American Reacts to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium | Richard Hammond's Big!

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[@farhaan8260]

React to -"The end is near" And Sergio Ramos- the gladiator

[@steved6092]

Hi ... did the original video say how much the stadium cost ? ... Amazing feat of engineering tho' ... also Richard Hammond seems to be morphing into a really bad version of ' Tony Stark ' !

[@cornelius8617]

@@farhaan8260 most definitely

[@cornelius8617]

You still think football doesn't have too much tactics? You will continue to believe that, until you check out the channel I suggested to learn about tactics. It's called "TIFO football". A good example from their channel would be "positional play"

[@lalitthapa101]

Hey,I'm a fan of your channel. Can you please react to this is football 2020/21 by JTG productions. The most beautiful video everything everything that happened this year & last year. You'll love it. Please🙏

[@ftumschk]

A "pitch" comes from the verb "to pitch", which means "To put something in a fixed or definite place or position", and the noun "pitch" means "A portion of ground selected or allotted [...] for residence, business or any occupation"... in this context, for the occupation of a sporting game. (All definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary.) A "sales pitch" was once literally a piece of ground where a trader would set up and sell their wares.

[@maximushaughton2404]

I did read somewhere that pitch comes from cricket, as when football started they used cricket pitches. In cricket the term pitch comes from pitching the stumps in to the ground. Tottenham were a cricket team that played football in the winter months to keep the players fit.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

A field is where you keep sheep, cattle, and corn. A pitch is where you've put something. Like a tent. Er...sorry, what was the question?

[@chrislawley6801]

@@neilgriffiths6427 That is what I was thinking : )

[@bitTorrenter]

"to pitch up"

[@williamwilkes9873]

Baseball is of English origin..,......,.balls, l guess.........

[@ftumschk]

6:15 The club is named after Harry "Hotspur", nickname of Sir Henry Percy, a famous knight in the 100 Years' War. He was called "Hotspur" due to his speed and agility on horseback... he rode horses so fast, it was as if he had "hot spurs". 9:46 "Soccer" is originally a British term - an abbreviation of "asSOCiation football". I don't know if it's a generational thing, but the term was certainly widely used in the UK when I grew up, when there were various "Soccer" magazines on sale, and there were UK TV shows that used the name ("Soccer Night", "Soccer Sunday" etc) even as late as the 2000s.

[@shoutinghorse]

The football club came from the cricket club which was called the Hotspur Cricket Club, it was the cricket club that was named after Harry Hotspur who reputedly owned land around the area that is now Northumberland Park, the original site of the cricket club. The term Soccer is indeed an English word deriving from Association. it is known as Oxford 'er slang which came from Oxford university, possibly even Rugby school before that, around the 1870's it was used to differentiate Association football from Rugby football IE: Soccer and Rugger. Before 'Soccer' became fashionable association football was often referred to as 'footer'

[@neilgriffiths6427]

@@shoutinghorse We call it "footie." Because, you know - you use your feet to play it.

[@SirToby1076]

I thought he was called Hotspur because he was quick to anger :-)

[@tonyjefferson3502]

@@shoutinghorse makes sense as he was from Northumberland

[@shoutinghorse]

@@tonyjefferson3502 I would imagine it's the reason it was named Northumberland Park. Just a guess, after all nearby Bruce Grove was named after Robert the Bruce. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grove

[@Glund117]

Think he's calling it soccer as the video is directed at Americans. American 'football' is not popular at all outside of London in the UK, in London any sport will get its stadium filled

[@vaudevillian7]

I mean it’s more that people travel to London for the games because they hold them there with it being a major international city, but there’s fans all around the country, in our NFL teams supporters club we have people in literally every part of the U.K. (and Ireland), the biggest concentration is probably in the Midlands

[@TrashskillsRS]

The NFL games is also mostly done for marketing reasons.

[@favely2069]

He’s Australian they call it soccer

[@danielleeskelton]

@@favely2069 No he isn't. He's from Solihull.

[@Glund117]

@@favely2069 he's English

[@rjhurst]

There is no such team as ‘Tottenham Hotspurs’. There should never be an ‘s’ after the word Hotspur. There is only One Hotspur. We are Tottenham Hotspur. Although our nickname is the ‘Spurs’!

[@andyjamess]

COYS

[@nedeast6845]

At least you are originally from North London, unlike some other teams

[@andyjamess]

@@nedeast6845 I can't even to begin to think who you are meaning of. Then again that might have been the Wool which has been pulled over my eyes. ;) lol

[@DabbaRanx]

Tottenham played their home fixtures at Wembley for a couple of years and I attended all but 2 games during that spell. A huge difference between the two stadiums is the atmosphere it cultivates. The approach to Wembley is really special and you feel excitement building, but once you get inside it's quite soulless. The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is quite the opposite - smacked in the middle of Tottenham, walking down a rather unassuming High Street to get there - but inside it really holds its own as one of the more impressive and atmospheric stadiums in Europe.... But only when Tottenham are winning, which hasn't happened much since they moved there 😂

[@our_illumination949]

Since? _its been a while since Tottenham have won something, unfortunately_ ... 😔 But at least the team has gotten really close on multiple occasions. Tottenham did Pochettino very dirty.

