Yeah they say John Barnes was Martin Luther King Of English football and Ian Wright was Malcom X who didn’t compromise his blackness and cultural while playing, but it is crazy that now both players have retire Ian Wright has become the establishment and John Barnes has become the racism radical.
Wasn't just for black people, I am coloured but not black, born in London in the early 70's but living in the states for the last 20 years. Grew up an arsenal fan, my whole family are Arsenal, my kids born in the states had no choice but to support the goons!! Arsenal till I die
Arsenal won the double in 1970-71, I noticed Arsenal then. 1972 FA cup final (every boy watched the cup final back in the day) This same team were back with their funny looking shirts and a name that wasn't a town or city. That's how I became a lifelong Arsenal fan.
I’m British black and a Liverpool fan and I have to Arsenal have more black fans than any team in any sport in the world. They were the first big European team to have lots of black players in the 1980s and win trophies but they became the team of black people around the world in the early 2000s where they went unbeaten the whole season and won titles playing amazing flash soccer with a 95% black team. That made them popular with black kids around the world. It is the team in England you see the most black faces in the crowd. Spike Lee, Joel Embid, Idris Elba and Daniel Kaluuya are all fans of this team. Liverpool are also a team with a lot of black fans due to a player called John Barnes you should react to him, he is one of the forget greats because his peak years happened before the coverage of soccer exploded. Kobe Bryant said John Barnes was his first sporting as a Liverpool fan in Italy. And Dr Dre became a Liverpool fan watch John Barnes play at this peak.
Liverpool are interesting. Back in the day they were as racist as any, worse than Man Utd. Howard Gayle had a shittime there. But then when Barnes signed and they saw the awful way he was treated they did a full 180 and now they're anti-racist and left wing. Mo Salah has had a similar impact on making their fan base tolerant of Muslims.tttttttttttt
Howard Gayle was the first black player at Liverpool a few years before John Barnes. Gayle was born and raised in Liverpool as well. Disappointing that both Gayle and Barnes have spoken about the racism that was prevalent amongst their own Liverpool team mates. I've been an Arsenal supporter for more than 40 years, i grew up 20 minutes away from the old stadium Highbury, and the new one the Emirates.
@@zigzung5569 That is why John Barnes is important because he actually changed attitudes of Liverpool fans. He tells the story when he joined Liverpool in the mid 1980s many Liverpool fans were unhappy about him joining the team because Liverpool was the most successful team with complete white players from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. He scores two goals in his first game and a fan tells him, you are not as black as I thought. Because back then White British people used to believe black people and players were inferior due to the colonial attitudes. John Barnes ends up being the best player in the best team in England and it is the first time the best player in England is undeniably black, that leads to him being racially abused by fans of other teams more because they didn’t like their notions of superiority being challenged. But he changed attitudes of Liverpool fans where they became more tolerant of black players. When Arsenal became the dominant team in the at the end of 1990s their dominance led to more teams in England buying black players because they had a nearly all black team and were destroying everyone. And what really changed things things was Arsenal and Chelsea dominating youth academy football for 20 years with 100% local black kids and their domination led all big teams to fill their academies black kids and this has led them to the quality jump in England in the last 6 years where they have been winning so many trophies at youth level and made English football more black.
As a person who experienced most of this in real life, I always find it amazing when a black person supports Chelsea or Millwall. In my days they were blatantly anti-black, Arsenal was gloriously pro black. It helped I lived opposite the club as a kid 😂😂😂
I’ve heard black people still get attacked by Chelsea fans. I remember like 4 years ago some Chelsea fans got banded for racially taunting I think Saka.
@@soloplays4557 the issue is some clubs were at the forefront of promoting racism while others were fighting against it. And those roots and elements are still there and comes up in recent incidents over the last few years. Don’t think all those combat 18 peeps suddenly stopped supporting the clubs etc Yes things have changed especially with the international support etc. But that history is still there and for many of us it is not even that old.
Robbie and his older brother had a sound system in Luton called Sovereign Roadshow. They were a well known sound system and Robbie's mc name was Crucial Robbie, and he was well known in the mid 80's.
Videos like this make me love Arsenal more, and it makes sense why my aunt used to sneak into Highbury to watch games and made me support Arsenal. Great video guys.
Grew up in africa rooting for thiery Henry and the invincibles arsenal fan til i die who cares if we win or lose arsenal is bigger than wins and losses
I remember go to Arsenal in 1980, there were no different between Arsenal and Chelsea fans in their attitude towards black people. You should never forget this.
Proud of my club. Arsenal has gone into the community time after time t push for the rights of others. ...and anywhere there's ignorance, there's racism. We just need to keep pushing back against it.
Awesome reaction. Learned so much from this video. That Jamaican flag Arsenal jersey is fire. I always liked Arsenal, especially Theirry Henry's invincibles team, now even more reason to like them.
