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The first ever Match of the Day was 23 June 1964, and was the match of day at the Wimbledon tennis championship.
The title was resurrected for the new, controversial football highlights the following August. The first match was Liverpool v Arsenal. Commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, analysis Walley Barnes the former Arsenal defender and inventor of the bouncing bomb.