1972: In PAISLEY Sunday SOCCER is SINFUL | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

[@tallontedvideoandtechsolutions]

Serious tekkers from the keeper at 1 min 30 secs. they were playing out from the back in Paisley whilst Guardiola was still in nappies.

[@Britonbear]

Well the passing game was invented in these parts a hundred years or so previously.

[@aidy6000]

@@Britonbear my understanding it was the Royal Engineers who invented combination passing. However that could be myth.

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

Love the soil heap in middle of that pitch. These clips are brilliant. Best docu comedy series ever.

[@tomthomassony8607]

I agree. Commenting on 50 year old video clips, while sipping on an organic oatmeal latte, certainly beats socialising and playing football on a Sunday morning. People back then were plebs to be mocked by superior people like you.

[@stephenspence1192]

That Mole must have been on Steroids.

[@DH.2016]

I played many an amateur football game there in my youth (mainly on a Saturday as it turned out but sometimes also playing for the pub team on a Sunday). These pitches were used morning and afternoon. I couldn't count the number of games that were played there simultaneously - the place was mobbed. The sad thing is that these pitches no longer exist and the purpose built dressing rooms since demolished. Makes me wonder how many young men in the area play amateur football nowadays and where.

[@synthdude]

5:08 "I don't think it's *all* covered in glass..." How Pythonesque 😜

[@racheltaylor6578]

I remember they used to chain up the swings on a Sunday in the islands.

[@jimmys6566]

Not in the Catholic islands

[@memofromessex]

They still do on Raasay, I think.

[@WHU63]

You'll soon be observing Ramadan and learning Arabic if the SNP stay in power.

[@mcmanustony]

@@WHU63 Bigoted fool

[@henrygaervell3251]

1.28 - lovely skills from the keeper

[@effess8698]

When Prince sang "There are no rules / in Paisley Park" he was celebrating the scrapping of these ridiculous byelaws. That is absolutely a true fact. Paisley Park is in your heart.

[@wmsstuff271]

I detect the faint yet distinct whiff of horseshit in the air. 😂

[@guardian100]

Paisley park in America has nothing to do with Paisley of Scotland, sorry..

[@effess8698]

@@guardian100 Thanks Sherlock

[@tindo9833]

😂😅😊

[@mjstefansson7466]

That Rover P4 in goal at 2.09 went onto play for Cowdenbeath.

[@ricochetpig]

Must’ve had good handling. 😅

[@teddy1066]

He was a top Rover, saw him play for Raith!

[@tonyclifton265]

slag heaps and water features in the middle of the pitch.. lol that's awesome.

[@stevouk]

1972... It's a cliche that the past is another country, but clips like this really do drive it home. Well within living memory, yet watching the council official at 4:18, he might as well have been dropped in from the planet Zorg.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

It makes me think of Monty Python, but also an Alexei Sayle sketch in which he had people droning on like this and the would shout ‘shurrup!’ Right in their faces.

[@aidy6000]

They still exisit. Talk to anyone that has to deal with any low level council bureaucrat.

[@mrlotusmic]

I love Scotland but this is almost a Python sketch.

[@vamboroolz1612]

You could almost imagine all the monty python grannies having their handbag fight in the background.

[@raycroal]

no it is much worse, it looks like the council wasted money and property by dumping crap on the pitch just to deter a game on sunday even though they ruined it for mon-sat , this is power mad spoiled scottish councilors if ever i saw it

[@teddy1066]

Archimedes out to Socrates, Socrates back to Archimedes, Archimedes out to Heraclitus, he beats Hegel, Heraclitus a little flick, here he comes on the far post, Socrates is there, Socrates heads it in! Socrates has scored!

[@chrismachin2166]

@@vamboroolz1612Have you seen the modern day Monty Python sketch where they arrest people for praying to God?

[@Clyne-sv4hd]

Scotland's full of Montys as a matter of fact Monty's own 99.9% of ecosse

[@MegaBenjo88]

You can see the copper thinks it’s ridiculous when he said “stopping people play football”

[@eles2147]

Maybe this is why Scotland can't get thru a second round of a football tournament 🤔 😁😁😁😁

[@evelynwilson1566]

The policeman was trying not to laugh at one point😂.What a stupid rule and an absolute waste of police time and resources. My money's on the council guy being the one behind the whole thing.

[@gojkok.4940]

I love this channel and all the vintage material

[@MatthewLenton]

They should have got 10,000 people on the football pitches and watch the police try and take all their names and then realise sooner how ridiculous the byelaw was

[@SpeckleKen]

They used to have 4-500 at a time there. The rozzers just picked a few pitches and took names while the other players headed home for their stovies. (And being on the pitch wasn't the offence, so they'd never have been trying to take 10,000 names anyway.)

