Introduced by David Coleman
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 news from both home and abroad.
1.15; 2.5; 2.35; 3.35; 4.10* Eventing from Locko Park, Derby
The Midland Bank Horse Trials
Britain's top riders compete for the 1980 Open Championship - the most prestigious one-day event title in the equestrian calendar. Among those tackling this afternoon's cross-country course will be LUCINDA PRIOR-PALMER and CAPTAIN
MARK PHILLIPS.
Commentators DORIAN williams
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD and MICHAEL TUCKER
1.50; 2.20; 2.50; 3.20*
Racing from Newbury
2.0 Swift Binocular Handicap (7f)
2.30 The Geoffrey Freer Stakes (Im 5f 60y)
Five-year-old Nicholas Bill , who made a shock-winning reappearance in Newmarket's Princess of Wales Stakes, heads a strong field for this valuable prize.
3.0 The ATS Trophy (Limited Handicap. 1½m)
3.30 Washington Singer Stakes (6f) Commentators JULIAN WILSON and JIMMY LINDLEY
3.5; 3.55; 4.30* AtMetics from Crystal Palace
TheSunsilkWAAA Championships Scotland's 16-year-old LINSEY MAC DONALD, who captured the hearts of British viewers during the Olympic Games, competes today in the 400m. HEATHER HUNTE , SONIA LANNAMAN, KATHY SMALL-WOOD and TESSA SANDERSON head a strong line-up which promises to provide a very competitive afternoon's athletics.
Organised by the WAAA
Commentators RON PICKERING and STUART STOREY
3.50* Half-time Football Scores
4.40* Final Score: Grandstand's vidiprinter 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
1.5 Sports Round-up: 1.15 Horse Trials
1.54 Racing: 2.5 Horse Trials
2.29 Racing; 2.35 Horse Trials
2.50 Racing; 3.5 Athletics
3.26 Racing; 3.35 Horse Trials
3.50 Football Scores; 3.55 Athletics
4.19 Horse Trials; 4.31 Athletics
4.40 Final Score
* Timings subject to alteration Television presentation:
Football Focus MIKE MURFHY Horse Trials JIM RESIDE Racing john MCNICHOLAS
Athletics JOHN SHREWSBURY
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand HAROLD ANDERSON
Soccer scores and pools news on Ceefax