It's weird to see this story from a neutral point of view, rather then John's. This is possibly the strangest, but also a most heartwarming story of a football team.
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+AFC Wimbledon TV You guys are simply amazing! Greetings from a Liverpool fan who has followed your great journey for years! Keep it up and we'll see you in the PL soon!
+sistaledaren AFC Wimbeldon Quadruple winners 2019-20 UCL Final AFCW 2-1 RMCF FA Cup Final CFC 1-3 AFCW FLC Final AFCW 3-0 MUFC Premiership Top 4 1. Wombles 2. MCFC 3. CFC 4. MUFC
Oh I figured. It came through even with just text. I was just pointing out something I don't like, but she does, as does everyone else, it seems. Thanks! Have a good weekend yourself!
This is what football should be. Not a bunch of teams driven by some middle eastern oil Barron but teams driven by the love of the sport. Shows what football should be.
Aaron Hinton shit. I thought a muddled eastern oil Barron ploughing millions into a club and not really receiving much roi in comparison to other investments he could do as love of the sport... I may be wrong .. a RUclips star trying to plough what he has to get a bigger return on his investment may be for the love of sport 🤣🤔
I like john green and what he did for wimbledon, but he didnt save wimbledon. the fans saved it, from holding trials on the common and bring it up from the amateur leagues to where it is now. john found out about it fell in love with it and took an active participatory role in helping the club, but he didnt save it and i think he would be the first to tell you that.
+Drums & Bass Kinda irrelevant, because nobody said he alone saved them. It does say "helped save"...which doesn't mean solely. He did help...so there really should be no debate about it. Also, John is a fan...so kinda redundant to say he didn't.
LucidDream I want to be clear i'm not dissing john or anything. You wont find anyone connected to the club that has a bad word to say about him or what he has bought for the club. Its the issue with Vice saying he helped save the club. The saving of the club was all done in the noughties by the fans and the local community. I remember very well when old wimbledon moved to Milton Keynes. It was the fans who went in their thousands to watch their team play in local parks, pretty much. And the local businesses that went out of their way to sponsor them or give discounts to AFC Wimbledon members, or have the staff uniform as the AFC wimbledon shirt like Flame barbecue. Sports interactive who make football manager who are based in wimbledon, sponsored them from the start. By the time John had come to learn about the story of the Dons, they were already a stable club, who would usually play to much more fans than any other team in their division at the time, with a stable busniess plan. I'm not trying to say john hasnt done anything for the club. he's done way way more than me for instance and trust me everyone absolutely loves him and its hoped his connections will help the club kick on to the next level. He is helping the club immensely and no one will ever not say that. What i'm saying is that the club was saved in the first 5 years of its inception by the community when it was at the point it couldnt go further down. From then on its actually been a pretty successful club achieving successive promotions, getting a lot of coverage and having the fanbase consistently grow year on year.
I consume a decent amount of content online and I must say, coming across what John and Hank Green are doing is the single biggest gift the internet has ever given me. I have never known a duo as inspirational and motivated towards making the world a better place through one of the most unorthodox of platforms ever.
i'm so happy this video exists. it is SO difficult to explain to people why i support afc wimbeldon, as i've never had an interest in football in my entire life.
When I used to watch his history videos in which he'd joke about meeting Gerrard one day in Anfield and so on, I thought he wasn't being serious but now, to my surprise, I realized that this guy is a bigger football fan than most of us here. I salute to him! :')
+Erica Bourland basically, but I kinda pictured it with him sitting in the floor in front of the tv cross legged like he was 9 playing his best friend the NES, in the dark.
I believe it's just cause of all the drama and how instead of collaborating, they decide to judge others where in all reality no one cares. RUclips is a job for them right? so treat it as one and be professional instead of being immature.
I'm a Portsmouth fan (league two) and to be honest, I really enjoy the AFC Wimbledon story. They are a club that the fans would do whatever it took for their club (just like the Portsmouth fans, we own our own club and had to save our club from completely not existing)
John looks so happy! Not only is this such a great story, but John's pure unadulterated enthusiasm in those shots of him in the stands brings me such joy.
