Anglia Television Football Highlights 1962-83
Encouraged by Ipswich Town's league title winning campaign of 1961/62, the three year old Anglia Television service reached a special agreement with the Football League to begin screening a highlights programme* during the 1962/63 season, thus Anglia became the first ITV station to broadcast regular weekly coverage of League football. The fee was just £1,000 for exclusive rights to 30 games that season involving four East Anglian clubs. The first match screened was Ipswich Town 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3. Len Caynes, who went on to become a Match of the Week director and then Anglia's 'Head of Sport', was a cameraman at that match along with Stuart McConahie, later editor of ITV's World of Sport. Caynes recalled; "Everyone on the outside broadcast crew at that time was crazy about football. We couldn't believe our luck, getting paid for watching football - something we would have been doing anyway." The regular director in the 1960's was Bob Gardam who went on to direct The Big Match, one of the camera positions at Wembley later became known as "Gardam's Pit".

*The original shows were around 30 minutes in length.

The Anglia region's league teams
Ipswich Town*, Norwich City*, Peterborough United*, Colchester United*, Northampton Town and Cambridge United. Luton Town were shared with LWT, Southend United were shared with Southern/TVS. From 1965-1974 Anglia also covered Hull City, Grimsby Town, Scunthorpe United and Lincoln City**.

*Ipswich, Norwich, Peterborough and Colchester were the four clubs who Anglia initially covered in the early days.
**The addition of two new transmitters (Sandy Heath and Belmont) in 1965 expanded Anglia's choice of league clubs to 11 and then Cambridge United were elected into the league in 1970, but the four Belmont teams (Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Lincoln) were lost to Yorkshire Television when Belmont was switched over to YTV on 1st January 1974. Luton Town were often paid a visit by London Weekend Television cameras as many homes around the Luton area received their TV pictures from London as well as, or instead of, those from Anglia.

Anglia commentators
August 1962 - Early 1967
Match Of The Week's regular commentator in the early years was pipe-smoking John Camkin, a former newspaper sports writer who had also covered football for the BBC. Camkin served as a director at Coventry City and was secretary of the League Managers Association as well as writing several books on the game. He was the son of Bill Camkin who had managed Birmingham City during World War II.
Dec 1966 - May 1969
36 year old Gerald Sinstadt joined Anglia in 1966 having previously worked for BBC Radio, but he was poached by Granada for the start of 1969/70. See the Granada page for further details.
August 1969 - 1993
Former Army second lieutenant and Daily Express war correspondent Gerry Harrison became Anglia's voice of football for 24 years (during which he was also picked for ITV's World Cup commentary team for all tournaments played from 1970-1990), he had been the runner-up in BBC Television's 1969 "Find a commentator" competition (won by Idwal Robling). Harrison later became Anglia's 'Head of sport' but left the station in 1993 to take a job producing worldwide football coverage for an American owned TV company (citing ITV's losing out to SKY and the BBC in the soccer rights war as the main reason for his move).
Presenters
Michael Parkinson was briefly at Anglia in the late 1960's and may have presented Match of the Week during that time. Steve Rider joined Anglia at the age of 27 in 1979, he was a reporter on the programme and later left for the BBC in 1984 where he presented Grandstand.

What matches were shown
The following lists detail all the matches recorded by Anglia cameras for local highlights, the re-edits of other region's matches are not included here (see the other region's pages for those). Given dates are for when the fixture was played (not the broadcast). Blanks* denote that we don't know what game was shown (if one was shown at all), winter postponements may have forced Anglia to occasionally schedule an alternate non-football programme. Known mid-week & pre-season East England based matches (not necessarily aired under the title Match of the Week) are included in grey, networked ITV coverage of other matches of interest are in italics.

*Do please e-mail [email protected] if you are able to fill in any blanks/missing scorers.

Season 1962/63
All editions of "Match of the Week" were broadcast in 405-line black & white on VHF only until October 1970.
22/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (Moran, Crawford) Wolverhampton W. 3 (Hinton, McParland 2)
29/Sep    Norwich City 2 Derby County 0 *listed in the Times, no surviving footage
06/Oct    Peterborough United 2 Bradford Park Avenue 0 *Times/no footage
13/Oct    Colchester United 1 Crystal Palace 2 *Times/no footage
20/Oct    Ipswich Town 1 (Crawford) West Bromwich Albion 1 (Kevan) *Times/no footage
27/Oct    Norwich City 4 Sunderland 2 *Times/no footage
03/Nov   Ipswich Town 3 (Crawford, Blackwood 2) Manchester United 5 (Law 4, Herd) *Times/no footage (4.25pm Sunday)
10/Nov   Colchester United 4 Brighton & Hove Albion 1 *Times/no footage
17/Nov   Peterborough United 6 Millwall 0 *complete show is archived
24/Nov    Norwich City 3 Luton Town 3 *Times/no footage
01/Dec    Peterborough United 6 Colchester United 2
08/Dec    Probably Norwich City 3 Scunthorpe United 3 *Times says Norwich v Southampton/no footage
15/Dec    Norwich City 1 Preston North End 1 *Times/no footage
21/Dec    Ipswich Town 1 (Phillips) Sheffield United 0 *played on a Friday night
29/Dec    Norwich City 3 Middlesbrough 4 *Intended match Ipswich v Spurs was postponed
05/Jan     Cambridge United v Bedford Town [Southern League Premier Division] *Times/no footage
12/Jan     Ipswich Town Reserves v Nottingham Forest Reserves *Norwich v Grimsby listed in the Times
19/Jan    *Intended match Ipswich v Bolton postponed
26/Jan     Bedford Town v Cambridge ?United or City? [Southern League Premier Division] *Times/no footage
02/Feb    *Intended match Ipswich v Liverpool postponed
09/Feb
16/Feb    Peterborough United 1 Wrexham 3
23/Feb    Norwich City 4 Rotherham United 2
02/Mar    Peterborough United 4 Watford 0
09/Mar    Norwich City 6 Stoke City 0
16/Mar    Ipswich Town 2 (Baxter, Crawford) Tottenham Hotspur 4 (Saul, Greaves 2, Jones)
23/Mar    Norwich City 3 Leeds United 2 *Times/no footage
30/Mar    Ipswich Town 1 (Phillips) Arsenal 1 (Thrower(og)) *Times/no footage
06/Apr    Norwich City 4 Chelsea 1 *Times/no footage
13/Apr    Peterborough United 1 Southend United 3 *Times/no footage
20/Apr    Colchester United 2 Peterborough United 0
27/Apr    Ipswich Town 2 (Crawford, Phillips) Burnley 0
04/May   Colchester United 3 Southend United 1
11/May   Peterborough United 0 Northampton Town 4 *Times/no footage
17/May   Ipswich Town 4 (Stephenson, Moran, Crawford, Phillips) Bolton Wanderers 1 (Davies) *played on a Friday night
25/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Manchester United 3 (Law, Herd 2) Leicester City 1 (Keyworth)

The first season of �Match of the Week� saw the show cover Ipswich Town, Norwich City, Peterborough United and Colchester United, along with Bedford Town and Cambridge United who were playing outside the league in the Southern League Premier Division. Ipswich, who as defending League Champions in Alf Ramsey�s final season before he took over the England job, finished in 17th place just four points above relegated Manchester City. Norwich City (whose Manager George Swindin left in November after only taking over the previous summer and was replaced by player Ron Ashman) finished in mid-table in the 2nd tier. Peterborough United had a good season in the 3rd tier finishing in 6th place, whilst Colchester United had a 12th placed finish.
All footnotes on the Anglia page have been written by Mark Bunn

Season 1963/64
24/Aug
31/Aug
07/Sep
14/Sep
21/Sep
28/Sep    Peterborough United 3 Southend United 0
05/Oct    Norwich City 2 Sunderland 3
12/Sep
19/Oct    Colchester United 2 Coventry City 1
26/Oct    Ipswich Town 1 (Hegan) Liverpool 2 (Melia, Hunt)
02/Nov   Norwich City 3 (???, ???, ???) Newcastle United 1 (McGarry)
09/Nov   Ipswich Town 0 Stoke City 2 (Ritchie, Dobing)
16/Nov   Norwich City 3 Derby County 0
23/Nov   Ipswich Town 2 (Elsworthy, Phillips) Tottenham Hotspur 3 (Marchi, Dyson 2)
30/Nov
07/Dec
14/Dec    Norwich City 5 Cardiff City 1
18/Dec    Norwich City 1 Leicester City 1 [League Cup QF] *Norwich lost the replay 2-1
21/Dec
28/Dec    Ipswich Town 4 (Baxter, Hegan, Broadfoot, Baker) Fulham 2 (Leggat, Key)
04/Jan     Peterborough United 1 Mansfield Town 3
11/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Baker) Sheffield Wednesday 4 (Layne 3, Dobson)
18/Jan
25/Jan     There is an archive ref to Bedford 0 Carlisle Utd 3 [FA Cup 4th Round] but this may be a newsreel as Anglia didn't cover any other FA Cup ties until 1966.
01/Feb    Ipswich Town 3 (Blackwood 2, Hegan) Birmingham City 2 (Regan, Farmer)
08/Feb    Norwich City 2 Leeds United 2
15/Feb
22/Feb    Colchester United 4 Crewe Alexandra 0
29/Feb
07/Mar
14/Mar
21/Mar
28/Mar
04/Apr
11/Apr
18/Apr
25/Apr
02/May    Networked coverage of the FA Cup Final - West Ham United 3 (Sissons, Hurst, Boyce) Preston North End 2 (Holden, Dawson)

It was not a memorable season for any of the four Anglia clubs as Ipswich (now under the management of Newcastle legend Jackie Milburn) had an awful season finishing bottom of the old Division One. 2nd tier Norwich City's final tally was only three points clear of relegation, whilst in the Division below both Peterborough and Colchester were mid-table.

Season 1964/65
22/Aug
29/Aug
05/Sep    Norwich City 2 (Bolland, Davies) Ipswich Town 1 (Baker) *Details of the City goals are incorrectly dated 25/Sep/1965 on the tape log
12/Sep
19/Sep
26/Sep
03/Oct
10/Oct
17/Oct    Colchester United 1 Queens Park Rangers 2
24/Oct    Possibly Ipswich Town 3 (Baker, Hegan) Derby County 1 (Buxton) *Tape log refers to Ipswich v Leeds (but no such fixture was played in 64/65)
31/Oct
07/Nov
14/Nov
21/Nov
28/Nov
05/Dec    Ipswich Town 1 (Baker) Bury 0
12/Dec
19/Dec    Norwich City 3 Rotherham United 0
26/Dec
02/Jan
09/Jan     Colchester United 4 Barnsley 1 *log reference to Forest 1 Norwich 0 [FA Cup 3rd Round] not on this date but likely is this match,  probably a newsreel.
16/Jan
23/Jan
30/Jan
06/Feb    Peterborough United 2 Luton Town 0
13/Feb
20/Feb    Norwich City 3 Plymouth Argyle 0
27/Feb
06/Mar
13/Mar
20/Mar
27/Mar    Ipswich Town 4 (Baxter, Baker 2, Brogan) Manchester City 1 (Crossan)
03/Apr
10/Apr
17/Apr    Norwich City 2 Middlesbrough 0
24/Apr    Ipswich Town 3 (Baxter, Broadfoot, Baker) Crystal Palace 2 (Burnside, Holton)
01/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Liverpool 2 (Hunt, St.John) Leeds United 1 (Bremner) AET

With Norwich and Ipswich now in the same division (2nd tier) �Match of the Week� was able to show it�s first derby match on September 5th 1964 which Norwich won 2-1 at Carrow Road. Milburn was sacked soon afterwards and replaced by Watford Manager Bill McGarry. Both sides went on to have good season's with Ipswich finishing just above their rivals on goal average in 5th place. Peterborough finished 8th in Division Three, but reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup knocking out Arsenal 2-1 in the fourth round, before going out 5-1 at Chelsea. Unfortunately none of this action was shown on TV as neither ITV or the BBC were allowed to show FA Cup highlights other than of the final. Colchester had a poor season and were relegated to the 4th Division in 23rd place.

