A Brief History Of Modern Football | Soccer With Alfie Allen | Timeline

Game of Thrones star Alfie Allen sets off around the UK to explore the defining moments of football, from a visit to The Oval, the venue for the first FA Cup Final, to the near-mythical Christmas Day truce matches on the front lines of World War I.
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[@aegeanloungeradio]

Oh great... Reek loves football...

[@dontlookatmeplz]

Literally what made me watch lmao

[@mehdiyahiaoui464]

Reek is a good guy 😅😅

[@Itsunclegabby]

Reek 💔

[@cliffbowls]

@Barry Lyndon Theon*

[@victorvillegas8817]

Lmfao

[@shanky9076]

Id love to see this as a full series of Alfie exploring the history of different clubs and derbies.

[@Metalton95]

So many interesting stories and rivalries out there beyond the top 4-6 leagues (England, Spain, Italy, and Germany + France & Netherlands). Copa90 has their Derby Days series which is great! Argentina (Boca Juniors, River Plate, Racing & Independiente) Brazil (Sao Paolo, Palmeiras, Corinthians, Fluminese, Santos, Flamengo, Cruzeiro, Botafogo etc.) Bulgaria (CSKA Sofia, Levski Sofia, Ludogorets) Croatia (Dynamo Zagreb vs Hajduk Split) Greece (Olympiakos, Panathinaikos & AEK Athens) Hungary (Ferencvaros, Budapest Honved, Ujpest) Poland (Lech Poznan vs Legia Warszawa, Portugal (Benfica, Porto & Sporting) Romania (FCSB vs CSA Steaua Bucharest & CFR Cluj) Russia (Zenit St. Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow) Serbia (Red Star/Crvena Zvezda vs Partizan) Turkey (Galatasaray, Fenerhbache, Besiktas, Trabzonspor) Ukraine (Dynamo Kyiv, Shaktar Donetsk & Dnipro)

[@kraftmayo]

What a phenomenal documentary.. as a Canadian growing up watching Hockey.. then American football.. I have fallen in love with the real FOOTBALL! the passion and history of your great sport...makes me wanna move to England!! I will continue to educate myself and find my true team! Cheers 🍻

[@AaronToThe]

Have you decided on your team yet?

[@AaronToThe]

Have you decided on your team yet?

[@merseydave1]

You have Canadian Football Clubs ... support a local club ... its ok to have a club that you "Look out for" in another country". The World Game of FOOTBALL can only grow, in Canada if you go out and support a local team in Canada !!!

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Genuine emotions and warmth in this production. Well done!

[@MattMajcan]

What is dead may never die

[@almahmud4682]

Theon Greyjoy here. Once a gooner always a gooner❤️

[@Hawkmoon26933]

I know very little about the football played in the UK but I do know and understand the way the fans feel about their team. The feeling after a win against your rival, and the losses. The superstitious nature and rituals of our respective sports (mine is college football).The traditions and the memories shared with friends and family and the stories that stem from these experiences.

[@Hawkmoon26933]

I love this documentary, I’m American but I believe that football across the pond shares more in common with college football here in the states than most realize. Especially in the southeast and also we have a game here that is very much like the one Alfie plays at the beginning, it’s called tackle the man with the football. I know, sounds complex doesn’t it?

[@taylorlibby7642]

Interesting to consider the timelines for the development of both games. 1860-1864 America was going through it's most traumatic and deadly war precisely while organized soccer was first developing in England. 1869 was the first college football game in America between Princeton and Rutgers.

[@LuminescentMonk]

From the South US myself and I'm quite familiar with that game lol, but the name it's sometimes still called is....controversial 😅😂

[@luperamos7307]

Are you from the southeast of the US? From what state if you don't mine me asking? Bc I am always being told by someone there that "here we don't play with our feet".

[@Hawkmoon26933]

@@luperamos7307 I’m from GA, I’m not sure what the comment about not playing with your feet means though.

[@Sipho_stepper2747]

You know what, this is giving netflix documentary vibes; which is needed

[@stephenblakely4463]

How did i know the comments would be fullv Theon Greyjoy quips. Unbelievable. Thank you Alfie for a well done history of the game. Absolutely fascinating.

