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Southend United - The Dying Football Club You Don't Know
Southend United - The Dying Football Club You Don't Know
Southend United - The Dying Football Club You Don't Know
Thank You Vizeh, this means a lot to all of us who support Southend
Been needing to do a video on you for a while, I wish you the best
I hope you pull it off
I’m a Southend fan, and it honestly is screwed. Sad to see the death of yet another non league football club. Especially whilst clubs like Man City are getting away with excessive financial actions.
Up Southend from our official roblox team!
I’m a Bolton fan and I have been through this
Scunthorpe were a club who almost saw the same fate, although thankfully the club was sold a couple weeks ago. They had financial troubles, a winding up order from HMRC, unpaid staff + players, and were incredibly close to entering administration. I'm a grimsby fan and even though we are very close rivals, it would have been devastating to see them go because of what it would have meant for their community and what it meant for the town.
Scunthorpe I thought was still in trouble? Great to hear it’s a better situation
Despite me not supporting scunny most of my family supports them this affected them very much so we're glad they got bought out
Scunny fan here. Grimsby fans have been class on the whole. As have so many other fans, usually of the smaller clubs, who have been supportive. We even had Derby fans come and support us at our last home game. Originally it was to support in protests, but after we got sold it was just to come for the ride, since they didn't play that day. I even know a Grimsby fan who said he would come down if the protests continued.
I do echo the Southend fans who talk about lack of media coverage, but we got even less. To the big clubs and pundits football outside the Premier League doesn't matter and we're laughed a. Carragher was almost trolling by continuously saying Everton were the worst run club in the country while us and Southend were in absolutely dire straights.
@@Vizeh Yeah, we got bought out two weeks ago. We have even made several signings now we have had our embargo lifted. Whether it's enough for a last ditch attempt for survival, I don't know, but the main thing is that we still exist.
As a Southend fan i show nothing but respect against Scunthorpe since we go through the same stuff
It’s really really sad. I went to Southend away in September and their fans do not deserve this. They were really welcoming and had really good support. This could be a dark day in English football
From my experience they are loyal fans aswell
Thanks for your support mate. Ironically our last game could be at your place! ATB.
Thank you, that means a lot mate.
I feel so sorry for the Southend United fans getting no media coverage is a disgrace. I think Southend will not be the last club to suffer like this lucky the government white papers has gone through on the football fan led review. Keep fighting hard to save Southend United never give up.
Up the Shrimps💙
@@Vizeh I’m not a Southend United fan but I’m love the game I enjoy hope every fan from premier league to your local non league club gets behind Southend United not what Bury FC went through
Colchester supporter here, and while yes Southend may be our rivals, I hate to see this happen to any small club. Things are not the best for us now either although looks like we will probably just barely stay up in the EFL. Best of luck to Southend and the supporters and here's to hoping things get better, even if the outlook is bleak right now.
Fingers crossed for you. As a supporter of a liquidated Rangers, I feel you and appreciate your empathy with your rivals
Not a small club just a low league tbf
Glad people like you are covering this. It's ridiculous that this isn't mainstream news. I'm a Maidstone United fan so have been very aware of the Scunthorpe and Southend situations as a result. Hope it gets resolved as nobody wants a club to go bust
As a notts county fan who has seen this several times I sincerely hope you get through this. You have superb fans who deserve better. I remember last season, midweek at our place, over 800 of your fans turned up (4 hour journey) to watch your mid table team. The potential support for a successful club is amazing! Good luck and hopefully good times aren’t far away.
This was a great video Liam, but sadly as long as teams like Man City, Chelsea, Newcastle, and possibly Manchester United keep raking in the big bucks, no one else stands a chance.
In the early 2010s, I remember watching Sky Sports News every day after school to see what was happening with my team Portsmouth. Thankfully in 2013 the Supporters' Trust were able to buy the club, pay off the debts, and get us promoted to League One.
My heart breaks for teams like Bury, Macclesfield, Luton, Bolton, Rangers, Crawley, Portsmouth, and Southend (to name a few) who either have been liquidated or have been close to liquidation due to poor management.
It’s awful isn’t it, thank you for being here
Luton is in a better situation now though
Rangers have bounced back from the brink, in 10 years they went from bankrupt to beating Celtic in the 2020/21 season and very nearly winning the Europa League in 2022. That should serve as an example to all other struggling teams, it is possible to recover from these situations, there is still hope. I really hope Southend United can see this out... I don’t want them to see the same fate as Bury...
