NaN/100 votes#1 - 11th August 2002: FA Community Shield: Arsenal v Liverpool
Season 39 Episode 1 - Aired 8/11/2002
Highlights of today's FA Community Shield, the traditional opener to the English football season. As Arsenal won both the Premiership and the FA Cup last season, it is Premiership runners-up Liverpool whom they faced at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
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#2 - 14th August 2002: Uefa Champions League: Zalaegerszeg v Manchester United
Season 39 Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2002
Manchester United travel to Hungary for this Uefa Champions' League third qualifying round first-leg match, as they look to make amends for last season's disappointments.
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#3 - 27th August 2002: Uefa Champions League: Manchester United v Zalaegerszeg
Season 39 Episode 3 - Aired 8/27/2002
Coverage from Old Trafford of this Uefa Champions' League third qualifying round second-leg. After their shock injury-time defeat by this Hungarian side in the first leg, Manchester United will be taking no chances tonight. Failure to qualify for the Champions' League would be a major embarrassment, and Alex Ferguson will want to deploy some of his biggest weapons to ensure their one-goal deficit is overturned.
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#4 - 30th August 2002: Uefa Super Cup: Real Madrid v Feyenoord
Season 39 Episode 4 - Aired 8/30/2002
Last season's Champions' League winners, Real Madrid, take on the Uefa Cup holders from the Netherlands, Feyenoord, in the annual European Super Cup final at Monaco's Stade Louis II. Madrid will start as favourites, with their glittering squad that includes the world's most expensive footballer, French midfield maestro Zinedine Zidane. But Liverpool showed last season, when beating Bayern Munich, that the Uefa Cup winners are not necessarily the poor relations in this fixture.
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#5 - 7th September 2002: International Friendly: England v Portugal
Season 39 Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/2002
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of England's friendly against Portugal at Villa Park.
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#6 - 6th October 2002: Celtic v Rangers
Season 39 Episode 6 - Aired 10/6/2002
Coverage from Celtic Park of the first of this season's Old Firm battles between the two Glasgow titans. Derbies between the two clubs are always something to savour and once again Celtic and Rangers are setting the pace in the Scottish Premier League. Aberdeen were the last team, in the 1984/5 season, to break the two teams' title stranglehold.
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#7 - 12th October 2002: Euro 2004 Qualifier
Season 39 Episode 7 - Aired 10/12/2002
Coverage of the opening game in England's campaign to qualify for Euro 2004. In the first of two matches England will play within four days, Sven-Goran Eriksson's men will be aiming for maximum points in this Group Seven clash against a team they have never played before and which lost 0-3 to Turkey in their own opening match. Formerly part of the old Czechoslovakia national side, Slovakia do not have a great record against stronger international sides while England must win their group to be assured of an automatic place at the tournament finals in Portugal.
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#8 - 16th October 2002: Euro 2004 Qualifier
Season 39 Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/2002
England v Macedonia. Coverage of the second match this week in England's campaign to qualify for the Euro finals in Portugal. After Saturday's trip to Slovakia all eyes will now be focused on St Mary's Stadium, Southampton. It's the first ever meeting between the two teams and Sven-Goran Eriksson will be anxious to secure full points tonight to keep England on course to win Group Seven and avoid a repeat of their Euro 2000 campaign - where they had to endure a tense two-leg play-off with Scotland. Macedonia's qualifying hopes hit a setback last month when they were held to a 1-1 draw by unheralded Liechtenstein. In today's other matches involving British teams, Wales faced a tough test at the Millennium Stadium as they looked for a win against Italy, the Euro 2000 runners-up, while in Group Six Northern Ireland look for a first-time win over the Ukraine at Windsor Park.
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#9 - 31st October 2002: Uefa Cup: Celtic v Blackburn Rovers
Season 39 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/2002
Coverage from Celtic Park of the Uefa Cup second-round, first-leg clash between Celtic and Blackburn Rovers - a true Battle of Britain. Martin O'Neill 's Celtic have dominated the Scottish Premier League during the past couple of seasons but have yet to translate this into success on the European stage. After breezing through the first round of this tournament against Lithuanian outfit FK Suduva , they are certain to face a far tougher test against Blackburn, a side managed by Graham Souness - the former boss of their fierce Glasgow rivals, Rangers.
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#10 - 14th November 2002: Uefa Cup: Blackburn Rovers v Celtic
Season 39 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/2002
Coverage from Ewood Park of the Uefa Cup second-round, second-leg encounter. Blackburn strikers Dwight Yorke and Damien Duff will hope to capitalise on homeground advantage after their good form in the first leg at Celtic came to nothing, with Henrik Larsson shooting the Scottish champions to victory with five minutes to go. Plus highlights from Loftus Road as Fulham take on Croatian side Dynamo Zagreb.
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#11 - 17th November 2002: FA Cup First Round
Season 39 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/2002
Highlights of today's matches in the first round of the FA Cup, including news of any upsets.
