Policing the WORST Football Hooligans | Retired Police Interceptor

[@BenPearson1965]

So tell me guys... is it coming home? 👀 (this could age QUICKLY) There is exclusive content on my Patreon, it’s a great place to send me any questions and any help goes a long way to producing these videos: www.patreon.com/benpearson My book "Handcuffed Emotions: A Police Interceptor's Drive Into Darkness" available now: amzn.to/3vGZvis

[@antistraveling3522]

Geographically yes with it at Wembley

[@clareswinney1087]

Couldn’t agree with your point of view more! The only two differences are..i Fookin hate Corey and I call it a ‘pigs bladder’ lol! 😂🤦‍♀️😂

[@Properbellend]

Only thing coming home is more rona cases.

[@cockpiss9260]

I predict the betting companies will be the winners.

[@gavinwyllie7855]

No chance of them winning 🤣

[@JF1908x]

Come on Ben, don’t sit on the fence. Tell us what you really think about football!

[@jeffatkins6890]

Good one

[@danielmarshall4587]

....damn I was going to post that very comment

[@minero1775]

😂

[@888pinkhippo]

He likes it. Edit - actually not sure.

[@Konser_konge]

exactly, he sure is beating around the bush😂😂

[@leonidas2475]

The most honest rant I've ever heard, and couldn't agree more

[@grahamclark4518]

It needed said, Football "Fans" are pricks

[@leonidas2475]

Great bunch of gob shites aren't they. Only loud in numbers. I'd ban the sport if I could

[@fred3831]

@@grahamclark4518 can’t tar them all with the same brush, there are good and bad fans of every sport and football is the most popular by a country mile

[@aaronalienseeker801]

😂👌

[@loopylou6841]

I cheered this 😂

[@mrade5321]

Best rant I've seen in a while 😂 Is it coming home? IS IT FUCK! 😂

[@woody41165]

Yeah that one give me a good laugh.

[@woody41165]

@@redacted7974 I think he might have jumped the gun with saying that, what with todays result for Englands win over Germany.

[@realtalkreactions8382]

Did you get bullied?

[@jamescorlett5272]

You love ya twat - better than smashing the wife ? around ( 4 her / him ) .

[@christian1975sassari]

"is it coming home? " "is it fuck!" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha give Ben a medal please.

[@TheTezz100]

😂 He did make me giggle when he said that.

[@minniemouse5186]

My partner keeps saying that, and then attaches, my mums coming home before it’s coming home!! (She’s dead)

[@danlofc5134]

But it is coming home

[@ae6905]

Started reading this and the exact part of the video started playing haha

[@TheTezz100]

@@danlofc5134 shhhh! Don't jinks it 🤪

[@theazerothtourist]

if someone needs to know how i feel about football ill be linking them this.

[@yeahyeah4433]

Thing is I dont mind football, Used to love it as a kid, I hate the players, I hate how entitled they are and the fact they dont even put 100% effort into their job which is an easy job for that kind of pay. You watch documentaries of poor people working their asses off every single day jkust to feed themselves and these footballers cant even put full effort in when they get 200 grand a week, its ludicrous. Plus most of them are arrogant cunts. And football is boring now, Weve seen everything now its the same shit different teams.

[@garethreece]

Already shared it to FB with a similar sentiment 🤣

[@schmarold99]

@@yeahyeah4433 what a boring life you must have

[@bartman9400]

Me to definitely I so agree with ben

[@benabusthethird9751]

Yep. We live in a country where Footballers earn millions and nurses get a 1% raise in the middle of a pandemic.

[@cc2162]

I some how dont think thats the footballers fault.

[@zackC36]

Not the footballers fault really 🤦 It's the government's fault for not paying nurses more. Football clubs are privately run and the government don't pay the wages.

[@sbatty65227]

HMRC want to start cracking down on clubs and players.

[@benabusthethird9751]

@@cc2162 never said it was the footballers fault, did I?

[@benabusthethird9751]

@@zackC36 please, do point where I blamed the footballer..

