"football is dying"
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"football is dying"
"football is dying"
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Football isn't dying Liam is playing for Burnley
Fair enough😂
Ever since Liam retired from Burnely after winning 3 UCLs and 2 Ballon d'or, it truly feels like the game's gone. The Mykolenko of our times
Bro not even Premier League or Fa Cup, your using Champions League?!
@@miniredin527 oh yeah, how could I forget about the historic 5 prems in a row or 6 won fa cups. He was simply too good
@@kacperpawowski8345 Don't forget that time he won a treble and scored a 100 goals in 1 premier league season!
@@miniredin527 How dare you forget to mention his 200 assists and keeping a clean sheet every game at right back
Seems to know it all .?
Without the fans the game would’ve died decades ago
It would never exist
without water humans woulda died centuries ago
If you’re Nan had balls she’d be your grandad
If you look at the Premier League the clubs in that league don’t need the customers the pandemic proves it
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes
The entire point of supporting a club to me is to feel a range of emotions with that club,real emotion only comes with a club you truly love.Glory hunters will never feel that and thats their loss
also the feeling of community which you can't really have if you're from half way round the world and picked a team because they were top of the table without even knowing where it is on the map.
@@tinypardushow would you(or football fans in general) feel if fifa/pes made my a fan of that club. Personally I kinda feel like a fake fan cause the club I support is just my favorite team on those games(Fifa 14 made me a fan of man city). What do you think?
I feel emotions watching the sport, almost impossible to actually get tickets to watch Spurs, often go to my local Dulwich Hamlet, great support there.
womp womp, if you get triggered over other people supporting other clubs you should grow a pair of balls
Almost all of what you said is true expect the Glory Hunter part. Yeah to large extent Glory Hunters would not understand the same way as local but they are plenty of REAL fans from different parts of the world that stay up 3am 4am to watch their team play in UK/Europe. And this coming from a United fan who grew up and lives 5 mins away from Old Trafford. Not everyone who doesnt support their local team are glory hunters I know plenty of passionate fans from different regions and it ruins their day even weekend if United losses
“I’ve fulfilled my dreaming playing for my home club”
Also vizeh: “footballs dying”
I didn’t say football is dying don’t worry haha, it’s just a common phrase I see online
Yeah, now that even someone like him can play it the game is trully dying lmao!!!
Jk jk congrats on living the dream Vizeh
It's between quotes, dude...
I think 1 thing that is sad in the modern game is young fans supporting the best teams rather than their local teams
My local team sadly went bankrupt and doesnt exist anymore so i have to support another team
I watch non league (just promoted to League two now) and the growth in fanbase by the youth has been incredible. The attendances in the 5th tier of English football has amzing quality and way more accessible.
@@tudormuresan6393wait what team is it, Hereford? Bury?
@@CPTrainsChesterfield or Bromley?
@@basil14 Bromley. Were always my non league team and feels weird to be in the football league. I was going 10 years ago and remember being lucky if we got a crowd of 500. Now, we get a home attendance of 3000 every week!
I am from Atlanta ga, I’m a United fan since 9 years old because of Dwight yorke winning the treble when I was 9. Dwight yorke is a tobagoian and my family is from Trinidad. Loved how a striker can hit the biggest stage from our country.
Atlanta fans exist?!? you better support atlanta united...
@@yopro_20 he's talking abt man united. I'm also from trinidad have loved united since I was 5.
@itsyopro20 they average 45k plus fans per game lol you know nothing
@@jabariafc ik the attendance is 45K+ but really on a vizeh video?!
@@kadirabdool8759 yes i know he was talking about man utd, just making sure he also supports local
I am from Los Angeles and am a Liverpool fan because of the Suarez era and have stuck with the team since then. I love Liverpool very much, but it was more for the players and the glory, not because I had an actual connection to Liverpool the city. This outlook on football changed for me when LAFC was created with their stadium being 2 blocks from where my Dad grew up. I was able to feel the regional connection to a club team for the first time ever. My first game watching them live was better than any experience I could have seen in Anfield. I still love and support Liverpool, but they don’t represent where I am from, LAFC does.
i personally hate the corporate structure of mls and franchise leagues which is how i grew to hate my local club dc united, i became a liverpool fan because of the fan culture and torres. Mls clubs never cared about the community charged milked their community with their private academys and turned me off to them.
I’m from Africa
So Glory Glory Man United ⚫️⚪️🔴
yes, youre doing what gut feel football should do. You have no gut connection to England or Merseyside. Im from England, support MU but i couldnt support them if i grew up abroad. You have to feel the Nazi bombs falling on your grandparents to feel it. Lets be frank.
Suarez eh? I guess you got bitten by the bug.
I get ya man, I’m a LA Galaxy fan and even though I’ve said I liked Man U because of Beckham, that’s really the only connection I have. The LA Galaxy on the other hand are truly a local team for me. We have El Trafico to enjoy here which has the same energy as in Europe.
I've supported Sunderland for my whole 20 years of living, they're an absolute rollercoaster of highs and lows, but I love the club and wouldn't ever dream of supporting anyone else. That's what football is to me. Sticking with a team through highs and lows.
Overseas Man Utd fan here. Im from the Caribbean so I never had the pleasure of watching my team in person (yet). For me one of the things that attracted me to football in the first place is that its rooted in history and tradition. Players and managers come and go but fans and stories always remain.
