At one point you had to shout to speak to the person next to you, unfortunately not because of the noisy atmosphere but because they were stood so far away. I'm I was at a match with more away fans than Rovers fans. Glad those days are behind us now and hope no other club has to go through it.
I'm a doncaster lad and always remember the cup run where they beat villa and man City, and playing arsenal at the old belle Vue, now a nice housing estate which I go past everyday
I hope you're just mentioning that they're an American family and not saying that they are who they are because they're American. I'm sick of the anti-American xenophobia that comes out of the fact that the Glazers and Stan Kroenke are idiots.
@@3dsaulgoodman43 well a lot of people don't like Americans because of how they seem to act with European and mainly English lifestyle and tradition But just coz their American doesn't mean their bad lol
@@Jules7777 1:"They're" as in "They are"! Jesus!!! And in a post about "England" and "English" ..... Oh the irony! 2: Just because YOU and maybe a few people around you don't like Americans, doesn't constitute "A lot of people". "A lot of people" ARE American, and I'm hoping they like each other.
I was living in Florida at the time , his daughter Julie was my American wifes best friend and she took a lot of the rap and for months hid out at our house in Florida with her mother. I knew Richardson , he invited me to west riding sacks to have lunch with him and tour the company. I found him one of the unhappiest men I had ever met , he was egotistical, arrogant selfish but desperately unhappy . I know even more about this horrible man that I cannot type here , this scandal is the tip of the iceberg , his life was always a mess .I always wonder if he really regrets his life the way hes lived it
@@SK-vc4nh Try supporting Bury or Macclesfield both went bust because of their owners. If you still have a club and you're spending millions then you can fuck of with your complaining.
@@SK-vc4nh arsenal owners are shit in the way alan sugar was shit, but kroenke's not gonna cause arsenal to completely dissolve. smaller clubs can be shafted way more, like my club 1860 Munich who almost folded in 2017 because our shady owner refused to pay his own debts, and we dropped down to the fourth tier. and we got lucky, we still have a club and have bounced back a little. like the dude above said, bury and macclesfield, or clubs like aldershot and the original wimbledon, don't even exist anymore because of their owners. complain all you want but you still have a club, are still in the prem, and still within shot of europe (maybe not this year but in general)
@@seahpo6737 this! 🤜🤛 I'm a Portsmouth fan and we had a very similar story following unscrupulous owners. We may have won the FA cup and got into Europe, but the next few years spelt 2 administrations and 3 relegations.
@@SK-vc4nh yeah theres so many similarities with Arsenals owners, Doncaster had players sitting doing nothing on 300 grand a week wages and spent 70 mil on 1 player. Arsenal have bad owners who just like The Glaziers take more out of the club than they put in, but we have a club, it's not like Bury who dont even exist because not only did there owners bleed them dry all the so called PL clubs sat back and did nothing to help. If every PL club put 1 million together no club would ever have that worry, you could save clubs like Bury and remove the people who destroyed them. Have the club being owned by the people who care, the supporters.
Great video as always, must admit I do miss the lower league dramas sometime. If you want to do a video on the year a board tried to relegate their team so they could keep all money from the sale of the ground then feel free to drop a message.
Thanks for making this video, absolutely crazy times! Small correction; Rovers beat Dagenham and Redbridge in the 2003 Conference play-off final, not Leyton. It was a golden goal winner! I seem to remember fans also had a mock funeral for the club after dropping out of the football league, I wonder if that's ever happened before?!
Was about to pick up on this but guessed that somebody would have beat me to it. Only 'GG' goal to win a play-off tie in the UK (and probably any competition). Then 12 months later, silver became the new gold which totally befuddled the ref at Gay Meadow, after the Shrewsbury v Barnet second-leg had gone to extra-time.
And I thought the team I supported, Carlisle United, had the worst owner in League Football back in the 1990's. Michael Knighton was a joke and very nearly sent us to the wall, but he couldn't hold a candle to Richardson. Congrats to Doncaster Rovers and their fans for not only surviving the Richardson years but excelling in the decades that followed. Great video, very informative.
The only new videos I get excited for at 1am and if for some reason im actually asleep they're the first thing I watch every morning. Keep up the great work, from Orange County, CA
Richardson actually sold the 5 a side pitch (tarmac bit behind right hand as you look it goal at 8:21) to Asda (just out of shot behind that goal) even though he never owned it
I LIVE THERE!!!! Im pretty sure the club n that going on Ebay was a hoax. Ngl, the stadium was a shitter and was rusting away for the past 20 years anyway (played there a few times when I was younger).
as a Doncaster fan and someone who has lived in Doncaster my whole life. going past the location where Belle Vue was still brings back the bad memories.
i have only happy memories of going past belle view. i wish they'd have kept it open and used it for donny reserve/youth games and donny belles etc. i love that little golf club hanging on the end of that new estate😂 totally out of place lol.
