hello and welcome to the programme. he has been described as one of football s greatest ever players franz beckenbauer had a nearly two decade long career during which he won the world cup as captain of west germany in 1974, then went on to lift the trophy again, this time as manager in 1990. tributes have been pouring in for the legend who was nicknamed der kaiser . joe lynskey has been looking back on his life. a world cup winning captain, a world cup winning coach. franz beckenbauer was the defender and the leader in football s most exclusive club. his first time at the tournament was in 1966, when at 20 for west germany he played in every match. they lost the final to england, but beckenbauer was emerging as the man at the back who could glide up the field. his country called him the kaiser the emperor and as captain, he made them serial winners first in 1972 as european champions, then two years later in a world cup on home soil. it was just the first piece of
hello and welcome to the programme. he s been described as one of football s greatest ever players franz beckenbauer had a nearly two decade long career, during which he won the world cup as captain of west germany in 1974, then went on to lift the trophy again, this time as manager in 1990. tributes have been pouring in for the legend who was nicknamed der kaiser. joe lynskey has been looking back on his life. a world cup winning captain, a world cup winning coach. franz beckenbauer was the defender and the leader in football s most exclusive club. his first time at the tournament was in 1966, when at 20 for west germany he played in every match. they lost the final to england, but beckenbauer was emerging as the man at the back who could glide up the field. his country called him the kaiser the emperor and as captain he made them serial winners first in 1972 as european champions, then two years later in a world cup on home soil. it was just the first piece of an ex
hello and welcome to the programme. he s been described as one of footballs greatest ever players, franz beckenbauer had a nearly two decade long career, during which he won the world cup as captain of west germany in 1974, then went on to lift the trophy again, this time as manager in 1990. tributes have been pouring in for the legend who was nicknamed der kaiser. joe lynskey has been looking back on his life. a world cup winning captain, a world cup winning coach. franz beckenbauer was the defender and the leader in football s most exclusive club. his first time at the tournament was in 1966, when at 20 for west germany he played in every match. they lost the final to england, but he was emerging as the man at the back who could glide up the field. his country called him the kaiser the emperor and as captain he made them serial winners first in 1972 as european champions, then two years later in a world cup on home soil. with his club bayern munich he was also the cap
of post office sub postmasters who have been wrongly convicted of fraud because of a faulty computer system. 700 branch managers were convicted between 1999 and 2015 after the computer system horizon mistakenly showed money was missing from their post offices. a new itv drama has put the scandal firmly back in the spotlight today the prime minister said he would strongly support the honours committee if it chose to look into revoking ucb awarded to the former post office boss oliver reynolds. paula venables. they said they would do all they can to right wrongs of the past. today two government ministers met with government lawyers to try to work out how they could speed up the delivery of compensation and exoneration, clearing names. and in the next 15 or 20 minutes one of those ministers will be here in parliament answering questions, all of this after a holiday season tv series. this is alan bates. 2a years ago he raised an issue with the computer system at the post offi
scandal to light and the women at the extraordinary drama that brought the extraordinary drama that brought the story to millions. that s news night at 10:30 the story to millions. that s news night at10:30 p:m.. good evening. the scandal of post office employees being wrongfully convicted of false accounting and theft was centre stage in westminster tonight, with the government confirming it s looking at how to speed up appeals against conviction for the victims and compensation. it s been under presure to act since an itv drama catapulted the issue to wider public attention. the scandal has been long running since 1999 over 700 sub postmasters were blamed for a bug in the computer system, which made it appear as though money was going missing. there are major questions for fujitsu the japanese company that developed the flawed system horizon and for the post office, which brought the prosecutions and had four bosses during this period. a petition to revoke the cbe awa