Lockdown Football was worse than you thought. 

The things I found cool about Lockdown Football were the sound of the nets after someone scored and also being able to hear what the players and managers would say during the full 90'

Funniest part of lockdown football was Liverpool fans waiting all those years to win the Prem and they won it in an empty stadium

Man, Lewadowski not getting a Bdor was sad smh

As a West Ham fan, I've got quite fond memories of lockdown football. Turns out having 50,000 bald men in flat caps screaming at you every week hinders your performance. Will never forget the brief period where Michail Antonio became the most dangerous striker in the league

Footballers did many things to keep themselves entertained during lockdown: James Milner cutting grass, David Luiz losing to himself at Rock Paper Scissors, Mason Greenwood assaulting his girlfriend.

For some reason, Everytime I think about the lockdown. I think of Sterling's open goal miss aganist Lyon.

Lockdown Football saw my team (Leicester City) dismantle City 5-2 and the next game we got dismantled 3-0 by West Ham. Every team probably had at least one absolutely mental game.

Liverpool in the 20/21 season were all over the place. Title winning form in the first half of the season aside from the Villa 7-2. Relegation form in January and February alongside 6 back to back loses at Anfield because we didn't have any senior centre backs along with injuries in midfield and then title winning form in April and May which somehow resulted in a 3rd place finish, courtesy of Alissons injury time header against West Brom

Lockdown football was a bizarre time...but it was also at the time frame where my club managed to win a Copa Libertadores for the first time since 1999, so there's some fun memories there.

Lockdown football was crazy to say the least. Liverpool finally ended their 3 decade wait for the Premier League title only to celebrate it with no fans allowed. Manchester United were winning and scoring goals for fun. Manchester City won the Premier League title comfortably and they were 8th at the halfway point mind you. Chelsea won the Champions League. Lingard was balling for West Ham, Arsenal fan TV was peak especially when Arsenal were in the mud, Barcelona got smashed by Bayern Munich 8-2, Atletico Madrid almost threw away the La Liga title despite having a 20 point lead, Villarreal wins their only silverware by winning the Europa League title and they were 7th and qualified for the inauguration Conference League but qualified for the Champions League. Lockdown football was chaotic with unbelievable score lines and crazy moments. For me as a Manchester United fan it was disappointing we never really tried to push for the Premier League title but for Arsenal fans it was a moment to forget.

The fact bayern munich vs Barcelona weren't mentioned in the UCL segment is sole let down of this video

Ty of AFTV suddenly going into his Maupay rant was and still is the best memory lockdown football gave. Arsenal may have won the FA Cup that season, but their lockdown league form created a lot of priceless AFTV memories 🤣.

Sheffield United vs Aston Villa, and the goal that never happened. Lets also not forget Dortmund vs Schalke(first football match back on TV), I don't know if ive ever been excited about a Bundesliga game that much, but I was then!

The Cazoo title race will never be forgotten RIP September 2020 - September 2020

The other mental thing about that Brighton v Man Utd game was Brighton setting a PL record for hitting the woodwork five times, could've demolished them that day with a little more luck

Alisson scoring a header after his dad died days before

Danny Ings for Southampton was mad. He scored like 23 goals for them in 19/20 season. Underrated af.

Lockdown was just weird. Being stuck inside made all of us lose a part of my mind and football was similar. Few things from lockdown football I'll never forget. 1. Tottenham and West Ham 3-3 draw. The way West Ham came back in the game was peak lockdown football and so spursy. 2. Aston Villa beating 7-2 was a shock out of nowhere. 3. Thomas Mueller shouting "Leroy Leroy!" and dictating the play. 4. Vizeh mentions it but Lingard at West Ham. Actually West Ham during lockdown. 5. The tragic but somehow realistically receeding hairlines for Mane and Aubameyang

After not being to see any football for few months and only other thing to do was playing Fifa 20, even having lockdown football was much welcome change of pace

And then there’s 8-2, which somehow, was not the aggregate score, because it was a single leg QF, not like the 7-0 demolition from 2013 14:10

The lockdown was a godsend for me. I was in a shitty job where I was drinking my life away. They gave me an out by trying to force people to work despite government regulations, so I left, filed a complaint with the labour board, and collected my salary for 18 months all while finally being sober. The football was shit, but life. Life was mine.

