Granada Kick Off - Opening Titles 1973

The 1973/74 football season brought new titles and theme tune for Granada's Friday evening football show Kick Off.

[@grahampearson5670]

Nice and sweet theme tune. Gerald Sinstadt (1930-2021) presented this programme and commentated on ITV North West England Sector football matches.

[@shahedmc9656]

Reminds me of the 70s/80s American sitcom called "Taxi" with Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito.

[@andrewwray726]

mmm.....cheers meets bless this house.!!!

[@zoranmilovanovic5457]

Thanks for this. It brings back memories of November '73. . I thought the tune was cozy to say this programme was on late on Friday. I was 13 at the time.

[@kevinbeck6785]

Oh just found that Gerald only passed away November 2021

[@markgaughran4374]

Are you sure it wasn't a cookery programme

[@DavidWilliams-km5xu]

It sounds like music played in the background in a department store from the 1970

[@annoldham3018]

Reminds me of sweet gingerbread man song.

[@roystonhesketh3987]

Straight out of the can. Sweet gingerbreadman

[@roystonhesketh3987]

Very 73. Family?!

[@tonykeggin8906]

Sounds like Taxi

[@richardsharpe2966]

Outside the London ITV Granada has the most number of football league and premier league teams or would it be the Central region could someone double check this please

[@Woollylinnet]

Bearing in mind some teams straddle borders (eg. Luton, Mansfield, Cheltenham) I make it a three-way tie. London, Granada and Central all on 17, Yorkshire 14, Meridian 8, Anglia 7, HTV 5, Tyne-Tees and Westcountry 3, while Border sneaks in thanks to Carlisle United. We may have to use the Conference as a decider.

[@richardsharpe2966]

+Martyn Mellodew It will be so

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

@@Woollylinnet And yet, Border only covered Carlisle once in their history.

[@jasejj]

@@Woollylinnet Tyne Tees had rather more than three!

[@MakerfieldConsort]

@@jasejj At the time the list was compiled, Hartlepool were in their brief exile from the League, so it was just Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Obviously it would be four now, and at the time this was broadcast Darlington would have been a fifth.