Your admiration of the grass is hilarious 😂

@brigidsingleton1596

10 ай бұрын

Connor _loves_ grass (the "green green grass" of home type !!)

@Isleofskye

10 ай бұрын

Yet Connor is from the New England State of Rhode Island where they get a fair amount of rain,as well😀

@rasmusn.e.m1064

10 ай бұрын

Admiration of grass is one of his key character traits ☺

@Isleofskye

10 ай бұрын

@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Super Mac personifies he American obsession with lush green lawns can be traced back to the 18th century when wealthy landowners in England began creating expansive lawns as a symbol of their wealth and status. This trend eventually made its way to America, where it became popularized as a symbol of the American dream and a way to showcase one's property. Not a lot of people know that..

You’re the second reactor to get their ears blasted by the tiger chant 😂😂

@CrazyInWeston

10 ай бұрын

JT Reacts

@5thcolumn288

10 ай бұрын

UTT

We put up with hundreds of days of rain just so you can enjoy the green green grass of home Connor.

The pitches are healthy because of the rain... Did you notice that Walsall called themselves the 'Saddlers'? This is because the traditional industry of that town ( in the West Midlands) is leather goods, particularly for horses. The nicknames of many football teams derive from the traditional industry of that area.

Chicken vindaloo is a hot curry lollll

You worked it out!! Yeah theres like 5-10 popular tunes/rhythms that most chants fit into. So you can hear it once, and then everyone can join in.

Here the word wanker means a man who masterbates (wanks)..sorry that’s so blunt but no way else to explain.. love your videos, love from Wales..

@YDdraigGoch43

10 ай бұрын

Also from Wales, and I'd say if you call someone a wanker it's because you're in polite company and can't call him a c*nt 😂

@sashacottier9581

10 ай бұрын

Awww no 😂

@ledzep331

10 ай бұрын

@@YDdraigGoch43 or Welsh.

I don't think Americans know the word, or understand the word 'banter'.

@tm3008

10 ай бұрын

I don't think poms know the word, or understand the word 'condescension'.

@tomnorton-platford4896

10 ай бұрын

@@tm3008 we do 😂 it’s our language. US/AUS/CAN just stole it and butchered it lol

@DafterThings

10 ай бұрын

@@tm3008 We do but what's water vapour got to do with any of this?

@neilanyon4792

10 ай бұрын

​@@tm3008Yeah, we do. We took a Latin word and made an art form out of it. We can't help it if the poor colonials haven't the capacity to grasp the concept. Never mind, poor dears. Have a lie down till you feel better.

@tm3008

10 ай бұрын

@@neilanyon4792 Thanks for proving my point.

You should check out 95,000 Liverpool fans in Melbourne, Australia. singing "You'll Never Walk Alone". It's truly spin tingling man.

@svendemadsen8275

10 ай бұрын

That's what sealed the deal for me becoming a Liverpool fan at the age of 8-10 in the mid 80's. YNWA always gives me chills or move me in a very special way.

@matthewjamison

10 ай бұрын

@@svendemadsen8275 Me too.

The funny thing is, this is just some random person's account of songs they've heard at games. There's so many different clubs and chants around the country that put these to shame but this one person's Walsall perspective has Americans In shock when there's so much more hilarious/random chants.

Vindaloo is an Indian curry, of which the British version is incredibly popular here. Speaking of, you should check out some of the football related songs we have, such as Vindaloo by Fat Les, some laughs to be had. Three Lions is another big one, you might have heard the chant, "Its coming home" before which is from that song

A " belter "is something that's really good. These are very tame ones. You need to react to PREMIERSHIP chants. They beat the shit out of the American chant " we believe we can win " !! WANKER means MASTERBATER. Vindaloo is a very hot curry. After you've had a vindaloo ....you'll be in da loo !!

I live about half an hour's walk from a football stadium. I can hear them cheering from here. Yep, it's that loud!

