Talking Pints | Ron Atkinson joins Nigel Farage to discuss his football career

[@ancietman]

I like Ron back in the day when football managers were all characters.

[@clairewiseman-cq8ct]

I hear the English are vanishing from football TV Streets & Politics & you love importing illegals the French & Germans kick out so who runs the country? India Islam & Blacks the 3 cultures who hjate you lmfao genocide is well underway

[@eleahake7353]

Yes, I am

[@niallglennon83]

Why don't you like him now?

[@reeleyes466]

What, you mean when they encouraged players into acts of GBH ? That was not so great.

[@davejones2823]

Pair of racists 🤬

[@runaroundstu]

Big respect to Ron as a West Brom fan for almost 60 years but football isn't football anymore. I stopped watching about 4/5 years ago, just isn't the same anymore.

[@markjohnson188]

Same as me. i stopped watching football when it became a political tool and more about cash than a sport.

[@05amiller]

You clearly weren't a football fan then.

[@pmacc3557]

It's a pity

[@straightouttacornwall]

@@05amiller Nobody is a fan anymore. We are consumers of a product.

[@GLK-London]

Yes stopped watching too. Just not the beautiful game anymore.

[@storm19802]

Absolutely fantastic, brilliant chat

[@cathywilson3146]

He looks remarkably well and remains a real character.

[@CliffordSullivan-fj7jv]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpqcaKmEgb-op9k

[@clairewiseman-cq8ct]

I hear the English are vanishing from football TV Streets & Politics & you love importing illegals the French & Germans kick out so who runs the country? India Islam & Blacks the 3 cultures who hjate you lmfao genocide is well underway

[@berkshireyorkie]

Great to see him looking so well. He's a legend at my club Sheffield Wednesday. I tried so hard to watch this for Big Ron's contribution but after a couple of minutes of Lord Haw Haw's gurning I'm afraid I was reaching for the sick bucket.

[@paulcarter6146]

That's what's lacking in the game to day.

[@drewgriffithsfm]

He’s a member at my golf club, saw him there not so long ago. Nice fella he is and does indeed look very well 👍🏼

[@tommytaylor4139]

Love Big Ron!!

[@colingeddes2172]

Great chat. Good to see Ron looking so well. Nigel has great guests on talking pints.

[@seeker6436]

As a Villa fan I loved Big Ron when he managed us in the 90s, we played great football and he was a great character in the game which you don't see as much these days.

[@pennybunny]

Same UTV 💜💙

[@paulcarter6146]

Some of the best football I've Sean at villa Park when Big Ron was there.

[@tezzrexx]

UTV

[@mitchellhinkley4896]

UTV

[@johnlove140]

​@mrmister769Malcolm Allison and Bob shankly too but big ead the guvnor

[@Fresh-qc3zn]

Ron's looked the same for the last 50 years! Looked 80 when he was 30, and still looks 80 now he's in his 80s 😂.

[@GA001]

Absurd comment.

[@jimmycampbell78]

I think this comment was intended as a wry amusing observation, rather than to be taken absolutely literally.

[@chiefrocka8604]

Love a bit of Big Ron.. pass me my cigars and a bottle of that Moët 🇬🇧

[@timjmyall]

Ron's on good form - good to see him again.

[@rickadkinson6539]

Big Ron, legend.

[@eleahake7353]

i am nigerian. this is the britain we saw, loved and, wanted to come to cross over the ocean to come to. glad to see its still alive and well.

[@robertryan6782]

You serious?

[@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67]

He managed three of my absolute heroes in, Cyril Regis,Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson!!

[@portcullis5622]

@@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67 Yet he still used the 'N word' on live commentary 25 years later.

[@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67]

@@portcullis5622 Spence and Crawford said it about 30x each last weekend,what’s your point?

[@portcullis5622]

@@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67 No idea who Crawford and Spence are. My point is that Ron Atkinson had a cushy, well paid job as a football pundit, yet in 2004 he used language that was unacceptable in 1984. He may have been set up (ie they gave him enough metaphorical rope), but he must have thought it was fine to talk like that in the studio and the commentary box when off air, so it was indefensible really.

