absolutely this! Their quest for the perfect game has let the genie out of the bottle and sadly it's never going back in. Were games awash with a torrent of poor decisions? The answer was no.
This character was ahead out of it's time. Back in the 90's only a very small % of football fans who went to games were like this now they're the majority as all the working class fans especially the young ones have been priced out
Sadly true, there's a Ron Manager bit sitting in the stands talking about Football in nostalgic terms that may as well be a eulogy for the game Pre-93/93.
Yep sadly that’s true. The only ones who can afford to go to Premiership games now are the wealthy middle class Hooray Henry’s, especially dons south. Just look at the crowds at the England games. It’s all management types who’ve secured a few England tickets through some corporate jolly or sweetener. I remember when I used to go to the Birmingham city matches way back in the early 90s when were in the old division 2 and kids could get in for a quid. That’s why I don’t even bother with football now, it’s all money and the few that can afford it, I don’t even watch England play anymore, which is why I’m more into Rugby league now..
@@matty6848 Many real football fans watch nonleague now..where you can gain entrance buy programme then have a beer & pie and have change out of £20..👍
@@matty6848 Haven't bothered with footie for a long time either. The Prem , for me, was the downfall and after ten years or so of it my love for the game had mostly disappeared. Last match i went to was 2008. More rugby union myself.
I literally sat in front of 'this guy' once. Not long after hull city got their new stadium and there was a surge in new supporters, although we were in the old 3rd division still. Was watching a crappy midweek evening match against Barnsley and the bloke behind me would not shut up comparing every players abilities vs Beckham! Player gets tackled - loses the ball 'he's no Beckham'. Player takes a half decent shot at goal 'he's a budding Beckham'. Hilarious and annoying all at the same time.
I had a friend who used to interrupt every foot convo we were having with "Beckham's a real talisman isn't he." He said it like he was saying the wisest thing ever. I didn't notice at first but when I did I laughed so much. We liked the guy so we never let him know we knew that he only ever said one thing. Man Utd fan from West London in case you were wondering.
Mark Steele used to do a bit in his standup routine where he described spending time with his friends who were all petrol heads. He said I only knew three things. Austin Allegro? Rusting all agro more like. FIAT? - Stands for Fix it again Tony. And one more i cannot remember (comedians' rule of 3, of course). As all my friends were car fans, not footy fans, I really related to that routine. It's the same thing... people trying too hard to be into whatever their friends like doing. It's cringe, but often hilarious.
When I ran pubs we used to instruct staff who were uninterested in football to join any football related conversation with 'they need a big man up front and more creativity in midfield'. It was literally a 'light the blue touch-paper' comment and guaranteed to cement their place in the football commenting community.
There is a definite symmetry between this and the 'I'll get me coat' sketches. They're both about someone trying to fit in with people from a different class and not understanding the rules.
True that. It's not just his acting either; saw him do stand-up at a Just the Tonic night at the Old Vic in Nottingham in the late 90's. He was utterly brilliant, piss-funny, and nice enough to talk to punters afterwards. Lovely bloke :)
Agreed. If I see one more 7ft bearded southern jogging enthusiast in a Liverpool shirt giving it the big un, I swear I'll get a stepladder and cut off his bloody man bun with my nan's rusty shears.
@@SiFiClark Harry Enfield always seemed to be jealous because he was middle class and tried to make out he was disadvantaged. Paul Whitehouse had the working class accents nailed down, his unlucky Alf sounds like me 😂. Kathy Burke's Oasis Manc accent was soooopeerb
Having working class family won't even do it if you went to a decent school or were in the top set at comprehensive and all your friends and you went iff to university at 18.were middle class like a lot of the 'working class' in showbiz . I should imagine Whitehouse had working class friends growing up and didn't go off to university at 18. I may be wrong though.
@@AndyPandy-sj9blhe went Uni in Norwich and Charlie Higson was there and he worked for Hackney Council and was mates with Enfield who really supported him and higson when harry got his Saturday Night gig on channel 4. When Whitehouse grew up, circles were very very mixed even if you went uni.
Sad reality is they the middle-classes who jumped on to football after Euro 96 as it became also fashionable have become the majority as the game has been Marketed for such clientel at a lot of premier league clubs esp the more successful ones as the hardcore working classes have been shafted and priced out. Hence why at most premier league grounds esp the newer ones the atmosphere is generally is Flat, staged,stale.
