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Hi ... did the original video say how much the stadium cost ? ... Amazing feat of engineering tho' ... also Richard Hammond seems to be morphing into a really bad version of ' Tony Stark ' !
You still think football doesn't have too much tactics? You will continue to believe that, until you check out the channel I suggested to learn about tactics. It's called "TIFO football". A good example from their channel would be "positional play"
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A "pitch" comes from the verb "to pitch", which means "To put something in a fixed or definite place or position", and the noun "pitch" means "A portion of ground selected or allotted [...] for residence, business or any occupation"... in this context, for the occupation of a sporting game. (All definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary.) A "sales pitch" was once literally a piece of ground where a trader would set up and sell their wares.
I did read somewhere that pitch comes from cricket, as when football started they used cricket pitches. In cricket the term pitch comes from pitching the stumps in to the ground. Tottenham were a cricket team that played football in the winter months to keep the players fit.
Tottenham played their home fixtures at Wembley for a couple of years and I attended all but 2 games during that spell. A huge difference between the two stadiums is the atmosphere it cultivates. The approach to Wembley is really special and you feel excitement building, but once you get inside it's quite soulless. The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is quite the opposite - smacked in the middle of Tottenham, walking down a rather unassuming High Street to get there - but inside it really holds its own as one of the more impressive and atmospheric stadiums in Europe.... But only when Tottenham are winning, which hasn't happened much since they moved there 😂
Since? _its been a while since Tottenham have won something, unfortunately_ ... 😔 But at least the team has gotten really close on multiple occasions. Tottenham did Pochettino very dirty.
6:15 The club is named after Harry "Hotspur", nickname of Sir Henry Percy, a famous knight in the 100 Years' War. He was called "Hotspur" due to his speed and agility on horseback... he rode horses so fast, it was as if he had "hot spurs". 9:46 "Soccer" is originally a British term - an abbreviation of "asSOCiation football". I don't know if it's a generational thing, but the term was certainly widely used in the UK when I grew up, when there were various "Soccer" magazines on sale, and there were UK TV shows that used the name ("Soccer Night", "Soccer Sunday" etc) even as late as the 2000s.
The football club came from the cricket club which was called the Hotspur Cricket Club, it was the cricket club that was named after Harry Hotspur who reputedly owned land around the area that is now Northumberland Park, the original site of the cricket club. The term Soccer is indeed an English word deriving from Association. it is known as Oxford 'er slang which came from Oxford university, possibly even Rugby school before that, around the 1870's it was used to differentiate Association football from Rugby football IE: Soccer and Rugger. Before 'Soccer' became fashionable association football was often referred to as 'footer'
@@tonyjefferson3502 I would imagine it's the reason it was named Northumberland Park. Just a guess, after all nearby Bruce Grove was named after Robert the Bruce. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grove
The 2 closest Football stadiums in the uk are Dundee and Dundee United, that have a distance of only 350 yards away, so the players at matches get changed at their own stadiums then walk to the other one to play.
Think he's calling it soccer as the video is directed at Americans. American 'football' is not popular at all outside of London in the UK, in London any sport will get its stadium filled
I mean it’s more that people travel to London for the games because they hold them there with it being a major international city, but there’s fans all around the country, in our NFL teams supporters club we have people in literally every part of the U.K. (and Ireland), the biggest concentration is probably in the Midlands
The Cockrel is a fighting Cockrel and the name Spurs relates to the sharp dagger-like spurs strapped to its ankles. The name Hotspur relates to Harry Hotspur (Sir Henry Percy) 20 May 1364 - 21 July 1403 the nickname was given to him by the Scots as a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack. The Club acknowledges Henry Percy, whose descendants owned land in the neighbourhood of the club's first ground in the Tottenham Marshes.
There is no such team as ‘Tottenham Hotspurs’. There should never be an ‘s’ after the word Hotspur. There is only One Hotspur. We are Tottenham Hotspur. Although our nickname is the ‘Spurs’!
@@nedeast6845 I can't even to begin to think who you are meaning of. Then again that might have been the Wool which has been pulled over my eyes. ;) lol
Soccer is originally an English term. There are many codes of football including rugby football, American football, association football. Association football is what is known as football to differentiate from other forms association was shortened to soccer, this was done a long time ago. Now if I remember my team history, the name hotspur and the nickname spurs are not related. Hotspur came from a knight called Harry hotspur, the nickname Spurs came from the logo, which is a fighting cockerel standing on and old fashioned soccer ball. A fighting cockerel wears spurs. Women do attend and in greater numbers, so do kids but it is traditionally male on a Saturday afternoon.
At one time (Late 1930s) `Hampden Park` stadium in Scotland had a capacity of about 167.000. Later-because of safety concerns, it was reduced to about 135.000. It holds the attendance record in the history of the `European Cup` for the Celtic v Leeds semi-final (2nd leg) in 1970.
Holds all the attendance records outside of the Maracana stadium. In the 30s it had 2 attendances of over 160,000 in the space of a week . One for Scotland v England , the other for Celtic v Aberdeen in Scottish Cup final .
@Alan Smith. Nice to see your comments. My friend who I had commented about previously liking Prince Philip and playing chess against AJP Taylor went to a Scotland v England match when up there on an engineering project early 70s, but was careful not to speak or react for England.
There was a great film about Scotland v England in 1937 at Hampden Park I saw recently on youtube. An FA historian stated it was registered then to hold nearly 185,000 at the time. There were 149,414 tickets sold, but he estimated that the 185,000 may have been reached via the custom of bunking in.
@@dlboss77 it’s not as ridiculous as you think. Personally I have little interest in the sport but to say it’s impossible is a bit silly. They let teams move around all the time
That video (as you may know) is from a series called "Richard Hammond's Big". All great episodes. But one that stood out was when he went to visit the Volkswagen factory in Germany. I'd love to see you react to that! If not, I'd highly recommend you watch on your own time anyway.
The mixed pitch system was designed with the nfl in mind, the nfl even invested a little in the stadium. However the artificial pitch serves another purpose, concerts and other events don’t damage the grass.
Apart from a couple of sold-out games, as a London attendee of Sports since 1962 I really can not see The NFL taking off as it's so hyped but full of stoppages/adverts and we do not like Corporate or too commercialized Sport. Can't see many going on a regular basis.
Narrator is Richard Hammond. He was one of the three presenters of the V. Popular BBC TV car show Top Gear. He's good. The ONLY top football match I've seen was at Tottenham''s White Hart Lane stadium. But that was the old one back in 1972. ( they drew with Manchester United - no goals. Boring) The crowd are traditionally young men. Often fuelled on drink, which is why aggression has often been associated with the game. I'd say it's 90% young men, though efforts to broaden the appeal are made. Pitch for the playing area. Field can be used as a term at an amateur level. Always called the Park up in Scotland. When Tottenham had a club record out in the 70s, it was sung by The Cockerell Chorus. ( Nice one Cyril) I had a conducted tour around Wolverhampton Wanderers ground once. It was surprisingly interesting. Though not as high tech as this place just shown. You can see from these buildings the amount of money sloshing around at the top level.
In UK Football, you aren't allowed to take you beer back to your seat, so that might skew the comparison. The trick is having a load before the game or chucking a pint or two down your neck at half time while navigating queues and the need to go to the loo. Also, the "drinkers" tend to head to the bar after 43 mins and 30 seconds! (lol) - it's a process !!
12:17 Just say American football and real football Edit: 14:40 you can't bring beer into the stands in the UK, don't know how it is in the US though but it might be a factor
From a Brazilian point of view is very weird to see American football anywhere outside of the USA. Especially in England. It sounds disrespectful for the land of football and rugby. Hahaha
MarcioNSantos Rugby and soccer is trying to expand its sport into the US ,so its only American football that is trying to expand its reach internationally.Aussie rules is doing it and so is my country ireland with our national sports hurling and gaelic football everyone wants there chosen sport played by more people.