[@guardian100]

My mum used to take me up the race course to watch the football, great days

[@AnnesleyPlaceDub70]

At 4m 31sec ye've got yer washing hanging out on the line of a Sunday, pal. Take it down immediately before someone does it for ye and leaves it at yer back door! 😂

[@ThefightingCelt]

Where amateur football was played extensively in England on Sunday, it was a different story in Scotland , where matches were generally played on Saturday , and very few , if any , where ever played on Sunday - which was considered a day of rest north of the border .

[@wodens-hitman1552]

You were mainly feeling too rough from Saturday night to play on Sundays

[@KaiColloquoun-gt7kw]

In Scotland shops were open on Sunday when it was illegal in England.

[@SpeckleKen]

@@KaiColloquoun-gt7kw ...but with the alcohol section of the supermarket roped off.

[@columbmurray]

The swings were chained up on Sunday as well.

[@robertcatterson8835]

Played there heaps of times, playing for Saint Fergus primary school Ferguslie Park.

[@borderlands6606]

They also banned sex because it resembled dancing.

[@pauloliver6813]

Even today, the sanctimonious try to tell others what they can and cannot do based on their own personal beliefs and morality.

[@hansbambach4854]

Exactly

[@fishwatch8677]

Yes, like wear your hair in dreadlocks if you aren’t of the correct heritage, or object to a man identifying as a woman using the same public bathroom as your daughter.

[@pauloliver6813]

@@fishwatch8677 Well, there are the conflict model and consensus model of justice. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Both Scottish and English legal systems are usually a mixture of both. Clearly, there is no consensus in this scenario for the vast majority of participants.

[@fishwatch8677]

@@pauloliver6813 What does that have to do with my response to you?

[@pauloliver6813]

@@fishwatch8677 My comment advocates consensual law, yours seems to be advocating conflict model. Reality now and in 1972 in Paisley was somewhere inbetween.

[@Britonbear]

Going to a non-league game on a Sunday in Cornwall back in those days it was entrance by progamme only as you were not allowed to charge at the gate; (they sold the programmes outside).

[@capio78]

1:30 amazing skills from the keeper.

[@c1v1lwar24]

Nae fun on a Sunday.

[@JasonSantiagoShow]

I think this is one Top Flight Time Machine.

[@gravvin845]

1:29 The moment the sweeper keeper was invented.

[@memofromessex]

I wonder if I'd see my grand-nan? She'd would have gone along - she was never happy unless others were miserable. The joke was within the family - she live 96 out of pure spite for the rest of the family. She was not missed!

[@howardkitchen2302]

The council spokesman beleives it IS possible to play football on glass. ( not grass).

[@steveblack610]

Fantastic skills by the goalie at 1.30. Had us all off.

[@privatechannel8462]

I hear its the DUP's new flagship policy

[@andypandy9013]

Yet another example from back in the day of how a group of people with an imaginary friend told the rest of us what we could and couldn't do. 😠

[@Gaffer96]

couldnt get a shop open on a sunday when we were kids.. was so backward

Yeah imagine having standards. Enjoy the culture less, depressing hole that the U.K. is now.

[@louispks]

I remember in the 80s there were half day Wednesday's most shops and banks would close at midday. Supposedly to let people pray in the afternoon or go to church.

[@TheKingOfBeans]

“I’m getting paid for it” 😅

[@charlie1872]

As a teenager I grew up in Knightswood close to Tempke Park. The pitches were black ash and I still carry bits of it in my elbows and knees. Adjacent to the black ash pitches was a strip of grass just wide enough to play five aside. There was a sign that said No Ball Games but we played anyway enjoying the grass beneath our feet as we passed the ball around and made fearless tackles without losing the skin off our bums. They proceeded to round us up taking our names and addresses. I was taught never to lie and as a consequence I and my friends were summonses to court a few weeks later. I think we were fined 30 shillings which in the mid/late 60’s was a lot of money. Just as well I delivered milk before I went to skill as my parents didn’t have the money to pay the fine. Out of nowhere came three or four Plods, one of Tge people who lived across the street must have called them.

[@fredyscanlan]

How are the pitches so good??

[@mpwheatley]

If the grass needs to rest one day a week to recover why can't they ban football on Mondays when these people are at work?

[@vicsummers]

"eh....I don't think its all covered in glass..."

[@harrynewiss4630]

Insane.