Season 1965/66
There was a dispute between the Football League and the TV companies at the beginning of this season, highlights returned to BBC2 on 02/Oct and to ITV channels a week later.
09/Oct
16/Oct    Peterborough United 4 Southend United 0
23/Oct    Northampton Town 2 West Ham United 1
30/Oct
06/Nov
13/Nov    Peterborough United 2 Kidderminster Harriers 1 [FA Cup 1st Round] *probably the first FA Cup tie to be covered by Anglia
20/Nov    Northampton Town 0 Tottenham Hotpsur 2
27/Nov    Colchester United 3 Newport County 2
04/Dec
11/Dec    Norwich City 3 Bolton Wanderers 0
18/Dec
01/Jan     Possibly Norwich City 2 Birmingham City 2 *Tape log says Norwich v Forest (but no such fixture was played in 65/66)
08/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Hegan) Coventry City 0 *listed in the Times, no surviving footage
15/Jan
22/Jan     Northampton Town 1 Nottingham Forest 2 [FA Cup 3rd Round]
29/Jan     Colchester United 3 Port Vale 0
05/Feb
12/Feb    Norwich City 3 Walsall 2 [FA Cup 4th Round]
19/Feb    Northampton Town 3 (???, ???, ???) Newcastle United 1 (Iley)
26/Feb    Peterborough United 3 Scunthorpe United 1
05/Mar   Probably showed ATV coverage of Chelsea 0 Hull City 1 (Wagstaff) [FA Cup 5th Round] *Hugh Johns commentated, at least for London viewers
19/Mar    Ipswich Town 2 (Crawford, Baxter(pen)) Norwich City 0
26/Mar    [FA Cup QF]
02/Apr    Peterborough United 1 Grimsby Town 1
09/Apr
16/Apr
23/Apr    Grimsby Town 1 Hull City 0
30/Apr    Norwich City 1 Portsmouth 3
07/May   Ipswich Town 5 (Hegan, Baker, Crawford 2, Hawkins(og)) Wolverhampton W. 2 (Buckley, Knowles)
14/May   Networked coverage of the FA Cup Final - Everton 3 (Trebilcock 2, Temple) Sheffield Wednesday 2 (McCalliog, Ford)

The addition of two new transmitters at Sandy Heath (covering Bedfordshire) and Belmont (Lincolnshire) gave Anglia access to several new clubs. One of these was Northampton Town who enjoyed this one season in the top flight before being relegated. Ipswich and Norwich both finished mid-table in the 2nd tier, the Canaries reached the 5th round of the FA Cup but this was not enough to save manager Ron Ashman who was sacked at the end of the season. Another new Anglia team Hull City had a very successful season - champions of the 3rd tier as well as reaching the quarter-finals of the FA Cup before going out 3-1 to Chelsea in a home replay. Scunthorpe United finished 4th but were twelve points adrift of promotion, other new boys Grimsby Town finished in mid-table but their first TV action saw them beat Hull 1-0 in April. Peterborough United finished just a point below Grimsby but reached the semi-final of the League cup losing out 6-3 to West Bromwich Albion on aggregate. Colchester regained their 3rd tier status at the first attempt but only thanks to a better goal average than Tranmere Rovers and (another new Anglia club) Luton Town. The final new club Lincoln City finished third from bottom and had to go through re-election.

Season 1966/67
20/Aug
27/Aug
03/Sep
10/Sep
17/Sep
24/Sep
01/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 (Crawford, Brogan) Bolton Wanderers 2 (Davies, Lee)
08/Oct    Grimsby Town 1 (Green) Oldham Athletic 0
15/Oct
22/Oct
29/Oct
05/Nov
12/Nov   Colchester United 1 Peterborough United 4
19/Nov
26/Nov
03/Dec    Grimsby Town 1 Orient 2 *Gerald Sinstadt commentating for the first time on TV
10/Dec    *TV Times continues to list John Camkin as commentator
17/Dec
24/Dec
31/Dec
07/Jan
14/Jan     Hull City 2 (Jarvis, Simpkin) Millwall 0 *Tape log dates this as 22/Jan/1966
21/Jan
28/Jan     [FA Cup 3rd Round]
04/Feb    Northampton Town 2 Hull City 2
11/Feb
18/Feb    Manchester United 1 (Law) Norwich City 2 (Heath, Bolland) [FA Cup 4th Round] *Anglia cameras outside the region, Camkin commentating
25/Feb    Northampton Town 1 (Brown) Crystal Palace 0
04/Mar
11/Mar    Manchester City 1 (Young) Ipswich Town 1 (Crawford) [FA Cup 5th Round] *Anglia cameras outside the region
18/Mar    *TV Times now listing Gerald Sinstadt as commentator
25/Mar    Ipswich Town 4 (Crawford, Viljoen 3) Portsmouth 2 (Harris, Pointer)
01/Apr
08/Apr    [FA Cup QF]
15/Apr    Norwich City 4 Crystal Palace 3 *Gerald Sinstadt commentated
22/Apr
29/Apr    Showed ABC's FA Cup SF *Barry Davies commentating
06/May
13/May    Norwich City 1 Northampton Town 0 *Tape log says Northampton won 1-0 (Brown) & Keelan was sent off for thumping an opponent, City had pen saved
20/May    Networked LIVE? coverage of the FA Cup Final - Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Robertson, Saul) Chelsea 1 (Tambling)

Ipswich were this season's highest placed Anglia team reaching 5th place in the 2nd tier, but it was Norwich (now under the management of Lol Morgan) who took most of the headlines. An improving 11th placed finish in the league was eclipsed by a 2-1 win the FA Cup 4th round at Manchester United who would go and win the league title, this game was covered by Anglia with cameras outside of the region of the first time. Hull City, following promotion, finished one place below Norwich whilst Northampton, who reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup, suffered a second successive relegation. All four 3rd tier Anglia clubs finished within four points of each other in the bottom half of the table, Colchester United, Peterborough united, Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United. In Division Four, Luton Town finished just four points clear of re-election whilst Lincoln City were rock bottom.

Season 1967/68
No details available
18/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - West Bromwich Albion 1 (Astle) Everton 0 AET

It was a great season for Ipswich Town as they were finally promoted back into the top tier of English football after a five year gap as champions. Norwich City improved again with a 9th placed finish, whilst Hull City struggled all season but managed to stay up in 17th (six points clear of the drop). In the Third tier, it was Peterborough United who took all the headlines for the wrong reasons, they finished 9th but where deducted 19 points and relegated after being found guilty of paying players illegal bonus fees. Northampton town stopped their decline with a 18th place finish, but it was three other local sides that joined Peterborough in the bottom tier, Grimsby Town, Colchester United and Scunthorpe United (the Irons having appointed former Norwich Boss Ron Ashman). Luton Town, under Allan Brown, finished as runaway Champions of the Fourth division whilst Lincoln City had an improved mid-table finish.

Season 1968/69
All of this season's editions of "Match of the week" were broadcast in 405-line black & white on VHF only.
10/Aug    Ipswich Town 1 (O'Rourke) Wolverhampton W. 0
17/Aug    Possibly showed ATV coverage of  Leicester City v Ipswich Town
24/Aug    Ipswich Town 1 (Crawford) Arsenal 2 (Radford, Jenkins)
31/Aug    Norwich City 2 Bury 2
03/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (McNeil, Crawford) Norwich City (Curran 3, Crickmore(pen)) [League Cup] *Danny Blanchflower covered this one
07/Sep    Hull City 1 (Chilton) Bristol City 1 (Galley)
14/Sep    Ipswich Town 0 Liverpool 2 (Graham, St. John)
21/Sep    Norwich City 0 Portsmouth 1 (McCann)
28/Sep    Luton Town 1 (Lewis) Torquay United 0 *programme is archived
05/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Curran) Hull City 2 (Houghton, Butler)
12/Oct    Hull City 3 (Houghton 2, Wagstaff) Huddersfield Town 0
19/Oct    Peterborough United 1 (Thompson) Grimsby Town 1 (Ross)
26/Oct    Ipswich Town 0 Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Gilzean)
02/Nov    Northampton Town 1 (Fairbrother) Torquay United 1 (Barnes)
09/Nov    Ipswich Town 2 (Crawford, Morris) Everton 2 (Royle 2)
16/Nov    Bury Town 0 Bournemouth & Boscombe A. 0 [FA Cup 1st Round] *Bury Town being of the Suffolk variety, Bournemouth won the replay 3-0
23/Nov    Hull City 2 (Lord, Wagstaff) Portsmouth 2 (Tindall, Hiron)
30/Nov    Norwich City 0 Blackpool 1 (Rowe)
07/Dec     Luton Town 3 (Harrison 2, French) Gillingham 1 (Yeo)
14/Dec     Norwich City 2 (Manning, Crickmore) Fulham 0
21/Dec     Ipswich Town 2 (Hegan, Morris) Nottingham Forest 3 (Hall, Lyons, Moore) *LWT at Luton
28/Dec     Northampton Town 0 Luton Town 2 (Rioch 2)
04/Jan      Hull City 1 (Chiltern) Wolverhampton W. 3 (Wignall, Dougan 2) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
11/Jan      Ipswich Town 2 (Crawford, Mills) Burnley 0
18/Jan      Norwich City 2 (Curran, Foggo) Bolton Wanderers 0
25/Jan      Probably showed other region's FA Cup 4th Round matches
01/Feb     Ipswich Town 1 (Dunne (og)) Manchester United 0
08/Feb    *only 4 fixtures played from all divisions due to bad weather
15/Feb     Lincoln City 1 (Hubbard) Scunthorpe United 2 (Kerr, Cassidy)
22/Feb     Colchester United 1 (Gibbs) Notts County 1 (Butlin)
01/Mar    Norwich City 1 (Manning) Birmingham City 1 (Vowden)
08/Mar    Peterborough United 0 Port Vale 1 (Mahon)
15/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Swindon Town 3 (Smart, Rogers 2) Arsenal 1 (Gould)
22/Mar    Probably showed Manchester City 1 (Booth) Everton 0 [FA Cup Semi Final]
29/Mar    Luton Town 2 (Branston, Sheffield) Orient 1 (Rofe)
05/Apr    Hull City 2 (Jarvis, Wilkinson) Millwall 0
12/Apr    Ipswich Town 0 Southampton 0
19/Apr    Hull City 1 (Wilkinson) Aston Villa 0
26/Apr    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Manchester City 1 (Young) Leicester City 0

Back with the elite, Ipswich comfortably stayed up but suffered a big blow when Bill McGarry left to join Wolves in November, his replacement was Bobby Robson who had just been sacked by Fulham. In the 2nd tier Hull finished 10th and Norwich City finished 12th with Lol Morgan sacked at the end of the season. Another side who had a change in dug-out was Luton Town who bizarrely sacked Allan Brown in December (with the team in the top four of Division Three) for showing an interest in the Wolves and Leicester jobs, he was replaced former QPR manager Alec Stock and the Hatters went on to miss out on a second successive promotion by three points to arch rivals Watford. Northampton Town dropped in the bottom tier by just a point from safety. There was not much success in the 4th tier with Colchester United the highest placed club in 6th place, whilst fringe Anglia team Southend United and Lincoln City finished just below. Scunthorpe United and Peterborough United both finished in lower mid-table with Grimsby Town having to apply for re-election.