This video is what attracted me to AFC Wimbledon. Hearing this story was profoundly moving. Immediately after learning their story, I purchased an ownership stake in the team. I also had the fortune to be able to attend a game this past season (season finale against Oldham Athletic) while I was visiting the London area. It was a fantastic game and this is a fantastic club. I will be a fan for as long as I live.
Beautiful story. I liked how John said 'soccer' in the beginning when he was giving the interview but 'football' when talking to English fans of the club about this being the essence of sport. It sounds like a really tiny thing, and I don't know why, but it seems to have warmed my heart just a little bit.
Every now and again in sports there is a story that just melts your heart as a sports fan and the story of AFC Wimbledon and John Green is one of them. Best of luck to AFC Wimbledon and John Green on their rise together through English Football and maybe one day we’ll see them playing in the Premiership.
This video made me so happy! I'm so happy that John & Hank can touch and influence others lives. He could have easily not gave them Ad money for sponsorship. And the fact all these people had no idea who he was, ugh I love how they break so many barriers in the RUclips community.
4:45 - one of my favourite memories of being at the League 2 Playoff final on Monday was looking around to my friends going 'wait, how does that Akinfenwa chant that John Green made up go?!' and we started chanting this for most of the final 10 minutes of the game, even louder when the man himself scored!
+Kyle Preston But the original start up money was provided by the fans. Not knocking SI who were there at the very beginning but they did not start the club
John Green's love of AFC Wimbledon is simply infectious. I don't like football or any sport for that matter, but I got involved because of John and because of how passionate he is about it. That's the power of John Green.
I've been following John (and Hank) since 2007 or 2008. I've been aware of John's sports accounts and his gaming channel, but never followed them because I don't play video games and I've never followed soccer/football. The people and stories behind teams are important for me. One of the reasons that I like the Green Bay Packers is that they are owned by fans. This just made me want to be an AFC Wimbledon fan. Thanks, John.
+wiet111 Now my suspension of disbelief has been shattered! I will now only see John sitting in his recliner with Meredith right across from him in that office while he played a video game. Beforehand, I imagined him in the blue Laz-E-Boy with Meredith to the side behind him while he played a video game. UGH. Narrative RUINED. ;)
John Green is actually a Liverpool supporter and when AFC Wimbledon hosted Liverpool in a FA cup match, he went to it and vlogged about it. It was quite special!!!
This is so happy and heartwarming! It's also very surreal and strange to see non nerdfighters explaining all of this outside of the lens of John and Hank's videos.
5:17 I felt like that british guy made it out to seem as if John Green was a producer/ writer extraordinaire before starting his RUclips channel which is not the case (I mean him being a writer first is true but we all know he started off on RUclips, and then the major success with the movies and books came after he had garnered an amazing following on RUclips)
+Brainiac V I totally agree! Plus it sounded like they just did the Hank Games stuff to make ad money when they had the hugely popular vlogbrothers channel and were deliberately not having ads. I also hate how he made it sound like people watch just for the bald john green other john green etc when John talks over his games telling you about his life and things, THATS what we started watching for, not for random fifa, but now so many of us are into this.
+nerdommeetsboy That's... excessively nitpicky a distinction when we're glossing over career highlights of one man in less than a minute. For the benefit of people who probably have no idea of RUclips's inner workings. I'd say it's safe to let this one go, mate.
+KTGetc That is exactly the thing that made him a sensation in the RUclips community which in turn has helped him reach a broad spectrum that would've been impossible to do so without. So he if you want to define what the guy does in one sentence, that's it.
Chad Bryans yea, if you want to watch him cover his face in sharpies or run into a wall to test if he is an octopus there is thousands of hours of that online
Little by little, actual Americans are now rooting for AFC Wimbledon. The "American underdog story" is not just American, its universal, and this resonates with all true Americans who hear it.
+Ostrich160 While +miloent may have worded that statement poorly I think a reason many view the underdog story (while being truly universal) as American is because it is so very ingrained in our culture. When you ask an American about the values that are true across the country many would tell you that being able to make something out of nothing with hard work and determination, as the thing that resonates across the country. Whether or not that is actually true is another story but the idea of it is very deep-seated.