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#12 - 17th November 2002: FA Cup First Round
Season 39 Episode 12 - Aired 11/17/2002
Forest Green Rovers v Exeter City. Coverage from The Lawn, Gloucestershire, of this intriguing first-round FA Cup tie. History shows that non-league teams can be notoriously tricky FA Cup opponents, and this could prove an especially tough proposition for Exeter, who are currently languishing near the foot of Division Three.
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#13 - 27th November 2002: FA Cup First Round Replays
Season 39 Episode 13 - Aired 11/27/2002
Non-league sides tackle teams from divisions two and three in a roundup of replays from the FA Cup first round.
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#14 - 7th December 2002: Rangers v Celtic
Season 39 Episode 14 - Aired 12/7/2002
Coverage of the second Old Firm clash of the season, with Ibrox this time hosting the famous derby. The last league meeting of these two was a memorable affair, with Chris Sutton's late goal for Celtic salvaging a 3-3 draw in October. Victory for either side would be a big step towards the league title.
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#15 - 7th December 2002: FA Cup Second Round
Season 39 Episode 15 - Aired 12/7/2002
FA Cup second-round highlights.
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#16 - 8th December 2002: FA Cup Second Round
Season 39 Episode 16 - Aired 12/8/2002
Oxford United v Swlndon Town. Coverage of today's FA Cup second-round game as division three Oxford Utd take on division two Swindon. Ian Atkins 's men have had mixed fortunes in the third division and advanced to the second round of the FA Cup only after a hard-fought 1-0 away victory over Dover, climaxing with a stunning close-range goal from 34-year-old former Manchester City player David Oldfield. Swindon had an equally tough time dispatching fellow second-division team Huddersfield, with captain Andy Gumey securing a 1-0 score after the tie looked to be heading for a replay.
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#17 - 12th December 2002: Uefa Cup
Season 39 Episode 17 - Aired 12/12/2002
Liverpool v Vitesse Arnhem. Coverage from Anfield of this Uefa Cup third-round, second-leg match. Gerard Houllier 's men - winners of the Cup in 2001-were forced into settling for a place in the competition after their Champions' League dreams died, after their valiant comeback to force a 3-3 draw in Basle last month failed to see them progress beyond the group stages.
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#18 - 18th December 2002: FA Cup Second Round Replays
Season 39 Episode 18 - Aired 12/18/2002
FA Cup second-round replay action. With the big clubs entering in round three, motivation is high for minnows to earn a money-spinning clash.
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#19 - 4th January 2003: FA Cup Third Round
Season 39 Episode 19 - Aired 1/4/2003
Highlights from today's FA Cup third-round action.
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#20 - 5th January 2003: FA Cup Third Round
Season 39 Episode 20 - Aired 1/5/2003
Manchester City v Liverpool. Two Premiership teams come face-to-face at Maine Road for this FA Cup third-round tie. Cup holders Liverpool beat City on their way to the title last season, but City's subsequent promotion to the Premiership under Anfield hero Kevin Keegan will mean a hard-fought battle.
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#21 - 15th January 2003: FA Cup Third Round Replays
Season 39 Episode 21 - Aired 1/15/2003
Will any of the lower-division and non-league sides be celebrating acts of "giant-killing" this evening?
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#22 - 25th January 2003: FA Cup Fourth Round
Season 39 Episode 22 - Aired 1/25/2003
Highlights from today's key FA Cup fourth-round matches, plus a roundup of all the goals.
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#23 - 26th January 2003: FA Cup Fourth Round
Season 39 Episode 23 - Aired 1/26/2003
Manchester Utd v West Ham Utd. An all-Premiership battle for a place in the last 16 of the FA Cup in this fourth-round clash from Old Trafford. This was becoming something of a bogey fixture for Alex Ferguson's side, who, as cup holders, were sunk two years ago and again defeated in the league the next season. But the most recent meeting saw the Red Devils cruise to a 3-0 win.
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#24 - 26th January 2003: FA Cup Fourth Round
Season 39 Episode 24 - Aired 1/26/2003
Shrewsbury Town v Chelsea. The second of today's FA Cup fourth-round ties is this intriguing fixture from Gay Meadow in which the Third Division giant-killers try their luck against three-times cup winners Chelsea. Claudio Ranieri 's team will be anxious to avoid the same fate as the last cup visitors to this ground - Everton were thwarted by a double strike from experienced forward Nigel Jemson. Will the Londoners' squad, boasting world-class quality in every department, prove a bridge too far for the Shrews?
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#25 - 5th February 2003: FA Cup Fourth Round Replays
Season 39 Episode 25 - Aired 2/5/2003
Highlights of the fourth-round replays in the FA Cup. At this stage last season, Chelsea v West Ham was the only tie that required a replay, and the Blues went on to snatch a 3-2 win.
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Season 39 Ratings Summary
"11th August 2002: FA Community Shield: Arsenal v Liverpool" is the best rated episode of "Match of the Day" season 39. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/11/2002. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "14th August 2002: Uefa Champions League: Zalaegerszeg v Manchester United".