When I was in school in London in the early nineties everyone I knew who wasn’t white supported Arsenal (if they supported a London team). Chelsea and Millwall were racists, West Ham were more hooligan oriented and no one liked Tottenham which was the Jewish team (seriously never met a Jewish Londoner who doesn’t support Tottenham it’s crazy).
No lots of Jewish Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham too. I'd put Millwall in with West Ham as more hooligan orientated than racist. You're right about Tottenham being the most unpopular with other London fans though.
I’m an arsenal fan cause of my parents specifically my dad cause when he moved over to London he fell in love with the club and players😂. Like in the early 2000s with players like Thierry Henry, Bergkamp and Ashley cole etc
I've been an Arsenal fan for over 20 years and a watcher of Arsenal Fan TV. I knew the song Proud To Be Black, but had no idea it was Robbie Lyle who sang it. We were rocking that song in Brooklyn basement parties when I was a teenager.
I'm my soul arsenal and this made me so proud and made me cry a lil but west Indians rebuilt the UK after the war and we owe them everything. Once arsenal always arsenal we stand as one family forever x
would of never came across this vid if it wasnt for yall reaction being recommended. love the passion yall have for the sport, as an arsenal supporter this was enlightening to watch, didnt know this history. Yall are honorary gooners! COYG!
@@dunsonhouse Your big bro is right the western world doesn’t want black people to Unite. If Africa because a developed continent, Europe and America would become the poorest continent because Africa has all the resources the world needs and populations meaning Asia and Africa would control the global economy. African became rich, the western world can no longer get their resources from them on the cheap. Africa accounts for 70% of the worlds chocolate but only make 1% of the global al profits of chocolate, because they get exploited by western countries exploiting their poverty cheap coco beans that makes them billions
Stop jerking each other lol, nobody cares about you cuz you are always killing each other regardless of outside interference and the proof is africa back then and right now , always in tribal wars
Growing up in south london in the 80s-90s David Rocastle(R.I.P) and Ian Wright were the inspriration for the kids,i support Liverpool from before Ian Wright,But started to support Liverpool because of John Barnes a Jamaican born player who helped Jamaicans relate more with football as Cricket,Track and field and Boxing were the main sports,Ian Wright use to go round schools and ive met him couple of times when i was young,i faced racism from young but we didnt understand it until we got older,but by then the Racist wouldnt even say anything because we would just mash them up lol,great reaction guys..Bless
West Brom was the first team to field three black players in the 70s, Batson Regis and Cunningham known as the three degrees. Laurie Cunningham became the first British player to sign for Real Madrid. Not taking anything away from Arsenal but West Bromwich Albion were the original pioneers.
Ye not to be funny but at the age of 40 this is the first this liverpool fan is hearing about arsenal being some sort of becon for black fans. i knew alot of young black fans looked up to Wrighty when they were kids but he also played for palace so i never thought of it as being an arsenal thing to attract young black fans. like you say, its not as if west brom werent flaying that flag decades earlier.
Neillewis. Just because you don't know it, doesn't mean it isn't true, chief. Jose Mourinho said that Arsenal were the Black Londoners ' team years ago.
One name, Viv Anderson. English, European champion and England player. The first black player I saw live when he came to Arsenal. A great player and when I look back, he must have had it so hard playing in that era. Didn't stop him though. Fair play 💪🏽👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 But is wasn't just Ian and Viv, players like Paul Davis, Rocky Rocastle (RIP), Mickey Thomas (it's up for grabs now), showed that it's about passion for Arsenal, not skin colour.
It’s good that the next episode is my club Liverpool..you should check out the whole John Barnes history and how he inspired a lot of Jamaican Liverpool fans in the late 80’s early 90’s 🇯🇲
I came to England in early nineties and saw Arsenal football club had a few black players and you could see a lot black fans who were going to watch in the stadium so started to fall in love with the club
Soo glad you guys are doing this kind of vid, I'm a Londoner of Jamaican decent and i love when i watch Arsenal matches that not only is there a good racial mix in the squad but also in the crowd to, no other club in London or even the UK has that diverse of a fambase.
My brothers! Football is all about cULTURE . It’s a reason why it’s the number one sport in the world. Which unfortunately, is non existent sadly. ( in USA ) Every time you watch a football game. You see ppl from all different walks of life. Example Son,( South Korea) Hakim ( Morocco) Muhammad S ( Egypt) just to name a few. Just to name a few! It’s good to see you guys. You should look into : how players have a choice to play for another country ( based on parents nationality) example K, Mbappe could of also played for Cameroon 🇨🇲 ( His father is Cameroonian) .