Throughout the EPL and EFL all pitches must be natural grass, the only exception is a Desso surface which is 95% natural growing through a fine mesh which prevents divots being dug from the surface thus preventing the pitch being trashed. The downside is that in the closed season the surface has to be scrapped to remove natural soil deposits burying the Desso mesh which only has a 10year life span anyway.
Usually the atmosphere in small stadiums is better than in big stadiums. Big clubs have high ticket prices and the people getting in today are usually 35 plus and have a lot of money. It's counterintuitive but in Germany Union Berlin or Leeds in England have amazing atmosphere.
Simply put the pitch term is used as a section of spaces used to play the game. In grass roots sports a field can have 10-15 pitches with games being played on them all.
About the Beer, by FA rules Alcohol may not be consumed within sight of a football match so it is only served before the game and during half time. These rules do not apply to other sports in the UK as both Rugby and Cricket spectators are allowed to consume alcohol whilst the match is in progress. I assume therefore more would be consumed during a NFL game.
Bicycle wheels were not the only wheels that needed "tuning". In the days when motor bikes and sports cars had spoked wheels "tuning" the wheel to balance out stresses was a skilled job, especially important if the wheel was going to be used at speed. I think back in the day a (musical) tuning fork was used. Probably there's a technology fix these days.
For Comparison to 5:44, similar information from The Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. (The home of Welsh international rugby, formerly known as "The Millennium Stadium" capacity approx. 74,000) In each of the stadium's bars, so-called "joy machines" can pour 12 pints in less than 20 seconds. During a Wales versus France match, 63,000 fans drank 77,184 pints of beer, almost double the 44,000 pints drunk by a similar number of fans at a game at Twickenham (Home of English Rugby).
There is a stadium in Arnhem Netherlands that not only has a retractable roof but also a retractable pitch. The capacity of Wembley is 90.000 next biggest is Twickenham Stadium, used for Rugby, with a capacity of 82,000. For reference, the London Olympic stadium usually holds between 60,000 and 66,00 for sporting events and up to 80,000 for concerts
Also old trafford is high 70s,000. Close to 80,000 and Evertons new stadium will be a sight to behold. We stuck with shitty old stadiums in Britain while European clubs built better ones, then as they say the smart money went on last and we started building the best stadiums in europe. As for Real Madrid since jude went there I've seen a few matches and the atmosphere is terrible. I expected much more from so many fans. But spanish games dont compare to German, Dutch or English games for passion and atmosphere
I learned a lot watching this. The stadium is fantastic but the game seems to be leaving its roots. Still is a fantastic stadium and good post. Thanks sal.
FYI for capacity, this stadium is the second biggest in the Premier League. Old Trafford (Manchester United) is the biggest, although quite old - having been to both, Old Trafford was lacking in food facilities for sure! I appreciate that it is easy to improve these things when you build a new stadium.
perhaps the word pitch comes when the game is played on a large playing field, several pitches can be marked to in the same field so all the games can be played separately. many amateur games are played on a Sunday morning
They used to host NFL games at the old stadium from time to time, also on the same pitch. The sport is growing and the idea was to corner that part of the market. As a side I’ve been on the roof and touched the cockerel; the stadium is stunning and bigger than it seems.
The problem is bigger is not better. Both Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabeu are both are in need of redevelopment. Though there are plans and it all comes down to MONEY, which REAL & BARCELONA have been spending like there is no tomorrow. And that leads to why those 2 clubs and JUVENTUS were and are still intent on the highly controversial, chaotic and dangerous ESL (European Super League) That appeared to launch, then collapse in the space of 48 hours earlier this year. They are determined to resurrect it .
I attended BvB - THFC in a pre-season warm-up match. Great game marred only by a handful of idiots unable to handle their German beer. Tottenham won 1-1 🤣
D6012 They are also big non football stadiums Twickenham 82000(rugby) Stade de france 81000 (rugby/football) Croke park 82300 ( gaelic football and hurling)
Football used to be seen as the working man's game! It was very much seen as a game for the working man. Thankfully it's more inclusive now but sadly it has lost it's working class element with billionaire owners and high player wages
@Haniff Azman Do you realize that when you say Football, most people in the world and on TH-cam think you are talking about football (your soccer) and not about American football. Yes, you call it Football but most of the world call it NFL or American Football.
The bird is a cockerell. The Hotspur part of our name comes from Harry Hotspur, son of the Earl of Northumberland, written about by William Shakespeare. The family owned alot of land in the area where Spurs are located.
@@zahrans Do you write comedy scripts for a living?. Only you aint very good, So far Spurs have won 25 Major trophies, with three of them coming in European competition's, they were also the first English or British club to win any European competition, and the only non league team to win the F.A. Cup.
Whilst there is a reasonable % of women going to Premier League games these days, the bulk of all crowds are, as you say, men. However, if you go to somewhere like Barcelona you will find its much more of a family affair and the % of women is about 45-50%. A key difference between Spain and England however is that apart from the top 2-3 sides in Spain almost no fans travel away to watch their teams - this in turn means the potential for crowd troubles are virtually non-existant and everyone is far more relaxed as a consequence - hence the family atmosphere. When I went (from the UK) to see Barcelona for the first time, Barcelona scored and the crowd went mental - but then the opposition equalised... you could have heard a pin drop! I asked a Barca fan sitting next to me why there was no cheering for the goal from the away fans.. were they too scared? He simply said... "what away fans"! Nice video on a remarkable stadium by the way! :-)
To differentiate between the two footballs, you can use Association Football for soccer. In fact, "soccer" is short for "association football" (the "-er" ending was a common slang thing in the late 1800's, it's called the "Oxford -er").
One of the reasons, apart from social ones, is violence. In the early days of football it was not unusual for someone to die and later in the 1970s & 1980s there were groups of "fans" called "firms" that would carry offensive weapons and start mass fights with fans from opposing teams resulting major riots & people seriously injured & sometimes killed. These "firms" would often invade the pitch and go after players of opposing teams. The reult was that most stadiums changed to seating only thus quelling the worst of the violence and it has become more family friendly since, but every now and again violence will flair up, but nowhere near as bad as it was during the 70s & 80s when even the police would get a good bashing. Sometimes it was a real blood bath. When I worked in TV back in the 90s I helped on a documentry about the Grid Iron teams in London like The Monarchs so American football has been played in London for at least 40 years. Not sure about the rest of Britain as I have no interest in the sport so didn't investigate further as I was only editing it.
Rotherham United, a small town near me did it well. When the financial crash struck in 2008, they took benefit of the reduced costs and built themselves a huge premier League style stadium for a fraction of the cost, and also moved it close to the town centre. It's now one of the town's best assets. For a small former mining town, they did well in that regard.
My favourite part about this is it's called New York Stadium (I pass it on the train) because the bit of land it was built on was called "New York" centuries before the city in America existed. I bet that must confuse a few sponsors!
@@BlameThande I'd heard, whether it's true or not, is that it's called New York because on that site, was a steel works which made the steel for the new York fire hydrants and also which went into the Hudson bridge!
For a different football stadium, Forest Green Rovers (EFL2) is building a wooden stadium, in line with the clubs eco credentials, ie Vegan only food, renewable energy to power everything, they also had the first Mobot to mow the grass, they are the greenest football club in the world,
both terms " SOCCER and FOOTBALL" have always been used to describe the game of Football since I was a kid and before. soccer became more common when Football was introduced into the USA, they did not want it confused with American Football, we would also call it " FOOTY" or sometime is you have a smaller team of 5 on each side, it will be referred to 5 a Side but we know it means football, 5 a side footy game.
Thanks for reviewing my football team's stadium. I am a season ticket holder and i have been to all major football stadiums in Europe and without bias this is the best stadium in every way. One thing... the name is Tottenham Hotspur and not Tottenham Hotspurs.... Spurs is the nickname. Keep up the good work.