+Tyler Grandis +Ostrich160 The underdog story is pretty international and universal as you said, but some countries do resonate with it more than others, and both the UK and US are two of those. The American idea of an underdog, similar to what you said, is the idea of the American dream. Social mobility. People rising from the bottom to the top with some hard graft and elbow grease. In British culture it's more to do with history, such as the Battle of Britain in WW2 standing alone against the Nazis as London burned, and fending off the massive Spanish Armada in 1588, Rorke's Drift and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
I remember being a huge VlogBrothers fan and seeing the first episode of John playing FIFA when it first came out, never thought something so silly and fun would eventually make such an impact
What a lovely story and example of someone as wonderful as John Green putting his time and support behind a club like AFC Wimbledon that stand for all the right things not just in football but in the wider world too, a shining beacon of hope, genuineness and most of all perseverance. This video couldn’t have made me any more happier.
This should be a bonus feature on the DVD of the AFC Wimboldon movie. I don't think it could be in reality, but it just seems like something you would watch in the bonus features of a movie.
didn't know anything about John Green before this. this guy is INCREDIBLE well spoken. that speech at the end was so on point. john green for president
That is a much nicer studio, then I thought you had, however Meredith watching John play is exactly how I imagined it. Just chilling and ignoring most of it. But the story is amazing watching again, having lived it watching John play Fifa from the first time he did it.
John Green is by far the bestt youtube ever. Not only does he use his money for good causes, he also is a beast at teaching.(Crash course) Thank you John Green
I love that Roger from Men In Blazers was pulled to provide commentary. Those guys are absolutely hilarious and I'm fairly certain John is a regular listener of their podcast. Hopefully AFC Wimbledon can survive the "curse of the Rog" and win promotion into League 1 this season!
I never thought that was John's setup. I kept thinking he was like slouching on the couch in his underpants with Meredith like behind a proper office desk pretending to go along whenever John sings one of his chants
Without John Green, all of us would be failing in class. Crash Course is a lifesaver. Not gonna lie I always knew John Green as the author and RUclipsr but not a FIFA expert at all.
+tiesthijsthejs Good thing that they plastered John Green all over their filming. You can just google his name and you would easily find his books and his YT channel. It just takes someone to type in the letters on a keyboard to find it. I have faith that people can do that much.
Bladeofwar94 Sure sure. There's people like that. Like me. And probably, like you. But for the biggest reach, it would have helped to add a simple link. Not for J. Green's sake, but for the club. Not that I care about the sport. But the story is kind of endearing.
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It's weird to see this story from a neutral point of view, rather then John's. This is possibly the strangest, but also a most heartwarming story of a football team.
so true it puts everything in a perspective that makes it seems more real
Leicester is better
+Shemium224 this is in no way a neutral point of view. Its still "possibly the strangest, but also a most heartwarming story of a football team."
+MeisterHaar I just mean a different point of view.
Shemium224 yes, i konw. just be carefull with words like neutral. ;) DFTBA
John Green has slowly invaded all aspects of the internet.
and I love it
Holy shit I didn't even know he played FIFA and was famous for it. All I knew was that he was the guy from Crash course
@@darien7601 bro me too 😂😂
I really hope Wimbledon get to the premier league in john's lifetime
That would be so cool
+jjthemarvellover
AFC Bournemouth did it. We were in the old division 3 not long ago.
+Robert Bones Along with Fulham, Wigan, and a few more.
+jjthemarvellover yeah but then it'd have to beat the Leicester city miracle
not necessarily considering they've come up from the 9th division
DONT FORGET JOHN GREEN AS THE ONE WHO PROBABLY SAVED YOUR HISTORY GRADES
HAHAHAHAHA! And English ones too.
+Terry Guan Yes he brainwashes feeble minded college kids
+Terry Guan Careful here. John as a tendency to rewrite history to fit a narative.
Doesn't He repeat many times don't watch crash course for grades? :P
+Jean-Philippe Leclerc (Xaxi) +dnldmor08
He's not the one who writes the history episodes.
I watched this whole thing with a big, stupid grin on my face.
Me too
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+AFC Wimbledon TV AKINFENWA
👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
I think I just found my favorite english football (soccer) team
+AFC Wimbledon TV You guys are simply amazing! Greetings from a Liverpool fan who has followed your great journey for years! Keep it up and we'll see you in the PL soon!
