A Brief History Of Modern Football | Soccer With Alfie Allen | Timeline

this channel is part of the history hit Network [Music] there's a toilets that's where all the Arsenal players go and they get injured a lot of them go there so you're probably thinking why is this guy presenting a series about football and it's it's a good question I love football I went to Arsenal Youth Camp met Tony Adams maxed out on charity football matches until I buggered my knee and even sang backing vocals on vindaloo in time-honored fashion my dad took me to his club for my first football match hoping I'd follow in the family tradition no such luck no goodness allowed I am a child of the Premier League era it's all me and my mates have ever known but I want to know more like how did this game that evolve from a disorganized kick about in schools and Villages turn into the multi-billion pound Global industry that it is today come and have a quick look in here football has now been entwined with British identity for Generations it's our national game which we were generous enough to share with the rest of the world it's a bond that has United us divided us an intense passion that's lifted us and occasionally truly broken our hearts but when and how did it begin to take hold of our national soul and where is it headed [Music] association football the foundation of the modern game was a 19th century invention I want to uncover its Origins but what came before and how was it played versions of football had already existed for hundreds of years including the medieval game still played annually here in Ashbourne Derbyshire [Music] near me it hasn't changed much in the last couple of centuries sleep little place isn't it well yes most of the time on two days a year shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday Ashbourne hosts their annual shrove Tide football it's a tradition that dates back until at least the 17th century don't be fooled by what you think you see this is sometimes called mob football and may look more like Lawless rugby but there's a lot more to it than meets the eye and that's why I'm starting my journey here as preparations for the next row of Tide matches are already underway well I can hear them I can't see them oh this is the sort of thing they do I feel like a tactic sort of thing it's a strategic meeting [Laughter] but you know lads they are hello there are three types of players hug players are in the center of the action water players Take the Lead when the ball is in the town's rivers and ponds and Runners must get the ball to the goals and it's a long way oh God who I want once the ball's been turned up normally one to two people catch it and then quite quickly the two of The Two Of course it'll just lock on yeah so and if if we wanted to keep this you'd sort of bury your head into Marshall there and I'll put your mind into yours I've got to go to camera the way to get that out I guess is to what somebody rips it sort of out well you've kind of got three ways you've got take it down to the ground you've got to have some guts to do that but you literally just drop to your knees you then sort of look to either working it back to your friends or you could just push the ball to the floor station of yourself okay so we'll try and get that going then dude so you've got roughly around 100 of your team behind you so if you can get the ball up in the air and then get your last push you can probably fight rub it up they'll be shorter 12 hands on this portal putting pressure in different places and you're trying to force it up through them yeah um but once you get everybody singing from the same inch sheet it just pops up if you love history then you'll love history hit our extensive library of documentary features everything from the ancient origins of our earliest ancestors to the daring mission to sink the bismar history hit has hundreds of exclusive documentaries with unrivaled access to the world's best historians we're committed to Bringing history fans award-winning documentaries and podcasts that you cannot find anywhere else sign up now for a free trial and timeline fans get 50 off their first three months just be sure to use the code timeline at checkout only two teams compete in the annual shrove tide matches the upwards those born north of the river henmore which divides the town and downwards born south of the river which way is up and which way is down so so what the Opera's goal is is that way okay so it's a month and a half in that direction and down the Clifton goal is is straight past the church basically and keep going that way okay upstream and downstream Downstream the game which can last for eight hours begins in a car park home of the shorecroft plinth where the ball is turned up into the crowd to start the game so this is where the ball gets uh turned up from yeah that's it yeah so the role of Turner upper is a great honor how is that selected every year though the committee the main committee will pick out two Turner uppers it'll be someone who's done a lot for the game or they used to have celebrities Stanley Matthews Brian Clough I had um Prince Charles today that was a great signing yeah 2000 and 2003. and so how many of those people are actually taking part in playing the game and how many are you'll have a hardcore of about 300 aside that are under the plinth ready for the ball to be thrown into you've got to imagine it's been a Year's build up towards it so when that ball goes up it is very very intense although we're interested in the ball in the game and where it's going we're also interested in making sure that everybody's safe yeah we've got to look after it I mean last thing we want is anybody seriously hurt I mean you'll always get broken bones and strains and pulls but you don't want anybody seriously there Terry's a goal scorer yeah I've not achieved much in my life I've scored a trophy come on don't be smart on yourself so where'd you keep it the ball well usually hangs up um in the kitchen at home oh yeah I had a place but it's actually in my bag now if you want to see it oh well do you carry everywhere yeah check it let's have a look definitely see wow that's great we should go and have a look at the goals right yeah the goals are on opposite edges of the Town three miles apart the small town is overwhelmed by hundreds of players and several hundred more wannabe players running through its squares its streets cross-country through Fields over hedges thousands of tourists trying to follow how did it feel it's going to go I was shattered the time I got to you I've just I was dead on my feet a couple of Downers HR to stop me but the the upward Lads they knocked them to the ground and just let me run in just one of the best feelings of your life in fact we you're a bit numb because you don't believe you've done it so when you actually um score a goal what does that actually entail basically entails tapping the ball three times on the mill wheel on the goal hold on you jump in the water yeah you have to get your feet wet yeah you have to have to really yeah can't you just sort of reach round it no no you have to be wet disappointed loving my look uh ashborne bathroom week shallow depth straight in this type of medieval Street game was originally played in 80 places around the UK but it's fairly obvious it could never become weekly Mass entertainment that makes you an honorary offered yeah you're in welcome what was important here was the emotion and the Rivalry fundamentals that would prove vital raw passion and local Pride remained needs waiting to be satisfied football's time had come [Music] in the mid 19th century medieval Street Football was dying out but Britain's Elite universities and public schools like Cambridge Winchester and Eaton were creating their own version of the game the upper classes playing more or less what we'd now recognize as a version of football and rugby combined so why am I here in glorious Sheffield well it's because you can trace the origins of popular working class football culture here Sheffield seems to have a very important place in the history of football as we know it it has the Sheffield rules which are one of the first written sets the oldest football ground is in Sheffield and it has the oldest football trophy and Sheffield FC which is where we are now has been recognized by FIFA which means it must be true and the fa as being the oldest football club in the world but don't be distracted by all these firsts every sport needs a creation myth other important things were happening in the 1850s Sheffield was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution when workers were finally granted Leisure Time by law and given Saturday afternoon off and let's face it that was a pretty big deal for football [Music] organized football clubs were going on prize sort of 1857. what defines Sheffield FC as being the first which I've actually uh recognized as becoming the first specific organization with the sole intention of playing football away from a university or a village so we formed the first football club if you're the