[@mrsmith4489]

Big Ron was correct in saying he was the first person set up. The microphone was always turned off until air time. He was stitched up. Andy gray and Richard Keys followed. Football is a MAN'S game.

[@imemine6494]

.. Got to talk about who's setting them up???

[@mrsmith4489]

@@imemine6494 I don't think youtube, is the place to have that honest conversation. I certainly know what you're saying.

[@imemine6494]

@@mrsmith4489.. Why not???.. where else are we going to have it?

[@mrsmith4489]

@@imemine6494 KZbin block so many of my comments I barely use it any longer. This is typical of the power these big companies perceive to have. KZbin is an American company, the First Amendment gives the right to free speech. Something I have very rarely had on youtube. Let's not forget, that America took the majority of their constitution from England.

[@clivet3252]

Andy Gray and Big Ron were the best commentators, it's so boring now.

[@shug3481]

Great to see Ron again God bless.❤

[@40ny]

Good health to you, Ron. It was great growing up watching football with characters like him and Cloughie.

[@pjduff7577]

He took over utd in 81

[@40ny]

@@pjduff7577 Yes, my mistake. I realised it later. It was The Doc in the late 70s. Thanks for the correction.

[@keithallan4956]

Brilliant to see big Ron again. Up the Villa.

[@hudson7354]

Yea great to see the muppet show again SOTV

[@billytoffingham9608]

Bring back big ron

[@fazfinisher5598]

Nice to see Ron looking so well, fired by the woke tv broadcaster...clearly their loss.

[@Beedee729]

His analysis was outdated, his articulation childish and his racism appalling. No loss whatsoever.

[@edwardtreadwell3859]

​@@Beedee729What rubbish!. Ron didn't have a racist bone in his body. Ask any black players of his day. In fact he brought through a great number of black players into English football.

[@Beedee729]

@@edwardtreadwell3859 yes he did pick a lot of black players. Why did he call Marcel Dessaily ‘a fucking thick lazy n****r’?

[@carlosdeno]

@@Beedee729 Go back to sleep Princess.

[@Beedee729]

@@carlosdeno not yet. More racists to annoy.

[@robincadle3403]

Great to see Big Ron back on TV!

[@arthurmckeown1937]

TV 😂😂😂😂

[@Adris-pn1sh]

I had the privilege to drive big Ron home what a splendid journey it was and a great pleasure to have a good conversation with him thank you sir

[@RandomnessTube.]

Old school footie managers are more entertaining than most modern players.

[@Blitzmcfc]

Great to see Ron. He's on top form here

[@siadali7673]

Big Ron seen it all

[@phillipcarter8045]

And heard it all

[@Joe-vb4pg]

@@phillipcarter8045😂😂😂

[@Joe-vb4pg]

@@phillipcarter8045I know so many people would say it’s not that big of a deal but he literally called someone a n***a it’s mental. That is just a casual slur

[@keithrobert5117]

Ron is liked precisely because he speaks his mind. We all wandered off the reservation some time ago.

[@newuk26]

As a Cov fan he was one of the first managers I remember us having. I still remember the "Big Fat Ron's Sky Blue Army" chant

[@BRI535D]

Think his first signing was John Salako.Happy Sky Blue days followed at Highfield Road

[@jamiew1664]

god i remb those days too, i lived near the ground, on walsgrave rd.

[@danmallier5836]

@@BRI535Dnot with Ron they didn’t, he was awful for us.

[@tonyska]

Big Ron had the best and most entertaining team I've ever seen at Villa Park. They were great times under his management.

[@DMArsenalArchives]

Good to see Big Ron back on the screens. Streets ahead of the shit ‘pundits’ you get today

[@encouragesolutions2595]

What a team his WBA was; Statham, Cunningham, Regis, Wile, Brown, Robson, JOhnston, Batson.....should have won league

[@wolfiemasha]

Great interview Nigel and what a legend is big Ron 👍

[@JohnJones-cp4wh]

I saw Ron and his brother playing for Headington. Ron at left half and his brother in front of him on the left wing. That was before the team became Oxford.

