.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59Some of those brows were furrowed when a place was found on this
0:03:59 > 0:04:02new channel for Saturday night highlights of one football match.
0:04:02 > 0:04:09At that time football was haunted by the prospect of television -
0:04:09 > 0:04:13or the regular exposure of football on television -
0:04:13 > 0:04:16resulting in very reduced attendances.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20BBC Two managed to persuade the FA to let it do it,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23on the grounds that nobody watched BBC Two.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28Which was more or less true, because it was only visible in
0:04:28 > 0:04:31a small part of the country - London and Birmingham.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33And it had a tiny number of viewers.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35So here it was, this new highlights show,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39football coming into the nation's homes under the radar.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42I remember very vividly a friend of mine said,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46"Come back to my house, there's a new football programme starting."
0:04:46 > 0:04:47And it was Match Of The Day,
0:04:47 > 0:04:51and the first game was Liverpool against Arsenal with Ken Wolstenhome
0:04:51 > 0:04:54on the pitch, the time of The Beatles and all that business.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Welcome to Match Of The Day,
0:04:56 > 0:05:00the first of a weekly series coming to you every Saturday on BBC Two.
0:05:00 > 0:05:0322nd August, 1964.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06COMMENTATOR: Hunt... It's a goal!
0:05:06 > 0:05:09It wasn't long before Match Of The Day was switched
0:05:09 > 0:05:11from BBC Two to BBC One.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13COMMENTATOR: Oh, a great goal!
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Technology was advancing, into the age of colour.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Lawler - that's it!
0:05:20 > 0:05:23The BBC didn't reveal which match was to be covered,
0:05:23 > 0:05:25allaying those fears about a drop in attendances.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30What had began quietly was now a Saturday night institution.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33The pubs virtually closed at ten minutes to ten
0:05:33 > 0:05:36so that people could get home to watch Match Of The Day.
0:05:36 > 0:05:41It was an extraordinary thing really.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44We used to go to the pictures on a Saturday night.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46The pictures didn't come out until ten past,
0:05:46 > 0:05:49five past ten or something like that, and we had to
0:05:49 > 0:05:53leave before Match Of The Day started to get home to watch it.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56My wife complained for many years that she'd missed the
0:05:56 > 0:05:58last ten minutes of every film she'd ever watched.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01You always wanted the thrill of not knowing a score,
0:06:01 > 0:06:04because then you'd be replicating the thrill of a game.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07You didn't want somebody to say, "Oh, you had a good win today",
0:06:07 > 0:06:10and you'd think, "Ohhh, don't tell me!"
0:06:10 > 0:06:13When I was a kid growing up that was our highlight,
0:06:13 > 0:06:17watching a bit of Match Of The Day.
0:06:17 > 0:06:22We had a nine-inch television with a three-inch magnifying glass
0:06:22 > 0:06:25you strung over the front of the television to make
0:06:25 > 0:06:27it into a 12-inch black and white.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32And we used to sit there waiting for that to come on on a Saturday night.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36And on these Saturdays, Match Of The Day wasn't a stand-alone show.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37It was an essential part
0:06:37 > 0:06:40a package on THE night of the week.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44The BBC chose to make Saturday night its big ratings night
0:06:44 > 0:06:48and they put every big show they had into Saturday night,
0:06:48 > 0:06:49and we used to get decimated.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Didn't he do well? Whoa!
0:06:51 > 0:06:53It worked, the controller loved it,
0:06:53 > 0:06:56and Match Of The Day used to get an audience then of up to ten million.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59The players became stars, they became
0:06:59 > 0:07:03part of the entertainment world as well as the sporting world.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06If I knew the cameras were there, I'd do things to try
0:07:06 > 0:07:08and make people laugh.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14To me, it was theatre, and always has been.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18And I wanted to act up in front of the people, and they loved it.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20You go to the pictures to see
0:07:20 > 0:07:23the famous actors and actresses, don't you?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26But you can stay at home and see the great footballers,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29and you can see those in your house, with a cup of tea
0:07:29 > 0:07:32and a sandwich, dressing gown, pyjamas.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- COMMENTATOR:- And Jimmy Greaves has done it again.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40- Charlton - oh, what a goal!- Keegan!
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Gray! What a fantastic goal.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Match Of The Day has been a constant, going with football
0:07:47 > 0:07:51through the good times, sticking with it in troubled years.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Lifelong allegiances haven't always been
0:07:53 > 0:07:55so openly declared as they are now.
0:07:55 > 0:08:00You're going down - big time.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02We're going to beat the Gooners!
0:08:02 > 0:08:05It's rivalries like Arsenal Spurs, United Liverpool excite
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Match Of The Day viewers, excite us as fans.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10My dad and me, my son, we'll get in the car afterwards,
0:08:10 > 0:08:14we'll all be shouting at each other. Match Of The Day reflects that.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16- How old were you when it launched? - About 16.- 14?
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- You weren't even born yet.- I wasn't.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21I was born up the road in Stamford Hill,
0:08:21 > 0:08:26and you either was an Arsenal fan or a Tottenham fan.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28My father, my brother, my uncle - everybody,
0:08:28 > 0:08:30we were all Tottenham fans.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32We used to lean on the rails before all this stuff came in,
0:08:32 > 0:08:34and my dad used to hold me on there.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- Were you the mascot, or...? - Not at that time.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42And yeah, I remember, that was the first game I remember being at.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47I remember mine. Arsenal Manchester United, April 1972.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50All I remember is the excitement of going to a game
0:08:50 > 0:08:52and then coming back and watching Match Of The Day,
0:08:52 > 0:08:55it's like this great place where every fan in the country can...
0:08:55 > 0:09:00He's going, he's after a job on the BBC!
0:09:04 > 0:09:05TUNING OF CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTS
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23THEY HUM MATCH OF THE DAY THEME
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Oh, God, he's tone-deaf and all.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Yeah, it's just, like, the greatest music.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34They'll never change that music, will they?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36They can't, can they?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38THEY PLAY MATCH OF THE DAY THEME
0:09:38 > 0:09:40There is nothing more enduring than this.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Yes, the great constant.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Except...it isn't.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55If you listen to that song the thing that comes immediately to you
0:09:55 > 0:09:59is Match Of The Day.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Soon as that came on you drop what you're doing - boom,
0:10:01 > 0:10:03sat down, eyes glued to the TV.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Every kid knew it, and you knew there was a game of footy
0:10:06 > 0:10:08going on in the streets soon as you heard that, so...
0:10:08 > 0:10:12It's just a tune that stays in your head and allows you to have
0:10:12 > 0:10:13so many memories.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16A lot of people don't realise that wasn't the original tune.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18ANNOUNCER: BBC Two.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20It was a band sound.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22HE HUMS ORIGINAL THEME
0:10:31 > 0:10:34When the Match Of The Day tune came in there were a lot of people who
0:10:34 > 0:10:38said, "Oh, no, you can't change it." But this time, they stuck with it.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42MUSIC: "Match Of The Day" by Barry Stoller
0:10:45 > 0:10:50That takes me back. That's amazing.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Hello, good evening.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55We hope you like the new music, and we hope too you'll like...
0:10:55 > 0:10:59We have to go back to the summer of 1970.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02What came into my mind actually was the fanfare.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Duh-duh-duh-duh, bam-bam-bam!
0:11:05 > 0:11:08It's those last few notes.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11They represent gladiators,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14footballers in the arena.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17They're the people, that's everything.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19And so from that moment,
0:11:19 > 0:11:24I knew that the piece had to be played completely
0:11:24 > 0:11:25by trumpets.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27It's becoming synonymous with,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30I don't think just Match Of The Day itself,
0:11:30 > 0:11:31but with football.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34I also personally prefer the lounge version.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37It's a much more relaxed version.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39I don't know whether the band can join in here.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Let's try.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44LOUNGE VERSION OF MATCH OF THE DAY THEME
0:11:44 > 0:11:45CHRIS EVANS: Oh, yeah!
0:11:45 > 0:11:46All right!
0:11:49 > 0:11:51I'm not into football at all!
0:11:52 > 0:11:54I know, it's crazy,
0:11:54 > 0:11:56but...