"Youre so detatched from reality! Lets talk about the football!" Its so twisted how much our society is invested in football. Never understood why its so important to some adults. Theres something very tribal about it and a way for some people to express raw emotion
It's quite normal to get into soccer when there's a world cup on. Whatever the sport, if there's an England team or a Great Britain team playing in a tournament, I will watch it.
It's symptomatic at any club that's had any sort of success in the last 30 years. Which is why Paul Whitehouse doesn't have much to worry about being a Spurs fan
Case in point being Jeremy Clarkson. For years he openly stated that he didn't like football and now he's claiming he's supported Chelsea since he was 10
My club is currently in the Championship. I know it sounds strange but part of me doesn’t want to get promoted. Don’t miss Var the tourists and getting thumped by Man City twice a season.
Given the age of the sketch, it's Blair. He claimed to be a Newcastle United supporter, standing on the terraces watching Jackie Milburn. Slight problem, Milburn had retired from the game.
Allo, Dave Angel here, I tell you, these hand artist fake football fans, they really get up my hooter. Drive me completely radio rental. What we need is more completely working class, Streetwise characters, tracksuits, baseball caps, getting zapped out of your banger on drugs, mugging grannies, Bosh! Over the head. Never done me no harm. Lavely... 😐
They all turned up at Reading when we went up on 2 occaisions. Buggered off when we went down. Pain in the arse...... Goto the away games as well, Arsenal were by far the worst. This was really close to the mark for them.
Get your point - genuinely hope the Royals get back this year, playing good football. The first year you got up under Coppell was a revelation - Doyle etc were superb. I was there for our cup game and did stay until the end if only to see Chamakh score which was something of a rarity. I remember Elm Park - proper ground unless it rained!
@@rogerramjet5302 cheers mate. as sad as it was to see the back of Elm Park, we desperatly needed an upgrade to progress. To finish that high in the Premier League was disappointing. Missed out on Europe on goal difference, then got relegated the following season. Clubs like Chelsea taking our players for next to nothing and shoving them in the reserves (eg Kitson) hurt us badly.
@@Clem_Fandango11 tell me about it! Ashley Cole, Fabregas, Giroud - admittedly some of those departures were from the club but then add in Van Persie, Clichy, Nasri etc and we’ve been a feeder club too. Youve had some great players over the years with Quinn, Gilkes, Lita, Long, Hislop etc. Showing my age but I do miss grounds like Highbury and Elm Park - remember a match many moons ago when you sang to us ‘are you Swindon in disguise?’. Brilliant but factually inaccurate as none of us bought livestock or wore wellington boots!
Chelsea worse once they got the minted Russian. I know someone I was at school with who definitely wore a Hammers top in P.E. but denied it, when We met up at a school reunion, and told us he was a season ticket holder at the chavs. There's a few like that.
I knew a guy at work like this. Constantly going on about his love for our local team, constantly talking about football to people who clearly had no interest in it and then mocking them for having no interest in it. Then one day one of the older guys, who was a through and through true fan of the local team, had enough and tested him in front of everyone to assess his merit as a fan. Stuff like "how many times have you been to a game" (never it turned out), "what do you think of the new signings" (couldn't answer). Watching this self professed football fanatic shrivel in front of a proper fan was hilarious.
@@TheHeeksy Great to hear from you Rob. Hope youre doing well. Just glad to be alive at our age. At least 40 years since ive been called Bran. Pleased to see the Hammers prospering.
Update: He now works as a VAR at Stockley Park along side such greats as Lee Mason ...
It's sad how offside has gone so far from what it was it's really gone to far.. This video is not so far from the truth unfortunately 🤦♂️
No he is the epitome of the sky generation that want var
Haha
absolutely this! Their quest for the perfect game has let the genie out of the bottle and sadly it's never going back in. Were games awash with a torrent of poor decisions? The answer was no.
This character was ahead out of it's time. Back in the 90's only a very small % of football fans who went to games were like this now they're the majority as all the working class fans especially the young ones have been priced out
Sadly true, there's a Ron Manager bit sitting in the stands talking about Football in nostalgic terms that may as well be a eulogy for the game Pre-93/93.