[@Darwinion]

If the council were so against people playing... then why are the goalposts still there?! Those teams can't play on other days due to work, so the pitches were pointless.

[@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s]

There's a car in the fecking goal 1:59

[@vespelian]

Live from 1572. 😂

[@mainstay.]

Maybe they should practiced archery instead, I wonder what the council and police would have thought about that?

[@peterkennedy7958]

st james park in paisley has not changed a bit {LOL}

[@sts-31]

Honestly they should make more regulation football deal with tactically challenging features..

[@lifesahobby]

That guy doing the interview is wearing a very smart woolen coat . Just saying

[@DavidKenny-nm1qy]

"I'm getting paid for it" fxxking serf

[@philt8800]

to stop unauthorized playing of football.

[@SpiderPigggg]

Thou shall not Bend it like Beckham on the Sabbath

[@dakrontu]

1972. Presenter in weird coat. Posh London BBC accent, time before BBC gave in to regional accents. Almost Pythonesque. (Monty Python was around that time.)

[@leod-sigefast]

A weird coat?! Looks fine. You see plenty of office workers nowadays wearing double-breasted coats.

[@mikethompson3305]

​@@leod-sigefast Yeah those coats were common in the 70s and 80s, and so didn't strike me as odd. The poster is right about the accents and Pythonesque nature of the situation.

[@Michael-v3z1s]

Aye give the so called pitch a rest .It needs to breathe.

[@johnhehir508]

Oliver Cromwell banned sport also😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidbarnes241]

And over 50 years later it’s not possible to fish the rivers for trout and salmon on a Sunday. What a backward nation it really is.

[@pp2021]

Just beyond belief !

[@urgumskurgum7570]

NAE FITBAW ON THE SABBATH ⚽️🚫😂

[@nutyyyy]

Aye need to practice archery in case the English come up again 😂

[@jasonayres]

@@nutyyyy 🎯 (Bullseye!)

That’s Saturday. Sunday is gods day. Yah wean toucher

[@davidavery2629]

The wish of the government and 'those who know better', to interfere in the lives, freedoms and pleasures of the ordinary people of these Isles is nothing new of course, but rarely does it decrease over time, rather it is a slow build up of restrictions, prohibitions and rules to deaden our ability to live our lives as we see fit.

[@valuetraveler2026]

Ignore them

[@davidavery2629]

@@valuetraveler2026 Easier said than done when you have a politicised police force, utterly divorced from the people they are meant to serve.

[@Warmaster_horus]

So so true, everything is restricted, licensed, or this or that needed. I’d say life has gotten harder and more complicated.

[@davidavery2629]

@@Warmaster_horus We need a new form of the Magna Carta or the 1225 Forest laws that restrict not the Kings' power and authority, but that of the state and the government, as large swathes of out lives have slowly but surely come under their jurisdiction and this seems to be accepted unquestionably by many ordinary people. I've just finished reading James Bartholomew's the welfare state we're in, which clearly lays out how government interference, (however well meaning) is ultimately disastrous for the freedoms of ordinary people, but even worse clearly demonstrates how government policies, like the 1948 introduction of the welfare state don't even achieve their stated aims.

[@Warmaster_horus]

@@davidavery2629 I totally agree. I think people trod along daily as they are to tired and just give in or don't care to much about their true freedoms that are slowly eroding away to make it barely noticeable but in the end catch every out.

[@jasonayres]

"Sinful"? That's drawing a long bow. To the letter of the law of the land, you could have just.. Taken up archery 🤔

[@billstuart9394]

could almost be a Monty Python sketch ; unfortunately its for real .....

[@billstuart9394]

sorry - i saw someone made the same comment further down

[@chrismachin2166]

Have you seen the modern Monty Python sketch when the police arrest people for praying?

[@johnturner1073]

Seems the definition of ''a crime'' was as woolly back then as it is today...

[@gordonmculloch4904]

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@esotericautist7420]

"Never ask any 'cancel culture' in my day."

[@JGrowl-er9md]

Presbyterians

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

Jesus played football on sunday

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Jesus also hunted for, found, and ate chocolate eggs from a bunny on Easter Sunday.

[@thejoin4687]

He hit the crossbar

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

@@thejoin4687 Jesus played football on sunday When he suddenly hit a crossbar Now he stares at Pilatus on moday When he stands before him at the bar So there was 12 apostles, which means Judas was a benchwarmer (JC was team captain of course)

[@nicholasturner5146]

Jesus played for the Arsenal yesterday. It wasn’t a Sunday though.😂

[@chrismachin2166]

Now the police have turned full circle and are arresting people for praying to the Creator of the universe.