England had some of the most violent football fans ( hooligans ) back in the day . They formed groups that they called Firms that literally travelled all around England and Europe to fight. In 1985 Liverpool fans attacked Juventus fans which led to the stadium collapsing and 40 people were killed .Authorities had to make a list of the most violent English offenders and banned them from attending games in Europe .
I'm so proud of Arsenal's fanbase and the mixture of cultures and i go right back to the late 60's when it was a 90% white crowd although that was made up of Irish , greek , turkish etc ...... but it def changed in the 70's/80's when Wrighty , kevin campbell , Viv Anderson came along and then the you just saw more and more Black fans in the last 10 years at Highbury with Cole, PV4 , Henry , Lauren etc .......... in fairness them down the road have quite a lot of black fans but there's no club to compare with The Arsenal
Yes Robbie was a singer / producer and he was doing great then arsenal fan chanel was just another thing on the side hustle, which exploded to great heights.
Couple of things. Arsenal used to be London Irish, but had a mixed crew back in the 1980s when most didn't and most were very racist. Also Arsenal recruited hard in South London -Rocastle, Davis, Thomas. That made a North London team very popular in South East London. And then there's Ian Wright! Unapologetically black and urban. No doubt Arsenal is black London's team.
Funny enough how I became I arsenal supporter when I watched football for first ever time I saw the red shirt and a blackman Ian wright playing and I was automatically hooked seeing him viera etc playing with great performance.
Arsenal my life from young but my best day was we won the double and Ian Wright pushed his arse out the locker room window lol so we see more than needed of Ian lol
And all England hated them for it, that's why the hate towards them is so much even when they are doing so well, they still find something negative to say about them.
To be real, it’s a bit much to say Arsenal were revolutionary, other clubs led the way also, but Arsenal was just always open for all. Players and fans a like.
6:03 From my understanding Robbie was fan since he was young. He was making music but I don’t know if he was well known for it like that. Anybody else can correct if Im wrong
Slavery has been a thing for tens of thousands of years, all over the world, among all races. But why it's more talked about in America is probably cause of the Civil war. If you go far enough back slavery wasn't always about race. It was more about conquest and being captured and now you're a slave. Even Vikings that failed with their conquests became slaves to whatever area they attacked and also took white british slaves back to Scandinavia.
But in America it was about race. And regarding the slavery that took place in Europe there were places such as Greece and the Roman empire which had specific rules for the keeping and treatment of slaves and ways that slaves could earn their freedom. Slaves were even paid for their work and the church got involved and there were rules and laws in canon law to ensure that slaves were not too badly mistreated. In America these things were not present and because of the racial element slaves in America were completely dehumanized. That didn't occur in Europe to white slaves. Thats why it's more talked about.
@@tommy_egan Absolutely. I even said "slavery wasn't always about race". I'm well aware that it was about race with the slaves in America. Reason I said so was because they didn't seem to be aware of that racism or slavery was a thing outside of the states. And the whole Civil war is definitely a reason for slavery being a big talking point in the US. It's a big reason why people study American slavery or history in general. Because of previous wars.
We have fought for years to get race outta football, and now we get these muppets making their involvement all about race. That is ugly and divisive to me, but each to their own what is feckn sickening is the blatant lies that this is full of.
I'm Dutch but i remember in the 80's The Zulu Warriors from Birmingham City FC that was a mixed bunch. I also kinda like st.Pauli with their anti-racist hooligans. . . . .tbh i never really cared about the color of the man nxt to me, if you're prepared to fight with me on and of the pitch, you're my m8.
Even before Ian Wright, we had Paul Davis, Michael Thomas and David Rocastle plus other black players coming through the academy. 40 years ago when i started following Arsenal the racism was horrific. I followed the team home and away and you had to travel in groups in order to get to games and home safely. Arsenal was the only club and stadium where black people felt safe. Ian Wright was from the streets and he epitomises on the pitch what we were feeling.
Guys you don't pronounce Henry like that it's phonetic is onrey ,just a heads up.And come to the Emirates you could be sat with any nationality but one thing,you will feel at home and among friends,if you can get a ticket that is lol and Ian Wright,absolute legend met him 2 times best man ever!
Nope ,stood on the North Bank 1979 onwards Arsenal were the only club not infiltrated by the National Front. Blacks and Irish were welcome unlike Spurs West Ham Millwall Chelsea. Not recent mate.
@@chris-j7b6k Why are you talking about the NF? As to loads of black fans at Arsenal in the 70's/80's...you're deluded. There were less than 1% at any English football club.
