Rotherham Town v Thornhill (1902)

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[@yelp8326]

I remember this game.

[@tomitstube]

i was there! that's me with the dirt on my face.

[@tomitstube]

@Matthew Kirkham thanks, i think i remember you. you were wearing the flat caps in working gear...

[@dermotosullivan3065]

I brought my grandson along to this game.

[@abriano3708]

Yelp oh yh I saw you there I remember now

[@alibabba6347]

The day that i was still 75

[@rj7449]

Weird how they have better camera quality in 1902 than every person who recorded a UFO

[@phphala2477]

😅😅😅👌🏿

[@boulevardhip-hop7556]

I RECORDED a Ufo and a Sasquatch I don't fuckin get me nothing it's like every camera is done as cursed

[@red4life848]

Legendary ✌️

[@gaz8177]

RJ ya, exactly 👍👍

[@JD-cf3mv]

Brilliant!

[@burnok_]

Ah yess, i remember it. James Milner's first season.

[@mostafamansour2495]

😂

[@mrblank7060]

Haahhaah wat de pak

[@A____B]

Underrated comment

[@otakuhunter4817]

second season of Zlatan

[@praveendavis1939]

Yeah lol, and Jesse Lingard was a talent with huge potential.

[@enesballa2217]

0:19 one of the biggest flex in goalkeeping history

[@jeffreyrosenfeld7543]

Donnaruma!

[@atrox7685]

lmao :D

[@quxantipe]

Rene Higuita his father. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pl7JnYeGiLipedk

[@enesballa2217]

@@quxantipe Yes,we all know about the legend

[@Lolander14]

This is easily the best part of the whole video

[@rajwantkaur9579]

2020 - 4- 2-3-1 1902- 10 forwards and 1 goalkeeper

[@zeddv4362]

I want to imagine how football will look in 2100

[@waldson5177]

Yes, yes... 😄

[@justrandomguy694]

1902 no offside Rules

[@mukti5875]

That why Mourinho once said that Guardiola are playing 19th Century football in modern football

[@viniciusdacruz7359]

😂😂😂😂

[@Aspenex]

I can't believe I'm watching match which has been played 118 years ago.

[@lucalone]

what will be people saying in 500 years ?!

[@Westham_dan]

lucalone if footballs still going in 500 years time I really doubt much would have changed tbh

[@brehbreh1067]

Danny Strange they”ll probably have space football by that time (if there’s life anyways)

[@grekosmtl8148]

Back when i was 78... Good ol' days.

[@AM-lh9qf]

This game is even earlier kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM

[@_MrMoney]

"Rotherham Town have the white half on the left and Thornhill have the white half on the right" Oh yeah that isn't confusing at all

[@AYDmarinac]

Hahaha same here! Was like fuuck they are all the same :D

[@vnox5223]

Probably different colors right but the camera cant pick it up

[@Edits_Panic0]

I think one the right ones are half blue and the left ones half red.

[@mediterraneandiet2483]

“Okay we’ll play in white tops” “No. We want to play in white tops” “Bolocks. We called it first” “So what? We want white tops. We ain’t playing otherwise.” “Gentlemen. Gentlemen. Surely we can find a compromise.”

[@theylietoyouall.5051]

Even stranger is that when a player left a club for a new club, he could still wear his old teams top, absolute maniacs!

[@JoeBob79569]

That punch by the keeper at 0:19 was an absolutely boss move.

[@jogabonito4392]

Foi um passe de ombro.

[@LukasHillbrandt]

Unbelievable how the players managed to play the game without seeing colors

[@vineroli]

Black and white are actually colors.

[@vineroli]

@@LukasHillbrandt why r u booing me? I'm right

[@SafiSafi-pw9sr]

Hahahahahahahahahsah deutscher Humor

[@futbolproactive3059]

@@vineroli black is not a colour it's the absence. and white is every colour.

[@vineroli]

@@futbolproactive3059 bruh

[@user-sw2lv3zp6o]

0:19 cool piece of goalkeeping coming up.

