Thousands of England fans, including a sizable contingent from Bristol, headed across the Channel to support England. The Euros were held in June 2016 in France. The Sports Bar at Ashton Gate The days before The first was the Rugby World Cup held in late September and October that year. The Sports Bar opened in August 2015 and immediately, those in charge of running the stadium, saw the potential of opening the bar to show sporting events on the big screen. Hundreds can stand in the space, face the bar and watch the big screen, while people on the mezzanine level above them can look down on both the screen and the people. On the vast wall behind the bar is what the stadium’s bosses say is the biggest indoor big screen in the country. Above it, a mezzanine level looks down on the open space and the bar. On one side of the large room is a dining area with tables and chairs. The layout detail is important to explain the meme video - and why it has gone so viral. It’s a big, open indoor space with a bar along one end and, this being Bristol, the most ordered drink there is cider. Part of that 2015 renovation was the addition of what they called the Sports Bar, in one corner of the ground.
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The bit of flat land was probably not built on because it was so marshy - in fact, the road to it was the first in the world to be Macadamised, and people had to pay to travel along it.īut an early team called Southville FC played there in 1887, then changed their name to Bedminster FC, then merged with Bristol South FC and moved to their ground, before returning to this patch in Ashton Gate in about 1904 as Bristol City.Īshton Gate evolved slowly as a traditional football ground for the next 110 years, with open terraces being covered, and then seated, until 2015, when a huge transformation took place, thanks to the club’s billionaire owner, local fan Steve Lansdown.įans outside the Ashton Gate Sports Bar and Grill
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The area was full of mills and mines, lime pits and factories as South Bristol expanded rapidly in the second half of the 19th century. They’ve played football on the flat ground next to Longmoor Brook since at least the 1880s. So, for Bristol, for Britain, for the Americans who see this video regularly, and for the whole world, this is the story of that ‘Crowd goes wild’ video.
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It’s now one of the most familiar memes of the digital age, has played a part in US presidential elections, Indian politics, multinational advertising campaigns and is one of the most commonly-used, standard go-to video jokes of our age.Īnd now it’s jumped over from social media and the internet to mainstream TV - it was used in the latest series of the US animated sitcom Family Guy.īut almost all of the hundreds of millions of people who have seen it have absolutely no idea where it was filmed, who filmed it in what circumstances, the background to it, what the people were really celebrating and how it has gone from Bristol to the entire world. The brief film has become an iconic clip of the late 2010s. It’s a short video of up to 40 seconds that shows maybe a couple of hundred Bristolians going absolutely wild at the exact same instant - and it’s been viewed ‘probably more than a billion times, easily’.
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