@@dirkbogarde44Where did I say there was "loads of black fans at Arsenal?" I said they were welcome. Where every other club was still doing monkey chants. As for the NF here is a bit of history of a Black Gooner for the Johnny come latelys like yourself... "Dainton Connell was born in Brighton. He became famous as a leader of one of the hooligan firms at Arsenal football club. He played a key role in ensuring that the fascist National Front failed to gain any foothold at Arsenal"
Bro, you didn't know europeans faced racism? Europeans invaded every continent, Europeans colonized the usa. They're not facing racism like you do here, it's the opposite you're facing racism like they do in Europe. Never forget the source of slavery and colonialism, Europeans started this by order of the Pope. Look up, "Dum diversas ". We need to share knowledge with each other, we're all in the same boat. I love your channel
I disagree with you because Football don’t have black&whites And there is no black revolution If you want truthful words Arsenal are English football team and black join to support.
I have much respect for Robbie, but hip hop did not start from reggae. It was a grass roots movement in the hoods of NYC created by African Americans (I am not African America). It was a natural progression of their culture from the way they talk in NYC and from their musical legacy such as Motion, Parliament, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince and many many more...!
@@Goonerrico that is an absolute lie... hip hop goes back to the 1930s and when the move microphone check comes out make sure you watch it bc it tells the truth about the origins of hip hop.... it was 100% Black Americans
@@tradervidaloka6554 how would you know about the USA then i do? you have been listening to what white people and liars say about the history of hip hop... there are proto-rappers on record from the 1930 -1970s and all of them are black Americans
Really appreciate it lads! More documentaries like this on our channel. Cheers from Brazil
Appreciate you family much love you have a incredible channel
Im a united fan but nobody can deny the aura of Ian Wright with the gold tooth back then.
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I'm a Liverpool fan and I always loved Wrighty, loved the way he played, and he just such a decent geeza
Yeah they say John Barnes was Martin Luther King Of English football and Ian Wright was Malcom X who didn’t compromise his blackness and cultural while playing, but it is crazy that now both players have retire Ian Wright has become the establishment and John Barnes has become the racism radical.
It’s finally being discovered, we are a family club COYGs 💪🏾💯
Wasn't just for black people, I am coloured but not black, born in London in the early 70's but living in the states for the last 20 years. Grew up an arsenal fan, my whole family are Arsenal, my kids born in the states had no choice but to support the goons!! Arsenal till I die
Sorry you're 'Coloured' as in what nationality are your parents?
Coloured? Lol
Bro It's 2024.. Apartheid is over in South Africa.. wtf does coloured mean to you today? Coloured as in LGBTQ flag?
PELEJA sendo conteúdo de react gringo!! Orgulho máximo desse canal foda 🇧🇷
A lot of Arsenal fans supports Arsenal because of Ian Wright, not only black people!
Appreciate the comment family much love
Yeah, he's character broke a lot of boundaries
Lot of French people support arsenal because les frenchie d’arsenal with Arsène wenger and his gang of frenchie ( Henry pires Vieira… )
Arsenal won the double in 1970-71, I noticed Arsenal then. 1972 FA cup final (every boy watched the cup final back in the day) This same team were back with their funny looking shirts and a name that wasn't a town or city. That's how I became a lifelong Arsenal fan.
@rootchiller Do you actually know any history about the club and where they come from? I'm embarrassed for you!!
Ian Wright's celebrations were legendary. Properly exhibited the culture and we LOVE him for it till this day!
I’m British black and a Liverpool fan and I have to Arsenal have more black fans than any team in any sport in the world. They were the first big European team to have lots of black players in the 1980s and win trophies but they became the team of black people around the world in the early 2000s where they went unbeaten the whole season and won titles playing amazing flash soccer with a 95% black team. That made them popular with black kids around the world. It is the team in England you see the most black faces in the crowd. Spike Lee, Joel Embid, Idris Elba and Daniel Kaluuya are all fans of this team.
Liverpool are also a team with a lot of black fans due to a player called John Barnes you should react to him, he is one of the forget greats because his peak years happened before the coverage of soccer exploded. Kobe Bryant said John Barnes was his first sporting as a Liverpool fan in Italy. And Dr Dre became a Liverpool fan watch John Barnes play at this peak.
Liverpool are interesting. Back in the day they were as racist as any, worse than Man Utd. Howard Gayle had a shittime there.
But then when Barnes signed and they saw the awful way he was treated they did a full 180 and now they're anti-racist and left wing.
Mo Salah has had a similar impact on making their fan base tolerant of Muslims.tttttttttttt
Which is kind of racist in itself.
Howard Gayle was the first black player at Liverpool a few years before John Barnes. Gayle was born and raised in Liverpool as well. Disappointing that both Gayle and Barnes have spoken about the racism that was prevalent amongst their own Liverpool team mates.
I've been an Arsenal supporter for more than 40 years, i grew up 20 minutes away from the old stadium Highbury, and the new one the Emirates.
And then Louis Suarez joined, and Liverpool fans had to pretend screaming, "Negro," to a black man (Patrice Evra) wasn't racist.