8:13 bruno only played 14 games in the covid season, he joined in the winter break

Raúl Jiménez 19-20 lockdown era will go down as my most favorite player to watch,sadly his injury messed him up forever🥲

Souček and Lingard being mentioned is great. 👏 Especially when Souček scored 10 goals last season and hasnt been mentioned at all. He’s so underrated. Great video 👏

Don't forget players like Andre silva, Sasa Kalajdzic, Matheus pereira and Simy being in their absolute prime, i even remember simy being top 5 or top 6 goalscorers in serie a that season when crotone got relegated

As a Norwich fan, 17th April 2021 will forever live in the memory as one of the strangest days I've ever known supporting the club. We got promoted at lunch time after another result went our way (don't ask me what game or what the score was). The players then drank all afternoon, which would've been fine if we weren't playing Bournemouth at night time. We lost 1-3 and despite that, fans who spent the entire game outside Carrow Road (it was literally on sky) celebrated the promotion we won about nine hours earlier with the players as they left the stadium😂

If there was a footballers tiktok where they did goofy stuff like they did in the lockdown, I'd watch all day.

You missed these: 1.Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich: Probably one of the most shocking results during the lockdown football. That was happened in the Champions League quarterfinals, and it was a single-legged format (Barcelona had previously got battered 0-7 by Bayern Munich back in 2013, but it was after two legs of semifinal). Since then, the two teams had faced each other THREE times, including the upcoming encounter at Barcelona's ground under the new Champions League format this season! Bayern's aggregate against Barcelona was so wild since that infamous quarterfinal game 4 years ago: 19-2. 2.Brighton vs Arsenal: The game was notorious for Bernd Leno's horrific injury that really sidelined him for a long period. Leno's replacement, Emiliano Martinez, quickly became the new star, making some brilliant goalkeeping performances that saved Arsenal's season with the FA Cup victory. He was later moved to Aston Villa and continued his consistency as a main goalkeeper. Dibu eventually became Argentina's main goalkeeper and the team went on to 3 major trophies (Copa America 2021, 2022 World Cup, Copa America 2024) with him. 3.Palmeiras winning 2 Libertadores titles in just a single year (2021). The 2020 season was concluded in January 2021 due to the pandemic, with the 2021 Final being held just only 10 months later after the previous season's final. This might be the rarest feat in the world football. Athletic Bilbao from Spain also played 2 Copa del Rey Finals within just 14 days in April 2021, since the 2020 Final was moved a year later due to the pandemic. And more importantly, the lockdown football also saw the end of Diego Maradona. He died on November 25, 2020.

Most Iconic lockdown memory? Beating City and Chelsea to win the FA Cup.

Ole's united side looked really good during the lock down period as he made United look like prime Madrid and Bruno like prime Zidane. 😅

During lockdown my club went the entire year of 2020 with just one win in january, which certainly did something with my mental health.

Liam just casually forgetting 8-2 and coutinho pulling out a masterclass vs Barca

As an Everton fan, I desperately miss lockdown football. First and only time in recent memory that I truly felt we were on the up and up.

I remember lockdown Leicester. Crazy run in those two years lol.

We saw some Crazy EPL results during Lockdown. Man City 2 - 5 Leicester City Aston Villa 7 - 2 Liverpool Man Utd 1 - 6 Spurs Funny thing is these 3 results all happened on the same weekend.

Dean Henderson season for United, was class!

FIrst thing I think of when hearing lockdown football is Lukaku vs. Zlatan during the Coppa Italia when Inter played Milan. The fact it was lockdown and no fans present, you could hear every word exchanged bw the two during their fight. Intense derby moment there!

Lockdown was a blessing and a curse. Driving in to work in the Eunos roadster with the top down on an empty street was a vibe

My favourite lockdown football memory was Jose Mourinho turning up and knocking on Ndombele’s door to give him personal 1-2-1 coaching sessions

Jesse lingard during lockdown turned into prime kaka for a few weeks then after that fell off a cliff

The Liverpool 7-2 loss was so weird, because Spurs battering United at OT happened earlier in the day.. or maybe it was the day before? Villa deserved their win but it was a weird game in itself. Every shot Villa took they scored (against Adrian) and even 2 or 3 had huge deflections. I'm pretty sure we missed a couple of sitters that late afternoon/evening too.

Lockodown football made me tell everyone Patrick Bamford would outscore CR7. I then proceeded to get a purple Leeds Bamford shirt…

damn I remember the times Everton and Leicester city were in the title race, how times change man

Jose making Tottenham do football training in the park will always be quality

The fact that Bale, Kane, and Son played for Spurs but only in lockdown is so cruel. The little games we saw of that trio were amazing. What could have been

As a spurs fan I loved watching AFTV every weekend during lockdown. Robbie has probably accumulated generational wealth from all the lockdown hatewatching I did in his streams.

Not quite lockdown, but in 2020 Emmanuel Adebayor came to Paraguay to play for Olimpia. He played 4 games, got a red card, and when Covid started he was terminated. Then he sued the club for a bunch of money.