0:11:56 > 0:11:58it's the truth!
0:11:58 > 0:12:00I have to say, that's not my favourite.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04My favourite version of Match Of The Day is the Jewish folk song.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06KLEZMER VERSION OF MATCH OF THE DAY THEME
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Hey!
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Do you remember, they tried to change it once, didn't they?
0:12:13 > 0:12:14"Don't change that!
0:12:14 > 0:12:16"Oi, you've changed that!"
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Now to reveal the subject that's provoked a lot of gentlemen
0:12:19 > 0:12:20and even more ladies
0:12:20 > 0:12:23to write pleading letters to the programme in recent weeks.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25It's simply this...
0:12:25 > 0:12:27NEW MATCH OF THE DAY THEME PLAYS
0:12:27 > 0:12:30It lasted about six weeks and everyone went,
0:12:30 > 0:12:32"No, we want to hear it the way it's always been!"
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Bob and I share the view of most of you.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37We like the old music better.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40They nearly burnt Television Centre down, the people.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42So we soon went back to the old signature tune.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46The Match Of The Day theme tune is the soundtrack to my childhood
0:12:46 > 0:12:47and my early life.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51It's the most instantly recognisable theme
0:12:51 > 0:12:56throughout the country and I'm really humbled by that.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01- MICHAEL GRADE:- When I was asked to do Desert Island Discs,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04I rather regret not taking the Match Of The Day theme tune with me
0:13:04 > 0:13:07to the desert island. It's so evocative.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11It just cheers you up.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13I suppose it does, even if you've lost... No.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14No, it doesn't.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18It's football, it's people, it's Match Of The Day.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25In the 50 years of Match Of The Day,
0:13:25 > 0:13:27generations of football fans have witnessed
0:13:27 > 0:13:29some of their most cherished moments.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32But can you choose just one?
0:13:32 > 0:13:34I suppose the goal which was quite pleasing
0:13:34 > 0:13:37cos I scored it against Pat Jennings when I lobbed him.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40I think there were about three or four defenders in front of me
0:13:40 > 0:13:42and I figured the only way to get out of it
0:13:42 > 0:13:44was to put it over all their heads.
0:13:44 > 0:13:45- COMMENTATOR:- Beautiful!
0:13:45 > 0:13:48- COMMENTATOR: - Is this the moment for Ian Wright?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50There was a goal that Coventry scored
0:13:50 > 0:13:51where he flicked it up with his heel
0:13:51 > 0:13:53and the other fella volleyed it in.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54COMMENTATOR: Hunt!
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Oh, what a goal!
0:13:56 > 0:13:57- COMMENTATOR:- Phillips.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58Good try! Brilliant!
0:14:02 > 0:14:03- COMMENTATOR:- What's he done?
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Not my penalty, I did not touch that ball.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Robert Pires, I'm not involved in nothing of that.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Robert Pires messed it up. Yes, Robert, you did.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13He can blame me. Yeah, of course, because it's...
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Because it's my fault, yeah.
0:14:16 > 0:14:17Terrible fault.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21Do not associate me to Robert Pires when he missed that penalty, please.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- Please!- Sorry for the fans.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28I think it's one of the finest moments in the Premier League.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33JOHN MOTSON: This is extraordinary.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Dalglish. Oh!
0:14:36 > 0:14:38David Beckham scoring from the halfway line.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40JOHN MOTSON: And Beckham saw Sullivan off his line!
0:14:40 > 0:14:44Oh! That is absolutely phenomenal!
0:14:44 > 0:14:46I'd have to say it's my most memorable goal
0:14:46 > 0:14:48and I remember scoring that goal and thinking,
0:14:48 > 0:14:50"I can't wait to watch Match Of The Day tonight."
0:14:52 > 0:14:57Appearing on Match Of The Day is like walking into my own dreams.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59You all right? It's like tearing a hole in the matrix
0:14:59 > 0:15:01and sort of stepping inside something.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Do you mind if we do something stupid?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06- AS GARY LINEKER:- Hello and welcome to Match Of The Day,
0:15:06 > 0:15:08and what a day it was in the Premiership,
0:15:08 > 0:15:11with over 30 goals. Here's a feast for all of us.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Joining us tonight is Alan Hansen.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16- AS ALAN HANSEN:- Terrible defending. Terrible defending.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18You cannae get away with defending like that.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20And Alan Shearer - "Yeah, all right." And Russell Brand.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22I don't care how that programme goes -
0:15:22 > 0:15:24I'm giving this to myself as a 12-year-old kid.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25"Here you go, mate.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27"Have that, 12-year-old Russell."
0:15:27 > 0:15:28I'm on Match Of The Day.
0:15:28 > 0:15:29It's the game we gave to the world
0:15:29 > 0:15:33and we're taking it back today on Match Of The Day.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34Interesting.
0:15:34 > 0:15:39Match Of The Day to me means I can have an understanding
0:15:39 > 0:15:41'of what's going on in top-flight football
0:15:41 > 0:15:43'without having to devote my entire life to it.'
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Oh!
0:15:45 > 0:15:47'I'm going to go on there for serious analysis.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48'I ain't even going to try to be funny.'
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I'm on Match Of The Day.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Russell, welcome, first and foremost, to Match Of The Day.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Where do you stand on the two goals?
0:15:56 > 0:15:59I think that David Beckham's goal is a very beautiful and iconic goal.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Also, he did it with a better barnet.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04What I think West Ham are lacking is support for Andy Carroll,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06a player to hang around the six-yard box,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08similar to yourself, there, Gary.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Did you see me there analysing?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- ALL: Fantastic. Very good. - Leave that out.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Somebody on Match Of The Day has to play up front,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25out here, set slightly apart from the rest of the team,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28on his own, or her own.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31But the programme likes a lone striker
0:16:31 > 0:16:33who's in it for the long haul.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38BBC has had some wonderful football presenters
0:16:38 > 0:16:42that have hosted Match Of The Day - Kenneth Wolstenholme, for example.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47If anybody is still trying to tell you that football was far better
0:16:47 > 0:16:4910, 20, 30, 40 years ago,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52just very politely say to them, "Nonsense".
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Good evening. This is the season in which soccer moves into the '70s.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59When anybody says Match Of The Day, I see David Coleman,
0:16:59 > 0:17:03because that's what was new and impressive in those first years.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04In those early years,
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Match Of The Day was the only highlights show,
0:17:07 > 0:17:11Kenneth Wolstenholme and David Coleman - pioneers, groundbreakers.
0:17:11 > 0:17:16But by the end of the 1960s, ITV had The Big Match,
0:17:16 > 0:17:20and by the early 1970s had unearthed a different kind of frontman.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25Jimmy Hill had done just about everything in football -
0:17:25 > 0:17:30player, union leader, manager and now television presenter.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33But not before turning out as a linesman.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Over the speaker came, "Is there anybody here with qualifications?"
0:17:37 > 0:17:40And then the next minute, everyone went, "He's here, he's there,
0:17:40 > 0:17:42"he's every...where,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44"Jimmy Hill!" And he came running on!
0:17:45 > 0:17:48And was the linesman for the rest of the game.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Jimmy Hill, who had done everything,
0:17:51 > 0:17:53but now the specialist in the presenter's chair
0:17:53 > 0:17:55at Match Of The Day.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Nothing from now on would be the same.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58- PRODUCER:- Ten seconds.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- SECOND PRODUCER:- Stand by, Jimmy. Stand by, studio.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Good evening and welcome to Match Of The Day
0:18:03 > 0:18:05for the start of the 1973-4 season.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10CREAKING Sorry about the noise.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12There was only one Jimmy Hill.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15You couldn't be sure quite what he was going to say next,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18but that made it even better, cos it was so unpredictable.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Working with him was an absolute pleasure,
0:18:20 > 0:18:22because he just made me laugh.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24He'd have opened up his options for Fowler,
0:18:24 > 0:18:26because Fowler was in the best position...