Thanks for posting this video. The scars of Richardson's time at Rovers are still there, I remember well the protests during games. Belle Vue, not the prettiest ground, did have a good atmosphere, even with only 3000 inside. I have even been inside Belle Vue when there was over 20,000 and that was special. Things at Rovers aren't great at the moment, a play off place at the end of this 2020.21 season is all but been thrown away so hopefully the right appointment of manager will be made soon and a quality team can be assembled during the summer to turn the club around.
Been playing FM (CM) since season 00/01, even I know that playing FM is not 1/4 experience of real life football managing. Too many variabels in real life.
Day 9:Please make a video about DINAMO BUCHAREST...The story of our club is a hard one...And you telling it can really help us a lot,our club is clinging to survival,and we raised 2 milion euros to try to save the club... Dinamo is one of the biggest clubs in Eastern Europe,it has 18 league titles and 13 domestic cup titles...It reached the Champions League Semi Final in 1984 after beating the holders of the trophy Hamburg...In the Semi Final they played against the great Liverpool side of the 80's...After the 89 revolution the club lost one of their greatest generation after their players where bought off by western clubs,similar to what happened to the clubs in East Germany that you already talked about...Corruption and neglect brought this giant of romanian football to it s knees...At the moment Dinamo is preety much the ONLY true historical side in Romania's top division...This team stood afloat thanks only to it's fans...In the summer some new spanish chiarman came and bought the club,brought players on huge contracts and left without paying them...The players just broke the contracts and the club accumulated even more debt...If the fans did not step in and accumulated 2 milion euros the club would have been dissolved...For anyone watching outside of Eastern Europe it might be hard to understand it s value...If u re English imagine Liverpool being dissolved...This club is OUR Liverpool,and it's stadium OUR cathedral...With all the fears of relegation,players leaving and managers coming in and leaving the club still managed to fight it's way to a Romanian cup Semi Final...Please,make one video about our story too...
I watched my first football match at Belle Vue, from next to that stand. What he said about the car park was absolutely true, and it got much worse when it rained
Thanks for filling in the blanks on this story, I cleaned up the home changing room after the fire, I remember there was a sign on the wall that said Keep fighting, I'm glad for all at DRFC that they did.
yes my guy! my hometown club. haha so weird to see someone giving them 20 minutes. i'm 35 now so i started watching donny at belle view age 9 around 94/95 season. i saw EVERYTHING. what a journey the last 25 years. so proud of what they've achieved. john ryan is a god.
i remember all of this vividly. i loved belle vue, it absolutely reeked of vix vaporub, bovril, dry pasties and steam from the tea boilers. the players always spent time with us kids signing our programs. i remember the pitch invasions, so sad. but we made it back. i stopped going when they built the keepmoat, just admire from a distance. i miss the 90s. great video.
memories pitch invasion 81 promotion against bournemouth and the year they had 6.5 reading 5.4 wigan and more goals i cant remember, then tv cameras went for the next game and it was 0 0
mate you have no idea. i was born in luton, moved to donny in 1990. my dad's side are all luton fans and i was lumped with both luton AND donny😂😂i had suffered non stop my whole football supporting life😂 it's been better the last few years, everyone has settled down thank fcuk! sorry to ramble but i GET IT👒👒and we beat the scum last week👏
Holy fuck. 3 successive relegations going from Championship to Non League drowning in a cesspit of gross mismanagement so heinous that the people responsible should have been beheaded in The Tower.
I’ve heard of this before, but it was before my time. My Uncle supports DRFC and mentions if often. when someone mentions DRFC, it reminds me of their win against Leeds to get to the Championship in 2008 and the Coppinger goal v Brentford to return to the Championship in 2013.
Actually, when Fergus McCann took over Celtic in the 90s, he came with a 5 year plan, at the end of it we had a new 60,000 seater stadium, bought the likes of Di Canio, Van Hoojdonk, Larsson, Lambert etc and stopped Rangers from completing their own 10 in a row also. Just meaning that some 5 year plans can work with the right implementation.
@@mcbrodz1663 not with McCann, he bought over the club literally hours before the Club was technically going out of business. Every Celtic fan will agree he deserves the main stand to be named after him due to what he did for Celtic
15:40 I enjoyed this but Leyton Orient weren't in the Conference in 2003, it was Dagenham and Redbridge that Doncaster beat in the Conference playoff final. Orient didn't get relegated to the Conference until 2017 after 110 years as a football league team. Great video otherwise, sorry to be pedantic!
Cannot believe Ken Richardson would do that to his own football club since he left Doncaster Rovers had a new lease of life once new chairman was appointed he listens to the fans as they wanted to return to the EFL and new chairman was the catalyst unlike Richardson
you should do a video on kettering town fc. Hired Gazza as a manager and then fired him after 39 days. pretty interesting history of a small football team
I remember that 97/98 season. They got beat 8-0 twice, and most of the players that were brought in were part-timers from the 8th and 9th tiers, who were seemingly on weekly contracts, and they'd play 3 games and then disappear back to the 9th tier and be replaced by another one. Think they used about 40 players. It was a mad season for Donny.
