We take you back to 1985/86 when for half the season, horror of horrors, there was no football on television. Don’t worry, the TV companies are making up for it now.

Steven Scragg and Chris Lepkowski take you through a brief history of televised football before examining the whys and wherefores of a very different world when league football was whipped off our screens and, if you wanted to watch games, you had to actually go to the ground. Different times…

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