Football On Film - Archive Footage (Inc Leicester City)

[purpleronnie]

Some fantastic new footage discovered from the turn of the 20th century. 

 

http://player.bfi.org.uk/collections/football-on-film/

 

Also featured a few Leicester City Videos.

 

Leicester City training in 1978. 

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-leicester-city-football-training-1978/

 

Derby v LCFC 1938.

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-derby-county-v-leicester-city-1939/

 

Leicester City Training 1971.

http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-leicester-city-football-team-1971/

[Voll Blau]

Cool. Will have a trawl through later, love all this stuff.

[Sampson]

Also features the 1949 FA Cup final http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-fa-cup-final-1949-1949/

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

Aww they could have added some jangly piano

[Voll Blau]

Aww they could have added some jangly piano

 

Please tell me there's a really posh commentator enthusing about "the thrill of soccer" on all of our footage?

[Kitchandro]

It's nice to see that the old cliches of 'take each game as it comes' and 'four pointer' were used every interview back then

[MrsJohnMurphy]

Loads of stuff on the Pathe website, too much to list

 

http://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/leicester+city