Lockdown football was GOATED you had Everton being top three for ages and beating Liverpool with James Rodriguez. Man utd1-6Spurs, villa7-2liverpool,city2-5leicester

man, as an afc fan, lockdown football felt like a fever dream. Tierney's jello legs? Ceballos being our best midfielder for a spell?? AMN playin LW at Anfield??? i refuse to believe any of that was real.

I loved the feeling that no fans are in the stadium, but the 3 points are just as important, and the fans are all watching on the tv. It made me feel that the others teams aren't taking it serious and we can get an advantage. It doesn't feel big when you win, because no fans are in the stadium, but you know at the end of the season, everyone will realize how much it all means. Love that stealth when dealing with rival fans of my club.

As a brazilian, I don't think people here have ever got so mobilized for a champions league edition than what happened on 2020. People going on Neymar instagram asking him to go back to his old mohawk haircut, people putting 2011 Neymar as their profile pictures, and that final had the biggest audience in the history of any paid televison channel here. At thtat same year we also had São Paulo and Inter both bottling the league in a phenomenal way, and Palmeiras x Santos in the Libertadores final, which might have been the worst final in the history of football.

I’m never gonna forget Son torching Holding and getting him sent off in the NLD.

I’ll tell you what’s bonkers, Sheffield United finishing 9th in the 19/20 season. They had just got promoted from the championship after finishing 2nd. During lockdown they beat Spurs 3-1 and Chelsea 3-0 at home, also there was the 0-0 v Villa where goal line technology failed to pick up on a goal which ended up keeping Villa up and relegating Bournemouth. Before lockdown they had only conceded 3 goals against Liverpool and City separately, plus drawing against United 3-3. During the season they also almost did the double over Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal (drawing all 3 away games), the most they conceded in one games was 3 (which happened 4 times) and kept the joint 3rd most clean sheets with 13 (I’ll also mention BURNLEY KEPT THE JOINT 2ND MOST CLEAN SHEETS WITH 15 ALONGSIDE CHAMPIONS LIVERPOOL). I’ll end this with big up Chris Wilder.

AFTV was pure entertainment in the Lockdown Period and to still this day, I laugh whenever I think about their moments.

bayern giving barca an 8-2 beating was quite the entertainment, that and the entire planet tuning into dortmund vs schalke because it was the first game after football got suspended

Ibr the only thing I remember about the lockdown season was us getting spanked 1-6 and Liverpool losing 7-2 less than 2 hours later. That day was mental and that's the only thing I remember of Lockdown 😭

This was also when Bayern Munich beat Barca 8-2, which included Coutinho scoring against Barca while contracted to them and away on loan at Bayern.

The reason we might look at lockdown football fondly was just because how different and crazy the experience was, personally I absolutely loved hearing how the teams communicated throughout the game, the raw shouting, instructions, unfiltered sledging between players (traore being a brick shithouse) was very enjoyable, seeing how english teams communicated vs german teams etc was super cool.

Lockdown Man Utd is almost as crazy as Arsenal. They were awarded 14 penalties in the 2019/20 season, a PL record. Almost every match was guaranteed to be a Bruno Fernandes Penalty. Anthony Martial scored 17 goals and 6 assists in 32 games that same season. He never recovered after that.

As horrible and crazy the football was, I think that was the time I enjoyed football the most. Football was literally what kept me going every day during lockdown.

Lockdown Lingard and Soucek were absolute legends for us at West Ham. Lingard threw it away, Soucek is still a goddam legend

Lampard shouting at klopp will always stand out for me

I think Many people forgot that Leipzig and bloody lyon were the ucl semi-finalists in lockdown.

The best lockdown memory was playing games 24/7 and getting paid to do it.

Barnsley making the championship play offs was crazy too

As a Leicester fan, Iheanacho winning the POTM will never be topped.

Nothings says Everton more than the only time we've been goodin the last 10 years, no one could watch. No one saw James Rodriguez play for us 😭

My favorite part of lockdown was when willock decided to become prime maradona for 10 games,will never forget his equaliser vs Liverpool

Lockdown for me was the resurgence of forgotten players: 1. Kelechi Iheanacho. Up to this point was a bright young talent in City’s academy who had made the move to a lesser but still relevant team in Leicester. Because of an injury to vardy during the 20/21 city he got his moment and took it. Scored 14 goals I believe that season and helped them nearly finish 4th. 2. Ilkay Gundogan. This period really started his legendary status at City. Scored something like 12 goals for city this season when they didn’t have a striker and helped them win the title after being 8th at mid season. 3. Jesse Lingard. We all know that one. 4. Dominic Calvert Lewin and James at Everton. The list could go on as well. What an interesting season to have witnessed

