TV and football

[napolisoccer]

What are the oldest immagines about a football match?

[Owen Gohl]

From an Arsenal fan site:

http://www.fl.net.au/~steve/didyou.htm

"Arsenal were also the FIRST team to be covered by television cameras. On the 16th of September 1937 the cameras rolled for the first time for a friendly match arranged specially for the occasion between Arsenal first and Arsenal reserve teams."

The page also lists a number of other Arsenal radio and television firsts.

Arsenal's own website says that the first match was televised in I]1927[/I] but this can't be correct. They must mean radio:

http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=The+Club&article=363272&Title=Arsenal's+A+to+Z

I read recently that 20,000 television sets had been sold in Britain by the start of the war.

[lanman]

The oldest known footage comes from the 19th century.

...as the oldest extant soccer footage in the world is the 1898 Blackburn Rovers v West Bromwich Albion film shot by Rhyl's Arthur Cheetham, the first Welsh- based filmmaker.

from http://sgrinasain.llgc.org.uk/newyddion_033.htm

The year might not be correct, as I have also seen it listed as 1899.