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Jimmy, be quite, will you?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31EXPLOSION
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Also, Collymore could break through the Spurs defence.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45LAUGHTER
0:18:46 > 0:18:48You won't get it better than that
0:18:48 > 0:18:51if you have it 109 times.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54He was very good for the programme, he was very different.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57In 1988, Jimmy went back into the pack,
0:18:57 > 0:19:01a pundit now, with Des Lynam stepping up to be the frontman.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Good evening. I suppose it's back to the future tonight -
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Match Of The Day returning on a regular basis
0:19:06 > 0:19:10after a gap of four seasons, and 28 years after the very first programme.
0:19:10 > 0:19:11I don't remember it.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12I worked in radio for years
0:19:12 > 0:19:15and done quite well and enjoyed it and was relaxed on it,
0:19:15 > 0:19:16then I went to television and thought,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19"What's that thing looking at me? What's that all about?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21"I don't like that at all."
0:19:21 > 0:19:22He soon got the knack of it.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24..Harry the haddock.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27I did one programme and I thought, "That wasn't too bad."
0:19:28 > 0:19:31So 30 years later, I was still doing it, I guess.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33And we'll see you next Saturday. Good night.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Des had that kind of effortless charm.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37It's why... He made women watch Match Of The Day,
0:19:37 > 0:19:40because he was very good-looking, very charming,
0:19:40 > 0:19:41and he made it very approachable.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Good afternoon. Shouldn't you be at work?
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Listen, I'm with you - how could you miss this?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Smooth as silk.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49So smooth.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52This is quite a monumental day for me.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54I've been with the BBC for 30 years.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59In 1999, Des did a reverse Jimmy and left the BBC for ITV.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Who better to fill a gap up front than the best in the business?!
0:20:03 > 0:20:04COMMENTATOR: Lineker!
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Can the England captain finish? Yes, he can!
0:20:08 > 0:20:12Lineker uses him by not using him...good try, he's scored!
0:20:12 > 0:20:16When Des left, I thought, "No, this ain't going to work. Gary Lineker?
0:20:16 > 0:20:20"You are joking!" But he's done all right, hasn't he?
0:20:20 > 0:20:23He'd always wanted to do it. I mean, Gascoigne used to call him "Des"!
0:20:23 > 0:20:25That was a dream start for Shearer, wasn't it?
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Fantastic, the only problem is he's set his standards
0:20:28 > 0:20:30so high, they'll be expecting that every week.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33He was watching very carefully and learning the ropes,
0:20:33 > 0:20:35coming along and I could see he was going to be good, very good.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Hello there, we're on the finishing stretch
0:20:37 > 0:20:40of the Barclays Premier League and boy, is the tension mounting!
0:20:40 > 0:20:42I think he's pretty natural.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45You forget that he's an ex-footballer now, you just see him
0:20:45 > 0:20:48as a presenter, which is the best compliment you can give him really.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51You have that certain trust in him that he's been through it all
0:20:51 > 0:20:53and he knows what he's talking about.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56He's gone from a player to a pundit to a presenter.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Erm, player, pundit, presenter, all the Ps.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02On the day of Match Of The Day I come in, we have a bank
0:21:02 > 0:21:05of screens where we can watch all the games live as they happen.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08I'll flick around, I'll watch the early game, the late game,
0:21:08 > 0:21:11I'll be writing words and scripts and stuff.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Just looking for major incidents, big goals,
0:21:13 > 0:21:15talking points that we might need later.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Then about five o'clock stick my head together with the editor and decide
0:21:19 > 0:21:24on the running order...the much maligned running order, on occasions.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Twitter goes mad, it's like, "My team's first on Match Of The Day."
0:21:27 > 0:21:29It's like a big achievement!
0:21:29 > 0:21:32As a United fan, I've never had an issue really.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35I'm like, "Your team ain't coming on till the end, well,
0:21:35 > 0:21:37"My team's on, so it's all good!"
0:21:37 > 0:21:39The game was a stinker, before we start,
0:21:39 > 0:21:41I cannot believe it's on third.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42I thought it would definitely be on last.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45We're always on last, every week, sick of it!
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Well, I don't mind it too much,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49cos I get a few more drinks in the pub but it's
0:21:49 > 0:21:52unless we're getting a hammering, we're on first, from a big team.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Otherwise, I'm just used to seeing us at the end of the schedule.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56I don't know, I don't know how you do it,
0:21:56 > 0:21:58cos you can't please all the fans, can you?
0:21:58 > 0:22:01So, you have to go...you have to make the decision
0:22:01 > 0:22:03and we have to put up with it. I really think that.
0:22:03 > 0:22:04Good evening,
0:22:04 > 0:22:07the final day of a magnificent Barclays Premier League Season...
0:22:07 > 0:22:09If you're playing in football,
0:22:09 > 0:22:10it's probably a dream to play in a World Cup.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12If you're a presenter of football,
0:22:12 > 0:22:14you want to present Match Of The Day.
0:22:14 > 0:22:19So, to have done both is like two dreams come true, really.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21- I think Lineker's a very good presenter.- Oh, he is, he's good.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24I think he's been brilliant as the link man for that.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26I mean, he's very opinionated on Twitter
0:22:26 > 0:22:29but I think his job as a presenter is more to anchor the pundits.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33Des told me once, he said, "I never say, joining me tonight,
0:22:33 > 0:22:35"I always say, joining us tonight."
0:22:35 > 0:22:37They're not joining you, they're joining us.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39They're joining the programme and your pundits
0:22:39 > 0:22:42and everybody else in the background...join us, we.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Until we meet again, good night.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Over here there's more safety in numbers
0:22:52 > 0:22:55but this can be the dark side.
0:22:55 > 0:22:59Here sit the pundits and from them come opinions and praise
0:22:59 > 0:23:02and criticism.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05This is where the scalpel of analysis must be held firm,
0:23:05 > 0:23:08to reveal the less obvious secrets of the game.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09They said, "Well, that's enough.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11"Thank you very, we're now rock bottom
0:23:11 > 0:23:13"And we don't need your services any more."
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Scoring goals is going to be a problem for them, though.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18And you're trying to get them to play something which is
0:23:18 > 0:23:21different from the sort of method that they use every week.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24The referee has to be 100% certain that he's dived there
0:23:24 > 0:23:27and he could not have been because that was a blatant penalty.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30The pundits alone separate it, they don't hold back.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32They let you know, sometimes they say something and I was
0:23:32 > 0:23:35thinking that, I want to go and sit there, I want to say that.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36It feels good, it feels good.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Even as a player, you sit there and obviously there's
0:23:39 > 0:23:42people on the sofa you respect as footballers as well, in the industry.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Sometimes, I used to sit there and think,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47"How dare he speak about me like that!
0:23:47 > 0:23:49"Someone get me his number so I can call him."
0:23:49 > 0:23:52You've got to give your opinions and you're going to upset some
0:23:52 > 0:23:55people throughout the season but that's the way it is.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58That sometimes becomes part of your fuel
0:23:58 > 0:24:00for next week and the week after.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02So, I ain't going to get embarrassed on Match Of The Day!
0:24:03 > 0:24:07In Match Of The Day they don't like
0:24:07 > 0:24:11very, very much the Chelsea blue.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16They don't like very much, they are more red, they love the reds.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Gary likes the blue but the blue from Everton.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24There are more reds than blues but I respect that.
0:24:24 > 0:24:29To be honest, I'm disappointed with some of the comments about myself,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32when I used to be sent off quite often.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38If you raise your hand and swing it, then the law says that you go off.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41It's a view and I think people have a different opinion.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43I'm not joking!
0:24:43 > 0:24:46- Not tonight, I don't think... - Why not? The ball was the same!
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- They haven't got time!- There's no-one between them.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50They've got to get it away quickly!
0:24:50 > 0:24:53They argued all the time and it wasn't a staged argument,
0:24:53 > 0:24:56they actually did see the opposite point of view about everything!
0:24:56 > 0:24:58It was an absolute certainty that they would slip up today.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01I was thinking, "I want to be one of the pundits on Match Of The Day!"
0:25:01 > 0:25:03I kept thinking that throughout my career.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Well, what can you say!
0:25:05 > 0:25:07I remember when I first went on, you know what I mean,
0:25:07 > 0:25:12it was a proper...like when people go and pay homage at Graceland.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14That's why I said it to Des.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- This is my Graceland! - Your Graceland?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Yeah, I love it here, Match Of The Day, man!