[@Enes-wj5xq]

XD

[@jamesdoyle3885]

Lol

[@booma3069]

He smacked the ball what a legend

[@antoniotopete1403]

Oliver Khan 😳

[@shakes.dontknowwhatyergettin]

Smart move; you were allowed to score by charging the goalkeeper into the goal in those days.

[@estebangarcia747]

This game was more entertaining than Liverpool vs Spurs in the final 2019

[@daniellema3526]

Agreed!

[@cavs6663]

Same with bayern vs psg and. Man city vs Chelsea

[@aslave.9433]

No fame, no money, no transfer business, no expensive tickets no great packages. But we can enjoy this type of football.-A real football lover.

[@dienriski9356]

Like sunday league

[@givencci9997]

Honor was in game

[@Mytyay_ShostaIV]

Now, football is plastic

[@DanRobards]

Every town still has a club. You can still experience shit football if you really want

[@marinanikolaevna1753]

lmao youre pretentious as fuck

[@ethanandreas3664]

Good to see Gareth barry’s debut, what a career

[@Justfun-xx6xe]

And his team mate Hilton

[@876Silly]

😂

[@ILikeBurritos_]

I think I see a wild Ryan Giggs in the background too

[@disobeytoday4685]

The day Jesse Lingard was tipped to be the next young prospect

[@tankc6474]

🤣🤣🤣

[@KyoukkTec]

0:19 ultra instinct

[@disobeytoday4685]

I wouldn't like to fight him

[@Stephen-nh9qf]

The keeper looks crazy😂

[@user-fht3ndbr56jy]

volleyball

[@eduarsantin5833]

Volley

[@georgemill8822]

Spectators in 1902: Caps, suits, poles Spectators in 2019: *No clothes*

[@eintracht7536]

2021: no spectators

[@BestTen608]

@@eintracht7536 2022 no nothing

[@dolphee9935]

2020 - no

[@doggerlander]

2023 no stadium 2024 no players 2025 no ball

[@nemeczek67]

0:19 Diego was inspired by this.

[@davidvivaldi356]

MARADO MARADO

[@BalboaBaggins]

Who's Diego

[@joshua50101]

@@BalboaBaggins Diego Armando Maradona 1960-2020

[@valtolabs6194]

@@BalboaBaggins el Diego papá!! Leyenda mundial del fútbol 🇦🇷

[@johnevans2456]

The days when football was truly a working class game

[@pandaman1367]

Most of these videos don’t even have football fans. Just political old man fucks who like to bash on modern generations

[@theseoldbeats]

Except the dude in the top hat who put it on.

[@kirthansakhamuri2963]

Ozzy Mandias were

[@ghjklkop7868]

It is still a working class/slave game

[@jameel1963]

John Evans the ref was smoking his pipe😂😂😂😂

[@skittles3201]

Back then they’d be saying “Queen Victoria died last year”

[@SammyP-lv1id]

Skittles also “what the hell is a world war”

[@yoyoholck]

"Text john and see if he can get me a bag of weed"

[@SwiggleMcJiggle]

@@SammyP-lv1id Adolf who? The fuck are ya on about?

[@75subs19]

5

[@vineroli]

@F A 😬

[@samt5663]

1:37 The best bit. "Thanks, Dad I can finally watch the match".

[@praqyan]

0:47 thats Kepa's grandfather right there

[@samuelbiswas615]

Bruh 🤣🤣

[@abdhu9669]

:D :D :D

[@breakingaustin]

Still put the highlights up faster than Sky Sports

[@rohanchivukula2809]

faster than nbc

[@7903bbqbbq]

Its sad how everyone in the film is dead

[@sircrook]

Not really.

[@elliot7753]

JAKUBTUBE x holy shit I’ve jut realised

[@wic9kf8]

sexy bitch lmao

[@jaimeluna7968]

@@sircrook what a sexy bitch lol

[@yathindradev2378]

What if someone was pregnant and are alive? Will that be considered as being in the film? 🤔 Anyway who am I kidding.... There seems to be no more than 4 women among the spectators 😂

[@FriendlyHomie]

This was played on my birthday, 92 years before I was born. And I'm from Rotherham.