Wimbledon is another one that comes to mind. They still exist, albeit as a "phoenix" club (AFC Wimbledon), but they embrace the history of Wimbledon, unlike that other club, who I won't mention.
IIRC Darlington were mired in financial problems because of that stadium they built - they entered administration in 2003, '09 and '12 (when they were expelled from the FA). They came back to the lower leagues as Darlington 1883, won 3 promotions in 4 seasons, then the FA allowed them to change back to the old Darlington name.
I hope, for the sake of the fans, players & others associated with Southend Utd, that they can somehow survive - it would be deeply saddening to see them go the same way as other once-great clubs like Wimbledon and Bury... :/
I remember the days of Portsmouth in the PL.
Luton are a PL team now. They've had a great rise.
Thank you Liam, us Southend fans have been wanting and needing coverage on this for so long 🙏
Of course lad, it needs so much more
Fax it’s been hard
Hope Southend stay up your currently 6th in the national league
@@declangaming24 well get play offs if we still exist at the end of the season
@@asptx I hope they don't kick you out because of this.
Thank you so much for doing this, for covering a story that mainstream media just ignore (sadly)
Of course lad, I wish you the utter best
Says a lot about the media that this is the first Ive seen of this
Absolutely
Thank you so much Liam for outlining how bad things are at Southend Utd right now
Appreciate you being here, I wish you the best!
I was at the Southend vs Man United game. Daryl Flahavon had the game of his life, Eastwood then bending it in the top corner, great atmosphere.
The seasiders will forever be my FM road to glory save ♡
Damn Southend are my local club, sad what is happening but mainstream media isn’t reporting it
Only a month away from liquidation and nothing, it’s awful
@@Vizeh thanks for making this vid mate, hopefully more people become aware, also loving the new style vids keep them up👊👊
They didn't pay any damn attention to my club either (Scunthorpe Utd) before we got sold and things looked bleak with unpaid wages and winding up orders. They don't care about us smaller clubs. Carragher thinks Everton are the worst run club in the country. What a joke!
@@johnball320 the press only care if it affects ‘posh’ areas
#saveSouthend from a Lincoln fan
Played our local team last night and their fans were brilliant, scored last minute and won. It's really a shame what happened to a club with that big of a fanbase.
They are playing well aswell, which is unreal considering they are barely being paid
Glad to see someone covering this. I’m a Pompey fan, and I’ve been trying to talk about this on social media. But everyone responds to me with sarcastic `what do you want us to do about it’ Everyone stood there when Bury went out of business and said that it could never happen again. And now Southend are on the brink and nobody cares, but they’ll come out with their declarative empty statements and tweets if Southend go out of business. Southend have one of the best fan-bases I’ve ever come across and they deserve so much better.
Hi Viz!
I just want to thank you for bringing this up to my attention.
I follow my local top tier club in Norway (Sandefjord), and i have since the new year startet my very own podcast with my mate about the club and Norwegian football in general.
This story has touched my heart, and i have fully determined myself to investigate on this dark story.
Yesterday we recorded a bonus-episode talking about lower League football in England despite our podcast mainly talk about everything Norwegian.
I gave that episode 27 whole minutes talking only about Southend United and all the crisis happening. Ive also trough my platform given other larger fotballing podcasts who i know directly the word about this.
This will be brought up to attention to footbal fans within my community, and a lot of other communities within Norway now, and all of this is because of this video!
Our podcast are named Blå Ball if you were curious
I just want to let you know, that even if you didnt think so, you are making impact mate❤️
Amazing vid. Would love to see more videos of clubs downfalls and potential rise again? Such as Sunderland, Bolton, Stoke.
Absolutely, which club would you want most?
@@Vizeh probably Sunderland. They have an interesting story and look like they may make a comeback feel like it will be a good video :)
I really feel for Southend. I'm a Notts County fan. This nearly happen to us. Southend are a close club to me as it was my first away day. They are a great club and do not deserve this. #savesouthend
All clubs in non league are only one bad decision away from same fate
Respect you for that mate, it’s so sad. P.s notts are unbelievable this year, you boys also deserve to be back in the EFL
Respect you for that mate, it’s so sad. P.s notts are unbelievable this year, you boys also deserve to be back in the EFL
@@Vizeh dover athletic one of my local clubs nearly died last year
@@squaremore2056 I know. -12 point deduction. They will be back in the national league soon.
