1972: In PAISLEY Sunday SOCCER is SINFUL | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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- The reintroduction of an old byelaw means that footballers in Paisley are forbidden to play on the lush, level playing fields of St James Park on Sundays. Police have raided unauthorised Sunday games and taken the names of any players foolhardy enough to commit football. Diehard footballers who wish to play on a Sunday must brave the few pitches that the Paisley Corporation have set aside for Sunday matches - pitches scattered with broken bottles, cinder heaps and swamped with water hazards.
Originally broadcast 9 March, 1972.
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Serious tekkers from the keeper at 1 min 30 secs. they were playing out from the back in Paisley whilst Guardiola was still in nappies.
Well the passing game was invented in these parts a hundred years or so previously.
@@Britonbear my understanding it was the Royal Engineers who invented combination passing. However that could be myth.
Love the soil heap in middle of that pitch. These clips are brilliant. Best docu comedy series ever.
I agree. Commenting on 50 year old video clips, while sipping on an organic oatmeal latte, certainly beats socialising and playing football on a Sunday morning. People back then were plebs to be mocked by superior people like you.
That Mole must have been on Steroids.
I played many an amateur football game there in my youth (mainly on a Saturday as it turned out but sometimes also playing for the pub team on a Sunday). These pitches were used morning and afternoon. I couldn't count the number of games that were played there simultaneously - the place was mobbed. The sad thing is that these pitches no longer exist and the purpose built dressing rooms since demolished. Makes me wonder how many young men in the area play amateur football nowadays and where.
5:08 "I don't think it's *all* covered in glass..."
How Pythonesque 😜
I remember they used to chain up the swings on a Sunday in the islands.
Not in the Catholic islands
They still do on Raasay, I think.
You'll soon be observing Ramadan and learning Arabic if the SNP stay in power.
@@WHU63 Bigoted fool
1.28 - lovely skills from the keeper
When Prince sang "There are no rules / in Paisley Park" he was celebrating the scrapping of these ridiculous byelaws. That is absolutely a true fact. Paisley Park is in your heart.
I detect the faint yet distinct whiff of horseshit in the air. 😂
Paisley park in America has nothing to do with Paisley of Scotland, sorry..
@@guardian100 Thanks Sherlock
😂😅😊
You can see the copper thinks it’s ridiculous when he said “stopping people play football”
Maybe this is why Scotland can't get thru a second round of a football tournament 🤔 😁😁😁😁
I love Scotland but this is almost a Python sketch.
You could almost imagine all the monty python grannies having their handbag fight in the background.
no it is much worse, it looks like the council wasted money and property by dumping crap on the pitch just to deter a game on sunday even though they ruined it for mon-sat , this is power mad spoiled scottish councilors if ever i saw it
Archimedes out to Socrates, Socrates back to Archimedes, Archimedes out to Heraclitus, he beats Hegel, Heraclitus a little
flick, here he comes on the far post, Socrates is there, Socrates heads it in! Socrates has scored!
@@vamboroolz1612Have you seen the modern day Monty Python sketch where they arrest people for praying to God?
That Rover P4 in goal at 2.09 went onto play for Cowdenbeath.
Must’ve had good handling. 😅
He was a top Rover, saw him play for Raith!
slag heaps and water features in the middle of the pitch.. lol that's awesome.
1972... It's a cliche that the past is another country, but clips like this really do drive it home. Well within living memory, yet watching the council official at 4:18, he might as well have been dropped in from the planet Zorg.
It makes me think of Monty Python, but also an Alexei Sayle sketch in which he had people droning on like this and the would shout ‘shurrup!’ Right in their faces.
They still exisit. Talk to anyone that has to deal with any low level council bureaucrat.
They should have got 10,000 people on the football pitches and watch the police try and take all their names and then realise sooner how ridiculous the byelaw was
They used to have 4-500 at a time there. The rozzers just picked a few pitches and took names while the other players headed home for their stovies.
(And being on the pitch wasn't the offence, so they'd never have been trying to take 10,000 names anyway.)
My mum used to take me up the race course to watch the football, great days
"I'm getting paid for it" fxxking serf
Yet another example from back in the day of how a group of people with an imaginary friend told the rest of us what we could and couldn't do. 😠
I wonder if I'd see my grand-nan? She'd would have gone along - she was never happy unless others were miserable.
The joke was within the family - she live 96 out of pure spite for the rest of the family. She was not missed!
At 4m 31sec ye've got yer washing hanging out on the line of a Sunday, pal.
Take it down immediately before someone does it for ye and leaves it at yer back door! 😂
Nae fun on a Sunday.
Even today, the sanctimonious try to tell others what they can and cannot do based on their own personal beliefs and morality.
