Saying goodbye to Football Focus after 52 years

The last occurrence of Football Focus was broadcast connected Sunday, bringing to an extremity 52 years connected the air.

It was an affectional occurrence arsenic long-time pundit Garth Crooks returned to Focus, sitting alongside Alex Scott to bespeak connected the show's past and preview the last time of the Premier League season.

Bob Wilson, the show's archetypal presenter, closed retired the programme by saying: "All bully things travel to an end. Thank you to each of you astatine location for watching Football Focus for the past 52 years. We person had a ball."

Launched successful 1974, Football Focus provided fans with interviews, investigation and stories from crossed the crippled each lunchtime earlier the weekend's fixtures begin.

The longest-running mag amusement successful the satellite began with a tribute to the programme, with its erstwhile presenters sharing their favourite memories from crossed the decades.

The programme's aged branding was utilized passim successful a motion to its history.

Crooks ended the amusement by presenting Scott with a representation of herself and Bob Wilson, connected behalf of the "Football Focus family".

Before handing implicit to Wilson, an affectional Scott said: "For 52 years, this amusement has done 1 thing. Week in, week out, it has brought shot into your Saturday afternoons. Whether it was Bob Wilson oregon immoderate of the superb radical who sat successful this seat aft him, the happening that ne'er changed was you - the fans.

"I won't unreal this isn't hard. What I cognize is, the shot doesn't stop, the stories don't stop. The goals, the drama, the heartbreak, the magic, nary of that stops. It conscionable finds a caller home.

"From everyone who has ever worked connected Football Focus, convey you. Thank you for making Saturday lunchtime thing to look guardant to. It has been an honour."