Football

Football Legends

Interviews with soccer superstars from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

Scotland are soccer champions, 1951

Modern football needs some Alexander Moyes-style commentary, as he narrates this beautiful footage of Scotland clinching the Home Championship from England

Scunthorpe United v Tottenham Hotspur - FA Cup 3rd Round, 1952

After a lot of effort, 'The Iron' took on the mighty 'Lilywhites' in the 1952 FA Cup. Newsreel was on hand to see if the Third Division club could beat the reigning league champions

Six Days to Saturday, 1963

John Boorman documented a week in the life of "Bert's Babes" - the exciting young Swindon Town team

World Cup wives, 1966

World Cup Report catches up with Kathleen Peters, Daphne Cohen and Irene Greaves

QPR's first game in the top flight, 1968

It was over to David Coleman to introduce the opening game of the 1968/1969 First Division season from Loftus Road

Football scouting - Colin Walker, 1970

"15 professional football clubs are on the market for his signature - Colin is 12-and-a-half years old"

Sport on television debate, 1972

Commentary, action replays and close-ups... just three of the things people disliked about TV coverage

Plastic pitch, 1972

"I'm standing on Europe's first outdoor astroturf football pitch"

Sunday soccer is sinful, 1972

"Sunday football in Paisley has been clobbered"

Sir Matt Busby interviewed, 1973

Sir Matt Busby discussed Clough, Best and curtailing the cloggers, on Parkinson

Brian Clough on Parkinson, 1973

In the aftermath of his resignation as manager of Derby County he discussed what led him to quit, the England job and what makes him laugh

Manchester United: the origin story

The story of how Manchester United (formerly Newton Heath) began

The making of MoTD, 1974

In Vision shows what's required to bring Match Of The Day to TV screens

Strictly Come Footballing, 1974

Ballroom Dancing champ, Lennie Heppell, was putting a spring into the step of footballers 30 years his junior

Lisburn's #1 Manchester United fan, 1974

A little bit of Lisburn turns red and white, in honour of one man's obsession for all things Manchester United

The Frost Interview - Brian Clough

Sir David Frost interviews football manager Brian Clough.

Nationwide Trophy football, 1975

The worst schoolboy teams in the land compete for the least coveted prize in football

Shrewsbury's boating ball boy, 1975

Shrewsbury Town FC has a very dedicated ball boy - and his boat

The worst football team of 1975

The Addiscombe Boys remained cheerful despite being the worst football team in the country

The Northern Myth, 1975

McMenemy and Clough on the state of the game in the North East

Dalglish debut for Liverpool, 1977

Grandstand catches up with Kenny Dalglish as he prepares to make his Liverpool bow in the Charity Shield

This is Anfield, 1977

Treble-chasing Liverpool gear up to face Manchester United

West Brom and the Great Wall of China, 1978

The baggies embark on an unprecedented pre-season tour

Wilf Mannion, 1978

A profile of the retired footballer who made his name with his hometown club Middlesbrough

On the football management trail, 1979

Watford's Graham Taylor and Stoke City's Alan Durban were the up and coming management talent profiled by Sportsnight

Trevor Francis - £1 million footballer, 1979

"We don't have a formula here - apart from success"

Soccerball, 1982

BDB (Before David Beckham), the US tried to convert sports fans to an indoor six-a-side version of football

US soccer somersault throw, 1982

Virginia's Voga Wallace reinvented the throw-in in his own inimitable way

Limerick football shambles, 1983

A tragicomic tale of two football teams, one ground, boardroom battles and a chicken franchise naming snafu

1966 and all that, 1993

World Cup final commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme on football has changed over three decades

Michael Carrick - wannabe footballer, 1995

The 13 year old was tipped by Andi Peters for great things when he appeared on the appropriately titled 'Live and Kicking'

John Motson's sheepskin coat, 1999

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