[@rockytrap8477]

0:48 PERFECT GK EVER

[@dieselboy77]

At least he recorded the game in landscape mode

[@mobatumi]

Very underestimated comment 😂

[@_sayan_roy_]

@@mobatumi *underrated

[@octopus8420]

@@_sayan_roy_ maybe he thought that OP was dumb

[@mobatumi]

@@_sayan_roy_ thanks. I am not a native English speaker and I don't live in an English-speaking country. What is the difference between "underestimated" and "underrated"?

[@asa.8691]

@@mobatumi underestimated is predicted under what something ended up being, the key difference is “estimated” and “rated” underrated would be people’s opinions or ratings being under what something is

[@robinodonovan5461]

Ahh yes, this was that season spurs won the league wasnt it?

[@peeper2070]

Was it?

[@gozuam1617]

😂

[@vishalbhat8602]

🤣

[@louderthanyourface]

Sheff Weds

[@nancyjackson3909]

😂😂

[@humann5682]

Not a mobile phone in sight, just fans living in the moment.

[@arunishsingh2946]

These guys are more well dressed than me going for an interview

[@kindmulberry7196]

And these are the poor ones. Imagine the rich

[@cyclingseagull]

T shirt and jeans hadn't been invented.

[@__higHJack__]

0:48 quality goalkeeping there

[@omarhachebe328]

Better than De Gea...

[@pulakification]

Right in the nutsack.

[@miahinenmias2641]

@@pulakification when men were men and not guys or boys. When men had balls

[@abdulmehmood7438]

@@omarhachebe328 de gea has been quality this season he just plays with Maguire and lindelof

[@galangmuhammady]

0:20 😎

[@jannix998]

RIP for all people in this video😔

[@akhmaddanis4408]

😭😭😭

[@yumekawayui8880]

Meninggal Semua Orang yang ada di Video ini

[@manakalala5276]

Semua Orang pasti akan merasakan hidup dan juga pasti akan merasakan mati. Itulah yang sudah di takdirkan Allah swt pada umat Manusia dan seluruh keturunan Adam & Hawa yang pasti akan merasakan mati jika sudah waktunya

[@oleggattor]

Nooooooo please!

[@amatsumikaboshi273]

I am still alive

[@abrahamgutierrez4953]

I remember that game very well, they broadcast it by sky sports PPV

[@martijnmolenbeek]

Love it that there was a commentator next to the camera man playing music and explaining what is going on during that match at the same time.

[@nickmullerITFC78]

Love the fact these films still survive in 🚜🚜🚜🚜

[@gigsandbusking8959]

A good job we do since the left re write history!

[@nickmullerITFC78]

@@gigsandbusking8959 I guess in 100 years they've watching our videos

[@brusnikinlegend3683]

Agree

[@nickmullerITFC78]

@@brusnikinlegend3683 will they be looking at my videos and others and think the same

[@gozuam1617]

@@nickmullerITFC78 maybe one day they'll take your video (and others) for some documentary in 50-100 years from now. lol

[@stijnmeeus3708]

Still remember this one, great match

[@robertmorris6289]

Unfortunately I was too young, but something I remember

[@rubenherrera3792]

si si ví a Paul y Ringo en las tribunas

[@zcharged8294]

i especially loved the pitch invasion we had at the end of the match!

[@mariosbouls7300]

I remember there was var and a huge stadium and a great ven- oh wait

[@coreyj_]

Yeah the guy on VAR spoke to me next to the emirates stadium just after the pitch invasion

[@obaiddzphotographer6208]

1:30 It looks as if he wants to quarrel with someone , not take a picture 😂

[@fatih_2206]

1900:In the past, the poor played and the rich watched. 2021: rich , playing, poor , watching..

[@jeffner1233]

The whole crowd is made up of labourers wtf are u on abt

[@ryanchant6861]

James Milners debut game if I remember

[@atlantic_31]

He runs too fast down the wing he never gets old

[@honn8325]

Hahahahahaha

[@craftsphere719]

I think it was buffon’s prime years

[@tolugo87]

12 years after, all these lads posing to the camera were sent to rot inside a trench in a certain death war.

