Introduced by Frank Bough
12.35* Football Focus
On the opening day of the Football League season, Bob Wilson returns with his popular football magazine programme, reporting the soccer scenes from both home and abroad.
1.10; 2.5; 2.35; 3.5; 3.50* Cricket: Third Test from Headingley: England v India
Further play
1.10; 2.5; 2.35; 3.5; 4.15* Eventing from Locke Park, Derby: The Midland Bank Horse Trials
Sixty of Britain's top riders compete for the 1979 Open Championship - the most prestigious one-day event title in the equestrian calendar. Tackling this afternoon's three-mile cross-country course will be Badminton three-day event champion Lucinda Prior-Palmer, and the winner here two years ago Captain Mark Phillips. Commentators Raymond Brooks-Ward and Michael Tucker
1.30* International Rugby League from Auckland: New Zealand v Great Britain
Highlights of the final match in the Third Test.
Commentator Eddie Waring
1.40* Boxing Preview
Desmond Lynam reports from Atlantic City, USA, on tonight's WBC World Light-Heavyweight title fight between John Conteh and the champion Matthew Saad Muhammad
1.50; 2.20; 2.50 Racing from Newbury
2.0 The Swift Binocular Handicap Stakes (7f)
2.30 The Geoffrey Freer Stakes (1m 5f 60y)
3.0 The ATS Trophy (Limited Handicap, 1m)
Commentators Julian Wilson and Jimmy Lindley
3.45 Half-time Football Scores
3.50; 4.30* International Athletics from Crystal Palace: The Seiko Southern Counties AAA Championships
The foremost of the Area Championships, as usual, attracts some of our top athletes. Geoff Capes, Mike McFarlane, Mark Naylor and Brian Hooper are among those competing, plus an international invitation event to add spice to the day.
Commentators Ron Pickering and Stuart Storey
4.40 Final Score
Grandstand's teleprinter provides the first football league results of the season. Plus classified results, match reports and all the latest news of today's sporting events.
Today's timetable:
12.35 Football Focus; 1.10 Cricket/Eventing; 1.30 Rugby League; 1.40 Boxing Preview; 1.50 Racing: 2.5 Eventing/Cricket; 2.20 Racing; 2.35 Cricket/Eventing; 2.50 Racing; 3.5 Cricket/Eventing; 3.45 Football Scores; 3.50 Athletics/Cricket; 4.15 Eventing; 4.30 Athletics; 4.40 Final Score
Timings subject to alteration
Television presentation:
Football FOCUS MIKE MURPHY
Cricket NICK HUNTER and HUW JONES
Eventing JIM RESIDE and JOHN MCNICHOLAS Rugby League TV1 NEW ZEALAND Boxing Preview TERRY LONG Racing DENNIS MONGER
Athletics JOHNNIE WATERSTON
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand HAROLD ANDERSON
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