[@michaelcartwright1260]

The new EPL season is starting soon SoGal. You should definitely pick a team to follow! :)

[@oheneboateng7577]

Chelsea

[@MrSammotube]

Spurs obviously - always drama and at least a nice stadium!

[@joshvandewaardt6106]

Manchester united ofcourse

[@blackrozzz181]

Chelsea sogal keep the blue flag fly high 💙💙🦁🦁

[@coniston3106]

What about no team? I support a team that isn't in the PL. But I still like watching the matches.

[@finnmerchant6405]

The 2 closest Football stadiums in the uk are Dundee and Dundee United, that have a distance of only 350 yards away, so the players at matches get changed at their own stadiums then walk to the other one to play.

[@galoglaich3281]

A lot of stadiums in the UK and Ireland have a mixture of artificial and natural grass ie artificial fibres mixed with grass

[@zukispur5493]

Mixed in with the roots of the grass

[@alansmith1989]

At one time (Late 1930s) `Hampden Park` stadium in Scotland had a capacity of about 167.000. Later-because of safety concerns, it was reduced to about 135.000. It holds the attendance record in the history of the `European Cup` for the Celtic v Leeds semi-final (2nd leg) in 1970.

[@pauldocmusic2411]

Holds all the attendance records outside of the Maracana stadium. In the 30s it had 2 attendances of over 160,000 in the space of a week . One for Scotland v England , the other for Celtic v Aberdeen in Scottish Cup final .

[@alansmithee8831]

@Alan Smith. Nice to see your comments. My friend who I had commented about previously liking Prince Philip and playing chess against AJP Taylor went to a Scotland v England match when up there on an engineering project early 70s, but was careful not to speak or react for England.

[@jonmurray2350]

There was a great film about Scotland v England in 1937 at Hampden Park I saw recently on youtube. An FA historian stated it was registered then to hold nearly 185,000 at the time. There were 149,414 tickets sold, but he estimated that the 185,000 may have been reached via the custom of bunking in.

[@alansmith1989]

@@jonmurray2350 All before the `Health and Safety` rules we have today.

[@seivad74]

The Cockrel is a fighting Cockrel and the name Spurs relates to the sharp dagger-like spurs strapped to its ankles. The name Hotspur relates to Harry Hotspur (Sir Henry Percy) 20 May 1364 - 21 July 1403 the nickname was given to him by the Scots as a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack. The Club acknowledges Henry Percy, whose descendants owned land in the neighbourhood of the club's first ground in the Tottenham Marshes.

[@mattinfullvision9598]

As a Tottenham supporter I'm pleased you did this one

[@noahrussell2043]

The SoGal subscriber spurs supporters group is certainly a niche crossover I’m happy to be a part of!

[@mattinfullvision9598]

@@noahrussell2043 I reckon we could be the founding members of that one

[@jpgale]

Soccer is originally an English term. There are many codes of football including rugby football, American football, association football. Association football is what is known as football to differentiate from other forms association was shortened to soccer, this was done a long time ago. Now if I remember my team history, the name hotspur and the nickname spurs are not related. Hotspur came from a knight called Harry hotspur, the nickname Spurs came from the logo, which is a fighting cockerel standing on and old fashioned soccer ball. A fighting cockerel wears spurs. Women do attend and in greater numbers, so do kids but it is traditionally male on a Saturday afternoon.

[@mattinfullvision9598]

Football used to be seen as the working man's game! It was very much seen as a game for the working man. Thankfully it's more inclusive now but sadly it has lost it's working class element with billionaire owners and high player wages

[@mattinfullvision9598]

@Haniff Azman What are you on about? You sound utterly ridiculous!

[@roymontgomery3189]

@Haniff Azman Do you realize that when you say Football, most people in the world and on KZbin think you are talking about football (your soccer) and not about American football. Yes, you call it Football but most of the world call it NFL or American Football.

[@MarcioNSantos]

From a Brazilian point of view is very weird to see American football anywhere outside of the USA. Especially in England. It sounds disrespectful for the land of football and rugby. Hahaha

[@galoglaich3281]

MarcioNSantos Rugby and soccer is trying to expand its sport into the US ,so its only American football that is trying to expand its reach internationally.Aussie rules is doing it and so is my country ireland with our national sports hurling and gaelic football everyone wants there chosen sport played by more people.

[@MarcioNSantos]

@@galoglaich3281 Sure. I understand that.

[@robbie.j7639]

No inch is wasted in this Stadium, at least they didn't need to waste any space with finding somewhere to put their trophies.

[@SpeccyHorace]

That doesn't really work when they've got something like the 6th most trophies of any English club.

[@oscarsusan3834]

Gotta love the old school TH logo -iconic.

