THESE days you can’t move without tripping over a live football match on TV, with Saturday lunchtime and evening kick-offs, ‘Super Sunday’ games, and midweek clashes all over Sky.

But this wasn’t always the case. Before Rupert Murdock came along and revolutionised football on TV, the BBC and ITV showed highlights packages and the odd live game.

It was on this day in 1992 that all that changed, and football changed forever. August 15 was the first day of the newly re-branded Premiership.

The Premiership was of course just the old First Division with a flashy new name, but the real difference was the in the TV coverage.

We now had Richard Keys, Martin Tyler and Andy Gray to talk us through and analyse all the games, with flashy new graphics and even cheer-leaders.



The honour of the first Premiership goal to be scored goes to Brian Deane, at the time of Sheffield United, when he struck after only five minutes of play. For the record, the Blades went on the beat Manchester United 2-1, although it didn’t stop the Red Devils winning the first Premiership title nine months later.

Check out this look back at that first season and have a chuckle at the vastly over-the-top ‘Ford Super Sunday’ graphics.

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