United fan here. born in Barking, dads family from Manchester. both myself and dad grew up as immigrants in Oz, so ‘where you’re from’ was a huge part of our identity (they don’t like poms over here). He had a season ticket through the 80/90’s when he lived there, traveled to watch them or leant the ticket to a mate who lived local. I was born 92 so to say I’m blessed is an understatement, but he’d tell me of players like Coppell, Strachan, Wilkins, Jordan, Whiteside et al. who played for the shirt even when we were shit. gave me an understanding and perspective that the successes can only be fleeting. when the Super League was announced I was legit devastated, even contemplated that I would switch and support Bristol City (had a relative from Bristol who supported them), because what the Super League represents is the antithesis of what Manchester United (and being a fan of the game) represents to me. might be ironic to some fans but I’d rather we were relegated than join the Super League and the fact we were apparently one of the clubs spearheading the movement was shameful.
really enjoyed the vid and learning a bit more about your view on football fandom. keep it up mate.
Im a fan of SSV Ulm 1846. It's a german 2. Bundesliga club and we just got promoted 2 times in a row. I've been supporting them since I was 10 as I lived in Ulm a while. We were even in the Bundesliga once but then SSV Ulm went bankrupt 3 times and we were just an amateur club for about 22 years. But the last 2 years have been amazing so it's really looking good for the future.
Congratulations on achieving promotion to the German 2. Bundesliga hope your club has a great season and survive the drop Nice to see a club bounce back from all of the struggles and hardships they have faced over the years
That must be a great experience to see them come back after sticking with them for so long! Good luck in the 2.Bundesliga.
Glückwunsch zum Aufstieg, kann nachfühlen wie gut das ist! Sehen uns aufm Betze 🫡👹
i’m not a burnley fan but kompany literally ditched them after taking them from the championship back to the championship🤣what a snake. wrote a whole thesis about how to win as many home games in the premier league and then ended with the least home wins in premier league history. gotta love the irony.
everyone uses the whole squad of burnley as a scapegoat but they spent a lot of money on signings and as far as im aware, most promoted teams don’t just have world class players everywhere. instead of adapting, he was stubborn and kept getting punished for it but he didn’t care or didn’t even know how to respond. he’ll get exposed at bayern and after that, maybe he’ll go back to the championship, who knows. massively overrated coach anyways
Him getting signed to Bayern came out of nowhere. I strongly believe that Bayern wanted him since the beginning of this past season but couldn't find a reason to get rid of Tuchel after the scummy way they fired Nagelsmann. This was probably in the works for a while.
Kompany was last choice bayern wanted Ralf Ragnick
@@franze4 Burnley before Kompany joined was a different thing under dyche they didn't have a huge budget so went bargain hunting for frees, loans and whoever they could get on cut price deals. When Burnley where in the championship they changed there transfer strategy signing players that fit kompany style.
You expect him to manage in the championship over the champions league?😂
The game more than ever is defined by money. Like for us (Everton) we are being linked with 120 billion dollar investment which makes us very excited, when it should be that we are excited because Dyche comfortably kept us up and before deductions we were a hair from top 10.
In a more general sense football is more predictable than ever before. Individual talent almost seems to be coached out of players to favour a certain system. Best example is Grealish before and after Pep. Less upsets than ever before and poor officiating and VAR kills the game for many people.
I feel like footballers and managers are more disconnected from the fans than before. The majority of them barely interact with the people and communities they are meant to represent.
My Dad brought me to my first football match when i was 3. My mom took a picture of us and when i saw it like 15 years later the look on my dads face was just super proud of me being on his shoulders in that tiny blue and white kit. He occasionally took me to some games till i was 14 and after that he allowed me and my friends to go alone every other weekend since then. I think my whole life would have been different in many ways if my father was not intrested in football and just took me there but now i cant imagine a world without going to games. In my opinion it is a great way to teach children or teenagers to socialize, learn to respect different cultures and become more mature while having one common thing with everyone around you. And that is to support your club with everything you got.
Football is everything to me. it's means joining your fans and watching the beautiful game and indulging your passion of football. Being a Sunderland fan has been hard over the past 10 years, but its where im from and i love my club and football.
The introduction of money to the top clubs is ruining football and im scared for my club surviving in the premier league due to the vast wealth of premier league clubs and the massive gap in class from the championship. That makes me less excited to get promoted and also with my club and many others season ticket prices are going up and owners are making mistakes over and over again which is dividing clubs from the fans in general. That's my issue with football these days.
No it’s not people always say this watch from 30 years now people go say they missed this era
That’s a very good point haha
Will I look back fondly on this decade of City and PSG buying their titles? City Football Group and Red Bull buying 3 clubs on every continent ?Of PGMOL terrorism and VAR making a worse decision than the on field ref? I don't care that we got bronze, the Qatar World Cup was a disgrace. Ballon d'Or firmly cemented as a popularity contest with the last Messi win. I'm still salty about the Champions League removing the away goal rule and FIFA trying to squeeze in games in any gap under the fingernails the crowbar can fit.
Will I miss all that? FUCK NO.
@@janermaher People will look at this era with rose-tinted glassed, forgetting all the financial unjust-ness (i don't think that's a word), people will probably remember city as that great team who dominated the EPL and Europe while playing beautiful football
@@traumatictoast8926 I don't think so. People don't look back fondly on Calciopoli and we're getting Calciopoli-esque scandals what feels like every other week.
The only time I can see myself looking back with rose-tinted glasses is if european football becomes MLS EMEA division.
Which it probably fucking will now that I think about it. Even then, I think I'd still prefer to remember 2000s football instead of 2020s football.
@janermaher What Man City are alleged to have done is completely different from Juventus Calciopoli or even Marseille in 1993. City never won their trophies by gaining an advantage over their opponents by match fixing.
Kompany would miss that shot every time if he got 100 more times, yet you never miss.
Loyalty no longer means anything. Anyone will do anything for quick success.