[@RyanCogar]

For Comparison to 5:44, similar information from The Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. (The home of Welsh international rugby, formerly known as "The Millennium Stadium" capacity approx. 74,000) In each of the stadium's bars, so-called "joy machines" can pour 12 pints in less than 20 seconds. During a Wales versus France match, 63,000 fans drank 77,184 pints of beer, almost double the 44,000 pints drunk by a similar number of fans at a game at Twickenham (Home of English Rugby).

[@OSRS_Emperor]

12:17 Just say American football and real football Edit: 14:40 you can't bring beer into the stands in the UK, don't know how it is in the US though but it might be a factor

[@darrenfearon4288]

Football is our national game.,a lot of families goes to games.

[@rosshunter9792]

Tottenham have a 10 year deal with the NFL to show 2 games a season and are positioning themselves for a possible future London franchise in the NFL

[@dlboss77]

London franchise? That's ridiculous. Never happening.

[@rosshunter9792]

@@dlboss77 it’s not as ridiculous as you think. Personally I have little interest in the sport but to say it’s impossible is a bit silly. They let teams move around all the time

[@zukispur5493]

@@dlboss77 it is/will be happening

[@Rob_Infinity3]

That video (as you may know) is from a series called "Richard Hammond's Big". All great episodes. But one that stood out was when he went to visit the Volkswagen factory in Germany. I'd love to see you react to that! If not, I'd highly recommend you watch on your own time anyway.

[@timdyer5326]

Thanks for a look at Spurs stadium. You are neutral and just appreciating it. Thanks for sharing.

[@andyykmeryiddothomsen7411]

COME ON YOU SPURS!!!

[@grahamcanny686]

Simply put the pitch term is used as a section of spaces used to play the game. In grass roots sports a field can have 10-15 pitches with games being played on them all.

[@mathewcaldwell2945]

He's calling it soccer, because the show is targeting an American audience to show off British products.

[@aidanjanemcintosh6919]

what are you talking about, Hammond's clearly an american

[@michael_177]

Richard Hammond's BIG is an incredible series

[@shoutinghorse]

It's Tottenham Hotspur. One S. Their nickname is The Spurs. With two S's.

[@KevMS84]

Nickname would simply be 'Spurs', no 'The' needed.

[@XXPIXX1980XX]

Much more spectacular when you are there in person 👍🏻

[@kevinbarr2095]

I don't like Spurs as an Arsenal fan but they basically looked at everything we did wrong with the Emirates and did it better.

[@timdyer5326]

Respect to an Arsenal fan from a Spurs fan for that. Pity about the tough seasons we had. Hope for better in 2021/2. Good luck.

[@kevinbarr2095]

@@timdyer5326 Well I don't hope for better for Spurs and I'm sure you don't hope for better for us but yes other than that I agree

[@timdyer5326]

@@kevinbarr2095 I hope for a better season for us both mate. 👍. Good luck 🤠

[@kevinbarr2095]

@@timdyer5326 Fair enough, I'm sure you understand I won't be wishing Tottenham any luck 🤣

[@timdyer5326]

@@kevinbarr2095 Yes mate. Understand. Christmas truce over. We will be yelling at each other come north London derby day. It's the way of things 😀. It's one of the things we live for. Keep well mate. 👍.

[@flogjam]

In UK Football, you aren't allowed to take you beer back to your seat, so that might skew the comparison. The trick is having a load before the game or chucking a pint or two down your neck at half time while navigating queues and the need to go to the loo. Also, the "drinkers" tend to head to the bar after 43 mins and 30 seconds! (lol) - it's a process !!

[@jw3505]

The best trick is asking for a spare cup for your coffee, stick the beer in it and you’re good to go

[@charlieeaton1252]

Ay my club thanks for reacting to it #COYS btw it’s Hotspur

[@AncientBriton1948]

Throughout the EPL and EFL all pitches must be natural grass, the only exception is a Desso surface which is 95% natural growing through a fine mesh which prevents divots being dug from the surface thus preventing the pitch being trashed. The downside is that in the closed season the surface has to be scrapped to remove natural soil deposits burying the Desso mesh which only has a 10year life span anyway.

[@maximushaughton2404]

The picture you said about the lack of female, well that was the bar, women tend not to go the bar at football matches. I'd say that there are about 30-35% women at football matches. It's the 7th biggest in the UK, 4th in London. Wembley Stadium 90,000 Twickenham Stadium 82,000 (Ruby) Old Trafford 75,731 Manchester Millennium Stadium 74,500 Cardiff Murrayfield Stadium 67,144 Edinburgh London Stadium 66,000 the Olympics stadium now home to West Ham.

[@randomkiliinterviews9453]

Usually the atmosphere in small stadiums is better than in big stadiums. Big clubs have high ticket prices and the people getting in today are usually 35 plus and have a lot of money. It's counterintuitive but in Germany Union Berlin or Leeds in England have amazing atmosphere.

[@victordevonshire807]

My sister and niece are season ticket holders at Spurs ie Tottenham Hotspur. Whole family are Spurs supporters.