[@jamesd2934]

😆, love it Ben. Finally someone has the bottle to say it as it really is.

[@yeahyeah4433]

He's right though, grown men being babies and fighting over players who make 200k in two weeks, no hes better, no hes better. No other sport/hobby would be culturally allowed to be such babies about their sport, and they defend it to the death its stupid.

[@chrispeters2645]

I've been subscribed to this channel for a while now and after hearing Ben's views on football: the game, the players, the 'fans', I only wish I could subscribe again, and again, and again, you get the picture.

[@OwenB98]

Been having a really bad day today, and then I see your video get posted and straight away had a smile on my face!

[@ln8605]

Ben does after dinner speeches and guest appearances at bbqs. I’m booking him. Great stuff

[@5alm0n]

This was so funny to watch !! ‘Is it coming home?’ ‘Is it fuck!’

[@danlofc5134]

Yeah but it’s coming home

[@slautoengineering]

I've worked a couple of Millwall matches in Leeds and one of them they had two helicopters up, horses, riot vans, dogs... and the "fans" smashed up all the away busses, all the windows in Maccy D's and most of the cars on the forecourt of the VW dealership. I remember the bus company refusing to send more busses to take the Millwall fans back, it was carnage.

[@khalidacosta7133]

Do you blame them? If I ran the bus company, I would make sure NO busses went at all to that area.

[@PibrochPonder]

When was that?

[@slautoengineering]

@@PibrochPonder must have been around 2004.

[@PibrochPonder]

@@slautoengineering crazy. I really do think this former officer has the right attitude for football and it’s fans.

[@sundimented]

That was 2007, remember 2 Leeds fans walking away from the ground causing no issues when 2 police horses barged into them causing Leeds fans to retaliate… exactly what the police wanted. Oh we were stood in the car park when the cops pulled truncheons on us telling us to move. The police incited the trouble after the game.

[@laurence4ull]

Absolutely brilliant, couldn’t have put it better myself!

[@05ngomap]

Being a football mad fan listening to this was hilarious but very relatable and true . Some people just cant behave..

[@opticalman6417]

its becuase their behavior is raised from trauma and thus their caught up in a victimhood mentality mindset their coming from a place of pain and thus their out to inflict pain instead of learning from their experences in life they play vicitm to them their caught up in a cycle of going pain becuases others are continually mirroring back to them their own unresolved issues If they don’t heal their trauma it will play on repeat until they get the lesson and change the part of you that attracted it.

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

It’s one of the reason I watch rugby instead of

[@sammyg6387]

I watch this video whenever I’ve had a bad day….it is the best uplifting, hilarious video and always cheers me up 👍🏼

[@mbjac]

For those of you that didn't get the slight and subtle subtext... He doesn't like football

[@gleadhill79]

I'm so glad you pointed it out, I was so confused! 😂

[@nicobailey720]

I'm early so hopefully you see this Ben but I want to let you know you've helped me alot and have influenced me to wait to be in the police force more than I already did and have given me a really good insight into the police

[@Paul9]

I don’t understand football, I can’t comprehend how people get so emotional about something out of their control. Not a criticism of anyone who enjoys it though.

[@shona5512]

In Brazil they get so emotional over football, that in 2013 a player got Red carded, the player argued with the Referee and kicked him, so the Referee stabbed him to death. And then the fans rushed into the pitch, bottled the referee, kicked, punched and beat him with a bat, then beheaded him, put his head on a pike at the side of the pitch and chopped his arms and legs off his body. All over a fucking card in a field game..

[@LeHazy]

@@shona5512 Hey I was on reddit recently too ;p

[@brickhead48]

Do you enjoy any sort of sport or activity?

[@TYKE262]

I absolutely love football but only when England have a big game, the roads and countryside are totally empty not a yob in sight its great..lol

[@MrEngotti]

I get you, but you’re called Tyke 🤔

[@TYKE262]

@@MrEngotti Tyke is used as a generic name for people from yorkshire

[@dannyjackson3127]

It's like you've been listening to my football rants over the years, and then put it into a video! Priceless, and couldn't agree more. I certainly don't miss football duty! Keep up the good work.

