Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.

[@ianhawdon3680]

When tv was worth watching,great writers great character actors

[@sidewaysid]

And no Muslims

[@davidedge6512]

@@sidewaysid Stop being the end of a bell….

[@marknewbold2583]

Just like now then

[@noblemann4898]

​@@sidewaysidI'm a muslim and so are many white English reverts. We're not a race. We are a religion. The only religion that can defeat racism.

[@Adam-XL]

@@sidewaysid lol yeh blame the Muslims, not the retarded white chavs who sit around watching nothing but reality TV, until it ends up being thats where the money is and all the TV networks bother putting on

[@diptastik5651]

I remember watching this when it was first on telly . Brilliant ! David Swift was really great . I loved seeing these plays , Play For Today , Armchair Theatre etc . Wonderful acting and stories .

[@markwinstanley4898]

A timeless classic

[@skintslots]

The footballing choreography in this Sunday morning kickabout was far more realistic than almost anything you ever see in a so called 'football' drama on the telly.

[@juanman75]

Absolutely brilliant, loved every second of it!

[@stephennoone3545]

Just watched this for the 1st time ever and thought it was absolutely brilliant. Great acting and so true to when I played Sunday football in the 80s

[@robertoprincipe5749]

I saw it in Italy in 1974, when I was a child. The title was "Il più bel gol della mia vita" ("the best goal of my life")! I've been looking for it for years, thanks!

[@closethedoornow7538]

I’m glad you found it, I also love the translated title, that works so well for this film.

[@finolaomurchu8217]

1974 was wondering the year.

[@burtonfootballer5408]

Just like it was back in the day. Thank God for sunday referees

[@terryyakamoto3488]

They are the bravest of the brave

[@Remnants100]

Sunday mornings long ago, but this makes it seem like yesterday. Loved it.

[@richardking3206]

This is just brilliant! Excellent writing, good performances. I’m surprised that this hasn’t had numerous repeat tv showings over the years. Funny, dramatic, truthful. Even some unexpected politics from the female dog walkers! One of the late great Rosenthal’s (Maureen Lipman’s better half before he died) best tv plays. Some of the very good character actors of the time, too.

[@paddymeboy]

Only problem is, it's not really about anything is it? The actual football's not bad though. It's a difficult sport to stage, they must've had some pretty good players on the cast.

[@davidavery2629]

@@paddymeboy Not really about anything!? What about the human condition? What about the agony of what might have been? What about law 9, paragraph B?

[@Spectrescup]

​@@davidavery2629god forbid he ever sees Waiting for Godot

[@garyfinn8772]

Might offend some ass hole

[@stephenlever419]

They won’t repeat this ,,, it’s not multicultural enough

[@tonysinger]

I remember this being made my house is in a few scenes. Happy memories

[@closethedoornow7538]

Tell us more please mate

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

"May the best team win." "Why?" No answer to that line!

[@stephenholmes1036]

David Swift, Freddie Fletcher, Duggie Brown, Fred Feast, Joe Gladwin, David Bradley.claire Kelly anna Kirkbride, John Who good actirs, Micheal Apted director

[@annoldham3018]

Great to see this. Heard so much about it and got to see it finally. Plus my husband's friend Bruce Watt (the little boy he gives the money to). Bruce is now living on the Orkneys with his wife and is a mean bagpipe player! 😊❤

[@joncumber2020]

Thanks for this. Saw it as a child and ever forgot it. Great.

[@steveruscoe3630]

OUTSTANDING! I remember seeing this about 30 years ago on TV. The dialogue and humour are superb and very much of its time. Deirdree Barlow and Fred Gee as well!!!!

[@DARTH71236]

And Walder Frey in goals.

[@liamwhitcombe1237]

Steve Ruscoe I may I'm wrong, but is that a young Don Goodman in the stripes in his previous pro days?

[@regniblet4682]

George Berry too.