[@jpgale]

The mixed pitch system was designed with the nfl in mind, the nfl even invested a little in the stadium. However the artificial pitch serves another purpose, concerts and other events don’t damage the grass.

[@Isleofskye]

Apart from a couple of sold-out games, as a London attendee of Sports since 1962 I really can not see The NFL taking off as it's so hyped but full of stoppages/adverts and we do not like Corporate or too commercialized Sport. Can't see many going on a regular basis.

[@ianprince1698]

perhaps the word pitch comes when the game is played on a large playing field, several pitches can be marked to in the same field so all the games can be played separately. many amateur games are played on a Sunday morning

[@andrewclayton4181]

Narrator is Richard Hammond. He was one of the three presenters of the V. Popular BBC TV car show Top Gear. He's good. The ONLY top football match I've seen was at Tottenham''s White Hart Lane stadium. But that was the old one back in 1972. ( they drew with Manchester United - no goals. Boring) The crowd are traditionally young men. Often fuelled on drink, which is why aggression has often been associated with the game. I'd say it's 90% young men, though efforts to broaden the appeal are made. Pitch for the playing area. Field can be used as a term at an amateur level. Always called the Park up in Scotland. When Tottenham had a club record out in the 70s, it was sung by The Cockerell Chorus. ( Nice one Cyril) I had a conducted tour around Wolverhampton Wanderers ground once. It was surprisingly interesting. Though not as high tech as this place just shown. You can see from these buildings the amount of money sloshing around at the top level.

[@TheArgieH]

Bicycle wheels were not the only wheels that needed "tuning". In the days when motor bikes and sports cars had spoked wheels "tuning" the wheel to balance out stresses was a skilled job, especially important if the wheel was going to be used at speed. I think back in the day a (musical) tuning fork was used. Probably there's a technology fix these days.

[@farhaan8260]

Biggest stadiums Santiago bernaneu (real Madrid) - Spain Camp nou (barca) - Spain Wembley Stadium Signal iduna park ( bvb) - germany

[@nichemphill8321]

The problem is bigger is not better. Both Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabeu are both are in need of redevelopment. Though there are plans and it all comes down to MONEY, which REAL & BARCELONA have been spending like there is no tomorrow. And that leads to why those 2 clubs and JUVENTUS were and are still intent on the highly controversial, chaotic and dangerous ESL (European Super League) That appeared to launch, then collapse in the space of 48 hours earlier this year. They are determined to resurrect it .

[@slackmack]

I attended BvB - THFC in a pre-season warm-up match. Great game marred only by a handful of idiots unable to handle their German beer. Tottenham won 1-1 🤣

[@galoglaich3281]

D6012 They are also big non football stadiums Twickenham 82000(rugby) Stade de france 81000 (rugby/football) Croke park 82300 ( gaelic football and hurling)

[@TheHesK9]

Nou camp and wembley are both bigger than the bernabeu

[@Bowleskov]

About the Beer, by FA rules Alcohol may not be consumed within sight of a football match so it is only served before the game and during half time. These rules do not apply to other sports in the UK as both Rugby and Cricket spectators are allowed to consume alcohol whilst the match is in progress. I assume therefore more would be consumed during a NFL game.

[@bushchat28d]

Whilst there is a reasonable % of women going to Premier League games these days, the bulk of all crowds are, as you say, men. However, if you go to somewhere like Barcelona you will find its much more of a family affair and the % of women is about 45-50%. A key difference between Spain and England however is that apart from the top 2-3 sides in Spain almost no fans travel away to watch their teams - this in turn means the potential for crowd troubles are virtually non-existant and everyone is far more relaxed as a consequence - hence the family atmosphere. When I went (from the UK) to see Barcelona for the first time, Barcelona scored and the crowd went mental - but then the opposition equalised... you could have heard a pin drop! I asked a Barca fan sitting next to me why there was no cheering for the goal from the away fans.. were they too scared? He simply said... "what away fans"! Nice video on a remarkable stadium by the way! :-)

[@GenialHarryGrout]

There is a stadium in Arnhem Netherlands that not only has a retractable roof but also a retractable pitch. The capacity of Wembley is 90.000 next biggest is Twickenham Stadium, used for Rugby, with a capacity of 82,000. For reference, the London Olympic stadium usually holds between 60,000 and 66,00 for sporting events and up to 80,000 for concerts

[@DarrenLamb-on3py]

Also old trafford is high 70s,000. Close to 80,000 and Evertons new stadium will be a sight to behold. We stuck with shitty old stadiums in Britain while European clubs built better ones, then as they say the smart money went on last and we started building the best stadiums in europe. As for Real Madrid since jude went there I've seen a few matches and the atmosphere is terrible. I expected much more from so many fans. But spanish games dont compare to German, Dutch or English games for passion and atmosphere

[@matthewdearsley123]

Sorry, you are ignorant when it comes to stats. Football has a crazy amount of stats. It's just not pause/break/play/ repeat..... there are a huge amount of stats in football. But due to it being free-flowing the stats are usually reserved for post-match rather than during the game (mostly). PL clubs literally have teams of analysts. Pundits also show a lot of stats... if you play fantasy football, again, lots of stats.