Im glad that you started to produce content like this. Keep it up. Cheers from Croatia
Love ya man🇭🇷
@@Vizeh you too man
It feels like Vizeh uploads every day with high quality videos. Man, I hope he’s treating himself alright
Don’t you worry there’s usually a video every 2-3 days, I’m really enjoying these!
Love the video man, Southend is my local club. Hopefully things will look up again. Those bloody blue signs of the new training ground and stuff been up doing nothing for so long. It's amazing at the crash of our club from where we was some years ago. Sad to see and hear of the players being constantly not paid on time and the backroom staff. It's surprising anybody wants to work there.
Wishing and hoping to see them back in the football league one day but those things you speak about has to change.
If you drop into the national league, it is almost impossible to get out
Especially when you’re already in financial trouble entering it
It’s absolutely scandalous that the plight of Southend United isn’t given any coverage by the media. I’d known that you’d fallen on hard times recently, but didn’t realise things were that bad and were facing extinction. I really hope you don’t fall away like bury did. I’m a Swansea fan from the mid 80s, and we enjoyed some good games with you Shrimpers. Wishing you all the best.
Thank you for covering us. Feel like we just a small echo no one would hear about
It’s devastating, it’s the least I can do
As a man utd fan no club deserves this so sad to see 😥😥 football is our life it's our escape from the struggles of real life. We live for match days and the weekend praying for all you Southend fans 🙏🙏
I very much appreciate you taking the time to put this video together. I have been supporting Southend since I was a schoolboy, with my first game in August 1966. I have seen so many games at Roots Hall (as well as away games) and have had some wonderful years watching them. I have taken my son and daughter to games and now take my two grandsons. We have a third grandson due any day, but I fear I will never be able to take him as I am so afraid that March 1 will be the day my club dies. The owner will not entertain outside investment, and we do not have the money to go on. Even though work took me to locate my home to other counties, my grandsons have the love for the club that I do. I fear that our last game (a last-minute win 2-1 Vs Darlington in the FA Trophy last month) will be the last we can see. I hope I am wrong. Thanks again for highlighting our plight. Just a thought. A couple of month's worth of a Premiership player's wages would see us saved..........
As a Gillingham supporter it makes me so angry see see this happening to southend United. We went through a similar period were we were hours from oblivion and nobody in the media gave a crap. When Brighton went through a bad period the media gave them loads of coverage. It seems to me that your club has to be fashionable for any proper coverage. To see Scunthorpe in dire straights is heartbreaking too. Nearly got into the championship a few years back. I remember playing Scarborough who no longer exist. So much money in English football it needs to be escalated down the league’s. 😢
As a Southend fan I am heartbroken by the selfishness of our owner Ron Martin there's so much more happening behind the scenes with this crook. Glad someone has made a video about our beloved club. Let's hope we are still here after march 1st
He’s a greedy chancer. Stans no better
@@krob2327 Why do you think Stan is no better? He has been working for the club for free since he came in and the financial issues have nothing to do with him
@@thunderbosh7001 Ron told a young fan he’s got no idea what Stan does. Stan regularly spouts hatred towards the white working class on twitter who make up the majority of Southend fans so forgive me if I don’t trust him
Arsenal fan here....as a local Islington lad seeng my club play every weekend is always a pinnacle and there isn't much that can drive that emotional feeling. Its sad to see the state of football in the lower leagues and certainly for clubs like Bury and Southend and of course something needs to be done when it comes to how clubs are run, funded and saved. EPL has made clubs tons of money and it is a model thats made us the richest league in footy but how nothing is really being done to help lower league clubs is mind boggling....the EPL should be investing money into a pot every year to distribute or invest into lower leagues....I hope Southend are able to be saved....Freddy Eastwood's goal against MU won't ever be forgotten.
Thanks mate
As a Rochdale fan I fear my boyhood club might soon face this same fate as we are really struggling ourselves
Something needs to change 100%
I know or hundreds of small town teams will completely collapse
You will get at least a point on Saturday, we never win at your place has been like 25 years
Hopefully we need any points we can get
Torquay are in the same boat aswell hope you get out your troubles
Thank you for making this video! Any attention we can get into the media the better! The disconnect between fans and owner is very worrying, broken promise and awful decisions have cost us way to much! Our only hope is an investor can come in but having heard stories of the owner rejecting offers just makes him so delusional! Once again on behalf of all us shrimpers, thank you!