[@ShanghaiRooster]

Not necessarily. The youngest would have been pushing 30 years old by the time the Great War broke out. The average age of enlisted men was mid-twenties, so although conscription in 1915 covered men aged between 18 and 40 years old, it's more likely the older ones would have been deployed so as to release younger men for the front. Those men in reserved occupations would also have been exempted, which would have included miners, train drivers, dockers, and many of those who worked in iron and steel works, for example, as well as farmers etc.

[@tolugo87]

@@ShanghaiRooster You got your point. Well, I wouldn't want to be in their shoes back in the day, that's certain!

[@ShanghaiRooster]

@@tolugo87 Everyone can agree with that, I hope. 😀

[@socialrehab9234]

Nice exchange. Both good points.

[@burunokosuta]

Have you ever been in France, eh?

[@multiyapples]

I love looking at old videos.

[@Blades-mh9dr]

I used to play on that field in the sixties and seventies.We lived on Dovercourt Rd.My nan lived on Henley Grove Rd.Great to see.

[@bluehabs]

This match have more attendant than average Manchester City match at emptyhad

[@vishalbhat8602]

Ikr

[@user-hr5wz1zb5w]

I hope this is sarcastic, cuz you're totally wrong

[@entoutcasontelesouhaite673]

Oof that’s burn

[@CrimsonKobaNakirigumi]

@@user-hr5wz1zb5w no shit Sherlock

[@noahkdb4198]

Shut up city hater

[@AzakielRuns]

1:11 only if these people knew others would watch them 118 years later!

[@lewis72]

... on a little box with a flat screen, where the images were sent through, on demand, the air on electromagnetic waves !!

[@tomasgordillo]

Does anyone knows why that guy on 1:11 has his face in black? Mines, industrial job?

[@rokoseki2719]

@@tomasgordillo chimney cleaning maybe

[@memediff3475]

All of them were staring into my soul lol

[@travisbickle3835]

@@lewis72 What? I thought it was magic.

[@djalland1]

1:22 "The crowd is entirely male" 1:24 Woman in crowd - "Hello there!"

[@ReaLityBlue]

Remembering watching live this game on TV. It was great!

[@johnlowdon5809]

I spotted a woman in the crowd .

[@philipjenkins2198]

where ?

[@smartgenes1]

@@philipjenkins2198 1:15 front row and back row left 1:26 a younger girl

[@philipjenkins2198]

John Lowdon oh the lady next to the gent who t doffed his top hat 🎩 wasn’t he the guy that organised it all .? Properly his wife . Thanx for that .

[@philipjenkins2198]

John Lowdon 1.26. Lady with her thumbs up 👍 Olso next to a gent with a trilby Olso May be together Well to do gents taking their women to the footy ?

[@sichere]

At least two and I suspect a few groomers from Rotherham

[@barryjones8195]

Grew up playing on that pitch!

[@prasprasetya2503]

5 years dude, crazy

[@CLUB_AFRICAIN]

5 ans

[@gerardwilkie3650]

Fantastic picture quality...

[@stlouisix3]

*_I took my grandson to this match a wee while ago._** Fancy seeing it as a repeat on KZbin* 😉

[@am1d]

"pff, they play 19th century football" - Mourinho

[@paulkay]

Rotherhams average crowd around the same more than 100yrs on.

[@alex_josephhhhh]

Holy shit a 12 year old comment wow 😯

[@sreejanthakur8410]

Lmao dude are you still Alive 😂

[@patricioestrella8786]

A 12 y/o coment holy shit

[@CrimsonKobaNakirigumi]

112 years later and still hasn't improved lol

[@LORD-kg4sl]

@@alex_josephhhhh you are 15 or something?

[@adjeiboateng6720]

Wow! Incredible footage

[@jmtodoc9476]

The camera has better quality than the every school fight ever recorded

[@elliottg8125]

I can't believe this was last on Match Of The Day

[@gozuam1617]

been waiting years for the highlights.