Connor - saying there are some "belters" is like saying they are classics, or gems....the best of the best!

Connor's chant: "You're grass isn't green, you're grass isn't greeeeeen! How s*** must you be?! Your grass isn't green!" 😅

@brigidsingleton1596

10 ай бұрын

Perfect !! 😂❤🖖

@rasmusn.e.m1064

10 ай бұрын

😂

There is often a lot of alcoholic beverages drunk 😂

Not only are there standard rhythms to song but most of them are popular songs that everybody knows (some of them are songs we sing in church).

One of my closest friends is a liverpool fan, and I’m a Manchester United fan, we’ll drive together to old Trafford or anfield, spend the day singing this shit against each other, then we drive home together, it’s rivalry but it’s typical uk banter, there’s no offence behind any of it, he knows to respect the Munich disaster, and I know to respect the Hillsborough disaster, no songs should ever be sung about those issues, everything else if just fair game

Great Reaction Connor. You deserve all the success that will come your way. THOSE chants were all from the LOWER DIVISIONS hence the smaller stadiums. Now multiply the sound 10 Fold for the 20 Premier League stadia, with a couple of exceptions.

@sanjulien1

10 ай бұрын

With more than a couple of exceptions.

@Isleofskye

10 ай бұрын

Hull in The Premier , then, and which others? @@sanjulien1

We've been going to our clubs since we were children. It's in our blood.

Regards the 'provocative' nature of the chants, it's just atmosphere, everyone knows it's a bit of fun, everyone's had a couple of pints, and it's a back and forth that ebbs and flows with the match. Also, you'll note that while the 'lyrics' might change, there are a lot of recurring melodies, which makes it easier for someone to start something off, as everyone knows the melodies, so just need to hear whatever words someone has come up with a few times before they can join in and the chant spreads through the stand :) EDIT: Also also, the whole community feel of Football comes from times past, you'd work all week and get your pay packet on the Friday, then on Saturday everyone would head down to watch their local team play, it's still the way today, 90% of the games are played at 3pm on Saturday afternoon, through all Leagues.

@Isleofskye

10 ай бұрын

In a word "Banter" :)

G'day Mate! You are not the only ones who refer to "Soccer" for "Association Football." We do it here in Australia too and our national men's team is called "The Socceroos" That said it is officially football... Cheers!

Why does chanting baffle Americans so much. Most of the chants are four lines long max. It’s not that hard to catch on.

@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek

10 ай бұрын

Small brains

@liamspence4334

10 ай бұрын

Simple folk Arent they lol

@Otacatapetl

10 ай бұрын

I think you've answered your own question.

the chants are part of the culture and usually are based on pop songs that are famous here (new chants anyway)

Away fans are usually more vociferous, especially if their winning.

There's also a video with English subtitles of different European, Asian and African (Moroccan) chants with more historical and cultural lyrics which might be more up your alley.

Nothing is off limits with us Brits. Having said that, I go to Rugby and there is none of this banter at all. It is entirely a football thing (soccer).

@MrKnowledge0014

10 ай бұрын

When it comes to how these sports were created and the culture around them football is for everybody to jus express themselves however they want and come together with the communities around them. Rugby is a upper class sport first played by private schools and watched and played by more wealthy and more well-mannered people. Not the best explanation but I hope you get it.

@martinscholes2023

10 ай бұрын

@@MrKnowledge0014 I totally understand. Having said that, around half of my teams players (Leicester Tigers) are from state education and most of the fans are just normal, working class folks like myself. I was turned off football in the 90’s when I would see violence, intimidation, bigotry every week. Rugby is very inclusive and a totally safe environment. There is plenty of drinking but never any hostility.

Has anyone told Connor why "wanker" is sometimes blurred, bleeped or has asterisks added ?!!

@dyanduffy7651

10 ай бұрын

Yeah there are several comments about it.