[@paulmcquillan8308]

Great interview great to see big Ron on TV again great entertainment 🍻🍻

[@deanmarriott6638]

The best manager the wednesday have ever had, legend and thanks Ron for making us into a big club in the early 90's, never feared anyone and the football played was amazing to watch

[@andrewmorton395]

I totally agree

[@philgornall]

But why is he associating himself with someone who has contributed to such damage to our country. FFS Ron.

[@andystreet4022]

Bumped in to Ron many times collecting my Newspaper in the village. Always pleasant, talked football, liked his golf. Nice guy.

[@johnbobby1092]

Love Ron thankyou for the best football and time as a kid that my club has seen 🦉.

[@edwardoconnor3960]

Legend and a character when football was football ...

[@cocobean7519]

Lovely interview with a living legend!👍👏🙏🏻

[@cyrilrogan4069]

Forest fan here...terrible for us... Terrific guy !!!

[@colinlawless5654]

Big Ron 👍. Better pundit than the woke lot we have now.

[@fc7official]

you mean the intelligent lot we have now. plonker

[@ianthomas739]

Imagine " Sir ( lol ) Kier Starmer interviewing big Ron.

[@desgardner7169]

Top man I can remember him playing for Oxford with his brother, thank you Ron.

[@youarewhatyouare]

Ron looks fantastic

[@Sarah-qb8yg]

Nigel please start your own political party and stand for parliament ... you would have my vote :) !

[@colingeddes2172]

Mine 2.💯

[@GennySavastone]

He doesn't need to start one though

[@berkshireyorkie]

He's tried 7 times so far. Wonder how he got on.....?

[@davidhorton188]

@@berkshireyorkie you must be a quitter at life with that attitude, keep trying though.

[@berkshireyorkie]

@@davidhorton188 Have another couple of goes for sure. But after 7 attempts I've usually figured out there's a message being given. But please don't let me in any way discourage Lord Haw Haw from another go at being MP, a good laff's always welcome. 8th time lucky and all that, go for it 😂

[@billybigtime2808]

A proper football man and character absolutely love Sir Big Ron of Atkinson

[@christymoreland]

Love you big Ron ❤️

[@rampageclover9788]

One of the last connections to that magical era of football that we have left.....I'm glad Nigel took a break from politics and gave us this gem.

[@kenneththompson8933]

Had fantastic teams at WBA & Man Utd. Great Manager & great guy.

[@tonykeggin8906]

Big Ron from old Swan.

[@michaelbailey8729]

Nice one Nigel. Lets have more of the cancelled folk who the common man loves and respects.

[@niallglennon83]

Prince Philip next?

[@portcullis5622]

@@niallglennon83 I presume that you mean Andrew? Philip's been dead a couple of years!

[@greglyons2526]

How would you define the "common man"

[@laurencewainwright]

The Premier League ruined English football by replacing the majority of English players.

[@bentruthuncovers9331]

Yeah, that was individual teams looking for apex players, not the league itself

[@laurencewainwright]

@@bentruthuncovers9331 The PL made it all possible.

[@TheDvdral]

The bosman rule and unlimited money from companies like sky ruined football. The Premier league would've been idiots to turn that kind of money down.

[@matthewlacey5307]

Ron's cufflinks would be bigger than some of the players' cars

[@richy69ify]

Nice interview

[@richardhenshaw5660]

Love Big Ron..... one of the founding fathers of cancel culture.

[@chris2cool1878]

He literally called someone a "lazy thick Ni**er" live on air

[@JuniorD1975]

I must have misheard but I’m sure he used a very racist word 😂

[@cyberlad2]

This was brilliant to watch - Big Ron you BIG LEGEND

[@TheDvdral]

Lots of retired football managers have great stories. I wonder why Farage chose to interview Ron 🤔

[@kevinprice525]

Nigel just makes it look effortless but he is a great interviewer.

