Football Focus
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Football Focus is a BBC television show, broadcast on BBC One on Saturday lunchtimes, covering football, presented from the 2009/2010 season by Dan Walker.
The programme previously formed part of the Grandstand programme but has since August 2001 been considered a show in its own right. Prior to the launch of Match of the Day 2, it was often the first chance for viewers (apart from the viewers of Sky Sports) to see analysis of the Sunday and Monday Premier League games. The programme is now a weekly magazine, with reports from across the country at all levels of English and Scottish football. It previews the weekend's fixtures along with updates from the early Premier League game. Since BBC have the rights to the Premier League, Football Focus also shows highlights from the midweek matches. A version of the programme which looks at world football airs on BBC World News.
The theme song for the 2007/08 season was "Kill The Director" by The Wombats. The previous theme which aired from the 2003/04 season featured a cover of the Stevie Nicks track "Stand Back" by Linus Loves featuring Sam Obernik. Before this, the song was "Backaround" by Elevator Suite [1].
As of 2009, presenter Dan Walker is usually joined by the BBC's main football pundits such as Mark Lawrenson, Lee Dixon, and Martin Keown. Match of the Day commentators, including Steve Wilson, Guy Mowbray, Jonathan Pearce, and John Motson often check-in with game previews from the stadiums.
[edit] Previous Hosts
- 1974 - 1994 Bob Wilson
- 1994 - 1996 Steve Rider
- 1996 - 1999 Gary Lineker
- 1999 - 2004 Ray Stubbs
- 2004 - 2009 Manish Bhasin (departed to front the BBC's new Football League programme The Football League Show)
- 2009 - present Dan Walker
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