A similar thing happened to a football club in Colne, Lancashire - Colne Dynamos. Won the FA Vase trophy following major investment by a business man and within a few year went bust.
That’s right. They won the HFS Loans premier division in 1989/90 but their Holte House ground was deemed unsuitable for the GM Vauxhall Conference and after playing a friendly against Newcastle Blue Star that was it. The rich owner stopped paying the bills and they went out of business. They had some high earners playing for them as well. Alan Kennedy for example. I think a phoenix club rose from the ashes of Colne Dynamoes though. Colne FC.
Do one of Southend United FC and Ronald Martin. Because Mr Martin is literally causing such misery at Southend United and the fans want him out. But he won’t leave. And unfortunately Southend United are to be relegated from the EFL after spending 115 years in the EFL and are to be heading down to the National League (Non-League) for the first time in their history.
Be great to see you do a vid of Ex Carlisle Utd Chairman Micheal Knighton. Came to carlisle, built a stand that didnt align with the pitch as part of his "30,000 all seater stadium" plan. Almost drove Carlisle utd extinction.
I was at Old Trafford for the first game of the 1989/90 season against Arsenal. He came out juggling the ball and shooting in the goal at the Stretford end and we thought ‘ who the bloody hell is this?? ‘. The he went to Carlisle and chased aliens!!
You have this video set to auto-generate the CC to Dutch, making the CC not understandable in English (it converts from the Dutch auto-gen to English). I've been seeing this happen a lot on YT lately. I don't speak other languages, so I pretty much watch English language vids exclusively, so I'm guessing YT has fucked something up on their end during the settings phase of the upload.
Other video suggestion: cities that would challenge for trophies with United teams (can't have top flight sides currently) - e.g. Bristol, Sheffield (now relegated), etc
I watched a Donny game that season; They lost 1-3 at home to Brighton.. They had a new goalkeeper who turned out to be one of this Chairman's mates. It was the only game he ever played for a league team... and the thing is, he was Donny's best player that day
The goalkeeper was Dave Smith who was a neighbour of Richardson's sidekick Mark Weaver, the guy mentioned in the video who was made team manager despite zero experience. Smith's only football pedigree was the Manchester Sunday League.
Would love to see a video include the shambles of when nicolas anelkas brothers, Claude took over raith rovers, made himself manager and brought in French 5 a side players
Not as notorious as the ‘Fine Cotton’ horse racing ring in here in Australia in the mid 80’s, when a slow horse,’Fine Cotton’,was supposed to be switched with a much faster horse, ‘Dashing Solitaire’,which looked identical,but was injured at the time of the ring in.So another horse was found,’Bold Personality’,but this horse,unlike Fine Cotton,did not have white hooves, so the ring leaders painted the hooves of Bold Personality just before the fixed race.The odds on the supposed ‘Fine Cotton’ was heavily bet from 33/1 into 7/4 favourite. Bold Personality,posing as Fine Cotton,won the race,but then the stewards notices that white paint was dripping from the horse’s hooves,and that’s where the ring in unraveled.
Richardson and Weaver were the 2 most hated men in Doncaster at the time. Probably still are. And in Bridlington no doubt. I didn’t know about his foul deeds at that club.
Yeah that was a really strange one. They became pretty successful, had established themselves as a Football League club over a few seasons and had a very nice, new and shiny ground. I remember that it was due to Max Griggs running out of money?? The reason for their demise??
Talking of northern teams starting with D have you ever considered a video on all the going ons that resulted in Darlington moving into that 25,000 seat stadium when their record attendance was 8k prior to it opening and they never managed to even half fill it
Alfie can you do a video on Brighton, showcasing from when Archer took over as owner, nearly going out of existence and then the rise to the premier league?
To borrow a quote about Mike Ashley (Newcastle United and Sports Direct owner), Richardson sounds like the type of man who would unplug your life support machine to recharge his phone.
AHH Belle Vue, was ball boy a few times there as a kid, also one of my most embarrassing moments as well, I switched off during the game as it got a little boring, not a lot of action going on, teams kept losing the ball (couldn't remember who rovers were playing) anyway I was sat behind goal not paying attention next minute I know I've got Andy Warrington screaming at me for the ball, I go to pass it to him only to miss the ball completely 🤦
Probably won’t be a comment to get noticed, but the image at 12:10 isn’t David Cowling, it’s Paul Jones I’m pretty sure. He did also play for Huddersfield Town to be fair though. Never had anything to do with Donny as far as I’m aware.
In this and other worlds,I am the 259th liker of this video and one of my favourite clubs Doncaster Rovers will bounce back from this tragedy which was being caused by their owner,good friends!!!
