Sky Sports now

Totally agree.

There ll be a mares race at chelt next,oh wait.

Fair enough to create a new product.

Why don’t the beeb,show non league games,or div 1/2.
They like to appeal to all of Britain.minority sports,so show the other leagues aswell.

Why can't they show poker, nobody shows that anymore. Loved Late Night Poker, Poker After Dark etc etc. Nothing now any channel on tv.

Wasn’t mccirrick on a show called after dark.where he sat and talked about nothing.

If that was a repeat of T20 between England and New Zealand it was an exciting match going down to the last ball, and not everyone could have watched it live.

Three channels covering a football match is overkill, but yesterday Sky dedicated their two tennis channels to the same tennis match involving Cameron Norrie.

Mcririck did play, do seem to remember him on one of those shows.

i am leaving sky in april at the end of my current deal

McCririck appeared on ‘ After Dark’ in 87 or 88. It was a Granada Production fronted by Tony ( or Anthony H. ) Wilson of Hacienda fame, who’d cut his teeth airing local punk bands on the Friday night Granada Reports programmes. ‘After Dark’ began around 11.30 pm and they just chatted until well into the early hours.

When McCririck appeared he was joined by Barney Curley, a chap described as an ‘Aintree resident’ who was a self declared communist, a chap with self declared gambling problems who sat in shadow all through the show, Duncan Keith who was alleging mass corruption in the sport, and Brian Radford, arguably the biggest shiit stirring journalist in the sport at the time.

During one exchange, McCririck berated Keith, saying what a shame that one of the best front running riders ever should now sink to these levels of dubious storytelling - Wilson intervened, “ Well John, have you ever thought that some of those front running rides from Duncan  that failed to come off were done deliberately to ensure the horse got beat.”

Duncan Keith riding for Walter Nightingale was a great favourite of mine and I recall him riding I Say to finish 3rd to the great Sea Bird in 1965.

shots -

Aston Villa 1  Arsenal 37


ffs

1965 Derby I should have said.

And the women`s golf.

Anyone remember Topless Darts....used to watch it regular in the 90s with my dad......some of them women were pretty good....they regularly hit my bullseye

First time I've heard of inter-family soggy biscuit

i saw that show mith big mac seem to think it was aired night before or night of grand national,hence held in aintree

verbotene liebe do you know if that episode is available anywhere ?

the sporting life - I originally had hundreds of hours of racing and racing programmes ( including that After Dark)on VHS but I neglected them by storing badly and the dreaded white mould ruined them - however you have the likes of espmadrid  on You Tube and 'History of Horse Racing @horsevault' on X who provide us all with terrific service from what must be gigantum collections. These sources could be worth contacting.

Ok thanks for that.

There are a few after dark episodes on You Tube but I haven`t come across the Barney Curley one.

A lot of clips from After Dark are on Youtube, that one might be there too.

It was a good intellectual chat show. Not like the rubbish now.