0:25:19 > 0:25:22I don't know where that leaves me but there we are!
0:25:22 > 0:25:24One pundit dug deeper than anyone before him
0:25:24 > 0:25:29but strangely for one so sharp, not by desire.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Covered by Alan Hansen.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33I fell into television,
0:25:33 > 0:25:36erm, when I retired from Liverpool, I never knew what
0:25:36 > 0:25:39I was going to do, thought I'd get lots of offers, got none
0:25:39 > 0:25:41and decided I have to do something.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44So, I phoned up the television companied,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46they never phoned me up, I phoned them up.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50Alan, cos he'd so recently been a player, fitted in perfectly.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54He brought a new edge to it, a new insight into a player's
0:25:54 > 0:25:56point of view.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00He's been a stalwart of the programme for all those years.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04He was the first man really, Alan, to not just talk you through a goal.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06He goes down the right wing, he heads it,
0:26:06 > 0:26:08he crosses us in, we can all see that for ourselves.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10He started to look at tactics a little bit more.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Things that you couldn't easily see for yourself
0:26:13 > 0:26:15and that's the key to good punditry. It's not that easy either.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18It's the worst defending I've ever seen in my life...bar none!
0:26:18 > 0:26:20They've got to take a long, hard look at themselves.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23I mean, centre-back players should always be in contact,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26so if the ball goes over the first one's head the second one's
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- there to mop up and vice-versa.- Is that why you two are so close?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Look how close he's sitting to me, because if it goes past me...
0:26:31 > 0:26:34This is the closest we ever were, I can tell you that much!
0:26:34 > 0:26:36- Carry on.- If it goes past me there, he's there.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Yeah, yeah, yeah... - In your dreams. Anyway...
0:26:38 > 0:26:41What I like about Al is he's just like, "Well, you know..."
0:26:41 > 0:26:44But like, he's so good!
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Ian Wright is worth gold dust at the moment!
0:26:46 > 0:26:48There can't be a more valuable player in the league!
0:26:48 > 0:26:51I remember scoring a nice goal against Everton
0:26:51 > 0:26:52when I flicked it over his head,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55flicked it over Neville Southall's head, into the goal...
0:26:55 > 0:26:57This is route one football,
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Everton won't be too pleased about the defending.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Alan Hansen said it was bad defending.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08I was so disappointed, I was so disappointed.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12For me, that was the best goal I've ever scored.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15He was a great player and reading the game very, very well.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19So, I think he brought all of that to the pundit area.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24His knowledge, his passion, erm, he's a good-looking guy.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Knowing so much more than most, perhaps he knew best
0:27:28 > 0:27:29when it was time to leave,
0:27:29 > 0:27:31May, 2014.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Nearly 20 years after delivering his most famous line.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39I think they've problems. I wouldn't say they've got major problems.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Obviously, three players have departed,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44the trick is always buy when you're strong. So, he needs to buy players.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46You can't win anything with kids!
0:27:48 > 0:27:50COMMENTATOR: Taylor scores!
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Draper!
0:27:55 > 0:27:59It's a scoreline which asks serious questions of Manchester United!
0:27:59 > 0:28:01You can't win anything with kids!
0:28:02 > 0:28:06I'll never forget that moment he almost ruined my life that
0:28:06 > 0:28:07night, watching Match Of The Day.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10We'd just been beat at Aston Villa and I came home,
0:28:10 > 0:28:12watched on the telly with my mum and dad.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13He really did write us off!
0:28:13 > 0:28:15And probably rightly so at the time.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17He wouldn't have been the only one!
0:28:17 > 0:28:20There was uncertainty on our part about what we were going to do.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23We weren't sure, we'd never been in that position before.
0:28:23 > 0:28:27You just think, "Will it go right, will it be OK?"
0:28:27 > 0:28:31I think the younger players, being inexperienced, as they were,
0:28:31 > 0:28:34felt quite intimidated by that remark.
0:28:34 > 0:28:39It acted as kind of a motivational theme throughout the season
0:28:39 > 0:28:42really and from that day onwards we improved
0:28:42 > 0:28:44and managed to prove him wrong.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46COMMENTATOR: Beckham's up on the right...
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Giggs shoots, oh! Well, that has settled it.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51They've won the Championship now without any doubt at all!
0:28:51 > 0:28:53"Not winning anything with kids",
0:28:53 > 0:28:55I'm sure he's heard that so many times.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58I'm sure he's so fed up of hearing it
0:28:58 > 0:29:01but I have to say it one more time before he leaves.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04We did win the double that year.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08So, you do win something now and again with kids
0:29:08 > 0:29:11but it was a special crop of kids.
0:29:11 > 0:29:15You have to say that and, erm, Alan wasn't to know.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17The thing I got wrong there was the five Man United kids
0:29:17 > 0:29:19were like superstars.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23Erm, you'll never have five kids like that coming along ever, ever
0:29:23 > 0:29:27again because the five of them went on to become five greats!
0:29:27 > 0:29:30That shows you how right Hansen is a lot of the time.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33If "you win nothing with kids" can stay in the public imagination for
0:29:33 > 0:29:37so long, cos I suppose it is such a declaration and it was,
0:29:37 > 0:29:40as it turned out, you can win everything with kids!
0:29:40 > 0:29:44If you're going to be right, be right, if you're going to be wrong,
0:29:44 > 0:29:47don't be wrong somewhere in the middle of right and wrong.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Be dramatically wrong!
0:29:49 > 0:29:53There's no future in only being marginally wrong!
0:29:55 > 0:29:58The most famous football programme in Britain will no longer be
0:29:58 > 0:30:01screening the best weekly football in Britain.
0:30:01 > 0:30:06We were envious of Match Of The Day, another immovable block of
0:30:06 > 0:30:11mass viewing on a Saturday night, which was a key battleground for us.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13It was a real thorn in our side.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19Having been the only show in the early 1960s,
0:30:19 > 0:30:23suddenly in the late '70s Match Of The Day was no show!
0:30:24 > 0:30:27London Weekend Television won the rights to show
0:30:27 > 0:30:30highlights on ITV, "The Snatch Of The Day!"
0:30:30 > 0:30:35I was approached by the chairman of the Football League
0:30:35 > 0:30:38and he said, "Would ITV be interested in Match Of The Day?"
0:30:38 > 0:30:40I said, "You bet!"
0:30:40 > 0:30:44There then followed secret, clandestine negotiations and
0:30:44 > 0:30:49meetings and we closed the deal and there was consternation at the BBC!
0:30:49 > 0:30:54The BBC cried foul and the case went to The Office of Fair Trading.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57The ref's decision, shared rights.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59Match Of The Day was pushed around the schedules,
0:30:59 > 0:31:02ending up sometimes on Sunday afternoons.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04We've kept you out of the late summer sunshine,
0:31:04 > 0:31:06I don't think you'll be disappointed.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09It was very competitive because, of course, there was no Sky.
0:31:09 > 0:31:15It was all BBC or ITV and it came to a head really on Cup Final day
0:31:15 > 0:31:19when it was very competitive, who could get on who's team coach.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22- You looking forward to it? - Yeah, it should be good, enjoyable.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24Competition is great because, for the viewers,
0:31:24 > 0:31:29it means everyone ups their game and we get better quality.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31You had to be on your toes
0:31:31 > 0:31:34because you wanted to be better than the other lot.
0:31:34 > 0:31:38The assumption that you would be I think was very misguided.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41The battle for the rights to show football highlights
0:31:41 > 0:31:43on terrestrial television went on.
0:31:43 > 0:31:47The BBC had them in the '90s and they went to ITV in 2000.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50It was quite a responsibility,
0:31:50 > 0:31:52it was very exciting.
0:31:52 > 0:31:53It felt like an honour that we
0:31:53 > 0:31:57were taking over this slot which
0:31:57 > 0:31:58had belonged to the BBC.
0:31:58 > 0:32:01Little did we know we were only going to have it for three years
0:32:01 > 0:32:04and little did we know they were going to show it at seven o'clock.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08But at that moment it was a huge breakthrough for us at ITV.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12ITV wanted the show to be something!
