British Football | Trouble at the Turnstiles | Soccer | TV Eye | 1982

[@davidhayes4814]

Whoever puts these little clips from Thames Tv up on KZbin a big thankyou. Whether on cars or popular news, they are great. Simpler times maybe, when presenters were there to present what they thought were facts, rather than to entertain. Pre-internet, of course but now shown via the Internet. Thank you.

[@lennylaa1686]

Crowds also down because of many years of violence on the terraces.

[@mrdorf2784]

I heard about a breakaway Super League in ‘87 but I didn’t know they were thinking about a Premier League in ‘82. Fascinating!

[@CARLIN4737]

Fascinating documentary. Football was to have far bigger problems in the 80s than money 💰 which put everything into perspective.

[@derin111]

The only thing that hasn’t changed…Lincoln are still in the third tier of English football. At least some things can be relied upon! 😃

[@TelexToTexel]

Back in '82 there were just two players that earned more than £60,000 per year in English football. That is like £250-300,000 in today's money, and the average salary in the Premier League is now ten times that much. How things have changed!

[@raphaelrau1728]

Wow what a documentary. Steve Ryder should do a follow up documentary. Everything has changed! I remember these dark days. One highlight was seeing Arsenal’s legendary former chairman. The late Peter Hill Wood. RIP.

[@martinwatts7646]

4:20 Trevor Peake, Coventry City legend!

[@philipcurnow7990]

There should be more television interviews in smokey boardrooms instead of Dragons Dens.

[@johnathanryan2117]

How prophetic. The nub of it is nailed in the first few minutes. Everyone saw it coming but the genie is out of the lamp now and won't go back in.

[@Macoosy]

40 million dept …about the price of a half decent defender today

[@mrkipling2201]

I remember how astonished I was when John Barnes became the first £10,000 a week player in Britain.

[@billT123456789]

Love how the word soccer keeps being used interchangeably with football! Proof that the word’s origins are British.

[@johncambridge7339]

It was also down to the rundown grounds

[@wr70beh]

I'm sure none of those chairmen or their families have any part of their respective clubs today.

[@CARLIN4737]

37 years ago and what foresight to record such important content and social history.

[@Elmwood-ze3cr]

Id give my Right Arm to go back to these days when it was a down to earth sport for the working class man and woman, the bloke from Brighton was great IMO and the Tosser from Arsenal was exactly that IMO

[@CARLIN4737]

Mike Bamber.

[@mcharrisment4765]

Excellent video it is 👏👍

[@sjguk267]

This program should be compared to the state of football now, and see what was changed for the good and bad, one day the bubble will burst, you cannot inflate a balloon indefinately. There was a basis here to really build for the future but it is clearly driven by greed.

[@CARLIN4737]

Mike bamber sitting at the top table. Bhafc😦

[@CARLIN4737]

In 1983/84 season Chelsea come down to Brighton and there was a riot. Fighting all across the town from the Friday through to the Sunday. Fighting on the pitch. I dont think some people....Certainly not covered to well here that fighting on the terraces and around the ground etc was a weekly occurrence. As well as wherever England fans travelled especially in Europe.

[@mhoppy6639]

Hilarious 😂 you can the pound signs in those Chairman’s eyes in that slimy smoky boardroom. They were itching to ditch the other league clubs.

[@CARLIN4737]

Arsenal certainly were and later were fundamental in ensuring that the top league later the Premier league had their own tv rights with Sky.

[@stephenasbridge878]

A TV contract of 2.5 million? I’d forgotten how sensible we all used to be! That mtg of chairman at the end is priceless.

[@silenthunteruk]

No Sky back then.

[@kennethdrewary1094]

Burnley chairman Bob Lord hated t.v. he said they would rule the game if we let them. How right he was.

[@darren2514fv]

Steve Rider narrating

[@markfelts3976]

The grounds always made me think cold war eastern block.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

sparta fc

[@CARLIN4737]

@@anthonymitchell8893 Spartan Fc.

[@79devo]

A very young Steve Ryder !

[@CARLIN4737]

Im waiting for Sortsnight to begin?

[@Gunnercv]

I miss those days

[@CARLIN4737]

Yeah Highbury was a fantastic stadium unlike the new stadium which is so quiet yet holds over 60000?

[@devout666]

Steve Ryder walked out with a shadow on his lung

[@silenthunteruk]

Was hooliganism a big problem in 1982? I know this was before Heysel.

[@zeddeka]

It was a big problem through the 1970s and well into the 80s

[@mcharrisment4765]

Indeed it was

[@CARLIN4737]

Massive problem every weekend the early/Mid 80s was probably the height of English hooliganism especially in Europe.

[@jackdubz4247]

The dark days of Thatcher's Britain.

[@brimzs]

Watching this as England are in the semi final of the Euro's and the game is thriving

[@LawrenceRoss1906]

Chelsea were playing Money Ball back in the '80s

[@CARLIN4737]

Roller ball

[@CARLIN4737]

Mike Bamber

[@mrkipling2201]

When football was a proper game

[@simonmaskell365]

Salary dont mean anything. Pkayers got signing on Fee's Win Bonus Appearence Money on top of Salary.

[@CARLIN4737]

Im Brilliant.....

[@rapman5363]

Pip Pip Cheerio Bob’s your Uncle

[@charitycharity3316]

Lol how times change 94k that won't run a non league team football now has nearly 6 professional divisions but as for Wednesday united merge, in financial terms would be one of worlds biggest teams in real world lol it did not happen see don't valley stadium. Funny how the world of football has grown to what it is now and where is Thames tv or even tax payer subsided itv

[@CARLIN4737]

40 million. Half a decent player now!

[@CARLIN4737]

Premier league foresight

[@TheMrgoodmanners]

Lol de ja vu

[@lennylaa1686]

34 wasted years of socialism from 1945 to 1979 had reduced UK industry to a shell hastening a very severe recession. St. Margaret Thatcher inherited Labour's shit show shambles, facing many deep rooted economic problems. Most people had other spending priorities other than going to see a football match. Many folk were short of spare cash for leisure time.

[@yippyialeftside8351]

really . the women was pure evil party full nonces hated the working class and football and its fans. shat on all the big cities in the 80s in Britain hope she is burning in hell

[@mrkipling2201]

Stop calling it Soccer!! It’s football FFS!!

[@colinrichardson3406]

It was originally called soccer from the 1800

[@gvi341984]

480p? Why am I being tortured

[@WickerMan73]

Its watchable aint it. Dear thames dont post owt in black n white or u gonna cause more torture

[@spazda_mx5]

This was recorded in 1982, for television. HD was not a thing then outside of a cinema. You are lucky it is in colour.

[@CARLIN4737]

Grow up

[@elwolf8536]

Back in the day it was just good ol tv

[@ronniemacdonald2768]

shut up

[@trevorrandom]

Hate football!

[@CARLIN4737]

40 million. Half a decent player now!