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TONIGHT’S TV AND RADIO

Seventy-eight years ago to the day, Arsenal took part in the first ever live televised football match. It was a glorified training session against their own second string, barely of interest even to the few hundred homes in north London capable of receiving a signal from the bent coat-hanger gaffer-taped to the top of the BBC’s pile at Ally Pally. But it was a groundbreaking event nonetheless. It’s apt, then, that Arsenal celebrate this anniversary tonight by making another appearance on a channel nobody’s watching, BT Sport, as they disappear behind the digital curtain to face Dinamo Zagreb in Big Cup. Oh ITV! We hardly knew ye!

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