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Tuesday 1st May 2012: Thanks to Neil Storer, who has provided a small but important update today - another result confirmed! Check out Heat 1 of SPIEL 1967 for the revelation.

Monday 23rd April 2012: Today, I've made some revisions to JSF 1966 Heat 4 (Ath v. Erkelenz), again to improve accuracy of the DYKs.

Friday 13th April 2012: Thanks to Neil Storer for supplying some great items for the Collectables section. New pages: A poster for Spiel Ohne Grenzen 1974, a ceramic tile souvenir from JSF at Coburg 1980 and two items from 1982, a commemorative coin from Belgium marking JSF Heat 6 at Sherborne and a souvenir sticker from Heat 7 at Gent. I have also added a DYK note to JSF 1982 Heat 6 to give a little background to the minting of the coins. Finally today, Neil has supplied a brilliant photograph from JSF 1977 Heat 6 (Antwerpen, Belgium) and I have written an introductory DYK to accompany it.

Thursday 12th April 2012: More from Neil today, with a major update to JSF 1966 Heats 3, 4 and 5. Christos has also been working miracles and as a result we can now present the Austrian transmissions for the whole of JSF 1966. Thanks both!

Wednesday 11th April 2012: I've revised today the DYKs for the JSF 1965 second Semi Final and the International Final today, to improve accuracy, wording and to add information where appropriate. Also today, Neil Storer has provided a comprehensive update to JSF 1966, and to kick it off I've processed the revisions to the production information at the top of the page and Heats 1 and 2 of this series. Thanks, Neil!

Monday 9th April 2012: And a very Happy Easter for next weekend to my friends in Greece, as Christos tells me they are celebrating a week later than the UK is! You learn something every day! A further update to JSF 1965 today to add the names of the West German 'intellectuals' for the 1st Semi-Final and also to revise the DYKs for that event.

Sunday 8th April 2012: A very Happy Easter to all our visitors and contributors! Apologies for the brief gap in updates. Unfortunately, my computer was hacked early last week and it's taken me the rest of the week to sort the resulting problems and get everything back on track. All sorted now, but it was an education in computer maintenance I could well have done without. Today's update is a small one, but worth noting: I've added a photo to JSF 1965 showing the damage caused to a JSF venue by a severe storm in 2010. Check out Heat 6 to see the image and for details. I have also rewritten and rejigged a small number of the DYKs for this competition to clarify information and improve accuracy.

Friday 30th March 2012: To round off the week, we have the third and final part of Neil's JSF 1965 update which covers the two Semi-Finals and the International Final. Neil has also submitted a series of updates for the West German domestic series Spiel Ohne Grenzen and the pages revised are: SPIEL 1967, 1967 Scoreboard, SPIEL 1968 (including newly confirmed venues, team members and a result), 1968 Scoreboard and 1969 Scoreboard.

Thursday 29th March 2012: Today, Part 2 of Neil's JSF 1965 update, focusing upon Heats 4-6.

Wednesday 28th March 2012: An update to 1965 that's so big that I'm adding it in bits! These superb revisions and additions are from the pen of Neil Storer and bring a level of detail to the original series of Jeux Sans Frontières previously undreamt of. Thanks Neil for your hard work and the fruits of these labours can be seen on the 1965 Introduction page and JSF 1965 (Heats 1-3). More in the next few days.

Monday 19th March 2012: Two updates today, both of which deserve a vote of thanks to Christos Moustakas and Thomas Kreidl. First is a complete team list for West German JSF 1966 Champions, Eichstätt. It is worth noting that the team was obviously drawn from a large squad as the team members change dramatically between the Alassio heat, the 2nd Semi-Final and the International Final. This information is sourced from a great book which was produced in West Germany to commemorate Eichstätt's success and I have added details of this book, entitled simply Spiel Ohne Grenzen, to the Collectables section.

Friday 16th March 2012: Small but important update today. Christos has been able to supply the missing score from JSF 1966 (2nd Semi Final) care of a long out of print West German book about Eichstätt's adventure in Jeux Sans Frontières! Thanks are also due to Thomas Kreidl of JSFnetGERMANY in this instance.

Thursday 15th March 2012: The start of another major innovation for JSFnetGB today, with the addition of coverage of the Australian It's A Knockout, starting with what I can track down about the 1985 series - IAK AUS 1985. The Australian Team Database has been updated with information where available. Mid-Afternoon Update: Now added - the recent Australian revival of It's A Knockout IAK AUS 2011 and a new introductory page for 2011.

Tuesday 13th March 2012: A few little tweaks and additions to information from Neil today, causing revisions large and small to JSF 1965, the 1965 Scoreboard, 1966 Scoreboard, Interneige 1977, IAK 1977 and SPIEL 1977. Also today, Intercontinents! This ambitious series from 1987-1988 has now been added to the site, with thanks to the good works of Philippe Minet and Christos Moustakas. Due to the far-reaching nature of this particular flavour of JSF, it has caused me to heavily update the Team Database, with changes or new pages created for the following countries: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Rwanda, Spain, Tunisia, USA, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Incredibly, this takes the site to over 650 pages! Phew!

Monday 12th March 2012: A great update today from Neil Storer, who has not only located the correct venue for the JSF 1971 International Final at Essen (our information was a little out previously), but has also written a piece on the location in question - the Grugastadion - for Venues 1971. The International Final has a new DYK note which summarises the Venues information. Also Today... A new 'Collectables' item, one of our earliest at the site - a Dutch Joker from the 1970 International Final, signed by competitors and others involved at Verona. Thanks to Christos Moustakas for supplying this fascinating image. Finally, we welcome a writer new to JSFnetGB, Julien Dessy, who has sent in a feature that kicks our Comment section into life once more - Comment: JSF Swansea (1) 1992. Many thanks to Julien, Christos and Neil for three wonderful additions to the site.