[@sonofwallacecoyb4744]

Fred Gee..Just got an answer without asking..His name was on the tip of my tongue

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

And Jud from kez and the milkman 😂

[@MaterLacrymarum]

Well that was terrific. Why can't TV make more programs like this today? I'm sure we could do without a Reality Show or three.

[@gypsydave1]

Brilliant! A Great british screenplay, well put together.

[@birdsaremything]

Love this. Great observation of how fairness and justice is perceived.

[@davidedge6512]

The two ladies talking politics is the best thing I’ve seen in years. Pure fiction, but funny.

[@paultaylor7082]

Rabbit Hills Playing Fields, Bolton Road, Pendlebury, Salford, circa 1972.

[@newforestpixie5297]

“ I’ve got old head on my shoulders “ - “ You’ve got bloody old shoulders “ 😆

[@mikeluke7417]

David Bradley as Billy Casper in kes has to be the greatest performance of a newcomer ever❤❤funny and heartbreaking at the same time 😢❤😂the football match with Brian Glover is just so funny😂😂😂😂

[@philipatkinson7039]

And the captain in the yellow is their judd from kes 😂😂😂😂

[@tintomara6209]

That's the other David Bradley, not the lad who was in Kes!

[@philipatkinson7039]

@tintomara6209 I'm on about the man in this scene in the yellow shirt, he's freddy fletcher AKA judd from kes.

[@philipatkinson7039]

@tintomara6209 casper's real name is david bradley and he changed his first name to dai bradley, not to be confused with the actor david bradley that you see as the caretaker in the harry Potter films and other programmes. 😉😉

[@michaelohalloran2800]

Brilliant film.Always put your dosh in your sock.

[@elijahtchilembe-mpovie2715]

Ref: “Did you speak?” Captain #1: “No, I was yawning” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@xxxxxxxxxxhardy]

A lovely reminder of another age. The valley below with power station ,coal mine and mills, thousands of jobs for men like those in the play , all now gone.

[@paultaylor7082]

Yes, most of the area has been knocked down and rebuilt, part of where the Agecroft Colliery was is now the site of the Category B Forest Bank Prison. Some of the players here would now be serving time there for the very dodgy hairstyles on show, I'd say..

[@stevenkennedy6298]

I remember watching them film this as a kid I lived on Bolton road next to the fields brings back memories

[@mrnobodyz]

steven kennedy steven kennedy ...me too waggin' off school was about 10.

[@geoffrennox1840]

I was wondering if that was Agecroft Colliery and power station in the background

[@Kevinasp]

First shown Sunday 9th January 1972 when the miners strike started. It wasn't the Dai Bradley in Kes though but another actor called David Bradley.

[@aces-ww8zl]

Alan Erasmus, one of the original founders of Factory records 51.37!!!

[@stevecharlemagne4496]

Classic TV comedy drama from Granada's golden era. Some familiar faces that were in Coronation Street are in this. RIP Jack Rosenthal, RIP Micheal Apted.

[@derningtona]

and RIP Anne Kirkbride

[@Deano_Longley]

Its just so like real life was back then as a kid i used to go watch the local team in sunday league and it was brilliant,the cast of characters watching on the touchline u just couldnt make it up,no internet or mobile phones needed back then it was a great craic just been there,this is brilliantly written

[@richardenglish2195]

Truly wonderful play. If Rosenthal had adapted it for the stage it would probably be on the GCSE curriculum.

[@paddymeboy]

That would've been a good trick considering it's about a football match!

[@johncarlisle621]

​@@paddymeboyZigger Zagger by Peter Terson, was a stage play about football violence & later adapted for TV. it was on the school curriculum when I was preparing for my English O level in 1975

[@richardparkin4930]

Quite wonderful tv from wonderful tv era. Quintessentially British.

[@CarlTebbutt]

David Swift a superb actor.