I'm gonna hazard a guess at this one.... but in the UK when football first became big, it was as a winter sport for people who played cricket in the summer. Aston villa for example were a cricket team in Aston who started a football team quite close to the start of a national football competition. A Cricket pitch would have a Pavilion or Villa hence the name. I'm going to assume they played on their cricket pitch....where you would obviously pitch the ball. (It has a couple of meanings in cricket, neither of which are exactly the same as baseball). So I'm assuming calling it a pitch just carried over from the field in cricket.
The picture you said about the lack of female, well that was the bar, women tend not to go the bar at football matches. I'd say that there are about 30-35% women at football matches. It's the 7th biggest in the UK, 4th in London. Wembley Stadium 90,000 Twickenham Stadium 82,000 (Ruby) Old Trafford 75,731 Manchester Millennium Stadium 74,500 Cardiff Murrayfield Stadium 67,144 Edinburgh London Stadium 66,000 the Olympics stadium now home to West Ham.
London Stadiums: Wembley 90K(National Stadium), Tottenham 63K, Arsenal 61K, West Ham United 60K(The 2012 Olympic stadium), Chelsea 42K...Outside London: Manchester United 76K, Manchester City 53K, Liverpool 54K, Everton 39K, Newcastle 53K, Aston Villa 43K....Are the largest stadiums in the English Premier League.
They all healed more before we where given a seat , I used to stand on a terrace on the Stretford end , now I stand on the Stretford end in front of my seat
Hi SoGal, I think, it`s fair to say that Football in England was a working man`s sport originally. It was then a relatively cheap form of entertainment for men to escape their humdrum working life. Father`s often took their Son`s along from an early age at least to Home games. Though, Women & children were more likely to attend matches during holiday periods such as Easter. Things changed when it became more about the money, obviously businesses/Clubs looked at ways to encourage the family to attend. But, this had a serious setback during the football hooligan period, which put off other family members from attending. Generally speaking, I think family viewing has been returning, but the cost factor still plays a major part. Our stadiums used to have much bigger capacities before they were converted to all-seater stadiums. Matches such as Cup finals at the Old Wembley stadium, used to involve 100k + crowds as seen on old Pathe News footage or photographs from the 50`s/60`s.
Historically in the UK, Football was the preserve of the working-classes. Traditionally, men would attend the game while the women remained at home. Things are changing of course, but it is definitely an historical throwback. See ya
Historically football in the UK was the preserve of posh public schoolboys and "gentlemen". It was not for the riff raff at all. After the universal adoption of the Sheffield rules many cricket clubs started to play football as a winter sport to keep fit for the cricket season. After that, many factories and industrial places started clubs for their workers and many churches started teams to try and keep local men from falling in to gang violence. The original posh teams either rejected the Sheffield rules and remained under the old rules which became modern Rugby Union or they stayed strictly amateur and had no wish to play in the new League systems. You will of course be aware of the early history of the FA Cup (created for the posh boys to have a trophy to play for) being dominated by ex-public schoolboy teams like Old Etonians, Wanderers, Royal Engineers (Officers only), etc.
Though USA has several large capacity stadiums, how many USA cities have more than 1 football stadium in that City, my city of Glasgow in Scotland has 5 football teams, 3 stadiums with over 50,000 capacities, cities like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, ++ all have more than 1 large stadium
From what I saw there is missing info about hierarchy and diversity between national football and club football. The highest in hierarchy is FIFA that takes care of most general rules and organization of the major tournaments: Most prestigious one is World Cup and major tournament is every 4 years with best teams qualified from their region phase. This is tournament of national football teams. So is mix of best players of that nation that can be played for club in other country.You have regional organization in one of the earliest videos such as UEFA, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL etc. Each of that organization has got quotas how many teams can go for final tournament - UEFA has most as has many countries and best results - that’s even answer on your question why some countries were part of different association not where they should be by geographical location - easier access to go on final tournament. Qualification for World Cup is mostly in period of 2 years before final tournament. There are second tier major tournaments for the regional associations so you were watching UEFA EURO. Alongside was going on Copa America that is major tournament of South American football association. These tournaments are in the other 2 years of cycle to FIFA World Cup. So national teams playing for 2 years qualification for their regional title and other 2 for World Cup title. Other part is club football. Each country has own league system where clubs trying to win one of the highest titles. For club can play players from other countries to make best team as possible. There is couple of competition for each country. Mostly is league, cup tournament, sometimes battle between league champion and cup champion etc. Best teams from top leagues of each country can qualify for spots in their regional competition, same as cup winners. UEFA has 3 club tournaments UEFA Champions league, UEFA Europa league and Europa Conference League. Competing in these can club boost capital as there is valuable prizes not just for winning but achieving some stage. Each country has spots guaranteed per previous years success of clubs in that competition and probably some of coefficient from national team performance on major tournaments for couple years back. Usually there is even tournament of regional champions FIFA Club World Cup. That’s why it is possible to win even 5 trophies for a club in one season (as Barcelona did) - League champion, Cup champion, Winer of the battle between league and cup champion, Champions League champion, Club world cup champion. Also Messi plays for FC Barcelona as club and also for Argentina as his country
I think you'd enjoy watching the Amazon series All Or Northing, there's two football-based seasons, one that follows Spurs and one that follows Man City. They're both really interesting and will introduce you to some teams, key players, iconic managers, tactics and all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes with transfers and training and everything else football clubs do. You'd have to edit any reactions because it's Amazon but I think it'd be a great watch.
It’s a cockroll it’s called the golden crockroll the person that shot the cockroll used to play for spurs it’s Paul gasgoinge (Gazza) and it’s real grass
I still cant wrap my head around the term American Football...FOOT BALL, they play with hands, its HAND BALL...football is football all around the world and its literaly played like its named.
Originally named Hotspur Football Club, the club was formed on 5 September 1882 by a group of schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle. They were members of the Hotspur Cricket Club and the football club was formed to play sports during the winter months.[9] A year later the boys sought help with the club from John Ripsher, the Bible class teacher at All Hallows Church, who became the first president of the club and its treasurer. Ripsher helped and supported the boys through the club's formative years, reorganised and found premises for the club.[10][11][12] In April 1884 the club was renamed "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club" to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur, whose post had been mistakenly delivered to North London.[13][14] Nicknames for the club include "Spurs" and "the Lilywhites".[15]
A field is a natural landscape,where a pitch is created by levelling ground and using rollers and compactors to level it,the bird is cockerel,and Hotspur is named after the the person who created the club,also the land used to be owned by Harry Hotspur,a British duke. Spurs stadium is the second biggest stadium in the league,capacity about 62,500 roughly after Manchester United at 76,000,but there stadium is is very old and outdated.
If you pick Middlesbrough ("The Boro") from The Championship, you will have a few highs, lots of lows, and many days/matches when you'll wonder whether you could have spent your afternoon/evening doing something more productive. Still, if it's in the blood, love for Boro cannot be denied.
A short origin of the Logo and the team name: “Since the 1921 FA Cup Final the Tottenham Hotspur crest has featured a cockerel. Harry Hotspur, after whom the club is named, was said to have been given the nickname Hotspur as he dug in his spurs to make his horse go faster as he charged in battles, and spurs are also associated with fighting cocks.”
As an ancient I remember when football was very children friendly. My 10th. birthday present was attendance at the Mathews Cup Final - Blackpool 4 ; Bolton Wanderers 3. Women weren't very interested in football but it wasn't unusual to see kids passed over the heads of the crowd down to the front so they could see. Of course, this was before foul mouth yobs and chavs took over the stands and Prima Donnas the playing.
I remember when I used to go to Highbury and take a rolled up newspaper with me, the queue for the toilets weren't worth the wait, you'd end up missing half the match and then the toilets themselves were no pretty sight. We used to do it into a rolled up newspaper instead
The stadium was a bargain at £1billion (possibly the most expensive in the world?) - the best part is that the brewery underground allows the bars within to serv 10,000 pints of beer per minute!
@Mr Sammutube I think you need to check out most of the new NFL stadiums cost including the Cowboys, Raiders and the shared Rams/Chargers if you think this was expensive. They do not have a retractable pitch and needed to demolish the old stadium and compulsory purchases the land and businesses where the new stadium stands. It also has to be paid for by the club, unlike saddling all the local taxpayers to pay for it for decades to basically bribe the particular NFL team to relocate to their city.