@@zigzung5569 That is why John Barnes is important because he actually changed attitudes of Liverpool fans. He tells the story when he joined Liverpool in the mid 1980s many Liverpool fans were unhappy about him joining the team because Liverpool was the most successful team with complete white players from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. He scores two goals in his first game and a fan tells him, you are not as black as I thought. Because back then White British people used to believe black people and players were inferior due to the colonial attitudes.
John Barnes ends up being the best player in the best team in England and it is the first time the best player in England is undeniably black, that leads to him being racially abused by fans of other teams more because they didn’t like their notions of superiority being challenged. But he changed attitudes of Liverpool fans where they became more tolerant of black players.
When Arsenal became the dominant team in the at the end of 1990s their dominance led to more teams in England buying black players because they had a nearly all black team and were destroying everyone. And what really changed things things was Arsenal and Chelsea dominating youth academy football for 20 years with 100% local black kids and their domination led all big teams to fill their academies black kids and this has led them to the quality jump in England in the last 6 years where they have been winning so many trophies at youth level and made English football more black.
As a person who experienced most of this in real life, I always find it amazing when a black person supports Chelsea or Millwall. In my days they were blatantly anti-black, Arsenal was gloriously pro black. It helped I lived opposite the club as a kid 😂😂😂
i mean times have changed when u think about Chelsea these days u probably think of Didier Drogba
@dark3rthanshadows Have you actually been to Chelsea as an away fan? One of the most racist fans, even now. Scumbags!!!
I’ve heard black people still get attacked by Chelsea fans. I remember like 4 years ago some Chelsea fans got banded for racially taunting I think Saka.
@@soloplays4557 the issue is some clubs were at the forefront of promoting racism while others were fighting against it.
And those roots and elements are still there and comes up in recent incidents over the last few years. Don’t think all those combat 18 peeps suddenly stopped supporting the clubs etc
Yes things have changed especially with the international support etc.
But that history is still there and for many of us it is not even that old.
Yeah I can relate there's a lot of black youths in the USA that support Chelsea, they seem clueless to me.
I’m from london & had no idea Robbie was a reggae artist. I’ve been watching aftv for years. This was insightful
Robbie and his older brother had a sound system in Luton called Sovereign Roadshow. They were a well known sound system and Robbie's mc name was Crucial Robbie, and he was well known in the mid 80's.
Videos like this make me love Arsenal more, and it makes sense why my aunt used to sneak into Highbury to watch games and made me support Arsenal. Great video guys.
Grew up in africa rooting for thiery Henry and the invincibles arsenal fan til i die who cares if we win or lose arsenal is bigger than wins and losses
Brother on the right is educated for sure, I always clock him giving valuable insight in these vids.
They got a good chemistry. Bro on the left has charisma, bro on the right is smart. They gotta stay consistent
Great reaction!! Peleja has so many good videos, you should react to more.
Arsenal got crucified by the media and rival fans for fielding an all-black 11 in 2002 😂 the real culture club ⭐️
100% lies. Not an all black XI it was 9 out of 11. No-one in the media or any rival fans said anything. Just lies 😂
@MT-pr6qb fair
@@Tannhauser108it was only 9 but still hated because of it. Arsenal also hated for having the 1st foreign manager
@MT-pr6qb only bar Arsene ever had was "financial doping". Standard lies otherwise
@@jackdaniels4346 Ardiles? Gullit?
I remember go to Arsenal in 1980, there were no different between Arsenal and Chelsea fans in their attitude towards black people. You should never forget this.
My club! Finally showing love to the Gunners 💪🏿
Arsenal is a classic club bro 💯💯that why I support them with passion bruh 💯
Proud of my club. Arsenal has gone into the community time after time t push for the rights of others.
...and anywhere there's ignorance, there's racism. We just need to keep pushing back against it.
This is was what internet was invented for.. I'm happy you guys done this.
Awesome reaction. Learned so much from this video. That Jamaican flag Arsenal jersey is fire. I always liked Arsenal, especially Theirry Henry's invincibles team, now even more reason to like them.
When I was in school in London in the early nineties everyone I knew who wasn’t white supported Arsenal (if they supported a London team). Chelsea and Millwall were racists, West Ham were more hooligan oriented and no one liked Tottenham which was the Jewish team (seriously never met a Jewish Londoner who doesn’t support Tottenham it’s crazy).
No lots of Jewish Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham too.
I'd put Millwall in with West Ham as more hooligan orientated than racist.
You're right about Tottenham being the most unpopular with other London fans though.