[@JohnMcMahon.]

That keeper still plays today, it’s a very young Hugo Lloris.

[@pdhung3012]

they froze him like captain america

[@rickster5120]

Better than Lloris

[@AnanduMSMak]

That was my 85 th birthday, I was there in the gallery, reading all these comments in KZbin on my 2005 Sony Ericsson Antenna Phone.

[@AlexMoretti]

*Se percebe que os cara ficavam sem o dedao dos pes no final da partida*

[@CarlJohnson-ym1xz]

Pse kkk

[@arseny_void]

How good Ibrahimovic was in the beginning of his career!

[@jabeir1991ify]

Ahh i remember this game. It was exactly 89 years before i was born.

[@jabeir1991ify]

GS 1905 lol a little salty are we little bitch. :) have a nice day. Bitch.

[@LuxHM]

Terab Ali wow why tf are you insulting him so much

[@jaimeluna7968]

@@LuxHM idk bitch pretty crazy right bitch its crazy bitch he does it bitch

[@K.e.a.r.a.]

Exactly 102 years before I was born 😂🤔

[@vineroli]

This was exactly 100 years before me

[@user-ny9vf9nn5q]

ШЁЛ 2021 ГОД, ЭТО ВЫСКОЧИЛО В РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ))) ЖДЁМ ЕЩЁ 100 ЛЕТ, ВСЕМ ПОКА-ВСЕМ ДО ВСТРЕЧИ)))

[@user-vd4sb6ur5y]

Такая же фигня =)))

[@tinotales]

I remember watching this with my lovely wife and children. I miss them:-(

[@GkPur4l]

Man on the moon, WW1, WW2, Technology, First man in space, Titanic, and lots of events in 20th century, but however before all of that happened, the game we still watch today football, still existed, Wow!

[@aldozulfikar54]

Friend: hi dude, im about to take a couple of day break playing FIFA *Last online: 118 years ago*

[@serginhocosta100]

Vídeos: É por esse e outros, que amo you tube, parabéns... Sensacional vídeo...

[@viniciusdacruz7359]

Um BR nos comentários 😱😂 Tmj 😁👍

[@07Braza07]

É nóises!

[@osvaldotrigueiro3884]

Eu não diria que amo o youtube , mas reconheço que há coisas curiosas e interessantes nele , tirando muitas porcarias também .

[@irh1738]

Wow absolutely amazing. Time travelling through KZbin.

[@LM-rn6ph]

This brings back childhood memories

[@HippieMumboJumbo]

Toe Balls on fleek

[@ciaranmck4469]

ah yes i remember this game then I got fucked up by the germans and had lice eating my carcass jolly good time

[@xthemugshot]

I was there with my son, as a present on his birthday

[@bigbazzaRUFC]

funny how this is still the most recognition we will ever get

[@gui18bif]

It's not just football that has changed for the worse but also the crowd and ourselves

[@corcaighogormghus4618]

Facts

[@freespirit4706]

118 years ago. 🤯😲

[@beniteztheconman]

I was only 12

[@sahrulputra9547]

WTF?

[@popkinson]

My great grandad played in this game. Douglas Bryant, he was a left half.

[@vineroli]

My great granddad was a great fan of yours

[@octopus8420]

Meanwhile, Ngolo Kante is playing back half.

[@jameshope398]

Amazing footage

[@demensclay6419]

Absolutely gold!

[@lt7601]

"I remember this game" is everywhere

[@disobeytoday4685]

Better than "First"

[@epicmo806]

You see this man at 01:22 with the hat? Thats not my granddad.

[@mfadel1012]

Lol XD

[@tatyatope4190]

Nice .

[@robin_123]

Because its mine

[@vineroli]

Maybe

[@camhall5993]

same

[@afonsojeronimo405]

Relíquia guardada.. 100 anos dessa partida de futebol, onde só a bola pesava quase 5 KG..

[@humphrey4058]

This game was 🔥 I remember that day I didn't make it to the field I streamed online.