Sorry Connor but if you decided to cross the ground and join the other side, you'd be in trouble. Just imagine a Blood decided the Crips had better colours. 🤔

Real British humour is street humour where animal/vegetable/mineral is open to have the piss taken out of it as we are not as socially restrained as the USA is. We see a man wearing a bad wig or a ugly man wearing a dress and make up, we will laugh our bollocks off or make a joke about it. Football tribalism chanting has turned into a art over the years and reflects our creative humorous character.

@markwolstenholme3354

10 ай бұрын

Hi, it won't be long before Footy fans are banned from chanting with all the wining moaning people taking control of our fun. The Spanish kiss, was it a sex attack or just an exited boss being a bit over zealous? We'll have to wait and see. I hope that our British banter will never be squashed by the many so called do gooders invading our lives. I'm a 63 year old gay guy and couldn't care less what anyone calls me or anyone else aslong as it isn't proper threatening . Its just banter and humour. My best mate a straight guy 20 years my junior and some of the things he says/calls me would really offend the young gay men and women 😂😂. I always have a quick reply for him though and his Mrs p**ss**s her sides 😂😂😂 . I hope you get the drift of what I'm saying. 😊.

@hiramabiff2017

10 ай бұрын

My brother in law is gay, and some of things I say to him & he says to me would curl peoples toes. We are both ruthless and the is no limit to the depravity we would both stoop to go in our pursuit to make jokes about each others sexuality. Does it make me a homophobe ? Of course not, as I love him with all my heart and could not give a shit about his lifestyle. It's when we restrict or put limits on seeing/hearing what we humans find funny that is abhorrent. We are built to smile and laugh and seek new horizons. It's what we have done for the past 300,000 yrs to evolve. No one has the right to stop us. @@markwolstenholme3354

@laziojohnny79

10 ай бұрын

@@markwolstenholme3354 No offence, but after ‘‘it won't be long before Footy fans are banned from chanting’’ I knew you have absolutly no clue what you're talking about. PS: gotta ask, are you a relative of Christopher Wolstenholme?

@markwolstenholme3354

10 ай бұрын

​@@laziojohnny79No offence taken. Opinions differ 😊.

@markwolstenholme3354

10 ай бұрын

@@laziojohnny79 No, but, ha ha honestly Kenneth Wolstenholme, the BBC commentator, England v Germany 1966, They think its all over, it is now, was my uncle (honestly true) 🤣🤣🤣.

its all about the psychology of war.

I used to work as a contracter at Old Trafford and they used to put Garlic on the pitch plus daylight lights

The best part of this video is his fanboying over the grass and I love it

"The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it's not just about football." Terry Pratchett. Unseen Academicals.

@buckyohare9993

10 ай бұрын

An amazing book - rip sir Terry

Traditionally the word "football" just referred to whichever code of the sport (rugby union, rugby league, association football) was the most popular in that area. I might be wrong but the term "soccer" came from Oxford University students because rugby, being the most popular sport there at the time, was exclusively referred to as just "football". Over time association football grew to become the dominant form of the sport so "football" came to just mean association football, but there's still people of a certain generation who'll refer to it as soccer in the UK. So you calling it soccer in the US is sort of technically correct because American football is the dominant form of the sport where you live.

@kevanwillis4571

10 ай бұрын

Association Football became soccer. In the same way rugby became rugger.

The 'you're not famous anymore' chant was to either Bolton or Derby who were once in the top division and got relegated to lower division so they are very good now

It`s all about the traditional way of trying to intimidate your opponents . You know, like the French insults in the Monty Python film `Holy Grail`, which I`m sure you have seen. By the way, these remarks are not acceptable anywhere else ,but who`s going to arrest 10,000 people?

Any team playing Leeds. They were always good at the chanting stuff.

If it sounds provocative it is. It is meant to be. It is aimed at the opposite fans, team or player. There are literally thousands of different chants up and down the country. Anyone can be picked on at a football match. Players are very often verbally abused when they take a corner.