0:32:12 > 0:32:15Anything it hadn't been...but what?
0:32:15 > 0:32:20I don't think they really understood what to do with it, where to put it.
0:32:20 > 0:32:24It just didn't work, the audiences weren't there in numbers.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28We tried to innovate, Tactics Truck and so on.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31I think the mistake we made was that we bought the wheel
0:32:31 > 0:32:33and we tried to re-invent it.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37I was part of the Premiership when it went briefly to ITV.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39We tried to reshape the wheel and went on at seven o'clock
0:32:39 > 0:32:42and that didn't work and there's a reason for that.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44And I think you don't make those mistakes twice!
0:32:44 > 0:32:46I was involved both times.
0:32:46 > 0:32:51I was involved in pinching them when I was at ITV and losing them
0:32:51 > 0:32:53when I was at the BBC.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56But you look, does anyone remember those times
0:32:56 > 0:32:58when it disappeared from the BBC? No!
0:32:58 > 0:33:00Good evening, welcome back.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03Now, where were we before we were so rudely interrupted?!
0:33:03 > 0:33:06The interruption had been a rude three years.
0:33:06 > 0:33:11It came back and everybody battled on and as I remember,
0:33:11 > 0:33:14erm, there was still only one Match Of The Day.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20Goal of the Month, just watching the great goals,
0:33:20 > 0:33:22I just loved goals and quickly!
0:33:22 > 0:33:25Bang, bang, bang! I just love that!
0:33:25 > 0:33:27- COMMENTATOR:- Jones...a great goal!
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Sharp, what a fantastic goal!
0:33:29 > 0:33:32Oh, what a great shot!
0:33:32 > 0:33:33Oh, what a goal!
0:33:33 > 0:33:36There's no question if you scored a goal on a Saturday,
0:33:36 > 0:33:38then you'd be watching Match Of The Day at night.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41I used to rewind other people's goals, Robbie Fowler's goals,
0:33:41 > 0:33:42Shearer's goals.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46I got one or two, I can't remember how many I got
0:33:46 > 0:33:48but I did all right in that department!
0:33:50 > 0:33:54Shearer scored this goal against Everton, a volley.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56COMMENTATOR: Shearer!
0:33:56 > 0:33:59I caught it sweet and as soon as I caught it, I knew it was going in.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01COMMENTATOR: Absolute pile-driver from Alan Shearer.
0:34:01 > 0:34:02Wow, man! What a goal!
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Mickey Walsh scoring for Blackpool against Sunderland,
0:34:05 > 0:34:08it won goal of the season and it was an absolute pile-driver,
0:34:08 > 0:34:11I can see it now. Hit from distance and curling in to the top corner.
0:34:11 > 0:34:15Trevor Sinclair overhead kick.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17COMMENTATOR: Oh...magnificent!
0:34:17 > 0:34:20It's quite unlikely that any of my goals, being
0:34:20 > 0:34:24the amount of tap-ins that I scored were ever going to be up there!
0:34:24 > 0:34:27COMMENTATOR: Oh, what a drive, it's Paul Scholes!
0:34:27 > 0:34:30Henry, brilliant!
0:34:30 > 0:34:33Andy Cole against Chelsea, September, 1994.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36Controls it with his head, edge of the box, left foot, passed
0:34:36 > 0:34:40that Russian keeper who used to wear the trackies and the curly hair.
0:34:40 > 0:34:41No chance, didn't get anywhere near it!
0:34:41 > 0:34:44For me, trying to pick my own top three...my mates will be like,
0:34:44 > 0:34:46"That one, that one's first." We'd have our own debates
0:34:46 > 0:34:50and fall out with each other to see who's better.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53Di Canio's volley against Wimbledon, yeah, it was an amazing goal!
0:34:55 > 0:34:57The technique to get that on target
0:34:57 > 0:35:00and get it go in the back of the net is incredible.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02That day was magnificent, beautiful.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04So, still the best goal ever!
0:35:07 > 0:35:12- COMMENTATOR:- Great touch by Bergkamp...oh, it's unbelievable!
0:35:12 > 0:35:14There's been a lot of great goals over the years
0:35:14 > 0:35:18but one man burst onto the scene, in particular, in the mid '90s.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22AFRICAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:35:24 > 0:35:28And this is where he's from, the land of the goal of goals.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Hello, I'm Tony Yeboah.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37I grew up in Ghana here.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40I used to watch English football on Ghana telly.
0:35:40 > 0:35:43I supported Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool fan.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46You know, John Barnes was my hero!
0:35:48 > 0:35:53I started playing youth football for Asante Kontoko.
0:35:53 > 0:35:57I never heard of Leeds before but that's my dream to
0:35:57 > 0:36:00play in England, so I went to England and played.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04I knew that it was not going to be easy but everything is
0:36:04 > 0:36:10determined and you have to dedicate yourself and believe yourself.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12So, that made me make it in England.
0:36:16 > 0:36:21During the warming up I saw John Barnes, I saw Ian Rush, I saw
0:36:21 > 0:36:25these and thought, "Today, I have to do something!"
0:36:31 > 0:36:34COMMENTATOR: Yeboah...oh, yes, it's in!
0:36:34 > 0:36:36It was fantastic, I knew my job.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38I'm a Liverpool fan and I play against Liverpool.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41You know, and I scored against them!
0:36:41 > 0:36:44It was something you always dream for!
0:36:44 > 0:36:47I've never seen you enthused so much about a goal, Trevor, to be honest.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50Well, I was off my chair, I have to say. I mean, it's exciting, Des.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53Whenever he gets the ball, I'm not sure what he's going to do.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56COMMENTATOR: Oh, look at that...oh, look at that!
0:36:56 > 0:36:59That's twice the goal he scored against Liverpool in my book!
0:36:59 > 0:37:03I became a hero in Leeds because my performance there was fantastic!
0:37:03 > 0:37:06The wonder goal he scored he thinks was better than
0:37:06 > 0:37:08the goal of the month last month, what do you think?
0:37:08 > 0:37:09Well, definitely!
0:37:09 > 0:37:13I won it three times. So, I knew everything already.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19You know, when you are in top form, sometimes you do something
0:37:19 > 0:37:22and you can't imagine what is happening.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24So, that time it was fate,
0:37:24 > 0:37:28I was top and I can do everything with the football.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31COMMENTATOR: That is wonderful!
0:37:31 > 0:37:33That's Tony Yeboah!
0:37:50 > 0:37:54Liverpool against Nottingham Forrest, in an FA Cup semifinal
0:37:54 > 0:37:59to be played at a neutral ground, the home of Sheffield Wednesday...
0:37:59 > 0:38:02Hillsborough.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06I had the telly on and there was all this stuff going on
0:38:06 > 0:38:10and you just felt, "What's happening, what's going on?"
0:38:10 > 0:38:14Match Of The Day was right in the middle of it, we were sitting,
0:38:14 > 0:38:19erm, on the gantry, in the Sheffield stadium.
0:38:19 > 0:38:22Jimmy Hill and I had done some links at the show for the
0:38:22 > 0:38:27following day, I think it was, we were going to put the match out.
0:38:27 > 0:38:30Then, of course, all the terrible, dreadful happenings occurred.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33We couldn't really make head or tail of it.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36At six minutes passed three the referee abandoned the match.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38From where I was sitting,
0:38:38 > 0:38:42I had no idea of the enormity of the tragedy at first.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45Erm, I could see people running across the pitch.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50There was nothing we could do.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52We were hamstrung up there...
0:38:52 > 0:38:55It was just so frightening.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02One minute I was commentating on a football match and the next minute
0:39:02 > 0:39:05I was a news reporter updating people on what was happening at the ground.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09All of which, I couldn't be sure about from where I was.
0:39:09 > 0:39:14When I went downstairs and realised what we were witnessing, it was in
0:39:14 > 0:39:19all my years in football, the worst moment in terms of football tragedy.
0:39:23 > 0:39:2696 Liverpool fans lost their lives.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31Back at base they said, "You've got to get back and do the programme."