Same thing happened to my club darlington fc, such a shame how owners ruin football clubs, we were literally at southend for the FA Trophy 3 weeks ago. Would be a cruel shame to see them go
Supporter for 19 years. Dad's been a supporter for about 60. It breaks my heart when we talk about the playoff hopes that this lingers over everything. It's frustrating that it's not even the first time this flared up, and terrifying that I don't see how this ends outside the club dying. But as much as I hope against hope that the club survives, what I hope for more is that the serious reform to the lopsided finances of UK professional football get addressed.
SUFC supporter here. Having worked for the club over 20 years ago and now my son plays in their academy set up. Sadly even so.e of the academy coaches have started to leave. Not paid in months and the best coaches have departed. The struggle is real, my son loves Southend. I fear a phoenix club is coming. Southend City FC will be good but it will never be Southend United.
Swans fan here, so sorry to see this happening to such a famous club. Was at the famous 2-2 draw at the Liberty Stadium 2006 and must say what a great game and atmosphere there was on that day. Hope you get out of this mess we have been there and it is not a nice play to be. Good luck Shrimpers.
This is my boyhood club. I hope they pull through. Thank you Vizeh
I'm a Doncaster Rovers fan. In 1997-98 season, we suffered one of the worst seasons on the pitch. However, off the pitch, we were run like crap by Ken Richardson, who masterminded an arson attack on one of our old stadium's stands, took back any previous investment and by the time we were saved by John Ryan, we had to pick players up on the way to instantly sign for Conference games, barely a functioning stadium and barely a youth program.
We've been through the same fate. We survived. But it proves that since 25 years ago, nothing has changed. New clubs, same situations. Players and staff are not paid, fans watching their club die and all the while, the media wait to grab their clicks when clubs are dead and buried and the attention is all on the top division.
I would argue that the Premier League is just a hyped-up EFL Championship. Because the money spent and earned at the top of the game, in my opinion, is criminal. Meanwhile, the Premier League seems to forget that if it wasn't for the Football League, they wouldn't have been able to develop some of the stars they have today. Harry Kane, Leyton Orient. Harry Maguire, Wigan Athletic, Hull City. Jacob Ramsay, Doncaster Rovers. Ollie Watkins, Exeter City. Emiliano Martinez, Oxford United. The list goes on.
Iv said before we should just split the football league away from the premier league
Let the prem close it self up with the same 20 teams and eventually everyone will get bored of it
Make the championship,league one and league two the top 3 tiers again
As for the argument what about European spots
Premier league gets two champions league
First division (championship in this scenario) gets two
Same with the other European spots and both leagues can still play in the cup
I honestly believe the football league with the right people could survive without the prem for a long time as long it’s done right
@@SD_BRFC1997 I watched Donny play at Peterborough in the season they went down to the Conference and wondering what looked so old-fashioned about their shirts. It took me some time to realise they didn't have a sponsors name on them. They had been thrashed 8-0 at Orient a week prior so I went along ghoulishly expecting Posh to score a netful. Donny ended up winning 1-0.
@@normanby100 and that’s the great thing about the EFL despite how much of shit show it is now in terms of who’s running it the product on the pitch is brilliant (if you don’t count the top half of the championship parachute payments all but ruined that) anyone can beat anyone in the day
People would soon turn into watch that rather than the same 20 teams playing each other every week or season
Was close to the situation at Northampton a few years back in 2015, thankfully we got out of it and won the league by 13 points in the same season, so a happy ending I guess
Yeah that’s a decent turnaround haha
Really sad this, went southend a few years ago with Wigan, lost but it was still a good day! Best of luck to southend.