first Club what other teams are you going to play well the answer's in the name Sheffield club we played amongst ourselves so in the early days it was married man against unmarried Men first left to the alphabet against second letter the alphabet dark hair against fairhair all sorts of different ways of splitting the teams oh shouldn't really cheer that it was a good goal you got appreciate good football man what was the first ever match that Sheffield FC played against another club uh We've persuaded another Cricket Club to form a football section and they're called lmfc and the first game between two teams 1860 and they say the rest is history [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] played the very first inter-club match on boxing day 1860. football culture took a small but important step and this was three years before the English FA was formed in 1863. where they're into absolutely lovely welcome to Yorkshire thank you thank you great welcome it's a bit of a slope on here isn't it it's a bit of an advantage then playing up there not many people realize that when football's sort of started to begin organizing itself it was actually quite closely aligned with Cricket and I guess that's very prevalent here that's correct Alpha yes the football club started out of the Cricket Club uh the Cricket Club was formed in 1804 from the pub across the road the guys wanted something to do the winter months when there's no Cricket so after Hallam was formed within the next few years there's over well over a dozen clubs formed in and around Sheffield and they're all playing each other right there's a dozen or so forming in the early years of the 1860s by the end of the 1860s you're looking at 200 clubs in the Sheffield area by which time the London membership at the Football Association had dwindled to perhaps a dozen or so um so you guys you guys are light years ahead of the fa but we basically stole well I say we the fa stop your thunder in a way freezing Sheffield's local Football Association beat the fa on another front they organized the uden cup the first ever football trophy competition for 12 local teams how popular was it as a competition like what kind of numbers did it attract in terms of crowds very popular the newspaper reports themselves report multitudes it just so happens I have one of those reports handy from Bell's Sporting Life and it says after half an hour's play the ball was kicked by Elliot not through the goal but just over it and was touched down by Ash in Splendid style after running around two of his opponents before getting to the ball thus securing a roof what's the news well a Rouge is more or less identical to what we would call a try these days in rugby so this was football being played not embryonic as we would recognize it yes there are a couple of odd things that we wouldn't see in football today such as the Rouge or try and the fair catch or Mark 10 years Sheffield had 200 teams playing in front of thousands of Spectators the city was the Cradle of organized but it's a shame they didn't stop using their hands earlier so where did football really become football No Hands just feet well down south the fa had different rules and were about to steal a march on Sheffield given the close association with football and Cricket back then it's not surprising to me that we're at another cricket ground but this isn't just any cricket ground this is the oval but I still do find it kind of weird that this was the venue for the first ever FA Cup Final on March the 16th 1872 2 000 Spectators watched Wanderers FC beat Royal Engineers AFC one nil and in FA rules the only player allowed to use their hands was the goalie it's just not cricket it was a defining moment in football in my opinion even though opinions may vary on that because of one very simple reason no hands are introduced it was eight or nine years earlier that a guy called ever needs a Morley you know brought them all together and written down some rules for football but it wasn't really until you had a competition like the FA Cup but those rules were actually applied apart from the you aren't allowed to have great being now it was sticking out the front of your boots and things like that actually it was that you couldn't catch the ball and run anymore that was the end of it and of course some clubs didn't want to do that so they ended up playing rugby and others came into the FA Cup and of course the FA Cup it was the first national competition and it grew pretty quickly you know the next it started I think about 13 or 14 clubs and over the next you know 10 years later there's over 100 clubs how hard is it to get a competition like that organized well obviously it was it was the coming of the railways that made the FA Cup possible yeah suddenly you had a national competition it wasn't one British Sheffield playing another bit of Sheffield suddenly you've got people from all over the country and they could get there because of the railways what does the FA Cup give to the fa now what uh benefits does it reap from showing it today today it's seen as it's still watched everywhere I think the FA Cup went sort of a difficult period I think it's come out the other side and it's now being tournament again I mean you know look at what it did for Arsenal uh you know who'd had some pretty rough years and then why not twice and last year for Manchester United you know in fact my my worst moment as chairman of the fa I think came with the FA Cup Final last year because Wayne Mooney came up and picked up the picked up the cup and as he picked it up the top fell off and went straight over the top and I'm sitting there I'm standing I'm sitting next you know the prince of me and I've said nothing God we've killed somebody that cup if that lands and somebody said we've killed him as it was thankfully it missed everybody but it came back a bit dented [Music] thank you the oval played host to 22 FA Cup finals by the turn of the century over a thousand teams were involved in the national competition but let's not get ahead of ourselves 1872 was also an important year for a different reason another new competition was about to begin and rapidly become a national embarrassment for England it All Began just six months after that first FA Cup Final north of the Border in this leafy suburb of Glasgow at Hamilton Crescent cricket ground s National Football this unlikely location was actually where the first ever International football game was staged between England and Scotland in November 1872. needs a bit of a mow the 4 000 Spectators that were here on that historic day may have had the honor of witnessing the occasion first hand but they didn't get to see the first International goal it was Neil Neil football in Scotland and England was played in two very different styles and over the course of the 1870s and 1880s it was going to become very clear which of the two was more successful right mate hello mate yeah I'm good good Mr Daniel Portman yeah you've been chosen to represent your country with the historic score lines probably in my country's favor well do you wanna have a little guess yeah all right what's the first year it's 1873. that was a good year for England um I'd say oh let's go three nil 4-2 English not not so bad right before what do you think oh it wasn't so good I'd say no actually it was all right um let's say five nil two one Scotland what 1875 four to England two two what a draw okay 1876. three nil England do you know Scotland yeah 77 I don't know three one Scotland seven two Scotland five four Scotland five four Scotland six one Scotland 5-1 Scotland all right three two Scotland Scotland one each 1885. there's something to be proud of yeah one each again getting better all right three two Scotland and then 1888. now why is this what five nil England ah how many wins did we get two and in the first 17 years of battle between two great countries lucky me wow [Music] right I'm gonna restore some pride for the English where are we putting them [Music] Scotland consistently dominated England for a simple reason the English game had been born after Public School institutions that bred individuals Heroes leaders and their individualistic football followed suit oh rubbish Scottish game grew out of working class communities and the Cooperative Spirit naturally affected their football too they pioneered the team-based Parsons [Music] the successful Scottish style had a huge impact on football although the game was officially amateur English clubs began to sneakily recruit and pay Scottish players scandal after Scandal followed and in 1885 football had little choice but to become a professional sport it took barely two decades for association football to go National and turn professional but now it rapidly needed regular games to pay the players football leagues were the answer the English league was set up in 1888 the Scottish followed two years later the skills of the passing Scottish players were still in demand across the UK in fact in 1892 when Everton left their original home of anfield Yes you heard me anfield 13 