Football will never work in America because the place is too big. You need home and away supporters and local rivalries. England has about 60 million people crammed into a space 1/3rd the size of Texas with over 120 professional teams. In America people watch high school and college sports because small towns rarely have a professional team., here it's rare you could find a place that doesn't have a professional team within 30 miles, even in rural areas.

16:10 YAY he got their XD

He wouldn't even get out of the pub without getting his head punched in.

Wanker in UK is a frantic masturbator, or someone from Newark. It's a corporate thing in America, can't be seen chanting gay slurs, insults, anything that could get a team Fined...all money and sponsorship. Uk, Europe, many other countries their fans Don't give a fuck, offensive chants are expected but its all humorous and banter, adds to the atmosphere.

Football fans are rivals and are passionate about their respective clubs.. But chants and songs from the terraces is all about creativity and insults

16:20 Ah shit! He’s on to us!

Football is very tribal. It's the modern day colosseum. It keeps the masses distracted.

Go to a Millwall match. If you leave with all the blood you arrived with, you’re doing well.

@moonramshaw1982

10 ай бұрын

"Sticks and stones may hurt my bones so I'm not going to Millwall again"😂😂

@ledzep331

10 ай бұрын

I can see a 1-2 defeat for the wall this weekend. MOT

@Isleofskye

10 ай бұрын

It is 5 a.m. in The Outer London Suburbs and next year I enter my 8th decade and as a MILLWALL fan,I am already buzzing for the visit of Leeds in 7 hours' time...Millwalllllll

@Isleofskye

10 ай бұрын

@@ledzep331 If it's a sleepy, sunny Sunday afternoon then, maybe. If , as I hope,the weather is miserable then a HOME victory which will be 10/12 qinsat Home to Leeds and it is 5am and I will be going for the 12.00pm kick-off.

My fav chant is the 'kiddie family' sung to the"Adams Family tune" !! 😊 (I don't know why !!)

I use to work at Manchester United Cafe . The atmosphere is amazing .

Just a couple of weeks ago I had to record a video of me using some DJ turntables for a buyer. Wthout realising I was tapping on my belly lol

Golf clap, you figured it out (repeat x2) Now go tell the rest of your fellow Americans that do reaction videos, who are still mind blown how people all chant along )) You figured it out, you figured it out (repeat x3) You figured it out....Better late than never, you figured it out...

Try this Connor - the greatest final game of the season in PL history: Aguerooo !!! Last 10 Mins Manchester City QPR 3-2 Both the tension and the ecstacy within the stadium are palpable. Famous game, famous commentary and, yes, it was the start of a new era in English football.

Some old school England football songs from world cups and euro's passed are sung at most internationals. Like Three Loins and world in motion and many more song depending on the nation sing it. But in some cases 6000 fans in the UK make a lot of noise I'm about 1.5 miles away from my local club and you can hear them playing. So imagine a Premier League matchday where they get well well over 20,000 fans at home matches. You'd probably hear them from a lot lot lot further away than where i am. Football is entertainment if it's not entertaining on the pitch then football fans make there own, Like Mexican Wave's and Chant's.

I got 2 15 second ads clicking this video, you’re lucky I like your reactions 🙃

And if I may be so bold, we love you too sir.😉

imagine trying to focus on a goal kick and your being called an inbred 🤣🤣😂

Everyone knows the melodies of the chants so once it’s repeated a few times, it’s very easy to sing along

You’re going to hear these chants at any football game but less at the big teams where there are a lot of tourists.

Go to any derby match and I don’t mean the city of Derby but any rival club match like Liverpool versus Manchester United or a city derby like Man City v man United if you are after a bit of bile and a ruck.

As per your comment - of course the chants are provocative, they are to intimidate an opposing side's player or team. They are also meant to show disappointment in their own team if they are not playing well.

Poor Scouser tommy at anfiled is a belter. Date backcto the boar war andcit is how, and when, the famous stand the cop got its name.