I'm trying to work out why between 12:09 and 12:31 the talk is about 'Huddersfield town great David Cowling' while showing a photo of Willie Morgan during his Bolton Wanderers days?
I lived very close to the stadium when the explosion happened, it blew out some our greenhouse glass. The stadium had been shut a nearly 6 months following the move the keepmoat. A couple of travelers had broken into the stadium to steel the copper piping, unfortunately for them and the stadium, Someone had forgotten to turn the Gas off. Gas leaked into the entire popular stand structure. Which was largely made of concrete and steel. Whilst attempting to steal some more materials they used an angle grinder to cut pieces off. Causing a spark which ignited the gas causing a huge explosion which could be heard across the town. It killed at least one traveler and serverly injured another. Despite the explosion the stand largely remained intact. A few months later high winds caught the remain corrugated steel roof and launched it across the dual carriageway blocking a main route through the town, after that the popular stand was demolished.
Big up those Doncaster fans who kept on supporting their club during those horrible times.
As a Doncaster rovers fan my self who can't remember them times but have been told
@@owendrfc6412 coming from a Scunthorpe fan
Respect to the club for being able to live through that shit that they put you through
At one point you had to shout to speak to the person next to you, unfortunately not because of the noisy atmosphere but because they were stood so far away. I'm I was at a match with more away fans than Rovers fans. Glad those days are behind us now and hope no other club has to go through it.
@@neilroberts2448 what stand do u sit in a keepmoat
@@owendrfc6412 unfortunately can't get to matches anymore, work stopped that used to sit south east corner
Can we just appreciate that every video he writes literally an essay for his script
That’s why it’s a video essay
@@imaginebeingacityfan3831 hey I like ur name even though I’m not a fan of either city or United haha
That’s his job tho...
No we cant
@@poshorange6757 kinda, he would get more views on list videos, so we should appreciate him doing this out of more passion
I'm a doncaster lad and always remember the cup run where they beat villa and man City, and playing arsenal at the old belle Vue, now a nice housing estate which I go past everyday
Up the rovers
Great year. Nearly beat arsenal too if it wasn't for a last minute equaliser by Gilberto Silva. Excellent time to be a Donny fan all decade
Sadly I didn’t get to go to the bell vue at all but from everything I’ve seen it was a nice little ground which i would’ve loved to go to
@@lewis3725 same here. If I could go back in time I would go and see belle vue
@@owendrfc6412 who do you want as new manager
Updated in 2023: *The American Glazers family who burnt down their own club.*
I hope you're just mentioning that they're an American family and not saying that they are who they are because they're American. I'm sick of the anti-American xenophobia that comes out of the fact that the Glazers and Stan Kroenke are idiots.
@@3dsaulgoodman43 well a lot of people don't like Americans because of how they seem to act with European and mainly English lifestyle and tradition
But just coz their American doesn't mean their bad lol
Wouldn't surprise me
@@Jules7777 1:"They're" as in "They are"! Jesus!!! And in a post about "England" and "English" ..... Oh the irony!
2: Just because YOU and maybe a few people around you don't like Americans, doesn't constitute "A lot of people". "A lot of people" ARE American, and I'm hoping they like each other.
@@DBuckyBoy im fucking agreeing with you Lad what are you going at me for? Lma
I was living in Florida at the time , his daughter Julie was my American wifes best friend and she took a lot of the rap and for months hid out at our house in Florida with her mother. I knew Richardson , he invited me to west riding sacks to have lunch with him and tour the company. I found him one of the unhappiest men I had ever met , he was egotistical, arrogant selfish but desperately unhappy . I know even more about this horrible man that I cannot type here , this scandal is the tip of the iceberg , his life was always a mess .I always wonder if he really regrets his life the way hes lived it
That was kind of you guys to host them
There was a documentary called “They Think Its All Rovers” about Donny’s relegation season just before Ken Richardson was jailed for arson
Certainly was. It’s on TH-cam. What a shitshow it was . Mark Weaver was his puppet. Richardson’s I meant.
All I remember from that documentary is “ Weaver out !! “
When you hear about stories like this, it is ridiculous some of the grievances with chairmen and owners that some fans of top clubs have.
try supporting arsenal then
@@SK-vc4nh Try supporting Bury or Macclesfield both went bust because of their owners. If you still have a club and you're spending millions then you can fuck of with your complaining.
@@SK-vc4nh arsenal owners are shit in the way alan sugar was shit, but kroenke's not gonna cause arsenal to completely dissolve. smaller clubs can be shafted way more, like my club 1860 Munich who almost folded in 2017 because our shady owner refused to pay his own debts, and we dropped down to the fourth tier. and we got lucky, we still have a club and have bounced back a little. like the dude above said, bury and macclesfield, or clubs like aldershot and the original wimbledon, don't even exist anymore because of their owners. complain all you want but you still have a club, are still in the prem, and still within shot of europe (maybe not this year but in general)
@@seahpo6737 this! 🤜🤛
I'm a Portsmouth fan and we had a very similar story following unscrupulous owners. We may have won the FA cup and got into Europe, but the next few years spelt 2 administrations and 3 relegations.