[@LukeVexT]

I love football and I love the atmosphere when you go to football matches, but i'll never understand the people that go there for a scrap. It's just ludicrous...

[@bestlemming]

I'm so glad you went on KZbin. I look forward to the uploads every week. You come across as such an honest genuine person, who is not afraid to speak their mind. Keep up the good work.

[@TheShazzer1996]

Couldn't agree more! I've worked in security for a rugby club and a football club and honestly football fans are a different breed😂

[@samoc235]

Cause rugby is full of posh people who are stuck up.

[@elobiretv]

@@samoc235 Better than being full of childish chavs

[@jgodda9204]

You look a different breed love

[@kevinmassey5201]

@@samoc235 hahaha you’ve never been to a rugby match obviously 🙄

[@colinward1007]

@@samoc235 clearly never been to a Rugby match. Im not a big rugby fan but have been to a few rugby league games and the fans are great. As for football..... jeez.....

[@JimBiddle.]

Nailed it, Mr Pearson for PM.

[@satanicrainbowprincess2722]

That’s an election I’d be happy to vote in

[@garyburchgb]

Absolutely spot on with my views in the first 40 seconds!

[@alexanderkattenhorn7966]

I want more rants like that, couldn't agree more...

[@Monster1910]

I don't mind him hating the working classes but talking about 'silly clothes' when you're in your late 30's wearing Converse hi-tops is kind of sad.

[@georgebritten6666]

My grandad and uncle love going to the football, but there's particular games they avoid because they know the fans are going to make it shit. For some it seems the football is secondary to the hatred and animosity they get to have for the other team. If it wasn't for the ludicrous amount of money involved it wouldn't be tolerated.

[@oceanmonk204]

Straight facts in the whole video I'm a huge southampton fan and I agree with everything Ben, really do feel for the coppers on match days a lot of fans forget the work that goes in behind the scenes to keep people safe

[@dylansdad987]

My sentiments exactly Ben. “I fucking hate football” . Best and funniest video yet 😂👍🏻

[@liam77877]

This channel is without doubt the first channel ever I watch the video the whole way through and the day it comes out. Incredible keep it up

[@kevyork6382]

That was hilarious and so true , I am crying with laughter ! Can we have a better display of the chicken dance ?

[@legaloutlaw777]

Already liked you mate but when you said you fucking hate football I'm like ''yup, this fella's sound'' lmao love the channel man, especially the Interceptors reacts, cheers

[@heidilovelock5295]

Love the rant Ben , I completely agree with every word you said ... they get paid stupid amounts to kick a ball around , damn right they should pay for their own security, I could sit with you for ages and rant with you about this ..

[@IamNotANumber]

Years ago my uncle (from London but lived in Bristol) went to a match with Bristol Rovers and Millwall in Bristol, and he came out and was put on a coach to London, the police officers thought he was pulling one and refused to let him get off the coach and he ended up going to London on this coach with all the Millwall fans. He got to London then had to come back to Bristol again. It was bonkers.

[@joshh1480]

This man is a legend! Keep them coming ben!!

[@robirving6071]

You've had me absolutely howling on this one mate. "Eughhhh football! Euughhh!" 🤣

[@JPEnoobs]

I’m so happy I found this channel. For more reasons than one! It’s nice to just listen to your stories and how you deal about mental health. Thank you Ben, you’re doing more good than you know

[@rcdean8350]

So true mate, glad I'm not the only one who thinks the same of "the game"

[@s_p_onarge8720]

Firms, ‘They’re not lawyers’ looool! Brilliant!

[@stephenholmes1036]

You are right we have a good laugh with the bobbies at national hunt racing meetings. Hes right they should pay for their own security

[@blackthorn5709]

Just when I thought I couldn’t have any more respect for this chap… 👏🏻

[@johnnyp1191]

My dad is a ex policeman and hates football. Burnley v Blackburn in the 80s were horrible he would say. Was a picture of him and my uncle carrying away injured fans away on roofing. He said if he every found me fighting would be disowned. I just go games to watch the match and go home.

