Superteams (1979)

[@ScratchyBaws]

Such a shame you don't get shows like this anymore because MONEY has ruined things like this ever happening again. People in the comments slating Geoff Capes have obviously never competed in any sport their entire lives, guy is passionate, a competitor and a winner. R.I.P a complete Legend and will always be missed.

[@patrickstocks3576]

RIP 🪦 Geoff Capes 1949-2024 Aged 75 👼🏽😇✝️🙏😥🕊

[@simonburgiss3957]

Great days back then RIP Geoff Capes

[@albaxter8711]

Big Geoff loved beating the footballers 😂😂 legend...rip big man..happy memories ❤

[@a34rwl]

Capes! What a beast.

[@Josh-v3x6y]

i re,ember watching this -a very young lad and wanted the footballers to win - but became and athlte and became friends or met on several occasions with nearly all of these. geoff daley brian, and Keith

[@stuartsmith5308]

Not sure if a man is brave or stupid when they decide to annoy Capes.

[@9256steven]

1:08 The original Ronnie Pickering, not that punk in the red car.

[@tsmith9715]

In the basketball wait for the 2 times Geoff Capes goes for them then puts his hand on head asif to blag he was only scratching his head absolute classic

[@craigward2710]

'You don't see many black athletes who can swim." A comment well worth making, that one. Hats off.

[@andyhello23]

Never saw this originally. But fascinating, to see how people that are normally either team sport players, or individual sport players adapt to these things, and conditions. The basketball really showed how weak individual sports people are in team games, where soccer players are used to constantly pressing, and finding space for each other, as a norm in there sports. Fascinating competition that shows the difference between the two different types of sports people, ie those who play in teams, vs those who compete by themselves as individuals.

[@glennthompson1971]

So good the athletes won. The footballers narrowly won 4 events. The athletes destroyed them in the other 4. By far better overall.

[@CARLIN4737]

The athletes are by far the fittest.

[@glennthompson1971]

Daley Thompson by far the best overall athlete.

[@stoolpigeon4285]

Well, that's kind of what decathlon is.

[@CARLIN4737]

Decathlete?

[@stephendines1936]

Mick Channon sounds a right country bumpkin

[@buffalosowljah]

well he was from that part of the country just like those werzals *i got a brand new combinee herrviisterrr ill give yuu thu keeeeey* 🤣🤣😂😂 one the first one to do the whirlwind arm celebrations

[@jj9749]

6:47 he'd be fired if he said that now!

[@vikingfitz9088]

Not if he’d been a brother!🤘🏿

[@Tillers-ox8ml]

I bet Passfield Ave is full of speed humps now!!!

[@MartinSmith-qt3cc]

We are the champions ‘

[@terranceparsons5185]

The basketball was a scream. Some school gym, and 2 baskets between them in the first half and a 4-3 scoreline 😂😂😂😂

[@CARLIN4737]

Never seen it only Superstars.

[@donroberts2126]

@7:30 Is that an early 'Yuppie" painting his window-frame in a suit....?

[@markwalsh2992]

Why did they not show much of Daley Thompson??? WT??? Jeff Capes is an Angry Bloke!

[@andrewparker8806]

Mark Walsh Geoff Capes always reminded me of that big bloke from the ‘Popeye’ cartoons. 😉😂😂

[@thebolsta]

Ex police officer....

[@buffalosowljah]

@@andrewparker8806 pahaha.. suprising capesy arguing with his bulid...its like watch bruno fernandez these days ..see how the football players so used to the argie bargies back in the day .. bruno would be running out the stadium by now 😂😂🤣🤣

[@jj9749]

7:48 rip Geoff Capes

[@MartinSmith-qt3cc]

@@andrewparker8806Bluto

[@terranceparsons5185]

That bloke in the cap and blazer! Britain used to be run by them

[@grahamnoble4887]

6:47 🙄

[@BearCubster]

Yeah, I caught it too. Today, that commentator would be fired for what he said. But in those days - that was the attitude, trying to mean well but still failing by today's standards.

[@archiewoosung5062]

Just about to watch as much as I can of this, but who would imagine it's going to be "competitive"?

[@hazelwalsh3269]

I love Daley! Wish they had shown more of him... Jeff capes is very competitive! Why did they not show Daley’s cycle race?? During the crossbow! Jeff capes looks like he is going to break his chair. He’s too big for it.

[@pjm3709]

rip Geoff

[@glennthompson1971]

Capes kept getting fouled in the basketball. Bad refereeing, so he lost his temper.

[@CARLIN4737]

I must have been busy in 79? I was only 7?

[@colinjennings3661]

Geoff Capes was an angry man

[@thebolsta]

Ex police officer... Also kept budgies

[@terranceparsons5185]

Worth, wait for it, £4 million on the transfer market 😂😂 and one of them playing up to the stereotype gets injured.

[@ajw9533]

Why no goggles in the swimming?

[@mikemccord72]

We were men back in the 70s and 80s. We suffered the chlorine burns with stoicism

[@elpauliomann]

Ronnie Pickering !!

[@stephendines1936]

Ron Pickering referring to the footballers as The Soccer players, how many English people call it soccer? David Vine on the other hand calls them footballers.

[@BritishRaceCaller]

The use of the word soccer as a diminutive of Association Football goes back to the 19th century in the UK. But ignorant people just claim it is an "Americanization" of the English language.

[@WilliamJeffs-vu7nr]

Clearly showing that footballers are a bit soft.

[@captaindunsel2806]

Today I learned that black people can swim. Thank you Daley Thompson. The casual racism of 45 years ago just seems so ... quaint. I dunno.