[@jeremysmith8370]

14:42. "By hell they're a rough lot.They kick anything that moves. They'd kick their own grandmothers. Never heard of sportsmanship.Get him down Tommy! Go for his left knee-cap! The one with the bandage on! Good lad!"

[@kevinhoughton9134]

Brilliant! Dougie Brown, Fred Feast, Joe Gladwin , square wooden goal posts and a pvu Adidas sports bag, I had one in Orange. And the Sunday morning cries of "REFEREE".

[@darganx]

adidas should reissue those bags, I'd get one!

[@freebornjohn6876]

@@darganx They are very sought after these days.

[@jasonali4122]

I can feel a bit of Ron Manager coming on: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3bbnGiKZZd0fpI&ab_channel=schpleeb

[@TheBudgie29]

Judd from Kes. 14:46 The old guy used to do the Hovis add with the boy with bike up the hill. Everyone used to say "It were real Crrrrrrrrrrrispy" Just brilliant to see this again. Thanks for the upload. 45:00 The ref nuts In a White Ball cause the Brown one would have caved His head In. Lol.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Haha sported jud str8 away but was rackin me brains to remember old guy, hovis lol

[@telsutton]

He's still alive and kicking in Barnsley is ol' Freddie. Loved the few weeks he landed in Coronation Street in the 70s (it was on here, but might have been taken down since), especially his night with Bet Lynch. ;)

[@daidando8903]

Judd looks like Tommy off Trainspotting with is hair

[@mp3ste1]

12:40 -12:56 was a very good bit of football and were unlucky not to score . a right proper british film. good stuff.

[@dee_seejay]

@ 22:35 Ronald Charles Waldron, known professionally as *_Ronnie Ronalde,_* was a British music hall singer and _siffleur._ Ronalde was famous for his voice, whistling, yodelling, imitations of bird song and stage personality [source - Wikipedia].

[@dee_seejay]

@19:31 Alan Erasmus - Manchester legend. Erasmus was co-founder of Factory Records with Tony Wilson in 1979, also The Hacienda nightclub.

[@federicogattini3594]

In Italy this was “Il più bel gol della mia vita” (best goal of my life) and it was a cult movie for those of my generation. I was incredibly happy to have the chance to watch it again

[@toddy505]

our Judd and Fred Gee lol brilliant

[@vinnysamways63]

Better highlights on this game than on Match of The Day.

[@sacredsoma]

This was beautiful, thank you so much for sharing it

[@denisesaunders3067]

Great acting from David Swift.

[@awordabout...3061]

I can confirm that nearly fifty years since the play first aired, not a thing has changed about grassroots refereeing - and fifty years from now, I'll probably be saying the same thing!

[@paulprendi2000]

Alan Erasmus starring also, went on to create factory records and the hacienda

[@1061andy]

lovely period piece - beautifully written.

[@Allthingswitchy106]

Filmed on Dawny Hills, Salford. Agecroft cooling towers (long gone now) can be seen in the background.

[@aces-ww8zl]

Thought it was, my dad used to play on them pitches. Agecroft is an industrial estate now, i actually work there lol!!!!

[@mnd1955]

My cousin used to work at the Thermalite plant at Agecroft back in the early 70s. Made good money too. It;s probably shut down now.

[@liamwhitcombe1237]

dartsstar1 With all the ex Corrie stars I thought it was the Red Rec

[@ER-gw2xz]

Shithole

[@paultaylor7082]

They used to make insulated breeze blocks using the ash from the coal fired power station. Once the pit closed down, the power station went as well, I 'don't think Thermalite is there any more.

[@closethedoornow7538]

This film is amazing

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Milkman off kez and Jud, brilliant,star cast..!!

[@dminalba]

Wow one of the goalies in this is David "Mr Filtch" Bradley, Alan Erasmus later co-founded with Tony Wilson Factory Records, Pre Corrie Anne Kirkbride

[@michaelohalloran2800]

Remember on BBC The Wednesday Play.. looking back always interesting to see early film actors .

