Red Star FC: A Night Out At Paris's Oldest Football Club 

Interesting video, but Red Star FC isn't the oldest football club in Paris, that honor goes to the Standard Athletic Club, a British Social Club formed in 1890 by young British workers who were in Paris building the Eiffel tower. They won the first ever French football championship in 1894. Today they're mostly playing for fun on Sunday mornings, as far as I can tell from their website, but they're still somewhat active.

What they says is not "referee, referee we strongly question the integrity...." In French they say "Flic, arbitre ou militaire , qu'est ce qu'on ferai pas pour un salaire " so in English it would be something like "Cop, Referee or Military, what we would do for a salary...."

Qu'est-ce qu'ils disent? Je ne comprends pas avec le voiceover de Tim!

Quite, quite, my good chap.

Dare I ask for a more "colorful" translation?

I went to a soccer match once with my dad. When we got home my mum asked me, all but 5 years old, how it was and I replied "The ones in the red shirts were good, the ones in the blue shirts were bad, and the ones in the black shirts were !@#$ !@##holes. " That was the last time I got to go, for some reason.

Best moment of the whole video...

It truly is a radio mast! If you use TNT, basically french dish TV, The Tour Eiffel is a radio mast. Every once in a while it gets cleaned and the local Paris doesn't get anymore TNT.

it reminds me of this one tower in Las Vegas 🤔

Phew! As long as it's not 5G mast!! 5G radio waves turn everyone gay you know.

Tio it’s been a radio mast right from the start! It’s one of the reasons it wasn’t torn down after the World’s Fair.

LOL It has also been referred to as "the unfortunate lamppost". :D :D :D

Bet they got a sickass RGB rig with some Gamer Mice and Gamer Keyboards. Bet that's the Gamer House.

lmao

Every video I watch, you comment on haha 😂

what is the name of the song?

I also like his choice for pedantry corner at 1:33.

@@frithjoffieseler8041 it's a cover of the match of the day theme

Yeah me too. Hate football.

@@sepez *soccer

@@TomGreen99 for the whole world it's football. Please, deal with it, sir.

@@virgiauskas For the whole world it's _sarcasm._ Deal with it, Sir. 😎

But we're not here for any of that! (...actually, I wanna see it too)

I'm an Italian living in Paris since a year. I've been 6-7 times to watch Red Star, the atmosphere is crazy. It's just the worst football I've ever watched (and I regularly go to watch lower divisions), but there's much much more than that. So I highly suggest you to go one time. Love football, love Red Star

As a Thistle fan I felt the same. This was like going to a real football stadium again.

I wish I could go to lower division games in Europe. But I live in the states, so I can't really go anywhere. But my favorite soccer team is America's Favorite Third Tier English Soccer team, AFC Wimbledon.

I went to Hampden to see Queens Park play Albion Rovers. A crowd of just over 500 in a lovely stadium. Before that I was lucky enough to catch an under 16s match on Lesser Hampden between Queens and Inverness..... I managed to get chatting to the head of the academy who showed me into the Pavillion (apparently the oldest building in the world used continuously for football activity). There was a little hall of fame and hearing about the club origins and (until this season) their amateur status I felt so privileged to get the guided tour. Queens are the oldest club in Scotland and it needs to be looked after and cherished. The visit was part a challenge I had set myself to see a match at the oldest clubs in each UK country in a season. I'd already been to Cliftonville and Cefn Druids. It was a brilliant little foray north of the border 🙂

Back in the day before big money ruined the sport people with homes like that would rent out balcony space for big games...

at 8:00 you could really see a person on top of the building watching and cheering when the home team scored. So that person is living the dream.

Imagine living there if you are not a fan.

@@regould221 not a big deal. How often would they play on this stadium? Once every 1 or 2 months?

@@arturturkevych3816 once every two weeks I think.

yes

You've missed a few but yes :) My ultimate goal is to make this the world's best football, trains, mountains, weird frontiers, abandoned buildings, fake buildings, conveyor belts and sewage plants RU-vid channel

@@TheTimTraveller and most importantly very long buildings channel

@@TheTimTraveller New goal - combine them all into one video! A football match on a train that's supposed to stop at a station-but the station is a fake,. Its been abandoned because it was too long! Now its above a sewage plant, and the effluent is carted across 3 borders via a conveyor belt through the mountains...but we're not here to see any of that!

The Tim Traveller damn, if I wasn’t already subbed that would make me hit the sub *and* the bell.

It's fantastic!

Likewise!

A three legged sheep, who was blind in one eye, could beat San Marino.

They can't, Red Star plays very very very poor football hahaha

@@Sawsquatch San Marino very nearly clinched a draw in that particular match against the sheep, though. A pity about that own goal in stoppage time.

20 years too early Kimbo!

Wait, wasn’t Lenin exiled in Paris... I wonder if he was a supporter of this club... 🤔

@@malahammer Imperialist lackey! Its off to the Gulag for you, sunshine. ;-))

@@joermnyc No, he was exiled to Switzerland.

@@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386 Lenin spent 4 years in Paris, mostly rue Marie-Rose.

Several other sports have matches with that sort of atmosphere all the time, everywhere in Europe (and possibly in the rest of the world as well, but I'm less familiar with that). Like basketball, handball, volleyball...

Wait till he pays 5th division Libourne a visit

If you're a Red Star Paris fan, may I ask, what is the reason for Red Star rivalry with Paris FC and US Creteil? Are reasons political, geographical or just because you're in same league? Also, is St Ouen part of Paris of separate town? Thanks.

@@goranmilic442 Saint Ouen is a very close suburbs of Paris , that was Paris before .... The rivalry with Paris FC is essentially political as Red Star Fans supporters are left side and Paris FC are stupid racists.... The rivalry with US Créteil is not strong and I saw a derby in Bauer against Créteil where Ultras of the red star applause the visitor's stand and sing together "everybody hate the PFC"....

@@mystere_baguette Thanks for info.

@@goranmilic442 When Paris Saint Germain kop Boulogne (more far right people) got dismantled & people got banned from stadiums, some of those racist bitches went to PFC instead.

I've only just seen this video. I've been a season ticket holder for Red Star since 2016 and looking forward to sitting in the new tribune in January.

Or we shout "referee kelong" which translates to "referee! We strongly question the integrity of your performance!"

Howard called, he wants to talk ... ;)

That's sad. England had a big hooligan problem in the 70s and 80s, which led to heavier regulation. I remember going to a Middlesbrough v Sunderland match (local derby), back when they were both in the Premier League, there were a lot of police officers outside the ground.

Wish you were here. It was a british travel show and I think this was the tune they used in the 90s.

I never did get to the bottom of the mystery of WHY they chose green... it may be lost to the mists of time. Probably just because Jules Rimet liked green or something

@@TheTimTraveller Hi Tim, when Rimet created Red Star in 1897 they played with blue/white jerseys. Red Star merged with Olympique de Paris in 1926, they played in white until 1934 ; then they eventually chose green/white which were actually the initial colors of Olympique de Paris. Big fan of your channel btw. Cheers!

@@ogamiitto8627 ah thank you! Well that explains why they wear green. But now I want to know why they chose blue & white :D

@@TheTimTraveller That's the reason why we love you ! :)

Is it safe to visit I would love to watch Paris FC I am from liverpool england

Her dad Robert owned the club back then, right?

@@alternatesportshistory3605 Indeed the Bouncing Czech owned the club and lived in Headington Hall (one of the best council houses in the country as he rented it off the City Council).