[@mattinfullvision9598]

Well she is new to it all for goodness sake, what do you expect her to be some kind of statistician already? She's learning and will pick up on stuff like that? Your comment was really too harsh there

[@matthewdearsley123]

@@mattinfullvision9598 the word 'ignorant' might be considered 'harsh' but it is a word that has a factual meaning. I wasn't trying to be offensive.

[@mattinfullvision9598]

@@matthewdearsley123 The word ignorant suggests not only a lack of understanding but an unwillingness to learn and gain more understanding of said topic which her attempting to learn clearly shows she is not ignorant. Your intention is completely irrelevant here, intended or not your comment was very rude

[@matthewdearsley123]

@@mattinfullvision9598 that is one usage of the word. I simply meant the more widely accepted literary version. lacking in knowledge, there was no implied 'not willing to learn'. Perhaps I should've phrased it better but i meant no offense. I realise it has negative social connotations even though it shouldn't. I am highly ignorant myself in many regards about many things. www.dictionary.com/browse/ignorant

[@mattinfullvision9598]

@@matthewdearsley123 Yes I thi3a better phrasing choice would've been good. Not to worry, happen s to us all unfortunately

[@ottovonmaybach]

The bird is a cockerell. The Hotspur part of our name comes from Harry Hotspur, son of the Earl of Northumberland, written about by William Shakespeare. The family owned alot of land in the area where Spurs are located.

[@jasonfernee2401]

Thanks for reviewing my football team's stadium. I am a season ticket holder and i have been to all major football stadiums in Europe and without bias this is the best stadium in every way. One thing... the name is Tottenham Hotspur and not Tottenham Hotspurs.... Spurs is the nickname. Keep up the good work.

[@davidrowlands441]

I learned a lot watching this. The stadium is fantastic but the game seems to be leaving its roots. Still is a fantastic stadium and good post. Thanks sal.

[@leonsamuel6165]

Good to see you learning more about football and the stadiums 😂 great content 👍

[@DaleTHFC]

There are Tour Videos of the Stadium with explanations of the in House Brewery and How many pints a 2nd are poured.

[@sickening31]

From what I saw there is missing info about hierarchy and diversity between national football and club football. The highest in hierarchy is FIFA that takes care of most general rules and organization of the major tournaments: Most prestigious one is World Cup and major tournament is every 4 years with best teams qualified from their region phase. This is tournament of national football teams. So is mix of best players of that nation that can be played for club in other country.You have regional organization in one of the earliest videos such as UEFA, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL etc. Each of that organization has got quotas how many teams can go for final tournament - UEFA has most as has many countries and best results - that’s even answer on your question why some countries were part of different association not where they should be by geographical location - easier access to go on final tournament. Qualification for World Cup is mostly in period of 2 years before final tournament. There are second tier major tournaments for the regional associations so you were watching UEFA EURO. Alongside was going on Copa America that is major tournament of South American football association. These tournaments are in the other 2 years of cycle to FIFA World Cup. So national teams playing for 2 years qualification for their regional title and other 2 for World Cup title. Other part is club football. Each country has own league system where clubs trying to win one of the highest titles. For club can play players from other countries to make best team as possible. There is couple of competition for each country. Mostly is league, cup tournament, sometimes battle between league champion and cup champion etc. Best teams from top leagues of each country can qualify for spots in their regional competition, same as cup winners. UEFA has 3 club tournaments UEFA Champions league, UEFA Europa league and Europa Conference League. Competing in these can club boost capital as there is valuable prizes not just for winning but achieving some stage. Each country has spots guaranteed per previous years success of clubs in that competition and probably some of coefficient from national team performance on major tournaments for couple years back. Usually there is even tournament of regional champions FIFA Club World Cup. That’s why it is possible to win even 5 trophies for a club in one season (as Barcelona did) - League champion, Cup champion, Winer of the battle between league and cup champion, Champions League champion, Club world cup champion. Also Messi plays for FC Barcelona as club and also for Argentina as his country

[@wonhung]

One of the reasons, apart from social ones, is violence. In the early days of football it was not unusual for someone to die and later in the 1970s & 1980s there were groups of "fans" called "firms" that would carry offensive weapons and start mass fights with fans from opposing teams resulting major riots & people seriously injured & sometimes killed. These "firms" would often invade the pitch and go after players of opposing teams. The reult was that most stadiums changed to seating only thus quelling the worst of the violence and it has become more family friendly since, but every now and again violence will flair up, but nowhere near as bad as it was during the 70s & 80s when even the police would get a good bashing. Sometimes it was a real blood bath. When I worked in TV back in the 90s I helped on a documentry about the Grid Iron teams in London like The Monarchs so American football has been played in London for at least 40 years. Not sure about the rest of Britain as I have no interest in the sport so didn't investigate further as I was only editing it.

