365's Guide To The Day's Essential Viewing And Listening

PICK OF THE DAY
England v Scotland - Live, from 7pm on Sky Sports 2 and Talk Radio, from 7.30pm on ITV and Radio 5 Live What a series of confrontations! In the anchor role, we’ve got Richard ‘Hairy’ Keys on Sky and Dishy Des Lynam trying to justify that sky-high fee to ITV; Martin Tyler and Andy Gray man the mikes for Sky and they’ll be up against Clive Tyldesley and the mystifying majesty of Big Ron. Five Live will weigh in with no pictures but the one-two punch of Alan Green’s complaints and Mark Lawrenson’s terrible gags and Talk will have commentary from Alan Parry and Sky TV’s post-game interviews. There will also be a football match, click on the links for the latest news on England and Scotland.


TELEVISION

ITV
1.50am (Thurs), Film: Rudy It’s actually about American helmets-and-shoulders-pads football, but this tale of a lad desperate to play for the University of Notre Dame team he idolises should press plenty of buttons with fans of ‘proper’ footy too. Starts at 12.05am (Thurs) in Anglia, Channel, HTV, Meridian and Westcountry regions.

CHANNEL 5
4.30am (Thurs), Argentinian Football Two of the big names of South American football, River Plate and Velez Sarsfield, go at it.

SKY SPORTS 1
7am, Sports Centre Tuesday’s late night bulletin featuring injury news and press conference snippets from the England and Scotland squads and a round-up of the evening’s league and FA Cup football. Shown again at 8am on Sky Sports 2 and at 8.30am here.
12.30pm, International Football Special An hour of Wembley build-up to enjoy with your lunch. More of the same on this channel at 2.30pm.
5pm, The Last Word Jimmy Hill’s sports chat show, neatly tucked away at a time when everyone will be high-tailing it from work to get home/to Wembley. His guest is every infantile schoolboy’s former England boss - Sir Walter Winterbottom.
5.30pm, You're On Sky Sports Special pre-match edition of Sky’s footy phone-in. Shown again at 7pm on this channel.
6pm, Sports Centre More team news and punditry as build-up to the second leg hits fever pitch (or as close as you get to fever pitch when the home team has a 2-0 lead after the away leg). Updated here at 10pm with post-match news from Wembley and reports on the evening’s other play-off games, then repeated here at 11.30pm and 3am (Thurs).
8pm, Trans World Sport A possible refuge for Scotland fans who can’t bear the 90-minute torment of watching Craig Brown’s lads trying to outsmart Campbell, Adams and Keown, but knowing their luck they’ll just run into highlights of Saturday’s first leg up at Hampden!
10.30pm, You're On Sky Sports Phone-in. Make your point on England-Scotland or any other football topic to 365 with an e-mail to , a visit the 365 discussion forum or a call to talkfootball365.
Repeated at 2am (Thurs) on this channel.
Midnight, England v Scotland An in-full repeat of tonight’s play-off game from Wembley.

SKY SPORTS 2
5.30pm, Bobby Charlton’s Football Scrapbook Denis Law joins his former Manchester United team-mate to look back at some classic England v Scotland encounters.

SKY SPORTS 3
3pm, Brian Moore Interviews... This week’s guest is former Arsenal, Liverpool and England star Ray Kennedy.
10pm, Premiership Classics Not had enough football yet? Well, seeing as the alternatives include Michael Buerk explaining how easily you can be decapitated by an ordinary household rug and the tedious adventures of stick-thin Ally McBeal, perhaps you should just down-shift slowly from the drama of Wembley via this Norwich-Man U battle from the 1992-93 season.

EUROSPORT
7.30am, Euro 2000 Football Refresh your memory about what happened in the first leg of the four play-off ties ahead of this evening’s second legs.
6pm, Champions League Football First stage action from Groups E and F, where Real Madrid, Porto, Valencia and Bayern Munich progressed and poor old Rangers once again screwed up and must now play in the UEFA Cup.
9pm, Euro 2000 Football Second leg highlights from Denmark-Israel, Ukraine-Slovenia, Turkey-Republic of Ireland and England-Scotland.

CNN
8.30am, World Sport Thirty minutes of international headlines and highlights. Repeat/update at 10.30am and 3.30pm, completely revised with all today's top stories at 10.30pm.

SKY NEWS
10.30pm, Sportsline Post-match reaction and analysis from Wembley and Turkey as the Euro 2000 fates of England, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland are settled.

