Catch up TV

This episode is currently not available.

Series 10: 3. Foul Football



In honour of the Women’s World Cup, legendary Lioness Jill Scott is joined by Rattus for a journey through the history of the beautiful game.\n\nAlthough football as we know it is a relatively recent invention, it’s been around in some form or other for much longer than you think. Ball games have been played for centuries, and that’s why the manager of struggling Ratchester Utd is scouring history to find players who can help him avoid relegation in Historical All or Nothing.\n\nElsewhere, a Roman legion is struggling to survive the ancient game of harpastum, a ball game that was meant to encourage team spirit, but seemingly actually encouraged death and dismemberment!\n\nWomen’s football is flourishing around the world right now, but did you know that the FA once banned it for more than 70 years? We meet some of the women’s game’s early pioneers, and also their pet jaguars! In Match of That Day, we witness some of the most bizarre things ever to happen on a football pitch, and we also witness a game in which everyone’s toughest opponent was the weather!\n\nWe take a look at how the game as we know it came to be, including the FA trying to get everyone to play by one unified set of rules rather than their own ridiculous local ones, the origins of some famous football club nicknames, how red and yellow cards came to be a thing, and even how you were actually allowed to just kick people in the shins as part of the game!\n\nFinally, if you have long dreamed of seeing what Jill Scott and a rat look like while singing an incredibly catchy football song together, this is the show for you.

Source: CBBC

Most recent episodes of Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 8: 14. Fantastic Firsts Special

Series 8: 14. Fantastic Firsts Special

A special show featuring some of history’s greatest firsts, including the first ever library, Olympic Games, people on the moon and rat roller-skating on TV!

01-05-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 7: 2. Exceptional Explorers

Series 7: 2. Exceptional Explorers

01-05-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 7: 12. Deadly Dynasties

Series 7: 12. Deadly Dynasties

A look at the deadliest dynasties and how they came to, and then held on to, power. Witness Aggrippina's deadly recipes for success and Napoleon's needy sister, how the Lancastr ...

01-05-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 8: 7. Moon Mayhem

Series 8: 7. Moon Mayhem

Comedian and space nerd Dara O Briain joins Rattus as guest host for a special show that marks the anniversary of the 1969 moon landings.\n\nFor generations, we have looked to t ...

30-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 7: 11. Formidable Florence Nightingale

Series 7: 11. Formidable Florence Nightingale

Horrible Histories pays tribute to Formidable Florence Nightingale, The Lady with the Lamp (just don't let Florence hear you calling her that!) The programme charts how Florence ...

30-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 8: 6. Bizarre Beasts

Series 8: 6. Bizarre Beasts

A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals - from the very first socialising with wolves t ...

29-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 7: 10. Horrid Health

Series 7: 10. Horrid Health

29-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 8: 5. Fearsome Families

Series 8: 5. Fearsome Families

Families - sometimes you love them, sometimes you bicker with them, and sometimes you marry them off to consolidate your power in Europe. Welcome to a look at some of history&rs ...

28-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 7: 8. Ruthless Rulers

Series 7: 8. Ruthless Rulers

28-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 8: 3. Chaotic Collabs

Series 8: 3. Chaotic Collabs

History is filled with tales of great minds coming together, and collaborating, to achieve incredible things. It’s also full of idiots working together to create an unholy ...

27-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Most popular episodes of Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 6: 9. Bolshy Boudica Special

Series 6: 9. Bolshy Boudica Special

07-07-2024

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 5: Episode 1

Series 5: Episode 1

The Saxon gods form an unlikely team of superheroes, famous astronaut Neil Armstrong reveals his new weight-loss programme, we meet Georgian London's crime-fighting genius and R ...

05-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 8: 6. Bizarre Beasts

Series 8: 6. Bizarre Beasts

A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals - from the very first socialising with wolves t ...

29-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 6: 6. Horrid Henry Viii Special

Series 6: 6. Horrid Henry Viii Special

23-06-2024

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 5 - Frightful First World War

Series 5 - Frightful First World War

Bob Hale and Rattus Rattus guide viewers through the horrible history of 1914-18. Featuring the soldiers, civilians, suffragettes and even kings who were caught up in the fighting.

25-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Animated Specials: 1. Gruesome Guide To Growing Up

Animated Specials: 1. Gruesome Guide To Growing Up

Life wasn’t always fun for children in the past. Horrible Histories delves into the not-so-easy lives of children throughout history, from the strict parenting of ancient ...

25-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 7: 10. Horrid Health

Series 7: 10. Horrid Health

29-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 7: 11. Formidable Florence Nightingale

Series 7: 11. Formidable Florence Nightingale

Horrible Histories pays tribute to Formidable Florence Nightingale, The Lady with the Lamp (just don't let Florence hear you calling her that!) The programme charts how Florence ...

30-04-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 6: 8. Gorgeous George Iii Special

Series 6: 8. Gorgeous George Iii Special

30-06-2024

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories - Series 10: 2. Nhs 75th Birthday Special

Series 10: 2. Nhs 75th Birthday Special

How did the NHS come into being? When was the first kidney transplant? Is half a chicken actually a cure for anything? Find out as comedian and former psychiatric nurse Jo Brand ...

18-03-2025

CBBC

All episodes

CBBC

© 2025 - Catchupplayer.co.uk