Leyton Orient Supporter Here,, It saddens Me To See Southend In This Situation,, A Great Club With Fantastic Supporters,, A Club That is Vital To The Local Community.. We Faced a Similar situation With a certain Italian Owner (I Hate To Even mention His Name). Who Took Us To the Brink Of Liquidation. I Said At the Time That The EFL was useless in their help for our club,, The decision to deduct 10 points from Southend is a disgrace by the EFL, at a time when they should be helping the club and its supporters. Bolton Were Also Let Down by The ELF and as you mentioned We Sadly Lost Bury Too.. he EFL need to up their game in who they allow to own clubs and they should monitor their behavior while they in ownership Otherwise we will start seeing more clubs in peril..I sincerely wish The Staff, Players and Most of All the Supporters of Southend Success in Saving their Proud Club.. Good Luck.
this feels like the derby county (my club) situation it was a dark time in the club’s history but there is always a light at the end of the tunnel let’s get southend out there to business owners to help them get out this situation
i attend southend united college. and the atmosphere has been completely different as none of us know if we will be able to attend after march 1st. it’s horrible
As someone who spent a lot of the ir childhood in Southend, especially adventure Island, this makes me very sad
Even as a Colchester fan, I want Southend to survive. We need the local rivalry
Thanks mate. I've seen some great games between us over the past 50 years. We've swapped a few players too. RIP John Kurila for one...
@@tomlee812 yeah, and the derby day was always that extra excitement. You wanted to beat us, we wanted to beat you. That can't be taken away, regardless of how much we'll mock each other on a Saturday.
This club, these fans deserve so much better. I really hope Southend United is saved. I'm not a supporter but a few years ago got to see them hammer the MK Dons 0-3 at Stadium MK, superb performance.
this reminds me of my club Macclesfield Town. as it is we are reborn with a new owner who supports the club along with Robbie Savage. good luck for the future
As an Oldham Athletic fan, I’m happy we were able to find a new owner, hope Southend can too.
Luton fan here, really understand what you are dealing with, the reality of teams like yours, can happen to anyone in the “real “ football world, Bury and Rushden & Diamonds, are examples of what can happen, if a Chairman turns out to have non football motives, or no money, or both.
Luton has a succession of these, almost disappeared, but thanks to people like you, we didn’t.
A phoenix club is a way forward, AFC Wimbledon is a good example, Macclesfield another, don’t give up.
Last thing, the lack of publicity with your plight demonstrates the “ football family “ is obsessed with the elite, as long as money, is at the centre of the game, this will never change...
GOOD LUCK 🤞🤞🤞
Thank you for your comment man
Nice work, Vizeh. Keep up these excellent, informative videos. I never knew that Southend United were in such a perilous position. I really hope that they can find a way to get the club back on its' feet.
It doesn't matter who you support, or what sport you follow - to paraphrase the Manic Street Preachers, if we (the fans) tolerate this, our club (or even the sport itself) could be next...
Cheers from a new subscriber from Victoria, Australia.
Thank you man for your kind words
Hope Southend stay alive from a Charlton fan Southend was always a good away day we are and were experiencing the same thing #SaveSUFC #SaveCAFC
So sad that the reality is my club have got a video like this, but I must say. This is great publicity and a good explanation for what is going on
Wish you the best lad
Wishing Southend fans the best always had a great following down at plainmoor
Could be a bumper turnout end of the month as potentially our last ever game
@Glenn Johnson really hoping you get out of this mess great club Southend and amazing how you still getting 5k+ every game
We went through it at Nuneaton a year prior to Bury’s liquidation. HMRC bills, players (past and present) going to court over unpaid wages, electric bills not being paid and having to rely on a generator to power everything, bailiffs. You name the problem, we had it. We had a freaking turf war with the rugby club over whose land is whose and they ended up blocking the turnstiles because they believed the turnstiles belonged to them and didn’t want us using their land. All because of an owner that did not care. It was horrible and I really hope Southend get out of it because no fans deserve that. Fans shouldn’t have to worry about saying the sentence “I don’t have a football club to support anymore.”
Thanks mate.
I am loving these new documentary style videos I love the longer ones aswell good job vizeh wish you the best
This means so much to me as I live in Southend and I can't see this club go bust with all the history we had over the years and is it okay to share this video
Thanks for making this video, this hasn’t been seen much on the news and Southend is my local so good to see someone covering their situation 👍
Thank you for being here lad, least I can do
@@Vizeh thanks mate I’ve been watching you for years
MARTIN OUT
@@benelmo5646 yes elmo
I’m a Tottenham fan but I was born and raised in southend I went to the game against Gateshead
Thx for explaining to other football fans about the situation
things that need to change, like, yesterday
we need the 50+1 rule
fit and proper owners test needs a massive overhaul, to include more sport based questions (like, what good is an owner who knows nothing of the sport?)
whilst prolly not the PL or Championship unless FIFA impose the rules, maybe lower down, League 1/2 or National league, needs some kind of transfer and wage cap, not only keep competition but also as a way to help prevent theses situations
the 3rd is the least likely to help, but the first 2 *NEED* to happen, like, now
Fair dos for doing this. As a Leeds fan (we were bad with money for a while) I hate seeing clubs get shafted. I used to work with a Southend fan who travelled to games from Yorkshire. A lot. Top lad. Regulator won’t solve everything but crikey it’s a start.