I’m an arsenal fan cause of my parents specifically my dad cause when he moved over to London he fell in love with the club and players😂. Like in the early 2000s with players like Thierry Henry, Bergkamp and Ashley cole etc
Yeah we know you was arsenal fan we got deeper a connections with them now
What a time to be in London. Big Up the Arsenal Fam
I've been an Arsenal fan for over 20 years and a watcher of Arsenal Fan TV. I knew the song Proud To Be Black, but had no idea it was Robbie Lyle who sang it. We were rocking that song in Brooklyn basement parties when I was a teenager.
I'm my soul arsenal and this made me so proud and made me cry a lil but west Indians rebuilt the UK after the war and we owe them everything. Once arsenal always arsenal we stand as one family forever x
I didn't know Arsenal's history. You learn something new every day.
A Man United supporter have to say I love Wrighty such a lovely kind man. GGMU 🇾🇪
That video was beautiful. How have I never seen it before
would of never came across this vid if it wasnt for yall reaction being recommended. love the passion yall have for the sport, as an arsenal supporter this was enlightening to watch, didnt know this history. Yall are honorary gooners! COYG!
Robbie was known as Crucial Robbie and was a big reggea artist long before the internet and youtube existed
5:30 yes Mookie 100% they want us fighting with each other
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@@dunsonhouse Your big bro is right the western world doesn’t want black people to Unite. If Africa because a developed continent, Europe and America would become the poorest continent because Africa has all the resources the world needs and populations meaning Asia and Africa would control the global economy. African became rich, the western world can no longer get their resources from them on the cheap. Africa accounts for 70% of the worlds chocolate but only make 1% of the global al profits of chocolate, because they get exploited by western countries exploiting their poverty cheap coco beans that makes them billions
No, you make the fights. Then complain about them. Unreal how stupid you are. Brainwashed. Get help man.
Definitely as they know the people united will never be defeated ✊️
Stop jerking each other lol, nobody cares about you cuz you are always killing each other regardless of outside interference and the proof is africa back then and right now , always in tribal wars
Growing up in south london in the 80s-90s David Rocastle(R.I.P) and Ian Wright were the inspriration for the kids,i support Liverpool from before Ian Wright,But started to support Liverpool because of John Barnes a Jamaican born player who helped Jamaicans relate more with football as Cricket,Track and field and Boxing were the main sports,Ian Wright use to go round schools and ive met him couple of times when i was young,i faced racism from young but we didnt understand it until we got older,but by then the Racist wouldnt even say anything because we would just mash them up lol,great reaction guys..Bless
Viva Arsenal baby. Been my club since my cousin showed me them at 5 years old.
West Brom was the first team to field three black players in the 70s, Batson Regis and Cunningham known as the three degrees. Laurie Cunningham became the first British player to sign for Real Madrid. Not taking anything away from Arsenal but West Bromwich Albion were the original pioneers.
Ron Atkinson was their manager.
Ye not to be funny but at the age of 40 this is the first this liverpool fan is hearing about arsenal being some sort of becon for black fans.
i knew alot of young black fans looked up to Wrighty when they were kids but he also played for palace so i never thought of it as being an arsenal thing to attract young black fans.
like you say, its not as if west brom werent flaying that flag decades earlier.
Yes indeed, I was at Highbury when Ron Atkinson brought West Brom over and the three degrees destroyed Arsenal. This must have been around 1980.
Neillewis. Just because you don't know it, doesn't mean it isn't true, chief.
Jose Mourinho said that Arsenal were the Black Londoners ' team years ago.
Brenden Batson started his career at Arsenal in the very early 70s.
One name, Viv Anderson. English, European champion and England player. The first black player I saw live when he came to Arsenal. A great player and when I look back, he must have had it so hard playing in that era. Didn't stop him though. Fair play 💪🏽👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
But is wasn't just Ian and Viv, players like Paul Davis, Rocky Rocastle (RIP), Mickey Thomas (it's up for grabs now), showed that it's about passion for Arsenal, not skin colour.
It’s good that the next episode is my club Liverpool..you should check out the whole John Barnes history and how he inspired a lot of Jamaican Liverpool fans in the late 80’s early 90’s 🇯🇲
This my club I love this soccer/football team 😍😍D Gunners for life
I came to England in early nineties and saw Arsenal football club had a few black players and you could see a lot black fans who were going to watch in the stadium so started to fall in love with the club
Love arsenal. Classy club. Ian wright is a cultural icon. Uncle to say many young players, rappers and anyone else who wants an old wise head
Always be proud guys!! From India! Love you both
I do remember hearing about Chelsea fans being racist.
In the 70s the National Front used to be prominent outside Stamford Bridge and actively recruited.
credits for Peleja, Brazilian video
Arsenal have always been a class club
Soo glad you guys are doing this kind of vid, I'm a Londoner of Jamaican decent and i love when i watch Arsenal matches that not only is there a good racial mix in the squad but also in the crowd to, no other club in London or even the UK has that diverse of a fambase.