Season 1969/70
All of this season's editions of "Match of the week" were broadcast in 405-line black & white on VHF only.
09/Aug    Ipswich Town 0 Nottingham Forest 0
16/Aug    Norwich City 3 (Crickmore 2, Fogg ) Blackpool 1 (Pickering)
23/Aug    Luton Town 3 (Collins, French, McDonald) Orient 2 (Jones, Bullock)
30/Aug
06/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (Wigg, O'Rourke) Newcastle United 0
13/Sep    Hull City 4 (Chilton 2, Wagstaff, Butler) Bolton Wanderers 2 (Greaves, Byrom)
20/Sep    Ipswich Town 0 Everton 3 (Bell, Royle, Harvey)
27/Sep    Hull City 1 (Simpkin) Charlton Athletic 1 (Peacock)
04/Oct    Luton Town 2 (Nicholls Mcdonald (pen) ) Stockport County 0
11/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Forbes) Queens Park Rangers 0
18/Oct    Lincoln City 1 (Pletcher) Scunthorpe United 2 (Cassidy 2)
25/Oct    Hull City 2 (Butler, Houghton) Huddersfield Town 3 (Hoy 2, Worthington) *LWT at Luton
01/Nov    Ipswich Town 1 (McNeil) Manchester City 1 (Lee)
08/Nov    Norwich City 1 (Bryceland) Huddersfield Town 2 (Hoy, Dobson)
15/Nov    Ipswich Town 2 (Hill 2) Crystal Palace 0
22/Nov    Hull City 1 (Chilton) Watford 1 (Lugg)
29/Nov    Ipswich Town 1 (Mills) West Ham United 0
06/Dec    Intended match Norwich City v Middlesbrough was postponed
13/Dec
20/Dec    Norwich City 1 (Foggo) Sheffield United (Tudor)
27/Dec    Ipswich Town 2 (Woods, Hill) Tottenham Hotspur 0
03/Jan     Ipswich Town 0 Manchester United 1 (McNeil(og)) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
10/Jan     Norwich City 4 (Silvester 2, Conlan 2) Bristol City 1 (Garland)
17/Jan     Lincoln City 2 (Meath 2) Grimsby Town 0
24/Jan     Sheffield Wednesday 1 (Whitham) Scunthorpe United 2 (Barker, Cassidy) [FA Cup 4th Round] *Anglia cameras outside the region
31/Jan     Hull City 2 (Wagstaff 2) Sheffield United 3 (Addison 2, Colquhoun)
07/Feb    Showed ATV coverage of Northampton Town 2 (McNeil, Large) Manchester United 8 (Best 6, Kidd 2) [FA Cup 5th Round]
14/Feb    Norwich City 3 (Foggo, Silvester 2) Aston Villa 1 (Anderson)
21/Feb    Probably networked coverage of two FA Cup Quarter Finals at QPR & Middlesbrough
28/Feb    Hull City 1 (Chilton) Swindon Town 1 (Rogers)
07/Mar    Networked ATV coverage of the League Cup Final - W.B.A. 1 (Astle) Man City 2 (Doyle, Pardoe)
14/Mar    Luton Town 2 (Ryan, Harrison) Mansfield Town 2 (Roberts, Partridge)
21/Mar    Ipswich Town 2 (Pitt(og), Whymark) Sunderland 0
28/Mar    Norwich City 2 (Silvester, Foggo) Millwall 1 (Cripps)
04/Apr     Ipswich Town 2 (Carroll, Robertson) Southampton 0
11/Apr    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Chelsea 2 (Houseman, Hutchinson) Leeds United 2 (Charlton, Jones) AET
29/Apr    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final Replay - Chelsea 2 (Osgood, Webb) Leeds United 1 (Jones) [Old Trafford] AET

Bobby Robson�s first full season in charge at Ipswich saw a battle against the drop but they managed to stay up finishing 18th as Robson began to re-build the team. Norwich City, now under Ron Saunders, were again mid-table in 11th, just below them were Hull City who appointed 28 year-old Arsenal player Terry Neill as player-manager to replace the long serving Cliff Britton at the end of the season. Luton Town were promoted into the 2nd tier as runners-up with 25 goals of their league goals scored by Malcom Macdonald. It was the region's lower league sides made an impact in the FA Cup this year with both Scunthorpe and Northampton reaching the last sixteen despite mid-table finishes in the league. Scunthorpe caused a major upset in front of the Anglia cameras knocking out top flight Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 at Hillsborough before going out by the same score at 2nd tier Swindon. Northampton's run was ended by Manchester United and George Best who scored six times as they won 8-2 in one of Best�s most famous performances. In the 4th tier Lincoln City, Peterborough United and Colchester United all finished in the top half, with Grimsby Town and Southend United narrowly avoiding re-election.

Season 1970/71
15/Aug    Cambridge United 1 (Meldrum) Lincoln City 1 (Trevis) *United's first game in the football league
22/Aug    Luton Town 0 Norwich City 0
29/Aug    Showed LWT's match
05/Sep    Ipswich Town 3 (Baxter, Clarke, Viljoen(pen)) Burnley 0
12/Sep    Grimsby Town 0 Northampton Town 2 (Large, Fairbrother)
19/Sep    Ipswich Town 4 (Viljoen 2, Clarke, Whymark) Manchester United 0
26/Sep    Norwich City 0 Hull City 2 (Houghton, Wagstaff)
Anglia began broadcasting in colour on 1st October 1970, "Match of the week" was probably in colour from soon afterwards.
03/Oct    Scunthorpe United 1 (Keegan(pen)) Grimsby Town 2 (Oates 2)
10/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Howard) Carlisle United 1 (Hatton)
17/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 (Clarke(pen), Hill) Stoke City 0
24/Oct    Lincoln City 2 (Fletcher, Trevis) Peterborough United 1 (Pleat)
31/Oct    Luton Town 1 (Macdonald) Sunderland 2 (Baker, Kerr) *All ITV shows broadcast in black & white due to a technicians 'colour strike'.
07/Nov   Ipswich Town 2 (Hill, Mills) West Ham United 1 (Hurst)
14/Nov   Norwich City 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0 *Recorded & broadcast in black & white due to a technicians 'colour strike'.
21/Nov   Hull City 1 (Chilton) Queens Park Rangers 1 (Leach) *black & white due to a technicians 'colour strike', LWT at Luton
28/Nov   Colchester United 4 (Crawford 2, Gibbs, Cramm) Brentford 0 *black & white, dog on pitch
05/Dec    Luton Town 2 (Macdonald, Jim Ryan) Sheffield United 1 (Currie) *black & white.
12/Dec    Colchester United 3 (James, Gilchrist, Garvey) Cambridge United 0 [FA Cup 2nd Round] *black & white.
19/Dec    Norwich City 1 (Foggo(pen)) Luton Town 1 (Macdonald) *black & white.
26/Dec    Intended match Ipswich Town v Tottenham Hotspur was postponed, showed LWT's match instead
02/Jan     Hull City 3 (Butler, Wagstaff, Houghton) Charlton Athletic 0 [FA Cup 3rd Round] *black & white.
09/Jan     Hull City 4 (Chilton 3,Wagstaff) Sunderland 0 *black & white.
16/Jan     Ipswich Town 0 Derby County 1 (O'Hare) *black & white.
23/Jan     Hull City 2 (Chilton,Wagstaff) Blackpool 0 [FA Cup 4th Round] *black & white.
30/Jan     Intended match Luton Town v Cardiff City was postponed, showed ATV's match instead
06/Feb    Lincoln City 2 (Hubbard(pen), Trevis) Hartlepool 0 *black & white.
13/Feb    Hull City 2 (Chilton, Houghton) Brentford 1 (Ross) [FA Cup 5th Round] *ATV coverage of Stoke 0 Ipswich 0 was 2nd game
20/Feb    Peterborough United 1 (Moss) Northampton Town 0 *Technicians strike ended, ITV now back in colour
27/Feb    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Chivers 2) Aston Villa 0
06/Mar   FA Cup QF's including YTV coverage of Hull City 2 (Wagstaff 2) Stoke City 3 (Conroy, Ritchie 2)
13/Mar    Ipswich Town 1 (Burton(og)) Newcastle United 0
20/Mar    Northampton Town 1 (Large) Notts County 1 (Hateley) *Surviving tape is b&w
27/Mar    Norwich City 3 (Foggo, Silvester 2) Sunderland 0
03/Apr    Ipswich Town 1 (Woods) Southampton 3 (Gabriel(pen), Channon, Davies)
10/Apr    Norwich City 3 (Foggo, Stringer, Darling) Queens Park Rangers 0
17/Apr    Luton Town 2 (Anderson, Givens) Sheffield Wednesday 2 (Sunley)
24/Apr    Norwich City 1 (Silvester) Cardiff City 2 (Clarke, Warboys)
01/May   Hull City 1 (Houghton) Norwich City 0 *Tape log says Hull 1 QPR 0
08/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Arsenal 2 (Kelly, George) Liverpool 1 (Heighway) AET

It was not a good season for Bobby Robson and Ipswich Town as they struggled to a 19th placed finish. Hull City, under Terry Neill, enjoyed an excellent campaign reaching the FA Cup quarter-finals (going out 3-2 at home to Stoke City) and finishing only five points from promotion. Luton Town, newly promoted weere just behind and Malcom Macdonald netted 24 more league goals, whilst Norwich City had yet another mid-table season in 11th. Colchester United also reached the last eight of the FA Cup, as a bottom tier club they knocked out the mighty Leeds United at Layer Road in one of the most famous giant-killings of all time (shown on the BBC) thanks in part to Ray Crawford who had been a part of the Ipswich Town title winning side almost a decade earlier, Colchester also just missed out on promotion by two points, Northampton Town were just behind  in 7th place. The rest of the Anglia clubs where all clustered in the bottom half of the table; Lincoln City had to apply for re-election, Cambridge United - in their first season in the Football league - finished four points above them.

