How Football Fans First Fought Back | COPA90 Showcase

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Whose Game Is It Anyway?
Directed by Ed Fenwick
Produced by Max Giles
Featuring The 2percent and their "New Breed" Protest Song: • The2percent - "New Bre...
‘Whose Game Is It Anyway?’ charts the genesis of the football fanzine movement and follows two fanzine editors coming to terms with today’s corporate football reality. Both of their fanzines emerged in the wake of one of British football’s darkest years. In the space of a few months that saw 56 killed in a fire at Bradford City, mass brawls between Millwall and Luton fans, and finally the Heysel disaster - it seemed that everything that could go wrong with the game that year did.
Over the following four years the media, police and government alike increasingly vilified fans, equating football fandom with hooliganism and violence.
The fan’s response to this demonisation came in early 1986, in the form of fanzines - DIY documents full of grassroots content, often printed at home or after hours on a work photocopier. Publications like ‘Off the Ball’ & ‘When Saturday Comes’ led the way, with disgruntled fans - tired of being portrayed as hooligans and enduring dangerous spectating conditions - rallying others to organise and unite,setting aside tribal differences and sharing experiences.
As football clubs become less and less attached to their area and supporters, fanzines show the frustrations and passion that come with dedicating yourself to your club, serving as a unique and indelible supporter’s history. The fanzine is the love for your club & the game down on paper. They reflect the togetherness, the obsession, the minor detail, the passion that gives the game all it’s value.If we are to galvanise any mass movement against today’s sterilised corporate football climate, where the fan is still so often an after-thought then the values that the fanzine movement created should be at its core.
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This is what Copa 90 is all about not boring and repetitive top 10s

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All the boring repetitive top 10s beg to differ.

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Alex Stripe And its better than that Football Daily which is so limited

[@sahilpandita2964]

Amazing work Copa90. These are the issues that this channel should show more often. It educated people who are young and who actually haven't been able to sense into the football revolution that took place decades ago. Thanks for such an amazing video. Keep up the good work.

[@xSKlPS]

That was amazing. This is some of the highest quality stuff I've seen on youtube. It could've been a tv show. Well done copa90!

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This is a really well put together documentary with very interesting voices. Huge well done Copa90, it's great that this kind of content can reach a huge audience on KZbin.

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This is the content we want to see, not that Poet and Vuj arguing about who'll finish higher between Arsenal and Liverpool ffs

[@JJONNYREPP]

How Football Fans First Fought Back | COPA90 Showcase 0844am 14.2.24 grounds weren't the issue. basic facilities are ok, to some degree - a bar a bog... which doesn't mean the place has got to be dilapidated... the fans have altered. or, rather, their actions have. pre-war in the main it was stand and clap or cheer the team. the aggression came, maybe, from higher expectations or the professional element ie: money coming into play? the professional working class seem to be sickening, though ie: those who state their working class credentials prior to making any statement about their lot. p.s anyhow; i still want my pop will eat itself and the farm singles back...

[@josephmcwatters3661]

Can you do a whole episode on Charlton. They have had creative protest against there owners which lead to other fans joining into these protests. It is perfect for your channel. If you want to learn about it watch the guardian video on it.

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joseph mcwatters agree

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You might also get some good coverage of that from a channel like Ball Street, which is more explicitly fan oriented.

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this was a great doc. seriously keep doing docs like this. Ive been blowing of work watching this and want more! the drug is football

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From the music, to the photos, the videos and the interviews this is a fucking excellent video. Our game, not theirs.

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Keep making quality content

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Interesting idea copa90. Today you're one of my favorites KZbin channels for sure. I love the way you brings quality information and histories about football world and the infinite turnovers that happened and continue to happen in this wonderful game existance. Keep out the briliant work, wish you good fortune :).

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Great little doco Copa90! This is what we love you for!