Money talks
Honestly, it’s always been like this, take a look at the El Dorado era, 50s Real Madrid, NASL or 90s Serie A. Money has and always will talk, it’s only these days we can view more examples at once, whilst back then you’d only see the localised examples.
when has loyalty ever meant anything in football
People celebrate players like Rues because its a rarity
Football is a short career
if you have the talent you'd want to make the most out of your time
@@colonelcider8292 Exactly.
Loyalty I'm going to be honest if you manage a football club let's say its a very small team in I dunno Northern Ireland your at the team from the start of your carrer for 30 years and you win the promotions, trophies and get in Europe every year and win a conference league or a champions league. The big clubs head hunt eg Real Madrid, Chelsea ect offer you a stupid amount of money you could ship or stay at the team that won the UCL what would you do?
You have summarised all my thoughts with the whole big club situation. I grew up in Brighton but moved away to another area of the uk and they’ll never understand how much the club is in my heart, from seeing league 1 games with my dad to then seeing us in the Europa league. Glad to see someone shares my thoughts thank you
Saints fan here, I echo your sentiments. Currently living in Canada, also lived in Poland for a few years like you - but you're right Southampton is my team, always will be... it was the club I supported when I lived in the area, my first football club... and wherever I am I'll always be proud to be a Saints fan. Nothing glamorous, definitely not much glory but it is my team. I went away to Burnley many years ago and found the home fans properly friendly, we lost but fond memories of the day out. Football feels like it's teetering on losing its soul, I've never seen us promoted with such a sense of the inevitable punishment that's coming from the premiership riches .... At some point in the future without wealth fund money I don't know if we'll ever have another steady stay in the prem.
8:45 it depends on the area of the country. Americans heavily identify an identity with their states. So teams with one club in their state usually have the support of the whole state. Plus America is so vast that living 4 hours away (drive time) from the city a club is located feels close in a lot of areas. The next nearest club can be over double the distance.
I am from Florida, but my mom is from England. All my English family are Liverpool supporters, when I was 2 my grandad delivered a card with the crest on it. Love the club maybe even more than my Baseball team
Yes it is and non league football is the way forward
I don't support a non-league club, my local club is not a non-league club, and I do not want to have to switch to watching teams I don't support or care about because the rest of football have turned into franchises.
@@tinypardus I agree. It's no good saying to people "support non League"; people have their teams and don't want to give them up to franchises and over pricing.
I remember doing a project on David Beckham when he was still on the LA Galaxy and that was the first team I truly fell in love with. Even with our struggles recently, I’m still with them thick and through. While I’ve moved cities, I was too young to really develop a love for their teams, so settling down long term helped get that part.
I was born in Dortmund but my mom was born in Gelsenkirchen where schalke are located and we would always fight over each other when the Revierderby started
Good times 😂
Became an Arsenal fan in 2010 shortly after the WC. Was clicking thru the channels and one of their games showed up and I decided to watch it. Instantly fell in love with the club, and being from the US I didn't know much about the other leagues in Europe. Arsenal will forever be my team, and i'll always support them through the highs and lows and there have been a lot of lows since the mid 2000s. Seeing them become a team that can challenge for silverware again makes me so proud to be a fan.
Thank you for this video. Today My team said that our trainer which got us promoted and extended his contract this summer is going to Brighton and it shattered my heart. I was sure he is going to stay especially his contract would end this summer and he singed a new one so i was happy he is going in the 1 bundesliga with us. Hürzeler is really really good and young trainer so i know that early or later he is going to a bigger Club but already... man. The things you said is the same thing for me Born in Hamburg and Support St. Pauli til day one because of my dad and i saw everythig going down in 3 division almost bankrot only saved by Bayern Munich get Promoted in the first Bundesliga 2010 beating our city rival in there Stadium (at the time HSV was so much better) and now after 13 years in the second division going up again with him a trainer who used to train our youth Club man it just break my heart
i think one of the saddest things is that people (especially younger fans) support a bigger team rather than their local, just not really a lot of passion in football nowadays. i’m a sheffiled united fan and i’ve watched my team get battered 3,4,5-0 every weekend, but that doesn’t mean i won’t support the team that i’ve loved my whole life and my dads loved his whole life.
I'm from Australia and I've been going for villa since early 2021 when my mate and his dad from Birmingham started getting me into villa and I fell in love going to his each weekend to watch the boys play to me even going from Melbourne to Queensland that likes UK to Poland but because my country is massive we have states to see villa in the flesh at a pre-season match when i tell people about that they think im crazy for doing that but im i die hard fan and always will be its so good to see you Liam doing a vid on this topic love the content keep it ut
I live in Drogheda, Ireland. Never ever thought of supporting any other team than Drogheda United, my local League of Ireland team. I always felt like those who support English teams on this island and don't support their local team aren't real football fans. I don't mind people following a big team but you need to help local football, especially in this day and age. Absolutely agree with you man
I coached in Ireland a reason why people don’t follow the league is due to the fact the Irish fa simply don’t believe or hardly acknowledge the league I used to live in cork, cork have great support but there’s people in the city who didn’t even know they existed
@matthewsmith8727 true Ireland league is just not at the level where big stars want to play unless there being offered huge salary. Nearly 80% of both Irish national teams don't play in the domestic league they play in England or in other countries because playing in Ireland there down at a level where your entering Europe in the early qualification rounds.
@@declangaming24 we had a player on 230 euros a week expected him to be full time he ended up binning football and sticking to his bank job shame really
@@matthewsmith8727 sad as soon as players in the Irish league develop into superstars the big clubs always snap them up
As a Manc who goes to some United games I understand and agree with your take on "Americanisation" of football. If Manchester United feels like "Manchester Red as you say. Then the club is dead.
