BACKTRACK - Television off button is pressed on the 'hot bed of football'

From: The Northern Echo | Date: May 13, 2008| Author: Mike Amos | Copyright information

ALMOST 50 years after Tyne Tees Television began transmission, the last-ever regional football programme will be broadcast this evening. It's goodnight Soccer Night - and everything else, too.

"It's bloody tragic, this is supposed to be the Hotbed of Soccer, " says Soccer Night producer Ken Pollard.

Tonight's programme may also mark the final screen appearance of Arsenal fan and former Tyne Tees head of sport Roger Tames, a familiar NorthEast face since arriving in 1976 as a wet-...

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