Boro on the telly, trivia anyone know?

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone. I had told no-one and was having a quiet night in by myself, when these two blokes turned up and started asking me questions about 1980s televised football.

The two ZDS matches against Aston Villa in Jan/Feb 1990 were definitely on Sky. I watched the first one in the bar of Topspin Tennis Centre at Teesside airport and the second round from a VHS tape round a mate's house once I'd got back from the actual match. We watched the whole game twice in the same night!

But I haven't got a clue what our second match on BBC/ITV was, after the 1988 Villa match.
 
Subbuteo_171 said:
Arsenal at home in the first division the next season was a live game, late April/early May. Martin Hayes scored the winner after a long punt upfield from the keeper (Lukic?) flicked on by Alan Smith.
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This was a Saturday. So was it a Saturday evening or lunch kick off? I only remember live games being on Sunday back then.
 
The 88/89 season im almost sure both the Liverpool and Arsenal home games have different advertising hoadings to the standard games. Checking the goals will confirm this but this may have been for international live coverage maybe (surely that existed back then too?)

EDIT its just the Liverpool game at Ayresome

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Some of the games in the old First Division under Bruce were broadcast overseas, Scandanavia I think. I remember when we got pummeled 4-0 at home to Liverpool that was one of them.
 
Teesste said:
Some of the games in the old First Division under Bruce were broadcast overseas, Scandanavia I think. I remember when we got pummeled 4-0 at home to Liverpool that was one of them.
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This is a good point. I think live UK football in Scandinavia was a thing as far back as the seventies, so there's a chance we were televised there even earlier than that.
 
Many happy returns, Bob. Think the last time I saw you was in the Waiting Room at the Simon Donald gig with Harry Pearson as support. We must meet up again soon.

And just to make you feel extra old today, that young upstart Tom that used to come in and see you at Radio Cleveland is now 32 years old and about to become a dad in about two weeks’ time.
 
Talking about bbc, didn't we have a few defeats on in Strachan seasons wba away with Grounds at centre back and possibly Leeds at home when Warnock was their manager

These were league not Cup games
 
junos_boots said:
Talking about bbc, didn't we have a few defeats on in Strachan seasons wba away with Grounds at centre back and possibly Leeds at home when Warnock was their manager

These were league not Cup games
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We did. That absolutely abysmal 0-2 loss at Newcastle on a Sunday lunchtime was one. I think that was the last time Dave Kitson appeared for Boro. I would’ve said ‘played’ but that would’ve implied he’d looked like he give a sh*t. Think he was taken off at half time and never seen again.

That might even have been the game that Leroy Lita talked about in a podcast, where he said Strachan came in and b*llocked either him or another player - maybe Yeates? - for not picking up or playing sh*t, basically. The problem was that the players Strachan was having a go at hadn’t actually played in the first half.
 
Capybara said:
Happy birthday @Bob Fischer .

On the questions, on the basis that the Villa game was the first live second division game on telly I think it must have been Boro's first on the basis that live league games were fairly new then and Boro hadn't, up until that point, been in any of the games that hitherto had qualiified for being on telly ie Cup Finals.
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Spot on Capy
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I remember a live game against Hull City in some dodgy cup competition. Can't remember the channel either.
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It wasn't dodgy cup competition, it was a cup comp for our famous wembley final debut a season before :mad:

The match in question youre asking is the Zenith data systems cup, Boro beating Hulll 3-1 after extra time, 0-0 inside 90 minutes
 
Bob Fischer said:
Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone. I had told no-one and was having a quiet night in by myself, when these two blokes turned up and started asking me questions about 1980s televised football.

The two ZDS matches against Aston Villa in Jan/Feb 1990 were definitely on Sky. I watched the first one in the bar of Topspin Tennis Centre at Teesside airport and the second round from a VHS tape round a mate's house once I'd got back from the actual match. We watched the whole game twice in the same night!

But I haven't got a clue what our second match on BBC/ITV was, after the 1988 Villa match.
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It was BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting) that showed the live ZDS games - not Sky. (Remember the 'squareials'?)
Sky didn't merge with BSB until Nov 90 - creating BskyB.

I remember the final was on Mother's Day - I desperately tried to book a meal in a place that was showing the match.
I couldn't convince anyone that cheese toasties at The Starting Gate would be appropriate.
 
Pretty sure the 1975 Anglo scottish cup final was live on both itv and bbc , starting at 11am with cup final it's a knockout with the build up continuing all day, following the players from the hotels right up to arriving at ayresome park.
Think fulham stayed at the longlands hotel?
the whole nation stopped what they were doing in those days as the ASC actually got bigger viewing figures than most fa cup finals and many world cups.
I still remember Eddie waring and Stewart hall off their t*ts drinking magnet and Babycham in the Westminster the night before.
Great days
 
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