The good old days. When a ticket cost 5p, beer was warm and half time team talks were fuelled not by Red Bull and a rub down, but half an orange, 20 Benson and Hedges and a whisky chaser. Luxury!
1975: CLASH of the FOOTBALL MINNOWS | Nationwide | Classic Sport | BBC Archive 0848am 15.10.24 highlight for me would have been the clown stilt walker... big larfs. event the medic was larfing... i bet he was turning the air blue as opposed to actually being hurt. ahahahaha.... god stuff... in wonder if there are some nowadays famous faces in those teams...
@@CricketEngland Comments on ‘1975: CLASH of the FOOTBALL MINNOWS | Nationwide | Classic Sport | BBC Archive’ 15.10.24. I know, such folk who think they have to include a title re: The topic up for discussion are boorish clowns,erratic, hereditary and, above all, custodial....such people are on their way out......thankfully. Their only saving grace being they don't feel the need to slam a door after every fart, record people unawares or kiss and tell...not that there's much to kiss or tell about.
@SharonTateFan67 I remember it well...could have played Arsenal in the quarter-final if it wasn't for that faulty corner flag!! Also remember they played Mossley in the fa trophy in 1979/80 season as I fondly remember that day when they had that Everton bound Irishman...Eamonn O'Keefe playing for them (Mossley).
Watching this and I can myself playing in a game just like that, same style and color kit. Pitches on windswept parks, little grass and a million stud prints,sometimes wet sometimes rock hard, winning games on them pitches while getting whipped and soaked from the rain or sleet took a great deal of a boys skill and determination, Sunday afternoon matches, picked up by our manager, after eating mums lovely Sunday roast and dessert, 6 of us in the back of a mark 1 Cortina, week in week out for a chance to play on a real pitch with floodlights and win that trophy, which we did in our first season, Warwick West End under 13s F.C.
ref used to ask me and the other goalie in our tracky bottoms if we were ok playing on the ice in the 6 yard box, up the field was a bit muddy and snowy, of course we both said yes, owwwwww lol then it melted omg lol stuck in the mud haha, but on cold days it never melted but we played.
When I was in school we played in the snow, ice and rain, as the referee (the janitor Harry McGonnigal) would shout "CARRY ON! IT'S A MANS GAME!" And it would be ice cold rain, Scotland in the 1970's.
I remember something similar, in school we played a football match on an all weather gravel pitch, it was pouring with rain and freezing cold, we were so cold, we couldn't do up the buttons on our school shirts in the changing room, South Wales in the late 70s.
Believe it or not😂 same here, growing up in Sussex we used to play in freezing conditions where we were praying out laces didn't come undone as our fingers were so numb, we couldn't tie them back up! Got a photo of me in our back garden about to head off to school and snow upto my knees.....I was in shorts😂
Don Revie team talk: " when he goes down kick him again, up behind him take him down, do plenty of dives in the box and if you get the chance put a discreet left hook on their forward when the refs not looking.
A crowd that gathered to see who would be "the worst schoolboy team in the country." Gave a cheer to the poor clown on stilts who collapsed to the ground (out of.. sympathy?) As an unsuccessful musician of many years, who regularly but not always sings in tune, I was thinking, "They would have loved me!"
He wasn't that bad. Only one team could qualify for the world cup from the groups in those days. Unfortunately England was stuck with Italy. And there was no second place playoffs for the losing teams. The worst England manager in my opinion was Steve McLaren and I'm a Boro fan.
1975: CLASH of the FOOTBALL MINNOWS | Nationwide | Classic Sport | BBC Archive 0842am 15.10.24 as can now be seen during the odd satruday on the BBC with preliminary rounds of FA cup - a much older version of this low league skit...... featuring Wythenshawe town and the likes. good stuff. at least the minnows get a few quid from tv rights. or so it goes... knights templer? excellent moniker for a team, i feel...