+sistaledaren AFC Wimbeldon Quadruple winners 2019-20
UCL Final AFCW 2-1 RMCF
FA Cup Final CFC 1-3 AFCW
FLC Final AFCW 3-0 MUFC
Premiership Top 4
1. Wombles
2. MCFC
3. CFC
4. MUFC
I honestly doubt you can find someone who genuinely doesn't like John. One of the best.
+Michael Hart
My fiancee. It probably didn't help that I made her watch a shit ton of vlogbrothers stuff before realising she wasn't into it.
rareroe305 you know you have to break it off.
Actually, we're getting married on Saturday. But that's OK, I don't show her John Green stuff, and she doesn't show me Friends bloopers.
rareroe305 ........friends bloopers are great. But I was just having a laugh anyway. Wish you the very best for Saturday then.
Oh I figured. It came through even with just text.
I was just pointing out something I don't like, but she does, as does everyone else, it seems.
Thanks! Have a good weekend yourself!
I love how they make it seem like he made movies before he was on youtube
now I feel dumb
No he just casts them
I also love how they mention Hank like he's a footnote and is famous only as John green's brother😂
well who the eff is hang
Zalied yes nerdifghters DFTBA
This is what football should be. Not a bunch of teams driven by some middle eastern oil Barron but teams driven by the love of the sport. Shows what football should be.
Aaron Hinton Germany is a prime example of football/soccer run by the fans, a notable exception would be RB Lepzig however
kaeden le RB Leipzig ? The team that got 7 promotions in 8 seasons ? That really successful team?
Aaron Hinton shit. I thought a muddled eastern oil Barron ploughing millions into a club and not really receiving much roi in comparison to other investments he could do as love of the sport...
I may be wrong .. a RUclips star trying to plough what he has to get a bigger return on his investment may be for the love of sport 🤣🤔
By the community they are there to represent. As it used to be and should be still. I hope in the future more teams return to this method.
Mancity and psg summed up
Now I FINALLY understand why John Green loves and supports this team! What an awesome story!
I thought the youtube stardom came slightly before the best selling author/ box office gold producer bits...
+pokechatter His first two books came out before vlogbrothers started and they were both reasonably successful.
eustacia03
But they weren't best sellers until after the Internet fame.
+pokechatter Yeah he did, they started Brotherhood 2.0 in 2007 I think.
Ever so slightly.
pokechatter yeah... maybe this little thing called "vidcon" would be a nice thing to mention😂
I like john green and what he did for wimbledon, but he didnt save wimbledon. the fans saved it, from holding trials on the common and bring it up from the amateur leagues to where it is now. john found out about it fell in love with it and took an active participatory role in helping the club, but he didnt save it and i think he would be the first to tell you that.
+Drums & Bass Absolutely. This title was made by the Vice people. Not John or AFC Wimbledon
+Drums & Bass Well, the title says he "helped save" them.
+Drums & Bass checked his youtube he gets like 5k views so they are getting like 20 bucks a month from john green lol
+Drums & Bass Kinda irrelevant, because nobody said he alone saved them. It does say "helped save"...which doesn't mean solely. He did help...so there really should be no debate about it. Also, John is a fan...so kinda redundant to say he didn't.
LucidDream I want to be clear i'm not dissing john or anything. You wont find anyone connected to the club that has a bad word to say about him or what he has bought for the club. Its the issue with Vice saying he helped save the club.
The saving of the club was all done in the noughties by the fans and the local community. I remember very well when old wimbledon moved to Milton Keynes. It was the fans who went in their thousands to watch their team play in local parks, pretty much. And the local businesses that went out of their way to sponsor them or give discounts to AFC Wimbledon members, or have the staff uniform as the AFC wimbledon shirt like Flame barbecue. Sports interactive who make football manager who are based in wimbledon, sponsored them from the start.
By the time John had come to learn about the story of the Dons, they were already a stable club, who would usually play to much more fans than any other team in their division at the time, with a stable busniess plan.