scotsmen were recruited to form a new team to play at the abandoned ground they were christened Liverpool weekly League football created real rivalries for the first time and one of the most famous in the world can be found here in Scotland funnily enough Daniel Portman decided to sit out this visit to Rangers we'll find out why later Rangers were one of the original members of the Scottish League and by the looks of it you obviously still hold on to some pretty impressive records yes we do but we've won more championships than any other club in the world not just in Glasgow although we like to tell Celtic to be one more than them but certainly more than the world 54 League championships 117 domestic trophies in total again a world record so we're very proud of that and of course the greatest local match is the old firm game and when is that a sort of phrase that was coined around what time early 1900s 1904 I think was the actual date of the cartoon which appeared in the newspaper because there was a feeling that two clubs were beginning to orchestrate situations matches not so much the results are matches but matches to improve their own financial situation it wasn't really that much of an unfriendly rivalry of uh it was a great deal of friendship between the two clubs Celtic with an emerging team they came from the poorer classes in the East End of Glasgow to a certain extent Rangers had gone the other way because it had become popular with the aristocracy with the with managing directors for example magistrates whatever who came to iBooks there started to become a division between the two so Rangers were seen to be the the club of authority of the the union for example and Celtic had their Irish Community which to some extent was was suppressed as well and so that started to create the divisions but early on there was no real animosity between them and even through the years of the BPD has been really good friendship between them they used to go for dinners together at St Mary's right is this right they did usually go for dinners he even went to Inverness in 1913 the two teams went together and it was really largely to promote football in the highlands so they had a kind of PR all together as well 20th century saw the friendly Rivals turned to Bitter sectarian enemies extremes that shouldn't be found in sport but in recent times both clubs and their fans have worked hard to change things for the better [Music] it wasn't for the dodgy meta tassel it could have been what could have been I know it's pretty epic it is mine it's a it's a special place yeah it's a very special place huh nice tractor great tractor great great patch great Stadium we've got memories of that tractor oh so many memories it's not so much the the club or the stadium it's mostly the tracks yeah definitely without a doubt yeah it's a big thing in Glasgow here the the football is it's bigger than it has most places I would say and it's not a full one way or the other indeed I was lucky enough to falling apart should we just touch the grass once it's just just a quick feels good it was great [Music] range of Celtic it's one of the uh great rivalries in football um what's the atmosphere like on the day of one of those games it's something I can't really explain to you no need to get you up to an Old Farm game at some point because I'm down it's like bottled lightning you know you get in and you don't want to leave it gets a bit of a bad rep though I have to say like we care a lot about football gear but the opinion people have from outside the uh Glasgow is that it's it's all violent and it's a bloodbath every time it's not really true like there are there are places in the world Italy turkey there was a war in South America over football for some reason the the the the bad bad reputation is stuck a wee bit and it's not really true anymore how was it being a Celtic fan not being from a Celtic area I never really ran in any trouble where it was always lighthearted but I did grow up with a lot of Rangers fans which wasn't entirely Pleasant what made you support selfie I come from a very Irish family um and the part of my family that from Glasgow grew up in this in this area and uh and they were the better team when I was growing up so yeah I always go where the trophies go eltic was born out of the Irish Community like many clubs it was started by clergy in fact a third of English Premier League clubs also owe their existence to churches Celtic was created by the local church of Saint Mary's to fundraise for the most innocent of their congregation [Music] we're in the heart of glasgow's East End um paint a picture of me of what it was like like Community wise and what it was like for people living here in the 19th century well I mean this this part of the city was home to a huge number of Irish immigrants and Glasgow is historically it's a very poor town and this was the Buddhist area of a very very poor town the living conditions were horrendous there was no work available the education was almost non-existent and there was a very very high infant mortality rate the idea was ambitious unite several local parishes to run a single Irish Catholic football team to raise money for Saint Mary's to feed the large numbers of destitute children it's crazy to come from a big Stadium like that to this small Church which is where it all started absolutely but this is the man that connects everything this is brother wilflet who was one of the brothers here at St Mary's and he is one of the founding fathers of Celtic Football Club there was another guy brother dorotheus but he's never got quite as much press for some reason the club was actually set up specifically in order to combat that infant mortality rate it was to feed children who couldn't be fed charity it's something that's stitched into the DNA of the club the Celtic charitable trust was set up in 1995 in the Celtic Foundation was set up in 2006 and since then they've raised over 10 million pounds for Charities so that is something that makes me more proud to support this club than Inferno definitely this kind of makes the club I guess special I guess you're biased slightly biased slightly better it's kind of a it's beautiful but it's kind of kind of grim it's a bit dark isn't it a bit dark a bit dark you wouldn't want to wake up with that in the middle for your hands yeah I guess that's what what life must have been like for someone living in the Glasgow East End yeah 19th century we've got better looking since then but slightly but um you know that's pretty accurate hey hey right by the turn of the 20th century a little more than a decade leagues had supersized football with attendances up tenfold ideally I'd now step into a time machine and whiz back to show you how they converted that to Hard Cash unfortunately we've got one it's called Craven Cottage the only problem is that means I have to invite the most loyal Fulham fan I know to join me my dad film Football Club the mighty wipes what division you're in there you know that date up there 1880 1880 it's wrong what do you mean it's wrong well it should be 1879. why well the club was actually founded in 1879 but due to poor documentation and the fact that the building is listed they couldn't change it so the club actually know it's wrong outfit you're a gooner how do you know all this don't be research that Fulham Football Club built Craven Cottage in 1905. I have your chains ready please gents that's a bit of a squeezing it so much is unchanged here at Craven Cottage it's kind of like coming back in time almost to when sort of football stadiums began to Boom it is a throwback to the turn of the century to that crucial point where the Victorian area ends and you suddenly start to have football as a commercial business it's clear that the game is here to stay and you can start building around it when somebody came through the door and paid their six months you had to trust the chap on the other side that he was going to put that six months in the bucket for the club and very often the Sixpence not only didn't get into the club but he led in a lot of his mates as well and it was this thing here this bog standard turnstile that that literally transformed football in the late 1890s yeah because when this turnstile operator does this okay that lets in one person and that one person as he goes through a little counter under here clocks him that he's gone through and they've got to tally up and as soon as they started installing these the income of the clubs shot up of course and then they could start planning proper grounds proper stadiums they had a bit of security how many times have you been through here then Dad well obviously when my career took off I was uh going through the big gate up at the other way with my season ticket when uh Lori Sanchez was managing here people would actually queue up on that side of the turn and start to get out you actually pay the guy money to let us out it's obviously pre-television and all the money that's made available through you know TV licensing deals this was the money this was the income stream