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This film features The 2percent and their "New Breed" Protest song: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmqshXVrfbCbb80

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[@americangooner98]

Brilliant documentary, football is nothing without their supporters and no amount of money or arrogant dickhead owners is ever gonna change that 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@clark1eify]

Gooner Guy true but it's no longer a working man's game. In the last 10-15 years the money being thrown about is just ridiculous and the prices of tickets and football tops nowadays is horrendous

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This is what football is about. Quality documentary.

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Fuck , this was amazing to watch. As a foreign I have a huge admiration for British and the way they stand against the government or when they feel something is not right . Massive respect I have , geniuses of social movements . Cheers to all the British keep on inspiring many people.

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This was really fucking good, thanks!

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This is fantastic! Please do more of these :D

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Great documentary again lads

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Beautiful piece :)

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brilliant got me reliving my first game I ever went to at ibrox n singing simply the best..

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I love this video💯💯 and it is sad what is hsppening to football

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Would be great to see a vid on US leagues below the MLS, see how that is starting to take shape.

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Great Vid!

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Could you do a vid on what the Allams are doing to Hull?

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Hey Copa90, I have an idea for you guys. Can you do a documentary on my club in Ireland, Waterford FC? Our season ends on the 7th of October in Cobh. As an idea, you guys could visit the Waterford RSC ( our Stadium) on gameday and interview the players and fans. On my channel, I do videos on every game for the blues and we are top of the league with 5 games remaining. Thanks If you read this. Hopefully you take on the idea!

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Brilliant

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11:04 is that Harry the Dog?

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Quality!

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I grew up in the 90's and even then, football was only for the 'working class kids'. We played cricket and rugby instead. Now football is accepted by anyone even the royals support football teams. Its weird how time has changed so much

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#KeepTheFansInFootball

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Suarez out for a month at least Barca have Neymar....

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Quality

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Where is Eli his episodes are the best!

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Barcelona are finished this season and it sucks. Shout out Madrid for having a hell of a fucking team on and off the pitch.

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im in the first 11 and top 11

[@JJONNYREPP]

How Football Fans First Fought Back | COPA90 Showcase 083am 14.2.24 fanzine culture was cool.............. it's how you enjoy learning - having the alleged craic whilst telling the masses or the class how it is or how things stand or why this relates to that etc etc etc... it's a toff's game. maybe that's the issue with all this and that?

[@maxlevitt459]

Guy at 0:07 is vuj

[@RBM8845]

This needs a proper translation.

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1961

[@MagicalBikeRide]

So sad what happened to WEST HAM ! could not imagine loosing your stadium and the area to move to that crap. No atmosphere. Maybe good for a new club or something but its stripped them of there identity.

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Londoners have the best accents can't hear shit 😂😂😂😂😂

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#BartomeuDimiteHoy

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#oystonout !!!!!!!

[@PNE2611]

As a Preston fan I think its hilarious whats happening to your scumbag club that rapist is burying that club he hates you all and rightly so your all disgusting creatures .... #Oystonin

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41 mins! fuck me😰

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first

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I am 6th viewer

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Ronaldo=like Messi=reply

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[@mrraccoon6264]

The Fanzines will die out, as we can see it's older guys running them like the West Ham and Charlton Athletic ones. It's all being replaced by crap like Arsenal FanTV etc. These lads are true fans running the Fanzines unlike the so called fans that exist today! 😠

[@JJONNYREPP]

How Football Fans First Fought Back | COPA90 Showcase 0859am 14.2.24 soul of west ham? ......seems to be emphasized by the new ground. if i listen to fans. who the eff can afford to go to a simple lower league game week in week out....let alone top notch? they don't give a fuck, mate - is about the long and short of it. maybe ask yourself why you like attending a football match. camaraderie is a given if you support the same team. mob mentality? not everyone goes to a game to trudge about with the lads joining the throng... that's fine if you enjoy being part of the mob. strange how the individual can make it a personal endeavour to lift his team. as though it was down to him to do so. and everyone who really enjoys the sport will say that, i suppose. fuck.. if he'd passed it then and he'd run on to the ball whilst the winger had run infield past the defender...awww ffs!!! what ifs is all that football is. not necessarily losing. what if.... you'd be best placed utilizing the poem (without being patronizing or pretentious) IF by Kipling to bolster the meaning of the what it is to be a fan at your club..