@@SK-vc4nh yeah theres so many similarities with Arsenals owners, Doncaster had players sitting doing nothing on 300 grand a week wages and spent 70 mil on 1 player. Arsenal have bad owners who just like The Glaziers take more out of the club than they put in, but we have a club, it's not like Bury who dont even exist because not only did there owners bleed them dry all the so called PL clubs sat back and did nothing to help. If every PL club put 1 million together no club would ever have that worry, you could save clubs like Bury and remove the people who destroyed them. Have the club being owned by the people who care, the supporters.
Great video as always, must admit I do miss the lower league dramas sometime. If you want to do a video on the year a board tried to relegate their team so they could keep all money from the sale of the ground then feel free to drop a message.
Thanks for making this video, absolutely crazy times!
Small correction; Rovers beat Dagenham and Redbridge in the 2003 Conference play-off final, not Leyton. It was a golden goal winner!
I seem to remember fans also had a mock funeral for the club after dropping out of the football league, I wonder if that's ever happened before?!
Was about to pick up on this but guessed that somebody would have beat me to it. Only 'GG' goal to win a play-off tie in the UK (and probably any competition). Then 12 months later, silver became the new gold which totally befuddled the ref at Gay Meadow, after the Shrewsbury v Barnet second-leg had gone to extra-time.
Day 8: 7 Players who've (surprisingly) never been mentioned in any hitc sevens video.
Thiago Cionek
Youssef atal? Never heard him mentioned here
John Utaka
Leo Fortune-West
Harvey Barnes. Ballon d'or winner
And I thought the team I supported, Carlisle United, had the worst owner in League Football back in the 1990's. Michael Knighton was a joke and very nearly sent us to the wall, but he couldn't hold a candle to Richardson. Congrats to Doncaster Rovers and their fans for not only surviving the Richardson years but excelling in the decades that followed.
Great video, very informative.
Is it true that Michael Knighton tried to get Carlisle United into the Scottish leagues
Some channels do very lazy videos. This is not one of them. A great amount of detail and effort every time. Great vid.
The only new videos I get excited for at 1am and if for some reason im actually asleep they're the first thing I watch every morning. Keep up the great work, from Orange County, CA
Reminds me of Basingstoke's owner selling parts of the stadium on ebay
Wait WHAT?
Pls a little deatil
Richardson actually sold the 5 a side pitch (tarmac bit behind right hand as you look it goal at 8:21) to Asda (just out of shot behind that goal) even though he never owned it
I LIVE THERE!!!!
Im pretty sure the club n that going on Ebay was a hoax. Ngl, the stadium was a shitter and was rusting away for the past 20 years anyway (played there a few times when I was younger).
They “tried to sign Ronaldinho” to.... that was also a hoax.
as a Doncaster fan and someone who has lived in Doncaster my whole life. going past the location where Belle Vue was still brings back the bad memories.
i have only happy memories of going past belle view. i wish they'd have kept it open and used it for donny reserve/youth games and donny belles etc.
i love that little golf club hanging on the end of that new estate😂 totally out of place lol.
Poor soul having to live in Doncaster, how do you survive in such a shithole?
The switch to these long form, near essays, is what's finally made me subscribe. Keep it up my guy :)
Thanks for posting this video. The scars of Richardson's time at Rovers are still there, I remember well the protests during games. Belle Vue, not the prettiest ground, did have a good atmosphere, even with only 3000 inside. I have even been inside Belle Vue when there was over 20,000 and that was special. Things at Rovers aren't great at the moment, a play off place at the end of this 2020.21 season is all but been thrown away so hopefully the right appointment of manager will be made soon and a quality team can be assembled during the summer to turn the club around.
When you really think playing Football Manager counts as experience
But he got maidenhead to the prem in 7 years
Frankly, many playing FM would probably do a better job than anything ran under Ken Richardson if given enough time and scouting staff.
Been playing FM (CM) since season 00/01, even I know that playing FM is not 1/4 experience of real life football managing. Too many variabels in real life.
Day 9:Please make a video about DINAMO BUCHAREST...The story of our club is a hard one...And you telling it can really help us a lot,our club is clinging to survival,and we raised 2 milion euros to try to save the club...
Dinamo is one of the biggest clubs in Eastern Europe,it has 18 league titles and 13 domestic cup titles...It reached the Champions League Semi Final in 1984 after beating the holders of the trophy Hamburg...In the Semi Final they played against the great Liverpool side of the 80's...After the 89 revolution the club lost one of their greatest generation after their players where bought off by western clubs,similar to what happened to the clubs in East Germany that you already talked about...Corruption and neglect brought this giant of romanian football to it s knees...At the moment Dinamo is preety much the ONLY true historical side in Romania's top division...This team stood afloat thanks only to it's fans...In the summer some new spanish chiarman came and bought the club,brought players on huge contracts and left without paying them...The players just broke the contracts and the club accumulated even more debt...If the fans did not step in and accumulated 2 milion euros the club would have been dissolved...For anyone watching outside of Eastern Europe it might be hard to understand it s value...If u re English imagine Liverpool being dissolved...This club is OUR Liverpool,and it's stadium OUR cathedral...With all the fears of relegation,players leaving and managers coming in and leaving the club still managed to fight it's way to a Romanian cup Semi Final...Please,make one video about our story too...