absolutely the stadiums were just the money making machine back then yeah absolutely this was a model ground in 1905 when it was built modern terracing modern turn Styles a stand with seats these are the sort of basic elements we look at them now it's part and parcel of life and you think well it's nothing special but in 1905 this represents real modernity this is state of the art can we go in Simon why not welcome to the cottage Simon's allowed right off the sharp intake of breath a yellow turf is this Emirates oh no oh no okay yeah my first game was up there on my dad's shoulder watching Sheffield United 1959 when that was a mudbank Terrace they used to have I think two guys in two rowing boats yeah right on the Thames and because balls were so expensive and they didn't have you know bags full of footballs yeah these two guys the robots when the ball went over there absolutely Tommy Trindle Falcons from up there oh yeah they used to hate it these boatmen if the Callahan brothers would play it's right over there Craven Cottage was built by a Scottish architect called Archibald bleach after building his first stadium ibrox for Rangers in 1899 within 20 years leech had worked for three quarters of England's first division clubs he was the man who built football despite a tragic instant early in his career in April 1902 while ibrox hosted Scotland vs England football suffered its first major disaster leech had built the stands from wood and a section collapsed resulting in 25 deaths and hundreds of injuries in this more innocent age Leach was allowed to learn from his mistakes the important point the football stadium was now clearly understood get maximum people in yes but get them all back out alive Craven Cottage and all his subsequent buildings were radically different built with steel frames and insights into safety and crowds that must have been truly haunted by his memories of witnessing events on that fateful day in Scotland for himself what did he learn from from the disasters that happened at ibox he could have been finished in football at that point if you think you know who's the last person you're going to employ as somebody who's been involved in a major disaster but Archie was a very strong World guy and what he did was I think what any good engineer would do is he said well what's the problem what has failed how can we solve it and he sat down went back to the drawing board and this building that we're sitting in now The Terraces the turn Styles the whole sort of makeup of the ground was the result of his sort of thought between 1902 the disaster and when work started here in 1905. these are these seats original we think they probably are yes these are from Bennett's of Glasgow like a lot of things in this stand this is made in Glasgow Archie comes from Glasgow all the steel work came from Glasgow on barges from the Clyde round into the Thames unloaded seats as well from a company in Glasgow and their tip-ups which in 1905 was quite modern having a tip pupsy because everyone else had bench seats leading away he also was the architect of Stamford Bridge as well at the same time wasn't he so I don't know Dad how would you feel about the house of fun and fan if that happened today well I'd rather hope that a disaster struck again no I don't mean that at all I didn't know that he had anything to do with Chelsea no it's an extraordinary story I've been here since I was a kid I mean the maximum 2 000 people watching games yeah and I've got to say it was brilliant fun it was fantastic because you didn't really care about winning or losing it was actually laughing I remember the atmosphere when you brought me here when I was a kid I compared it to hybrid back in the day and it was just it was it was something else the ground is a fundamental thing to a club's existence it expresses the character and if Fuller went to move to a new stadium somewhere else they'd just be like any other club they wouldn't be full of anymore dad would you change all of it I wouldn't change any of it none of it no yeah not so it's brilliant I've got too much to invest in here tiny new stadiums across the country signaled the new century would be an exciting commercial era but something remarkable had been happening globally too many Brits were technical folk at the time and our Engineers ship Builders and Railway planners were much sought after around the world and they were taking football with them the first football clubs in Switzerland Germany France Spain Brazil and Argentina were all founded by Brits abroad [Music] thank you and as football had begun to spread around the world it shouldn't be a surprise that one of the most enduring images of world war one would be that of a football game played out on the front line during the 1914 Christmas Day truce the Imperial War Museum has exhibits reputed to relate to a famous truce match I do love a museum I'm quite excited to see this genuine artifact so um do I have to put some gloves on them you can do it the actual Christmas trees obviously in 1914 the first year of the of the Great War there was obviously a lot of fighting in the lead-ups Christmas from August to to December on Christmas Eve uh the ground froze solid and that evening the British soldiers heard the Germans singing Christmas carols and patriotic songs and putting lights up along their front line the next day there was no shooting and then soldiers started to shape to each other across the lines and then Men actually came out into no man's land to actually meet up and then there was also the talk of there was they played football yeah they played a football match yeah well the whole football match thing is uh is is the one thing that everybody remembers from yeah from the truth so this this particular item that we've got here it's a German beer stein and these were were given to members of the regiment when they left the regiment now this was um given to a chap called Bill Tucker and supposedly he captained um a British team against the Germans in the Christmas Truce and at a football match yeah now the big problem with that story is that firstly this regiment were not opposite the British troops in Christmas 1914. the second thing is that if you look on the medal rolls which tells you what medals British soldiers were entitled to in the first world war um there is no bill Tucker entitled to either a 1914 star or a 1914-15 star which would indicate that he didn't go overseas to fight until at least well the earliest 1916 and this was from 19. well the family story is that it he was given in 1914. so when are we doing it might not be true what so Paul McCartney Pipes of Peace was just a lie well more or less yeah but there was the truth the chances are there was no organized game it was more like um people having to kicker just to kick around yeah yeah I mean at least there was a kick around yeah and there were people who were getting like tin cans yeah because he didn't have a ball was there any actually football played during the first one do you want the first world war absolutely loads of football played during the first one it's one of the main recreational activities of the British army soldiers didn't spend most of their time in the trenches they were behind the lines so when they're behind the lines they need to have things to keep them occupied and one thing to get them occupied was Sports and football was like massively popular yeah and we've actually got some photographs here of some football in the first world war to start off with this is a pretty typical um private album you can see here that I'm actually playing football this is just a general kick about by men in the Battalion world they're actually in their Billet but then we've actually got proper um organized games this Photograph was taken in Salonika in Greece and this is actually Christmas Day 1950 and it's one of our best sort of action photographs the football wow this is a British team in Italy towards the end of the first world war and they're actually going to play an Italian team so it's like an international match wow so that was an international sort of European games going on so so where the Army serve side by side all the Allied countries would actually play each other at football wow so you have a lot of the European football was kind of in operation even then yeah it was well and there we go there's the captain of the winning team getting a proper trophy as well so the so the Army actually spent some money on on trophies [Music] trophies smiles and team games in the midst of War 11 million military personnel died in this the deadliest of conflicts at moments football offered a little escape and brought people together even in the face of this catastrophe [Music] fragmented origins in the 1860s it had taken just 50 years for association football its rules knockout competitions and leagues to become part of everyday life in the UK and Beyond there's a toilets that's where all the Arsenal players go and they get injured a lot of them go there wow so you're probably thinking why is this guy presenting series about