Yep sadly that’s true. The only ones who can afford to go to Premiership games now are the wealthy middle class Hooray Henry’s, especially dons south. Just look at the crowds at the England games. It’s all management types who’ve secured a few England tickets through some corporate jolly or sweetener. I remember when I used to go to the Birmingham city matches way back in the early 90s when were in the old division 2 and kids could get in for a quid. That’s why I don’t even bother with football now, it’s all money and the few that can afford it, I don’t even watch England play anymore, which is why I’m more into Rugby league now..
Absolutely spot on, equipped with iPads
@@matty6848 Many real football fans watch nonleague now..where you can gain entrance buy programme then have a beer & pie and have change out of £20..👍
@@matty6848 Haven't bothered with footie for a long time either. The Prem , for me, was the downfall and after ten years or so of it my love for the game had mostly disappeared. Last match i went to was 2008. More rugby union myself.
I literally sat in front of 'this guy' once. Not long after hull city got their new stadium and there was a surge in new supporters, although we were in the old 3rd division still. Was watching a crappy midweek evening match against Barnsley and the bloke behind me would not shut up comparing every players abilities vs Beckham! Player gets tackled - loses the ball 'he's no Beckham'. Player takes a half decent shot at goal 'he's a budding Beckham'.
Hilarious and annoying all at the same time.
Hahaha
I had a friend who used to interrupt every foot convo we were having with "Beckham's a real talisman isn't he." He said it like he was saying the wisest thing ever. I didn't notice at first but when I did I laughed so much. We liked the guy so we never let him know we knew that he only ever said one thing. Man Utd fan from West London in case you were wondering.
Mark Steele used to do a bit in his standup routine where he described spending time with his friends who were all petrol heads.
He said I only knew three things. Austin Allegro? Rusting all agro more like.
FIAT? - Stands for Fix it again Tony.
And one more i cannot remember (comedians' rule of 3, of course).
As all my friends were car fans, not footy fans, I really related to that routine. It's the same thing... people trying too hard to be into whatever their friends like doing. It's cringe, but often hilarious.
When I ran pubs we used to instruct staff who were uninterested in football to join any football related conversation with 'they need a big man up front and more creativity in midfield'. It was literally a 'light the blue touch-paper' comment and guaranteed to cement their place in the football commenting community.
It was a game of two halves
Love that Paul clearly refused to wear an Arsenal shirt in the stadium scenes.
That wasn't Highbury either, if I was guessing I'd say that was the riverside
@@Bratishton Thought it was North Bank.
You can actually see a little bit of Paul's soul die when he has to pretend to not be a Spurs fan. 😂❤
"Good goal sir!" God i love that line! Always wanted to shout it out at elland rd..but maybe not...
lol, made me chuckle
I mean, it's two years late, but would you settle for a, Ooohhhhhhyoushitbastardaaaaaaaaaah! ?
Elland Road that would be even funnier, suicidal but funny
I wouldn't do that at bellend road
There is a definite symmetry between this and the 'I'll get me coat' sketches. They're both about someone trying to fit in with people from a different class and not understanding the rules.
No ones mentions John Thomson great acting skills..Met him once great guy, down to earth and modest.
you mert him once , and you know he is a great guy?
@@petehill8885 really..What you after an argument? And I didn't actually MERT him whatever that is?
I met petehill8885 once. Great bloke, salt of the earth. No wait that was petehill8886.
True that. It's not just his acting either; saw him do stand-up at a Just the Tonic night at the Old Vic in Nottingham in the late 90's. He was utterly brilliant, piss-funny, and nice enough to talk to punters afterwards. Lovely bloke :)
He hates all sport irl
Go in any stand at any club in the Premier League and you'll find thousands of this type. Drop a division and most of them disappear.
It must be true, because you say so.
the EPL is almost entirely soulless now, plastic.
Nah
Only good thing about being Leeds fan is not being with this type in EPL with this which applies to 99 % of Manchester and Liverpool “Fans”
Agreed. If I see one more 7ft bearded southern jogging enthusiast in a Liverpool shirt giving it the big un, I swear I'll get a stepladder and cut off his bloody man bun with my nan's rusty shears.