[@dennisward2323]

What a great bloke.When I went to Tenerife in March this year getting off the plane and going on the transport bus to the airport I looked up and who should be standing up in front of me but Ron.I can honestly say he couldn’t have been nicer and his “better half” was lovely as well a smashing lady.Good luck to them both.👌👍

[@nicksvinylbutty5488]

Big Ron will always be welcomed back at Kettering Town FC as a hero 👍👍👍

[@chrismattravers5434]

Good to see Big Ron doing well!

[@APCSW19]

Love this man.

[@markmclaughlan8460]

As to Nigel's comment that Ron played the first match with 3 black players, in fact it was West Ham United: "The three players in question were Clyde Best, Ade Coker and Clive Charles (younger brother of John Charles, the first black player to pull on an England shirt). The game was played at Upton Park on 1st April 1972, almost exactly six years before West Brom's more celebrated trio stepped onto the Portman Road turf."

[@section5760]

West Brom still play at the hawthorns. Do West Ham still play at Upton Park?? Regis and Batson and Cunningham will all ways be remembered the first 3 black players playing for West Bromwich Albion. That’s history. Yes i remember Clive best playing for West Ham did you hear the amount of dogs abuse he got from the West Ham fans for being a black player playing for there club?? Well my grandfather was there and he couldn’t believe what he was hearing that day. Times change over time 🕰️ i suppose. Times were different then i suppose . Those days of a proper football match have gone just like my age. God bless fella. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧👍🏼🍻🥃

[@markmclaughlan8460]

Agree with everything you say. Clyde was treated bad in those days..and he still has ties to the club, he visited a few months ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYezf3uCr6Z8Y9U Ron's looking very well for his age and mentally too. Legend.

[@jonathanwhittaker677]

As an Albion fan his 78/79 team was nothing short of awesome....Regis Cunningham Batson and a whole host of others....makes me realise what a pile of shite we've got now!!

[@bobbyhanly3466]

I was there. Derek Statham, Tony Brown and last but not least a young Brian Robson. A 5-3 win over United at Old Trafford was a highlight. (On KZbin) Sadly the West Brom board was always one that would sell it's own grandmother if it got a price.

[@jonathanwhittaker677]

@@bobbyhanly3466 the UEFA cup run was a highlight...Galatasaray...Sporting Braga....Valencia....then kicked off the park by Red Star Belgrade....christ what heady times....asked by a guy at work yesterday "looking forward to the season"?..............."no"....😄😄

[@bobbyhanly3466]

@@jonathanwhittaker677 Yes, but it sure beats been asked: "Who do you support?" and answering "Man Utd or Liverpool (or now City)". It's good to be unique and one of the days we'll win something though hopefully not a Mickey Mouse trophy like West Ham last season.

[@JohnVilla1960]

I loved Big Ron at Villa. Great to see him looking so well.

[@chiefrocka8604]

Do you remember them track suits Tony Daley wore ? My brother had one exactly the same

[@markbrady5680]

Stopped watching as soon as they took the knee, no more subscription from me.

[@GallagherGeotecminning]

Rons west Bromwich Albion FC were fantastic, and bring back happy memories,

[@douglastaggart9360]

I remember doing the security at the ryder cup in 1990 or 1991 and was on rons tent when he realised i was a fellow scouser he brought me foot and lager i said i couldn't drink on duty he said don't worry I'll make sure nothing happens and it didn't.

[@alannz68]

Will always love big Ron. Great cup winners in 83 and 85, with Whitesides goal. We were unstoppable at the beginning of the 85-86 season, but the injuries beat us alongside Ian Rush. Thank you Ron

[@neilrobinson02]

Still my favourite period watching Man United when Big Ron was in charge!

[@kylebutler3018]

Still sharp. Great to see.