football and it's a good question I love football I went to Arsenal Youth Camp met Tony Adams maxed out on charity football matches until I buggered my knee and even sang backing vocals on vindaloo in time-honored fashion my dad took me to his club for my first football match hoping I'd follow in the family tradition no such luck sorry the gun is allowed oi I am a child of the Premier League era it's all me and my mates have ever known but I want to know more England invented association football its rules leagues and Cup competitions but how did the English game become so perilously close to ruin before becoming the multi-billion pound industry it is today it's the story of an intense power struggle it was a master and servant relationship the relationship between the manager and the players it's got to be close or if it's not close respectful extreme highs and lows Let It Go for the poster said if you put your foot now when we Turf you get one of these for your knees a bullet came through the post tragedies and disasters that took English football to the brink those things were big contributions to why people died and a gamble that saw the English game transformed Global football any questions [Music] [Music] in the last century football has become one of the biggest and wealthiest entertainment Industries in the world a monster machine of Mega famous players Ultra ambitious agents pricey pay TV broadcasters and colossal football clubs wow it's never been it when it's empty it's amazing but this gargantuan industry wasn't created from a master plan it was born out of a Monumental power struggle as all vied for a slice of the action come on lads come on for the crowd for the boys the fans that's what it's all about come on it used to be so simple so it seemed 100 years ago English football was under the control of clubs leagues and the fa who demonstrated their control with an extraordinary show of power in the first world war as the country's men fought and died on Europe's battlefields football at home was understandably a low priority traditionally male jobs were being done by women who also propelled the war effort and amazingly sustained football too a phenomena took place in the factories where women manufactured the Munitions for the men on the front line they formed football teams which kept the game alive the biggest of them all was the ditker ladies from Preston [Music] foreign of the biggest game they'd ever had on boxing day 1920 yeah it was 53 000 yeah that's correct yeah and there was between 10 and 14 000 locked out unable to gain our mission there were so many people about the police even and to have a police escort to get them safely to their changing rooms wow must have been absolutely amazing so how many women were playing football during the war and and how many teams were there every Factory involved in more work during the war had a ladies football team you know all over the country teams were being formed foreign despite the continuing popularity of the women's game after the war the fa decided to flex their muscles and reclaim the game for the men on the 5th of December 1921 the FAA band ladies football and effectively changed the course of the women's game forever the dad complaints about women playing and they expressed their strong opinion that the game of football was quite unsuitable for females and should not be encouraged that's insane it is absolutely it could have been so different today couldn't it when did the ban end um 1971 50 years later what yeah and so there was an effect of 50-year ban yeah on women's football yeah in my opinion it's one of the greatest sporting injustices of the last century in the 1920s the power in football was under the total control of Committees of men and at Club level Boards of directors not only picked the team but often even decided tactics a challenge to the control of all powerful boardrooms was due and that first big Power shift came when Arsenal recruited a Visionary new manager called Herbert Chapman in 1925. not only did he lift Arsenal to new heights he redefined the role of manager within the entire football industry Chapman insisted that he and only he picked the team not only that he reinvented playing formations which saw immediate results the new tactics saw the team from Highbury rocket to the top end of The League here we are it's kind of weird for me being back here I can only imagine yeah what it's like for you should we go and have a look yes let's do it Chapman and soul are both Veterans of Highbury Stadium but now it's Apartments Heavenly homes for Goombas these are the famous steps these are aren't they off to you after you wow this is your manner I guess it's my Mana as well yeah yeah marble steps marble halls there he is the man himself Herbert Chapman fantastic it's crazy as a as a player of the club and just as a football man were you aware of the Legacy he had within Arsenal but also within football itself I think obviously you know him coming in with a new idea of how to play systems you know almost pardon the pun kind of set in stone allowed Arthur to have a different type of football more expansive kind of football he was definitely a Cornerstone and the beginning of that definitely I guess it's time to go and visit the pitch to see if it's still there hopefully it is still there I think it's Gardens if it is still there can we can we have a kick about yeah let's see what's happening [Music] oh some games on there I bet mate there's still a decent pitch yeah exactly it's better than some pitches in the Premiership still without a doubt Chapman was really the first the true Football manager of his day um revolutionary and authoritative would you say that that's the best model for a modern day manager and all seeing all controlling Force like most things back in the days there was opportunities for someone to come in and and mold and make it theirs um I think at the time he he came along with lots of fantastic ideas Chapman's ideas included making the brown ball a more visible weight changing the local tube station's name from Gillespie Road to Arsenal and pioneering floodlighting his power and influence over the club set a precedent for the role of managers that lasted nearly a century Manchester United's Matt Busby tottenham's Bill Nicholson and Liverpool's Bill shankly enjoyed power's pioneered by Chapman as did modern managers like Sir Alex Ferguson and of course arsene Wenger Chapman himself was a reformer and I guess Wenger had been at the club five years previous to what you've been um and I guess he kind of set himself up as a kind of a reform of the Premier League what were your impressions of him before you arrived I think with uh arson coming to a club that needed that type of mentality that type of vision you know I believe that he extended a lot of the players careers for at least three to four to five years easily with the just change of uh diet yeah how you think about the game it was ahead of the game everybody caught up but yeah that's what I'm saying people followed suit after he arrived without a doubt like you said diets and everything I can't remember I heard some story maybe about him Banning ketchup or something yeah I think about a lot of stuff yeah exactly it was probably hard for them to take because there probably wasn't used to it um But as time went on and the results came and then obviously attitudes changed as well and and I think the players took it on obviously winning games helped what's Wenger like as a man he's got quite an icy media image what's he like as a as a as a friend as a person yes there's an icy side there because you had to be kind of cool and and almost not ruthless but this is what I want to do you know this is where I I feel also or my football club should be going or this individual should be acting like this but the relationship between the manager and the players is it it's got to be close and and or if it's not close respectful what do you think the most important aspect of being a manager is the main thing is is have your philosophy but also be able to manage players and get the best out of them and see who needs an arm around a shoulder he needs to kick up the rear around and you know that kind of stuff you're feeling when the when the team needs a break or you're training too hard or or you need to add the training just manage plans yeah ever see yourself being a manager yeah I'm working towards that now are you doing your badges yeah I've done them only for anything I'm ready to roll my sleeves up and and be a wonderful manager well good luck soul arguably it's harder surviving as a manager these days on the center spot I'll never forget this everyone I think it is I think it is you know [Music] despite conceding some control to managers football club still held an enormous amount of power and no one was more affected by this than the club's most important employees the players the employment laws that tied footballers to clubs were relics of the Victorian age players were subject to a maximum wage and forced to sign to one club for life the next