I dont our club to be Americanised. American fans are not fans they are customers. European sports culture is a 100× better and more REAL
The thing kompany forgot is that whatever goes around comes around.
I'm from Brazil, I live in the interior but have to support a team from the state capital of São Paulo (If I ever wanna go to any game), but this is because my local team closed doors before I was even born. It's a real problem in Brazil that lower leagues get little to no media or TV covered, meaning to local fans of the club that, even if you are a diehard fan of your City's club, if you dont go to the stadiums (Which are often in very rough condition), you simply dont see your team play. Also in many regions, due to economical and historical reasons, there are no local clubs in the top flight, some not even in the Second Division (Serie B), with clubs playing only on the Third or Fourth tiers, which has the problems I told above. These two factors creates a phenomena which many people have "Second clubs", one local club which they may rarely see play, and another club from the top flight, likely located in a large city thousands of miles away from their home
I think a lot of this comes from a very English/European perspective. I’m American, from North Carolina actually right now I’m probably a 25-30 minute drive away from wherever vizeh is/was in Raleigh right now. When I was a kid the closet mls team was minimum a 4/5 hour drive away, and honestly the mls was seen as a joke even by most Americans. I became an Arsenal fan mainly for 3 players, Theo Walcott mainly because he was fast and I was always the fastest kid on my team. Also him being black was important to me as a kid(it may not be to you) because where I grew up black kids just didn’t play soccer, until I turned 13 I was always the only black kid on my team and I’d usually go the entire season and be able to count the amount of black kids I played against on one hand, sometimes one finger, so seeing a young black Theo Walcott break into the arsenal team gave me a lot of hope. His is actually the only shirt I’ve ever bought with my own money.
Also I remember watching the game when arshavin scored 4 against Liverpool and that was also I big moment in me deciding to follow arsenal. Finally I really liked van persie because for some reason I’ve always liked Dutch players (huntelaar at Schalke) and he had a similar build to me, tall and a little lanky so I tried to model my game on him. When he left I never considered switching, and when he came back and scored against us I had to leave the room. I never hated him for it but arsenal was my team and I couldn’t watch it, especially with my Man U brother screaming in my ear.
i started playing football at like ~15 here in america since my friends convinced me. everyone had a prem club they were a fan of. i pretty much at random chose chelsea. nobody should have to explain why they’re a fan of what they are, but i always appreciate the little stories that come with it.
Born in Brum, Irish Grandparents who didn’t like football so my Dad picked a team when he was young. That team happened to have Cyrillic Regis, Brendan Batson and Laurie Cunningham (The Three Degrees) which lead my Dad to support West Bromwich Albion instead of the other teams who were good at the time. This was passed down to me and I’m Albion through and through and because of the locality we ended up having a season ticket for years. Wouldn’t change it for the world even after all the heartbreak
Southend United video please
I got into football ahout a year ago and vizehs been my primary source of ball knowledge
"I do sound a lil bit posh."
I'm no native speaker, but you had me 😂
For lots of us overseas fans, we started backing a team because we liked a player there. Local teams dont exist for many of us. I live in British Columbia Canada. It's a six hour round trip just to get to a Whitecaps home game. To watch them play almost anywhere else, I would need to fly there. That's beyond reality. I do find the constant parade to the title in the Premier League a bit boring. I really enjoy watching games from the Championship on tv because the competition is so fierce, the stakes are so high, teams can go up or down, there's no VAR, and there are always dark horses that surprise everyone. I also enjoy Copa Libertadores. There you can play in the tropics for one game, and then have to fly into Bolivia where the air is so thin to play your next match. Just look outside the box, Liam.
As a kid growing up I lived in lizard Cornwall, I supported Liverpool till the age of 17. At 17 I moved back to London to where I’m from and since then I’ve supported qpr. When I lived in cornwall most people there supported either arsenal man United or Liverpool. But once I started to go to games at qpr and instantly wished I supported them from start because I felt such a connection to the area of shepards bush. It was hard as I moved to cornwall when I was 2 but my dad was Liverpool as well but I always felt something was missing till I supported qpr
I love vizeh , your like the most "this is my oppinion" football content creator
Local teams supported by local fans are the bedrock of the modern game without the fans football is soulless...like when they played in empty stadiums during the china flu!
Im from Finland, my local team is literally an amateur club.
Never played for them, I did not even play football so for me Chelsea became my team because of the FIFA games.
On the other hand I am more of an ice hockey fan and in that I support the team that comes from the same city in which my dad was born even though I have never lived there.
I’m a Wolves fan. I was born in Walsall, lived in both WS and WV postcodes growing up, my mums side of the family were Walsall fans and my dads side all Wolves fans, so it was all down to whichever side got to me first. Fortunately for me, it was my dad’s side. I started going to games in 1998, got my first season ticket in 2000, and have seen Wolves play in three divisions, as well as Europe. Most of that was after I left the area in 2008, as I moved to Liverpool for university and still live there to this day. But, it took until last year for me to give up my season ticket. Rising season ticket prices, rising train fares, the shoddy British rail service, and generally being fed up of spending more time travelling to home games than I spent in the ground was the rationale for not going anymore. It really hurt to do it, because it was part of my life for so long, but given how expensive it’s getting, the amount of travelling it took, and the way things like VAR make it feel like it’s not football anymore, it felt like time to step away, no matter how painful it was. So, for me, football is family, heritage, in your very blood. It also existed prior to 1992, despite Sky Sports best efforts to convince people otherwise. A football club is a community, a family; one that I’m an extended member of at this point, but I will always bleed gold and black, win lose or draw, no matter what. After all, a sign after our double relegation said it best; this is our love, and it knows no division.
