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ITV’S MAGIC MOMENTS: Sam Todd looks at ITV’s 70 years of football coverage

A look at seven matches that were shown on the network in one form or another, be it live, highlights, exclusive or shared with the BBC...
THE timing couldn’t have been better for ITV as they screened England’s dominant 5-0 win in Latvia to seal World Cup qualification in mid-October.

Two days before that fixture was the 70th anniversary of the commercial broadcaster’s first live football broadcast, a milestone that launched one of the UK’s most enduring sporting partnerships. Here are some of the key moments:
Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Vasas Budapest
(October 12, 1955)
It all began under the W...

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