[@MrMichale10]

The director Michael Apted directed the 7 Up the series about children growing up that is still running today now that they are 64. He also directed a James Bond & numerous other TV & film projects.

[@foreverred105]

I clicked this thinking it was Sunderland vs Hull City

[@adrianbaker9451]

Keeper was in harry potter😂

[@MsVelasca]

Nice to see a young Anne Kirkbride in one of her firs acting jobs ,went n to play Deidre Barlow in Coronation Street

[@francofan100]

She really ruined herself. Don’t smoke, kids.

[@valward8195]

Ah the good old days. Jumpers for goalposts😂👍👍

[@brianm2881]

Mmm, isn't it? Grandstand on the telly. Maybe a fresh-brewed pot of tea made by your wife or domestic partner. Marvellous. A couple of biscuits on the side of the saucer. What was a custard cream? Was it cream? Was it custard? We never found out. Watching those scores being read out. Darlington 1 - Portsmouth 0. What excitement! It could've been any number. Never 111, I found. And then off to bed, sleeping soundly in the knowledge that the real winner that day was the game of football itself. Extraordinary.

[@fretboardmaster70]

You forgot the Cheesy Peas ….but don’t quote me on that …

[@londonlady227]

​@@brianm2881Forfar 4 East Fife 5 😊

[@mickdowns5345]

A touching picture of what the ref's job can be like; just trying to make marginal right / wrong calls, managing different characters on the pitch. I like the Sissy / Ady characters who (surprisingly) talk in depth politics - Nixon in China etc, the groundsman who can't paint a straight white line too. I'd also receommend The Goalie's anxiety of the penalty kick.

[@routeman680]

Marvellous. Jack Rosenthal always seemed to catch a spirit of working-class life as it was in that era. The also marvellous Joe Gladwyn as the old man looks younger here than he did in Nearest and Dearest with Hylda Baker. I love his accent with the 'r' in the back of the throat. I would like to know which part of Lancashire that accent comes from.

[@Mortimer50145]

I don't think it's so much part of his accent (Wikipedia says he was born in Ordsall, Salford) but his way of compensating for not being able to pronounce the letter R.

[@ThePosserman]

"He were a ggrrrwweat baker, our dad...."!

[@paultaylor7082]

Joe Gladwyn was born in Salford, but for many years lived on Chudleigh Road, Crumpsall, North Manchester, near one of my mates.

[@annoldham3018]

​@@ThePossermansame Hovingham goodness but a bit softer like and less crrrrrwsty! 😂

[@carlhughes6459]

a young david bradley, what a career the man has had

[@BillyJango]

Where is David Bradley in this?

[@carlhughes6459]

@@BillyJango in goal

[@carlhughes6459]

@@BillyJango not kes, same name different actor

[@BillyJango]

@@carlhughes6459 Ah yes I know who you mean now. I thought you meant David Bradley who played Billy Casper.

[@russ6697]

Why would some folk dislike this? Really!!!

[@markofsaltburn]

Some people will dislike something they actually like to stop it coming back to in their feed after they’ve watched it.

[@paulmcintyre7630]

A real classic. Kes era. One of the best

[@TokyoJoe703]

34:16 - reminds me of Phil Neal and Graham Taylor

[@stuartjohnson7967]

You’ve just beaten me to it, only by a year though. Holland 🇳🇱 2-0 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WC Qualifier for USA 🇺🇸 94.

[@FraserMcMillan]

Wonderful!

[@jamesgavigan4179]

Loved seeing the character actress, Lyn Carol alias Martha Longhurst in Coronation Street. Sadly killed off in 1964. What a loss to that programme

[@Waxadisc]

fred Gee 😂😂😂👍👍 and Jud the kestrel killer.

[@mikebarton]

A fabulous piece.