I'm not trying to say john hasnt done anything for the club. he's done way way more than me for instance and trust me everyone absolutely loves him and its hoped his connections will help the club kick on to the next level. He is helping the club immensely and no one will ever not say that.
What i'm saying is that the club was saved in the first 5 years of its inception by the community when it was at the point it couldnt go further down. From then on its actually been a pretty successful club achieving successive promotions, getting a lot of coverage and having the fanbase consistently grow year on year.
Finally! I always wondered what the room looked like when John plays FIFA.
I always thought it was an office
Jppudly McGowan I always thought it was some super small room with a really old leather chair and big clunky tv.
I honestly thought John was just making everything up in his FIFA let's plays lol
Lol
Playoffs start Saturday and Wimbledon made it
+Zachary Brewer-Kirby Well he was in the earlier ones... His team was the "swoodilypoopers" for a season or two.
mexico cant even beat the us lol
Shane G what? they beat them 2 times in a row already
I consume a decent amount of content online and I must say, coming across what John and Hank Green are doing is the single biggest gift the internet has ever given me. I have never known a duo as inspirational and motivated towards making the world a better place through one of the most unorthodox of platforms ever.
John Green is a true hero. We need more John Greens in the world.
+Ryan Douglas I think that might be a bit too restrictive. How about either players named John Green, or gingers.
No we don't
+sigridsimmen I mean, we already have John Green, Bald John Green, and Other John Green, but I think we could do with a few more.
@@bucsfan2565 we we do actually
it would be a green world if we did.
i'm so happy this video exists. it is SO difficult to explain to people why i support afc wimbeldon, as i've never had an interest in football in my entire life.
suspendedsky smash bros needs to be on the switch
When I used to watch his history videos in which he'd joke about meeting Gerrard one day in Anfield and so on, I thought he wasn't being serious but now, to my surprise, I realized that this guy is a bigger football fan than most of us here.
I salute to him! :')
john green, decreasing world suck since 2007
imma go cry in a corner now
@@azeemquraishi5669 you scared the crap out of me. I thought he died or something.
@jeff kennedy so you replied after four years to that comment, that’s straight up dedication bro, hope you are doing well
Please tell me I'm not the only one who pictured John sitting alone in the dark in a La-Z-Boy, with Meredith off to the side working.
pretty much exactly what I imagined.
You're not the only one. :)
+Erica Bourland basically, but I kinda pictured it with him sitting in the floor in front of the tv cross legged like he was 9 playing his best friend the NES, in the dark.
+Charlotte Litherland (CraftnMomma) haha, I like how that isn't "playing his best friend on the NES," but rather "playing his best friend the NES."
In a basement, with a suede "bean bag," but pretty much, yeah.
It's weird how RUclips is starting to be about itself now, isn't it?
+Baraka K. It's no longer RUclips - it's MeTube!
Baraka K. I think it's America-centric enough already.
I believe it's just cause of all the drama and how instead of collaborating, they decide to judge others where in all reality no one cares.
RUclips is a job for them right? so treat it as one and be professional instead of being immature.
If you make something great off of something bad, then who's to say that the bad was really just that?
So meta...
I revisit this video once every few months because if this isn't the most damn heartwarming story
Yet another reason to love John Green.
One of the best things I've watched on VICE sports
Luke Towler smash bros deffo needs to be on the switch
John Green is a fucking legend
an American that says "football". Well done :-)
Hamilton Brown i shed a tear
Hamilton Brown in the exact moment he said it i saw your comment and was shocked too :D
Haha definitely a nice touch
He's a Liverpool fan.
2:10 "..they decided to start a soccer team". what are you on about ?
I'm a Portsmouth fan (league two) and to be honest, I really enjoy the AFC Wimbledon story. They are a club that the fans would do whatever it took for their club (just like the Portsmouth fans, we own our own club and had to save our club from completely not existing)
this man in the glasses has a superb way of storytelling and a captivating way of making you feel as he does
John looks so happy! Not only is this such a great story, but John's pure unadulterated enthusiasm in those shots of him in the stands brings me such joy.
And this is why we all love John Green.