[@alanking9199]

For a different football stadium, Forest Green Rovers (EFL2) is building a wooden stadium, in line with the clubs eco credentials, ie Vegan only food, renewable energy to power everything, they also had the first Mobot to mow the grass, they are the greenest football club in the world,

[@GeotheScot]

Though USA has several large capacity stadiums, how many USA cities have more than 1 football stadium in that City, my city of Glasgow in Scotland has 5 football teams, 3 stadiums with over 50,000 capacities, cities like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, ++ all have more than 1 large stadium

[@andyr5967]

They used to host NFL games at the old stadium from time to time, also on the same pitch. The sport is growing and the idea was to corner that part of the market. As a side I’ve been on the roof and touched the cockerel; the stadium is stunning and bigger than it seems.

[@mattinfullvision9598]

White Hart Lane never hosted NFL but there certainly were NFL games played at Wembley when Spurs played there for a while if that's what you mean

[@andyr5967]

@@mattinfullvision9598 London Monarchs, English NFL team in the mid 90s?

[@MrSammotube]

FYI for capacity, this stadium is the second biggest in the Premier League. Old Trafford (Manchester United) is the biggest, although quite old - having been to both, Old Trafford was lacking in food facilities for sure! I appreciate that it is easy to improve these things when you build a new stadium.

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

I'm gonna hazard a guess at this one.... but in the UK when football first became big, it was as a winter sport for people who played cricket in the summer. Aston villa for example were a cricket team in Aston who started a football team quite close to the start of a national football competition. A Cricket pitch would have a Pavilion or Villa hence the name. I'm going to assume they played on their cricket pitch....where you would obviously pitch the ball. (It has a couple of meanings in cricket, neither of which are exactly the same as baseball). So I'm assuming calling it a pitch just carried over from the field in cricket.

[@mattinfullvision9598]

Similarly Tottenham was founded by a group of cricketing schoolboys who wanted a spot to play in winter

[@tofgamman]

Automated grass cutter are popular in different places around Britain

[@tofgamman]

The Hotspur part is reference to Harry the Hotspur, a knight from years back

[@soanna473]

9:45 some rugby fans use soccer to make the distinction between association football (soccer) and rugby football. soccer from an english person means highly likely a rugby fan.

[@pauly741]

They have a brewery and bakery inside the stadium , they can pour about 10'000 pints a minute

[@kevingunning7569]

Historically in the UK, Football was the preserve of the working-classes. Traditionally, men would attend the game while the women remained at home. Things are changing of course, but it is definitely an historical throwback. See ya

[@handsolo1209]

Historically football in the UK was the preserve of posh public schoolboys and "gentlemen". It was not for the riff raff at all. After the universal adoption of the Sheffield rules many cricket clubs started to play football as a winter sport to keep fit for the cricket season. After that, many factories and industrial places started clubs for their workers and many churches started teams to try and keep local men from falling in to gang violence. The original posh teams either rejected the Sheffield rules and remained under the old rules which became modern Rugby Union or they stayed strictly amateur and had no wish to play in the new League systems. You will of course be aware of the early history of the FA Cup (created for the posh boys to have a trophy to play for) being dominated by ex-public schoolboy teams like Old Etonians, Wanderers, Royal Engineers (Officers only), etc.

[@DimitarBerbatov11]

You see majority of men in football stadiums because for us that is really really serious unlike your sports that I’m definitely are just entertainment. For us is entertainment but mostly is life. It’s like going to war. You don’t send women to war.

[@RawFootLettace]

Originally named Hotspur Football Club, the club was formed on 5 September 1882 by a group of schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle. They were members of the Hotspur Cricket Club and the football club was formed to play sports during the winter months.[9] A year later the boys sought help with the club from John Ripsher, the Bible class teacher at All Hallows Church, who became the first president of the club and its treasurer. Ripsher helped and supported the boys through the club's formative years, reorganised and found premises for the club.[10][11][12] In April 1884 the club was renamed "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club" to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur, whose post had been mistakenly delivered to North London.[13][14] Nicknames for the club include "Spurs" and "the Lilywhites".[15]

[@joshsheffsagain4662]

Rotherham United, a small town near me did it well. When the financial crash struck in 2008, they took benefit of the reduced costs and built themselves a huge premier League style stadium for a fraction of the cost, and also moved it close to the town centre. It's now one of the town's best assets. For a small former mining town, they did well in that regard.

[@BlameThande]

My favourite part about this is it's called New York Stadium (I pass it on the train) because the bit of land it was built on was called "New York" centuries before the city in America existed. I bet that must confuse a few sponsors!

[@joshsheffsagain4662]

@@BlameThande I'd heard, whether it's true or not, is that it's called New York because on that site, was a steel works which made the steel for the new York fire hydrants and also which went into the Hudson bridge!

[@TheHesK9]

Huge? 12,000 capacity isn't huge lol

[@dovidell]

Tottenham Hotspur football club were originally an offshoot of the Hotspur Cricket club which was founded in 1880

[@elprup2011]

Come On You Spurs!

