In my youth, the BBC’s Grandstand and ITV’s World of Sport, presented by the flamboyantly moustached Dickie Davies, competed for weekend dominance of the airwaves.
© I grew up watching Giant Haystacks’ battles with Big Daddy
Back then the Beeb had the rights to most major sporting events, and World of Sport…well, it took what was left. One old joke was that the BBC had paid for all the sports