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With Jonathan Overend

Football news and a roundup of the day's main sports stories, with Susan Bookbinder.

8.00 Mark and Lard's Top Teams
A new series from the Radio 1 DJs.

8.30 Motty's Magic Matches
New series in which John Motson recalls the great games he's described over the years.
1: Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur - 1981 FA Cup final replay. With guests Tommy Hutchison and Steve Perryman.

9.00 Sportstrack
Series recalling sporting highlights and musical hits of particular year. Tonight 1972, when the Olympic achievements of Mark Spitz and Olga Korbut were overshadowed by the murder of 11 athletes by terrorists. (R)

9.30 Voices of Sport
The broadcasting career of Eamonn Andrews and his love of boxing. (R)

[Photo caption] John Motson looks back at some of the games he's described for BBC TV over the years in Motty's Magic Matches

Motty's Magic Matches 8.30pm R5 Live
John Motson is often called a football anorak but that is most unfair: he is of course a football sheepskin jacket. Motson started his career in radio and tonight he returns for his first major series since he went to television 30 years ago. The programmes recall some of the many great games he has covered and talks to players who took part, starting with the 1981 FA Cup final between Manchester City and Tottenham, the first Cup final replay to take place at Wembley. How times change: City have just been relegated, Spurs are nondescript and Wembley is now twinned with the Millennium Dome.

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Susan Bookbinder
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John Motson
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Tommy Hutchison
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Steve Perryman

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