Thank you Liam for taking the time to put this together. It's much appreciated. I can't see light at the end of the tunnel In this situation. Ron has destroyed this club. A club that has ran in my family since the 1930s!
Great video, I didn’t even know this was happening. It’s crazy how clubs in the EFL get such a raw deal in comparison to the prem lot, i support qpr and I dred to even think of this happening to us. More needs to be shared down the football pyramid
100%, thank you man
Not even a Southend fan but one memory of the club that will always be with me was that cup match against Manchester United and that free kick
Oh Gus Scott-Morris; you are the love of life oh Gus Scott-Morris…
I’m a Hemel fan and I Hope Southend survive. It broke my heart seeing Bury die and watching sky sports treating Bury’s death and Bolton’s near death as like a transfer deadline day.
Football clubs are the hub of the community for 100s of years, you kill a club you kill the community.
I hope Southend survive as get back to the football league where the belong💪🔴
This is what could’ve happened to my club Bournemouth. This is a genuinely horrible thing for a community to go through. I hope they can save this all clubs are for the community and the fans this should’ve never had happened
My distant Russian uncle used to own Bournemouth lmao
@@spectre8_fulcrum we don’t talk about this
@@alfronzocragimo-spicerini3828 good luck to the cherries for rest of the season
Gazélec Ajaccio who are in the fifth tier of France were in Ligue 1 as Recently as 2016 are facing a similar fate too.
I will have a look at this, thank you
It's also reappearing at Elche while still in the top flight in La Liga, but with Elche having been in Segunda B or what's now the 3rd tier RFEF Primera Division A/B in 2016-17 from previous tax issues. The problem isn't a lack of funds as an Argentinian billionaire owns them, but rather that Elche has a really bad situation of being caught receiving illegal subsidies from the regional and municipal government to catapult them back up the Spanish pyramid with a set of league rules that forbid cash injections from said owner.
Edit: To make matters worse, the roster which was thought to be of midtable quality was plagued by injuries and has only now won their first game all season mired 11 points from safety. At least they beat 6th place Villarreal in to get their first win by very convincing 3-1 fashion.
10 months later we are safe!
The bill has been paid off🎉
Thanks for this video about the club from my hometown
Appreciate it man, wish you the best!
Thanks for making this video, im a Pompey fan and i feel for south end supporters, as do im sure fans from clubs all over the country, this video was the first i seen or heard about south ends troubles and that is really wrong, the media should be on this now not wait to pick the bones of a news story that has a tragic ending. Good luck South End, hope for a happy ending.
I hate how clubs are collapsing in-front of our eyes and these clubs might not be the biggest but they are everything to the local community
I am so sorry to hear of Southends currently plight. I remember Southend being in Div 2/2nd Tier and to see the club steadily going downhill thanks to a 'chairman' who obviously had no time for the fans or the club itself is sickening. Over the years I've seen many of the 'smaller' clubs suffer a similar fate and I do hope somehow, for the fans and football in general, Southend can survive this.
Mick, Exeter fan. Up the Shrimpers.
I'm angry. Angry that I didn't know about this because nobody else is telling their story! It's a disgrace and a sad reflection on the influence that money and the media has on football.
This sort of thing is criminal. There is so much money sloshing around in professional football that the loss of lower league clubs need not happen if the distribution of the money went further down the leagues to those who need it most. At the moment, the money goes to and stays with the clubs that need it least. It leads to inflated premier league transfer fees and player salaries. If football fans want these old and historically important clubs to survive, the FA must be put under pressure to more equitably redistribute the cash within the game.
As a Rangers fan it's heartbreaking to watch severe mismanagement and hmrc troubles tear your team apart. I hope Southend are saved, and I wish all the best for their fans and staff
Good luck to you all. As a Man Utd fan, the threat was very really when the Glazers lumped over half a billion pounds of debt on to our club, one that had been debt free since the early 1930s. Unity is important for the fans, avoid infighting and try and stay as one.
