Ramo Akh turns school football shopping into a joke
His fast-starting sketch has viewers remembering heavy playground balls, improvised substitutes and the need to bring their own.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,096,642 views a day, 7.2 times a normal first day on this channel (151,610).
How Schools Buy Footballs ⚽️
A heavy, squishy ball or a basketball: those are the alternatives one viewer remembers when students forget to bring their own soccer ball. Ramo Akh's school-equipment joke has opened up a surprisingly specific store of playground memories.
"How Schools Buy Footballs ⚽️" is a comedy sketch, not a guide to school purchasing. It drew more than half a million views in its first eight hours, already well beyond the audience his Shorts usually attract over a full first day.
The comments turn the premise into a roll call of makeshift soccer equipment. One viewer recalls playing with volleyballs; another distinguishes between school-provided balls for PE and the ones students bring for lunch breaks. A World Cup ball gets a mention, too, although that viewer says their school lost it. Several recognize the equipment from their own childhoods.
The schoolyard subject sits beside a run of Ramo's Liverpool-Manchester City jokes, including "Liverpool Vs Man City Be Like…" and "Man City Fans Be Like …". Here, though, the football conversation is less about star players than what everyone had to kick around at school.
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What viewers say
In my school, we bring our ball. The problem if we forget, we have to use the squishy terrible heavy ball. Otherwise, you have to use a basketball
@Dodofan12346See it on YouTubeBack then I used to play with volleyballs as a soccer ball ✌️😭🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
@AdamAchiki-j8cSee it on YouTubeThat ball is my childhood😢
@SaadJarrah-bo6seSee it on YouTube
3 more comments
My school has the 2018 Telstar World Cup ball,but lost it
@SebastianEB-y3n1bSee it on YouTubeWait ngl in pe there is actually that ball I swear but for lunch we bring our own
@ViniJrFX-7See it on YouTubeThe fact that i have one of the balls is crazy
@MuhammadAliR-i6xSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Ramo Akh
- Subscribers
- 2,050,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 29,225,520
- Channel views, pace per day
- 6,674,763 (on a normal day: 4,568,092)
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 526,704 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,096,642
The numbers
The school-football sketch passed Ramo's usual full-day Shorts audience within eight hours. Its comment count had also exceeded his usual first-day total.
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