Commandelicious John Green can't lose, idk why but he's growing immune to loss
This video is what attracted me to AFC Wimbledon. Hearing this story was profoundly moving. Immediately after learning their story, I purchased an ownership stake in the team. I also had the fortune to be able to attend a game this past season (season finale against Oldham Athletic) while I was visiting the London area. It was a fantastic game and this is a fantastic club. I will be a fan for as long as I live.
The volume on this video is very quiet
What?
+Landon Michael (Elnots) huh?
+Landon Michael (Elnots) I honestly was freaking out about losing my hearings and aging..
The phone's on full volume and I still can't hear shit
Beautiful story. I liked how John said 'soccer' in the beginning when he was giving the interview but 'football' when talking to English fans of the club about this being the essence of sport. It sounds like a really tiny thing, and I don't know why, but it seems to have warmed my heart just a little bit.
I legit think john could run for president
+Seb Gardner I was going to disagree but then recalled that he is a theist and realized that you may actually be correct.....
Wow.....
+Seb Gardner We have to talk him into running in 2020.
I am not kidding.
He made a video on why he would never run for congress.
That would torture John.
And WIN!!!
Every now and again in sports there is a story that just melts your heart as a sports fan and the story of AFC Wimbledon and John Green is one of them. Best of luck to AFC Wimbledon and John Green on their rise together through English Football and maybe one day we’ll see them playing in the Premiership.
Brilliant, you've got to love John Green.
This video made me so happy! I'm so happy that John & Hank can touch and influence others lives. He could have easily not gave them Ad money for sponsorship. And the fact all these people had no idea who he was, ugh I love how they break so many barriers in the RUclips community.
They also just qualified for the playoffs #COYD
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Coyg
The first playoff game is Saturday at 2:30 pm EST
They are in League One
Promoted
Not even a mention of Seb Brown. Did I ever tell you guys about the time Seb Brown saved 2 penalties against Luton Town to send us into the League?
greatest moment in football history!
+Steven James I'm sure John told Wimbledons story in much more detail than what we show here. I mean he's gonna make a movie about the Dons.
I don't think you ever did. I'd love to hear it, go on then. :)
Steven James seb is a legend I train with him every mon and wed
Watford FC SHIT ON LUTON #COYH
*cough*
4:45 - one of my favourite memories of being at the League 2 Playoff final on Monday was looking around to my friends going 'wait, how does that Akinfenwa chant that John Green made up go?!' and we started chanting this for most of the final 10 minutes of the game, even louder when the man himself scored!
Sports interactive of football manager fame should have some mention as they helped start the new team and continue to sponsor the team.
+Malice1111 True dat!
+brightonwomble you cant start a team without money or in this case sponsorship
+Kyle Preston But the original start up money was provided by the fans. Not knocking SI who were there at the very beginning but they did not start the club
John Green's love of AFC Wimbledon is simply infectious. I don't like football or any sport for that matter, but I got involved because of John and because of how passionate he is about it. That's the power of John Green.
John Green, a good man. Wish him all the happiness and success.
I've been following John (and Hank) since 2007 or 2008. I've been aware of John's sports accounts and his gaming channel, but never followed them because I don't play video games and I've never followed soccer/football. The people and stories behind teams are important for me. One of the reasons that I like the Green Bay Packers is that they are owned by fans. This just made me want to be an AFC Wimbledon fan. Thanks, John.
Best part is the guy talking about how bad John Green is at the game.
+Amy Perry Best part for me is how that guy is so right, and yet I love watching John play anyway
As someone who has been following Vlogbrothers since mid-2008, it continues to weird me out how famous they are these days. But still cool.
Please invest more into this channel. This is great.
Wait? did I just see Meredith? My life is complete now.
+wiet111 she was in that hotdog competition they had
Napoleonicus Which hotdog competition?
+wiet111 let me just warn you before o tell you - that video isn't pretty xD
It's their April the fourth office hotdog eating competition.
+wiet111 I believe she hosted a mental floss video.
+wiet111 Now my suspension of disbelief has been shattered! I will now only see John sitting in his recliner with Meredith right across from him in that office while he played a video game.
Beforehand, I imagined him in the blue Laz-E-Boy with Meredith to the side behind him while he played a video game. UGH. Narrative RUINED.