[@kylevernon]

The true ending of GOT was a good ol fashioned Futbol game.

[@doubleplusdanny]

Imagine being the 1860 equivalent of a Messi or Pele.

[@Mikeyfromtheblock1]

poddrik and reek having a football chat. lovely

[@SheffieldTheHomeofFootball]

Hi Alfie, great video and thanks for coming to Sheffield. Just to try and change your opinion on"the defining" moment in football history (as you describe it), the FA also had the 'fair catch' rule and by 1872 this rule had gone in both London & Sheffield and been replaced by heading (which began in Sheffield). Also, players are allowed to handle the ball even today, when they throw it back in from side touch. Originally Sheffield up to 1877 wouldn't even allow use of the hands for a throw in but the FA did. In 1877 both the Sheffield & FA rules amalgamated so the rules we still play by today contain many rules & features originally invented in the Sheffield game, crossbars, free kicks, penalties, 90 mins, 11 a side, passing, heading, referees, corners, tournament football, clubs, matches between clubs, etc.. Also, you are correct making the link between early football and cricket. In Sheffield most clubs in the early days came from cricket clubs which is why Sheffield invented a game that wasn't dribbling rugby like the FA. Sheffield's game was called 'loose' & a "passing on game". Sheffield originally had no offside so you witnessed club captains dictating the field (as they did cricket), players running onto passes, into space, through balls, balls over the top, crosses, free kicks, ball into space, heading, long balls, ball out to the wing, basically modern football was happening in Sheffield as early as 1861 & we have the evidence to show that. Players like Jack Hunter (England's 1st working class captain) took Sheffield football to places like Blackburn to help Blackburn Olympic beat Old Etonians in the 1883 Cup Final. This match was in my opinion the defining moment in modern football and it showed the extent of Sheffield impact in the first 25 years of the game.

[@citythink]

Interesting info about a rouge, which is still used in Canadian Football which is more like American Football. It’s a missed field goal that either travels through the end zone or, when missed, the player who returns it is tackled in the end zone. It’s different than a safety in football (known as football in places where football is known as soccer instead of football being known as … throw egg.)

[@DNotzz]

Alfie is so great

[@julians7268]

I've missed Theon's face.

[@noahloe5501]

The video quality on this is 1000% better than the rest of this channels videos

[@shaniell.mathur6372]

I really enjoyed watching this history on football . Great production . I also learned from this video that it was The Scots who taught the English on how to play football ..😂 cheers to all football fans ..

[@boabm6522]

Scots invented the modern game, we're just not too good at it.

[@kaypakaipa8559]

Wow fantastic documentary. Loved this

[@alanscott1012]

REEEEEEEEEK!!!

[@clabood]

Sounds like football started for the same reason Footy (Australia Football League) started. For something to do during the cricket off season.

[@ChiefParish1]

Viggo Tarasov: I heard you struck my son. Aurelio: Yes, sir, I did. Viggo Tarasov: And may I ask why? Aurelio: Yeah, well, because he stole John Wick's car, sir, and, uh, killed his dog. Viggo Tarasov: [pause] Oh.

[@KRN762]

I thought he looked familiar.

[@LVNGSOULSirLsa]

Awesome 👍🏻

[@aeughcarrot]

Ramsey Bolton really made you likeable.

[@basil4072]

Fantastic documentary ⚽️

[@ComfyDents]

I kind of mixed things up. I thought the actor of Theon died some time ago. Now seeing Alfie, my first impression was isn't this a little unsensitive? Second weird to publish such old recordings. Then I checked Wikipedia to check the year of death. Wait he is still alive! What did I imagine? It was his fellow double actor who died too early. Not himself. :-D Always something new to learn! 😅

[@zobrombie9554]

This was a rollercoaster to read😵‍💫

[@DrTheRich]

If he really died, why would it be unsensitive to publish something he still had made before? I think it would be respectful.. If I made something and then died, I would be sad looking from heaven if that thing got shelved forever and nobody got to see it...

[@nodescriptionavailable3842]

Yeah

[@splitman1129]

Insensitive, not unsensitive. You had to battle auto correct to make that error.