[@stephenbrown1622]

Love it when he keeps repeating everything Wally batty in last of the summer wine

[@johnholmesinchesahead2347]

Before the rules regarding goalkeeping were buggered to hell!

[@bigearedmouse17]

Them were the days, When the ball weighed 10 pounds dry and as much as a cannon ball when wet.

[@derekbradbury749]

bigearedmouse17 I remember those days. The fucking ball was like a piece of fucking lead when it was a wet day. It bloody hurt crashing one into the top corner.

[@Nick-mm5ml]

nice one.

[@halcyon289]

I'm convinced I received concussion in '73 heading a wet ball against Crindau under 11's........something I have never quite recovered from.

[@IN_THIS_DAY_AND_AGE]

Head it and you had lace marks on your forehead for the rest of the day.

[@lindsaypeterholden2701]

I'd rather be watching this than Bloody Neymer!!!!

[@john111257]

neymar, but yes

[@lindsaypeterholden2701]

He had his flag up!!! Blowing his bloody nose LOL Class🤣😂

[@jamesvickers5998]

I think that's the best thing I've seen in years!

[@TokyoJoe703]

james vickers I think it had potential but actually it’s quite boring

[@jamesvickers5998]

@@TokyoJoe703 well it's all about opinions but for me it summed up life in a humdrum northern town perfectly. The weekend Sunday league game being all they'd got. The players taking it too seriously, the girlfriends trying to be supportive, it being over important to the coaches, the bored kids hanging around and David Swift superb as the downtrodden husband desperately trying to be someone through his refereeing, finally cracking in his moment of madness. Great. I see your point but it is 50 years old!

[@richiewilliams6875]

Happy days Sunday morning in my younger days Sunday league football and the smell of Roast Dinners and the sound of Country Music When I never had a care in the world

[@MrWindermere123]

There's Wally Batty from Last of the Summer Wine, Fred Gee and Deirdre Barlow from Coronation Street and Duggie Brown who was a stand-up comedian on The Comedians. Jack Rosenthal the writer became best known for The Knowledge about trainee black cab drivers in London and as the husband of Maureen Lipman. I found the football boring but the hairstyles, character actors and grim industrial setting a glimpse of the 1970s.

[@myalfie]

Freddie fletcher played our jud in kes.

[@colinmcclymont]

Hairdos were same in the naughties

[@julianbeesley5059]

Duggie brown also was on last of the summer wine

[@stephenbrown1622]

Duggie brown Is the brother of the actress who played Ivy tilsley In coronation street

[@myalfie]

@@stephenbrown1622 correct 👍

[@red-pn8fk]

"picadilly gardens thats where i should be" ..........not unless youve a spice habit now mate

[@mkrbrtsn1]

Like getting in a Time Machine back to the 1970's!

[@MXB1973]

A lot of actors from Kes in this. Brilliant.

[@stevecharlemagne4496]

Among the films Micheal Apted directed were Coalminers Daughter. Gorillas In The Mist and the James Bond pic The World Is Not Enough,

[@paulw3765]

Might be wrong but that looks like Boulton road playing fields in Salford… top film so funny 😂😂

[@UncleMort]

Walder Frey / Argus Filch in goal

[@mollynash1896]

49.20 ,,, you get skinheads around here sometimes ,,,, hahaha

[@PNETriffid]

I get the impression they just got 22 men to play a match and edited what came out, rather than choreograph. If that is the case, it worked. Either way, brilliant one-off drama, a genre which is sadly at odds with the netflix-era.

[@stuartjohnson7967]

Funny as F***. It’s Graham Taylor and Phil Neal in Amsterdam. “ That referee has just cost me my job “....! - Cue Einstein Phil....! - “ Oi you 4th official, your ref has lost my Gaffer his job Ya know “.... Magic without the Mushrooms 🍄. Referee Have a word.....!

[@bloodyliar]

So that's what he gets up to when he's not killing Kestrels

[@jimmyrun4eva885]

"As tha sin our billy' ?