As Lord Beckett said in Pirates of the Caribean: “Its good buisness” 🗿💀
Im a Heerenveen supporter in the Netherlands. But I love watching football and as a kid I became a fan of Tottenham and Real because of the players they had when I grew up. Players like Raúl for Real and Ledley King for Spurs. I believe you can support multiple teams but SC Heerenveen is number 1 for ever 💙🤍
Forest fan. Shrugs shoulders and slinks away sheepishly...first game 17/01/1976, WFCG, 3-1 defeat to Chelsea in the second division. My dad, a fervent Gers fan, had attempted to get me into footie via Ibrox, Anfield and Donnie (he was a miner at Rossington), to little avail. For some reason, I fell in love with Forest that day. No rhyme, no reason.
Man I really love your videos. I saw you were in NC my home state and were rooting for you! But alas keep up the good work and thanks for
Football is not dying in other places. Seeing my club go from administration and relegation to European groups twice in three years has been incredible. The SPFL has been getting better and better every year. My team Hearts is owned by the fans for the fans and I own a part of it. The EFL has been ruined by money and TV deals, players in League 2 are being payed or bought for more than players for Hearts that I wouldn’t want to even see on our bench. This money has poisoned the English pyramid.
I wanted to give my perspective as an American who is also a Spurs fan. I became a spurs fan during the era of Kane breaking onto the scene and when I finally got into the stadium years later to see a spurs home league game it was amazing. That being said, having actual league or cup games not in England is ridiculous. I also support Philadelphia Union because I’m from the Philadelphia area and understand where that comes from. I know how it would feel if I wasn’t allowed to go to a game because my local team was playing across a literal ocean from me. Absolutely ridiculous. I agree with Vizeh here about what football means, but I would like to add one more piece to the puzzle, it’s about the love of the game, and the love of the club as well. It’s about sticking by your club no matter what, and I know that’s rich coming from a supporter of a big 6 club, but just know that I only ended up supporting a club like that because it was one of the first ones who had the brand exposure over here. It was them, both Manchester teams, Arsenal, Chelsea, or Liverpool. I chose the one who’s game spoke to me the most and have stuck by them ever since
To me football is about memories. Im a spurs fan from newcastle which is random. I started supporting spurs because my family didnt really care about football but i used to sit and watch it with my uncle who married into the family who was a cockney and id always support spurs with him. Then id go to "away day's" up north at newcastle, sunderland or borough and i loved it. Then between like 2019-2023 when i was 14-18 i fell out of love with football and during that time he died and when i came back to it i wanted to support newcastle. Not because they got bought by saudis but because i truly love the srea and im proud to be a geordie. But then they played spurs and in my heart i wanted spurs to win. And now i try to watch every game i can and get to some (which is expensive with trains). But in summary, football is following the club you have a true connection to. I also follow Gateshead in the national league because thats my local local area.
Im a German who has been Born and Raised Close to Stuttgart and through my Grandad and my Father i was always raised as a Stuttgart Fan, i got my first ticket to a game when i was ten, but i allways only knew my Club as a Team that (Mostly) Battled against relegation of course i knew your Succsesful history but i either wasent even alive or to young when that happend. Even in my first two Seasons were i had a Season Ticket we once jumped out of the relegation zone on the last day and the other time we had two Extra games against Hamburg to stay up. This is why it felt so Special to me the last season, after all this shit, we qualified again for Europe after 11 years. i almost cried two times on the last day of the Season and this wasent just me you could fell it that day and the every other day of the season how much this succses meant to the City and people and i think that what it means to Support your Club, even when the times are Hard your there and your still there when times are good. Thats why i still love Football, even if the Sport we all love dies more and more
I myself am a Feyenoord fan and that's mostly due to my dad and where I live (Voorne-Putten).
And me and my dad are as 'real' as fans can get, since he is a season ticket holder since the 80s when barely anyone wanted to go to the stadium due to financial troubles of the club, combined with a general lack of interest. And during my formative years in football, I'm from 2000, so I would say 2006-2012, my club almost did a "Rangers" by going bankrupt.
Totally agree. Especially with the divide between matchgoing fans and non matchgoing ones.
Great stuff Vizeh
Just a bit of info about how big and spread out things are in the US:
The state of North Carolina is larger than the entire country of England (53,819 sq mi vs 50,301 sq mi). But also, North Carolina is only 28th in terms of size of the 50 US states. In fact, it's only the 4th-largest on the Atlantic Coast, behind New York, Georgia, and Florida. And yet it's still a 7-hour drive from Kitty Hawk to Ashville, and you can still drive another 2.5 hours west on US-74 before you hit Tennessee.
And the East Coast is the CROWDED side of the country.
Born and raised in North Carolina and didn’t even watch/like football until my best friend and I started playing fifa 13 in high school. He chose Everton & I chose Aston Villa, it sounds ridiculous looking back to choose them simply because of players on the game being OP 😂. That 2015 FA cup final run made me fall in love with the club and after that the valleys were rough for sure. But the peak this last year and a half has been so worth it and the emotional journey I’ve been on supporting them has made me care about them as much as my American sport teams. One of my dreams is to eventually go to a game at Villa Park.
Most of the teams I support here are never really successful so that sense of local pride when they do well is usually what I rely on/love the most. I think that’s what makes being a fan so special for me. However if someone from wherever is able to put that same amount of time/energy/love into being a fan of a team (unless they’re a bandwagoner) who am I to judge it doesn’t make me any better than them. The community and camaraderie is what sport is all about to me, everything else that follows after is just a bonus
Here in Finland most people actually ”support” a English team. Local football league here is quite small, even though hundreds of thousands of people watch football. They would rather sit at home watching Liverpool than going to a local game.
