Football and Doctor Who are coming home...!
- doctorbrick
- Apr 26, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 22
Their coming home, their coming home, their coming, the Doctor's coming home...! Oh good lord my autism is in overdrive today!!
There is seemingly a lot of hate about the new way we will get our access to the new series - mid night drops, Disney+, iPlayer and the like, but rather than join the pile on I got thinking about times gone by when the Doctor had to face off against football never quite coming home (except once). This is a problem old Fifteen won't really have to face, as if you are a football and Doctor Who fan you can watch the Doctor and Ruby around the games.
So for reasons unknown I have compiled the most useless list of every episode that aired when a match from a major tournament took place on the same day and what matches they were. What does this list mean? Does it tell us anything? I think the answer to that is not a lot, other than David Tennant had a lot of football to contend against and Tom Baker had none, but I had a lot of fun making it all the same.
"So many jokes, so many cheers,
The music of the spheres,
Build you up, through the years,
And I still see hear that speech from Matt Smith,
And when Yaz didn't score, David meeting the fifth,
And Ncuti dancing...!!"
That is terrible, my sincere apologies for that!!!! Please just feast your eyes on the Doctor, the World Cup and the European Championships.
European Championships 1964
Season 1, William Hartnell
20th June 1964
The Sensorites - Strangers in Space
Viewers 7.9m
3rd Place Play Off
Hungary 3-1 Denmark (AET)
Camp Nou, Barcelona
Attendance 3,869
World Cup 1966
Season 3, William Hartnell
16th July 1966
The War Machines - Episode 4
Viewers 5.5m
Group 1
England 2-0 Mexico
Wembley Stadium, London
Attendance 92,570
Group 2
Argentina 0-0 West Germany
Villa Park, Birmingham
Attendance 46,587
Group 3
Portugal 3-0 Bulgaria
Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance 25,438
Group 4
Soviet Union 1-0 Italy
Roker Park, Sunderland
Attendance 27,793
World Cup 1970
Season 7, Jon Pertwee
6th June 1970
Inferno - Episode 5
Viewers 5.4m
Group 1
Soviet Union 4-1 Belgium
Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
Attendance 95,261
Group 2
Uruguay 0-0 Italy
Attendance 29,968
Group 3
Romania 2-1 Czechoslovakia
Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara
Attendance 56,818
Group 4
Peru 3-0 Morocco
Attendance 13,537
20th June 1970
Inferno - Episode 7
Viewers 5.5m
3rd Place Play-Off
Uruguay 0-1 West Germany
Attendance 104,403
European Championship 1972
Season 9, Jon Pertwee
17th June 1972
The Time Monster - Episode 5
Viewers 6.0m
3rd Place Play-Off
Hungary 1-2 Belgium
Attendance 6,184
World Cup 2006
Series 2, David Tennant
10th June 2006
The Satan Pit
Viewers 6.08m
Group B
England 1-0 Paraguay
Attendance 48,000
Group B
Trinidad and Tobago 0-0 Sweden
Attendance 62,959
Group C
Argentina 2-1 Ivory Coast
Attendance 49,480
17th June 2006
Love & Monsters
Viewers 6.66m
Group D
Portugal 2-0 Iran
Attendance 48,000
Group E
Czech Republic 0-2 Ghana
Attendance 45,000
Group E
Italy 1-1 United States
45,000
24th June 2006
Fear Her
Viewers 7.14m
Round of 16
Germany 2-0 Sweden
Attendance 66,000
Round of 16
Argentina 2-1 Mexico
Attendance 43,000
1st July 2006
Army of Ghosts
Viewers 8.19m
Quarter Final
England 0-0 Portugal (AET, 1-3 on pens)
Attendance 52,000
Quarter Final
Brazil 0-1 France
Attendance 48,000
8th July 2006
Doomsday
Viewers 8.22m
3rd Place Play-Off
Germany 3-1 Portugal
Attendance 52,000
European Championships 2008
Series 4, David Tennant
7th June 2008
Forest of the Dead
Viewers 7.84m
Group A
Switzerland 0-1 Czech Republic
Attendance 39,730
Group A
Portugal 2-0 Turkey
Attendance 29,106
14th June 2008
Midnight
Viewers 8.05m
Group D
Sweden 1-2 Spain
Attendance 30,772
Group D
Greece 0-1 Russia
Attendance 31,063
21st June 2008
Turn Left
Viewers 8.09m
Quarter Final
Netherlands 1-3 Russia (AET)
Attendance 38,374
World Cup 2010
Series 5, Matt Smith
12th June 2010
The Lodger
Viewers 6.44m
Group B
South Korea 2-0 Greece
Attendance 31,513
Group B
Argentina 1-0 Nigeria
Attendance 55,686
Group C
England 1-1 United States
Attendance 38,646
19th June 2010
The Pandorica Opens
Viewers 7.57m
Group D
Ghana 1-1 Australia
Attendance 34,812
Group E
Netherlands 1-0 Japan
Attendance 62,010
Group E
Cameroon 1-2 Denmark
Attendance 38,074
26th June 2010
The Big Bang
Viewers 6.70m
Round of 16
Uruguay 2-1 South Korea
Attendance 30,957
Round of 16
United States 1-2 Ghana (AET)
Attendance 34,976
European Championships 2024
Series 1/14, Ncuti Gatwa
15th June 2024
The Legend of Ruby Sunday
Group A
Hungary - Switzerland
Cologne Stadium, Cologne
Group B
Spain - Croatia
Group B
Italy - Albania
22nd June 2024
Empire of Death
Group E
Belgium - Romania
Cologne Stadium, Cologne
Group F
Georgia - Czech Republic
Group F
Turkey - Portugal
My useless list is complete!
How did you cope in the 'old days' when you wanted to watch the football and the Doctor? VHS? Two televisions? Make a big decision? Let me know in the comments below.
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