... not just one of football's roles in British society, but the 'main significance.' This suggests that football now has more importance as a television programme than it does to countless other issues that include regional and national identity, escape from the reality of the rest of a football fan's life, profit making business or simply as a form of leisure. Although to address football's development into a television show consideration must be paid to underlying issues, the most obvious and direct issue raised by the question is that of the actual presentation of football on television. The sheer volume of football, and in particular live matches, now shown on television dwarfs that of even a decade or two ago, with 66 live games a season now available on Sky alone. With this increase of televised football have come huge developments in the methods of presentation and analysis. 1964 saw the first ...

See this essay or coursework document in full right now