1971: HOUSEWIVES of HIGHBURY on new FOOTBALL season | Nationwide | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive

"I dread it for the crowds, but I'm glad of it to get rid of my own mob..."
Bob Wellings speaks to women who live in the Highbury area of North London - the home of Arsenal Football Club - about the start of the new football season. Are the women looking forward to the return of football, or do they consider themselves to be 'football widows'?
Originally broadcast 4 August, 1971.
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[@hilaryepstein6013]

I love these little clips. They give a wonderful snapshot of Britain over past 70ish years. These women all know their own minds and they're not afraid to speak up. Salt of the earth!

[@katewebber1131]

A time we all spoke so nicely, no effffing hardly any swearing. 😊😊

[@LookatmeimSandraDee]

These are the kind of ladies i used to do knock down ginger on with my mates in the 70s as a nipper, we would run off with them shouting " You wait!! I'll tell your parents!!"

[@garryleeks4848]

I remember playing that , always got caught

[@jdm65]

Islington as it was. Super clip.

[@ctcurry1777]

Upper Street that's where I was born. So many memories. Top Stuff.

[@Candide1776]

Could have used a few subtitles there, but an intriguing video overall! (I'm from the State of Georgia in the United States, so you would likely need a few subtitles for old videos of people from my neck of the woods, as well).

[@oxouk]

How many people watching had those exact net curtains growing up.

[@CamcorderSteve]

If I am not mistaken Arsenal won the league and cup double that season, emulating Spurs who did it 10 years previously. Thinking about it, I think that was the previous season 1970/71.

[@Cripalani]

yeah we won the league in '71 at lane & made it double against Liverpool

[@CamcorderSteve]

@@Cripalani I remember that game, I was there. One of the worst footballing experiences I can remember! Trying to protect our proud record of being the only club to have won the league and cup double in the 20th Century, and of all the clubs to loose it to bl**dy Arsenal!! Been done many times since then of course, and is no longer seen as a big achievement as more and more clubs tend to "buy" their success.

[@donegal79]

Not one of these working class people could afford to attend a a PL match today

[@baliksupper6043]

Or the houses round there!

[@knitware]

Wonderful ladies, glad and encouraging their husbands and boys to get out and enjoy themselves!

[@Evemeister12]

And get their boyfriends coming over for a bit of fun.

[@baliksupper6043]

Who is the king of Highbury?Charlie Charlie!!

[@mackfin8869]

Brady born as the king

[@vercingetorixavernian8978]

You can’t understand Britain until you understand football first

[@MarkBrennan]

Another area that is considered posh now but was still very working class then.

[@hellie_el]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@aquarius4953]

Travels to the end of the world ? Must has gone to Stanford Bridge !

[@buster7804]

How times have changed i have to be nice to the missus for at least 2 hours before the football...In the 70's women treated it as a break ffs.

[@petemcnamara5070]

Such a shame all these Neighbourhoods have lost almost all their old school British people.

[@stephencruickshanks3794]

Nobody forced them to move away.

[@liamquinn2011]

Such a great club then. Really was part of the community. All these clubs are just interested in increasi g their global fan base these days

[@commissionergordan]

I'm sick of it Robbie

[@jemmajones6013]

I wish Britain was like this again. This is the real Britain I miss. The government have ruined this country!!

[@oldroanio5631]

I can't believe how good their teeth are...

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Food was organic in those days.

[@RedfishUK1964]

There had been free NHS dentists since 1949 - and you could actually get one back then

[@marknewbold2583]

They're not American

[@garethluvsthetruth6782]

as long as they win i wont get beat up!

[@FunSponge1901]

Polite, good, honest working class people - what changed on their streets...🤔🤔

[@SAXONWARLORD1000AD]

probably our pathetic governments opening the flood gates to the 3rd world

[@marknewbold2583]

It became gentrified

[@FunSponge1901]

@@marknewbold2583 Partially, yes - but something else caused the working class to lose it's sense of national pride....

[@moominmay]

@@FunSponge1901 there’s plenty docs also explaining how as industry changed the next generation wanted to move further away for better jobs and more suburban areas. It’s not always dark and mysterious reasons lol

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Wow. A lot of british poeple didn't have indoor plumbing then yet they grew sooo tall!!! What a paradox I don't understand!!!

[@silversteel6312]

All the adults in this wonderful clip are dead now. Something to think about for us all as Arsenal flatter to deceive once again this season🤔

[@baliksupper6043]

So when the mighty gunners are playing crap we should all think of the dead people in that clip?!?

[@silversteel6312]

@@baliksupper6043 Nope, just a little perspective perhaps? One day Arsenal will play and you and I will be long gone. All the best.

[@garryleeks4848]

Some of these women look more manly than the men

[@Norvvid]

Man, the neotransfeminists must go nuts watching this.

[@Muzikman127]

Ah, because if there's one thing trans people and feminists hate it's working class people having fun and women speaking their minds? 🙄

[@Muzikman127]

do you always feel the need to pathetically shoehorn your politics into everything?

[@mikepoteet1443]

Those women should praise alcohol every day for their successful pregnancies!🤮

[@moominmay]

Still look better than you though 😂

[@Cripalani]

you're not a smart boy Mike, aren't you?

[@tindo9833]

Lol

[@patdoyle3686]

These ladies its a great game⚽️ for the men n lads1971 🕰🕰🕰times have changed 2022⚽️