[@michaelhickland4450]

It was the in North of Ireland as well absolutely ridiculous

[@michaelhickland4450]

@Ian Thompson never on a Sunday you couldn't do anything here how things have changed

[@michaelhickland4450]

@Ian Thompson it was Ian paisley & FPC forced the law here now they are a irrelevance

[@09weenic]

I think you are referring to a small country called NORTHERN IRELAND 🇬🇧

North of Ireland? Like Dundalk?

[@CarltonMasonNorwood]

Like living in rural America. No booze sales after Saturday 9:00pm sharp until 11am Sunday. Also dry counties. Guess so you're not hungover for church. 👹

[@vercingetorixwulf9298]

Corporation

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

Pity it isn't still like this, gone are the days of family time, all the shops are open and money is the motivation.

[@TheUnleetGamer]

Ridiculous

[@eddiebrennan126]

Well ride me sideways

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Definitely NOT on Sundays.

[@eddiebrennan126]

@@daniellamcgee4251 😀😀😀😀

[@a7128]

This is how the Taliban treat female footballers

[@HBFaash]

Scotland- Football, U.S.- Soccer, just saying.

[@billstuart9394]

Columbus sailed west, not east - was always football - just saying

[@billstuart9394]

-and for context "Football was outlawed once again by James II’s Act of Parliament, passed on March 6 1457, which also introduced prohibition of golf for the first time."

[@dooscooby-o2v]

soccer..... ffs it's fitbaw

[@alguitarchristie]

Soccer? It's football!!!!

[@TheKingOfBeans]

It’s both

[@matthewpayne42]

And I thought the rules and regulations of today are crazy.

You literally get prison time now for calling saying a man is a man. I’ll take the football ban on Sunday thanks.

[@grahamhill9499]

Maybe a sunday should be a day of rest ,look at us now ffs

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

If you want your Sunday to be a day of rest, then good for you. But don't dare tell others what they can and can't do.

@stephenhumphrey7935 that’s not what a society is. If you want to be a hick living out your outlaw fantasy, I’m sure there is some patch of grass in Mongolia you can move to.

[@Chris-B.]

Nowadays, you can be arrested for upsetting someone with a Tweet. This police behaviour would fit perfectly in 2022.

[@succulent951]

freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences

[@Chris-B.]

@@succulent951 "Just because you are offended, it doesn't mean you are right."

[@daniellamcgee4251]

@@Chris-B. A person who is offended.... experiences being offended. It is not wrong to experience a feeling. However, how a person acts in response to a feeling can be a problem. For example, if someone tweets hate speech, that is ìllegal because it is perpetuating discrimination which impacts on a person's equal rights to opportunities and quality of life. Tweeting hate speech is also anti-social behaviour, that indicates that the person tweeting has some socio-emotional issues to resolve (hopefully).

[@garrymcdonald5456]

@@succulent951 Then it is not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech IS freedom from prosecution.

[@succulent951]

@@garrymcdonald5456 no. Freedom of speech is the ability to say what you want. You can still consequently get punched in the face, for example.

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

Jobsworth

[@scottthefunk]

Sunday should be a day of rest

[@MirzaAhmed89]

It's not for you to decide what others do with their time.

[@Dadopŕsoblueboots]

It's not a criminal offence. Council can't make laws.

[@TheWeepingDalek]

just play rugby.

[@antonyhobbs1144]

Was that an April Fool

[@steveosshenanigans]

Is this a joke ?

[@mygreatbigfoot1679]

They shouldst be down on their knees praying, or studying der bible.

[@michaelohalloran2800]

The plods on parade. Total madness.

[@mrflea7288]

The reason Sunday is a religious day is because the slave owners back in the day had to give at least one day of rest to the slaves .

The reason for your comment is drinking while pregnant

[@TrueFilter]

Horrible Calvinism

[@lloydmcguire4439]

Ian Paisley forbid it..... No surrender we will never bend or take the knee 🙈

[@georgepointer1127]

Absolute rubbish one of the BBC s famouse jokes.😊

[@robbiemontgomery581]

Only in Scotland ffs

[@danorthsidemang3834]

Scotland, where the by-laws just write themselves

[@superflybry123]

Oh the smell of religious nonsense

[@Mark28644]

Hope that stupid by-law, has been long lifted since.

Don’t need to. They just stay at home now on Sundays with their knew religion, yank social media.

[@SpiderPigggg]

Thou shall not Bend it like Beckham on the Sabbath