Most things are "Big!" compared to the Hamster. I'm also quite surprised he didn't find a way to crash it :). Hardly anyone cares about NFL. Probably everyone who cares will be in the stadium. I'm quite surprised that Baseball isn't more popular, because it's supposed to be in the spirit of Cricket. If you like "Pyro", react to Lewes fireworks :)
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (or White Hart Lane) is arguably the best football stadium in the world currently. In terms of capacity in England, Wembley is number one at 90,0000, then you've got Old Trafford in Manchester (home of Manchester United) which is 72,000, then Spurs come third overall (second in London). After that you've got the Olympic stadium (West Ham United) and the Emirates (Arsenal) both in London and both 60,000 (the latter just a couple of miles down the road from Tottenham, and their arch rivals), though Celtic Park up in Glasgow (home of errr Celtic) is slightly bigger at 60,500. And if you're counting rugby, Twickenham (home of England rugby team in southwest London, nearish Wimbledon) comes second at 80,000.
It is mostly men who go to games Most teams especially the larger teams have family areas so you might find more kids and women in there but you do get children and women in other area as well.
Hammond uses the term soccer because the programme was designed to sell it to the American market. The stadium is large by modern standards... Tottenham's older stadium going way back when had a record attendance of 75,038 All standing fans.
The football stats are an interesting fillybuster for the fans however, the stats really comes into with owners & managers because in every training session the players ware monitoring vest, as well as bear tests are regularly carried out on before & after training tests So they will know weather a player has past their peak what heart rate is, what their blood sugar is basically these players are treated like racing horses because 2 or weeks out injured is 2 or 3 millions wasted so if a player needs an small operation to assist a healing process its done within 5 hours.
9:45 some rugby fans use soccer to make the distinction between association football (soccer) and rugby football. soccer from an english person means highly likely a rugby fan.
This is one of the bigger football stadiums in the UK. Probably top 5. Might be 7th or something because there's like 3 stadiums with around 60k. Probably top 10 in general regardless of purpose.
I'm not a huge fan of football, either British or American. I'm a motorsport fan (and instructor/driver coach and competitor). Surely one of the largest stadiums in the world has to be the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with 257,325 seats and up to 400,000 total capacity including standing room. I think the highest ever attendance was 350,000. In fact if you look up the top 100 highest sporting attendances, the Indianapolis 500 is No.1 with 350K, and motor racing events feature in the list more than any other sport, especially at the top of the list. Of course, they're not all stadiums, but a lot are, especially at the oval tracks in the USA.
I was bought up in Tottenham and used to be able to see the floodlights from my front garden. The new stadium is amazing but the rest of the area continues to be rundown. Much like the Olympics, the promised regeneration for the community never really happens for Londoners.
I grew up in Tottenham too, just round the corner from Bruce Grove station. I agree with you about the general area. It seems at odds with the stadium somehow.
Back in the day QPR and Luton had the original artificial ground but players were getting super rubber burns. Now the English league have said no to fully artificial ground in the top 4 divisions. Some of the non league teams make alot of their money renting their pitch out local teams so artificial pitches are used by quite a few teams
You see majority of men in football stadiums because for us that is really really serious unlike your sports that I’m definitely are just entertainment. For us is entertainment but mostly is life. It’s like going to war. You don’t send women to war.
Men & women support Tottenham Hotspur, and child, the Golden Rooster, ( Cockerel) also Nick name is Spurs, My Name is Andy Sparsholtt from Edmonton North London England.
Why "soccer"? As far as I am aware, in the UK the term "soccer" was coined by public school toffs as an abbreviation to differentiate it from Rugby football ("rugger"). NOTE - in the UK "public schools" are selective and expensive - in the USA these would be called "private schools" - are you confused yet? :) :) There are different types of football including : Football ("soccer" - a contraction of Football Association - the organisation founded in 1863 to standardise rules and govern the game) Rugby football ( or "rugger" - there are two main codes - Rugby Union and Rugby League) American football Australian rules football. In the UK "football" is the game played under FA rules. In the USA this is called "soccer" In the USA "football" is the game played on a gridiron field. In the UK this is called "American football"
Sorry, you are ignorant when it comes to stats. Football has a crazy amount of stats. It's just not pause/break/play/ repeat..... there are a huge amount of stats in football. But due to it being free-flowing the stats are usually reserved for post-match rather than during the game (mostly). PL clubs literally have teams of analysts. Pundits also show a lot of stats... if you play fantasy football, again, lots of stats.
Well she is new to it all for goodness sake, what do you expect her to be some kind of statistician already? She's learning and will pick up on stuff like that? Your comment was really too harsh there
@@matthewdearsley123 The word ignorant suggests not only a lack of understanding but an unwillingness to learn and gain more understanding of said topic which her attempting to learn clearly shows she is not ignorant. Your intention is completely irrelevant here, intended or not your comment was very rude
@@mattinfullvision9598 that is one usage of the word. I simply meant the more widely accepted literary version. lacking in knowledge, there was no implied 'not willing to learn'. Perhaps I should've phrased it better but i meant no offense. I realise it has negative social connotations even though it shouldn't. I am highly ignorant myself in many regards about many things. www.dictionary.com/browse/ignorant
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Hi ... did the original video say how much the stadium cost ? ... Amazing feat of engineering tho' ... also Richard Hammond seems to be morphing into a really bad version of ' Tony Stark ' !
@@farhaan8260 most definitely
You still think football doesn't have too much tactics? You will continue to believe that, until you check out the channel I suggested to learn about tactics. It's called "TIFO football".
A good example from their channel would be "positional play"
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A "pitch" comes from the verb "to pitch", which means "To put something in a fixed or definite place or position", and the noun "pitch" means "A portion of ground selected or allotted [...] for residence, business or any occupation"... in this context, for the occupation of a sporting game. (All definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary.) A "sales pitch" was once literally a piece of ground where a trader would set up and sell their wares.
I did read somewhere that pitch comes from cricket, as when football started they used cricket pitches. In cricket the term pitch comes from pitching the stumps in to the ground. Tottenham were a cricket team that played football in the winter months to keep the players fit.
A field is where you keep sheep, cattle, and corn. A pitch is where you've put something. Like a tent. Er...sorry, what was the question?
@@neilgriffiths6427 That is what I was thinking : )
"to pitch up"
Baseball is of English origin..,......,.balls, l guess.........
Tottenham played their home fixtures at Wembley for a couple of years and I attended all but 2 games during that spell. A huge difference between the two stadiums is the atmosphere it cultivates. The approach to Wembley is really special and you feel excitement building, but once you get inside it's quite soulless. The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is quite the opposite - smacked in the middle of Tottenham, walking down a rather unassuming High Street to get there - but inside it really holds its own as one of the more impressive and atmospheric stadiums in Europe.... But only when Tottenham are winning, which hasn't happened much since they moved there 😂
Since? _its been a while since Tottenham have won something, unfortunately_ ... 😔
But at least the team has gotten really close on multiple occasions. Tottenham did Pochettino very dirty.
6:15 The club is named after Harry "Hotspur", nickname of Sir Henry Percy, a famous knight in the 100 Years' War. He was called "Hotspur" due to his speed and agility on horseback... he rode horses so fast, it was as if he had "hot spurs".
9:46 "Soccer" is originally a British term - an abbreviation of "asSOCiation football". I don't know if it's a generational thing, but the term was certainly widely used in the UK when I grew up, when there were various "Soccer" magazines on sale, and there were UK TV shows that used the name ("Soccer Night", "Soccer Sunday" etc) even as late as the 2000s.
The football club came from the cricket club which was called the Hotspur Cricket Club, it was the cricket club that was named after Harry Hotspur who reputedly owned land around the area that is now Northumberland Park, the original site of the cricket club.