[@BungleTheGooner]

Alfie an Islington Gooner. I also met Tony Adams, down Caledonian road near the chip shop and swimming baths. IYKYK

[@mikewilliams4438]

That was half tidy, very well done, oh yes.

[@timdarville4827]

RIP Cyrille Regis. Legend!

[@danimalplanet18]

19:30 Theon & Podrick!

[@TURNERNATOR82]

Great stuff 👍🏻⚽️

[@GrizrazRex]

Of all days I chose to watch this, I had to pick the one on which the great Pelé passes.

[@twentyseven2948]

Who's watching this and thinking about Ross playing rugby with Emily's friends in the show ?

[@wendigo53]

1872 the first international game, 0-0 draw. Since there was too much scoring, they came up with the offside rule.

[@OGYZuko]

Didnt know Iron Islands had football

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Ramsey made you Reek! You will always be Reek!

[@billykuan]

The little people played and watched it, rich people saw an opportunity to make money off the little people, the rich bought the clubs and the little people pay.

[@cryptonian101]

English soccer ⚽️☝️🧐 “Football” is more of a general term for variants of Foot + Ball sports. It originated in pre-historic times 1500-1600 BC in Mesoamerican era.

[@eddiel7635]

Nope, football relates to the fact it’s played on foot not to the fact the ball is kicked with the foot… hence why association football, rugby football, harrow football, Eton football, American football, Ausie rules football and Gaelic football, all came from the same source football.

[@eddiel7635]

Soccer is just a Victorian slang term for association football, Rugby football was shortened to rugger, Association football was shortened to assoccer and then soccer.

[@elisebrodeur-jacobs5215]

Look! Theon Kinslayer, well I never!

[@BlackPantherDMV]

REEK!!! LFG!!!

[@danielwilliamson6180]

31:26 Simon Inglis is my uncle.

[@splitman1129]

Why is there always sooooo many ads on this channel?? Like 3x more than any other channel I'm subscribed to.

[@bluebagel8084]

Hold on...wasn't he killed by the Night King??? I'm so confused.

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

I think John Wick also killed him..

[@Kristoph-69-69]

When was this made?

[@wendigo53]

4:00 so this is where she got the idea for quidditch.

[@Juicysmoolyay7259]

You look like the evil Russian kid from John Wick

[@Jason-qt9iz]

First thing first. Dont kill John's dog. 🤣

[@SomeoneYoung26]

Reek!

[@TheTororist]

theon greyjoy is a gooner? explains our luck ever since game of thrones came out

[@datta1601]

Pod the Rod 😁

[@lillianpandola2297]

Oh hi Theon

[@davemayers9342]

A British game that England claim as it's own. Shame they never win anything. But Qatar 2022 might be 1966 all over again. But as an Englishman, sadly I doubt it. :(

[@Malikin]

what is a greyjoy doing in the north?

[@angmanileniobatangtundo7957]

john wick ,😍♥️

[@thedukeofswellington1827]

Ah Freddy Fienkel

[@jorgemansilla9043]

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE ......

[@anandkrishnapal5200]

Oval is called lord's here in India.

[@eddiel7635]

The oval is in Kennington, Lords is a different ground by Maida Vale. Both in London. Oval is Surrey and Lords Middlesex.

[@merseydave1]

Very good documentary ... however you said "Association Football" hence The Football Association in 1863, "But" you did not say "League Football" hence The Football League in 1888 (now The English Football League) ... The Same Game yet different orgs and competitions. Just say FOOTBALL as its The World Name for The World Game!.

[@TheRealTburt]

Hank Hill already told use everything we need to know about soccer. There's no need for an hour long special.

[@ToudaHell]

Huh. Just realized. Football is for England what Hockey is for Canada

[@azzajames7661]

Hockey is from England, too😜

[@ToudaHell]

@@azzajames7661 NEVER say that to a Canadian.

[@azzajames7661]

@@ToudaHell Why?! Does the truth hurt their feelings?

[@ToudaHell]

@@azzajames7661 ice hockey is Canadian and you're lucky I'm not that into it because We take hockey as seriously and violently as you do soccer. Unless you want a punch in the face, never say that to a Canadian. We're nice because we unleash it all on and adjacent to the ice. And everywhere is adjacent to the ice.

