The Football League Show
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The Football League Show | |
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Football League Cup highlights) | |
Genre | Sport |
Presented by | Manish Bhasin |
Theme music composer | Snow Patrol |
Opening theme | "In the End" |
Ending theme | "Adultery" |
Composer | Little Comets |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 75 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 8 August 2009 25 May 2015 | –
Related | |
Match of the Day Match of the Day 2 Football Focus Final Score Late Kick Off |
The Football League Show was a
Format
The programme had a similar format to ITV's
The first ever episode featured
When there were only Championship or League One and League Two matches played, the show was pre-recorded from the stadium of the featured match, rather than being live from the studio. These shows were often shorter than the regular ones. On 23 March 2013, the show was only 20 minutes long, this being the shortest show in the series and the first not to have a featured match.
Presenter, commentators and reporters
The presenter of the show was Manish Bhasin, who left Football Focus to present. Whenever Bhasin was unavailable, the programme was hosted by Mark Chapman, Mark Clemmit, Damian Johnson or Jason Mohammad.[citation needed]
During each season, a number of reporters provided match roundups from the three divisions of the Football League. Regular reporters included Dave Beckett, Nick Halling, Paul Walker, Dan O'Hagan, Dan Mason, Tony Lockwood, Chris Maughan, Mick Conway, Sue Thearle, James Richardson and Jonathan Legard. Commentators on featured matches included John Roder, Martin Fisher, Tony Gubba, Kevin Keatings, Jon Champion, Jonathan Pearce, Guy Mowbray, Simon Brotherton and Steve Wilson.
BBC Radio 5 Live's Mark Clemmit was the roving reporter, who visited a ground to spend the day with a team each week. This was similar in style to Kevin Day's reports on Match of the Day 2.
Interactive
There was also an interactive email segment where fans expressed their points of view. These emails were read out by one of the BBC's sports news presenters, mainly Jacqui Oatley or Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. This feature was dropped from the start of the 2011–12 football season.
Other programmes
The BBC's rights deal with the Football League also included the
A regional spin-off programme, Late Kick Off, launched on Monday 18 January 2010, broadcasting weekly from January until the end of the season.
End of the programme
In 2015, the BBC lost the rights to the Football League to
See also
- The Championship
- Football League Extra
- Football League Tonight
References
- ^ "Football League Trophy Final". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ^ "Channel 5 win Football League Rights". Digital Spy. 5 May 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ "EFL highlights on QUEST: How to watch, when, what time?". Eurosport. Discovery. 15 August 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.