Season 1971/72
14/Aug    Ipswich Town 0 Everton 0
21/Aug    Showed Tyne Tees match
28/Aug    Showed LWT's match
04/Sep    Showed LWT's match
11/Sep    Showed Granada coverage of Blackpool 1 Norwich City 2
18/Sep    Showed ATV's match
25/Sep    Northampton Town 1 (Hawkins) Colchester United 1 (Hall)
02/Oct    Norwich City 0 Queens Park Rangers 0
09/Oct    Ipswich Town 1 (Harper) Nottingham Forest 1 (Moore)
16/Oct    Norwich City 3 (Foggo 2, Howard) Luton Town 1 (Slough)
23/Oct    Lincoln City 3 (Smith, Freeman, Gilliver) Peterborough United 2 (Robson, Barker)
30/Oct    Northampton Town 3 (Large, Hope, Buchanan) Grimsby Town 0
06/Nov   Ipswich Town 2 (Hill, Belfitt) Wolverhampton W. 1 (Dougan)
13/Nov   Colchester United 1 (Jones) Brentford 1 (O'Mara)
20/Nov   Southend United 1 (Best) Aston Villa 0 [FA Cup 1st Round] *First Anglia visit to Southend
27/Nov   Luton Town 3 (Keen, Hindson, Anderson) Portsmouth 2 (Reynolds 2)
04/Dec    Ipswich Town 0 Liverpool 0
11/Dec    Hull City 4 (Kaye 2, Pearson, Banks) Middlesbrough 3 (Mills 2, Craggs)
18/Dec    Ipswich Town 0 Manchester United 0
01/Jan     Luton Town 2 (Nicholl, Anderson) Millwall 1 (Possee)
08/Jan     Hull City 0 Cardiff City 0
15/Jan     Peterborough United 0 Ipswich Town 2 (Hill, Viljoen) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
22/Jan     Norwich City 1 (Paddon (pen)) Preston North End 1 (Bird)
29/Jan     Luton Town 1 (John Ryan) Queens Park Rangers 1 (Francis)
05/Feb    Coventry City 0 Hull City 1 (Wagstaff) [FA Cup 4th Round] *Anglia outside the region, ATV were at Birmingham
12/Feb    Norwich City 2 (Burnett(og), Cross) Millwall 2 (Possee, Bolland)
19/Feb    Ipswich Town 0 Arsenal 1 (George)
26/Feb    Stoke City 4 (Greenhoff 2, Conroy, Ritchie) Hull City 1 (Wagstaff) [FA Cup 5th Round] Anglia outside the region, ATV were at Birmingham
04/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Stoke City 2 (Conroy, Eastham) Chelsea 1 (Osgood)
11/Mar    Hull City 4 (Pearson 2, Wagstaff 2) Fulham 0
18/Mar    Lincoln City 1 (Gilliver) Scunthorpe United 0
25/Mar    Norwich City 5 (Paddon 2(1 pen), Foggo, Cross, Bone) Blackpool 1 (Burns)
01/Apr    Ipswich Town 1 (Viljoen) Chelsea 2 (Webb 2)
08/Apr    Norwich City 1 (Forbes) Sheffield Wednesday 0
15/Apr    Networked coverage of Stoke City 1 (Simpson(og)) Arsenal 1 (Armstrong) [FA Cup Semi-Final]
22/Apr    Norwich City 1 (Forbes) Swindon Town 0
29/Apr    Grimsby Town 3 (Wiggington, Brace(pen), Gauden) Peterborough United 2 (Turpie, Hall)
06/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Leeds 1 (Clarke) Arsenal 0

Ipswich Town had an improved season finishing in 13th place, but their progress was over-shadowed by Norwich City who under Ron Saunders burst from a decade of mid-table obscurity to claim the 2nd tier title, they also reached the Quarter-finals of the League Cup. Both Hull City and Luton Town slipped down the table, and at the end of the season the Luton manager Alec Stock resigned. It was a good year for the region's 4th tier clubs; Grimsby Town won the league title on the final day of the season in-front of the �Match of the Week� cameras with a 3-2 win over Peterborough United who just missed out on promotion themselves, although they did have the division�s top scorer in Paul Price who hit 28 goals. Southend United were visited by Anglia for the first time in November for their 1-0 win over Aston Villa in the 1st Round of the FA Cup and went on to win promotion as runners-up, whilst Ron Ashman�s Scunthorpe United (who had sold Kevin Keegan to Liverpool the previous summer) piped local rivals Lincoln city to the final promotion spot by a point. Cambridge United and Colchester United were locked together in mid-table whilst Northampton Town were forced to apply for re-election.

Season 1972/73
12/Aug    Norwich City 1 (Bone) Everton 1 (Royle)
19/Aug    Ipswich Town 2 (Whymark, Miller) Birmingham City 0
26/Aug    Lincoln City 0 Aldershot 2 (Brown, McMahon(og)) *Commentator NOT Harrison (doing Granada commentaries as their regular man was covering Olympics)
02/Sep     Ipswich Town 1 (Viljoen) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Peters(pen))
09/Sep    Showed Granada's match *Gerry Harrison commentating for Granada
16/Sep    Showed ATV's match
23/Sep    Scunthorpe United 1 (Deere) Grimsby Town 2 (Gray, Chatterley)
30/Sep    Northampton Town 2 (Neal 2) Cambridge United 2 (Collins(pen), Watson)
07/Oct    Oxford United 5 (Cassidy, Sloan, Curran 3) Sunderland 1 (Kerr) *Not ATV or LWT, a strange one (Oxford was well outside Anglia's territory)
14/Oct    Hull City 5 (Holme, Pearson 4) Portsmouth 1 (Price)
21/Oct    Luton Town 1 (Hallom) Hull City 2 (Houghton 2)
28/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Anderson) Liverpool 1 (Cormack)
04/Nov   Ipswich Town 2 (Madeley(og), Johnson) Leeds United 2 (Charlton, Lorimer)
11/Nov    Norwich City 0 Ipswich Town 0
18/Nov    Norwich City 2 (Stringer, Paddon) West Bromwich Albion 0
25/Nov    Abandoned match - Ipswich Town 0 Coventry City 1 *Abandoned after 61 minutes due to floodlight failure
02/Dec    Norwich City 0 Manchester United 2 (Moore, McDougal)
09/Dec    Ipswich Town 2 (Johnson 2) Crystal Palace 1 (Hughes)
16/Dec    Grimsby Town 4 (Wiggington, Hickman, Chatterley, Worthington) Brentford 0
23/Dec    Norwich City 1 (Bone) Wolverhampton W. 1 (Dougan)
30/Dec    Norwich City 1 (Paddon) Manchester City 1 (Towers)
06/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Whymark) Newcastle United 0
13/Jan     Chelmsford 1 (Woolcott) Ipswich Town 3 (Hamilton, Harper, Johnson) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
20/Jan     Scunthorpe United 1 (Kirk(pen)) Bournemouth 1 (Clarke)
27/Jan     Luton Town 1 (Slough) Nottingham Forest 0
03/Feb    Hull City 1 (Houghton) West Ham United 0 [FA Cup 4th Round]
10/Feb    Cambridge United 3 (Lill, Phillips, Watson) Newport County 1 (White)
17/Feb    Luton Town 1 (Aston) Cardiff City 1 (Woodruff)
24/Feb    Possibly showed ATV coverage of Coventry City 3 (Alderson, Stein 2) Hull City 0 [FA Cup 5th Round]
03/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Norwich City 0 Spurs 1 (Coates)
10/Mar    Ipswich Town 1 (Whymark) Arsenal 2 (Radford, Ball(pen))
17/Mar    Norwich City 1 (Paddon(pen)) Leicester City 1 (Glover)
24/Mar    Luton Town 1 (Garner) Bristol City 3 (Gow, Fillies, Fear)
31/Mar    Norwich City 1 (Stringer) Birmingham City 2 (Latchford 2)
07/Apr    Networked LWT coverage of Arsenal 1 (George) Sunderland 2 (Halom, Hughes) [FA Cup SF]
14/Apr    Grimsby Town 2 (Hickman, Farrimond(og)) Tranmere Rovers 0
21/Apr    Ipswich Town 2 (Morris, Whymark) Wolverhampton W. 1 (Richards)
28/Apr    Cambridge United 3 (Walton 2, Ross(pen)) Mansfield Town 2 (McGaffey, Roberts)
05/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Sunderland 1 (Porterfield) Leeds United 0

Ipswich Town made a sudden return to prominence in the English game finishing in 4th place, their highest since winning the title in 1962, and it was enough to qualify them for the UEFA Cup. Norwich City quickly adapted to life amongst the elite and, after Anglia covered the 2-0 win over West Brom on November 18th, City sat 6th in the table, but then disaster struck as they then failed to win another league game until mid April, but two further wins over fellow strugglers West Brom and Crystal Palace in the space of four days saved them from the drop. The other high point was their first visit to Wembley in the League Cup final but they lost 1-0 to Spurs. 2nd tier clubs Luton Town and Hull City had almost identical season's as the previous year with lower mid-table finishes. Grimsby Town adapted well to 3rd tier football and finished in 9th place with Southend United four points below them, but Scunthorpe United ended the season in bottom place and were relegated straight back down, Cambridge United were among those replacing them as they finished in 3rd in the Fourth Division. Lincoln City - who had appointed Graham Taylor as their new Manager in December - finished 10th, Peterborough United finished 6th from bottom, but better than Colchester united (now managed by Former Boston United Manager Jim Smith) and Northampton Town who both had to re-apply for re-election.

Season 1973/74
25/Aug    Showed LWT's match
01/Sep    Norwich City 2 (Mellor, Paddon(pen)) West Ham United 2 (Best, Robson)
08/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (Lambert, Johnson) Manchester United 1 (Anderson)
15/Sep    Showed LWT's match
19/Sep    Ipswich Town 1 (Rubinan(og)) Real Madrid 0 [UEFA Cup 1st Round 1st Leg] *2nd leg was drawn 0-0
22/Sep    Hull City 0 West Bromwich Albion 0
29/Sep    Showed LWT's match
06/Oct     Ipswich Town 0 Tottenham Hotspur 0
13/Oct     Norwich City 0 Coventry City 0
20/Oct     Norwich City 1 (Livermore) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Gilzean)
27/Oct     Luton Town 2 (Anderson, Butlin) Hull City 2 (Greenwood, Lord)
03/Nov    Grimsby Town 1 (Sharpe) Cambridge United 0
10/Nov    Ipswich Town 3 (Beattie, Lambert 2) Derby County 0
17/Nov    Peterborough United 3 (Hall 2, Hill) Northampton Town 0
24/Nov    Ipswich Town 2 (Whymark 2) Manchester City 1 (Leman)
01/Dec     Colchester United 4 (Svark 2, Morgan, Dyson) Bradford City 0
08/Dec     Hull City 3 (Deare, Greenwood, Wagstaff) Crystal Palace 0
15/Dec     Norwich City 1 (Cheesley) Liverpool 1 (Cormack)
22/Dec     Showed Yorkshire coverage of Leeds United 1 Norwich City 0
29/Dec     Luton Town 1 (Anderson) Bristol City 0
05/Jan      Peterborough United 3 (Cousins, Hill, Robson) Southend United 1 (Moody) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
12/Jan      Cambridge United 3 (Lill, Ferguson, Greenhouse) Southend United 2 (Coulsen, Ford)
19/Jan      Luton Town 2 (Jimmy Ryan 2(1pen)) Nottingham Forest 2 (McKenzie, Richardson)
26/Jan      Peterborough United 1 (Cousins) Leeds United 4 (Lorimer, Jordan 2, Yorath) [FA Cup 4th Round]
02/Feb     Ipswich Town 7 (Mills, Beattie, Hamilton 2, Whymark 2, Lambert) Southampton 0
09/Feb     Norwich City 2 (McDougal, Stringer) Sheffield United 1 (Hemsley)
16/Feb     Luton Town 0 Leicester City 4 (Earl 2, Worthington, Weller) [FA Cup 5th Round] *LWT coverage but Harrison probably commentated for Anglia viewers
23/Feb     Showed ATV's match
02/Mar     Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Wolves 2 (Hibbitt, Richards) Manchester City 1 (Bell)
09/Mar     Hull City 1 (O'Reilly) Luton Town 3 (West, Anderson, Aston) *possibly Yorkshire coverage
16/Mar     Ipswich Town 2 (Hamilton, Whymark) Arsenal 2 (Kennedy, Simpson)
23/Mar     Hull City 1 (Grimes) Carlisle United 1 (Owen) *probably Yorkshire coverage
30/Mar     Luton Town 0 Middlesbrough 1 (Mills)
06/Apr     Norwich City 0 Manchester United 2 (Macari, B.Greenhoff)
13/Apr     Northampton Town 0 Peterborough United 1 (Murray)
20/Apr     Colchester United 0 Gillingham 2 (Yeo 2) *LWT at Luton
27/Apr     Ipswich Town 0 Sheffield United 1 (Woodward)
04/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Liverpool 3 (Keegan 2, Heighway) Newcastle United 0