You forgot to mention the uproar when they tried to introduce the Super League, suddenly the whole world stood stil

I remember Liverpool getting top four football against West Brom thanks to a goal by goalkeeper Alisson Becker. Jimmy Glass esc

The artificial crowd noise was crazy. I can just remember a watered down cheers about 5 seconds after the ball hit the net 😂

Mine was Arsenal v Brighton. Nothing much happened. It's just then-Arsenal GK Leno getting injured by then-Brighton's Maupay, which started the rise of Emi Martinez. 🎉

As a villa fan, i love michael oliver because in our first game back after lockdown we drew 0-0 to Sheffield United but Sheffield United actually scored but nyland (our keeper at the time) put the ball near the post michel oliver thought that the ball didn't cross the line and said no goal, without that we probably would be a champions league club rn so yeah

Prime Jesse Lingard tearing up the prem for 6 months at West Ham was peak lockdown football

Well my favorite team won the UCL in Lockdown and it felt like a regular night despite it. Weird times.

I’m still convinced if Raul didn’t get injured, Wolves genuinely could’ve got top 4 as we were in the top four just after beating Arsenal who were mediocre that season, what’s even more mental is we could’ve got top 4 the previous season as well

Lewa being robbed was sad to see, but as an Everton fan i have such fond memories of the most bizarre time at my club - allan and doucoure playing a great double pivot, DCL on fire, james’ cameo, and ancelotti, who ultimately bowed out on us but for good reason. The last time Everton were an above average team.

Lockdown football was the only time the Premier won UCLs.

Lockdown football was something else man also can you talk about when Crvena Zvezda ( Red star Belgrade) won the UCL

As a fan of the bundesliga I remember the lockdown football as the end of schalke. They had such a horrible end to that season. So sad that such a big club was in such dire straits due to the lockdown.

To Milners credit, 'boring James Milner' and him leaning into the meme is much older than Lockdown.

I’ll never forget Liverpools Lockdown Prem.

The lockdown UCL mini tournament was peak

Lockdown football, was a simulation of what happens in training... There were no fans in the stadium which meant no distractions and vulgar words to the players and nervousness happening, and that is why some teams performed well.. Teams that used the stadium atmosphere to pressure the opponents didn't have that advantage anymore... Home teams that hated playing at home, also no longer had to worry about fan reactions during the game...

In Scotland, Lockdown Celtic was incredibly shite, Hearts won a 27 game championship, I remember League 1/2 being stopped and shortened, St Johnstone won a fucking double, Stephen Dobbie being heckled by some boy watching over a fence, Kilmarnock fans being allowed in for the first time in a year to watch their team lose the relegation playoff

People can say what they want about Liverpool lifting the trophy in an empty stadium, but as a fan who hadn’t been outside in months it was such an incredible moment and every bit as sweet as it would’ve been had I been there. Something about the players being able to enjoy their achievement alone surrounded by nothing except their team was kinda beautiful, it was ethereal in a good way.

Arsenal somehow winning a trophy in that season is proof that we live in a simulation

When the whole world tunned in to the Rivierderby being the first big 5 league fixture for months. Everyone seeing how unhinged it was with no supporters so they added artifical crowd noise with the same chants over and over 😂

The best thing was hearing the players shouting and the nets sound. It was kinda inststing for that.

On god i was literally 3 days ago talking to my sister and brother about lockdown football and i watched so many videos about it Oh how much i would pay to go back a little bit and have those laughs Liverpool and Aston villa in the same day as spurs united? Everton top the premier league with carlo? Auba before signing the new contract and first willian games for arsenal? Man city loosing 5-2 to leicester city? My goodness i can go on and on about lockdown football it was insane but honestly funny As hell

As a wolves fan I remember lockdown for Raul Jimenez almost dying.

You didn't mention sheffield united vs aston villa where a clear goal for sheffield was not given and that 0-0 saved villa by 1 point at the end of the season.

What I really liked about lock down football is that atleast in Bundesliga can’t speak on leagues that used fake fans lol, you could hear the communication between the players and it really benefited tactical teams since it was much easier to communicate

"WE'RE 15TH!" will live in my head rent free for the rest of time.

I remember in the lockdown days i had 10000 hours of fifa 20 and it was all on career

The most striking memory I have about lockdown football: 8:2

This needed to be longer!! I need more 🤣

Glad Dobbie landed in his feet and now hosts his own successful YT ❤❤

Henry’s toilet paper juggle 😂 how did I miss that