[@marzhey]

Greedy owners who don't take into consideration the people who made the club famous

[@SW-jv4ji]

The Black Mist Lord Fans can take a club back in a second, quite simply don't support the club until the owners go. But the owners know how strong fans dedication to their club is.

[@chalmuns8571]

SW x mate, a lot easier said than done. With clubs like blackpool, charlton, Coventry there's always going to be a minority of supporters still going

[@aaryandeshpande83]

At least no one will be complaining the poet and vuj intro in this video

[@MarkThomasRobson]

You pay a fortune every month to watch Sky with pundits like Paul Merson who know next to nothing. This is free to watch and evokes more memories and enjoyment then you'd ever get from Sky. Great to watch

[@Gpoz]

Fanzines movement is the past,they fought their war at the late 80s. Social media is the new battlefield. The point of this video is that club is bigger than the owners. We own football, not them.

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This is why I subscribed to Copa90 in the first place!

[@JDAR1878]

Boss use of Half Man Half Biscuit

[@samellis3761]

Who's watching with socks

[@WOEGEE]

Big up charlton and all of South East ✊👌

[@chalmuns8571]

That's why I watch non-league quite often now, modern footy has gone to the dogs

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Copa90 have seriously upped their game. Great documentary.

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Great video, more documentaries like this plz

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This vid just makes me sad...

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I always love Copa90 stories keep em coming. Thanks

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Song name at the star of vid

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I miss Upton Park ⚒⚒

[@earemay4]

Good documentary but the music balance was a bit off apart from that excellent work, keep it up guys

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Please give ma a soundtrack for this documentary.

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12.59... is half man half buiscuit ..m 6 ster

[@georgelangan33]

I think this shows that in one unfortunate way, Hillsborough was good for football, not saying it was a good thing, and my heart goes out to the 96 and their families, but if it hadn't happened, there wouldn't have been any new safety measures, and football fans would still be treated like animals

[@napalmextinguisher]

This is why the Premier League is the worst league in the world right now

[@connordunaway8203]

Great video shows how little say real fans have in football gutted that Pompey have been brought by Michael Eisner PUP🔵

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When are Copa90 gonna get their own TV channel!!!!

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today

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This is a really fantastic video. Well done Copa90

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Just set up a football prediction channel check it out

[@cyleefskies7955]

Last time I was this early poet wasn't bagging it top bins😂😂

[@ChristopherJamesG]

I got some saw dust in my eye. at 31:49

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This was a very nice documentary. Thank you copa 90

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Well done COPA90 this was a great film!

[@ethnic74Xx]

The last 5 minutes :0

[@lyracakes6912]

Hi Copa90! I love your videos and I found this video really interesting and informative however my one issue with it is it feels really fragmented and lacks an overarching unifying element that a narrator would present. Thank you for such amazing content as ever though! :)

[@jackelderton9928]

Brilliant. Well done COPA90. The fans will eventually snap and fight back

[@dabro4963]

It's good to say I don't want West ham to change and become a big club but if you don't you'll move out of the premier league then the championship then that spiral goes on an on.... You need to change..

[@2fast4u_rms]

Great vid. Copa90 should focus more on these kinds of problems.

[@razbaybee8336]

I prefer that leyton orient style story video format. This was a bit boring but I loved the story that was being told.

[@tottithebeast]

incredible film. more of this please.

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Copa90 is the best internet example to these owners so keep up the good work!

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Top Top Episode loved this

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Great doc! Gives a lot of insight into the culture