I watched my first football match at Belle Vue, from next to that stand. What he said about the car park was absolutely true, and it got much worse when it rained
Cracking video as always, I love the documentary style videos about the subjects that fans may not know about
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Thanks for filling in the blanks on this story, I cleaned up the home changing room after the fire, I remember there was a sign on the wall that said Keep fighting, I'm glad for all at DRFC that they did.
yes my guy! my hometown club. haha so weird to see someone giving them 20 minutes. i'm 35 now so i started watching donny at belle view age 9 around 94/95 season. i saw EVERYTHING. what a journey the last 25 years. so proud of what they've achieved. john ryan is a god.
Doncaster fan here! Great video, brilliant watch
Day 55: 7 worst players who scored a hattrick in either the premier or champions league
Kevin Lisbie and Carl Leaburn
pierre-emerick aubameyang
@northsidedub1 I'd find it interesting, and lots of others would too
@@melodiclogic9904 lmao
@@Randomperson-zt3il being an arsenal fan hurts at the moment haha
Love these documentary style video! 👍🏻
not often i see a vid about my club. it's certainly a story worth telling! much love alfie
These documentary videos are fantastic
i remember all of this vividly. i loved belle vue, it absolutely reeked of vix vaporub, bovril, dry pasties and steam from the tea boilers. the players always spent time with us kids signing our programs. i remember the pitch invasions, so sad. but we made it back. i stopped going when they built the keepmoat, just admire from a distance. i miss the 90s. great video.
memories pitch invasion 81 promotion against bournemouth and the year they had 6.5 reading 5.4 wigan and more goals i cant remember, then tv cameras went for the next game and it was 0 0
@@acustomer3518 classic donny mate haha
alfie keeps producing qualify documentaires at an increasing rate , keep it up 💪🏾
As someone who grew up in Bridlington, I wondered what had happened to Brid Town - thanks great video essay
Make a video about Luton Town and the shite we went through 10+ years ago.
mate you have no idea. i was born in luton, moved to donny in 1990. my dad's side are all luton fans and i was lumped with both luton AND donny😂😂i had suffered non stop my whole football supporting life😂 it's been better the last few years, everyone has settled down thank fcuk!
sorry to ramble but i GET IT👒👒and we beat the scum last week👏
Holy fuck. 3 successive relegations going from Championship to Non League drowning in a cesspit of gross mismanagement so heinous that the people responsible should have been beheaded in The Tower.
I’ve heard of this before, but it was before my time. My Uncle supports DRFC and mentions if often.
when someone mentions DRFC, it reminds me of their win against Leeds to get to the Championship in 2008 and the Coppinger goal v Brentford to return to the Championship in 2013.
Ah " They think it's all Rovers " tale . Such a great but tragic documentary .
Fascinating video! Thank you, Alfie
Another brilliant episode.
This is a reminder that football sold its soul a long time ago.
Actually, when Fergus McCann took over Celtic in the 90s, he came with a 5 year plan, at the end of it we had a new 60,000 seater stadium, bought the likes of Di Canio, Van Hoojdonk, Larsson, Lambert etc and stopped Rangers from completing their own 10 in a row also. Just meaning that some 5 year plans can work with the right implementation.
80% of the time it’s the sign of a dodgy owner whose telling you what they want you to hear
@@mcbrodz1663 not with McCann, he bought over the club literally hours before the Club was technically going out of business. Every Celtic fan will agree he deserves the main stand to be named after him due to what he did for Celtic
@@ajorngjdonaydbr “ the rebels have won “.
@@mrkipling2201 "The Game is Over, The Rebels have won"
@@ajorngjdonaydbr 👍👍
class video mate great to see small clubs like us get coverage
Its funny how that the horse racing scandal you mentioned at the start is literally the plot of one of Sir ACD's Sherlock Holmes novels, Silver Blaze.
Love the content dude! 👍🏽👍🏽 Cheers from California
You guys in America are seriously catching up on loving football.
Great to see.
Hope you found our club interesting!
Get well soon Darren Moore. (Wednesday fan here. love your work and youtube channel)
Donny Rovers fan here. Just want to say well done, that's quite accurate. There is of course far more to the story but that's a good summery.
I've been to Doncaster's current stadium (as a Carlisle fan), and it's a decent set up you've got there
Every video never disappoints
Just discovered this excellent channel. Instant subscriber 👍🏻.