[@shanekelley7682]

This was in March of this year! I've been to Rotherham!

[@nebno6]

I'm 30 years old, everyone here was dead before I was even born..

[@khabibmcgregor3592]

How did you come up with that?

[@tuffguy8656]

fr?

[@TrueShoot1000]

No shit sherlock ??

[@yeahhbuddy3932]

No way ...

[@karimaljammal4221]

Wait how do you know?

[@elmer5455]

I still remember this match to this day.

[@neilhudson3908]

omg this is so beautiful. true art!

[@swaldron5558]

I’ve been there!, I’m 15 years old and I supported Thornhill Rovers, been fined 5 shillings for fighting after the match.

[@chinnaphatlin9284]

I remembered I took my kids to this game

[@AnanduMSMak]

Bobby from the second half substitution was so amazing, he had a hat-trick.

[@user-cu4li3up1d]

Помню с батей под пивко смотрели этот замечательный матч. Ух, были же времена. И это время уже не вернуть =(((. Верните мой 1902.

[@user-ic2gn6pu7r]

Тогда Бавария рвала всех и стала чемпионом Европы , но потом советская Динамо разгромила их в Берлине в финале ЛЧ 9 мая 1945

[@dobleh1334]

Recuerdo ese día como si hubiera sido ayer

[@jasonw5817]

So this is what Sunderland fc has come to I didn’t know they couldn’t afford to record games in colour

[@lightisfleetingdarknessisf8695]

lol, they're dressed more neatly than me when i go to a cafe

[@pedropires4528]

Man I remember this game that goalkeeper was a great friend

[@osvaldotrigueiro3884]

Como eu adoro História estas imagens de época sempre são muito interessantes para mim .

[@jacktucker9032]

just spotted myself in the crowd, i have fond memories of this game

[@milton2345]

You're lying

[@jacktucker9032]

@@milton2345 good spot 👍

[@lacrocklabombiyak528]

Ahhh! I miss this game I was with my friends back then.

[@RegatulDACIA]

I was one lucky fan who see this game Live🍀💯

[@vg9253]

Esse é o comentário brasileiro que você estava procurando!

[@cassianodebastiani806]

O jogo feio

[@saulooliveira892]

Nesse tempo goleiro sem luva, trave de madeira, bola em dia de chuva triplicava o peso, uniforme molhado pesava 4 quilos rsrs jogar não era uma profissão...aí tem coragem...

[@Murilokw]

Kkkk oi

[@boygamers954]

Cara é muito estranho ver esse jogo hoje em dia kkkkk, principalmente o goleiro kk

[@rubenssilva2823]

Bola pesava 8 kg nessa época! na época do Pelé pesava 4 kg, isso quando a chuva não caia kkkk

[@bytesurfer8651]

I remember this, I was on substitution during that match because I was in a bad shape after that exhausting Champions League quarterfinals two days earlier.

[@savvy830]

So did you finally get to play ?

[@bytesurfer8651]

@@savvy830 Luckily no! The pitch was so horrible that day so the match was stopped in a second half

[@savvy830]

@@bytesurfer8651 Oh thats bad, and which team were you playing for ?

[@tobytube9832]

savvy830 he’s joking also u can’t take a joke

[@savvy830]

@@tobytube9832 Looks like you aren't the sharpest tool in the shed.

[@Mr.Ditkovich.]

This was the first match I attended with my dad. Good ol' days.

[@sriramvirat4697]

Yes i watched this live 🤩

[@PhotographyDrews]

"...the crowd are entirely male.." shows footage of woman in the crowd!

[@cinderelo69]

0:48 Cássio 😂😂😂

[@johnegod5314]

hsuahsuahsuahusa

[@ThiagoCT9]

John hauahauha que porra foi essa

[@roblucci2.057]

Kkkkk asa época o jogo era estranho

[@sawiovinhas3167]

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkklkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkklkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@phill93]

The style of the goalkeeper.. CLASS

[@17_sidiq15]

Appeared on my homepage on 16 june 2021 😅