Paul Whitehouse is one of the few actors around who can do proper working class bloke; he doesn't look like a nice middle-class man dressing down.
Cos his family were working class mate...he's just tapping into his whole upbringing..which means acting that sort of character is effortless.
@@SiFiClark Harry Enfield always seemed to be jealous because he was middle class and tried to make out he was disadvantaged.
Paul Whitehouse had the working class accents nailed down, his unlucky Alf sounds like me 😂.
Kathy Burke's Oasis Manc accent was soooopeerb
Having working class family won't even do it if you went to a decent school or were in the top set at comprehensive and all your friends and you went iff to university at 18.were middle class like a lot of the 'working class' in showbiz . I should imagine Whitehouse had working class friends growing up and didn't go off to university at 18. I may be wrong though.
@@AndyPandy-sj9blhe went Uni in Norwich and Charlie Higson was there
and he worked for Hackney Council and was mates with Enfield who really supported him and higson when harry got his Saturday Night gig on channel 4.
When Whitehouse grew up, circles were very very mixed even if you went uni.
He probably likes the idea of the European super league
This will never get old.
Fans like these are just a byproduct of clubs being successful, which is why Spurs fans will never have to worry.
🤣
@Apostolos Ginnakidis Eff fe eff eff eff fe fe Cliss Waddle.
Axion poompo multi gizmo.
Trouble with Spurs is, they just want to walk it in…
🤣🤣
Singing I've got a......
Thousands of Roger Nouveau's made Nick Hornby as rich as he is today.
Also real North Bank lads enjoyed that read.
Excellent comment
These people are keeping football alive nowadays
At Arsenal, man city and Chelsea definitely!
@@michaeldean7220well Arsenal definitely
All Prem
Milking the zeitgeist, even down to the music. How I miss the 90's.
Sad reality is they the middle-classes who jumped on to football after Euro 96 as it became also fashionable have become the majority as the game has been Marketed for such clientel at a lot of premier league clubs esp the more successful ones as the hardcore working classes have been shafted and priced out. Hence why at most premier league grounds esp the newer ones the atmosphere is generally is Flat, staged,stale.
I'm a true blue gunner gooner. BANG!
I bet Graham Linehan remembered this for his IT crowd bit. That was great too though.
My thoughts exactly!! Both were hilarious... There 'avin a laugh.....
What was Wenger thinking?
@@leopold7562 🤣🤣
Bent it like Beckham pinched the offside salt and pepper pots but too
"They can't do that!"
"So we're losing then??" (Buggers off) 😆
THIS WILL NEVER AGE !
IT WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME & WILL LEAVE THE FAST SHOW BEHIND
"Youre so detatched from reality! Lets talk about the football!"
Its so twisted how much our society is invested in football. Never understood why its so important to some adults. Theres something very tribal about it and a way for some people to express raw emotion
you answered your own question right there
alright unc
"Umm... Excuse me, Bergkamp plays for Arsenal, not Holland." 😂😂😂
Sussed 😂
Love the fact he's an Arsenal fan, I know loads, they have never been there
Fulham are another serial offender, frequented by “neutrals”
Arsenal have the 3rd highest average home attendance since the football leagues started back in the 1800s
Piers Morgan? Is that you? How’s Ronaldo?! 🤣
Explaining offside at the end was like me trying to explain Calculus to year 11's, none of us knew wtf I was on about. I don't teach any more 😱
It's always funny to me, posh people raving about their teams, comedians and actors and pop stars. Meanwhile, the grass roots are withering away.
After the ESL nonsense this is how I imagine all club owners to be.
This is actually me around my mates when they talk football
@Cian MacGana Wasn't he accused of being a wife beater and alcoholic rather than a nonce?
I love the Euro soccer-ball game.
Very fitting that he's an Arsenal fan.
2:10 Claude from Arsenal Fan TV (RIP).
Funny I know a bloke like this, it was Germany vs France, his first words are we winning referring to England 😆
This is most of the people that use the pub I drink in on a Saturday,as soon as full time blows they’re gone
The crazy thing about this is John doesn't even like football at all.
As a non football fan, this would be me!
Brighton fans right here
Arsenal now have a stadium full of these people!
2.09 in. I've actually seen a group of men at The Emirates who snuck in red wine, French stick and olives.
