the host of the BBC’s flagship football highlights show Match of the Day. Lineker will be leaving the host’s chair in a few months at the end of this football season and he told The Times of ...

Eighteen years have passed since Jacqui Oatley became the first woman to commentate on Match of the Day, the BBC’s flagship football highlights programme. Enough time, she points out ...

The first regular football programme on television, Match of the Day, began on 22 August 1964, at the start of the 1964-65 season. The identity of the match – Liverpool v Arsenal - was kept ...