Historical Text First ever Match of the day

Match of the day first began in 1964, and today still is probably the most commonly known TV show associated with football within England. Though at first many did not get to see it as every household did not have BBC2 in 1964, match of the day did gradually become of greater popularity as the years progressed.

Match of the day would clearly be good to use as an historical text too include in my essay, as i can easily compare what it covered in the past to now. For example prior to recent times as in the late 1990's and early 2000's match of the day did not provide any coverage of women’s football at all and overall neither did BBC sport. In the past there was a much more emphasis on football being tightly associated with just a male audience, however today women are generally being more and more included as an audience.

The fact that everyone being interviewed to talk about the first match of the day coverage in 1964 are men, reflects greatly how football was solely targeted at men and there was a great lack of appeal to women to take an interest in it. In addition the target audience back in the 1960's for match of the day appears to be a middle class audience, as BBC 2 was not easily obtainable by everyone. However now Match of the day can be viewed by everyone who has a TV, as in it is likely to be directed at a more working class audience as well as a middle class one. This may have had some influence over why women in England took a lack of interest in viewing football, or taking interest in being involved in the sport at all, as match of the day in England was a key cause of the development and popularity of football.