I support a struggling team in the Finnish top division, going to every home and away game I can. I luckily made tens of friends through the club and always enjoy my weekends with the lads supporting FC Lahti. I can never understand how someone can sit home alone watching the TV and enjoy it more than a nice awayday with the boys
Yeah, in these smaller leagues you do get loads of people supporting one of the big European clubs in conjunction with or instead of a local, happens here in Romania too. To be fair I ve been there, I get making the Champions League/Prem more exciting by supporting one of those clubs too as they will very rarely if ever meet the local club but what I don’t understand is giving up on the local game all together, after all, the reason why those clubs are so big now is that so many people care about them, go to their games, bump up the TV ratings etc, if you don’t watch your local league then who will? I used to support Barcelona and Man City too (stopped that because of the Super League proposal and City being so dominant) but I never gave up on my actual club which was always above all others (FCSB, formerly known as Steaua Bucharest, I hate all the history struggles in our league…)
I completely agree with you, football clubs are now a business, as Cardiff fan, kind of happy that we do not have to deal with super league scares
7:15 in the video just made me remember inbetweeners the movie “fuck Burnley”
Modern football has been trending in this direction for a long time, and there have always been people against modern football. Back in the day you also had people who for example turned away from Man United and started supporting FC United of Manchester instead. So they turned away from prime Alex Ferguson and Ronaldo MUFC over principles. But the wheels keep turning, and FCUM have also been accused of commercialism, just on a much smaller scale. There are people who have rejected the Premier League from the very beginning in the 90s, but the world kept turning anyway. The desire for money will always be a problem, because money helps you progress. A club can say no to a Super League, new-form Club World Cup, or playing league or cup games in Saudi Arabia, but then another club with less ethics will certainly step in and take the money and eventually surpass you permanently.
What perhaps feels different now is that things have changed on the pitch too. There is less individual brilliance, the game has become more collectivistic and data-driven. Even when money was ruining things 15 years ago, you could still be a fan of individuals and enjoy the stories and drama passed down the generations. There were still unexpected things happening (besides the neverending pitch invasions). It feels more sanitised now.
The biggest "threat" to football as a spectator sport is the removal of the last vestiges of competitiveness. This has already been very weak what with all the seeding and privileging going on, but at the end of the day you have to qualify for UCL one way or another. With the Super League, they wanted to create a closed system. If anything like that goes through, it will definitely create a rift in football.
Even without that, I think football will inevitably split into "Big Football" and the rest of football. Big Football is the stuff you will see on TV all day, Man City vs Real Madrid for the 11th time in the year, without winter or summer breaks. The rest of football is what you will see on highlights reels or physically in stadiums, or just the non-league stuff. Both have their place, Big Football has its good sides too as you're watching absolute elite athletes in their profession, just like Formula 1 or NFL or the Tour de France. Then the rest of football is the other stuff that you'll probably only care about if you have a local or personal connection to one or several of the teams involved.
As an American 1st generation footballer, I watched City for Aguero but fell in love with the game watching De Bruyne. In this process from talking about it and watching my dad became a liverpool fan. We both love the game and have a "club" but neither of us are life or a death club supporter.
You absolutely nailed it on the head in terms of locality in football in England vs USA. There just isn’t the same pyramid structure of every town having a club either. I’m a lifelong Chelsea fan from Indiana, USA. Drogba was who drew me to Chelsea initially. He was the best in the world for me back in the day. That and my best friend was a Chelsea fan. He got me into football so I joined him.
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For me, my family has supported Liverpool since the 80s, and have stuck with them since then, and I see no reason to change. What's sad (for me at least) is that everyone in my school supports City, are all glory hunters, and even seem to be proud of the 115 charges.
When you are 10 years old deciding what club to support, you do it based on the teams that you like not where you are from
As a german I've started watching football in 2014 when Germany played Portugal. That game inspired me to continued watching the sport. I startet supporting Bayern Munich for 5 to 6 years. Over the years I've watched almost every game on Free-TV. In 2018 the connection between me and my passion of watching the national team was cut off because of the things which were going on *(for example the picture of Özil and Erdogan).* In 2022 the "negative Events" continued with human rights. There were negative thoughts everywhere. With the Euros starting in a few days I'm not even sure if I should watch the german Matches. The most Incredible thing is the fact that the Cup will be hosted in my country. But since the 19/20 Season I'm watching many games at german amateur level starting from the 5th Divison downwards. My footballing home is 8th tier Sv Niederwerth from Rhineland-Palatinate *(Rheinland-Pfalz).* The first 2 Seasons were cut off in March and October and in 21/22 I've watched my first full season with the club. They opened my eyes that football is'nt just about winning the biggest trophies. The club is like the family I've never knew until August 11th of 2019. During both Lockdowns in Germany I had enough time to go trough Sv Niederwerths Internet page and our Facebook group to learn something about our history. Since that day in August 2019 I made many Videos about my club and many other matches. The football in a 20 to 25 kilometer circle around my home is my biggest passion about fotball for almost 5 years now. I could'nt care less about those oil clubs or those one Team leagues.
As a villa fan who lives 5 minutes away and works in Burnley, I adore this club. It’s my local and my mums side club and I want to see them do well. Only reason I’m a villa fan is because I’m from brum and it’s my dad’s team.