Appreciate the comment my guy much love
Yes his song was from the 90s. He made aftv in 2010-12 edit: then got popular whem mesut ozil signed in 2013 he made his first tv app on deadline day
I never respected arsenal that much until now.
6:13 Robbie was a musician and worked elsewhere before he started the RUclips channel
You guys have chosen the right club COYG
My brothers! Football is all about cULTURE . It’s a reason why it’s the number one sport in the world. Which unfortunately, is non existent sadly. ( in USA ) Every time you watch a football game. You see ppl from all different walks of life. Example Son,( South Korea) Hakim ( Morocco) Muhammad S ( Egypt) just to name a few. Just to name a few! It’s good to see you guys. You should look into : how players have a choice to play for another country ( based on parents nationality) example K, Mbappe could of also played for Cameroon 🇨🇲 ( His father is Cameroonian) .
England had some of the most violent football fans ( hooligans ) back in the day . They formed groups that they called Firms that literally travelled all around England and Europe to fight. In 1985 Liverpool fans attacked Juventus fans which led to the stadium collapsing and 40 people were killed .Authorities had to make a list of the most violent English offenders and banned them from attending games in Europe .
I'm so proud of Arsenal's fanbase and the mixture of cultures and i go right back to the late 60's when it was a 90% white crowd although that was made up of Irish , greek , turkish etc ...... but it def changed in the 70's/80's when Wrighty , kevin campbell , Viv Anderson came along and then the you just saw more and more Black fans in the last 10 years at Highbury with Cole, PV4 , Henry , Lauren etc .......... in fairness them down the road have quite a lot of black fans but there's no club to compare with The Arsenal
Yes Robbie was a singer / producer and he was doing great then arsenal fan chanel was just another thing on the side hustle, which exploded to great heights.
Couple of things.
Arsenal used to be London Irish, but had a mixed crew back in the 1980s when most didn't and most were very racist.
Also Arsenal recruited hard in South London -Rocastle, Davis, Thomas. That made a North London team very popular in South East London.
And then there's Ian Wright! Unapologetically black and urban.
No doubt Arsenal is black London's team.
The riots Robbie is talking about we're on Broadwater farm estate in 1985, long before youtube was around.
Funny enough how I became I arsenal supporter when I watched football for first ever time I saw the red shirt and a blackman Ian wright playing and I was automatically hooked seeing him viera etc playing with great performance.
Arsenal my life from young but my best day was we won the double and Ian Wright pushed his arse out the locker room window lol so we see more than needed of Ian lol
Im an Arsenal fan and i didn't know this. I really done cried for this shit
🇯🇲In the building
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They forgot to put a really important goal in Arsenal history. Michael Thomas against Liverpool in 1989. A black player
Guy with the new era hat is smart knows his shit
Thank you for the comment my guy
21:45 Arsenal on the way back up bros. We back!
Arsenal fans really trying everything to get something out of this season now.
I am a huge Arsenal fan living in Brooklyn
We'll come brother
Arsenal were the first European club to field 9 black players in a match - Leeds United 1-4 Arsenal, 30/09/2002.
Everybody knows Goon squad are the Culture Club & the True Pride of London..🔴⚪️💯
do the Liverpool episode too!!
Got you let us know when it come out
5:25 I think you are absolutely right Mookie
These brothers are clearly from Bmore 😂 love though
Appreciate you family
And all England hated them for it, that's why the hate towards them is so much even when they are doing so well, they still find something negative to say about them.
Welcome to the family
To be real, it’s a bit much to say Arsenal were revolutionary, other clubs led the way also, but Arsenal was just always open for all. Players and fans a like.
Ian Wright and Rocky is why!
6:03 From my understanding Robbie was fan since he was young. He was making music but I don’t know if he was well known for it like that. Anybody else can correct if Im wrong
Great video guys....
Watch IAN WRIGHT documentary...
Arsenal 🐐
Slavery has been a thing for tens of thousands of years, all over the world, among all races. But why it's more talked about in America is probably cause of the Civil war. If you go far enough back slavery wasn't always about race. It was more about conquest and being captured and now you're a slave. Even Vikings that failed with their conquests became slaves to whatever area they attacked and also took white british slaves back to Scandinavia.
But in America it was about race. And regarding the slavery that took place in Europe there were places such as Greece and the Roman empire which had specific rules for the keeping and treatment of slaves and ways that slaves could earn their freedom. Slaves were even paid for their work and the church got involved and there were rules and laws in canon law to ensure that slaves were not too badly mistreated. In America these things were not present and because of the racial element slaves in America were completely dehumanized. That didn't occur in Europe to white slaves. Thats why it's more talked about.
