Salford v Batley (1901)

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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[@LordZontar]

Remarkable quality for a nearly 120 year old film.

[@AndrewThompsonUPPERCASEmedia]

My Great Great Granda Robert Shaw played for Salford - amazing to see him in action, blown away!

[@marcusj9815]

Andrew Thompson you literally commented this on another video my nigga, gtfoh

[@michealflaithbheartaigh4139]

I wonder how many of those kids in the crowd would have came to a ghastly end in the trenches of France and Belgium.

[@Robert.Deeeee]

I was about to make the same comment

[@nickmullerITFC78]

Most including most of the mwn and then after the war spainish flu

[@geoffedwards-tb4kp]

Mad in it especially cos there's most probably a relative of mine in there. They are dotted about all over Manchester and Salford now and my families have lived here since the 1870s. Another branch j before just in I think the 1700s if family legend suffice. after culloden the Simpson a few women ,men and children , refugees. It could be possible. Makes you think, history.

[@Travis1.980]

@@geoffedwards-tb4kp nice comment ;)

[@Travis1.980]

@@geoffedwards-tb4kp do u have scottish ascendence?

[@newgy000]

I remember this game

[@lucaschapman2188]

😂

[@Puppy-ew4be]

Ok Doctor, no need to boast! 😅

[@HonourableGentleman.]

Same

[@horsthorus]

I saw you all! My first game in England! Greetings from Germany!

[@Puppy-ew4be]

@@horsthorus Ah, ze Time Lord! 😂

[@gibbiejallow970]

We will one day be gone just like these people.. 😢😢😢

[@heathy2k7]

I'm a massive Salford fan and I think it's amazing to see all those people over 100 years ago enjoying the mate, I think it's amazing how much the game has evolved......... Great Stuff

[@stalin1909]

Disco Amazing to even know how much the world has changed since your comment. hope you’re well and sound

[@CLUB_AFRICAIN]

11 ans hhhhhhhh

[@ramossaad16]

NESTA DATA FALTAVAM 9 ANOS PRÁ NASCER UM LINDO TIME......*CORINTHIANS*

[@thereunionparty]

Strange to see the players wearing belts to hold up their shorts. I suppose they didn't have elasticated waistbands back then. Also, although they are probably in their 20s or early 30s they all look about 20 years older.

[@habesha6883]

They all look 50

[@heyyou3133]

From 20 to 50. Not only 20

[@mcfcfan1870]

0:11 lovely

[@crystaltipps04]

What a jovial bunch they were in those days marvellous!

[@forgive7449]

...13 years later 😕

[@CLUB_AFRICAIN]

😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣 11 ans

Wow...all these kids ...slaughtered in WWI..may all of them rest in peace..

[@user-hi9zr7pk7u]

Same comment are annoying

[@alancosta4760]

@@user-hi9zr7pk7u unfortunately all those kids were ripped off at the trenches of WWII

[@bonechip01]

@@alancosta4760 You mean WWI.

[@heyyou3133]

@@user-hi9zr7pk7u да ты то не пиздел бы тут

[@depekthegreat359]

An extremely so fantastic video of this 119 years of this football match,forever in our respective lives and every generations that we would be born,good friend!!!:-D

[@sebdunleavy1608]

it’s rugby

[@johnmccullagh567]

last time salford won

[@martinbirmingham4450]

They lost.

[@dermotosullivan3065]

lol

[@gui18bif]

Hahahahaha

[@alancosta4760]

@@martinbirmingham4450 ahahshaha

[@danielwilkins4748]

They won a game on penalties in 1906

[@carpediem-tv3ni]

The real football. After this never the same.

[@lesgibson9366]

And you could enjoy a smoke

[@stuartlongley2446]

I like to slow footage like this down to 0.75 as it seems more "real". Though it does have the side effect of Adrian Chiles sounding pissed! 😂

[@markwatts2532]

Batleys best player was sold for two penneths of coal and a meat pie.

[@Johnoco66]

Great stuff!

[@CLUB_AFRICAIN]

Hhhhhhh 12 ans

[@flexbrat]

amazing 1901 all long gone !

[@CLUB_AFRICAIN]

11 ans hh

[@thetypicaldude1488]

Your comment also 11 years ago

[@ACBlackJ0ck]

3:40 So long, random guy's hat!

[@petrasant5495]

Loved the “team bus!”

[@JuniorJr...]

Probably the children of the babies who were in the stands are also dead!