;)
I've been waiting for someone to make this for so long
Great story
The video needs more Akinfenwa tho
Meredith in that clip where Akinfemwa scored.
It’s weird cause I watch crash course in my history class, and never would I have thought John Green was a football fan
I have a whole new layer of respect for this guy.
MAD, MAD props to all involved here. The Green brothers are damn awesome!
John Green is actually a Liverpool supporter and when AFC Wimbledon hosted Liverpool in a FA cup match, he went to it and vlogged about it. It was quite special!!!
John is a class act.. I liked him before, but I love him now.
This is so happy and heartwarming! It's also very surreal and strange to see non nerdfighters explaining all of this outside of the lens of John and Hank's videos.
Woo! UK Nerdfighter here and so fun to see John at Wimbledon! :D
5:17 I felt like that british guy made it out to seem as if John Green was a producer/ writer extraordinaire before starting his RUclips channel which is not the case (I mean him being a writer first is true but we all know he started off on RUclips, and then the major success with the movies and books came after he had garnered an amazing following on RUclips)
+Brainiac V I totally agree! Plus it sounded like they just did the Hank Games stuff to make ad money when they had the hugely popular vlogbrothers channel and were deliberately not having ads. I also hate how he made it sound like people watch just for the bald john green other john green etc when John talks over his games telling you about his life and things, THATS what we started watching for, not for random fifa, but now so many of us are into this.
It's always going to be difficult for an outsider looking into a niche group to understand all the intricate facets of the group.
ah yes Crash Course is definitely hosted on the vlogbrothers channel
+nerdommeetsboy That's... excessively nitpicky a distinction when we're glossing over career highlights of one man in less than a minute. For the benefit of people who probably have no idea of RUclips's inner workings. I'd say it's safe to let this one go, mate.
+KTGetc
That is exactly the thing that made him a sensation in the RUclips community which in turn has helped him reach a broad spectrum that would've been impossible to do so without. So he if you want to define what the guy does in one sentence, that's it.
KTGetc actually I was noticing the graphic with the RUclips player; I'm not expecting the video to be in-depth
Good to see afc getting some recognition
This dude helped me learn history and psychology
I swear any time John has a chance to talk about fourth tier football, he's beaming on the inside.
2:56 Come to Wellington Phoenix games in New Zealand. The other team today had literally 2 supporters.
I fucking love John Greene, I've been a long time fan of crash course history but didn't know how brilliant he really was! Top bloke!
I'm a Luton Town fan, we had a sort of similar story happen to us. It's good to see Wimbledon fighting back.
And now!! 🎉
I find it funny how they presented it as if he was supper famous BEFORE RUclips
He was though, wasn't he? He wrote lots of books and had a few movies based on those books?
Chad Bryans well he does have those but they all came years after RUclips
Oh! I didn't know that. I just knew him from the books and movies. Neat!
Chad Bryans yea, if you want to watch him cover his face in sharpies or run into a wall to test if he is an octopus there is thousands of hours of that online
Hahaha thanks. I'll check it out.
I love watching John's Crash Course World History, but after watching this, he's gone up ten fold in my estimation.
This is the most uplifting video I has seen... ever. DFTBA is a great message.
Little by little, actual Americans are now rooting for AFC Wimbledon. The "American underdog story" is not just American, its universal, and this resonates with all true Americans who hear it.
+Ostrich160 While +miloent may have worded that statement poorly I think a reason many view the underdog story (while being truly universal) as American is because it is so very ingrained in our culture. When you ask an American about the values that are true across the country many would tell you that being able to make something out of nothing with hard work and determination, as the thing that resonates across the country. Whether or not that is actually true is another story but the idea of it is very deep-seated.
+Tyler Grandis +Ostrich160
The underdog story is pretty international and universal as you said, but some countries do resonate with it more than others, and both the UK and US are two of those.
The American idea of an underdog, similar to what you said, is the idea of the American dream. Social mobility. People rising from the bottom to the top with some hard graft and elbow grease.
In British culture it's more to do with history, such as the Battle of Britain in WW2 standing alone against the Nazis as London burned, and fending off the massive Spanish Armada in 1588, Rorke's Drift and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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lol. fair enough. GO DONS.