BBC CHOICE (Digital)
7pm (not Wales), 110 Per Cent Daily sports magazine.
9.50pm, My Cardiff City And you’re welcome to them, frankly.
10.15pm (Wales), sport.wales Regional version of the above.

BBC NEWS 24 (Digital)
7.30pm, Sportsday Preview of England-Scotland and the rest of the day’s comparatively insignificant sporting headlines and highlights.

SKY SPORTS NEWS (Digital)
Round-the-clock news, views and features, including unbeatable post-match coverage from Wembley after about 10pm.

MUTV (Digital)
5pm, Reds @ Five Entertainment. 6pm, Red Hot News The day’s headlines from Old Trafford. More of the same at 8pm and 10pm. 7pm, Talk Of The Devils Pre-England v Scotland discussion. 8.30pm, SuperMatch On a night when David Beckham, Paul Scholes and perhaps Andy Cole will be trying to score past Neil Sullivan at Wembley, here’s a United trip to Wimbledon in 1996. 10.30pm, F.A.N. Fashion and gadgets magazine with a United slant.


RADIO

RADIO 5 LIVE
9am, Nicky Campbell Erudite Scotsman tries to badger studio guests and listeners into saying that Scotland have an earthly at Wembley tonight.
7.30pm, Euro 2000 Football Commentary from Wembley (for more details, see Pick Of The Day) plus updates from Bursa as the Republic of Ireland try and do better than Saturday’s 1-1 draw in Dublin.
10pm, David Mellor Have I done the ‘The unacceptable face of British football’ gag before when writing about this always missable phone-in? Thought so…

TALK RADIO
2pm, SportsZone
4pm, The Season Ticket Three more hours of the above.
7pm, England v Scotland For more information, see Pick Of The Day.
9.30pm, Phone-In Alan Brazil takes your calls between hacking sobs over the fate of his beloved Scotland.


FOOTBALL365 RECOMMENDS...

BBC 1
7.30pm, Bond & Beyond - Tomorrow’s World Special The scene: a meeting room at BBC Television Centre. The conversation: ‘All these gadgets in the James Bond films. Would they really work?’ ‘Sounds like a half-hour TV show to me! Lunch everyone!’

CHANNEL 5
10pm, The World’s Most Daring Bank Robberies Don’t know about you, but as soon as the final whistle goes, I’m having this on. CCTV and news footage, eyewitnesses and reconstructions of some brilliant blags? Unwhackable.

FILMFOUR
10pm, Boyz N The Hood Director John Singleton has never delivered a movie as good as this, his 1991 debut, about life for a group of young friends in the infamous South Central area of Los Angeles (we can but hope about his Shaft remake starring Samuel L Jackson, mind). Raiders hats, rap music, big-ass gold chains, guns, underwear poking out the top of trousers, ‘muthaf***’ this and that. It’s all here.

GRANADA PLUS
4pm & 8pm, The Sweeney Two a***-kicking, scotch-drinking, flares-wearing episodes of the king of Seventies cops shows. First, Regan (John Thaw) goes undercover to catch bent coppers. Then he tries to help out an old pal’s son involved in a serious assault. Guv! Guv! Guv! Guv!

PARAMOUNT
9.30pm, Seinfeld Sitcom ‘about nothing’ following four sneeringly cynical New Yorkers. Tonight, George joins a book club to impress a woman but is too lazy to actually read the books and tries to hire the movie versions instead.
1.10am (Thurs), The Larry Sanders Show Darkly comic sitcom set behind the scenes at an American TV chat show. Tonight’s classic episode sees Larry go down with food poisoning shortly before showtime, forcing producer Artie to ask sidekick Hank to take over.

SCI-FI CHANNEL
9pm, Film: The Abyss Which, spookily, is the thing that Scotland’s national football team will probably be staring into at about this time.

SKY MOVIEMAX
9am & 7pm, Spiceworld: The Movie Yet more base comedy from the Beckham household as Vicky and her pals mug shamelessly for the camera.

SKY ONE
7pm, The Simpsons Double bill including the one where Homer joins the plant’s softball team only to discover that Mister Burns is filling it with ringers from pro baseball.

TCM
9pm, Ryan’s Daughter Will presumably be eligible to play for both Wales and England…

UK GOLD
2.25am (Thurs), What A Carry On! Hey, if you’re too depressed to sleep over the outcome of the England-Scotland games, you might as well enjoy a few late night double entendres.