Just think. One day it will be you. You'll be moaning about: "the good old days of 2024, when men where real men and football was real, and we all had our humble smart phones and not the brain telapathic chips that youngsters today have, etc."
The half-time entertainment was just priceless 😂
With a name like Knights Templar they could have won the whole tournament with a nudge, wink and a funny handshake
The good old days. When a ticket cost 5p, beer was warm and half time team talks were fuelled not by Red Bull and a rub down, but half an orange, 20 Benson and Hedges and a whisky chaser. Luxury!
1975: CLASH of the FOOTBALL MINNOWS | Nationwide | Classic Sport | BBC Archive 0848am 15.10.24 highlight for me would have been the clown stilt walker... big larfs. event the medic was larfing... i bet he was turning the air blue as opposed to actually being hurt. ahahahaha.... god stuff... in wonder if there are some nowadays famous faces in those teams...
@@JJONNYREPPdon’t you hate people that think you have to include the video title in the reply’s
@@CricketEngland Comments on ‘1975: CLASH of the FOOTBALL MINNOWS | Nationwide | Classic Sport | BBC Archive’ 15.10.24. I know, such folk who think they have to include a title re: The topic up for discussion are boorish clowns,erratic, hereditary and, above all, custodial....such people are on their way out......thankfully. Their only saving grace being they don't feel the need to slam a door after every fart, record people unawares or kiss and tell...not that there's much to kiss or tell about.
Luxury? LUXURY?! When I were playing we didn't have crossbars
When i played we didn't have a ball or a goal
Anyone remember Blythe Spartans cup run in 1977/78?
Yes took Wrexham to a 5th round replay which was played at St James Park Newcastle
I do then im old
Yes!!
@@christopherspencer8825 And only poor refereeing cost them winning the tie at the first attempt.
@SharonTateFan67 I remember it well...could have played Arsenal in the quarter-final if it wasn't for that faulty corner flag!!
Also remember they played Mossley in the fa trophy in 1979/80 season as I fondly remember that day when they had
that Everton bound Irishman...Eamonn O'Keefe playing for them (Mossley).
5:58 Best bit. The stilt walker falling over and everyone cheered.
The hefty number 12 😂
Boris Johnson.
Gerald Ward.
Well one grew up to become more useful than the other 😮
Sad to read that the Canaries are no more: 2023-24 was their final season.
Wise words to the boys by Revie.
Watching this and I can myself playing in a game just like that, same style and color kit. Pitches on windswept parks, little grass and a million stud prints,sometimes wet sometimes rock hard, winning games on them pitches while getting whipped and soaked from the rain or sleet took a great deal of a boys skill and determination, Sunday afternoon matches, picked up by our manager, after eating mums lovely Sunday roast and dessert, 6 of us in the back of a mark 1 Cortina, week in week out for a chance to play on a real pitch with floodlights and win that trophy, which we did in our first season, Warwick West End under 13s F.C.
ref used to ask me and the other goalie in our tracky bottoms if we were ok playing on the ice in the 6 yard box, up the field was a bit muddy and snowy, of course we both said yes, owwwwww lol then it melted omg lol stuck in the mud haha, but on cold days it never melted but we played.
Dream on, they were quite good.
When I was in school we played in the snow, ice and rain, as the referee (the janitor Harry McGonnigal) would shout "CARRY ON! IT'S A MANS GAME!" And it would be ice cold rain, Scotland in the 1970's.
I remember something similar, in school we played a football match on an all weather gravel pitch, it was pouring with rain and freezing cold, we were so cold, we couldn't do up the buttons on our school shirts in the changing room, South Wales in the late 70s.
Believe it or not😂 same here, growing up in Sussex we used to play in freezing conditions where we were praying out laces didn't come undone as our fingers were so numb, we couldn't tie them back up! Got a photo of me in our back garden about to head off to school and snow upto my knees.....I was in shorts😂
Ian Ward played well!
Must have been a fantastic time to live in back then. No cell phones, no social media everyone gathered for the moment.