[@fraolgudeta2877]

biggest stadiums in uk Wembley stadium (london) twickenham stadium (london) oldtrafford stadium(manchester) cardiff millineum (wales) murrayfield (edinbrough) london stadium (london) tottenham hotspur stadium(london) celtic park (glasgow) emirates stadium (london) etihad stadium (manchester)

[@markwilliamson2864]

The new THFC stadium is technologically extremely impressive, I wonder if it has sound deadening features in the away end?

[@zahrans]

Not sure about that but one things for certain. No where in the stadium is there a trophy cabinet.

[@daneelolivaw602]

@@zahrans Do you write comedy scripts for a living?. Only you aint very good, So far Spurs have won 25 Major trophies, with three of them coming in European competition's, they were also the first English or British club to win any European competition, and the only non league team to win the F.A. Cup.

[@thesaint-n3b]

@@zahrans I suggest you look again !

[@pedrocor46]

It's easy to differentiate: One of them is played almost exclusively with player's feet, so should be called FOOTBALL. Other consists in players handling the ball with their hands 95% of the time, it's nonsense considering to put the word FOOT in the name

[@jeffappleton7112]

It's called a pitch because it is a prepared surface. A field is more typically just open ground or pasture.

[@bentoomey15]

To differentiate between the two footballs, you can use Association Football for soccer. In fact, "soccer" is short for "association football" (the "-er" ending was a common slang thing in the late 1800's, it's called the "Oxford -er").

[@pjmoseley243]

both terms " SOCCER and FOOTBALL" have always been used to describe the game of Football since I was a kid and before. soccer became more common when Football was introduced into the USA, they did not want it confused with American Football, we would also call it " FOOTY" or sometime is you have a smaller team of 5 on each side, it will be referred to 5 a Side but we know it means football, 5 a side footy game.

[@Bowdon]

Football is traditionally a working mans sport i.e. were men would get out of the house and be around other men to drink alcohol and watch a game. But in more recent years there as been a push to promote it as a family game.

[@tazzz1783]

I still cant wrap my head around the term American Football...FOOT BALL, they play with hands, its HAND BALL...football is football all around the world and its literaly played like its named.

[@andyp5899]

The spur in hotspur refers to the fighting spur on the back of a cockerel's leg

[@stuarthardy3020]

The football stats are an interesting fillybuster for the fans however, the stats really comes into with owners & managers because in every training session the players ware monitoring vest, as well as bear tests are regularly carried out on before & after training tests So they will know weather a player has past their peak what heart rate is, what their blood sugar is basically these players are treated like racing horses because 2 or weeks out injured is 2 or 3 millions wasted so if a player needs an small operation to assist a healing process its done within 5 hours.

[@AgentLynch616]

Wembley is the biggest football stadium in England followed by Manchester United’s old Trafford stadium. Tottenham’s stadium is the 3rd biggest but the most modern. Tottenham spent a few seasons playing at Wembley whilst their stadium was under construction and I went to many games there. It doesn’t have the same class as tottenham stadium. And Old Trafford is at the end of its life. It needs demolishing.

[@llaauuddrruupp]

Why didn't Roger say 'hey'? He doesn't look angry or anything, so what's up?

[@raydawson2767]

A field is a natural landscape,where a pitch is created by levelling ground and using rollers and compactors to level it,the bird is cockerel,and Hotspur is named after the the person who created the club,also the land used to be owned by Harry Hotspur,a British duke. Spurs stadium is the second biggest stadium in the league,capacity about 62,500 roughly after Manchester United at 76,000,but there stadium is is very old and outdated.

[@charlieeaton1252]

It’s a cockroll it’s called the golden crockroll the person that shot the cockroll used to play for spurs it’s Paul gasgoinge (Gazza) and it’s real grass

[@tofgamman]

It is mostly men who go to games Most teams especially the larger teams have family areas so you might find more kids and women in there but you do get children and women in other area as well.

[@colinstanley4608]

London Stadiums: Wembley 90K(National Stadium), Tottenham 63K, Arsenal 61K, West Ham United 60K(The 2012 Olympic stadium), Chelsea 42K...Outside London: Manchester United 76K, Manchester City 53K, Liverpool 54K, Everton 39K, Newcastle 53K, Aston Villa 43K....Are the largest stadiums in the English Premier League.

[@davidfuters7152]

They all healed more before we where given a seat , I used to stand on a terrace on the Stretford end , now I stand on the Stretford end in front of my seat

[@raymondporter2094]

If you pick Middlesbrough ("The Boro") from The Championship, you will have a few highs, lots of lows, and many days/matches when you'll wonder whether you could have spent your afternoon/evening doing something more productive. Still, if it's in the blood, love for Boro cannot be denied.

[@dominicsimpson7582]

I live down the road from it. It's pretty massive.

[@sparxxcy8951]

As you have mentioned Tottenham a couple of times and follow Marina - it would be Great for you to follow 'Spurs'! COYS!... Nice to see another video of yours, Especially about our football club!