battle in football was a long time coming but enough was enough in the late 1950s it was time to fight for player power there's no one better to tell us about the extreme changes at this time than the man who runs this establishment Gordon Taylor has been at the Helm of the professional footballers Association since 1978. the organization was born out of the fight against the restrictions players had been saddled with from the Inception of the professional game what were the problems that they faced in terms of that sort of relationship they couldn't move at the end of the contract they you know they were tempted to go to other clubs they would be offered jobs Etc but there was so late in the control of the club late 19th century early 20th century it was a master and servant relationship although Society was changing football wasn't changing with it the players union was formed in 1907 but it took another 50 years for players to wield enough influence to challenge their Victorian status as wage slaves after the second world war there was 48 million a year watching the game conditions weren't brilliant but the money was going somewhere and it certainly wasn't going into the player's Pockets the maximum wage had moved up from about four to just I think some 20 pounds while slaves was an emotive word they were tied to the club they could even be offered less money and couldn't move to a club of the choice the arrival of televised European football in the 50s brought more revenue for clubs but no Financial benefits to the wage controlled players players locked into clubs Forever by archaic contracts called retain and transport and if they upset their pay masters players could be sidelined and see their wages reduced to a pittance in 1957 the PFA brought in a new modern chairman who would take on these Victorian rules that benefited only the clubs and the football league things changed pretty dramatically when Jimmy Hill sort of came into the fold and not least the name of the organization Jimmy brought to it his own particular style his own Charisma and it was probably the right man at the right time to lead the organization and what started off really as an effort to remove the retain and transfer system was almost put on a back burner because people could easily focus on the removal of the maximum wage with mounting public opinion on their side Jimmy Hill and his Union Brothers including Gordon Taylor mounted a high profile campaign and in 1961 voted to make an unprecedented stand football would go on strike for the first time ever Panic ensued you played under the maximum wage then yes I did and I remember they had meetings regionally one of the meetings was in Manchester and well the Bolton senior players went and one delegate from Barry stood up and said you know I don't think we should be striking over the maximum wage my father's a miner and he you know he doesn't earn as much as 20 pounds a week and everybody went quiet and then Tommy Banks who was a fullback for Bolton played in England and he had a very broad Boat Max and I hear what that says brother he said and I have every respect for your dad's job I've been down to that cold face I know how tough it is he said but I'll tell you what you tried telling your dad to come up out of that whole pit next Saturday afternoon and Mark brother Stanley Matthews and it sort of brought the house down and as a result everybody put their hands up and they're all going to strike and then the same happened in London and then the football league caved in and Jimmy had a great Victory and then moved on into management and TV Tommy trinder was a very famous comedian he was chairman of Fulham and he went in public to say well if if the players succeed in removing the maximum wage I will then pay Johnny Haynes who was his star inside forward an England player a hundred pounds a week instead of 20 and then suddenly of course it did happen and he had to pay him a hundred pounds a week and Johnny Haynes always made us laugh really because he said yeah he kept his promise then but he never got another Penny increase throughout the rest of his career two years after the abolition of the maximum wage in 1963 the courts ruled retain and transfer illegal footballers were finally free to control their careers but the new high incomes a media exposure saw footballers shift from wholesome everyday Heroes to something new I guess this was a time when footballers were kind of becoming celebrities in a way players like George best and kind of contrast to players like Bobby Charlton that we'd had who are traditionally footballing Heroes there was such a true sporting Heroes that he would have mentally the more celebrity status that film stars pop stars started to come into football when he had the lives of George best who won the World Cup but it was also the Beatles and there was a freedom about the 60s and 70s that expressed itself in football football basked in the glory of the World Cup win players now had power wealth and profile as a new era of celebrity dawned newly empowered footballers needed someone to protect their interests Q the football agent [Music] the rise of the agent was inevitable given the game's growing riches back in the 1960s but now with more money than ever in the game we also have more football agents than ever literally thousands so what I want to know is how does the job compare now to back then hopefully I'll find out hello New Era has a big client base of players past present and future Rio Ferdinand Harry redknapp Andy King and Ashley Williams have all put their trust in them to manage their careers and lives on and off the pitch as has a legendary Striker from the most successful team ever of the Premier League age this man needs no introduction I'm kind of uh to be fair I've never seen his face drop when it dropped when you walked in so we're both trying to keep our call the salaries have reached an astronomical level in the game these days um is that a huge pressure thanks I I look in um it's the entertainment's business it's like your field I agree you can't be graduating on whatever they are in that football [Music] while football AS Global entertainment has propelled some players to unimaginable levels of celebrity for others the rise of player power came at a high personal price rock and roll Lifestyles that transpired were not compatible with sport [Music] there's a fair amount of vices and traps that footballers can fall into Tony Adams has done a lot to sort of bring this to the forest of the PFA um how bad can that get for the agent player relationship and I mean we must have seen it all Tony at Arsenal and you talked about Vice I think when when you're young men a young gentleman you still want to do what young guys do you want to go out for a drink or whatever it may have been yeah you're more inclined to fall into advice because your income it could be drinking it could be drugs or whatever I think there's a lot more support now because people don't believe professional footballers could be under any pressure because they perceive us he's getting paid he's getting paid all this money and you know he's boredom as well yeah it's boredom for the guys I think you've you've finished training so you leave out Carrington at two half two and you haven't got a misses and you haven't got kids because you're a 19 20 year old earning lots of money you can there's going to be traps along the way yeah now what else you're going to do for until till tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock agents have become an essential part of the support system for Players whose lifestyles are now more complex than ever the agent's role was definitely propelled in the 60s fundamentally The crucial job of the agent is it still the same nowadays as it was back then I think there's a lot more added to an agent's role now in terms of for the player than that potentially was back then and maybe even a time in Andy's career but the the generation at the minute seemed to you know from hotels restaurants car insurance house insurance mortgages clothes shoes games Xboxes yeah so a lot of the off the pitch Duty as well is in the agent's hand if you've got a good Agent you know what the problem to understand an agent basically is cleaning up things for you he's trying to keep you going he's trying to keep you motivated and I know people will look at ages and say Well they're taking a hell of a lot of money out of the game or whatever maybe but if you've got a good one he's your father figure unfortunately the generation now they want to run before they can walk you can speak to a lot of the younger guys now to play football with the trappings are fantastic it's the lifestyle I reckon and I reckon 67 of the change I'm talking about more about the clothes and and then and the new trainers that are out when I started to come to my end of my career is that not enough Forest and you go and you play and you get beat two or three another whatever and the first thing that come off in a dress room on a coach base where you going tonight and when I started