Everything was better in the olden times, wasn't it ?
@@AD65
Indeed.
No cell phones were the best thing, I love the internet and use it all day every day but cell phones have destroyed society.
And your embarrassment at being crowned the worst football team in the country forgotten about forever....
No cell phones or social media, just rampant pollution and institutional child abuse
When football was real football and run by real chairmen who knew about football and cared about the club and not all in it for the profits
What is it now ?
@@AD65 a game played by over paid, over promoted idiots
And chairmen who are just in it for the money
British footbal today and it's Mafia like owner's, not to mention the fall guys on the pitch has become an ugly farce!
What a terrific video. Those kids were great !
5:58 Don't have nightmares kids...
@flatoutflatbroke sounds like him from crimewatch...Good old Nick Ross.
Was Frank Bough in a dungeon as that’s some echo?
well he had form for dungeons...and cocaine use.
Frank Bough in a dungeon? Surely not!
Nah, he was chained to a radiator
Don Revie team talk: " when he goes down kick him again, up behind him take him down, do plenty of dives in the box and if you get the chance put a discreet left hook on their forward when the refs not looking.
Yep. Sums the bloke up, cheat.
What I wanted to write! Looked a clean game though, so he never got to them!
i wonder what ' the hefty gerald wade' is up to now
Up to at least 18 stone I'd say
"Hefty No. 12.."
These days kids their age play 7 aside games on small pitches with small goals
I thought this was gonna be Colchester v Leeds! How these kids managed to play with in terms was a Wembley crowd beats me.
A crowd that gathered to see who would be "the worst schoolboy team in the country."
Gave a cheer to the poor clown on stilts who collapsed to the ground (out of.. sympathy?)
As an unsuccessful musician of many years, who regularly but not always sings in tune, I was thinking,
"They would have loved me!"
Was that the legendary Michael Barratt reporting that day in Derbyshire?
Yes it was indeed that mythological icon.
The circus is always in town at Derby, especially at Pride Park...!
Don Revie got a decidedly cool reception.
Man on the PA sounds like Michael Palin
Why was there such a big crowd?.
It was a cup final
Cos the TV cameras were there!
Because it had been advertised on BBC TV Nationwide, hence the trophy name, for ever.
That's a big ball 😂😂
"Hefty" Gerald Wade, stiltwalker breaking a few ribs and a great display of how to rock a woolly hat. What's not to like.
Barnstonworth.
For people who thought Graham Taylor was a bad England manager: here’s Don Revie!
He wasn't that bad. Only one team could qualify for the world cup from the groups in those days. Unfortunately England was stuck with Italy. And there was no second place playoffs for the losing teams. The worst England manager in my opinion was Steve McLaren and I'm a Boro fan.
I have to give Revie credit for turning up to this game
Revie was corrupt
Any famous footballers among the kids? I wonder.....
The hefty number 12 lol.Poor lad.
He came to grief 😂
1975: CLASH of the FOOTBALL MINNOWS | Nationwide | Classic Sport | BBC Archive 0842am 15.10.24 as can now be seen during the odd satruday on the BBC with preliminary rounds of FA cup - a much older version of this low league skit...... featuring Wythenshawe town and the likes. good stuff. at least the minnows get a few quid from tv rights. or so it goes... knights templer? excellent moniker for a team, i feel...
Amazing lack of diversity in those wonderful and special days!
All these videos are Monty python skits.
Back when England was England.
Fat shaming the number 12! Wouldn't be allowed these days 😂
He was hefty to be fair.
hahah these comments hahaha back 'um my day bla bla the future is now old men
Just think. One day it will be you. You'll be moaning about: "the good old days of 2024, when men where real men and football was real, and we all had our humble smart phones and not the brain telapathic chips that youngsters today have, etc."
Old men in 1975: 'Luxury! We played with a pig's bladder in't coal pit in freezing cold before breakfast..'