Ipswich Town�s reward for the previous 4th placed finish was European football, and they soon proved a liking for foreign adventures by knocking out Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup 1st Round, they went on to reach the QF's (losing on pens to Lokomotiv Leipzig) and again achieved a 4th place league finish with Kevin Beattie winnning the first ever PFA 'Young player of the year' award. At Carrow Road there was a change of manger as Ron Saunders walked out of Norwich in November over criticism of his style of play, he was replaced by the out-spoken boss of AFC Bournemouth John Bond who signed several players from Dean Court in the process of breaking up Saunders' team, Bond took the Canaries to the League Cup semi-final but were defeated 1-0 in the second leg and he could not prevent a drop back to the second tier. Promoted as runners-up were Luton Town under Harry Haslam, the Hatters could now look forward to top flight football at Kenilworth Road for the first time since 1960. In the North of the region, the loss of the Belmont transmitter to Yorkshire Television on the 1st January 1974 meant four less clubs for Anglia to cover including Hull who finished in 9th place (but they were still shown a couple more times after the switch) whilst Third Division Grimsby Town ended their Anglia status just missing out on promotion in 6th, the final two departing Anglia sides, Lincoln and Scunthorpe, finished mid-table in the basement. Southend United finished in mid-table in the 3rd tier, Cambridge United lasted just one season at this level and were relegated. In the Fourth Division it was a good season for the region as Noel Cantwell's Peterborough United stormed to the title whilst Colchester United where promoted with them in 3rd, Northampton Town just missed out in 5th.

Season 1974/75
17/Aug    Norwich City 2 (Powell, MacDougal) Blackpool 1 (Bentley)
24/Aug    Showed Tyne Tees coverage of Middlesbrough 1 (Mills) Luton Town 1 (Butlin)
31/Aug    Colchester United 1 (Cook) Bournemouth 0
07/Sep    Ipswich Town 1 (Woods) Everton 0
14/Sep    Showed ATV's match
21/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (Talbot, Johnson) Chelsea 0 *ATV covered Northampton 3 Shrewsbury 3
28/Sep    Luton Town 3 (Anderson, Alston, Ryan(pen)) Carlisle United 1 (Laidlaw)
05/Oct    Showed LWT's match
12/Oct    Ipswich Town 0 Leeds United 0
19/Oct    Norwich City 2 (Stringer, Boyer) Portsmouth 0
26/Oct    Peterborough United 1 (Lee(pen)) Aldershot 1 (Walker(pen))
02/Nov   Colchester United 1 (Svarc) Wrexham 1 (Davis)
09/Nov   Luton Town 0 Sheffield United 1 (Currie)
16/Nov   Ipswich Town 4 (Johnson 3, Talbot) Coventry City 0
23/Nov    Norwich City 2 (Miller 2) Bolton Wanderers 0
30/Nov    Luton Town 2 (Faulkner, Spiring) Burnley 3 (Hankin 2, James)
07/Dec    Showed Granada's match
14/Dec    Ipswich Town 4 (Viljoen, Hunter, Lambert, Osbourne) Tottenham Hotspur 0
21/Dec    Showed LWT's match
28/Dec    Colchester United 4 (Froggatt, Dominey, Cook, Bradley) Peterborough United 1 (Turner)
04/Jan     Showed ATV coverage of Wolves 1 Ipswich 2 & Southern coverage of Southend 2 QPR 2 [FA Cup 3rd Round]
11/Jan     Ipswich Town 2 (Osbourne, Johnson) Middlesbrough 0
18/Jan     Norwich City 2 (Suggett, Stringer) York City 3 (Seal, Jones 2)
22/Jan    Norwich City 1 (Suggett) Manchester United 0 [League Cup SF] *3-2 on agg, Brian Moore commentating for networked "The Wednesday Special"
25/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Mills) Liverpool 0 [FA Cup 4th Round]
01/Feb    Colchester United 3 (Froggatt 2 Dominey) Huddersfield Town 2 (Gowling 2(2pens)) *Southern probably covered Southend 1 (Brace) Preston 1 (Holden)
08/Feb    Norwich City 3 (MacDougal 2(1pen), McGuire) West Bromwich A. 2 (Mayo, Hughes) *Machin sent off for punching Johnston in back of head, LWT at Luton
15/Feb    Ipswich Town 3 (Johnson, Hamilton 2) Aston Villa 2 (McDonald, Evans) [FA Cup 5th Round]
22/Feb    Luton Town 0 Stoke City 0 *Hudson had goal disallowed for Stoke
01/Mar   Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Norwich City 0 Aston Villa 1 (Graydon)
08/Mar    Ipswich Town 0 Leeds United 0 [FA Cup QF]
15/Mar    Peterborough United 0 Gillingham 0
22/Mar    Luton Town 2 (Aston, Anderson) Leeds United 1 (Jordan)
27/Mar    Ipswich Town 3 (Whymark, Hamilton, Woods) Leeds United 2 (Clarke 2) [FA Cup QF 3rd Replay] *0-0 at Ipswich on 25/Mar may have been shown too.
29/Mar    Ipswich Town 2 (Woods, Viljoen) Leicester City 1 (Worthington)
05/Apr    Probably LWT coverage of Fulham 1 (Mitchell) Birmingham City 1 (Gallagher) [FA Cup SF]
12/Apr    Luton Town 3 (Alston, Weller(og), Husband) Leicester City 0
19/Apr    Norwich City 3 (Peters, Boyer 2) Nottingham Forest 0
26/Apr    Luton Town 1 (Ryan) Manchester City 1 (Tueart)
03/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - West Ham United 2 (A.Taylor 2) Fulham 0

Ipswich went for the double and just missed out in both the League and the FA Cup, they were just two points adrift of champions Derby County and finished 3rd, whilst in the FA Cup they reached the semi-final after knocking out Wolves, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Leeds United (after a four game quarter-final) before going out 2-1 in the replay of the semi-final against West Ham United at Stamford Bridge in which the referee Clive Thomas disallowed two Ipswich goals. It was to be just a one season stint in the top flight for Luton Town as they were relegated two points short of safety. John Bond's Norwich bounced straight back up as they finished 3rd (three up, three down had been introduced the previous season). They also reached the League Cup final for a second time in three years and, after knocking out both Ipswich and Manchester United (also in the 2nd tier for a season), they faced Ron Saunders and Aston Villa in an all 2nd tier final but they again lost 1-0. Peterborough United had a good season back in the Third tier finishing 7th, Colchester United finished mid-table whilst Southend United just avoided the drop in 18th. Cambridge United, under new Manager Ron Atkinson, just missed out on promotion finishing four points short, whilst Northampton Town finished in the bottom half.

Season 1975/76
16/Aug    Luton Town 2 (R.Futcher, King) Hull City 0
23/Aug    Showed Yorkshire Coverage of Leeds United 1 (Lorimer) Ipswich Town 0
30/Aug    Peterborough United 0 Port Vale 0
06/Sep    Colchester United 0 Halifax Town 1 (McHale(pen))
10/Sep    Norwich City 1 (MacDougall) Manchester City 1 (Watson) [League Cup 2nd Round] *Networked, Brian Moore commentating
13/Sep    Southend United 3 (Parker, Silvester 2) Port Vale 3 (Parker Silvester 2; Dulson, Cullerton(pen), Tartt)
20/Sep    Norwich City 2 (MacDougall 2(1pen)) Leicester City 0
27/Sep    Ipswich Town 0 Middlesbrough 3 (Foggon, Armstrong, Hickton(pen)) *local pinks say another region's match was shown
01/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 (Woods, Whymark) Feyenoord 0 [UEFA Cup 1st Round 2nd Leg] *4-1 agg, Hugh Johns commentating/netwoked "Wednesday Special"
04/Oct    Norwich City 0 Stoke City 1 (Haslegrave)
11/Oct    Cambridge United 1 (Horsfall) Crewe Alexandra 1 (Nelson)
18/Oct    Ipswich Town 1 (Whymark) Leicester City 1 (Lee) *LWT at Luton
22/Oct    Ipswich Town 3 (Gates, Peddelty, Austin) Club Brugge 0 [UEFA Cup 2nd Round 1st Leg] *2nd leg was lost 4-0
25/Oct    Cambridge United 2 (Horsfall 2) Brentford 1 (French) *LWT document says Norwich City 1 (Boyer) Birmingham City 0
01/Nov   Luton Town 0 Bristol City 0
08/Nov   Cambridge United 0 Northampton Town 1 (Hall)
15/Nov   Ipswich Town 1 (Peddelty) Queens Park Rangers 1 (Givens)
22/Nov   Showed ATV Coverage of Leicester City 0 Ipswich Town 0
29/Nov   Peterborough United 3 (Nixon, Robson, Eustace) Southend United 2 (Foggo, Brace)
06/Dec    Norwich City 1 (MacDougall) West Ham United 0
13/Dec    Luton Town 2 (King, Aston) West Bromwich Albion 1 (Martin)
20/Dec    Showed ATV's match
27/Dec    Norwich City 1 (Peters) Wolverhampton W. 1 (Bell)
03/Jan     Showed LWT's FA Cup 3rd Round match
10/Jan     Northampton Town 5 (Carlton, Robertson, Hall 2, Best) Barnsley 0
17/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Osborne) Coventry City 1 (Murphy)
24/Jan     Norwich City 2 (Peters, Jones) Luton Town 0 [FA Cup 4th Round]
31/Jan     Luton Town 1 (R.Futcher) Nottingham Forest 1 (Curran)
07/Feb    Norwich City 3 (Peters 2, Macdougall) Arsenal 1 (Kidd)
14/Feb    Derby County 1 (Rioch) Southend United 0 [FA Cup 5th Round] *Anglia cameras outside the region
21/Feb    Colchester United 3 (Garwood 2, Froggatt) Cardiff City 2 (Dwyer, Anderson(pen))
28/Feb    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Manchester City 2 (Barnes, Tueart) Newcastle United 1 (Gowling)
06/Mar    Norwich City 3 (Suggett, Macdougall(pen), Boyer) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Chivers)
13/Mar    Ipswich Town 1 (Osborne) Stoke City 1 (Smith)
20/Mar    Northampton Town 6 (Hall 3, Best 2, Stratford) Bournemouth 0
27/Mar    Ipswich Town 1 (Whymark) Everton 0
03/Apr     Showed networked coverage of Crystal Palace 0 Southampton 2 (Gilchrist, Peach(pen)) [FA Cup SF]
10/Apr     Ipswich Town 3 (Johnson, Whymark, Lambert) Manchester United 0
17/Apr     Colchester United 2 (Gough, Froggatt) Southend United 1 (Moody(pen))
24/Apr     Ipswich Town 2 (Whymark, Lambert) Derby County 6 (Hector 2, Rioch 2, Lee 2) *Francis Lee's last match
01/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Southampton 1 (Stokes) Manchester United 0

Ipswich slipped back this season to 6th place, whilst newly promoted Norwich defied most people's expectations that they would be relegated, finishing 10th (only 4 points behind Ipswich) and boasting the top flight's leading scorer in Ted MacDougall with 23 goals. The only blot on the season at Carrow Road was a shock 2-1 home defeat to 4th tier Bradford City in the 5th round of the FA Cup. Luton�s hopes of bouncing straight back into the top flight were not fulfilled as they finished in 7th place. In the 3rd tier, Peterborough finished 10th, but it was a bad season for the two Essex clubs, Colchester and Southend were both relegated. Northampton came up the other way as they finished runners-up in the Fourth Division, their two home �Match of the Week� appearances saw them score eleven goals without reply. Cambridge United finished 13th.