@oeokosko

5 ай бұрын

Except it's called the Kop

A Manchester United vs Manchester City match would be a good one to go to Connor 😂

Dude, soccer is the abbreviation for Association Football. The Brits founded the Football Association at some point in the 19th century. And that organization has been the rule keeper as well as the organizer of some of the earliest competitions. Before that they called every ball related sport played on foot football, as opposed to sports that were played on horseback. That's the same reason why you call your American football that. The precursors of that, like Rugby, were all invented by the Brits and way back when they called all of them football.

@Isleofskye

10 ай бұрын

You're tight but it is hilarious hearing "dude" because 25 years ago , in England,I never heard "dude" so we have taken that from them...lol

im one of those rare , i dont give a crap about football , but i drove my mate to a game, quite a big one as it happens and look forward to suffering sitting through the game , to my surprise the stadium full of people was awesome , the chants the atmosphere the whole lot was amazing to be a part of , no idea what the result was but , result me being ecstatic at a football game . mob mentality is real and powerful thing .

Yeah this is lower league footy, they love there bants. There’s generally less of it in top flight, that’s just more supporting chants.

was this filmed in alabama?

Go to a derby day

I saying this, it was funny 😂

Soccer comes from the UK we switched to using the word football in 1974 to fall in line with the rest of the world.

@101steel4

10 ай бұрын

Association football

@Oxley016

10 ай бұрын

It was always called football, soccer is just a nickname that went out of fashion and was short for Association Football.

13.38 It's Queens Park Rangers.

Thank you for stopping the singalong - that was definitely embarrassing! 🤣🤣👍

You're not an idiot. Call it soccer. Underneath it all, no one truly cares. Those who get worked up about soccer/football? They have bigger issues to deal with. Provocative? Yup. But, at the same time, nothing truly malicious is meant by it. As for your mindset? US sports are an extension of your entertainment industry. That's pretty much what it comes down to. P.S.: What is your fascination with the grass?

@brigidsingleton1596

10 ай бұрын

Connor ❤_Loves_Grass_❤ 😊

You'd get right involved and not be intimidated if you were at the ground with fellow supporters, Connor. Now Turkey or somewhere where people get regularly stabbed and murdered would be intimidating 😳 😅

ofcorse its fair game its called free speach , thought usa had that already xD

We need the inbetweeners movie

When they sing your not famous anymore it’s because he was probably in the premiership but now he’s in the first division or lower. Connor 😮

Why do "some" Brits get triggered by Americans who call football (here and in Europe/S. America) "SOCCER". I'm 77, and have heard it called "SOCCER" here in the UK all my life!.......altho' Football is more used to describe the game today!!

oh Wanker is bad . .

@davehunt5847

10 ай бұрын

Are we allowed to give a definition?

Also conner check out evertons coach greetings

Bro, calling it Soccer is fine. Believe it or not it was actually called soccer over here at the start and was changed to football so technically you're not wrong.

England vs Scotland

Never overestimate the musical abilities of football supporters, Football is a game played by gentlemen and watched by hooligans, whilst rugby is a game played by hooligans and watched by gentlemen.

Anyone tells you that it's not called 'soccer' , it's called football...politely remind them that the word 'soccer' originated from shortened 'association football' coined to distinguish between football and 'rugger' (rugby) in the 1880's...in Oxford England!...way before the US used the word...just like 'fall' (autumn) , 'bub' (boy), 'cracker' (biscuit)...etc...The Brits invented those words and then dropped them...the US didn't...You want to use the word 'soccer' you go right ahead...and blame the english for it in the first place...

@cloverite

10 ай бұрын

That’s fine, we will continue to call American Football, Soft Rugby.

@janolaful

10 ай бұрын

Its called football because you use your feet 😅 usa have world baseball champions yet never play anyone outside the usa 😅

Wanker is a very offensive word here: not sure why because it refers to self pleasuring which I am pretty sure most men do 🤷🏼‍♀️ Also, I am very old, I remember in the 60s and 70s football here was called soccer quite a lot but it died out.