Exactly gooner mugs coys
@@danielnissim1135 lol 61 never again
@@danielnissim1135 Yep COYS! With Harry Kane, greatest goal scorer in the Premier League. Him and Son together, magic.
@@danielnissim1135 spurs mugs paying good money to see a team that last won a trophy of any note before they were born
never realised that the legendary Colin McFarlane appeared in The Fast Show
Plenty of these have come out the woodwork now the World Cup has started again.
It's quite normal to get into soccer when there's a world cup on. Whatever the sport, if there's an England team or a Great Britain team playing in a tournament, I will watch it.
@@chesterdonnelly1212 soccer?
@@wmorris189 yes any sport. Great Britain basketball team is playing tomorrow so I’ll watch that.
4:03 verifiable evidence that confirms me mam's old saying, 'cunts may drink beer from cans, but only wankers drink it from wine glasses.'
Back when Arsenal actually had glory hunters. Sigh
thats their whole fanbase now
Got a load at Chelsea like this now. Used to be Battersea & Putney lads. They wouldn't have given a toss about Chelsea if we hadn't got minted.
Got the same at West Ham, these tossers wouldn't have gone near Stamford Bridge or Upton Park in the 70/80's
Tim Lovejoy
It's symptomatic at any club that's had any sort of success in the last 30 years. Which is why Paul Whitehouse doesn't have much to worry about being a Spurs fan
London fans always been tossers to be fair
Case in point being Jeremy Clarkson. For years he openly stated that he didn't like football and now he's claiming he's supported Chelsea since he was 10
0:24 “I’m going over here to talk to the lads!” 😂
He's watching Arsenal at what was then known as 'The Cellnet'.
The Middlesbrough ground?, Looks like it.
I remember when he was Paul Calfs mate and a City fan...
Getting big ‘Roger Nouveau Football Fan’ from the Fast Show vibes here. SOCCER!
He's your typical Sky half and half scarf, mobile photo taking fan
Rhys Thomas must be a literal child here, this is thirty years ago!
Arrrrthur Weasley’s a Gooner!
Isn't that Piers Morgan?
This is why I go to none league football now
My club is currently in the Championship. I know it sounds strange but part of me doesn’t want to get promoted. Don’t miss Var the tourists and getting thumped by Man City twice a season.
Thats definitely me in regards to football 🥅 ⚽️ 😂
Yuk! 😒😒
Sounds like Jeremy Vine with his support for Chelsea
Ryan Reynolds at the spoons in Wrexham
"SOCCER!"
His picnic hamper! 😂
This was the way football went when it changed from being a working class sport to a middle class passtime.
Football fan from india
I got my last “flat pack four” from IKEA.
The look on Paul Whitehouse's face is priceless at 2:31.
"Good goal, sir!"
This documentary on a football fan is quite enlightening....I like how the grown-up fans wear the same custumes too... like kids do.
To be fair, he does sound just like a typical arsenal fan.
Offside is hard to explain.
The inferring with play bit has for sure.
The ultimate gooners' fan.
That's the thing about Arsenal, they always try and roll it in
I don't think anyone knows the offside rule in 2022, not even the officials based on a lot of the decisions...
Did they really sell Tecate in the UK back then?
This is based on Tony Blair, Kier Starmer or David Cameron.
Take your pick.
Given the age of the sketch, it's Blair. He claimed to be a Newcastle United supporter, standing on the terraces watching Jackie Milburn. Slight problem, Milburn had retired from the game.
Anyone got any tips for which team I should support this season?
Manchester City
@@chesterdonnelly1212 I've heard of them. They're from the North aren't they?
@@davidjames579 yes. London clubs are not doing very well this season. Best support a northern club this season 😁
@@chesterdonnelly1212 North, so the tickets will be cheaper?
@@davidjames579 Maybe, but I'm not sure.
David Baddiel's aged well.
I didn’t recognise him without the blackface.
@@netto6681 That was before he became a racism expert. Though I suppose, to teach something, you must be able to do it.
Allo, Dave Angel here,
I tell you, these hand artist fake football fans, they really get up my hooter. Drive me completely radio rental. What we need is more completely working class, Streetwise characters, tracksuits, baseball caps, getting zapped out of your banger on drugs, mugging grannies, Bosh! Over the head. Never done me no harm. Lavely...