@@tommy_egan Absolutely. I even said "slavery wasn't always about race". I'm well aware that it was about race with the slaves in America. Reason I said so was because they didn't seem to be aware of that racism or slavery was a thing outside of the states.
And the whole Civil war is definitely a reason for slavery being a big talking point in the US. It's a big reason why people study American slavery or history in general. Because of previous wars.
Link to the original video
ruclips.net/video/0T93UgQZIys/видео.htmlsi=DEFtsT5zXqZ9FME_
Also a couple years back, I want to say the last year a Spurs played at old white hart lane Robbie was attacked on some racist nonsense.
so yall telling men I might have to switch from being a man city to arsenal fan.. damnn I didn't know this history.
There’s been Black players before Ian
Proud Gooner! 🟥⬜
Arsenal is the Black Man's team because of Arsene Wenger
PREAMBLE: Citizens for a National Maat Public Policy, Inc. (book)
Uk kids in the bigger city’s & towns grew up together and is nothing like the US, yes there’s racism, always will be and always was
We have fought for years to get race outta football, and now we get these muppets making their involvement all about race. That is ugly and divisive to me, but each to their own what is feckn sickening is the blatant lies that this is full of.
I'm Dutch but i remember in the 80's The Zulu Warriors from Birmingham City FC that was a mixed bunch. I also kinda like st.Pauli with their anti-racist hooligans. . . . .tbh i never really cared about the color of the man nxt to me, if you're prepared to fight with me on and of the pitch, you're my m8.
Even before Ian Wright, we had Paul Davis, Michael Thomas and David Rocastle plus other black players coming through the academy. 40 years ago when i started following Arsenal the racism was horrific. I followed the team home and away and you had to travel in groups in order to get to games and home safely. Arsenal was the only club and stadium where black people felt safe. Ian Wright was from the streets and he epitomises on the pitch what we were feeling.
Not the only one. Birmingham City, Wolves, Coventry, Man City and West Ham also had mixed crews.
Crystal Palace was also a good ground for black fans back in the day.
Brother this makes me proud to be a Gooner. #solidarity
Guys you don't pronounce Henry like that it's phonetic is onrey ,just a heads up.And come to the Emirates you could be sat with any nationality but one thing,you will feel at home and among friends,if you can get a ticket that is lol and Ian Wright,absolute legend met him 2 times best man ever!
What’s this guys channel that we are watching???
Arsenal used to be known as an Irish club.......the black thing is relatively recent.
Nope ,stood on the North Bank 1979 onwards Arsenal were the only club not infiltrated by the National Front. Blacks and Irish were welcome unlike Spurs West Ham Millwall Chelsea. Not recent mate.
@@chris-j7b6k Why are you talking about the NF? As to loads of black fans at Arsenal in the 70's/80's...you're deluded. There were less than 1% at any English football club.
@@dirkbogarde44Where did I say there was "loads of black fans at Arsenal?" I said they were welcome. Where every other club was still doing monkey chants.
As for the NF here is a bit of history of a Black Gooner for the Johnny come latelys like yourself...
"Dainton Connell was born in Brighton. He became famous as a leader of one of the hooligan firms at Arsenal football club. He played a key role in ensuring that the fascist National Front failed to gain any foothold at Arsenal"
COYG!!! 🔴🤌🏾
Bro, you didn't know europeans faced racism? Europeans invaded every continent, Europeans colonized the usa. They're not facing racism like you do here, it's the opposite you're facing racism like they do in Europe. Never forget the source of slavery and colonialism, Europeans started this by order of the Pope. Look up, "Dum diversas ". We need to share knowledge with each other, we're all in the same boat.
I love your channel
I disagree with you because
Football don’t have black&whites
And there is no black revolution
If you want truthful words Arsenal are English football team and black join to support.
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I have much respect for Robbie, but hip hop did not start from reggae. It was a grass roots movement in the hoods of NYC created by African Americans (I am not African America). It was a natural progression of their culture from the way they talk in NYC and from their musical legacy such as Motion, Parliament, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince and many many more...!
React to growing up black in the uk by nella rose .❤❤
you guys need to react to ian wright
Arsenal will always be a class club than Tottenham and Chelsea
Robbie in the video said Hip-Hop started with reggae and that is a lie ... its started with black Americans
All the pioneers of hip hop are of Jamaican decent and brought the sound clashes to NY in the 70s
Aquele comentario do "Americano" que não conhece a America.
@@Goonerrico that is an absolute lie... hip hop goes back to the 1930s and when the move microphone check comes out make sure you watch it bc it tells the truth about the origins of hip hop.... it was 100% Black Americans
@@tradervidaloka6554 how would you know about the USA then i do? you have been listening to what white people and liars say about the history of hip hop... there are proto-rappers on record from the 1930 -1970s and all of them are black Americans
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