Televised football in the regions, Part 6: Anglia - Punching above their weight

One of the smaller regions was one of the biggest drivers towards regular televised football in this country.

Throughout the late 1950s to the middle of the following decade, football in England underwent a shift in its tectonic plates that went almost unremarked upon. The traditional bases of power, the industrial towns of the Midlands and the North such as Burnley and Wolverhampton, found their power starting to wane, whilst the industrialisation of professional football led to the increased growth of big city clubs from Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and London. Perhaps it was a coincidence that this occurred at the time when regular league football started to be shown in the nation’s homes. Perhaps, though, it wasn’t.