If your a football fan you don't need to go to the games if you can't afford it watch it on tele or play the video games it's the closest your gonna get to watch your team. For me I've sorta got a family who support a mix of teams Chelsea, Liverpool, Leicester City and myself Manchester United
living in a big city since ages, i'm still following and feel connected with my childhood team which fell from 1st to 3rd tier in the country, the easy way would have been to adopt the big club in the capital city i'm living. But i'm surrounded here with people who does support the club where they're from.
So i would say mostly ppl are more like you than another way
On point with closing words.
I'm a Schalke fan since I was 2yo - doesn't matter if we suck in 2. Bundesliga.
I grew up in LA with my father coming from Naples Italy. I’ve grown up with Napoli as a religion in my house hold and I expect the tradition to continue if my children enjoy the sport.
I supported Chelsea as a kid (glory hunter) went off premier league for years because of all the antics, but got back into it in recent years just as something to do and my mates were into fantasy particularly over lockdown. Fast forward a few years I’m a die-hard Burnley fan despite being from Ireland, and I’m set on getting over to my first Lanclassico this season, UTC
Not sure if you’ll see this but I’d like to say that a very similar thing happened to me.
For years I supported United just because my friends did, while my Dad’s side supported Arsenal.
As I got back into football after my life had changed since I was a little United fan, I began to root for Everton. I had always liked Everton and I remember having an Everton book in my bedroom which I never read.
I watched Everton stay up and secure their 70th consecutive top flight season, and after being amazed by the incredible history of the sleeping giant of a club, nothing was ever the same. I fell in love with the club.
Later, I found out that my Grandad on my Mom’s side used to be an Everton fan, and had actually been to Goodison before, playing with his Dublin team against a Liverpool club who thrashed them 9-0.
I knew there was something about Everton that interested me, and I guess that was it.
I’d like to think that my Grandad still supports Everton, though the good times ended 30 years ago, and Everton were a lot bigger back then.
My Dad has always been an Arsenal fan, but because I’m more like my Grandad on my Mom’s side, and my Mom, I feel the connection to Everton.
I support Everton with loyalty, passion and patience, as I truly believe we are the greatest, most beautiful club that has ever existed.
The connection to Everton and Ireland is traditionally quite strong too as is Liverpool and Dublin’s connection, so that definitely contributed to my admiration for the blues. If I had to pick an English club to support, it would have to be the most Irish of the lot, and that would be Everton.
I am a Newcastle fan and it always confused me when people from my area say they're a Liverpool fan or a Man Utd fan and have no affiliation to those places because for me your football club should be linked to your area.
There are some clubs that I quite like for a variety of reasons. I like Yeovil Town for example because I did a massive career mode with them years ago. And I like Bournemouth because they're my current FM save. But I wouldn't say I support them because I'm not from there. I don't understand what supporting those clubs feels like.
Loyalty in professional sports is a ludicrous idea. Football clubs should be on the look out for better players constantly. On the same hand, players should be on the look out to improve their prospects too whenever they can. The idea that any club or player should be loyal for the sake of loyalty is absurd to me.
Vizeh in my opinion the way football fans and real fans of their club is supporting a football team local or not from a young age and sticking with that club through thick and thin.
I am from Brazil, and I fully agree with you.
I could never support any other team other than my city/state club.
I do truly feel bad for people who support clubs overseas as they will never know the feeling of being part of the cultural/community of your local club.
Club I support:Esporte clube Vitória 🔴⚫️🇧🇷
If you support a club at the top it is. I support Liverpool till I was 14 then took the decision to follow my local team Tranmere home and away, best thing I did. You are more than a number
I would say for the US, that culture you describe for football is how we describe for the university teams we support. My grandparents lived in and supported Arkansas, my parents didn't really care for college but I always called myself a Razorback fan for years. Even living in North Carolina, my friends supported the college team that our parents or grandparents supported (even if there was a local school nearby). Pro sports, lately it has been about the players more than the team itself. But I also think that is because of how free-agency is and how it is more of stat padding/ring chasing that we see in the NBA (as you cited). I also think it is also accessibility as well; when I was a kid it was pretty much the local teams and that is it. Now, we can have access to nearly any league, any team, anywhere in the world. So even though my ass is in Arkansas now, I can keep up with Leicester, Dortmund, Zorya Luhansk at the same time I can keep with FC Tulsa or Sporting Kansas City. And how people become fans will also change as well.
I support arsenal
I live in the north west of the uk
My dads a United fan
My great grandads a liverpool fan
I didn’t care for football really until I was 11-12
I watched arsenal v stoke on the television
I saw Aaron Ramsey playing beautiful passes
I got fifa 15 a year or so after
I built a full arsenal team, with ramseys inform.
in fifa 16 I bought one card, Ramseys inform
Ramsey may not be the greatest of arsenal players, but I absolutely loved him
I was always sad he was injured
People support arsenal for Henry, but for me it was Ramsey
As well as ozil
Something about the way arsenal played, those team plays were something else
That one goal versus Leicester, the one versus Norwich
That ozil goal
I have watched one arsenal game live in the stadium
It was a dream come true
My family lived in the east end before moving to a town just outside of London before I was born my grandad is a West Ham fan growing up in east London so that’s a big reason why I support West Ham however I was born in Spain and a close family friend gave me a Real Madrid shirt and I chose West Ham over Madrid but I still have a massive love and respect of Real Madrid
I’d love it if they made a new European competition. For each league in Europe, any team that finished outside of Europe but stayed up so for example in the prem 8-17th. One random team every year gets selected from those positions and then gets to play in a tournament at Christmas time and new years. So for example imagine Crystal Palace gets randomly selected and their fans gets to experience this tournament against other similar positioned teams in the other top leagues.