😐
“Shirley! Shirl !!!! Put down the vuvuzela! You’re making my eardrums bleed!!!”
LoL. I love a bit of footer, too.
David Mellor and Michael Gove Chelsea fans fwah fwah
@@larry4789 to give him his due David Mellor is a lifelong Cheksea fan decades before the bandwagon jumpers got into it.
They all turned up at Reading when we went up on 2 occaisions. Buggered off when we went down. Pain in the arse......
Goto the away games as well, Arsenal were by far the worst. This was really close to the mark for them.
Get your point - genuinely hope the Royals get back this year, playing good football. The first year you got up under Coppell was a revelation - Doyle etc were superb. I was there for our cup game and did stay until the end if only to see Chamakh score which was something of a rarity. I remember Elm Park - proper ground unless it rained!
@@rogerramjet5302 cheers mate. as sad as it was to see the back of Elm Park, we desperatly needed an upgrade to progress. To finish that high in the Premier League was disappointing. Missed out on Europe on goal difference, then got relegated the following season. Clubs like Chelsea taking our players for next to nothing and shoving them in the reserves (eg Kitson) hurt us badly.
@@Clem_Fandango11 tell me about it! Ashley Cole, Fabregas, Giroud - admittedly some of those departures were from the club but then add in Van Persie, Clichy, Nasri etc and we’ve been a feeder club too. Youve had some great players over the years with Quinn, Gilkes, Lita, Long, Hislop etc. Showing my age but I do miss grounds like Highbury and Elm Park - remember a match many moons ago when you sang to us ‘are you Swindon in disguise?’. Brilliant but factually inaccurate as none of us bought livestock or wore wellington boots!
Chelsea worse once they got the minted Russian. I know someone I was at school with who definitely wore a Hammers top in P.E. but denied it, when We met up at a school reunion, and told us he was a season ticket holder at the chavs. There's a few like that.
@@nutcracker2916 Wet Sham, Danny Dyer as a celebrity fan. Mockney flip flop!!
“SOCCER!”
We've got a good chance of HAMMERING them!
2:45 left is that the Harry potter guy?
The Rishi Sunak school of football fanaticism.
I knew a guy at work like this. Constantly going on about his love for our local team, constantly talking about football to people who clearly had no interest in it and then mocking them for having no interest in it. Then one day one of the older guys, who was a through and through true fan of the local team, had enough and tested him in front of everyone to assess his merit as a fan. Stuff like "how many times have you been to a game" (never it turned out), "what do you think of the new signings" (couldn't answer). Watching this self professed football fanatic shrivel in front of a proper fan was hilarious.
Prawn sandwich brigade. When all the middle class wankers came out of the woodwork when the game was sanitised and the premiership was launched
Have you got an indoor toilet?
Pretty much the half and half scarf tourist league
Hes dying not to laugh all the way through
Yes … Man U fan for sure
Whats the song?
Perfect example of 50 percent of supporters 🤣
you know Paul refused to wear an Arsenal top
I wish Willian had taken the same stance
He's a Spurs fan that's why.
Didn't know that.Shiuld call it Ikea League.And Sky Armchair Supporters Network.We will talk up your club...til next week.
Come on the Arsenal!
Hahaha!!! Time for your medication! COYS!!
70% of modern fans
Would you like a Pringle?
The black guy is "hughie" from grange hill, original cast with tucker jenkins late 70's
Hughesie. I thought it was Felix Dexter?
@@geoffpoole483Colin McFarlane
this sounds lie me, love football, know f'all about it
Never seen this kind of fan at Port Vale
Dunner think you will Bran. The Arse and The Pit of Cess just outside Manchester are perfect environments for them.
@@TheHeeksy Great to hear from you Rob. Hope youre doing well. Just glad to be alive at our age. At least 40 years since ive been called Bran. Pleased to see the Hammers prospering.
@@ianclarke1852 Fine mate thank you, hope all is well with you
VAR Check...
They can't do THAT! 🤨
Commisoner Loeb from the Dark Knight trilogy at 4:08
I have zero recollection of this character.
Gloryhunting heaven! 😂🎸🤘😎
The sad thing is that people like this actually exist.