[@majiek1304]

Big Ron ❤

[@patkawasaki771]

You can see the miles on the clock, but he looks well and it's great to see him after a long time. Coventry fan myself. I'll always have a place in my heart for big Ron.

[@pegitwillcomebacktoyou]

God be with the old days of football, I think. Fantastic comment when Mr Atkinson said: "I was the one they set up."

[@italianstallion9170]

not bad for 83, must be keeping in shape.

[@tonyhancock3912]

Could GB news do a Saturday afternoon football show? With people like big Ron and Le Tiss? I guarantee it would knock spots off the xxxx sandwich soccer Saturday on sky has become

[@AP-di6gu]

Love Big Ron! Probably the most flamboyant man - I've yet to see any other manager wearing a white suit, red tie and sunglasses in the dugout! - to ever be involved in the beautiful game! A few condemnations from the self-righteous do not change my opinion of him!

[@ahmerazim3924]

I miss managers like Big Ron, one of the greatest characters since Cloughie. Is his tan from a bottle or the sun bed?

[@marcuswallace9010]

His best moment was still the comment he made on air without knowing he was on air to the whole of Birmingham 🤣🤣🤣 Absolute comedy gold

[@martinthomas5155]

Ron understood the DNA of Manchester United and what the fans wanted, Attacking football. Better than all the post-Fergie managers.

[@Giovanniditessitore]

Love Ron ❤️

[@messi8921]

I’ve always liked Big Ron, even with his Villa connections. Met him down the Blues a couple of seasons ago, really nice guy.

[@watchwhisper]

Fantastic

[@pb3254]

Always loved Ron Atkinson, great man, even though he was Man Utd.

[@tonydunn3559]

Great to see big Ron ,great interview loved his football management days brilliant attacking football ,Liverpool so strong in his time at United or could of been different .

[@boldford]

A pair of has-beens

[@tonydunn3559]

@@boldford i am 🙂

[@bezziano57]

Great manager! Great bloke!

[@ReggieDunlop100]

Legend! 👍

[@JohnnyWitney]

Remember Ron playing for Oxford United along with his brother Graham, saw many of their appearances at the Manor Ground in Headington Oxford.

[@jamespalmer980]

Great football man is Ron. People talk about Clough been the best England manager they never had but I always thought Ron would have been. He was a man for the big game and always did well in competition cups

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Or Bob Paisley.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

He wasn't successful when he managed Coventry City. Just 19 wins in 74 games. In his last dozen games, we won just one.

[@kieron63]

Legend!🖖 Laura Dipple!

[@matthewlacey5307]

Self deprecating - great guy

[@stevemead6862]

still alive good stuff amazing and pissed on this interview

[@delscorey8727]

What a legend big Ron is....get him back on tv now....

[@antoniosilvestro9045]

His career is over because of his racist attitudes in the past. I dislike PC like I dislike bigots in any sport. That aside I do like Ron as he is a character. He was the best English manager Manchester United had and he was a scouser born in Liverpool. SAF AND BUSBY AND DOCHERTY were all jocks.

[@garystyles4151]

2 proper blokes

[@djhonz45]

Where?

[@nigelbrown2933]

Big Ron loved at Sheffield Wednesday

[@robbom68]

Big Fat Ron's Sky Blue Army !!

[@leonardjohnny67]

Utd fans still love Ron and wished he’d won the league

[@nelvaldo.4850]

2 Thatcherites together, how very romantic.

[@messi8921]

Better then a couple of woke socialists 🤷‍♀️

[@nelvaldo.4850]

@@messi8921 🥸🥸🥸

[@SuperMarc281]

Shame this was only a ten minute interview. Really enjoyed it.

[@reeleyes466]

More Talking Shyte because nostalgia rhetorical waffle, will really help everyone in a collapsing system, cheers Nige.

[@scania124uk]

Not found the stop button then?

[@seanmwh]

He was flamboyant

[@ravingnorman6416]

Always liked Big Ron. First time i have seen this and like Farage as an interviewer

[@daftfish99]

Legend.