A look at the phenomenon of Saturday football through the eyes of fans watching Tottenham Hotspur. The film looks at the men who are the chief actors in the Saturday football drama, both off duty and in training.
@MathematicalPhysics indeed they did, did you notice how the bikes we saw didn’t appear to have locks, something else we have lost, definitely couldn’t do that now. I have watched a few of these videos now and it really does make you think how different life was, far more respectful in doing their jobs and everyday life. Don’t get me wrong I love all the advances in everything but think as a society we have definitely lost our way.
Sentimental twaddle! Cheating was just as rife then, just not commented on ! And there were just as many thugs, it was just tolerated more. I should know I've been watching since 1954 !And where did you get the idea they had jobs? They were full time Footballers!
He isnt related to Terry Dyson as James Dyson,of vacuum cleaner fame is 74 and Terry Dyson is 86. Terry Dyson is the Uncle of golfer Simon Dyson though.
"Fans can hardly exist without their football, football could never exist without the fans." What a perfect summation, one that any architects of Super Leagues would do well to remember.
This was when the game belonged to us all, Now its a global business, run by wealthy agents, and TV companies. worst of all is, the players don't cycle to ground anymore, they are far too aloof, in their mansions and super-cars.
It didn't belong to us ! It belonged to pompous local.businessmen who.were just as dictatorial as the present owners ! And we found the Fulham and Chelsea players pretty aloof collecting autographs in the late fifties!!
@@johnsaunders2109 You have eleven years on me, so I will concede to your senior experience. I'm from the north, Blackburn, and as a young Rovers fan, I often got autographs from the players who parked their racing bikes in the club car park, some had cars, but very few back in 68.
@@robharding4028 We got them, but usually very grudgingly! Jim.Langley, Tosh Chamberlain and Roy Bentley were fine, but as for the rest ....! It might have been different up north, ther was lots of cultural differences between regions then.
Thank you for the wonderful video. 4:50 The gentleman facing the camera front and centre is my partners father and long time Spurs fan, Derek Hunt. I believe that he played for Brentford FC in the old second division before he was struck down with meningitis, which sadly curtailed his career with them. When he resumed playing, he spent some time at Barnet FC and Hendon FC.
Right at the end a reminder that the FA Cup was bigger than the league. And you know who held the record for the most FA cup wins before the premier league started? That's right. Spurs.
I still remember when very young going to watch Brentford FC with my Grandad, must have been the very early 1960s. In the Fourth Division then but the place was packed. Mostly flat cap wearing and nothing more than animated clapping and a muted cheer or two.
Yellow shirts in north London!! Is it the first recorded case of City wearing yellow kit, as they did at Arsenal all those years later? Fascinating stuff!!
4:47 East - that is a fire waiting to happen. All the grounds of changed so much. There are no charities left anymore, and to think that these first division footballers were stay at home dad's, who could repair the Hoover, and drove a Wolsely!
I recall going to White Hart Lane many times in the late 1950's.There was no hooliganism,obscene songs or chanting.I used to see a couple of their players queuing for a bus near where I live,for home matches.No players earned more than the average working class person in the crowd.Strangely the Spurs team had players with names like Smith,Brown,Baker,White,Jones and Allen.Imagine that today ?
The top players earned at least 3 times the average wage, and after 1961, it was even more! As for hooliganism, it was st its peak in the 60s and 70s!!! Rose tinted glasses!!
@@johnsaunders2109 I was referring to the 1950's, not the 60's and 70's, when hooliganism became a problem.It was a different world.Admission prices were about 2 shillings or 10p in today's money.I even recall they played in boots backs then,as the "Continental" style came in during the late 1950's. No pink boots,gloves and pony tails back then.
@@michaelscales5996 different age! It still had its problems! The match throwing scandal of 1963 ,for example, only 4 years from your ' golden age' !!!
Not a replica shirt in sight !!!! If i remember correctly, it was Adidas, in the 70s that promoted the sponsorship and selling of replica shirts.----- In the States.
@@pressureworks in the UK it was admiral they wanted to cash in on the 1974 World Cup which was being broadcast in colour allowing the viewing audience to see what the players were wearing
All bollocks. I got my first replica shirt aged 6 and I was born in 1963. They were available for years before that. What changed in the mid 70s was the branding.
Looking at the crowd. I think a high % of the men were waking caps. The footballers to me seem old even back then. The quality of the pitch was awful. Their pay was probably £5000 p.a. Now its £5000 per hour. Were the footballers then as fit as today's top footballers?
You said yourself - pitches could be mudbaths back then. So players had to be very, very fit indeed. What has changed is the "mental fitness" required to compete nowadays. At the top level, lapses in concentration are more readily punished now than they were then, perhaps.
They were as fit as they had to be, if it was possible to bring them forward with the same support todays lot get they would be just as good and in a lot of cases better. Charlton smoked most went for a few pints in fact the only time England won the WC was when all the clubs had British players and smoking and drinking was an accept thing not saying it is right just a fact.
I'd say this was the 16th of April 1961 match? Crowd 40,278. I suspect the 70,000 figure was White Hart Lanes capacity at the time. Great film really gives you a sense of what going to games was like back then. none of your smooth green manicured pitches for those chaps!
1960 Maximum wage for players about to be abolished and Blackpool were still in Div 1. The lifting of wage restrictions were the death of smaller clubs in the top flight like Blackpool and Charlton. Had to happen, the best a top player could earn then, adjusted for inflation, to 2021 was £25k, not a week but a year!
Cliff Mitchelmore's voice is very distinctive - I remember him presenting a travel show on TV for what seemed like decades. I think it was called Wish You Were Here and another presenter was Judith Chalmers, who was famous for an orange complexion long before it was fashionable. Pre-internet, before dodgy billionaires buying the clubs, one in 50 people apparently going to watch a game live at the football ground - it feels like ancient history now!
City played in striped shirts at that point in their history. The sky blue colour was the thinner stripe - the thick stripe may have been a sort of claret. I forget now.