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American Reacts to Harry Enfield - Arsenal('33) vs. Liverpool('91)
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I watched a match in the 70s when a player called Stan Bowles went to take a corner. He took a cigarette from a fan's mouth, took a drag, handed it back and took the corner 😂
What a legend - QPR could do with him now 😬
😃
“I thought he was pulling his book out to translate Scouse…” 😂
Harry is a bloody legend!
5:01 Mr Banjo is a parody of George Formby (1904-1961)
I went to see Aladdin as a kid, it had a George Formby tribute act come on in the half time interlude. It was bizarre and tortuous all at once.
Which will have George Formby fans up in arms, as he played a banjolele, nothing like a banjo
His fan club is still operating , join now !
When Im cleaning windows......
Joel, his last name is ENfield, not EINfield 👍☺
Nobody but you cares ! .
like the royal Enfield motorcycle 🎉
@StarTrekVoyager-q1e If you are going to mention someones name, it's common courtesy to pronounce it correctly and as of 11 hours ago, 18 others disagree with you. 😊😊
@harrymarshall
Oldest surviving bike Marque on Earth, it was the 3rd company in history to make motorcycles.
He yankified it 😂
Typical
Did you notice the globe at the beginning with an ENORMOUS Great Britain?😂
yea, the old empire thinking it was way bigger than it actually was. super ego/importance. fascistic, Narcissistic, sadistic, masochistic bunch, the lot of them.
@SuPeRbOmBeRmAn4 lol fanny
@SuPeRbOmBeRmAn4 The Empire was fucking huge to be fair.
@SuPeRbOmBeRmAn4 so I'm all of those things??? Have you ever met me??? Let me guess you're a shower skipping super lefty who loves to project....
@shaneburr8633eloquently said sir I tip my hat! 😂
A family friend who played football in the 1950s once explained that back when he played, players had no fancy travel arrangements - they traveled in 3rd class on the trains with the fans. You can imagine the grief they would get from the fans on the way home if they'd lost/played badly
Jimmy Greaves had to make his own way to an England international at Wembley- and told to make sure his boots were clean!
Brilliant! 40 years ago I was a Football Commentator and I went to interview the Oxford United Team in the Dressing room after the game and you couldn't see in their for Cigarette smoke!! must have worked though as that Season Oxford were promoted to the top flight and Won the League Cup a Year Later!
Must've seen this clip 20 times. So many good bits.Still cracks me up.
I remember nearly choking myself with laughter when i first saw this when it was first broadcast in the early 90s.
Wow...this guy is naive on another level
Sure is 😊
There's a popular English phrase for it ... Thick as two short planks!!
In the middle of the last century there was some antipathy towards 'professionalism' versus 'amateurism' in sport. I experienced this in the 1950's when my school Housemaster was against me organising training for my rugby team arguing that it was ungentlemanly to train to beat people
Sorry English humour is just awesome it got us through two world wars
And songs 😊
You were not allowed to smoke during games in The 1930's.
Cigarettes had to be extinguished as the whistle blew for the kickoff. Players were permitted to smoke at halftime and as soon as the game finished, the kitman/assistant came onto the field with a selection of cigarettes and the teams could exchange them with each other. By The Late 1970's all this stopped.
In our local Sunday league, the halftime ciggy and beer is quite common. The goal keeper from from a public house a couple of villages away,smokes a joint at half time😂 he's a decent keeper too.
sounds like my Village.
As late as the early 70’s I remember going to a professional game where the visiting players came onto the pitch 30mins before kick off to inspect the playing conditions and they were smoking. And this was a top flight club who went on to win the cup that year.
Billy Bremner and Jack Charlton were heavy smokers.
Hi Joel, try watching Harry Enfield’s American car salesman clip it’s funny I quote it regularly when I need cheering up. Yes they actually thought smoking was beneficial for your health back then .
There’s a famous story here in Scotland where the partick thistle team stopped at the pub on the way to play the Scottish cup final in the late 70s or early 80s
I can remember in the early sixties players smoking on the bench during the match!
Great clip Joel. As someone else said in the comments the Harry Enfield car sales sketch is a must watch , being an American you will definitely be able to relate to it ! Harry Enfield Clarkson island is another must see. Line Of Duty is a great watch and probably one of the best police drama's this country has ever produced , it just gets better and better as the series goes on. Keep up the great work. Greetings from across the pond.
The player obviously called the referee a 'bastard'... That's why the ref, after looking uo the word in his book and finding out what it meant, brought on his mother to prove he wasn't.
check the size of the British Isles on the Globe at the intro ha ha
Arsenal were originally the Woolich Arsenal, which was an armaments factory in Woolich south London, their football pitch was a field next to the factory where the sewer pipe from the factory would occasionally break and flood the field so they would literally have to play in poop. (actual facts).
They moved to North London in the early 20th century into Tottenham's turf and that's when the rivalry begun.
The pitch is still there , next to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital .
My grandad used to talk about having a pint of bitter, a cigarette & a pork pie at half time
one of my faves saw this in the 90s
In two days I've heard two US reviewers say Einfield instead of Enfield. Is there some sort of cultural reason for this?