0:39:31 > 0:39:34What sort of programme are we going to do?
0:39:34 > 0:39:36It's been a black day for football.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39On a sunny afternoon at Hillsborough, Sheffield, no fewer
0:39:39 > 0:39:41than 93 football supporters died.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43On a day of such momentous tragedy
0:39:43 > 0:39:46our sympathies go to the families of those concerned.
0:39:46 > 0:39:51It was certainly the worst Match Of The Day I had to play a part in.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00Awful, awful day and repercussions going on till
0:40:00 > 0:40:02this day, almost.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05A couple of days later, I went with some of the Brookside cast
0:40:05 > 0:40:08and crew, and we took flowers down to that display, you know,
0:40:08 > 0:40:10at Anfield on the pitch.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14It was heartbreaking. Heartbreaking.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18There was the sort of before-Hillsborough
0:40:18 > 0:40:20and there's the post-Hillsborough.
0:40:20 > 0:40:25And you sort of have to think how important is it, you know, football?
0:40:25 > 0:40:27So many people lost their lives,
0:40:27 > 0:40:29and so many people...
0:40:30 > 0:40:33..now have paid tribute to those people,
0:40:33 > 0:40:36you know, they've become part of the history of the club.
0:40:36 > 0:40:3825 years on,
0:40:38 > 0:40:42football across the land stopped to remember Hillsborough.
0:40:42 > 0:40:45The sound of Anfield would now be more than just
0:40:45 > 0:40:48an anthem to the players of Liverpool.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51FANS SING
0:40:54 > 0:40:57Thankfully, it is at all other times the role of Match Of The Day
0:40:57 > 0:41:00to serve up what it was born to supply.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04It is a highlights show, and we all have our moments to savour.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07But can they be refined into one single memory?
0:41:07 > 0:41:10I find it difficult because there's so much of it.
0:41:10 > 0:41:11I'd pick a goal by Fashanu,
0:41:11 > 0:41:13not particularly brilliant commentary,
0:41:13 > 0:41:14but it was a heck of a goal.
0:41:14 > 0:41:15- COMMENTATOR:- Fashanu...
0:41:15 > 0:41:20Oh, what a goal! Oh, that's a magnificent goal!
0:41:20 > 0:41:22When I presented Match Of The Day for the first time,
0:41:22 > 0:41:26I was so nervous because it felt like a huge responsibility to hear
0:41:26 > 0:41:29the Match Of The Day theme tune come on and then say good evening,
0:41:29 > 0:41:33because we've all sat there every Saturday night on the sofa
0:41:33 > 0:41:35as the person about to enjoy that programme,
0:41:35 > 0:41:38and there I was, about to open that programme up,
0:41:38 > 0:41:42so it was just massive, massive responsibility as opposed to pride.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44And then, later on, a real pinch yourself moment.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47- COMMENTATOR:- Oh, it's there!
0:41:47 > 0:41:49They've done it! Luton Town have survived!
0:41:49 > 0:41:51- COMMENTATOR:- Oh, he's hit the bar.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55My favourite goal was the Barry Horne one against Wimbledon.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57- Needed to win last game to stay up. - 'Marvellous shot!'
0:41:57 > 0:41:59We ended up winning 3-2.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01Glenn Hoddle turning and scoring for Spurs against Watford
0:42:01 > 0:42:04with a chip over poor Steve Sherwood.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07COMMENTATOR: What a magnificent goal by Glenn Hoddle!
0:42:10 > 0:42:13Football is about structure and rules and, somehow,
0:42:13 > 0:42:16within that structure and rules, you've got to create magic,
0:42:16 > 0:42:19and, like, it takes a player like Paolo Di Canio to break
0:42:19 > 0:42:20a lot of those rules.
0:42:20 > 0:42:24COMMENTATOR: And Di Canio has pushed down, flattened the referee.
0:42:24 > 0:42:27It was a mistake, but it wasn't violent conduct.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29It was stupid conduct.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31"Alcock, you're going down!"
0:42:31 > 0:42:33It's how he caught the ball as well.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36- COMMENTATOR:- And Di Canio, sportingly, has caught the ball.
0:42:36 > 0:42:37Cantona...
0:42:37 > 0:42:39He's done it!
0:42:40 > 0:42:42John Motson's sheepskin.
0:42:42 > 0:42:46I sat next to him at Upton Park. He was wearing a sheepskin coat, and it weren't even that cold.
0:42:46 > 0:42:50It was so thick, wasn't it? Massive old thing. It was beautiful.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53- COMMENTATOR:- Oh, and didn't he drive it well? It went straight in!
0:42:55 > 0:42:58Oh, it's two, and it's absolutely magnificent.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Lampard... that could be the championship!
0:43:01 > 0:43:04I'd say anything I saved from Ian Wright was absolutely brilliant.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06And I enjoyed every second of that.
0:43:06 > 0:43:11- COMMENTATOR:- Wright. Great save by Peter Schmeichel.
0:43:11 > 0:43:14Stan Collymore... Oh, yes!
0:43:14 > 0:43:17This is Bent, and Sunderland have the lead!
0:43:17 > 0:43:18Now, did a red balloon
0:43:18 > 0:43:22have a part to play in that goal for Sunderland?
0:43:29 > 0:43:31Radford again.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33Oh, what a goal! What a goal!
0:43:33 > 0:43:37Radford the scorer, the crowd are invading the pitch.
0:43:39 > 0:43:40On Match Of The Day,
0:43:40 > 0:43:42there are those that are seen a lot,
0:43:42 > 0:43:46and those that are seen fleetingly, but whose voices are heard,
0:43:46 > 0:43:49part of the soundtrack of football.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51You remember the lines, and you remember the commentators,
0:43:51 > 0:43:53and you can hear the voices.
0:43:53 > 0:43:57You know, I grew up listening to Barry Davies, to John Motson,
0:43:57 > 0:44:00to Tony Gubba, to David Coleman, to Gerald Sinstadt,
0:44:00 > 0:44:03to these great names of commentary.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06And I can hear every one of their voices now.
0:44:06 > 0:44:11David Coleman's voice was very...
0:44:11 > 0:44:14It sticks out in my mind. His voice was fantastic.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16- DAVID COLEMAN:- Clarke...
0:44:16 > 0:44:181-0!
0:44:18 > 0:44:22Always a huge fan of Barry Davies. Never a man to overdo the words.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25Old school, if you like. But, you know, hugely eloquent.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29And with some brilliant lines of commentary.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34I just caught the right moment when I realised
0:44:34 > 0:44:38he was going to have a crack at goal. And I said, "Interesting."
0:44:38 > 0:44:40- BARRY DAVIES:- Interesting.
0:44:40 > 0:44:45Very interesting! Oh, look at his face!
0:44:46 > 0:44:49And then my voice cracked as I said, "Just look at his face," for a second time.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52- VOICE CRACKS:- Just look at his face!
0:44:52 > 0:44:54It's among the things that people seem to remember.
0:44:54 > 0:45:00It was an ambition achieved. I had arrived where I wanted to be.
0:45:01 > 0:45:05And then wanted to compete against the best around,
0:45:05 > 0:45:07who were all at the BBC.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10I mean, I was working with David Coleman, and Kenneth Wolstenholme.
0:45:10 > 0:45:14I remember my dad being totally impressed with Kenneth Wolstenholme
0:45:14 > 0:45:18because he said he had the gift of letting you watch the game.
0:45:18 > 0:45:20- KENNETH WOLSTENHOLME:- Here comes Charlton.
0:45:20 > 0:45:21Oh, a great goal.
0:45:21 > 0:45:26That was a goal good enough to win the League, the Cup,
0:45:26 > 0:45:30the Charity Shield, the World Cup, even the Grand National.
0:45:31 > 0:45:35- JOHN MOTSON:- And there it is, the Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club.
0:45:35 > 0:45:39If ever there was a nerd about football, it's John Motson.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42He knew everything. He had every fact.
0:45:42 > 0:45:46I've sat next to him when he's doing it. It's unbelievable.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48When somebody can keep going that long,
0:45:48 > 0:45:51and retain that knowledge, it's priceless.