Thursday 8th March 2012: Many thanks to all those who sent messages for Tony Smith. I made up a greeting document for him and passed it along to him. I will pass along Tony's response when I hear back. A couple of things updated today, both on the subject of Spiel Ohne Grenzen, and submitted by Neil Storer. Please see SPIEL 1968 Heat 6, SPIEL 1974 Heat 6 and the Team Database for West Germany (the team of Herford added). Thanks Neil!

Thursday 1st March 2012: A free gift from JSFnetGB today - the souvenir programme from IAK 1977 Heat 5 (Camberley). This can be downloaded from the page or directly from here. This has been made possible by kind donations to this site. If you haven't donated, please consider the possibility. Thank you. Also, please see yesterday's update for an important request regarding Tony Smith, a good friend to JSFnetGB.

Wednesday 29th February 2012 - A Leap Year's Day Update: First of all, my sincere thanks to those who have kindly donated to the website in the last couple of weeks. It is hugely appreciated and makes a world of difference to the site's prospects. It has meant that I've had the funds available to purchase materials for the site, the first of which permits a nice update to IAK 1977 Heat 5 and JSF 1977 Heat 5 with regard to team members for the British sides and in the case of the former, game details. Now, another request: It's A Knockout and Jeux Sans Frontières competitor and Channel 5 It's A Knockout course referee Tony Smith, very much a friend of this site, is currently in hospital recovering from a double hip replacement operation. I thought it would be a nice gesture for me to send Tony a get well message from JSFnetGB. Obviously, I have already sent him a message from myself, but it occurred to me that it would be a nice idea to ask visitors to send me get well messages for Tony to the JSFnetGB email address - jsfnetuk@virginmedia.com - and then I can pass them all on and we can hopefully bring a smile to his face. Thanks. :)

Friday 10th February 2012: Thanks to Christos for supplying a missing scoreboard, for JSF 1998 Heat 3. Thanks to Gianni Magrin and Christos, I've also been able to add four brilliant photographs from the 1978 JSF du Souvenir from Roche. Staying with the Roche event, I have been able to add a downloadable PDF of the original souvenir programme (supplied by Roche captain Edouard Monod, with thanks to Christos) and I have also been able to update the information for the special as a result of seeing this document.

Thursday 9th February 2012: Massive updates to JSF 1965 and JSF 1966 today by Neil Storer, who has added a remarkable amount of information and DYK notes to Jeux Sans Frontières' first series. Other pages updated as part of Neil's hard work are: ZESKAMP 1970-1971, 1974 Introduction, 1976 Introduction, SPIEL 1976 (DYKs for Heats 1 and 6) and JSF 1976, (including a revised and new DYKs for Heat 7). Brilliant work, Neil. It took me all day to add it to the site, so I daren't think how long it took you to write it!

Wednesday 25th January 2012: A quick update today, a newly found result supplied by Paul Leaver who has tracked down information for Interglace 1989 Heat 3 in an Andorran newspaper. My apologies for the lack of updates since early January: unfortunately, I have had a bereavement. My mother-in-law passed away on January 8th and the time since has been something of a maelstrom. I hope to be getting back to updating the site in the next few weeks, but please accept my apologies if the site is quiet for a while.

Saturday 7th January 2012: Well done to Christos for tracking down the remaining JRT broadcast for Ascona, JSF 1979.

Wednesday 4th January 2012: A New Year gift to all our visitors - a PDF of the souvenir programme produced for the 1976 JSF from Leeds, Great Britain - downloadable directly here. The original of this document was kindly donated to JSFnetGB by the late Cecil Korer, a very good and much missed friend of this site.

Tuesday 3rd January 2012: Another update from Neil which has led to revisions being made to the following pages: 1965 Introduction and JSF 1965 (presenter information + Heat 6). Many thanks, Neil!

Monday 2nd January 2012:  Happy New Year to all visitors and contributors to JSFnetGB!  Our first update of the new year is an obvious one assuming you drop in on this page regularly. The 2011 updates have been archived. One item of news from late last year bears repeating for those who haven't checked in in the last couple of days: I am pleased to announce that veteran British broadcaster and It's A Knockout legend Stuart Hall has been awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) medal in the Queen's New Year's Honours. Wholly deserved and some good news to round off a year that has been sad, in many ways, what with the losses of Guido Pancaldi and Cecil Korer. Congratulations, Stuart, on a remarkable achievement to mark a magnificent life and career. Today's update is a biggie, as I am catching up with Neil Storer's excellent updates that he has sent over the Christmas and New Year period. These include significant updates to JSF 1965, affecting the 1965 Introduction, the first three heats and the 1965 Scoreboard, a new DYK note for Heat 2 of Zeskamp-Stedenspel 1968, new DYK notes for Zeskamp 1969-1970 Heats 1, 5 and Domestic Final, Zeskamp 1970-1971 Heat 1 and for Heats 2 (Group A) and 6 (Group C) Zeskamp 1973-1974 plus team members for Harlingen for this series, and JSF 1974. Also the 1968 Scoreboard, 1970 Scoreboard and  1974 Scoreboard have been updated to include Zeskamp. ...A pause for breath!... because there's more! Neil has also submitted a DYK for the 1974 Cup Final Knockout and updates to Spiel Ohne Grenzen: SPIEL 1972, SPIEL 1973 and SPIEL 1974 including DYKs and team member information and a major update to JSF 1974. And... Neil has also turned his attention to 1975, with updates to 1975 Introduction, IAK 1975, It's A Celebrity Knockout 1975, SPIEL 1975 and JSF 1975.

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