The term Soccer is indeed an English word deriving from Association. it is known as Oxford 'er slang which came from Oxford university, possibly even Rugby school before that, around the 1870's it was used to differentiate Association football from Rugby football IE: Soccer and Rugger. Before 'Soccer' became fashionable association football was often referred to as 'footer'
@@shoutinghorse We call it "footie." Because, you know - you use your feet to play it.
I thought he was called Hotspur because he was quick to anger :-)
@@shoutinghorse makes sense as he was from Northumberland
@@tonyjefferson3502 I would imagine it's the reason it was named Northumberland Park. Just a guess, after all nearby Bruce Grove was named after Robert the Bruce.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grove
The 2 closest Football stadiums in the uk are Dundee and Dundee United, that have a distance of only 350 yards away, so the players at matches get changed at their own stadiums then walk to the other one to play.
The new EPL season is starting soon SoGal. You should definitely pick a team to follow! :)
Chelsea
Spurs obviously - always drama and at least a nice stadium!
Manchester united ofcourse
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What about no team? I support a team that isn't in the PL. But I still like watching the matches.
Think he's calling it soccer as the video is directed at Americans. American 'football' is not popular at all outside of London in the UK, in London any sport will get its stadium filled
I mean it’s more that people travel to London for the games because they hold them there with it being a major international city, but there’s fans all around the country, in our NFL teams supporters club we have people in literally every part of the U.K. (and Ireland), the biggest concentration is probably in the Midlands
The NFL games is also mostly done for marketing reasons.
He’s Australian they call it soccer
@@favely2069 No he isn't. He's from Solihull.
@@favely2069 he's English
The Cockrel is a fighting Cockrel and the name Spurs relates to the sharp dagger-like spurs strapped to its ankles. The name Hotspur relates to Harry Hotspur (Sir Henry Percy)
20 May 1364 - 21 July 1403 the nickname was given to him by the Scots as a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack.
The Club acknowledges Henry Percy, whose descendants owned land in the neighbourhood of the club's first ground in the Tottenham Marshes.
There is no such team as ‘Tottenham Hotspurs’. There should never be an ‘s’ after the word Hotspur. There is only One Hotspur. We are Tottenham Hotspur. Although our nickname is the ‘Spurs’!
COYS
At least you are originally from North London, unlike some other teams
@@nedeast6845 I can't even to begin to think who you are meaning of. Then again that might have been the Wool which has been pulled over my eyes. ;) lol
Soccer is originally an English term. There are many codes of football including rugby football, American football, association football. Association football is what is known as football to differentiate from other forms association was shortened to soccer, this was done a long time ago. Now if I remember my team history, the name hotspur and the nickname spurs are not related. Hotspur came from a knight called Harry hotspur, the nickname Spurs came from the logo, which is a fighting cockerel standing on and old fashioned soccer ball. A fighting cockerel wears spurs. Women do attend and in greater numbers, so do kids but it is traditionally male on a Saturday afternoon.
A lot of stadiums in the UK and Ireland have a mixture of artificial and natural grass ie artificial fibres mixed with grass
Mixed in with the roots of the grass
At one time (Late 1930s) `Hampden Park` stadium in Scotland had a capacity of about 167.000. Later-because of safety concerns, it was reduced to about 135.000. It holds the attendance record in the history of the `European Cup` for the Celtic v Leeds semi-final (2nd leg) in 1970.
Holds all the attendance records outside of the Maracana stadium. In the 30s it had 2 attendances of over 160,000 in the space of a week . One for Scotland v England , the other for Celtic v Aberdeen in Scottish Cup final .
@Alan Smith. Nice to see your comments. My friend who I had commented about previously liking Prince Philip and playing chess against AJP Taylor went to a Scotland v England match when up there on an engineering project early 70s, but was careful not to speak or react for England.
There was a great film about Scotland v England in 1937 at Hampden Park I saw recently on youtube. An FA historian stated it was registered then to hold nearly 185,000 at the time. There were 149,414 tickets sold, but he estimated that the 185,000 may have been reached via the custom of bunking in.
@@jonmurray2350 All before the `Health and Safety` rules we have today.
Thanks for a look at Spurs stadium. You are neutral and just appreciating it. Thanks for sharing.
Gotta love the old school TH logo -iconic.
Richard Hammond's BIG is an incredible series
Tottenham have a 10 year deal with the NFL to show 2 games a season and are positioning themselves for a possible future London franchise in the NFL
London franchise? That's ridiculous. Never happening.
@@dlboss77 it’s not as ridiculous as you think. Personally I have little interest in the sport but to say it’s impossible is a bit silly. They let teams move around all the time
@@dlboss77 it is/will be happening
As a Tottenham supporter I'm pleased you did this one
The SoGal subscriber spurs supporters group is certainly a niche crossover I’m happy to be a part of!
@@noahrussell2043 I reckon we could be the founding members of that one
Much more spectacular when you are there in person 👍🏻
That video (as you may know) is from a series called "Richard Hammond's Big". All great episodes. But one that stood out was when he went to visit the Volkswagen factory in Germany. I'd love to see you react to that!
If not, I'd highly recommend you watch on your own time anyway.
Football is our national game.,a lot of families goes to games.
The mixed pitch system was designed with the nfl in mind, the nfl even invested a little in the stadium. However the artificial pitch serves another purpose, concerts and other events don’t damage the grass.
Apart from a couple of sold-out games, as a London attendee of Sports since 1962 I really can not see The NFL taking off as it's so hyped but full of stoppages/adverts and we do not like Corporate or too commercialized Sport. Can't see many going on a regular basis.
Narrator is Richard Hammond. He was one of the three presenters of the V. Popular BBC TV car show Top Gear. He's good.
The ONLY top football match I've seen was at Tottenham''s White Hart Lane stadium. But that was the old one back in 1972. ( they drew with Manchester United - no goals. Boring)
The crowd are traditionally young men. Often fuelled on drink, which is why aggression has often been associated with the game. I'd say it's 90% young men, though efforts to broaden the appeal are made.
Pitch for the playing area. Field can be used as a term at an amateur level. Always called the Park up in Scotland.
When Tottenham had a club record out in the 70s, it was sung by The Cockerell Chorus. ( Nice one Cyril)
I had a conducted tour around Wolverhampton Wanderers ground once. It was surprisingly interesting. Though not as high tech as this place just shown. You can see from these buildings the amount of money sloshing around at the top level.
My sister and niece are season ticket holders at Spurs ie Tottenham Hotspur. Whole family are Spurs supporters.
No inch is wasted in this Stadium, at least they didn't need to waste any space with finding somewhere to put their trophies.
That doesn't really work when they've got something like the 6th most trophies of any English club.
In UK Football, you aren't allowed to take you beer back to your seat, so that might skew the comparison. The trick is having a load before the game or chucking a pint or two down your neck at half time while navigating queues and the need to go to the loo. Also, the "drinkers" tend to head to the bar after 43 mins and 30 seconds! (lol) - it's a process !!
The best trick is asking for a spare cup for your coffee, stick the beer in it and you’re good to go
12:17 Just say American football and real football
Edit: 14:40 you can't bring beer into the stands in the UK, don't know how it is in the US though but it might be a factor
From a Brazilian point of view is very weird to see American football anywhere outside of the USA. Especially in England. It sounds disrespectful for the land of football and rugby. Hahaha
MarcioNSantos Rugby and soccer is trying to expand its sport into the US ,so its only American football that is trying to expand its reach internationally.Aussie rules is doing it and so is my country ireland with our national sports hurling and gaelic football everyone wants there chosen sport played by more people.
@@galoglaich3281 Sure. I understand that.
Throughout the EPL and EFL all pitches must be natural grass, the only exception is a Desso surface which is 95% natural growing through a fine mesh which prevents divots being dug from the surface thus preventing the pitch being trashed. The downside is that in the closed season the surface has to be scrapped to remove natural soil deposits burying the Desso mesh which only has a 10year life span anyway.