[@cottonhillfiddymen]

My paternal great great granddad was the manager of this Salford side. His name ,Hugh Jass son of African explorer Moe Lester. Rest easy GGGranddad

[@scaparapadoobedoooo3170]

I remember being there watching it

[@Katsaoakl]

RIP, good people.

[@marcelopedrosa1999]

😭😭😭

[@daviddring2365]

Takes me back ..... took my boy, the day before his wedding!

[@robertroberts2666]

Is that you Adrian Childs doing the commentary? If so or not, we'll done whoever!

[@dokteraulia9466]

Nice video..from indonesia

[@lewis47094]

My great grandad was playing for Batley

[@hamala7437]

A football back to streets football times. Every generation had it's own version for sure. The Asphaltic streets taught more than any academy, with barefooted lads

[@cubecubesson6779]

That guy with long blonde hair is smashing it!

[@askhan111]

Everyone in the crowd irrespective of age is wearing a cap or a hat. It looks like wearing a cap was part of dress at that time. Or is it due to winter cold weather?

[@teekey1754]

First time watching 100 years old movie ? That dress code lasted till the 30's.

[@askhan111]

@@teekey1754 thanks for the info

[@jam1966ful]

At work too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZzWfWZ7nN2kr8k which is also part of the same film collection.

[@marcelopedrosa1999]

RIP you all 😭😭😭

[@emreilgaz3701]

I was there I was 8 years old

[@donna9374]

Where abouts in Salford was this match.

[@user-lr3uy6nu7b]

i had to play in this game but coach never believed in me... i know i was old but i had the expirience to control the team

[@weebros5286]

Diego costa is the best wonderkid that season

[@eternaljade97]

1:28 that guy with a moustache legit looks like Arthur Shelby! Holy smoke lol

[@heyyou3133]

yeah it's Arthur

[@anhanh8724]

Learning the game... 🎵

[@hansfrantz6658]

i was there!... no, kidding. by the time, the youngest player was around 32 yrs of age it seems..

[@giorgimtiulishvili7922]

unique video

[@plughin]

1:23 her team got asterix or obelix in here,what a game👍

[@mochammadrafaeldefta2230]

Adakah yg penonton cjm?

[@okeiroz]

Nice match for James Milner👏👏

[@wleon4068]

Very sobering to think that all those on this film are dead now. Bloody hell, the 1st World War hadn't even begun then. I wonder just how many who were filmed here, died in those God-forsaken trenches?

[@reynaldoballarini1886]

CRUZEIRO SEMPRE 💙💙💙💙💙 Twenty yares before the foundation *1921*

[@aa-up4sf]

No doubt some of these folk would have fought and died in WW1. Heroes all of them, thank you for everything.

[@ALEJANDR0184]

2:37 First tunnel ever!

[@swaldron5558]

Instead nice warm luxury showers they using cold wash basins.

[@davidcourt238]

Was it league or union?

[@andysneddon962]

League

[@gaetanochiaro3608]

why they catch the ball with Hands?

[@liamascorcaigh2601]

It’s rugby not soccer

[@danielwilkins4748]

What will people think of us in 2139?

[@gg-vc2pn]

Why are they playing soccer with hands?

[@chanctonbury63]

@ahmed742 Cheerful soul you.

[@CLUB_AFRICAIN]

Hhhhhh 9 ans

[@whatdidido3838]

It’s 1901 and the video is good quality Now it’s 2020 and when they talk about UFOS and MARS they show us shitty videos Doesn’t make any sense anymore And I saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic playing on the field 😅😂

[@broo2143]

keren

[@Puppy-ew4be]

Look at the length of those shorts!

[@tonybarnes9194]

And the height! With tight, no less. What were they thinking?

[@magicmomentsvideo]

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[@maamarhamid3973]

Is that boy waving his cap on 3:45 still a live !!!

[@anarcho-pingu]

certainly not

[@Music-nh8qo]

How footballs changed😊

[@ruanchristian77]

Nessa epoca que andava os peaky blinders

[@gui18bif]

Hope they dont shout insults at the referee, else they will be escorted out for "hate speech". Who am I kidding? These were times of men, not children.

[@frankhornby6873]

...I didn't know that John Cleese played for Batley....he still doesn't look his age..

[@ThePinkMadcap]

Modern humans are about 300.000 years old. First Civilizations emerged about 10.000 years ago. This footage is from about only 100 years ago. Am I the only one tripping my balls off without being on acid in terms of how surreal those 4 minutes are, compared to what we see nowadays, both in football and in the world in general?