Season 1976/77
21/Aug    Ipswich Town 3 (Lambert 2, Bertschin) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Jones)
28/Aug    Showed LWT's match
04/Sep    Norwich City 1 (Boyer) Birmingham City 0
11/Sep    Showed ATV's match
18/Sep    Peterborough United 0 Crystal Palace 0
25/Sep    Ipswich Town 3 (Osborne, Gates, Beattie(pen)) Arsenal 1 (Hunter(og))
02/Oct    Cambridge United 2 (Watson, Finney) Southend United 3 (Parker 2, Goodwin)
09/Oct    Luton Town 2 (Husband, Futcher) Hereford United 0
16/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Gibbons) Leeds United 2 (F.Gray, E.Gray)
23/Oct    Luton Town 1 (Chambers) Southampton 4 (Peach 2, MacDougall, Holmes)
30/Oct    Northampton Town 0 Brighton & Hove Albion 2 (Ward, Towner)
06/Nov   Ipswich Town 7 (Wymark 4, Wark, Beattie, Mariner) West Bromwich Albion 0
13/Nov   Showed LWT coverage of Millwall 4 (Kitchen, Lee, Walker, Speasman) Luton Town 2 (West, Buckley(pen))
20/Nov   Ipswich Town 1 (Talbot) Leeds United 1 (McQueen)
27/Nov   Norwich City 1 (Boyer) Aston Villa 1 (Little)
04/Dec    Ipswich Town 1 (Mariner) Liverpool 0
11/Dec    Showed Tyne Tees coverage of Abandoned match - Newcastle United v Ipswich Town *Newcastle leading 1-0
18/Dec    Showed Tyne Tees coverage of Sunderland 0 Norwich City 1 (Busby)
01/Jan     Norwich City 3 (Busby 3) Leicester City 2 (Sammels, Earle)
08/Jan     Showed YTV coverage of Leeds United 5 (Clarke, Reaney, Jordan, McQueen, Hampton) Norwich City 2 (Suggett, Peters) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
15/Jan     Ipswich Town 2 (Whymark, Wark) Everton 0
22/Jan     Northampton Town 2 (Best, Gilligan) Chesterfield 1 (Burton)
29/Jan     Ipswich Town 2 (Mariner, Burley) Wolverhampton W. 2 (Richards 2) [FA Cup 4th Round]
05/Feb    Colchester United 1 (Doigman) Rochdale 0 *Tape log credits scorer as "Afro Bighair!"
12/Feb    Ipswich Town 1 (Woods) Aston Villa 0
19/Feb    Norwich City 3 (Busby 2, Reeves) Coventry City 0
26/Feb    Showed LWT's FA Cup 5th Round match
05/Mar    Luton Town 2 (Husband, Fuccillo) Wolverhampton W. 0
12/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Aston Villa 0 Everton 0
19/Mar    Showed other region's FA Cup QF's
26/Mar    Luton Town 5 (Fuccillo, R.Futcher, Husband, West, Aston) Carlisle United 0
02/Apr    Norwich City 2 (Suggett, Reeves) Manchester United 1 (Powell(og)) *Man Utd fans riot
09/Apr    Cambridge United 4 (Watson(pen), Fallon, Biley 2) Aldershot 1 (Bell)
16/Apr    Norwich City 2 (Peters, Reeves) Bristol City 1 (Cormack)
23/Apr    Leeds United 1 (Clarke(pen)) Manchester United 2 (Greenhoff, Coppell) [FA Cup SF]
30/Apr     Norwich City 2 (Reeves, Busby) Everton 1 (Pearson)
07/May    Ipswich Town 2 (Osborne, Wark) Newcastle United 0
14/May    Colchester United 2 ((Radcliffe(og), Allinson) Bradford City 1 (Watson)
21/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Manchester United 2 (Pearson, J.Greenhoff) Liverpool 1 (Case)

Ipswich rose back up the table to again to become genuine title contenders, but like two years before could finally only finish in 3rd place behind Liverpool and Manchester City. Norwich struggled but managed to hang onto their top flight status by just 3 points, finishing in 16th place. Luton Town finished 6th having been in the promotion hunt all season, just 4 points behind the team in 3rd. Peterborough dropped to 16th whilst Northampton dropped straight back into the basement league. Coming up from the Fourth were both Cambridge (as champions) and Colchester United (in 3rd place) whilst Southend finished 10th.

Season 1977/78
20/Aug    Showed Tyne Tees match
27/Aug    Showed Granada coverage of Manchester United 0 Ipswich Town 0
03/Sep    Ipswich Town 1 (Talbot) Chelsea 0
10/Sep    Showed YTV coverage of Leeds United 2 (Hankin 2) Ipswich Town 1 (Mariner)
17/Sep    Luton Town 0 Blackburn Rovers 0
24/Sep    Norwich City 1 (Ryan) Arsenal 0
28/Sep    Ipswich Town 5 (Whymark 4(1pen), Mariner) Landskrona 0 [UEFA Cup 1R 2L] *6-0 on agg, "The Wednesday Special" - Gerald Sinstadt commentated
01/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 (Mills, Gates) Newcastle United 1 (McCaffery)
08/Oct    Norwich City 2 (Peters 2) Wolverhampton W. 1 (Sunderland)
15/Oct    Luton Town 1 (Faulkner) Fulham 0
22/Oct    Cambridge United 2 (Spriggs 2) Colchester United 0
29/Oct    Ipswich Town 0 West Ham United 2 (Hales 2)
05/Nov   Peterborough United 2 (Cliss, Sargeant) Cambridge United 0
12/Nov   Showed ATV's match
19/Nov   Southend United 1 (Goodwin) Watford 0
26/Nov   Norwich City 1 (Gibbons) Birmingham City 0
03/Dec    Ipswich Town 2 (Whymark, Gates) Aston Villa 0
10/Dec    Norwich City 2 (Suggett, Hamilton) Liverpool 1 (Thompson)
17/Dec    Luton Town 1 (R.Futcher) Mansfield Town 1 (Syrett)
24/Dec    No fixtures played
31/Dec    Ipswich Town 1 (Mariner) Derby County 2 (Ryan, George)
07/Jan     Peterborough United 1 (Sargeant) Newcastle United 1 (Hudson) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
14/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Mariner) Manchester United 2 (McIlroy, Pearson) *LWT at Luton
21/Jan     Showed LWT coverage of Chelsea 5 (Swain 2, Finnieston,Wilkins, Langley) Ipswich Town 3 (Osborne, Wark, Mariner)
28/Jan     Showed ATV's FA Cup 4th Round match
04/Feb    Showed LWT's match
11/Feb    Showed LWT's match
18/Feb    Showed HTV coverage of Bristol Rovers 2 (Williams 2) Ipswich 2 (Turner, Mariner) [FA Cup R5] *Gerry Harrison comm., at least for Anglia viewers
25/Feb    Cambridge United 1 (Biley(pen)) Preston North End 1 (Thompson)
04/Mar    Ipswich Town 2 (Mills, Wark) West Bromwich A. (A.Brown(pen), T.Brown)
11/Mar    Showed two FA Cup QF's *Ipswich QF was on BBC
18/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Nottingham Forest 0 Liverpool 0 AET
25/Mar    Norwich City 1 (Reeves) Coventry City 2 (Powell(pen), Wallace)
01/Apr    Norwich City 3 (Ryan, Jones, Hart(og)) Leeds United 0
08/Apr    Networked coverage of Arsenal 3 Orient 0 [FA Cup Semi Final] *Ipswich SF was on BBC
15/Apr    Colchester United 1 (Foley) Wrexham 1 (Thomas)
22/Apr    Peterborough United 1 (Robson) Tranmere Rovers 0
29/Apr    Cambridge United 2 (Finney, Fallon) Exeter City 1 (Bowker)
06/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Ipswich Town 1 (Osborne) Arsenal 0

It was a bizarre season for Ipswich as they won the FA Cup after beating Arsenal 1-0 in the final with a goal by Roger Osborne to become the first East Anglian club to win it, but in the league it was a very different story as they dropped down the table to finish 18th (their lowest since 1971) just 3 points above the relegated clubs. Norwich City finished 13th, almost loing manager John Bond in March to Birmingham City - but at the last moment he decided to stay at Carrow Road. A team that did lose their manager was 2nd tier Luton Town as Harry Haslam moved to Sheffield United in January, he was replaced by reserves manager David Pleat and they went on to finish 13th. Cambridge United made it two successive promotions by climbing out of the 3rd tier despite losing manager Ron Atkinson to West Bromwich Albion in December, his replacement John Docherty lead them to the runners-up spot, they were almost joined by Peterborough, but the Posh missed out on the final promotion place on goal difference. Colchester United were just 4 points behind in 8th place. Another Anglia team who had a good season was Southend who were promoted out of the bottom tier as runners-up behind Graham Taylor�s Watford. Both of United�s games against them where shown on TV with �Match of the Week� covering  the home win in November, whilst �Match of the Day� covered the 1-1 draw at Vicarage Road in April. Northampton, now managed by former Watford manager Mike Keen, finished 10th.