A lot of support from Italy, don't give up my friend for all who love football❤
This is so sad. We better hope for a miracle 🙏 I’m worried this will happen to my local team Crawley because of our clueless owners.
Good thing FFP was brought in to help the likes of Southend and Bury, eh? 🙄
Sincerely hoping for their salvation and my heart goes out to all supporters of the club 🙏
Thank u I felt like we have no support we will survive the fans won’t let it die
Wishing Southend all the best from a Hartlepool United Fan
Great vid buddy , we need all the exposure we can get , as a fan of 40 yrs , im gravely worried for the club , keep the faith you blues fans
Great video. There should be more done, from the top-down with revenue sharing via the Prem and Championship. However, any monies shared from the Prem and Champs should be used only for paying the non-playing employees and should be extremely well regulated to make sure this is done. Afterwards, it can be used for tax settlement. This will leave more money (in theory) to pay the players.
Absolutely, I hope more can be done too
3:14 Black Ops online menu theme! Wasn't expecting to hear that on a video on Southend United. Thank you Liam- great video as always 👍
There's a real risk that Scunthorpe, Birmingham, Oldham, West Brom, Bolton, Southend, Orient, Hartlepool, Gillingham even Coventry, Derby etc. won't exist in 10 years time
Yet Jamie Carragher is saying consistently on Sky Sports that "Everton are the worst run club in the country" and that is one of the main issues with the uk's football media, its like they only believe there's 20 clubs in English football
With the neighbors to the south, you can add Gazalec Ajaccio and Elche to the list.
Although Elche is a case of a league won't allow cash injections with a billionaire owner unless you have sales while constantly having a fight between local politicians giving them illegal subsidies and the government in Madrid wanting their taxes which repeatedly puts Elche further and further in arrears. If you had unlimited cash injections, you have the Deportivo La Coruna drug smuggling funded era.
As a southend supporter, this hurts that we have fallen
These are fantastic videos… they definitely deserve more views. Just a suggestion, try reaching out to more than just English football. I know that’s your main league but I do think that a lot of these videos people already know about.
I remember watching the iceberg video and I could say what happened with each story almost word for word. But I think suggestions in comment sections about subscribers’ experiences with their local leagues.
As a lifelong Chelsea fan (early 1970’s) it really saddens me to see a club like Southend United in this situation. Chelsea came very close to going out of business but now they spend money like it’s going out of fashion and I just think it’s disgusting. Hopefully someone out there will save Southend. Best of luck SUFC x
I feel sorry for Southend because they’re a great club with great fans and I’ve been to Roots Hall with AFCB numerous times over the years. We have also had Simon Francis, Lee Bradbury, and Kevin both play or manage eachother. We’ve even been in situations numerous times at Dean Court where the club very went into liquidation with 2008 being the closest as we were 15 minutes away from liquidation.
As a fulham fan we were nearly dead in 1987 ,Jimmy hill then the money from al fayed has put us where we are , hope you sort this out coz it’s not all about the premier league .
🙏 Praying for the Southend Supporters
I am a big southend fan and it is really sad to see protests near enough every week because the atmosphere at roots hall is unbelievable, hopefully it can be sorted out
This almost happened with my club Gateshead we got related and promoted last season dont think I saw a single artice or person except for us fans talking about it we raised money so we could survive so the fans saved out club
Bury got promoted when they went bust so league position doesn’t matter
I hope you get your club back Southend fans. My missus is from there, so I’ll always have a soft spot for the Shrimpers 💙
Can't Wait To See HITC Sevens' Video On Southend United
My team Monarcas Morelia was taken from us fans in Mexico it would be cool if you covered something like that … hope these fans get to keep their club
Southend United was a team me and my brother have a memory of having one of our first career mode on fifa what we made them to the Premiership and was happy and all that seeing this hurts me after i known this club in all my childhood tbh and i don't wanna see them wanishing from football like Bury and now Scunthorpe i hope they will be saved somehow it's a football club that have the hearts of many and no one wanna see their supporting club wanish from football ever. Love from Norway
Painful seeing the demise of Southend, grandad played for them in the 1970s and I live down the road. The Shrimpers will rise again.
watching this a year in the future. How are we still breathing!