0:45:52 > 0:45:54You've got to have a decent voice.
0:45:54 > 0:45:58You've got to have a sense of timing, you've got to know when to talk
0:45:58 > 0:46:00and when not to talk, but I think you've got to try
0:46:00 > 0:46:03and get across essentially what the viewer can't experience
0:46:03 > 0:46:06at home, which is the excitement in the crowd,
0:46:06 > 0:46:08something that you might spot,
0:46:08 > 0:46:10which the cameras are just about to reach
0:46:10 > 0:46:12that still hasn't become apparent.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15You are the eyes and the ears of the viewer.
0:46:16 > 0:46:20We do have a fantastic noise coming from the left-hand end here
0:46:20 > 0:46:23at Selhurst. They never stop throughout the game.
0:46:23 > 0:46:25Holt rushes in,
0:46:25 > 0:46:27off the line!
0:46:27 > 0:46:30Goodness, I don't think Speroni would have got that.
0:46:32 > 0:46:33And he's done it again!
0:46:34 > 0:46:38I still get the same kick and challenge as I did 42 years ago.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41If I wasn't commentating on a Saturday or a Sunday,
0:46:41 > 0:46:43I don't quite know what else I'd be doing.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47We've had so many great commentators at the BBC, that, you know,
0:46:47 > 0:46:49it's become a real trade now,
0:46:49 > 0:46:52there's so many good commentators coming through.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55JONATHAN PEARCE: Wilshere, goes for the one-two, Giroud, off to Wilshere
0:46:55 > 0:47:01back to Giroud, into Wilshere, oh, that is simply magnificent!
0:47:01 > 0:47:04It's nice to hear them talk as fans of the game as well.
0:47:04 > 0:47:05It makes it more exciting.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08For a long time, it was a man's world,
0:47:08 > 0:47:11but as the show broke new ground, it also broke a few ceilings
0:47:11 > 0:47:13when Jacqui Oatley went behind the mic.
0:47:13 > 0:47:16There wasn't an announcement, as such.
0:47:16 > 0:47:20The Wednesday before, there was the full-page spread on
0:47:20 > 0:47:23"Should she be allowed to do it? Should she not?"
0:47:24 > 0:47:26Some positive voices saying, "Well, of course, why not?"
0:47:26 > 0:47:30And other people saying "It's a disgrace. Everyone in football's against it."
0:47:30 > 0:47:33And then it became a sexism story rather than
0:47:33 > 0:47:37there's going to be a female who will be the first person to do this.
0:47:37 > 0:47:41It was just bizarre and very much over the top.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44Jason Roberts makes his third start in a row...
0:47:44 > 0:47:49I remember looking down, and seeing a whole row of photographers
0:47:49 > 0:47:51all looking up at me. I looked back,
0:47:51 > 0:47:54and I turned to my floor manager and went,
0:47:54 > 0:47:56"Oh, my goodness. That's very surreal."
0:47:56 > 0:47:59I just remember trying to focus on the football
0:47:59 > 0:48:01because that's what it was about.
0:48:01 > 0:48:04One of the most important games at the Cottage for years.
0:48:04 > 0:48:05Only a win will do for Fulham.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07I think it's great for the game,
0:48:07 > 0:48:08especially for the women's game, anyway.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11I kind of think that women's opinions on the game should be
0:48:11 > 0:48:14valued as much as the men's, and Jacqui's done a done a great job,
0:48:14 > 0:48:18and, hopefully, that will stand her in good stead for the future.
0:48:18 > 0:48:19Women watch Match Of The Day.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21So women need to know that there are women
0:48:21 > 0:48:24involved in Match Of The Day, whether they are producers,
0:48:24 > 0:48:27directors, reporters, presenters ,or commentators,
0:48:27 > 0:48:30it's really important that we don't send out a message
0:48:30 > 0:48:33to the many millions of viewers who enjoy Match Of The Day
0:48:33 > 0:48:36that this is a man only club you can't join
0:48:36 > 0:48:38because that's absolutely not the case.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41I'm very proud to be the first female commentator on Match Of The Day.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43It's a case of getting that first one out of the way.
0:48:43 > 0:48:46I've done several more since, and there's been nothing like that kind of scrutiny.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49It's only a matter of time before we hear more female voices
0:48:49 > 0:48:52in football commentary. We hear it on the radio.
0:48:52 > 0:48:55And, you know, if they're able,
0:48:55 > 0:48:58it doesn't really matter which sex they are.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00The words that go with the goals,
0:49:00 > 0:49:04the sound that will go with the pictures into the memory bank,
0:49:04 > 0:49:08it is a team effort. A team of strangers, maybe, but still a team.
0:49:08 > 0:49:11When a commentator is singing the song,
0:49:11 > 0:49:14and he's doing all the right things, hits all the right notes,
0:49:14 > 0:49:16then it becomes part of the game,
0:49:16 > 0:49:18and you cannot watch a game without that.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20Stepping back into 2012,
0:49:20 > 0:49:24the last minute of the last game of the season, the main ingredient?
0:49:24 > 0:49:28The player, a language apart from the commentator.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34The scorer, and the one who set it up.
0:49:45 > 0:49:50I think home supporters here came absolutely at their wits end
0:49:50 > 0:49:52thinking, this is City, this will all go wrong.
0:49:52 > 0:49:57GUY MOWBRAY: Coming in is Mackie! Queens Park Rangers have the lead!
0:49:57 > 0:50:00It's all going wrong for the Blues of Manchester.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03Tears were meant to be of another kind.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06When QPR lead 2-1, and the message came that Manchester United
0:50:06 > 0:50:07were winning at Sunderland,
0:50:07 > 0:50:11I think people actually thought, "Well, there you go, we knew that would happen."
0:50:18 > 0:50:20Very nervous.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23GUY MOWBRAY: Manchester City are level but they need one more.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25The tiniest bit of hope.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28It's the hope that's been killing them for years.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30We're almost dealing in seconds rather than minutes.
0:50:30 > 0:50:33I actually heard somebody sitting just about there, who,
0:50:33 > 0:50:37I actually heard a voice say, "Typical. Typical."
0:50:37 > 0:50:41Almost made it worse by getting ever closer but still missing out.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51And, then... Then it happened.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00Aguero.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07It didn't have any build-up. It just...
0:51:07 > 0:51:10Balotelli had the ball, the next minute, Aguero had the ball.
0:51:29 > 0:51:31It's Sergio Aguero-o-o-o!
0:51:35 > 0:51:38Manchester City win at home!
0:51:41 > 0:51:47An amazing, amazing day, the like of which we've never seen!
0:51:48 > 0:51:52I think the best moments in sport are things that you can't script,
0:51:52 > 0:51:54things you don't expect to happen,
0:51:54 > 0:51:58and I suppose if I look back at the big sporting occasions I've been fortunate to be at,
0:51:58 > 0:51:59this would have to be right up there.
0:52:01 > 0:52:04In your life, have you ever witnessed anything quite like that?
0:52:04 > 0:52:08Well, what a season, what a day, what a game.
0:52:14 > 0:52:18Nothing can stand still. Not even a 50-year-old model of constancy.
0:52:20 > 0:52:22You can even play with that theme tune.
0:52:22 > 0:52:23MATCH OF THE DAY THEME TUNE
0:52:23 > 0:52:26Here's Lethal Bizzle's version. Hit it.
0:52:28 > 0:52:32# Iconic game changer everybody knows you are no stranger
0:52:32 > 0:52:34# Top players, top commentators
0:52:34 > 0:52:36# That's why all around the world they rate us
0:52:36 > 0:52:38# It's time for the time for the match
0:52:38 > 0:52:40# Time for the, what? Time for the match
0:52:40 > 0:52:42# Time for the, what? time for the match
0:52:42 > 0:52:46# Time for the, what? Time for the Match Of The Day
0:52:46 > 0:52:47# It's the number one show
0:52:47 > 0:52:49# Premier League where all the players want to go
0:52:49 > 0:52:51# I'm still comparing players like Eric Cantona
0:52:51 > 0:52:54# England megastar Gary Lineker
0:52:54 > 0:52:56# Scoring screamers like Thierry Henry
0:52:56 > 0:52:58# Alan Shearer who scored the penalty
0:52:58 > 0:53:01# Sir Alex no-one knows how he does it
0:53:01 > 0:53:03# In Wenger we trust ain't no-one above him
0:53:03 > 0:53:07# Iconic game changer, everybody knows you are no stranger
0:53:07 > 0:53:09# Top players, top commentators
0:53:09 > 0:53:11# That's why all around the world they rate us
0:53:11 > 0:53:13# It's time for the, time for the match
0:53:13 > 0:53:15# It's time for the, what? Time for the match
0:53:15 > 0:53:18# It's time for the, what? Time for the match
0:53:18 > 0:53:21# It's time for the, what? Time for the Match Of The Day... #
0:53:21 > 0:53:23'Another magnificent goal!