Season 1978/79
12/Aug    Networked coverage of Ipswich 0 Nottm Forest 5 (O'Neill 2, Withe, Lloyd, Robertson) [Charity Shield] *At Wembley, Brian Moore commentated
19/Aug    Norwich City 3 (Reeves, Ryan, Chivers) Southampton 1 (MacDougal)
26/Aug    Showed ATV coverage of Leicester City 1 (Christie) Cambridge United 1 (Biley)
02/Sep    Cambridge United 0 Newcastle United 0
09/Sep    Ipswich Town 0 Aston Villa 2 (Gregory, Gray(pen))
16/Sep    Peterborough United 3 (Butlin, McEwan, Doyle) Brentford 1 (Kruese)
23/Sep    Luton Town 1 (Stein) Cambridge United 1 (Biley(pen))
30/Sep    Clchester United 3 (Rowles, Gough 2) Blackpool 1 (Hockaday)
07/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Ryan(pen)) Liverpool 4 (Heighway 2, Johnson, Case)
14/Oct    Northampton Town 2 (Farington, Mead) Reading 2 (Earls 2)
21/Oct    Showed LWT's match
28/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 (Gates, Mariner) Queens Park Rangers 1 (Francis)
04/Nov   Norwich City 2 (Ryan(pen), Peters) Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Lee, Taylor)
11/Nov   Ipswich Town 0 West Bromwich Albion 1 (A.Brown)
18/Nov   Cambridge United 1 (Finney) Leicester City 1 (Henderson)
25/Nov   Luton Town 0 Sunderland 3 (Rowell 2, Entwhistle)
02/Dec    Ipswich Town 2 (Beattie, Wark(pen) Leeds United 3 (Hankin, Harris, Cherry)
09/Dec    Norwich City 0 Arsenal 0 *Both keepers saved a penalty
16/Dec    Ipswich Town 3 (Gates, Mariner, Talbot) Bolton Wanderers 0
23/Dec    Cambridge United 0 Crystal Palace 0
30/Dec    Showed Granada's match
06/Jan     Showed Yorkshire's FA Cup 3rd Round match
13/Jan     Cambridge United 5 (Finney, Biley 3, Garner) Cardiff City 0
20/Jan     Ipswich Town 3 (Wark 2(1pen), Mariner) Wolverhampton W. 1 (Berry)
27/Jan     Ipswich Town 0 Orient 0 [FA Cup 4th Round]
03/Feb    Cambridge United 0 Luton Town 0
10/Feb    Ipswich Town 0 Southampton 0
17/Feb    Bad Weather, showed ATV's match *only 5 fixtures from all divisions played
24/Feb    Norwich City 1 (Peters) Middlesbrough 0
03/Mar    Showed Yorkshire coverage of Leeds United 2 (Hawley 2) Norwich City 2 (Bond, Fashanu)
10/Mar    Showed other region's FA Cup QF's
17/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Nottingham Forest 3 (Birtles 2, Woodcock) Southampton 2 (Peach, Holmes)
24/Mar    Southend United 0 Bury 0
31/Mar    Networked coverage of Manchester United 2 Liverpool 2 [FA Cup Semi Final]
07/Apr    Cambridge United 0 West Ham United 0
14/Apr    Showed LWT's match
21/Apr    Luton Town 1 (West) Brighton & Hove A. 1 (Maybank)
28/Apr    Ipswich Town 2 (Muhren, Brazil) Tottenham Hotpsur 1 (Hoddle(pen))
05/May   Showed LWT's match
12/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Arsenal 3 (Talbot, Stapleton, Sunderland) Man Utd 2 (McQueen, McIlroy)

Ipswich followed up their FA Cup win with a 6th placed finish in the league whilst Bobby Robson started to re-build the cup winning team, Brian Talbot was sold to Arsenal mid-season and Dutch pair Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijjsen were signed from Holland to become two of the first oversees players in the English game. The defence of the FA Cup was ended in the Quarter-finals by Liverpool (this game was due to be covered by Match of the Day but then the BBC was hit by a last minute strike, preventing coverage), there was also a run to the Quarter-finals of the Cup-Winners Cup where they where knocked out on away goals by Barcelona after Town�s 2-1 victory at Portman Road was followed by a 1-0 defeat in the Nou Camp. Norwich City finished 16th, winning just seven league games all campaign, but 23 were drawn. Cambridge United held their own in the 2nd tier and finished 12th whilst Luton had a battle against relegation - finally finishing just 3 points above the drop. Colchester finished one place higher than the previous year in 7th, whilst Southend finished mid-table, but Peterborough United were relegated in 21st place. In the Fourth Division struggling Northampton finished sixth bottom.

Season 1979/80
All ITV regions (except Channel TV) were taken off the air in early August 1979 due to a strike which lasted for almost three months! (East England viewers only had BBC1 and BBC2 from 10th August-24th October).
27/Oct     Luton Town 0 Preston North End 1 (Elliot)
03/Nov    Showed LWT's match
10/Nov    Ipswich Town 0 Aston Villa 0 *LWT at Luton
17/Nov    Norwich City 2 (Fashanu, McGuire) Southampton 1 (Andrewseski)
24/Nov    Luton Town 2 (Moss(pen), Stein) Birmingham City 3 (Bertschin 3)
01/Dec    Cambridge United 2 (Spriggs, Murray) Queens Park Rangers 1 (Bowles)
08/Dec    Ipswich Town 4 (Mills, Gates 3) Manchester City 0
15/Dec    Norwich City 2 (Taylor, Robson) Bristol City 0
22/Dec    Showed ATV's *All but 4 fixtures this weekend were played on Friday night
29/Dec    Southend United 1 (Polycarpou) Wimbledon 3 (Denny 2, Cork)
05/Jan     Showed Yorkshire's FA Cup 3rd Round match
12/Jan     Norwich City 1 (Robson) Coventry City 0
19/Jan     Cambridge United 3 (Finnery, Fallon, Christie) Sunderland 3 (Marangoni, Brown, Cummins)
26/Jan     Cambridge United 1 (Turner) Aston Villa 1 (Donovan) [FA Cup 4th Round]
02/Feb    Luton Town 2 (Saxby, Hatton) Notts County 1 (Donaghy(og))
09/Feb    Peterborough United 0 Northampton Town 0
16/Feb    Ipswich Town 2 (Burley, Wark) Chester 1 (Jones) [FA Cup 5th Round]
23/Feb    Norwich City 0 Wolverhampton W. 4 (Hibbitt 2(2pens), Eves, Richards)
01/Mar    Ipswich Town 6 (Brazil 2, Mariner 3, Thijssen) Manchester United 0 *Bailey saved 3 Ipswich pens (incl a re-take)
08/Mar    Showed Granada coverage of Everton 2 (Latchford, Kidd) Ipswich Town 1 (Beattie) [FA Cup QF]
15/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Wolves 1 (Gray) Nottingham Forest 0
22/Mar    Colchester United 6 (Foley 2, Lee 2, Dowman, Rowles) Brentford 1 (Funnell)
29/Mar    Luton Town 1 (Hatton) Burnley 1 (Hamilton)
05/Apr     Ipswich Town 4 (Wark 3(2pens), Mariner) Norwich City 2 (Bond, Robson)
12/Apr     Showed networked coverage of Arsenal 0 Liverpool 0 [FA Cup SF]
19/Apr     Norwich City 0 Manchester United 2 (Jordan 2)
26/Apr     Ipswich Town 1 (Gates) Bolton Wanderers 0
03/May    Showed ATV's match
10/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - West Ham United 1 (Brooking) Arsenal 0

Ipswich and Norwich had season's in reverse of each other - Norwich started the season very strongly and topped the summit of English football for the first time in August after three straight league wins. John Bond won the Manager of the Month award in September and his team were in the top five for most of the first part of the season, Ipswich on the other hand struggled around the bottom three until Christmas, but in the second half of the season the Canaries form dropped (which was not helped by the selling of Kevin Reeves to Manchester City for a Million pounds) and they finished in 12th place, whilst Ipswich raced up the table to finish 3rd again for a third time in just six seasons. Both teams also reached the Quarter-finals of domestic cup competitions. Norwich were beaten in the League Cup QF's 3-1 at home by Liverpool, whilst Ipswich lost 2-1 at Everton in the FA Cup. Luton made a serious bid for promotion but slipped up to finish four points short of the required tally in 6th. Only two places behind Luton were Cambridge United, their highest ever finish. Colchester almost made it into tier two, but they finished 5th whilst Southend were relegated after finishing 22nd. In the Fourth Division Peterborough finished 8th (eight points from promotion), Northampton improved to finish 13th.

Season 1980/81
"Match of the Week" was moved to a Saturday night slot for this season.
16/Aug    Cambridge United 3 (Reilly 2, Christie) Derby County 0
23/Aug    Showed LWT's match
30/Aug    Ipswich Town 4 (Butcher, Wark, Mariner, Brazil) Everton 0
06/Sep    Luton Town 1 (Bunn) Wrexham 1 (Edwards)
13/Sep    Norwich City 1 (Fashanu) Southampton 0
20/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (Wark 2) Coventry City 0
27/Sep    Colchester United 1 (Lee) Chester 1 (Jones)
04/Oct    Showed ATV's match
11/Oct    Norwich City 1 (Fashanu) Wolverhampton W. 1 (Hibbitt) *John Bond's last match as manager of Norwich
18/Oct    Showed Granada's match
25/Oct    Cambridge United 1 (Reilly) Luton Town 3 (Moss(pen), Goodyear, Stein)
01/Nov   Showed Granada coverage of Manchester City 1 (Power) Norwich City 0 *John Bond now manager of Man City
08/Nov   Norwich City 2 (Fashanu, Royle) Everton 1 (Latchford)
15/Nov   Southend United 1 (Cusack(pen)) Bury 0 *LWT at Luton
22/Nov   Norwich City 1 (Goble) Sunderland 0
26/Nov    Ipswich Town 5 (Brazil, Wark 3, Mariner) Widzew Lodz 0 [UEFA Cup 3rd Round 1st Leg] *2nd leg lost 1-0
29/Nov   Northampton Town 3 (Phillips 2, Sandy) Tranmere Rovers 1 (Craven)
06/Dec    Peterborough United 3 (Cooke, Robson 2) Hereford United 0
13/Dec    Ipswich Town 1 (Brazil) Liverpool 1 (Case)
20/Dec    Cambridge United 0 Blackburn Rovers 0
27/Dec    Norwich City 2 (Fashanu, Bond) Tottenham Hotpsur 2 (Archibald, Hoddle)
03/Jan     Norwich City 1 (Downs) Cambridge United 0 [FA Cup 3rd Round]
10/Jan     Ipswich Town 2 (Mariner, Muhren) Nottingham Forest 0
17/Jan     Luton Town 0 Newcastle United 1 (Harford)
24/Jan     Showed ATV coverage of Shrewsbury Town 0 Ipswich Town 0 [FA Cup 4th Round]
31/Jan     Ipswich Town 4 (Wark(pen), Gates, Brazil 2) Stoke City 0
07/Feb    Luton Town 3 (Price, Hill, Moss) Blackburn Rovers 1 (Burke)
14/Feb    Ipswich Town 2 (Wark, Mariner) Charlton Athletic 0 [FA Cup 5th Round]
21/Feb    Peterborough United 1 (Cooke) Torquay United 3 (Bowker, Fell, Cox)
28/Feb    Norwich City 3 (McGuire, Watson, Fashanu) Brighton & Hove Albion 1 (Robinson)
07/Mar    Showed ATV coverage of Nottm Forest 3 (Francis, Walsh, Robertson(pen)) Ipswich 3 (Mariner, Anderson(og), Thijssen) [FA Cup QF]
14/Mar    Ipswich Town 3 (Wark, Gates, Brazil) Tottenham Hotspur 0
21/Mar    Norwich City 1 (Fashanu) Arsenal 1 (Talbot)
28/Mar    Luton Town 0 Cambridge United 0
04/Apr    Norwich City 2 (McGuire, McDowell(pen)) Manchester City 0
08/Apr    Ipswich Town 1 (Wark) FC Cologne 0 [UEFA Cup SF 1st Leg] *2nd leg won 1-0
11/Apr    Southend United 0 Lincoln City 0
18/Apr    Luton Town 1 (Moss(pen)) Bristol Rovers 0
25/Apr    Ipswich Town 1 (Butcher) Manchester City 0
02/May   Norwich City 2 (Maguire, Fashanu) Leicester City 3 (Melrose 3)
06/May   Ipswich Town 3 (Thijssen, Wark, Mariner) AZ 67 Alkmaar 0 [UEFA Cup Final 1st Leg] *2nd leg lost 4-2, Ipswich win cup 5-4 on agg
09/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Spurs 1 (Hutchison(og)) Man City 1 (Hutchison) AET
14/May   Networked LIVE coverage of FA Cup Final Replay - Spurs 3 (Villa 2, Crooks) Man City 2 (MacKenzie, Reeves(pen) [Wembley]