hearing that I said my time's up my time is up I get it our mentality was to win games we're gonna try win the FA Cup we're not trying to win the European Cup and we wasn't worried about the trappings are you getting the right if you're good now and I forget about that because when you retire everyone looks better that great team foreign in the 1970s power within football had found a balance managers had autonomy players decided their own careers and clubs were making money Happy Days no the game was about to face its darkest times threats that were far beyond the control of football thanks to post-war immigration Britain was changing into a Multicultural Society and not everyone was best pleased far-right groups were gaining National prominence and there was some serious social turmoil Brewing one young immigrant from French Guyana would prove to be part of a revolutionary moment in football yet witnessed the worst aspect of external forces on the game so Portobello road yeah pretty iconic Street in West London um you moved to the UK uh aged four or five five five five in 1963 1963 exactly um what were your your memories of this place what was it like back then do you remember oh well it wasn't like this now 1963 came on the the Cunard line escania my dad was here in 62. he rented a room in 383 and myself my brother my mum came in 63. we all lived in one room here come in here to look at where I lived I can't remember doing that so this is quite quite touching really quite quite quite emotional finer housing was tough no you saw was no blacks no dogs no Irish but as a young kid coming here he's just gone on with stuff and you don't know the the stresses and strain that your parents had gone through trying to find work trying to find housing Cyril left school at 16 and became an apprentice electrician on a building site but at a Sunday League football match he was spotted by the manager of molesey he spent three years pursuing both careers completed his apprenticeship and scored dozens of goals then came his big break at West Bromwich Albion within six weeks I've come off the building site and playing for behaves I'm making my debut Cyril joined an established black player Laurie Cunningham at the club and a third Brendan Batson followed soon after since its Inception in 1888 professional football had star black players beginning with Preston North end's Arthur Wharton but never had three black players been fielded at once playing together they were brilliant and deadly borrowing the name from the pop group they became known as The Three Degrees it's all of a sudden there's three of us at West Brom in 1977. WoW which was Radical they're totally without a doubt I mean he's absolutely radical what was that like to be part of that Trinity and I mean you were collectively a phenomenon and Trailblazers in the game was that what were the highlights of that part of your career well out of time you're not you don't shoot as well I mean if you're a football player you are concentrating on playing well to stay in the site that's your only real Focus The Three Degrees was definitely the sort of first generation of a growing number of brilliant black players on Britain's pitches you must be immensely proud to be part of football in history or just history looking back at it um definitely and quite humble that uh that you was at a time with football that inspired the second and third generation but to hear the likes of being right or Dwight Yorke said you know you inspired us to be a footballers because when we saw you playing uh inspired us to play football but there was a far less enjoyable side to life the highly visible and successful Trio became the focus of racists on The Terraces the national front were actively stirring up racial hatred of football grounds across the country millwall Chelsea West Ham Birmingham Newcastle Leeds you know five to ten thousand fans shouting racist abuse at us you know so uh yeah it's quite horrific at the time yeah but the national front was you know trying to recruit from the hooligan element in football so you had the football games uh people were selling National phone trying to recruit so it was a tough time for being a black player and the worst I had it was back in 1981 I got my first England call up we used to get letters and post and uh letter came from the poster said if you put your foot in a Wembley Turf you get one of these for your knees a bullet came through the post our first England call up a bullet through the that's that would definitely scare the crap out of me well you've got to overcome those programs our teammates were great they always to support us and the man and the manager big run but it did make her angry you know being singled out and all that racist abuse of bananas and monkey chants and that kind of stuff but it's what you do with that emotion we went out and said right I'm going to show you how good I am yeah I want to work harder put that ball in a better net win the game and that was our answer the racist movement was on the brink of becoming a political force until the election of a new prime minister took the Electoral wind out of the national front sales thanks to her own hardened attitudes towards immigration I think it means that people are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture so either you'll go on taking in 40 or 50 000 a year which is far too many or you say we must hold out the prospect of a clear end to immigration and that is the view we've taken and Margaret Thatcher was no football fan to The Iron Lady football fans were like striking miners one more Enemy Within to be defeated and as tensions and troubles on The Terraces became increasingly widespread her government demanded fences in stadiums to control fans [Music] in sight we now have a far better understanding of how and why crowd troubles and riots came about partly thanks to the work of people like Professor cliffstott a very clever man who specializes in crowd psychology as your work always been linked to football or is it sort of gone well no not necessarily straight to football the work grew out of a study at a poll tax right that was my first study was studying political riots but only a few months afterwards I went over to Italy and I was looking at England fans right at the World Cup finals in Italy in 19 yeah exactly and I just saw hang on a minute this is the same thing this is the same dynamics that are causing this kind of problem and it wasn't about this idea that these Hooligans were causing the problem it was actually the expectation England fans were Hooligans that were leading to really aggressive forms of policing that were creating the conditions whereby violence and confrontation were happening in these crowd events it was a vicious circle seen across 1980s Society if you think about the 80s you're talking about a decade of disorder you've got all sorts of incidents of Confrontation and one of the interesting things about the Hillsborough inquiry here in Liverpool is that it started to ask questions about things like all group and the confrontations that were going on during the mine Australia when we look at the 1980s they're characterized by a particular way of policing those crowd events that's Highly Questionable the fencing that killed people in terms of the Stadium's fencing people in those things were big contributions to why people died at Hillsborough the Hillsborough Stadium disaster and a lot of it has been about the fear of crowds and attempts to try to control them and those attempts to control Crowds Are what ultimately made Hillsborough fatally unsafe for those people Cliff now works with dozens of police forces and football clubs across Europe to change mindsets for the better for the last few years I've been working very very heavily to try to get people who manage crowds to understand them properly you need to deal with crowds mostly through communication and actually to facilitate people's legitimate intentions and behaviors not necessarily to focus on the control of bad behavior and that can be quite difficult shift to make lessons in football were being learned the hard way in the 1980s the 1989 disaster at Hillsborough took 96 lives and led to Decades of Injustice that tragedy was preceded by two others in May 1985 a fire ripped through Bradford Stadium killing 56 and injuring hundreds more then as football mourned just a fortnight later 39 football fans died because of confrontations between British and Italian fans at the Heisel stadium in Belgium English clubs were banned from European competition indefinitely thank you [Music] Liverpool England today those tragically lost lives will never be forgotten those years in the wilderness were long and hard as the 1990s arrived some of England's best players had left for the continent and the recommendations of the Taylor report after the Hillsborough disaster had far-reaching consequences one hundred years after creating association football England had lost control and lost its power having sunk so extraordinarily low a radical plan was needed to save the national