[@inactive5952]

I never thought I'd find someone who feels not only the way about football but also the whole coming home malarkey.

[@andrewdempster8026]

That was amazing and you think “ why the fuck am i here” 😂😂😂

[@yesnow9256]

It's nice to see PC Ben enjoys a good game of footy.

[@Adsautomotive]

Couldn’t agree more with pretty much all of this. Well said that man.

[@boahnation9932]

I'd love to ask Ben how he felt policing helped build/change his character? Obviously he's great at speaking and handling people, things like that, confidence?

[@fast_eddie3441]

Exactly how I feel 100% My bar was trashed by football hooligans. Ben was the first copper on the scene in the v6! Watching that car floored down the street after the hooligans was the best part!

[@WoodyBeeeFishin]

Can’t stop watching Ben’s videos. Honest, funny as fuck, sharp as a tac and I could listen to the man all day. Superb job on awareness re mental health too.

[@tarawood-bradley2119]

Hi Ben, I love the raw emotion in this video, keep it real Ben and thank you for sharing your life.

[@clairehall704]

This is why I am a rugby fan, love the atmosphere and the atmosphere after is brilliant everyone has a great time together and great banter x

[@clairehall704]

@@AnIdiotAboard_ I love it when they got broke nose but still play, unlike football player x

[@residentelect]

@@AnIdiotAboard_ You lucky bastard!

[@abbebladon]

I’ll never forget back in the 90’s going to an away game at Milwall. The safest way for us to get there was by coach because if some Milwall supporters know you’re from the away team they’d have you. Anyway, the police had to escort us in through every red light and lock us in a compound for our safety. Before the match had finished they invaded the pitch and tried to rugby tackle our goalie! No wonder the away end was suspended off the ground so the home supporters couldn’t attack us. Scary stuff! Bloody love listening to your tales. My dad was a DI in Dorset police for 35 years, he retired in the early 00’s, every police officer gets my total respect for the incredibly difficult job they do xxxxx

[@connorjohnston3022]

I’ve honestly not heard so much truth being told in one video 😂😂😂

[@jamespeplow8701]

"Wearing stupid clothes and headbutting everyone" Spat my tea out. Haha! Nice. 😂

[@ukunboxings2242]

Rugby is the sport I love.

[@johnflaherty4128]

A brilliant impersonation of Kevin Pilkington ...an idiot abroad...lol

[@nathninetyone]

That was a fucking epic rant. Tell us how you really feel 😅

[@AlexBell1991]

This is why I love ice hockey. Home and away fans can sit in a pub together and have a drink, laugh, friendly banter and make friends along the way. Even with rivalry between Sheffield and Nottingham, it's all friendly off ice. We just want to have a good time and support our team along the way.

[@kevinmassey5201]

The man speaks sense in every single aspect

[@holliebarnes4625]

Honestly thank you you made me laugh first time in a while

[@RichO1701e]

He's not wrong, but let's be real, it's no where near as bad as it was in the 80's. A part from Millwall. They're still stuck in the 80's, hooligans and thugs.

[@tmphotography8443]

google Port Vale v Stoke City in a recent cup match . Flairs and bottle thrown by the Stoke fans onto the pitch , at the police and way fans and then they trash the toilets in the stand . Thats not football , you dont go thinking your going to do this unless your super dumb .

[@RICHARD10195]

Ben you speak directly to my heart

[@ListingViews]

That an enormous for-profit organization that welcomes its violent customers with open arms isn’t made to fund its own security, or make a huge contribution to the police force, is disgusting.

[@s-e-i138]

Remember the show "grumpy old men" We now have a new one called "grumpy old Ben" hilarious rant which I entirely agreed with!!! 👍 thank you Ben

[@atvseatexchange2176]

Get it out of your system Ben, don't hold back or apologize for what you believe in. Your mental health is more important then a few viewers or public opinion. I hope your sack is a little bit lighter and if it is, give another topic hell, this is all about you getting better. As always, my best to you sir.

