Your favourite World Cup Final ever
historyman wrote:
I remember a game at the 1986 World Cup where ITV lost Peter Brackley's commentary, and so Brian Moore had to call the game from the studio in Mexico City and did quite well.
Mind you, ESPN still call football games from studios, and SBS(Australia)'s Simon Hill and Craig Foster commentated on the 2004 Champions League Final from the station's Sydney studios.
historyman wrote:
The MB Shrew wrote:
I love everything about the 1970 World Cup, even though I was 2 years away from being born, I like the grainy pictures, crackly commentary, the fact that this was probably the first time people had seen advertising hordings around the pitch and then of course there was Brazil.
And also it was the first WC to be broadcast in colour, for those who had colour sets at that time. That seems to be another reason why that Brazil side was so mythologised - the cameras capturing the sunlight reflecting off their bright yellow shirts.
It must have been a thing of wonder to watch the matches live by satellite too, as the technology was still in its infancy.
There was a live CL commentary on 5Live a couple of years ago - I can't remember which match - and there was a technical glitch which meant that the commentary had to be relayed down a telephone line. It sounded fantastic and loads of people texted in afterwards to say so. It reminded me of the 1970 WC.
I love everything about the 1970 World Cup, even though I was 2 years away from being born, I like the grainy pictures, crackly commentary, the fact that this was probably the first time people had seen advertising hordings around the pitch and then of course there was Brazil.
It must have been a thing of wonder to watch the matches live by satellite too, as the technology was still in its infancy.
There was a live CL commentary on 5Live a couple of years ago - I can't remember which match - and there was a technical glitch which meant that the commentary had to be relayed down a telephone line. It sounded fantastic and loads of people texted in afterwards to say so. It reminded me of the 1970 WC.
Mind you, ESPN still call football games from studios, and SBS(Australia)'s Simon Hill and Craig Foster commentated on the 2004 Champions League Final from the station's Sydney studios.
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