The League Paper

OUT WITH THE SUITS AS5 FINDS RIGHT MIX

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The LeaguePaper Team
13 August 2017

By John Lyons

HOST: Football on 5’s Colin Murray

IT’S taken a couple of years but, whisper it quietly, Channel 5 may finally have stumbled on to the right way to show their EFL highlights.
A couple of years ago, its Football League Tonight took the baton from the BBC’s Manish Bhasin-led Football League Show.
There was positivity because the former were going to put on the highlights at 9pm, while the Beeb could only find a late-night slot after Match Of The Day.
However, Channel 5’s programme was panned by the critics. Hosted by George Riley and Kelly Cates, it tr...

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