[@MidlandAngler]

🤣🤣🤣

[@olimcginnes1132]

My respect for Ben was already really fucking high but after this video it’s just sky rocketed

[@Alancclive]

Brilliant Ben , just brilliant

[@clifftrawley2457]

Post credit scene in the car park. Great work, hilarious.

[@ckidd8308]

Bloody epic……love this, and totally agree with the fact that there are people out there who deserve to be paid way more than they are whilst these over grown boys kick a 🤬🤬🤬 ball about.

[@wheelierufus1327]

Be quiet

[@jordanwaite3837]

By far one of the best videos. True honesty and genuine emotion, more like this please.

[@MartinParnham]

To be honest, "Dragon Fighters" sounds like some shit kids TV cartoon... I'm a big football fan but a mate of mine used to work for one of one of the police forces that I won't name (it's not W. Yorks!); he hates football and one of his jobs was to repair the police vans. Let's just say he was never impressed when his workload had increased after a big match due to the "damage" caused to said vehicles! How people can claim football is boring but then say they like rugby or cricket (a game which can last 5 days and then nobody wins at the end) is a bit strange though ;-)

[@yeahyeah4433]

Idk football is actually quite boring, I used to be a big fan really into it, but I dont really watch it anymore, its like F1 for me, its gone off of being fun, F1 back in early 2000s was brilliant. But its different for everyone I guess.

[@JJJackson777]

@@yeahyeah4433 i get where your coming from but Monday we had 2 of the most exciting games of national football ever & this year in F1 it finallu looks like Max might finally de throne Hamilton, pretty exciting for once!

[@johnmcdonald9295]

I’d rather watch football than coronation street

[@liamdawson8558]

‘is it coming home’ ‘is it fuck’. Better not see u watching the final and celebrating when we win

[@GunshowJoe]

I'm so often in the massive minority opinion when I state EXACTLY this opinion of Football and it's drunk loutish supporters - So glad to hear it shared by you, Ben!

[@Isleofskye]

We used to say "there's ALWAYS "One" and now we can say " There's ALWAYS "Two"....

[@jamiewulfyr9571]

Make that three...

[@magnificusdominusduxchad4229]

@@jamiewulfyr9571 make it four

[@hadenough2005]

That was brilliant, really enjoyed it. Didn`t know you were so funny in Leeds, Oil of Olay etc. Glad to hear you calling the Police, Bobbies, can`t stand the cops phrase.

[@dalecutts2999]

Well put Ben, I've been saying the same for years and people think I'm an alien because I think football is dog shit.

[@dangerousdave123451]

Everyone knew he was going to say Millwall. And I haven't even followed the sport for 20+ years.

[@kerrytinsley2310]

You really put a smile on my face Ben (and sometimes make me shed some tears). The accounts of your policing adventures range from amusing to heartbreaking but they are truthful and honest. Also you are a very courageous man for speaking out about your own demons that occurred whilst doing this job. Keep smiling Ben 😃

[@jacobhanson1772]

I love your channel Ben and would love to meet you on day but, ITS COMING HOME! But honestly, keep it up.

[@wrighty7769]

You forgot that Gaffers expect you to be all happy and smily whilst receiving said bumming on your rest day despite being treated like sh*t by all the fans (including people who are decent people the other 6 days of the week) and constantly being told you’re on triple time

[@derekmcmahon5950]

I love Ben stories, the cycincal, honest funny sad, I get whizzy from laughing and have to take my inhlaour, keep it real and well done Ben

[@FlippinGurtrude]

I love football, but I will always agree with someone who says they get paid too much compared to people who deserve high wages such as doctors. Saving lives are qualities of a role model, not kicking a ball and acting like a twat.