Exactly
Yes, like wear your hair in dreadlocks if you aren’t of the correct heritage, or object to a man identifying as a woman using the same public bathroom as your daughter.
@@fishwatch8677 Well, there are the conflict model and consensus model of justice. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Both Scottish and English legal systems are usually a mixture of both. Clearly, there is no consensus in this scenario for the vast majority of participants.
@@pauloliver6813 What does that have to do with my response to you?
@@fishwatch8677 My comment advocates consensual law, yours seems to be advocating conflict model. Reality now and in 1972 in Paisley was somewhere inbetween.
Where amateur football was played extensively in England on Sunday, it was a different story in Scotland , where matches were generally played on Saturday , and very few , if any , where ever played on Sunday - which was considered a day of rest north of the border .
You were mainly feeling too rough from Saturday night to play on Sundays
In Scotland shops were open on Sunday when it was illegal in England.
@@KaiColloquoun-gt7kw
...but with the alcohol section of the supermarket roped off.
They also banned sex because it resembled dancing.
I hear its the DUP's new flagship policy
1:30 amazing skills from the keeper.
I think this is one Top Flight Time Machine.
Pity it isn't still like this, gone are the days of family time, all the shops are open and money is the motivation.
Fantastic skills by the goalie at 1.30. Had us all off.
I remember in the 80s there were half day Wednesday's most shops and banks would close at midday. Supposedly to let people pray in the afternoon or go to church.
The council spokesman beleives it IS possible to play football on glass. ( not grass).
couldnt get a shop open on a sunday when we were kids.. was so backward
Yeah imagine having standards. Enjoy the culture less, depressing hole that the U.K. is now.
Insane.
Going to a non-league game on a Sunday in Cornwall back in those days it was entrance by progamme only as you were not allowed to charge at the gate; (they sold the programmes outside).
1:29 The moment the sweeper keeper was invented.
“I’m getting paid for it” 😅
"eh....I don't think its all covered in glass..."
Maybe they should practiced archery instead, I wonder what the council and police would have thought about that?
As a teenager I grew up in Knightswood close to Tempke Park. The pitches were black ash and I still carry bits of it in my elbows and knees.
Adjacent to the black ash pitches was a strip of grass just wide enough to play five aside.
There was a sign that said No Ball Games but we played anyway enjoying the grass beneath our feet as we passed the ball around and made fearless tackles without losing the skin off our bums.
They proceeded to round us up taking our names and addresses. I was taught never to lie and as a consequence I and my friends were summonses to court a few weeks later. I think we were fined 30 shillings which in the mid/late 60’s was a lot of money. Just as well I delivered milk before I went to skill as my parents didn’t have the money to pay the fine.
Out of nowhere came three or four Plods, one of Tge people who lived across the street must have called them.
Live from 1572. 😂
Honestly they should make more regulation football deal with tactically challenging features..
That guy doing the interview is wearing a very smart woolen coat .
Just saying
If the council were so against people playing... then why are the goalposts still there?! Those teams can't play on other days due to work, so the pitches were pointless.
How are the pitches so good??
st james park in paisley has not changed a bit {LOL}
Thou shall not Bend it like Beckham on the Sabbath
There's a car in the fecking goal 1:59
to stop unauthorized playing of football.
I still don't like that they put football on on a Sunday but there you have it.
1972. Presenter in weird coat. Posh London BBC accent, time before BBC gave in to regional accents. Almost Pythonesque. (Monty Python was around that time.)
A weird coat?! Looks fine. You see plenty of office workers nowadays wearing double-breasted coats.
@@leod-sigefast Yeah those coats were common in the 70s and 80s, and so didn't strike me as odd. The poster is right about the accents and Pythonesque nature of the situation.
NAE FITBAW ON THE SABBATH ⚽️🚫😂
Aye need to practice archery in case the English come up again 😂
@@nutyyyy 🎯
(Bullseye!)
That’s Saturday. Sunday is gods day. Yah wean toucher
Aye give the so called pitch a rest .It needs to breathe.
Oliver Cromwell banned sport also😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Presbyterians
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The wish of the government and 'those who know better', to interfere in the lives, freedoms and pleasures of the ordinary people of these Isles is nothing new of course, but rarely does it decrease over time, rather it is a slow build up of restrictions, prohibitions and rules to deaden our ability to live our lives as we see fit.
Ignore them
@@valuetraveler2026 Easier said than done when you have a politicised police force, utterly divorced from the people they are meant to serve.
So so true, everything is restricted, licensed, or this or that needed. I’d say life has gotten harder and more complicated.