Welcome aboard, Mark!
quality content as usual, keep it up lads
Finally a video on the mighty Rovers, just a shame that this is what we're best known for.
Because you are a tinpot club
Ik Doncaster because they haven’t been in the Prem (strange Ik)
Great video! Would love more content like this!
They beat Dagenham and Redbridge not Leyton Orient in 02/03 play off final. Heartbreaking day for my 2nd team 😢
Yeah, great game and sir Francis Tierney grabbing the silver goal to win the game at stokes brittania stadium
Alfie day 70 of asking for the Kroenke video from DECEMBER
Also 7 ways to fix international football
Kroenke is a very typical big money owner who doesn’t care about the club, it’s not even like arsenal don’t invest, it’s just invested poorly
@@samrosenberg67 it’s not just Kroenke. There also a complete mess in the Arsenal boardroom
15:40 I enjoyed this but Leyton Orient weren't in the Conference in 2003, it was Dagenham and Redbridge that Doncaster beat in the Conference playoff final. Orient didn't get relegated to the Conference until 2017 after 110 years as a football league team. Great video otherwise, sorry to be pedantic!
Cannot believe Ken Richardson would do that to his own football club since he left Doncaster Rovers had a new lease of life once new chairman was appointed he listens to the fans as they wanted to return to the EFL and new chairman was the catalyst unlike Richardson
you should do a video on kettering town fc. Hired Gazza as a manager and then fired him after 39 days. pretty interesting history of a small football team
It would appear that the Kettering chairman was not as sensible as Gazza....
I have to say I absolutely pissed myself laughing at the way they were caught I can't be the only one!
I remember that 97/98 season. They got beat 8-0 twice, and most of the players that were brought in were part-timers from the 8th and 9th tiers, who were seemingly on weekly contracts, and they'd play 3 games and then disappear back to the 9th tier and be replaced by another one. Think they used about 40 players. It was a mad season for Donny.
Every video, every day, a treasure. Thanks for all your hard work. Its appreciated :)
Thanks for this video Alfie and you're welcome for Grant McCann xx
Brilliant as always!
The only Fact I knew About Doncaster Rovers is that It is supported by Louis Tomlinson and He even got into the first team squad for a season.
Part of the music video Back to You was also filmed at our ground
Interesting and well researched. Thankyou
A similar thing happened to a football club in Colne, Lancashire - Colne Dynamos. Won the FA Vase trophy following major investment by a business man and within a few year went bust.
That’s right. They won the HFS Loans premier division in 1989/90 but their Holte House ground was deemed unsuitable for the GM Vauxhall Conference and after playing a friendly against Newcastle Blue Star that was it. The rich owner stopped paying the bills and they went out of business. They had some high earners playing for them as well. Alan Kennedy for example. I think a phoenix club rose from the ashes of Colne Dynamoes though. Colne FC.
Though not a Doncaster fan, I really enjoyed that. Thanks.
Cheers from Donny. Much appreciated.
I miss Saturdays in the Keepmoat so much.
I love these types of videos.
Do one of Southend United FC and Ronald Martin. Because Mr Martin is literally causing such misery at Southend United and the fans want him out. But he won’t leave. And unfortunately Southend United are to be relegated from the EFL after spending 115 years in the EFL and are to be heading down to the National League (Non-League) for the first time in their history.
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Be great to see you do a vid of Ex Carlisle Utd Chairman Micheal Knighton. Came to carlisle, built a stand that didnt align with the pitch as part of his "30,000 all seater stadium" plan. Almost drove Carlisle utd extinction.
I was at Old Trafford for the first game of the 1989/90 season against Arsenal. He came out juggling the ball and shooting in the goal at the Stretford end and we thought ‘ who the bloody hell is this?? ‘. The he went to Carlisle and chased aliens!!
Not many people like myself knew about that
Nice video Alfie
You have this video set to auto-generate the CC to Dutch, making the CC not understandable in English (it converts from the Dutch auto-gen to English). I've been seeing this happen a lot on YT lately. I don't speak other languages, so I pretty much watch English language vids exclusively, so I'm guessing YT has fucked something up on their end during the settings phase of the upload.
Day 2: 7 greatest pre war footballers of all time
And we are due to get promoted to the northern premier league in a new division - Bridlington Town
I want to know the process for finding stories like this.
If it weren't for the Super League we'd have had this gem of a video days ago by now
Other video suggestion: cities that would challenge for trophies with United teams (can't have top flight sides currently) - e.g. Bristol, Sheffield (now relegated), etc
I watched a Donny game that season; They lost 1-3 at home to Brighton.. They had a new goalkeeper who turned out to be one of this Chairman's mates. It was the only game he ever played for a league team... and the thing is, he was Donny's best player that day
The goalkeeper was Dave Smith who was a neighbour of Richardson's sidekick Mark Weaver, the guy mentioned in the video who was made team manager despite zero experience. Smith's only football pedigree was the Manchester Sunday League.