[@lauz-im3ov]

I think you'd enjoy watching the Amazon series All Or Northing, there's two football-based seasons, one that follows Spurs and one that follows Man City. They're both really interesting and will introduce you to some teams, key players, iconic managers, tactics and all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes with transfers and training and everything else football clubs do. You'd have to edit any reactions because it's Amazon but I think it'd be a great watch.

[@jk844100]

A short origin of the Logo and the team name: “Since the 1921 FA Cup Final the Tottenham Hotspur crest has featured a cockerel. Harry Hotspur, after whom the club is named, was said to have been given the nickname Hotspur as he dug in his spurs to make his horse go faster as he charged in battles, and spurs are also associated with fighting cocks.”

[@tofgamman]

Back in the day QPR and Luton had the original artificial ground but players were getting super rubber burns. Now the English league have said no to fully artificial ground in the top 4 divisions. Some of the non league teams make alot of their money renting their pitch out local teams so artificial pitches are used by quite a few teams

[@jasonfernee2401]

Hammond uses the term soccer because the programme was designed to sell it to the American market. The stadium is large by modern standards... Tottenham's older stadium going way back when had a record attendance of 75,038 All standing fans.

[@BigmanDogs]

Many football pitches has started to introduce a hybrid turf that is a mix of real and fake grass.

[@long-timesci-fienthusiast9626]

Hi SoGal, I think, it`s fair to say that Football in England was a working man`s sport originally. It was then a relatively cheap form of entertainment for men to escape their humdrum working life. Father`s often took their Son`s along from an early age at least to Home games. Though, Women & children were more likely to attend matches during holiday periods such as Easter. Things changed when it became more about the money, obviously businesses/Clubs looked at ways to encourage the family to attend. But, this had a serious setback during the football hooligan period, which put off other family members from attending. Generally speaking, I think family viewing has been returning, but the cost factor still plays a major part. Our stadiums used to have much bigger capacities before they were converted to all-seater stadiums. Matches such as Cup finals at the Old Wembley stadium, used to involve 100k + crowds as seen on old Pathe News footage or photographs from the 50`s/60`s.

[@MillsyLM]

I was working on that Raiders/Bears game as part of the chain crew.

[@andrewsparsholtt5338]

Men & women support Tottenham Hotspur, and child, the Golden Rooster, ( Cockerel) also Nick name is Spurs, My Name is Andy Sparsholtt from Edmonton North London England.

[@DarrenLamb-on3py]

2nd biggesr in london but still a lot smaller than old trafford on Manchester united which is close to 80,000

[@fanestefan7542]

They didn't build it just for NFL and football, a lot of concerts and events are hold there. and they needed a second turf.

[@teedoification]

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (or White Hart Lane) is arguably the best football stadium in the world currently. In terms of capacity in England, Wembley is number one at 90,0000, then you've got Old Trafford in Manchester (home of Manchester United) which is 72,000, then Spurs come third overall (second in London). After that you've got the Olympic stadium (West Ham United) and the Emirates (Arsenal) both in London and both 60,000 (the latter just a couple of miles down the road from Tottenham, and their arch rivals), though Celtic Park up in Glasgow (home of errr Celtic) is slightly bigger at 60,500. And if you're counting rugby, Twickenham (home of England rugby team in southwest London, nearish Wimbledon) comes second at 80,000.

[@zukispur5493]

Don't forget our training complex at Hotspur way. We're simply years a head

[@Captally]

As an ancient I remember when football was very children friendly. My 10th. birthday present was attendance at the Mathews Cup Final - Blackpool 4 ; Bolton Wanderers 3. Women weren't very interested in football but it wasn't unusual to see kids passed over the heads of the crowd down to the front so they could see. Of course, this was before foul mouth yobs and chavs took over the stands and Prima Donnas the playing.

[@kevinbarr2095]

I remember when I used to go to Highbury and take a rolled up newspaper with me, the queue for the toilets weren't worth the wait, you'd end up missing half the match and then the toilets themselves were no pretty sight. We used to do it into a rolled up newspaper instead

[@timarnold8267]

I'm not a huge fan of football, either British or American. I'm a motorsport fan (and instructor/driver coach and competitor). Surely one of the largest stadiums in the world has to be the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with 257,325 seats and up to 400,000 total capacity including standing room. I think the highest ever attendance was 350,000. In fact if you look up the top 100 highest sporting attendances, the Indianapolis 500 is No.1 with 350K, and motor racing events feature in the list more than any other sport, especially at the top of the list. Of course, they're not all stadiums, but a lot are, especially at the oval tracks in the USA.

[@presstoeject]

I was bought up in Tottenham and used to be able to see the floodlights from my front garden. The new stadium is amazing but the rest of the area continues to be rundown. Much like the Olympics, the promised regeneration for the community never really happens for Londoners.

[@peterlangbridge4286]

I grew up in Tottenham too, just round the corner from Bruce Grove station. I agree with you about the general area. It seems at odds with the stadium somehow.