Usually the atmosphere in small stadiums is better than in big stadiums. Big clubs have high ticket prices and the people getting in today are usually 35 plus and have a lot of money. It's counterintuitive but in Germany Union Berlin or Leeds in England have amazing atmosphere.
Simply put the pitch term is used as a section of spaces used to play the game. In grass roots sports a field can have 10-15 pitches with games being played on them all.
The Hotspur part is reference to Harry the Hotspur, a knight from years back
About the Beer, by FA rules Alcohol may not be consumed within sight of a football match so it is only served before the game and during half time. These rules do not apply to other sports in the UK as both Rugby and Cricket spectators are allowed to consume alcohol whilst the match is in progress. I assume therefore more would be consumed during a NFL game.
Bicycle wheels were not the only wheels that needed "tuning". In the days when motor bikes and sports cars had spoked wheels "tuning" the wheel to balance out stresses was a skilled job, especially important if the wheel was going to be used at speed. I think back in the day a (musical) tuning fork was used. Probably there's a technology fix these days.
For Comparison to 5:44, similar information from The Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. (The home of Welsh international rugby, formerly known as "The Millennium Stadium" capacity approx. 74,000)
In each of the stadium's bars, so-called "joy machines" can pour 12 pints in less than 20 seconds. During a Wales versus France match, 63,000 fans drank 77,184 pints of beer, almost double the 44,000 pints drunk by a similar number of fans at a game at Twickenham (Home of English Rugby).
There is a stadium in Arnhem Netherlands that not only has a retractable roof but also a retractable pitch. The capacity of Wembley is 90.000 next biggest is Twickenham Stadium, used for Rugby, with a capacity of 82,000. For reference, the London Olympic stadium usually holds between 60,000 and 66,00 for sporting events and up to 80,000 for concerts
Also old trafford is high 70s,000. Close to 80,000 and Evertons new stadium will be a sight to behold. We stuck with shitty old stadiums in Britain while European clubs built better ones, then as they say the smart money went on last and we started building the best stadiums in europe. As for Real Madrid since jude went there I've seen a few matches and the atmosphere is terrible. I expected much more from so many fans. But spanish games dont compare to German, Dutch or English games for passion and atmosphere
It's called a pitch because it is a prepared surface. A field is more typically just open ground or pasture.
I learned a lot watching this. The stadium is fantastic but the game seems to be leaving its roots. Still is a fantastic stadium and good post. Thanks sal.
FYI for capacity, this stadium is the second biggest in the Premier League. Old Trafford (Manchester United) is the biggest, although quite old - having been to both, Old Trafford was lacking in food facilities for sure! I appreciate that it is easy to improve these things when you build a new stadium.
perhaps the word pitch comes when the game is played on a large playing field, several pitches can be marked to in the same field so all the games can be played separately. many amateur games are played on a Sunday morning
Ay my club thanks for reacting to it #COYS btw it’s Hotspur
They used to host NFL games at the old stadium from time to time, also on the same pitch. The sport is growing and the idea was to corner that part of the market. As a side I’ve been on the roof and touched the cockerel; the stadium is stunning and bigger than it seems.
White Hart Lane never hosted NFL but there certainly were NFL games played at Wembley when Spurs played there for a while if that's what you mean
@@mattinfullvision9598 London Monarchs, English NFL team in the mid 90s?
Biggest stadiums
Santiago bernaneu (real Madrid) - Spain
Camp nou (barca) - Spain
Wembley Stadium
Signal iduna park ( bvb) - germany
The problem is bigger is not better. Both Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabeu are both are in need of redevelopment. Though there are plans and it all comes down to MONEY, which REAL & BARCELONA have been spending like there is no tomorrow. And that leads to why those 2 clubs and JUVENTUS were and are still intent on the highly controversial, chaotic and dangerous ESL (European Super League) That appeared to launch, then collapse in the space of 48 hours earlier this year. They are determined to resurrect it .
I attended BvB - THFC in a pre-season warm-up match. Great game marred only by a handful of idiots unable to handle their German beer. Tottenham won 1-1 🤣
D6012 They are also big non football stadiums
Twickenham 82000(rugby)
Stade de france 81000 (rugby/football)
Croke park 82300 ( gaelic football and hurling)
Nou camp and wembley are both bigger than the bernabeu
Football used to be seen as the working man's game! It was very much seen as a game for the working man. Thankfully it's more inclusive now but sadly it has lost it's working class element with billionaire owners and high player wages
@Haniff Azman What are you on about? You sound utterly ridiculous!
@Haniff Azman Do you realize that when you say Football, most people in the world and on TH-cam think you are talking about football (your soccer) and not about American football. Yes, you call it Football but most of the world call it NFL or American Football.
The bird is a cockerell. The Hotspur part of our name comes from Harry Hotspur, son of the Earl of Northumberland, written about by William Shakespeare. The family owned alot of land in the area where Spurs are located.
It's Tottenham Hotspur. One S. Their nickname is The Spurs. With two S's.
Nickname would simply be 'Spurs', no 'The' needed.
Good to see you learning more about football and the stadiums 😂 great content 👍
The new THFC stadium is technologically extremely impressive, I wonder if it has sound deadening features in the away end?
Not sure about that but one things for certain. No where in the stadium is there a trophy cabinet.
@@zahrans
Do you write comedy scripts for a living?. Only you aint very good, So far Spurs have won 25 Major trophies, with three of them coming in European competition's, they were also the first English or British club to win any European competition, and the only non league team to win the F.A. Cup.
@@zahrans I suggest you look again !
Whilst there is a reasonable % of women going to Premier League games these days, the bulk of all crowds are, as you say, men. However, if you go to somewhere like Barcelona you will find its much more of a family affair and the % of women is about 45-50%. A key difference between Spain and England however is that apart from the top 2-3 sides in Spain almost no fans travel away to watch their teams - this in turn means the potential for crowd troubles are virtually non-existant and everyone is far more relaxed as a consequence - hence the family atmosphere. When I went (from the UK) to see Barcelona for the first time, Barcelona scored and the crowd went mental - but then the opposition equalised... you could have heard a pin drop! I asked a Barca fan sitting next to me why there was no cheering for the goal from the away fans.. were they too scared? He simply said... "what away fans"! Nice video on a remarkable stadium by the way! :-)
To differentiate between the two footballs, you can use Association Football for soccer. In fact, "soccer" is short for "association football" (the "-er" ending was a common slang thing in the late 1800's, it's called the "Oxford -er").
One of the reasons, apart from social ones, is violence. In the early days of football it was not unusual for someone to die and later in the 1970s & 1980s there were groups of "fans" called "firms" that would carry offensive weapons and start mass fights with fans from opposing teams resulting major riots & people seriously injured & sometimes killed. These "firms" would often invade the pitch and go after players of opposing teams.
The reult was that most stadiums changed to seating only thus quelling the worst of the violence and it has become more family friendly since, but every now and again violence will flair up, but nowhere near as bad as it was during the 70s & 80s when even the police would get a good bashing. Sometimes it was a real blood bath.
When I worked in TV back in the 90s I helped on a documentry about the Grid Iron teams in London like The Monarchs so American football has been played in London for at least 40 years. Not sure about the rest of Britain as I have no interest in the sport so didn't investigate further as I was only editing it.
Rotherham United, a small town near me did it well. When the financial crash struck in 2008, they took benefit of the reduced costs and built themselves a huge premier League style stadium for a fraction of the cost, and also moved it close to the town centre.
It's now one of the town's best assets. For a small former mining town, they did well in that regard.
My favourite part about this is it's called New York Stadium (I pass it on the train) because the bit of land it was built on was called "New York" centuries before the city in America existed. I bet that must confuse a few sponsors!
@@BlameThande I'd heard, whether it's true or not, is that it's called New York because on that site, was a steel works which made the steel for the new York fire hydrants and also which went into the Hudson bridge!