FINALLY Accrington Stanley get featured (somewhat) in a HITC Sevens video!
Would love to see a video include the shambles of when nicolas anelkas brothers, Claude took over raith rovers, made himself manager and brought in French 5 a side players
What a great end to a terrible story, very happy the for the fans
There's also an excellent DVD of the tale of Donny over the same period and the rise of the club under the chairman who saved them
I had no idea he was involved in the Flockton Grey scandal! A bit unfair to drag poor Kevin Richardson into it at 4:08 though.
@Toni Caso that was Kevin Darley. Alfie misspoke at one point and called Ken Richardson by the name of former Everton midfielder Kevin Richardson.
Not as notorious as the ‘Fine Cotton’ horse racing ring in here in Australia in the mid 80’s,
when a slow horse,’Fine Cotton’,was supposed to be switched with a much faster horse,
‘Dashing Solitaire’,which looked identical,but was injured at the time of the ring in.So another
horse was found,’Bold Personality’,but this horse,unlike Fine Cotton,did not have white hooves,
so the ring leaders painted the hooves of Bold Personality just before the fixed race.The odds
on the supposed ‘Fine Cotton’ was heavily bet from 33/1 into 7/4 favourite.
Bold Personality,posing as Fine Cotton,won the race,but then the stewards notices that white
paint was dripping from the horse’s hooves,and that’s where the ring in unraveled.
Danny Beghara getting a shout out✌️Here’s to the man from Uruguay🔵⚪️
Speaking of stadium disasters, you should do a video about the Valley Parade fire.
Richardson and Weaver were the 2 most hated men in Doncaster at the time. Probably still are. And in Bridlington no doubt. I didn’t know about his foul deeds at that club.
Of course there was Rushden and Diamonds who disappeared completely and the ground does not exist anymore either.
Yeah that was a really strange one. They became pretty successful, had established themselves as a Football League club over a few seasons and had a very nice, new and shiny ground. I remember that it was due to Max Griggs running out of money?? The reason for their demise??
Sounds like this guy had his sights set too low. Should have owned one of the "big six" Premier League clubs. Seems like a perfect candidate.
My best friend is a donny fan, one of the only few in Worksop, which is where I live and only half an hour from Donny
Do a video about the Brighton owners who sold the goldstone ground
Thanks for the brilliant video. One small error….Rovers beat Dagenham & Redbridge in the 2003 playoff final😀
Talking of northern teams starting with D have you ever considered a video on all the going ons that resulted in Darlington moving into that 25,000 seat stadium when their record attendance was 8k prior to it opening and they never managed to even half fill it
Not even a quarter lol
Great stadium though what a waste
Day 43: Dedicated video about the Azkals, the Filipino football
Alfie can you do a video on Brighton, showcasing from when Archer took over as owner, nearly going out of existence and then the rise to the premier league?
To borrow a quote about Mike Ashley (Newcastle United and Sports Direct owner), Richardson sounds like the type of man who would unplug your life support machine to recharge his phone.
AHH Belle Vue, was ball boy a few times there as a kid, also one of my most embarrassing moments as well, I switched off during the game as it got a little boring, not a lot of action going on, teams kept losing the ball (couldn't remember who rovers were playing) anyway I was sat behind goal not paying attention next minute I know I've got Andy Warrington screaming at me for the ball, I go to pass it to him only to miss the ball completely 🤦
Probably won’t be a comment to get noticed, but the image at 12:10 isn’t David Cowling, it’s Paul Jones I’m pretty sure. He did also play for Huddersfield Town to be fair though. Never had anything to do with Donny as far as I’m aware.
Probably the best history lesson ever
In this and other worlds,I am the 259th liker of this video and one of my favourite clubs Doncaster Rovers will bounce back from this tragedy which was being caused by their owner,good friends!!!
Doncaster Rovers logo is excellent 👍🏼
I'm trying to work out why between 12:09 and 12:31 the talk is about 'Huddersfield town great David Cowling' while showing a photo of Willie Morgan during his Bolton Wanderers days?
I lived very close to the stadium when the explosion happened, it blew out some our greenhouse glass. The stadium had been shut a nearly 6 months following the move the keepmoat. A couple of travelers had broken into the stadium to steel the copper piping, unfortunately for them and the stadium, Someone had forgotten to turn the Gas off. Gas leaked into the entire popular stand structure. Which was largely made of concrete and steel. Whilst attempting to steal some more materials they used an angle grinder to cut pieces off. Causing a spark which ignited the gas causing a huge explosion which could be heard across the town. It killed at least one traveler and serverly injured another. Despite the explosion the stand largely remained intact. A few months later high winds caught the remain corrugated steel roof and launched it across the dual carriageway blocking a main route through the town, after that the popular stand was demolished.
boylings lived nearby lol mightve been them lol
Day 5 (Video 4) Ranking every player of the Premier leauge 100 club