@@chiefteefteefreturns3320 We need a new form of the Magna Carta or the 1225 Forest laws that restrict not the Kings' power and authority, but that of the state and the government, as large swathes of out lives have slowly but surely come under their jurisdiction and this seems to be accepted unquestionably by many ordinary people.
I've just finished reading James Bartholomew's the welfare state we're in, which clearly lays out how government interference, (however well meaning) is ultimately disastrous for the freedoms of ordinary people, but even worse clearly demonstrates how government policies, like the 1948 introduction of the welfare state don't even achieve their stated aims.
@@davidavery2629 I totally agree. I think people trod along daily as they are to tired and just give in or don't care to much about their true freedoms that are slowly eroding away to make it barely noticeable but in the end catch every out.
could almost be a Monty Python sketch ; unfortunately its for real .....
sorry - i saw someone made the same comment further down
Have you seen the modern Monty Python sketch when the police arrest people for praying?
"Sinful"?
That's drawing a long bow.
To the letter of the law of the land, you could have just..
Taken up archery 🤔
Corporation
Like living in rural America. No booze sales after Saturday 9:00pm sharp until 11am Sunday. Also dry counties. Guess so you're not hungover for church. 👹
Just beyond belief !
It was the in North of Ireland as well absolutely ridiculous
@Ian Thompson never on a Sunday you couldn't do anything here how things have changed
@Ian Thompson it was Ian paisley & FPC forced the law here now they are a irrelevance
I think you are referring to a small country called NORTHERN IRELAND 🇬🇧
North of Ireland? Like Dundalk?
Jesus played football on sunday
Jesus also hunted for, found, and ate chocolate eggs from a bunny on Easter Sunday.
He hit the crossbar
@@thejoin4687
Jesus played football on sunday
When he suddenly hit a crossbar
Now he stares at Pilatus on moday
When he stands before him at the bar
So there was 12 apostles, which means Judas was a benchwarmer (JC was team captain of course)
Jesus played for the Arsenal yesterday. It wasn’t a Sunday though.😂
Now the police have turned full circle and are arresting people for praying to the Creator of the universe.
Well ride me sideways
Definitely NOT on Sundays.
@@daniellamcgee4251 😀😀😀😀
"Never ask any 'cancel culture' in my day."
soccer..... ffs it's fitbaw
Jobsworth
And I thought the rules and regulations of today are crazy.
You literally get prison time now for calling saying a man is a man. I’ll take the football ban on Sunday thanks.
Maybe a sunday should be a day of rest ,look at us now ffs
If you want your Sunday to be a day of rest, then good for you. But don't dare tell others what they can and can't do.
@stephenhumphrey7935 that’s not what a society is. If you want to be a hick living out your outlaw fantasy, I’m sure there is some patch of grass in Mongolia you can move to.
Scotland- Football, U.S.- Soccer, just saying.
Columbus sailed west, not east - was always football - just saying
-and for context
"Football was outlawed once again by James II’s Act of Parliament, passed on March 6 1457, which also introduced prohibition of golf for the first time."
Soccer? It's football!!!!
It’s both
just play rugby.
Sunday should be a day of rest
It's not for you to decide what others do with their time.
This is how the Taliban treat female footballers
It's not a criminal offence. Council can't make laws.
The plods on parade. Total madness.
Only in Scotland ffs
Nowadays, you can be arrested for upsetting someone with a Tweet. This police behaviour would fit perfectly in 2022.
freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences
@@succulent951 "Just because you are offended, it doesn't mean you are right."
@@Chris-B. A person who is offended.... experiences being offended. It is not wrong to experience a feeling. However, how a person acts in response to a feeling can be a problem. For example, if someone tweets hate speech, that is ìllegal because it is perpetuating discrimination which impacts on a person's equal rights to opportunities and quality of life. Tweeting hate speech is also anti-social behaviour, that indicates that the person tweeting has some socio-emotional issues to resolve (hopefully).
@@succulent951 Then it is not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech IS freedom from prosecution.
@@garrymcdonald5456 no. Freedom of speech is the ability to say what you want. You can still consequently get punched in the face, for example.
Ian Paisley forbid it..... No surrender we will never bend or take the knee 🙈
Was that an April Fool
Is this a joke ?
They shouldst be down on their knees praying, or studying der bible.
Horrible Calvinism
The reason Sunday is a religious day is because the slave owners back in the day had to give at least one day of rest to the slaves .
The reason for your comment is drinking while pregnant
Scotland, where the by-laws just write themselves
Oh the smell of religious nonsense
Hope that stupid by-law, has been long lifted since.
Don’t need to. They just stay at home now on Sundays with their knew religion, yank social media.
Thou shall not Bend it like Beckham on the Sabbath