Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa (1904)

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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[@stevanroth]

Two of the oldest and most historic English football clubs, great to watch. Villa in particular was the first real giant of football, It was their chairman who founded the football league in 1888 and of course Blackburn Rovers were founder members also. Thanks for posting.

[@tsimmons121]

these short movies are magic...thank you

[@MrAnglorom]

My great grandfather BILLY GARRATY scored in this game as well as in a number others. If you google his name or simply put billygarraty dot com into your browser you see info on him and his career with England,Villa,WBA,Leiceser and Lincoln. Billy was man of the match in the 1905 final Villa v Newcastle and capped only once in 1903 v wales. I know for a fact he was picked to play in at least one other game for England but he was injured. In 1899-1900 he scored 27 league goals earning him a place in golden boot records. His 27 goals is still the second highest number of league goals for Villa with only the great pongo waring ahead of him. Billy's great, great grandson Jack Grealish has just broken into the Villa side and may start against Arsenal 110 years later.

[@ihavenolife6718]

cool my Grandfather was a soccer player

[@alanpearce1966]

Joe B My great grandfather was legend Harry Hampton who also played with Billy...he scored both goals in the 1905 FA cup win that Billy was Man of the Match in

[@keithwilkins2696]

@@alanpearce1966 hey alan, Harry Hampton he was my great great uncle. so we are probably related in some way.

[@alanpearce1966]

@@keithwilkins2696 Hi Keith, awesome. do you have an email or contact number as would like to explore how we are related

[@keithwilkins2696]

@@alanpearce1966 [e-mail]

[@rodolfogalatro7504]

El área grande era semicircular en esos años y se nota bien .Saludos desde Argentina

[@CaptainOvious123]

they played during rain, hailstorm, snow, lightning and thunder (all in one match), whereas nowadays, if there is a little snow the match is called off.

[@jeniffer9248]

And today they'd call the match off the day before due to "weather concerns".

[@PAULOBASS77]

Fantastic!

[@colliebarney]

hey dad are you going to add the video of the game we went too? and cheers loved the old vid lol. ROVERS TILL I DIE XX

[@shellovski]

Brilliant!

[@youngsteph1]

Wilfred Zaha would have really cried playing against these players & those heavy leather balls.

[@cheeseymenolikey]

was this on Sky HD? missed it first time round. need to check my sky+ box for a replay.

[@pokerfan2202]

lol @ the crowd atound the ball 0:12 - 0:14...doesnt seem like that was much tactical formation at that time ;)

[@LukeRD95]

This has got to be the oldest footage of a football match?

[@LordZontar]

Not quite. There's some footage of a match from 1897 and a clip from a Hunslet v. Leeds contest from 1901 up on KZbin.

[@pearljam619]

Those shorts make me laugh so, so long. What would they have said to the 80s short shorts!

[@bejay69]

Come on villa

[@sandrodebrito3119]

Some movie of Corinthian FC?! :)

[@western-oud1898]

Up the Villa…

[@OrioNX99]

Tugay is probably old enough to have been in this game.

[@Zzyyxxyyxx]

I was at that game. I was drinking double stout. Tugay was suspended for accepting illegal gifts at college, and tested positive for steroids...and methamphetamine!!!

[@GravityBoy72]

Come on you Lions!!!!! Notice the cigarettes as they are walking out. There's only one Aston Villa.

[@PretzelLogic]

I didn't see Tugay - was he injured for this game?

[@danielwilkins4748]

He was at the birth of his 1st child

[@bibbyandal]

lmao what a guy. i found it funny. i like it

[@OrioNX99]

it could have been 3-1

[@konstantakopoulos1]

AFTER FROM FIVE MONTHS 10-9-1904 ,BLACKBURN CRASHED ASTON VILLA, IN SAME GROUND WITH 4-0!!!!

[@Maird79]

blue and white army

[@PretzelLogic]

I know - I was trying to be 'humourous' Clearly I failed.

[@armedvilla]

claret and blue army

[@Salacious-Crumb]

Villa always win lol