0:53:23 > 0:53:25'What a goal!
0:53:27 > 0:53:28'What a finish!'
0:53:29 > 0:53:31'Superb!'
0:53:32 > 0:53:34'Brilliant! brilliant!'
0:53:34 > 0:53:37'A quality goal by a quality player!'
0:53:37 > 0:53:38# Time for the Match Of The Day
0:53:38 > 0:53:40# They think it's all over well, it is now
0:53:40 > 0:53:43# Mr John Motson, Mr Jimmy Hill
0:53:43 > 0:53:45# Alan Hansen, he don't like much
0:53:45 > 0:53:47# Unlucky if you got a diabolical touch
0:53:47 > 0:53:49# One of the best, Ian Wright, right
0:53:49 > 0:53:52# In front of the goalkeeper it's night-night
0:53:52 > 0:53:56# Tony Yeboah, David Beckham, best free kick taker, what do you reckon?
0:53:59 > 0:54:01# Time for the Match Of The Day! #
0:54:06 > 0:54:09So, what does this 50-year-old do next?
0:54:09 > 0:54:11It seems to have started reproducing.
0:54:11 > 0:54:12Having offspring, that is.
0:54:12 > 0:54:16Match Of The Day 2, originally presented by Adrian Chiles.
0:54:16 > 0:54:19A little more informal, a little more relaxed.
0:54:19 > 0:54:22It was a bit of a battle behind-the-scenes over what
0:54:22 > 0:54:24Match Of The Day 2 would be.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27There were those, the more conservative, who wanted it to
0:54:27 > 0:54:31be an absolute replica of Match Of The Day on Saturdays.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34And then there were others who just wanted to turn it
0:54:34 > 0:54:37into a kind of more of an entertainment show.
0:54:37 > 0:54:41Like... Like a version of Top Gear for football.
0:54:41 > 0:54:45What we ended up with honoured the Match Of The Day brand, I think.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47I think Match Of The Day 2 is a great introduction,
0:54:47 > 0:54:51particularly with, nowadays, a lot of the big games being shifted to Sunday,
0:54:51 > 0:54:55so it needs a different show, and I think it's quite right as well.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58It's slightly different style.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01Good evening, a very warm welcome to you to a very new show,
0:55:01 > 0:55:02Match Of The Day 2.
0:55:02 > 0:55:03It is all about the football
0:55:03 > 0:55:06but we will strive to make it even more worth your while tuning in.
0:55:06 > 0:55:11Two big grudge matches for a variety of reasons on Match Of The Day 2
0:55:11 > 0:55:14this evening, and both will have an effect on the title race.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17The thing about sport is you can subvert it and have fun with it,
0:55:17 > 0:55:20but, at the same time, take it extremely seriously.
0:55:20 > 0:55:22The two things have got to operate side-by-side.
0:55:24 > 0:55:28I don't think it was a revolution. It was more of an evolution, slightly.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31Have a great week, wherever you are, do join us next Sunday. Goodbye.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34It was just, sort of, a full stop on the weekend, "Come on, folks,
0:55:34 > 0:55:38"let's get through the week, there'll be more football next weekend.
0:55:38 > 0:55:39It had that feeling about it.
0:55:39 > 0:55:41Extra, extra!
0:55:41 > 0:55:42And on it grows.
0:55:42 > 0:55:44The name of the full live experience,
0:55:44 > 0:55:48Match Of The Day 2, Match Of The Day 2 Extra,
0:55:48 > 0:55:51Match Of The Day 3, Kickabout, out and about,
0:55:51 > 0:55:55plus the website, social media, BBC iPlayer,
0:55:55 > 0:55:57all things for all people,
0:55:57 > 0:56:03those at home, those who are going places, talking football 24/7.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11Not bad for a programme that crept in under the radar,
0:56:11 > 0:56:13a show that wasn't allowed to say where it was going
0:56:13 > 0:56:15on a Saturday afternoon.
0:56:15 > 0:56:19Match Of The Day, more than an institution.
0:56:19 > 0:56:21One of the family.
0:56:23 > 0:56:27There's no point having a BBC, there's no point having Premier League football,
0:56:27 > 0:56:30there's no point in anything if you haven't got Match Of The Day on Saturday night.
0:56:30 > 0:56:33- It's just the way it should be. - 'Oh, great goal!'
0:56:33 > 0:56:36I always watch Match Of The Day, my son watches it now,
0:56:36 > 0:56:38and it's a great way of watching all the games.
0:56:38 > 0:56:43Match Of The Day is as big an institution as the weather forecast, really.
0:56:43 > 0:56:45We couldn't live without it, could we?
0:56:45 > 0:56:46It's like going to church.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49You know, it's a religious thing,
0:56:49 > 0:56:51it's part of the culture in England.
0:56:53 > 0:56:55As long as people want to watch football,
0:56:55 > 0:56:59and they do, then you will have Match Of The Day.
0:56:59 > 0:57:01I think we'd be lost without it.
0:57:01 > 0:57:03- COMMENTATOR:- Dalglish has scored!
0:57:03 > 0:57:05If you love football, you love Match Of The Day,
0:57:05 > 0:57:07and no matter what shows come up, and whatever they call them...
0:57:09 > 0:57:11..Match Of The Day will always be number one, I suppose.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14Right from the beginning,
0:57:14 > 0:57:16it showed everybody else in the world how to cover football.
0:57:16 > 0:57:20And I think for the format to survive for 50 years is
0:57:20 > 0:57:21because it works.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24- COMMENTATOR:- Sergio Aguero-o-o-o!
0:57:24 > 0:57:27If you're trying to build up a picture of what's happened in the day's football
0:57:27 > 0:57:30in the Premier League...
0:57:30 > 0:57:31Match Of The Day has it all.
0:57:31 > 0:57:35- COMMENTATOR:- The Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club.
0:57:35 > 0:57:38When I'm at home, I watch it. When I'm not at home, I record it. Always.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41- I don't miss it.- Do you feel proud to have been part of it?- Very, yes.
0:57:46 > 0:57:4950 years old, happy birthday.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51And here's to the next half-century.
0:57:59 > 0:58:01- COMMENTATOR:- Here comes Best.
0:58:01 > 0:58:05And it's there! Beautiful!
0:58:05 > 0:58:07Happy 50th birthday, Match Of The Day.
0:58:07 > 0:58:09Happy 50th birthday, Match Of The Day.
0:58:09 > 0:58:11You mean the world to me, man.
0:58:18 > 0:58:21Buon cinquantesimo compleanno a Match Of The Day.
0:58:21 > 0:58:22Happy birthday, Match Of The Day.
0:58:22 > 0:58:25Yo, yo. I want to wish a happy 50th birthday
0:58:25 > 0:58:27to Match Of The Day, MOTD. Cloud.
0:58:32 > 0:58:35- COMMENTATOR:- Henry. Henry! Brilliant!
0:58:36 > 0:58:42Un saludo para...para todo el Match Of The Day por su cinquenta anos.
0:58:42 > 0:58:44Happy 50th birthday to Match Of The Day.
0:58:44 > 0:58:46Joyeux anniversaire to Match Of The Day.
0:58:51 > 0:58:56- COMMENTATOR:- Gerard! Oh, what about that?
0:58:56 > 0:58:58So, happy 50th birthday to Match Of The Day.
0:58:58 > 0:59:01Here's to the next 50 years.