+milowent Just too make sure that you know, the Dons are a different team from AFC Wimbledon.
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Thankyou RUclips algorithm for this gem 🙏🏻 also, shoutout to John green and bald John green making an interesting cameo 8 years ago.
Not many videos now a days that are just a pure joy to watch, thank you for this one, what a great great story!
Seeing John Green talk about Akinfenwa (“the beast”) is really very strange.
I remember being a huge VlogBrothers fan and seeing the first episode of John playing FIFA when it first came out, never thought something so silly and fun would eventually make such an impact
You just gotta love John Green
What a lovely story and example of someone as wonderful as John Green putting his time and support behind a club like AFC Wimbledon that stand for all the right things not just in football but in the wider world too, a shining beacon of hope, genuineness and most of all perseverance. This video couldn’t have made me any more happier.
As a long time nerdfighter, this makes me super happy
John Davenport go hawks lol
Everything about this is beautiful.
This should be a bonus feature on the DVD of the AFC Wimboldon movie. I don't think it could be in reality, but it just seems like something you would watch in the bonus features of a movie.
+Dimento PLexitronum I totally agree.
didn't know anything about John Green before this. this guy is INCREDIBLE well spoken. that speech at the end was so on point. john green for president
Underground, overground, wombling free. The wombles of Wimbledon are into tier 3 :D
Didnt know John played fifa. I always knew him as the guy I watch in history class.
What a club world class
okay but now that they've finally played their first home game at plough lane can we get an AFC Wimbledon movie??
DFTBA!!!
Ive never seen john green playing fifa, is there a channel he has for that?
butterflyswim8 thanks dude
I'm here because of comments on John's latest AFC Wimbledon upload :-)
He didn't say soccer! ❤️❤️❤️
+Bolin aka Nuktuk 2:33
My dreams...
that is because its called football in england not soccer :p
SOCCER, S.O.C.C.E.R, SSSSSOOOOOOCCCCCEEERRRR, SOCCER SOCCER SOCCER!
That is a much nicer studio, then I thought you had, however Meredith watching John play is exactly how I imagined it. Just chilling and ignoring most of it. But the story is amazing watching again, having lived it watching John play Fifa from the first time he did it.
That kid was having a pint, why not!! Cheers lad
John Green is by far the bestt youtube ever. Not only does he use his money for good causes, he also is a beast at teaching.(Crash course) Thank you John Green
I love that Roger from Men In Blazers was pulled to provide commentary. Those guys are absolutely hilarious and I'm fairly certain John is a regular listener of their podcast. Hopefully AFC Wimbledon can survive the "curse of the Rog" and win promotion into League 1 this season!
I never thought that was John's setup. I kept thinking he was like slouching on the couch in his underpants with Meredith like behind a proper office desk pretending to go along whenever John sings one of his chants
Green Brothers are legends
Without John Green, all of us would be failing in class. Crash Course is a lifesaver. Not gonna lie I always knew John Green as the author and RUclipsr but not a FIFA expert at all.
Great Story and a great person to help out. I love his class room videos
I didn’t think I knew who he was until you mentioned fault in our stars and crash course. This man is an absolute legend
Vice should have put a link in their description to John's football channel...
Yeah the values of the YT-community and open-source spirit of the internet don't apply to corporate leaches?
+tiesthijsthejs Good thing that they plastered John Green all over their filming. You can just google his name and you would easily find his books and his YT channel. It just takes someone to type in the letters on a keyboard to find it. I have faith that people can do that much.
Bladeofwar94
Sure sure. There's people like that. Like me. And probably, like you. But for the biggest reach, it would have helped to add a simple link. Not for J. Green's sake, but for the club. Not that I care about the sport. But the story is kind of endearing.
John Green, He's not Mean. John Green, he's not wearing green. John Green, he is just awesome. He knows how to make a successful TEAM!
You didnt just rhyme green with green ffs.
+The Hammer No, he rhymed "mean" to "green" twice.
+Jon John Green, he's not wearing green. Hammer is right.
Jose Mourinho Yes, I understand rhyming schemes. I guess sarcasm doesn't transmit well over the internet.
Jon No, it doesn't.
john and hank are good people. love their videos