Ipswich finished above all of the 'big boys' this season but were pipped to 1st place by Aston Villa, Town were also denied a place at the FA Cup final at the last hurdle by Manchester City, but there was European glory for Ipswich in the UEFA Cup in a 2 leg final v Dutch outfit AZ 67 Alkmaar, Town won 5-4 on aggregate having knocked out St.Etienne and Cologne in the QF's and Semi's, Frans Thijssen was named 'Footballer of the year' and John Wark was the PFA's 'Player of the year'. So a terrific season for Ipswich, but disaster for Norwich as a six season stint in the top flight came to an end with the Canaries relegated as the 3rd bottom club, this despite a contribution of 19 league goals from teenage sensation Justin Fahanu. In the 2nd tier Luton finished 5th (Brian Stein scoring 18), Cambridge 13th. Colchester United were relegated to the 4th tier swapping places with Dave Smith's Southend United who went up as champions, Peterborough narrowly missed out on promotion in 5th with 22 goals from Robbie Cooke, Northampton trailed behind in 10th.

Season 1981/82
"Match of the Week" was back on Sunday afternoon's for this season.
29/Aug    Ipswich Town 3 (Wark, Gates 2) Sunderland 3 (Ritchie, Buckley 2)
05/Sep    Norwich City 1 (Jack) Barnsley 1 (Parker)
12/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (Wark, Neal(og)) Liverpool 0
19/Sep    Southend United 2 (Spence, Gray) Portsmouth 0
26/Sep    Luton Town 4 (Moss 2(2pens), Stein 2) Watford 1 (Bolton)
03/Oct    Showed LWT's match
10/Oct    Showed LWT's match
17/Oct    Showed Granada coverage of Everton 2 (Ferguson, Stevens) Ipswich Town 1 (Gates)
24/Oct    Ipswich Town 2 (Mills, Mariner) Arsenal 1 (Sunderland)
31/Oct    Showed ATV coverage of Aston Villa 0 Ipswich Town 1 (Osman)
07/Nov    Ipswich Town 2 (Muhren, Mariner) Swansea City 3 (Curtis, Latchford, Stanley)
14/Nov    Norwich City 2 (Walford, McGuire) Cambridge United 1 (Fallon)
21/Nov    Cambridge United 1 (Spriggs(pen)) Sheffield Wednesday 2 (McCulloch(pen), Bannister)
28/Nov    Peterborough United 1 (Kellock) Northampton Town 0
05/Dec    Norwich City 0 Leicester City 0
12/Dec    Showed Granada's match
19/Dec    Showed Granada's match *Intended match was probably postponed, few fixtures played this weekend
26/Dec    Showed LWT's match
02/Jan     Showed Central coverage of Birmingham City 2 (Worthington, Curbishly) Ipswich Town 3 (Wark, Brazil 2) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
09/Jan     Showed Granada's match *Intended match probably postponed
16/Jan     Colchester United 1 (Adcock) Bury 1 (P.Hilton)
23/Jan     Luton Town 0 Ipswich Town 3 (Brazil, Gates 2) [FA Cup 4th round] *Harrison comm. for Anglia, Moore for LWT
30/Jan     Ipswich Town 1 (Thijssen) Notts County 3 (Mair, Kilcline, Hooks)
06/Feb    Cambridge United 1 (Spriggs) Newcastle United 0
13/Feb    Showed Shrewsbury Town 2 (Cross, King) Ipswich Town 1 (D'Avray) [FA Cup 5th Round] *Martin Tyler commentating
20/Feb    Norwich City 2 (Mendham, Jack) Chelsea 1 (Walker)
27/Feb    Luton Town 2 (Moss 2(1pen)) Oldham Athletic 0
06/Mar    Showed Central & LWT FA Cup QF's
13/Mar    Networked LWT coverage of the League Cup Final - Liverpool 3 (Whelan 2, Rush) Spurs 1 (Archibald) AET
20/Mar    Ipswich Town 3 (McCall, Wark, Gates) Aston Villa 1 (McNaught)
27/Mar    Norwich City 2 (Jack, Bertschin) Cardiff City 1 (Gilbert)
03/Apr    Peterborough United 1 (Phillips) Bury 0
10/Apr    Cambridge United 1 (Reilly) Luton Town 1 (Turner)
17/Apr    Ipswich Town 2 (Wark, Mariner) Stoke City 0 *LWT at Luton
24/Apr    Norwich City 2 (Bertschin, McGuire) Blackburn Rovers 0
01/May   Showed Central coverage of Leicester City 1 (May) Norwich City 4 (Deehan, Barham, Bertschin, Leet(og))
08/May   Norwich City 2 (Bertschin(pen), Bennett) Orient 0
15/May   Sheffield Wednesday 2 (McCulloch, Bannister) Norwich City 1 (Bertschin) *Anglia cameras outside the region, YTV were at Leeds
22/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Spurs 1 (Hoddle) QPR (Fenwick) 1 AET
27/May   Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final Replay - Spurs 1 (Hoddle(pen)) QPR 0 [Wembley]

A very successful season for the region's top three clubs - Ipswich Town's defence of the UEFA Cup came to an abrupt end in the 1st round to Aberdeen but they again finished the season as runners-up (Alan Brazil netting 22 league goals and John Wark 18) and reached the Semi-finals of the League Cup whilst Luton and Norwich both won promotion from the 2nd tier, Brian Stein's 21 goals helping David Pleat's Hatters to finish as champions with Ken Brown's Norwich in 3rd. Cambridge meanwhile finished 14th. In the 3rd tier, Southend finished 7th. Down in the 4th tier, Peterborough were once again one place short of promotion in 5th with Robbie Cooke scoring 24, Colchester were 6th, Northampton had to apply for re-election in 22nd.

Season 1982/83
"Match of the Week" was on Saturday night's again for this season.
28/Aug    Cambridge United 0 Chelsea 1 (Robson)
04/Sep    Luton Town 5 (Walsh 3, Hill, Moss) Notts County 3 (Kilcline, Chiedozie, Goodwin)
11/Sep    Norwich City 1 (Deehan(pen)) Southampton 1 (Armstrong)
18/Sep    Ipswich Town 2 (Wark, Brazil) Stoke City 3 (Thomas, Macguire 2)
25/Sep    Colchester United 4 (Lyons, Leslie, Groves, Allinson) Blackpool 1 (Pashley(pen))
02/Oct    Luton Town 1 (Hill) Manchester United 1 (Grimes) *Harrison comm. for Anglia, Moore for LWT
09/Oct    Peterborough United 0 Scunthorpe United 1 (Angus)
16/Oct    Luton Town 1 (Stein) Ipswich Town 1 (Brazil)
23/Oct    Showed Granada's match
30/Oct    Showed LWT's match
06/Nov   Norwich City 1 (Deehan) Notts County 2 (Mair, Christie) *LWT at Luton
13/Nov   Northampton Town 2 (Denyer 2) Blackpool 1 (Hockaday)
20/No     Cambridge United 1 (Smith) Queens Park Rangers 4 (Wicks, Sealy, Allen 2)
27/Nov    Ipswich Town 3 (Osman, Wark, Burley) Swansea City 1 (L.James)
04/Dec    Norwich City 1 (Deehan) Liverpool 0
11/Dec    Ipswich Town 0 Everton 2 (Sheedy, Richardson) *LWT at Luton
18/Dec    Norwich City 0 Nottingham Forest 1 (Hodge)
01/Jan     Ipswich Town 2 (Mariner, Osman) Southampton 1 (Wright)
08/Jan     Showed LWT coverage of Charlton Athletic 2 (Robinson, Hales) Ipswich Town 3 (Thijssen, Wark 2(1pen)) [FA Cup 3rd Round]
15/Jan     Luton Town 1 (O'Reilly(og)) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Hoddle)
22/Jan     Norwich City 0 Everton 1 (Ratcliffe)
29/Jan     Luton Town 0 Manchester United 2 (Moses, Moran) [FA Cup 4th Round]
02/Feb    Norwich City 2 (Bertschin, Roberts(og)) Coventry City 1 (Hateley) [FA Cup 4th Round Replay]
05/Feb    Ipswich Town 1 (Wark) Manchester United 1 (Stapleton)
12/Feb    Cambridge United 0 Leeds United 0
19/Feb    Cambridge United 1 (Turner) Sheffield Wednesday 2 (Megson 2) [FA Cup 5th Round]
26/Feb    Ipswich Town 3 (Brazil, Wark, Putney) Luton Town 0
05/Mar    Luton Town 0 West Bromwich Albion 0
12/Mar    Showed TVS coverage of Brighton & Hove Albion 1 (Case) Norwich City 0 [FA Cup QF]
19/Mar    Peterborough United 1 (Gynn) Hull City 1 (Mutrie)
26/Mar    Norwich City 1 (Deehan(pen)) West Ham United 1 (Dickens)
02/Apr     Ipswich Town 1 (McCall) Aston Villa 2 (Shaw, Withe)
09/Apr     Luton Town 2 (Aylott, Moss) Aston Villa 1 (Shaw) *Harrison comm. for Anglia, Moore for LWT
16/Apr     Norwich City 2 (Deehan 2) Sunderland 0
23/Apr     Luton Town 3 (Walsh 3) Swansea City 1 (Latchford)
30/Apr     Showed Granada's match
07/May    Ipswich Town 3 (McCall, Wark 2) Watford 1 (Rostron)
14/May    Showed LWT's match
21/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final - Brighton 2 (Smith, Stevens) Man Utd 2 (Stapleton, Wilkins) AET
26/May    Networked LIVE coverage of the FA Cup Final Replay - Brighton 0 Man Utd 4 (Robson 2, Whiteside, Muhren(pen)) [Wembley]

A memorable season for Luton who retained top flight status thanks to a final day away win at Manchester City (which sent the Sky Blues down), striker Paul Walsh was jointly named 'PFA Young player of the year' with Liverpool's Ian Rush. Norwich comfortably held on to their place among the elite in 14th with 20 of their goals scored by John Deehan, but it was a disappointing season for Ipswich having lost manager Bobby Robson to the England post in July 1982, first team coach Bobby Ferguson took over but having qualified for the UEFA Cup they again exited at the 1st round stage (this time to Roma) and Ipswich went on to finish 9th in the league, their lowest in 5 season's. On a brighter note for Ipswich, striker John Wark matched John Deehan's tally of 20 goals. Cambridge lived to fight another season in the 2nd tier - mid-table again in 12th. Southend were 15th in the 3rd tier, and in the 4th tier Colchester once again ended the campaign in 6th with 22 goals from Ian Allinson, Peterborough were 9th and Northampton 15th.

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