article_snippet.sent: a chance arises to compare the rose-tinted past with the brave new world, as a chance did on Saturday evening when Sky's high-octane Sky's Premier League coverage went head-to-head with Arsenal v Reading in the FA Cup semi-final on BBC.
article_snippet.sent: As we know, Sky's Premier League has the money and prestige, but what the FA Cup semi-final has is history, and boy does BBC BBC love a bit of history?
article_snippet.sent: Lest you were in any doubt, BBC coverage of the semi-final kicked off with footage of the late Sir Laurence Olivier doing the St Crispin's Day speech from the film of Henry V ('We happy few, We band of brothers,' and so on).
article_snippet.sent: BBC BBC even gave us a moment of history at half-time with a breakdown, something that used to be a regular feature of TV outside broadcasts, when a feature on Crystal Palace's shock semi-final victory over Liverpool 25 years ago came to a shuddering halt halfway through.
highlights_snippet.sent: It was a refreshing throwback to see BBC's use of archive footage .
  