[@ToudaHell]

@@azzajames7661 Me think the lady protests too much. Are you jealous we are more famous for our hockey prowess? Poor baby. Let me kiss the booboo better

[@johnmurray8454]

No mention of SCOTLAND contribution

[@MarvelousSquad]

watch the video before commenting bro

[@coolbluecar]

They literally went to glasgow😂

[@dirkb9788]

Reek likes Arsenal.

[@kraftmayo]

What happened to all the money they made at Fulham lol they haven't upgraded their grounds since 1905

[@alexsbschannel4027]

damn Eunuch

[@colechillen7700]

It's coming home 😂😂😂.

[@anyaonditsatenawa2618]

Didn't you kill John Wick's dog?

[@flossyraven]

Theon Greyjoy is that you on the thumbnail?

[@zacflemo1994]

waiiit i swear this dude is from John wick?

[@eddiel7635]

Amongst other things yeah

[@datta1601]

Theon 🤣🤣

[@iamza.]

Where's his sister that I love oh so very much

[@invalidusername5581]

It's not what you did, son, that angers me so. It's who you did it to.

[@engineersuhailasif2995]

nice pic

[@mikeheap7978]

Not enough sympathy and rememberance for the 39. 14 Liverpool fans were convicted of manslaughter and yet last season they hold a victory parade on the aniversary of the murder of the 39. How shameful how disgusting words failed me when LFC arranged this celebration on that anniversary, the government should have stepped in and stopped it.

[@mynin8265]

О, мужик без яиц здесь)

[@AllShaaaallPerish]

Saw Reek in the Thumbnail and commented. Won't watch the video.

[@psychwardsandSCENE]

25:00 soft

[@aliwardana4851]

Qasim’s dream: I saw Turkey falling down and destruction was everywhere, immediately after this happened Israel became very active they increased their operation around Palestine and they also built a fort for Dajjal. #MuhammadQasimDreams

[@akshaysinghaaa]

Cfbr

[@redcomn]

25:58 touch grass moments

[@greenleafe1238]

Hehe, Theon

[@mollyv2755]

I don't know who needs to hear this! Stop relying on the government and savings. Invest some of your money if you want financial stability, the pandemic has thought us the importance of having several streams of income.

[@clivebaxter6354]

Nobody go away

[@varus113]

Soccer...

[@Venturan0e]

Football

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Lol

[@s22t]

Somewhat pathetic that he didn't took up supporting the club his dad supported because they were at a low ebb at the time...and support gigantic Arsenal instead.

[@rustyshackleford4942]

History of homosexuality? No thank you soccer

[@coolbluecar]

*Football

[@anthonyblake4427]

Is that Theon Greyjoy

[@kymleannepuehringerhead6215]

Almighty God, maker of both heaven and earth, mover of mountains, splitter of seas, you are the all-powerful and loving God that we do not deserve. I shall never forget what you have done for me, and I shall strive with every fiber of my being to love you with all my heart and with all my strength, as you have commanded. Amen.

[@splitman1129]

If football is so loved in the UK, then why did y'all get 2 C class actors to do this documentary? This documentary was made because of the world cup happening right now, not because some game of thrones actor likes the sport.

[@Melaciour]

This documentary was made in 2017.

[@splitman1129]

Soccer, not football.

[@jimmy-stourbridge-fc8980]

It's football the clue is in the name played with feet not hands.

[@eddiel7635]

Its association football, American football grew out of Rugby football. Rugby football and association football were two versions of football that evolved with different laws. Slang for rugby football was rugger, slang for association football was asoccer and then soccer. Really you should call your sport American rugger.

[@carlredbird3054]

Girly sport. In America football, if someone started rolling around the ground screaming and crying about a fake injury, they would be removed and laugh out of the stadium lolz 😂... I literally can't believe grown men would actually want to watch other grown men laying about a field crying like a little girl and actually be entertained lolz 🤣

[@jimmy-stourbridge-fc8980]

Yet American football players wear pads & helmets yet in Rugby League,Rugby Yawnion (union) & Australian Rules Football they don't that's played by men.

[@browndestroyer3016]

Football needs balls to play it, well reek..