Queen's park fan from about ten minutes away from Hampden here... Agree totally with what you're saying. Nothing is more disheartening than meeting another man city or Liverpool fan from the southside of Glasgow who just decided to support them because they find Scottish football boring (ie they've never been to a game). The misery of relegation and embarrassing losses is what makes the good bits so good. I don't think any fan of a big club will ever really understand that
As an Alabamian Wolves fan, this video hits home.
Its crazy to think that this guy puts so much work in making content about Burnley. Then Specs becomes a Burnley fan, and because he is so much more entertaining he already has drawn much more of an audience to the club. That is in fact hilarious.
Im from the U.S. so most people picked a team they like overseas and I loved Oscar and Willian so I went with Chelsea. Unfortunately, MLS doesn't have relegation/promotion, which sucks cuz my actual local team, The Tampa Bay Rowdies, would most likely get promoted if there was, so supporting a local U.S. team just doesn't feel the same. It is also so much easier to find a community of other fans of a european club you support or at least the league you watch most, then finding local MLS fans (who half of the time are IPA enthusiast weirdos that aren't really fun imo).
It's even massively affecting the lower leagues now.. I'm a Crewe fan and we're losing our best players (players who are good enough to play higher up the pyramid) to teams that finished below us in League 2 last year and were apparently offered wage boosts of up to triple of what us and certain League 1 outfits offered them.
Let's not forget the other side of the coin where there's important community clubs like Morecambe that are on the verge of going under despite the eye watering wealth at the top of the English pyramid.
In terms of supporting Crewe though its a strange one... I grew up a 10 minute walk from one of our biggest rivals Port Vale but all of my family were Crewe fans so it's how I was raised!.
School was interesting when you were the only Crewe fan at a Stoke school! (Popular teams there were Vale, Stoke City, Man U and Liverpool)
i’m from alabama usa so i don’t really have a local team, i mean birmingham legion exists (im over 2 hours away) but im way older than that club and i don’t even know where exactly the stadium is located. i supported Atlanta United for about 2 years when they were founded but then i got bored of supporting a team with 0 history, plus i don’t like the mLS model of having random teams come up all of a sudden and without relegation/promotion. i support club america in mexico but i hate the way liga mx works especially now that they’ve temporarily stopped relegation/promotion, i usually only watch the playoff matches now. i supported barcelona since i was little too before i even understood the sport because my dad liked them (ronaldinho and rafa marquez) and my uncle and my cousin support them so i just sorta joined them. just sucks that they started the process of going into a chaotic downfall shortly after.
8:44 this is what I mean, I’m a fan of Manchester United because I loved De Gea as a kid, but I’m American and I will never have the sort of connection that Mancunians have with the club
I'm born and raised in France, I love Chelsea since I was 6, my first match I ever watched was Chelsea v Bayern in UCL final, haven't lost my love for them since. True blue across the water
I’m an American Premier League fan and I’ll share my perspective a bit. The time period when I became a fan of my team the only access I had at all was this one obscure local Fox affiliate that would play match week highlights with no commentary or studio pundits. The only way to watch any live games outside of MLS I guess was to be a paid subscriber to Fox Soccer which my mom couldn’t afford. I fell in love with one team because the highlights were brilliant but I had no context of the history of the club, rivalries, or even how the team actually performed over the season until a couple years later when NBC picked up coverage and I could watch for free. I then obviously filled in that gap in knowledge and also learned that the club was mostly mediocre aside from these odd moments when they would put together a work of magic and that was good enough for me. I have no tie to anyone in England and no affinity to any American sports either so I don’t really know anything else.
Edit: And I want to say that I don’t want any team to start playing abroad. I hate the Americanization of the sport and I needed the Chelsea project to stumble if not outright fail for the good of the league.
Interesting, which team is that?
I’m an arsenal fan, I didn’t watch my first game until 2 years ago but I loved to play and watch skill compilations. Notably compilations of “top 10 fastest football players in the world” and this was a while ago. Anyways being a track athlete I loved the fastest player and at that time it was Hector Bellerin (this was 2017). Him being a great ambassador for Arsenal made me fall in love with the club even though we were pretty awful during that time. My closest team is the Portland Timbers but I just have no intrinsic connection to the club but ngl this vid has defo got me thinking 🤔
Leicester fan here, couldnt imagine supporting another.
I support my local mens and womens team. I'm american so that means nwsl and mls. But if i had to pick a european team it would be man city because when i was younger, my brother would watch the prem and i really liked the color of citys kit lol
Football and being a fan is about the connection, it's about the suffering AND the success. Unfortunately, a lot of younger fans don't like the discomfort of feeling bad when their team loses so they only want to be fans of the teams that always win and then make fun of anyone else who actually struggles. Just look at the waves of "City fans" online nowadays. The more of them that there are, the more say they have, and the more the sport is catered to their mentality and attitudes.
As an American Man United fan, as much as I wish to see them in person I would never take them away from the people of Manchester and the Old Trafford. Seeing them in Metlife stadium is never the same as seeing them in Old Trafford.
I'm a North east lad. I was born 7 miles from middlesbrough and 30 miles from sunderland. I support sunderland. I remember as a kid liking whenever I visited sunderland, I loved the colours, I collected the match attacks. And I don't live in middlesbrough so I have no reason to support them. The club near me which has a special place in my heart is sunderland, it has only grown over time and I intend to see several games next year.
I can relate to that story, I grew up in whitworth and I had the choice between Manchester United Rochdale or Burnley, all my friends supported United and Rochdale but I chose Burnley so I could go to the games with my family. I now live in the south west where there are basically 0 clarets. People down here laugh at me for it but I never feel the need to argue and taint our clubs image
That reason of falling in love with a club because of a player was how I came to support Chelsea, Didier drogba was the reason I started watching footy