N-field is the way it is pronounced like the "en" in ending not like ensuite.
This is a comedy sketch, its not real
We smoked during our games in the Royal Navy, and we had generally had a few beers beforehand too!
Remember half time out came the lager or beer for us lot to get over our hangovers from night before always played better 2nd half. Gets worse I am commercial fisherman played against RN rugby and football but with quite a few in American football UK American coach they used to have hell of a job keeping us lot out of the bars half time threatening everything still failed good trips to Pompey, Plymouth, Mildenhall Hereford fisherman and RN disaster waiting to happen 😂
Many of the coaches, especially European and South American, were still smoking in the "Dug-outs" during matches in the seventies and eighties. A prime example was Johan Cruyff the great Dutch player and manager.
Gianluca Vialli was still chuffing away in the 90s, he was famous for it. Jack Wilshere also liked a puff.
Of particular amusement motor racing drivers have a fag in the pits before the race and during refuelling etc. up until the 70's when the cars were fag packets on wheels.
This sketch makes me laugh till I cry every time I see it. I used to play for a young farmers club. We were the 'b' team and didn't really take the game seriously. It was much like what you saw on the sketch!
I got booked for smoking in goal in the saturday league we played in in the mid 1970s. We were thrashing the opposition and as goalkeeper I'd hardly touched the ball. I got chatting with supporters behind the goal, and I took a couple of drags off a cigarette that someone handed me. The ref, who was in the 18 yard box of the other teams goal saw me and blew his whistle, stopped the game, and ran nearly the full length of the pitch to book me. I got fined the princely sum of £15, which was quite a lot then.
The guy I work with used to smoke before playing rugby , at half time and after the match. That was in the 1990s
If like you said this video had no sound or context, then I think the average American would think it was actually real. The average Brit would instantly know it was a piss take.
I've seen a pic in the 70's of a goalkeeper smoking a cigarette during a game😮
I remember a Luton Town substitute smoking on the subs bench in the 80s think it was
We had a goalie booked once for smoking during the game. Sunday league obvs.
I recommend Harry Enfield’s American Tourists series: you will really appreciate it, I know.
Pathe Newsreels have a lot to answer for ! brilliant video 👍👍👍
Just noticed, like the shirt.
Check out an old film, "The Arsenal Stadium mystery/ murder,the players smoking in the dressing rooms!
It kinda seems like you don't understand that this is a sketch, not a documentary. That isn't actually the Arsenal team from 1933.
He's just playing a long. It's you that doesn't get him
@Hengis_and_Horsa no, this is a TV comedy show with an obvious over exaggeration to add more humour, you should just be laughing nothing serious in this 👍
@MarkSharples-e7g 'no'? 'Should'? Autism?
.....especially as you can see Harry Enfield on the team 😆
As I recall hard hat divers in the Royal Navy were given a tot of rum before making their underwater descent. So much has been learnt about the physiology of diving since that time however.
Some professional football players back in the 60's and 70's had been known to have had a good beer session the night before a match and some even had a smoke at halftime. Times have changed, there's too much money involved in the game to have rogue or unfit players on your team.
Gosh, I forgot that when I played football in the 80's, we'd sometimes have a beer at half time! And the odd punch up. My best mate and I played for different teams and when we played against each other, we usually ended up boxing! Fun times
His name is pronounced N-field not ON-field as I have heard a couple of Americans say it.
They did know tabbacco was bad but big business had to counteract that info for their own interests.
My friend this is British humour. You take an idea and exaggerate it. They did not smoke during a game. Maybe after though. The banjo guy is a parody of George Formby. Look him up.
When i started work way back in the 70s smoking and drinking was the norm gave you energy look at arsenal in the second half spot on
where do you get Einfield from
This is absolutely hysterical!!!! The team in white moved almost like the Keystone cops at one point. Was really interesting how they combine the old with the new. Smoking while playing OMG! Really enjoyed this.
It's a joke!! Of course they didn't smoke. The whole thing is a spoof.
I think you would find that most players back in the 30's probably did smoke most people did back then. It was considered healthy back then.
@schrodingerscat1863 Not on the football pitch!🤷♀
A chap I know played for Stoke and Ireland in the 70s. They smoked at half time and one player had 2 bottles of Guinness pre game
@ Plenty of pictures of players smoking from back then.
There's the Harry Enfield show, there's Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse show there may be a few more not sure
I have a great image of the great Jackie Milburn, drinking from the FA cup in the Wembley changing room, whilst holding a smouldering cigarette
When I was a kid watching local amateur football, it was common to see players smoking during the game especially goalkeepers. And having a beer! As recently as 2016, I was watching a non league game at a decent level, where the players were good enough to be paid match fees, and saw a sub walk out of the dressing room after half time with a huge cigar in his gob. I turned to a guy next to me and said "I guess we won't be seeing him playing in the second half then". And we didn't!
George Best in the seventies was keeping that alive in the professional game
Joel ! Good to see you back here with a classic H E.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrel, have a lot of banter between North and South England.