@AmethystRock

10 ай бұрын

I think its offensive because it allures to the idea that the person can't get a partner, has no life, just sits about wanking all day. Therefore they are a wanker.

English is not my first language (I'm portuguese) but I would love to know why you americans call a sport played with the feet soccer and football to a sport that's mostly played with the hands!!!

Wanker is the same as tosser, basically they're calling them a masturbater. Its quite offensive in the UK but not as bad as Cu*t.

Wanker is blurred out cause of it's sexual meaning. You're basically telling them, they like to play with their hands 😂😂😂. My favourite song is the ole ole ole big fat bastard song.

Connor, I hate to be the one to crush your innocent soul, but if you call someone a wanker who isn't your best mate who will take it as banter, you will likely get your nose spread across your face.

I didn't know Malcolm in the middle was English

google the words

Because wanker means dickhead here in England its slang

@Oxley016

10 ай бұрын

no, it means someone who wanks, because nobody will shag him

Dude, you don't wish your sport was like this because people get killed over this shit. It all seems like friendly banter and it is for most of the fans but there are a hell of a lot that actually fucking hate each other simply for supporting another team and will actually beat, stab and even kill people because of it, its fucking insane. There is a movie called Green street which is actually about this. Football has the most roofless fans of any sport, there are actually gangs called firms, based solely on football and there team and they fight each other all the time to the point where it can be a death sentence for a fan of a different team to enter another's territory. I'm not sure how bad things are these days but i can't see it being much better than the old days when it comes to violence.

Rangers are a Scottish team, they play in the Scottish premier league and they’re the best team in Scotland along with Celtic

@janolaful

10 ай бұрын

I think this was queens Park rangers 😊 qpr

@dib000

10 ай бұрын

It's queens park rangers from London.

@LLMUFC10

10 ай бұрын

@@dib000 okay. But if someone says rangers then you think of rangers, qpr are known as qpr

@dib000

10 ай бұрын

@@LLMUFC10 they call themselves rangers it's quite simple

@LLMUFC10

10 ай бұрын

@@dib000 great, but a team who’s actual name is rangers (not just a nickname) are gonna be thought of first

Something Stupid, at least once? You are a walking mistake! Don't for a second imagine you are going to stand over here with these fans and like the other fans chants better, so go and join them! Two things: one, the fans are segregated, you can't "mingle"! Two, if you did, somehow, climb over to the other fans and you were spotted by them, the odds are they are going to think you want agro, beef, a rumble, grief, and depending on who you were with, to who the other mob is, you could get severely beaten! If you do come over and go to a FOOTBALL match, arrange to go with a home supporter, not an away fan. Liverpool for definite and Newcastle as a close runner up. Leave the Prawn Sandwich brigade alone, they are just not worth it! In London you have a choice of 17 professional clubs, seven, if memory serves me correct, are in the Premier League but there are a couple I'd leave alone unless you want to sing about bubbles (Micheal Jacksons monkey), or sit in silence in a library!

you dont love ous in an romantic way?

Soccer!

Which match, or at least ground to go to? Well, to hear anything remotely witty, anywhere in London's a total waste of time. I'd recommend North England with the most promising options being St. James's Park (Newcastle FC), Anfield (Liverpool FC) or Old Trafford (Manchester United FC)..... and try to pick a trad. BIG 'Derby' match against v. long term opponents (usually clubs from the same city or a nearby rival.) So Liverpool vs Everton, say, but also Liverpool vs Man. Utd. or Man. Utd. vs Man. City.

I love your videos but typically when I watch “American reacts” videos you all seem to have such short attention spans! Constantly pausing the video or talking or doing other things so you miss the content 😝 not hating just saying, god bless America 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇺🇸

Your Mum

@kimwilson3863

10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Please don't tell 'im wat wanker means. 😅