game and it was going to involve an enormous risk major Financial challenges some urgency has changed hey premium Super League of 18 clubs a new Top Flight league would break away from the century old football league to try and reinvent the national game leading the creation of the Premier League was chief executive Rick Parry perhaps the logic should be that it's time that maybe the armchair fan subsidized the paying spectator rather than vice versa why do you think it was necessary for the leagues to break away from something that had been sort of in working conditions for so long well it wasn't really in working condition we had the huge impact of the Taylor report post Hazel Hillsborough we had to move very rapidly to all ceter stadia and the clubs are thinking where's the leadership where's the money coming from but the other big plus for us was Skye they were having a really rough time they were losing a bundle we're looking for the new Big opportunity and suddenly we said we're about to form the Premier League you know Sky we're losing 200 million plus in 91.92 and all of a sudden they literally bet in the house on the new premier league at this time there were only 18 televised first division games a year shown on ITV to make the much needed cash to Breathe new life into the game the Premier League needed to show a lot more fixtures and proposed a multi-broadcaster plan so we wanted to bring much of the day back on a Saturday night that was always a given we'll have ITV on the Sunday the big game and why don't we try and introduce these newcomers sky with the Monday night game I think Skye initially would have gone along with that because uh they were the New Kids on the Block and they'd have been grateful to get a piece of the Premier League ITV said not a captain house chance it's exclusive or nothing so Rick and his team decided to take a gamble match of the day plus newcomers Sky would get the 170 convinced that the deal we took before in the clubs last week was the right one which the club's voted in favor of remain convinced of that what was the the biggest risk in taking this guy deal I mean was there a way that it could possibly even go wrong it's just getting too exciting for me it's yeah I'm heating up a bit okay there was a risks guy could go bust it was almost as if people had been watching live football on television for the last hundred years it only started in 1982 but you know the barrage of publicity was this was a national outrage there were debates in the House of Commons as I said I was 100 Public Enemy Number One so fast forward to today did it change football around the world I remember in 92 UA for being very very critical of what we were doing they didn't like it at all whereas now the Champions League tends to be on pay TV you look right across the major European leagues they've got pay TV deals I mean it's a much pure reform of Television to me because at the end of the day you you know you pay for what you want to watch [Music] Liverpool versus West Brom one of the reasons why I wanted to do this TV show is because I get to go behind the scenes at a football game there's talk of me and going down the tunnel I've Just Seen Michael Owen get out of a car it's all pretty crazy let's go and check it out the Premier League's pioneering pay TV deal transformed the model of European football and made the English Top Flight the richest league in Europe its revenue is bigger than the Spanish and Italian League's annual income combined The Thirst for televised football which the industry initially feared would kill match attendances and ruin the game has proved the key to unlocking unimaginable success it's also lured new broadcasters into the industry Keen to share the spoils if you go back in time 40 or 50 years you know footballers and football managers they would not believe you know if you went back to the 60s and you brought them here and you said this is football in 2016. yeah they'd be like that it would be unrecognizable to them it's kind of where the power lies Now isn't it yeah so it's crazy guys this is out for you I'm turning around to try how you doing you're all right amazing guys um sorry sorry Robbie Michael and Steve and basically what happened is that we go on air at five o'clock so the guys were sitting here from three o'clock and they'll get the chance to see all the matches nice coming in because then obviously when we're going out we'll ask them about the game and they have to know about all the other matches we're done I'll be back here at three Lads sadly those are the only three former players we could get take care believable how is it for you coming to BT the New Kids on the Block is were you nervous about it is always been about it yeah yeah I was nervous because you know Skye who are the standard broadcaster in the UK when it comes to Premier League football have been around for 25 years and there was us kind of arriving and trying to do our thing and immediately you're going to be compared against the people who've been doing it for a long time it's just about trying to do it your way really like I suppose the big thing for me always as a presenter has been if I'm just going to not bring any of my own personality or my own opinions or my own thoughts to the job I might as well not be doing it you know you'll have to say right why am I the person to do this it's like an acting role that you would do you know why why are you the person for that role though not somebody else you know you have to give them a reason to pick you because there's a lot of people that want to do your job or want to do my job you began your career in sports I think in 2005. yeah definitely have you um have you seen sort of much change in the Premier League in that time that you've been involved yeah I mean I just think that the Premier League just gets bigger and bigger and bigger every single year I mean you know we're standing in here now and a very quick count is probably it's a 30 40 vehicles in here in this tiny car park a lot of cameras but then you also turn around and you see that which is the new stand here at anfield and the reality is that that new stand has been built by the money that comes from this yeah and the players that are running out today earning 150 Grand a week has been created because of the money that comes from the broadcasters and it goes you know it's a it's phenomenal nothing draws the fans not just in the UK but around the world like Premier League football does can you see more of a sort of globalization in terms of where it's going to go is that what the fans want do you think you know I've had a chance to travel the world obviously when I was working in Formula One I went to every continent and you don't land as an F1 presenter and see loads of Red Bull and McLaren and Ferrari tops you see Manchester United and Liverpool and Arsenal shirts everywhere you know Asia Africa India it's all about Premier League football yeah you know we're just a broadcaster just in the UK when the game kicks off yeah what we film with these cameras in these trucks it goes around the world is huge as my journey into the history of football comes to an end immersed here backstage in the heart of the Premier League's broadcasting Revenue machine I can see for myself the transformative power of modern day football on TV but look into the future what lies ahead simple question probably not a simple answer where does the power in football lie now the major power in football in England lies with the money so it lies with the Premier League the English football clubs are now owned by people from all over the world managed by people from all over the world played by people from all over the world I think we look Beyond Europe what's really interesting is what is happening in China but the president has stated he wants to Stage the World Cup and probably wants to win the World Cup making a huge investment in teams in China and of course teams right across Europe including England the players have got into a position where they have potentially more power than ever before but it's really important that in having that power it's used for the benefit of the game you are privileged compared to your predecessors you need to know what your predecessors went through the 20th century power struggle in football made it worldwide entertainment on an unprecedented scale clubs players agents and broadcasters all fought for a share of an ever-expanding Global industry and made billions along the way but let's not forget all this power would and could not exist if it wasn't for the most vital part of the football equation the support of the fans and I hate to admit it but there's nowhere better to experience the power of the fans than here at anfield this in my opinion is one of the most amazing moments in football musically is more Rousey it makes more passion even as an Arsenal fan I've got to admit it it's pretty incredible three days [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] foreign

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Published: Thu Nov 24 2022