First viewed : 16 January 1991
I was watching Midweek Sports Special , specifically a Littlewoods Cup quarter-final between Leeds and Aston Villa when the US forces started shelling Iraqi positions in Kuwait. The soccer coverage was immediately interrupted and never came back. The war dominated the news for the next couple of months as Saddam Hussein was chased out of Kuwait but left in power creating problems that are still with us today. The TV coverage had a domestic political effect as Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown was often brought into the studio due to his ex-military background and became a recognised public figure, helping the party recover from the messy merger process.
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