[@Waluigis1]

nope, me too mate. absolutely crazy watching this.

[@wiltonferreira7288]

Eles gostavam de deixar o bigode.

[@merseydave1]

You forgot to state that its Rugby League

[@stefancelmare21]

Bring back the belt! imagine a fight with those belts on.

[@Rivan98]

Look at those uniforms

[@leonardokerekes9258]

Mirtha Legrand salia con el arbitro en esa epoco

[@reckondragon2130]

I wonder who was the first afrian player to play in the English Premier League? Noticed all the players were European?

[@briandavis3832]

1:25 Ross Abbot

[@tw25rw]

Is that the Northern union before it became rugby league?

[@kelseymcgowan2538]

In a nutshell yes, I'm not quite sure when Northern union became rugby league though

[@kelseymcgowan2538]

In a nutshell yes, I'm not quite sure when Northern union became rugby league though

[@NorthernUnion13]

@@kelseymcgowan2538 i belive the name changed in 1925

[@markwatts2532]

Tottenham Hotspurs won the FA cup in this year.....YAY

[@alisonwunderland9900]

2:23 Hahahahaha

[@aislingdalton4819]

Was gary neville boss of salford then

[@woody1955]

Looks like the ball used back then was bigger and rounder then the ball used nowadays..

[@batleyell]

Go BATLEY Go........The Gallant Youths....(now Bulldogs)

[@CLUB_AFRICAIN]

9 ans hhhhhh

[@gerardorojas279]

It's my idea or this people seems like robots ?

[@JoaoSilva-od1zv]

It's your idea

[@richardkeiser9635]

I lost a s..t load of money on this

[@puchetao15]

LOL 😀😀😀😀😀

[@somentequeroaverdade6581]

Até o Salford tinha estádio em 1901. Já o framengo......

[@Travis1.980]

hahahahhaa vc comentando isso aqui tbm. Vi vc comentando isso em outro vídeo

[@somentequeroaverdade6581]

@@Travis1.980 eu menti, por acaso?

[@Travis1.980]

@@somentequeroaverdade6581 não, achei engraçado;

[@liamascorcaigh2601]

Scorcio!

[@habesha6883]

They were like in their 50s 😂

[@billduong2697]

Before pedro jesus came

[@harrybuik9763]

Sorry I thought this was football at the start lol ,when football was played in Dundee about 1870ties it read captain of the first 15 lol that was football then 🤣

[@Glories999]

I wasted 2 minutes of my life to find out this is rugby & not football.

[@NorthernUnion13]

You've wasted your entire life on a bitches sport then.

[@Glories999]

@@NorthernUnion13 american football > rugby prove me wrong

[@NorthernUnion13]

@@Glories999 fat unfit guys wearing helmits and pads while they stand around for 3 hours. You're wrong.

[@sichere]

The Premier League in 2021

[@maximilianogabriel9982]

This Is rugby

[@bryanslash]

What the hell happened to us men?! We used to dress with such class... Now fashion means dressing like a fucking clown with Peter Pan's trousers.

[@By_Asahel]

HAHAHAHA...

[@maddogryan5799]

notice all white players no black faces times have changed

[@youngsteph1]

Also no obese ones in crowds.

[@Travis1.980]

for worse, i think.

[@anarcho-pingu]

who gives a shit what colour someone is? sad people

[@deantownie7441]

@@anarcho-pingu It is linage you leftie loon.

[@the_re_up]

Looooool and they say football is an english sport right? Wth is this?

[@jamesdoyle3885]

Tash fest

[@josemendes2530]

THEY CAN LIVE IN OUR PLANET AGAIN BY RESSURRECTION. ACTS24.15

[@kevinstephenson4674]

There's always one pointless comment, isn't there?

[@versioncity1]

please fuck off.

[@josemendes2530]

@@versioncity1 you are in time now to learn to be better education

[@josemendes2530]

@@kevinstephenson4674 not pointless for that players who died

[@versioncity1]

@@josemendes2530 It's because of better education and critical thinking that I don't need to tolerate your silly preaching comments. It's a old film about football; why are you so arrogant to post comments about your superstitions as if other people haven't thought about such things before. Go away and educate yourself.

[@tel5080]

if only these could see the islamic caliphate being born in uk now they would be so happy

[@Enes-wj5xq]

I remember this game