Huge? 12,000 capacity isn't huge lol
biggest stadiums in uk
Wembley stadium (london)
twickenham stadium (london)
oldtrafford stadium(manchester)
cardiff millineum (wales)
murrayfield (edinbrough)
london stadium (london)
tottenham hotspur stadium(london)
celtic park (glasgow)
emirates stadium (london)
etihad stadium (manchester)
For a different football stadium, Forest Green Rovers (EFL2) is building a wooden stadium, in line with the clubs eco credentials, ie Vegan only food, renewable energy to power everything, they also had the first Mobot to mow the grass, they are the greenest football club in the world,
Automated grass cutter are popular in different places around Britain
Tottenham Hotspur football club were originally an offshoot of the Hotspur Cricket club which was founded in 1880
both terms " SOCCER and FOOTBALL" have always been used to describe the game of Football since I was a kid and before. soccer became more common when Football was introduced into the USA, they did not want it confused with American Football, we would also call it " FOOTY" or sometime is you have a smaller team of 5 on each side, it will be referred to 5 a Side but we know it means football, 5 a side footy game.
Thanks for reviewing my football team's stadium. I am a season ticket holder and i have been to all major football stadiums in Europe and without bias this is the best stadium in every way. One thing... the name is Tottenham Hotspur and not Tottenham Hotspurs.... Spurs is the nickname. Keep up the good work.
They have a brewery and bakery inside the stadium , they can pour about 10'000 pints a minute
I'm gonna hazard a guess at this one.... but in the UK when football first became big, it was as a winter sport for people who played cricket in the summer. Aston villa for example were a cricket team in Aston who started a football team quite close to the start of a national football competition. A Cricket pitch would have a Pavilion or Villa hence the name. I'm going to assume they played on their cricket pitch....where you would obviously pitch the ball. (It has a couple of meanings in cricket, neither of which are exactly the same as baseball). So I'm assuming calling it a pitch just carried over from the field in cricket.
Similarly Tottenham was founded by a group of cricketing schoolboys who wanted a spot to play in winter
The picture you said about the lack of female, well that was the bar, women tend not to go the bar at football matches. I'd say that there are about 30-35% women at football matches.
It's the 7th biggest in the UK, 4th in London.
Wembley Stadium 90,000
Twickenham Stadium 82,000 (Ruby)
Old Trafford 75,731 Manchester
Millennium Stadium 74,500 Cardiff
Murrayfield Stadium 67,144 Edinburgh
London Stadium 66,000 the Olympics stadium now home to West Ham.
There are Tour Videos of the Stadium with explanations of the in House Brewery and How many pints a 2nd are poured.
London Stadiums: Wembley 90K(National Stadium), Tottenham 63K, Arsenal 61K, West Ham United 60K(The 2012 Olympic stadium), Chelsea 42K...Outside London: Manchester United 76K, Manchester City 53K, Liverpool 54K, Everton 39K, Newcastle 53K, Aston Villa 43K....Are the largest stadiums in the English Premier League.
They all healed more before we where given a seat , I used to stand on a terrace on the Stretford end , now I stand on the Stretford end in front of my seat
Hi SoGal, I think, it`s fair to say that Football in England was a working man`s sport originally. It was then a relatively cheap form of entertainment for men to escape their humdrum working life. Father`s often took their Son`s along from an early age at least to Home games. Though, Women & children were more likely to attend matches during holiday periods such as Easter.
Things changed when it became more about the money, obviously businesses/Clubs looked at ways to encourage the family to attend. But, this had a serious setback during the football hooligan period, which put off other family members from attending. Generally speaking, I think family viewing has been returning, but the cost factor still plays a major part.
Our stadiums used to have much bigger capacities before they were converted to all-seater stadiums. Matches such as Cup finals at the Old Wembley stadium, used to involve 100k + crowds as seen on old Pathe News footage or photographs from the 50`s/60`s.
Historically in the UK, Football was the preserve of the working-classes. Traditionally, men would attend the game while the women remained at home. Things are changing of course, but it is definitely an historical throwback. See ya
Historically football in the UK was the preserve of posh public schoolboys and "gentlemen". It was not for the riff raff at all. After the universal adoption of the Sheffield rules many cricket clubs started to play football as a winter sport to keep fit for the cricket season. After that, many factories and industrial places started clubs for their workers and many churches started teams to try and keep local men from falling in to gang violence. The original posh teams either rejected the Sheffield rules and remained under the old rules which became modern Rugby Union or they stayed strictly amateur and had no wish to play in the new League systems. You will of course be aware of the early history of the FA Cup (created for the posh boys to have a trophy to play for) being dominated by ex-public schoolboy teams like Old Etonians, Wanderers, Royal Engineers (Officers only), etc.
COME ON YOU SPURS!!!
Come On You Spurs!
Though USA has several large capacity stadiums, how many USA cities have more than 1 football stadium in that City, my city of Glasgow in Scotland has 5 football teams, 3 stadiums with over 50,000 capacities, cities like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, ++ all have more than 1 large stadium
From what I saw there is missing info about hierarchy and diversity between national football and club football. The highest in hierarchy is FIFA that takes care of most general rules and organization of the major tournaments: Most prestigious one is World Cup and major tournament is every 4 years with best teams qualified from their region phase. This is tournament of national football teams. So is mix of best players of that nation that can be played for club in other country.You have regional organization in one of the earliest videos such as UEFA, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL etc. Each of that organization has got quotas how many teams can go for final tournament - UEFA has most as has many countries and best results - that’s even answer on your question why some countries were part of different association not where they should be by geographical location - easier access to go on final tournament. Qualification for World Cup is mostly in period of 2 years before final tournament. There are second tier major tournaments for the regional associations so you were watching UEFA EURO. Alongside was going on Copa America that is major tournament of South American football association. These tournaments are in the other 2 years of cycle to FIFA World Cup. So national teams playing for 2 years qualification for their regional title and other 2 for World Cup title.
Other part is club football. Each country has own league system where clubs trying to win one of the highest titles. For club can play players from other countries to make best team as possible. There is couple of competition for each country. Mostly is league, cup tournament, sometimes battle between league champion and cup champion etc. Best teams from top leagues of each country can qualify for spots in their regional competition, same as cup winners. UEFA has 3 club tournaments UEFA Champions league, UEFA Europa league and Europa Conference League. Competing in these can club boost capital as there is valuable prizes not just for winning but achieving some stage. Each country has spots guaranteed per previous years success of clubs in that competition and probably some of coefficient from national team performance on major tournaments for couple years back. Usually there is even tournament of regional champions FIFA Club World Cup. That’s why it is possible to win even 5 trophies for a club in one season (as Barcelona did) - League champion, Cup champion, Winer of the battle between league and cup champion, Champions League champion, Club world cup champion. Also Messi plays for FC Barcelona as club and also for Argentina as his country
Many football pitches has started to introduce a hybrid turf that is a mix of real and fake grass.
I think you'd enjoy watching the Amazon series All Or Northing, there's two football-based seasons, one that follows Spurs and one that follows Man City. They're both really interesting and will introduce you to some teams, key players, iconic managers, tactics and all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes with transfers and training and everything else football clubs do.
You'd have to edit any reactions because it's Amazon but I think it'd be a great watch.
The spur in hotspur refers to the fighting spur on the back of a cockerel's leg
It’s a cockroll it’s called the golden crockroll the person that shot the cockroll used to play for spurs it’s Paul gasgoinge (Gazza) and it’s real grass
I still cant wrap my head around the term American Football...FOOT BALL, they play with hands, its HAND BALL...football is football all around the world and its literaly played like its named.
Originally named Hotspur Football Club, the club was formed on 5 September 1882 by a group of schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle. They were members of the Hotspur Cricket Club and the football club was formed to play sports during the winter months.[9] A year later the boys sought help with the club from John Ripsher, the Bible class teacher at All Hallows Church, who became the first president of the club and its treasurer. Ripsher helped and supported the boys through the club's formative years, reorganised and found premises for the club.[10][11][12] In April 1884 the club was renamed "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club" to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur, whose post had been mistakenly delivered to North London.[13][14] Nicknames for the club include "Spurs" and "the Lilywhites".[15]
A field is a natural landscape,where a pitch is created by levelling ground and using rollers and compactors to level it,the bird is cockerel,and Hotspur is named after the the person who created the club,also the land used to be owned by Harry Hotspur,a British duke.