This got a goal celebration from Arsenal where they imitated this.
Smoking was regarded as cool back then.
It still is 🤟🏽
Only dorks quit
Love your videos 😊
For more old world with a modern take watch Armstrong & Miller - RAF Airmen.
Hiya Joel, this cracks me up everytime,Charles "Charlie" Charles I always laugh at that, the singer at halftime is a piss take on George Formby, a very annoying singer who used to entertain the troops in World War 2
I played five aside in Vietnam and was the only one who didn't have a halftime cigarette
Johan cruyff used to have 2 cigarettes at half time.
If you want a crazy running story look into the 1904 Olympic marathon in the USA, it's a wild story of doping, dust, late entrants and just general incompetence!
Nat “mind your legs please” Nuthouse is a mix of 1950s Bolton Wanderers player Nat Lofthouse and 1960s & 1970s Leeds United hard-man Norman Hunter known as “Norman Bites your legs”
Joel, nothing to do with this video, but have you tried Cadbury creme eggs?
You should check out old advertisements where cigarettes and cigars were recommended by Doctors! Hilarious!
Love the channel Joel. Keep up the sterling work.
In the 1960s our footballs were 100% leather and soaked up the water on wet pitches which made them unpleasantly heavy to kick...but that was the norm.
The smoking and eating is a cultural reference to Cricket where there is a half time for lunch
Until in the 80s & early 90s, players still smoke during half time.
Even the coa hes smoke on the touchlines
😂😂this is my favourite clip of Harrys.Smoking a pipe😂😂😂It was a send up Joel..so are Harry's other characters.Its the gentle English sportsman ship of the time.Though,some of his other characters are accurate and very funny.
It looks pretty accurate to me .
With no audio 😂😂😂. I’d pay to see that.
Love it 😂😂😂
you want a brilliant uk sketch? try the league of gentlemen the dentons aqua vita the nost hilarious thing you will ever see so says this brit
After Work Reactions was in stitches reacting to this
Another great choice Joel. 😉
You have Seinfeld, we have Enfield!
Hey, you heard about this Einfeld fella? Great guy! 😁 Whatta guy! 👈
It doesnt need explaining out - its just funny
There is also a huge difference between 1991 and 2025, football boots, nutrition, training methods, youth coaching, fitness etc. Liverpool, Arsenal and many other Premier League clubs from 2025 would run rings around Liverpool of 1991. #JustSaying
Could you imagine though what a player with the natural talent of, say, George Best could do if he had the modern training regimes, boots, ball and snooker table pitch?
But could they manage in 1991's micro shorts?
Please please please watch Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett my BlackBerry. Very clever sketch and play on words
I am old enough that I would smoke on the field whilst playing football as a lad. Probably why I wasn't any good at football?
Yes, and smoked in the shower afterwards as well. 😊
Lily Parr was a legendary female footballer from the First World War into the 1920’s who constantly smoked (perhaps not during the match) and was a renowned overeater. She was paid in packs of cigarettes. Women’s football was incredibly popular in the early decades of the 20th century and could draw gates of 50 thousand. Men away at the war helped as there was little men’s football at that time. For some utterly bizarre reason the Football Association banned women playing on FA grounds in 1921 for 50 years. Thankfully the women’s game today is thriving, don’t see much smoking though.
several old UK footballers smoked on the pitch, Manchester United goalkeeper had a pipe
Check harry enfield South African chemist
so funny ,and the banjo player was a pis take of a guy name Gorge Formby who Was the only guy to ever be bad from live from playing live on the BBC for playing a song my little black pool Rock.
Its only in the last 40 years that fitness standards have really picked up in Australian sports. That was because there was very little money in Australian sports-the man at the gate was paid more than the players.
It’s “Enfield” as in hen. Not “Einfield” as in pine.
In fact I went to an Arsenal and Rangers friendly game at Highbury and Ian Ian Ure drank out of a bottle of VP wine that was thrown on the pitch. And I have the proof on cine film. Any offers. I'm a Spurs supporter but getting old. I'm might send it to Arsenal as a gift. War over. ❤
Apparently, footballers in the 20's and 30's would play in hob nail boots.
those men fought a war 😢
Excuse my slight mis spelling with the th ha ha
"Meat pie sausage roll come on Arsenal give us a goal"
Walking past the Albion ground a huge cheer went up. Someone asked “Have we scored?”
The answer came back “No, the pies have come!”
A great British drama you might not have caught is COBRA it has about 3 of our short seasons now.
Seaman is a famous smoker and yes they did smoke a d play
McKallaster biased Scottish commentary is good fun
In the 70s i played club rugby, at half time we had a slice of orange and a cigarette, at the end of the match it was straight in the clubhouse for a beer .
At school, playing hockey, we had similar with oranges and lemon slices but we always liked it playing one of the local independent/private schools because the food was so lovely at half time and afterwards - even though they were always much better at sport!
They did smoke during half-time and the managers chain smoked on the sideline during the whole match. 😂😂 Times have chanched... 😂
when did you cut your hair really short?!