[@JoeyDNo3]

This is the best resignation speach I've ever heard 🤣😂🤣

[@beckybarker5716]

I resonate with this so much my ex husband was a police officer and always would get called in on his days off to babysit these idiots. I remember one day he had to go to a match and my grandma died and I couldn’t get hold of him all day. That day I really needed him and was so angry that he had to be with these idiots instead of being able to support his wife. Safe to say you guys sacrifice so much so thank you 💗

[@opticalman6417]

calling them idiots is puting it lightly their behavior is raised from trauma and thus their caught up in a victimhood mentality mindset the Football Hooligans have tried to move closer to wellness by physically acting out in an attempt to no longer feel powerless by committing a crime. In effect, they project their feelings of powerless out onto their victim and in doing so, feel more empowered. It is a reaction rising from fear. They do not realize that any action taken from a place of fear (without first coming mentally into a space of freedom) will only produce physical results coherent with powerlessness, such as prison. The victim however, has merely stayed in the state of fear and powerlessness without acting out.

[@joncullen5382]

But that's what he signed up for .Sorry, but no one made him join . I particularly didn't enjoy living in a bush in S Armagh 30 years ago ,crapping into bags and stinking like high heaven ,while going after scumbags that wanted to kill and terrorize their own communities.But guess what -it was my job. 😒

[@elliottdefoe9615]

@@joncullen5382 Well sais! She expects us to feel sorry because her husband joined a gang & had to work like the rest of us & blames it on football!

[@bjjandlift6365]

Absolutely spot on mate

[@johnpaddock01]

Actually laughing my arse off here, absolutely first class and you could have literally taken your rant/script directly from me LOL I love your videos Ben, and I love what you're doing, keep at it dude you're doing amazing work and you seem to be doing amazingly well in yourself too, don't ever stop 👌👌

[@stevecooksley]

Absolutely spot on Ben - I was doing all that silly stuff in the early 90s until I had the lightbulb moment and realised what bollocks it all is. Love going to watch cricket and rugby and having a laugh with people no matter who they support. Sorry about your Boxing Days.

[@leehealy1451]

Love that football firms give you pure misery.

[@BenPearson1965]

Football firms suck

[@jannerman9297]

great stuff mate, really enjoyed this

[@Horizon301.]

I agree wholeheartedly with your views on football 🤣

[@nickedney1272]

Spot on Ben! I'm with you all the way, agreed with everything you said.

[@Alex-kc4gz]

This was basically Karl Pilkington the first 3 minutes🤣

[@ProserpineGaming]

Someone put this bloke in charge. His first act of being in power would be to ban kickball and slap anyone who likes it with a wet fish. Always liked this guy, now I love him. No nonsense, no BS, just honesty.

[@mrslemmy71]

Agree with every word, Ben! And it's not coming home either.

[@trickyxtomahawk]

Lmao this aged like milk

[@scottmc1299]

I'm a big football fan, but I completely agree about the hooliganism. The fact that there are middle-aged men who say goodbye to their wives and kids in the morning, go to a football match, and then actively try and find other middle-aged men to fight completely blows my mind. I don't mind a bit of good-natured banter between sets of fans, but violence on the basis of who you support is just stupid behaviour.

[@adamgore8155]

I found this rant hilarious and I love football. I’ve never been a drinker, football to me has always been about watching the game and a day out with my family. I hate the idiots that get pissed up and start scrapping because they give people like Ben the impression all football fans are like that. Some of us are sound 😂

[@bendover2865]

I love a drink and football but not the scrapping side of it and still thought that this was hilarious

[@kimcutts6153]

Could not agree more. Well said Ben. Xxx

[@kingpimple]

Refreshingly honest and raw, really enjoyed watching it and he’s spot on with so many of his points. Well done Ben

[@marc87supra]

Completely agree on this, as a youngster I used to be into football, but then realised that unless you were playing it, it’s incredibly boring to watch and the ‘fans’ were just terrible people. In every other sport, the fans are just enjoying the game and not looking for a fight. Even with American football, you can happily support the opposing team to the guy stood next to you with the worst being a bit of light hearted banter, you couldn’t do that in the UK as you’d probably get smacked.