Spurs stadium is the second biggest stadium in the league,capacity about 62,500 roughly after Manchester United at 76,000,but there stadium is is very old and outdated.
If you pick Middlesbrough ("The Boro") from The Championship, you will have a few highs, lots of lows, and many days/matches when you'll wonder whether you could have spent your afternoon/evening doing something more productive. Still, if it's in the blood, love for Boro cannot be denied.
I live down the road from it. It's pretty massive.
A short origin of the Logo and the team name:
“Since the 1921 FA Cup Final the Tottenham Hotspur crest has featured a cockerel. Harry Hotspur, after whom the club is named, was said to have been given the nickname Hotspur as he dug in his spurs to make his horse go faster as he charged in battles, and spurs are also associated with fighting cocks.”
As an ancient I remember when football was very children friendly. My 10th. birthday present was attendance at the Mathews Cup Final - Blackpool 4 ; Bolton Wanderers 3. Women weren't very interested in football but it wasn't unusual to see kids passed over the heads of the crowd down to the front so they could see. Of course, this was before foul mouth yobs and chavs took over the stands and Prima Donnas the playing.
I remember when I used to go to Highbury and take a rolled up newspaper with me, the queue for the toilets weren't worth the wait, you'd end up missing half the match and then the toilets themselves were no pretty sight. We used to do it into a rolled up newspaper instead
The stadium was a bargain at £1billion (possibly the most expensive in the world?) - the best part is that the brewery underground allows the bars within to serv 10,000 pints of beer per minute!
@Mr Sammutube I think you need to check out most of the new NFL stadiums cost including the Cowboys, Raiders and the shared Rams/Chargers if you think this was expensive. They do not have a retractable pitch and needed to demolish the old stadium and compulsory purchases the land and businesses where the new stadium stands. It also has to be paid for by the club, unlike saddling all the local taxpayers to pay for it for decades to basically bribe the particular NFL team to relocate to their city.
It’s our cockerel taken from our old stadium and put on top of our new stadium
Most things are "Big!" compared to the Hamster.
I'm also quite surprised he didn't find a way to crash it :).
Hardly anyone cares about NFL.
Probably everyone who cares will be in the stadium.
I'm quite surprised that Baseball isn't more popular, because it's supposed to be in the spirit of Cricket.
If you like "Pyro", react to Lewes fireworks :)
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (or White Hart Lane) is arguably the best football stadium in the world currently.
In terms of capacity in England, Wembley is number one at 90,0000, then you've got Old Trafford in Manchester (home of Manchester United) which is 72,000, then Spurs come third overall (second in London). After that you've got the Olympic stadium (West Ham United) and the Emirates (Arsenal) both in London and both 60,000 (the latter just a couple of miles down the road from Tottenham, and their arch rivals), though Celtic Park up in Glasgow (home of errr Celtic) is slightly bigger at 60,500. And if you're counting rugby, Twickenham (home of England rugby team in southwest London, nearish Wimbledon) comes second at 80,000.
Don't forget our training complex at Hotspur way. We're simply years a head
It is mostly men who go to games Most teams especially the larger teams have family areas so you might find more kids and women in there but you do get children and women in other area as well.
Hammond uses the term soccer because the programme was designed to sell it to the American market. The stadium is large by modern standards... Tottenham's older stadium going way back when had a record attendance of 75,038 All standing fans.
The football stats are an interesting fillybuster for the fans however, the stats really comes into with owners & managers because in every training session the players ware monitoring vest, as well as bear tests are regularly carried out on before & after training tests So they will know weather a player has past their peak what heart rate is, what their blood sugar is basically these players are treated like racing horses because 2 or weeks out injured is 2 or 3 millions wasted so if a player needs an small operation to assist a healing process its done within 5 hours.
9:45 some rugby fans use soccer to make the distinction between association football (soccer) and rugby football. soccer from an english person means highly likely a rugby fan.
This is one of the bigger football stadiums in the UK. Probably top 5. Might be 7th or something because there's like 3 stadiums with around 60k. Probably top 10 in general regardless of purpose.
I'm not a huge fan of football, either British or American. I'm a motorsport fan (and instructor/driver coach and competitor). Surely one of the largest stadiums in the world has to be the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with 257,325 seats and up to 400,000 total capacity including standing room. I think the highest ever attendance was 350,000. In fact if you look up the top 100 highest sporting attendances, the Indianapolis 500 is No.1 with 350K, and motor racing events feature in the list more than any other sport, especially at the top of the list. Of course, they're not all stadiums, but a lot are, especially at the oval tracks in the USA.
Check out "You never walk alone" sung by Liverpool fans.
I was bought up in Tottenham and used to be able to see the floodlights from my front garden. The new stadium is amazing but the rest of the area continues to be rundown. Much like the Olympics, the promised regeneration for the community never really happens for Londoners.
I grew up in Tottenham too, just round the corner from Bruce Grove station. I agree with you about the general area. It seems at odds with the stadium somehow.
Twickenham Rugby Stadium in London holds up to 82,000 fans.
Back in the day QPR and Luton had the original artificial ground but players were getting super rubber burns. Now the English league have said no to fully artificial ground in the top 4 divisions. Some of the non league teams make alot of their money renting their pitch out local teams so artificial pitches are used by quite a few teams
You see majority of men in football stadiums because for us that is really really serious unlike your sports that I’m definitely are just entertainment. For us is entertainment but mostly is life. It’s like going to war. You don’t send women to war.
Because that is what we call football....and you guys have what we call 'American Football'
Why didn't Roger say 'hey'? He doesn't look angry or anything, so what's up?
Men & women support Tottenham Hotspur, and child, the Golden Rooster, ( Cockerel) also Nick name is Spurs, My Name is Andy Sparsholtt from Edmonton North London England.
Why "soccer"? As far as I am aware, in the UK the term "soccer" was coined by public school toffs as an abbreviation to differentiate it from Rugby football ("rugger"). NOTE - in the UK "public schools" are selective and expensive - in the USA these would be called "private schools" - are you confused yet? :) :)
There are different types of football including :
Football ("soccer" - a contraction of Football Association - the organisation founded in 1863 to standardise rules and govern the game)
Rugby football ( or "rugger" - there are two main codes - Rugby Union and Rugby League)
American football
Australian rules football.
In the UK "football" is the game played under FA rules. In the USA this is called "soccer"
In the USA "football" is the game played on a gridiron field. In the UK this is called "American football"
One of the best Stadiums in the world
Sorry, you are ignorant when it comes to stats. Football has a crazy amount of stats. It's just not pause/break/play/ repeat..... there are a huge amount of stats in football. But due to it being free-flowing the stats are usually reserved for post-match rather than during the game (mostly). PL clubs literally have teams of analysts. Pundits also show a lot of stats... if you play fantasy football, again, lots of stats.
Well she is new to it all for goodness sake, what do you expect her to be some kind of statistician already? She's learning and will pick up on stuff like that? Your comment was really too harsh there
@@mattinfullvision9598 the word 'ignorant' might be considered 'harsh' but it is a word that has a factual meaning. I wasn't trying to be offensive.
@@matthewdearsley123 The word ignorant suggests not only a lack of understanding but an unwillingness to learn and gain more understanding of said topic which her attempting to learn clearly shows she is not ignorant. Your intention is completely irrelevant here, intended or not your comment was very rude
@@mattinfullvision9598 that is one usage of the word. I simply meant the more widely accepted literary version.
lacking in knowledge, there was no implied 'not willing to learn'.
Perhaps I should've phrased it better but i meant no offense. I realise it has negative social connotations even though it shouldn't. I am highly ignorant myself in many regards about many things.
www.dictionary.com/browse/ignorant
@@matthewdearsley123 Yes I thi3a better phrasing choice would've been good. Not to worry, happen s to us all unfortunately