[@johnnyjabsco1999]

jimmy run4eva - Aye he's on ere wi me.

[@josephking1947]

Jud killed his kestrel..

[@rupert-j8f]

@@jimmyrun4eva885 "i wunt tell you if i had"

[@myalfie]

Spotted fred feast who played fred the pot man in coronation street.And Freddie fletcher played judd in the movie kes

[@TokyoJoe703]

08:18 - is that Joey Barton in the headband

[@SELondonUSA]

Very funny and great acting from all with some of the Rovers Return crowd. Perfectly captures dreary old England in the 70s. Does anybody remember another 1970s TV play that takes place in the dressing room of a small, non-league, scouse club that has drawn a big Division 1 team, possibly MU or Liverpool, in a cup qualifier game? The manager is giving the team a drawn-out, unconvincing pep talk with plenty of gestures to emphasize the importance of Thinking and Playing with Heart. He rallies the lads and leaves the room. The lads all look at each other and say that the manager is out of his mind. It was a comedy masterpiece (similar to this one) performed in less than one hour. Title? Tape wiped? I hope not. Help finding this appreciated.

[@rickykilby4672]

The guy playing the goalie int he green shirt reminds me of Alan Clarke, a Leeds player who played for them around the same time this was made

[@surebrec5113]

He ended up carving out a decent acting career for himself, including the caretaker in the Harry Potter movies.

[@sparkesman1980]

Also In Game of thrones, and played Dr Who in a one off special

[@lesscott8668]

Right and justice rarely prevails over boorishness (Trump?), a ref, hoping in his own small way he can change that. Superb period piece that t still resonates, sunday morning football as metaphor to life.

[@markofsaltburn]

Interesting comment. The play looks very pertinent in relation to the crises of political elites in the UK and the US in the age of populism. It shows the frustrations and limitations of both sides sympathetically.

[@martingonzalez6915]

@@markofsaltburn The political elites are the problem.

[@markofsaltburn]

Martin Gonzalez No, the people are the problem. I’m not letting us off lightly. We deserve to be conned by shysters like Farage so that we finally wake up.

[@martingonzalez6915]

Yeah right mate. You're an oxymoron.

[@markofsaltburn]

Martin Gonzalez Have I touched a raw nerve, pet?

[@terryyakamoto3488]

The Keepers girlfriend, Susan Littler, died 10 years after filming this at the age of 34. heart breaking

[@annoldham3018]

Cancer if I remember rightly. Very sad. She was good. Would have liked to have seen more of her.

[@davidedge6512]

I remember these years, and they were totally depressing.

[@CARLIN4737]

70s were rough like. me >Basildon and Pitsea in Essex proper rough like...

[@richardfinlayson1524]

Co op Albion till I die!

[@newforestpixie5297]

The Ref is from Keeping up Appearances & the Groundsman is from the Big Bang Theory .

[@markofsaltburn]

The ref is David Swift, brother of the actor Clive Swift. It was Clive who was in “Keeping Up Appearances”.

[@CarlTebbutt]

​@@markofsaltburnCorrect who then went on to star in the funny news sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey.

[@paultaylor7082]

The ref is here is David Swift, the elder brother of Clive Swift, who played Hyacinth Bucket's husband in Keeping Up Appearances. David died some time ago, Clive passed away only recently...

[@geoffreysmith7226]

Great to Oldham David Shaw.in changing Room written on Wall

[@andicampbell8621]

Brilliant.......but not as good as the match in Kes though 🤣

[@stephendawe9145]

And America watched happy fucking days.

[@veganstew7954]

God that was good. Thank you.

[@kawasaki5187]

David Swift is the uncle of Joe Smith the gardener

[@davejenkins744]

where was this filmed guys??

[@Stewart1966]

Wow, i remember watching this when it was first shown on tv

[@Nick-mm5ml]

Those were the days.