The Most Cursed Football Club In England
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Stoke City have among the richest owners in world football, no other teams in the top two tiers of English football within almost an hour of them, and they have spent an absolute fortune over the past decade.
And yet, Stoke just seem to be getting progressively worse, now finding themselves just one place above the Sky Bet Championship relegation zone.
So what's going on? Are Stoke City just cursed? Well, in this video, HITC Sevens ponders that question, whether there is something deeper afoot, and - I suppose - what on Earth is going on at Stoke City.
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As a Wednesday fan, I told my Stokie girlfriend a couple of weeks ago 'you know it's bad when HITC Sevens makes a video about your team' so thank you for letting her feel my pain
Could you imagine us going through what HITC outlines in this video? The peak from 91 to 00, then suffering immediately after relegation maybe.
Thank god Stoke are unluckier.
All glory to Wednesday. WAWAW.
😂😂
Our pain is a tickle to the pain owls fans have . Vale are still worse the blades are a pl club and got there while being sold by a owner who doesnt want own them, your pain is still worse
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"Manchester United were in dreadful form"
This could be any season lol
Any season since 2013-14, after the departure of SAF.
stokes transfer business has been done a lot like man utd's since 2013
As a Stoke fan, I still feel like we aren’t really all that cursed, a lot of our problems are just our fault, and we were lucky to not get relegated in the 19-20 season
Same I’m a stoke fan , we started good against Rotherham and ever since we lost to Ipswich we’ve been terrible
A Stoke fan with an anime profile picture is a cursed combination. Norf FC meets Japan.
as a stoke fan i feel disgusted by ur pfp
Bet365 lads , they command the parade 😉
I’m a Bolton fan so I’ll be keeping my mouth shut 😅
That beep scared the living shit out of me.
Jumped out of my fucking skin
As a FC Porto supporter i like Stoke City very much: they bought us Martins Indi and Imbula for huge sums and we are very thankful for that.
Digo o mesmo 😂
Imbula was dreadful
Martins indi was class imbula was shit
You're so not welcome!! 🤣 🔴⚪️🔴⚪️
bora crlh um portista por aqui
I renew my petition for you to include international subtitles for your videos. I volunteer for Spanish, but just having them would be great for me and my football loving non-English speaking family.
I also volunteer
❤ I second this
What the videos with subtitles turned on?
Just youtube auto-generated english
I could do the Russian or help with the Spanish subs👌🏻being native Russian speaker and profesional translator of 🏴&🇪🇸
“Wake up babe, Alfie just dropped another banger”
Several years ago when Stoke were in the Prem, our management decided to get rid of player such as Glenn Whelan, Phil Bardsley and Jon Walters only to 'swap' them for silky smooth continental players such as the Portuguese midfielder Imbula (who cost 18 million pounds and was useless). We tried to move forward as a Prem team with this thinking. Players such Whelan, Bardsley and Walters are absolute bulldogs who would guarantee Stoke Prem status. Those who replaced them were useless fairies, so we got relegated.
In my opinion the rot set in when we foolishly sold Robert Huth when we didn't need to, followed by the players you mentioned, and everything went downhill after that. It is a parallel to the 1970's when we sold the lynchpin of the team, Jimmy Greenhoff, and every other decent player followed him out. Hudson, Salmons, Mahoney, Pejic, Shilton. In both cases the unavoidable decline was followed by the inevitable relegation.
As lifelong Stoke fan and long term viewer, this is my favourite video of yours to date.
Very impressive knowledge from a non Stoke fan. I love a few of your zingers too!
You hit more nails hit on the head with this video, than are needed in a new house build!!
Great work!
Too right, I've always said that allowing Super Jon Walters to leave was the Rubicon.
@@casinodelonge now he’s back!
Mate in 2014 stoke had 4 champions league winners. Shaqiri, bojan, Arnautović, and Afellay
I love how Alfie always gets me interested in clubs that I would never cared about prior. Once more, great job mate! :)
Honestly one of the biggest issues with Stoke besides goal scoring and opportunities created is we have no identity anymore. We moved away as mentioned in the video from the strong, physical football to the flair style football and bringing in signings who had a poor work ethic and players who weren't established and wasting of money it ultimately led to the downfall of us. Even to this day we still don't as I told my step dad at the time we will stay relegated and almost got relegated again. People also miss that Butland was such a crucial part of our survival for a number of years when he went through problems with the air hostess Stoke have had a lot of problems both on and off the pitch.
Hi Alfie, Stoke fan here, very well informed and researched video, its been awful living through this last 6 seasons but when you lay it out like you have its very eye opening.
Finished #9 for 3 year straight. The same number that 'cursed' the likes of Swansea, Birmingham, Leicester, Portsmouth, etc.
Tbf:
Other than Leicester, the rest look like they'll stay in the championship a while
@@anthonykaruri6430Portsmouth haven’t even got back to the championship yet.
"But can they do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke"?
No matter what happens, no-one can take that quote away from Stoke
As a potter thank you for acknowledging the pain!
Also one thing I thought you'd mention was the headline the other week about Stoke being denied (I think it was) 7 penalties already this season that the PGMOL have had to apologise for. While it may not be a sign Stoke are cursed, it does mean we're damn unlucky!
does not matter, goals should come from open play, and, in any case, we can't score from the spot
I woke up to a 13 hour shift ahead seeing my favourite football youtuber making a video on my club.
I had a good shift man.
Thank you
Can you do a video on the seven most technical footballers you’ve ever seen? No kick and run merchants, no G/A freaks, just ballers. Longevity not mattering in this case as well. Just got done watching Hazard comps and came up with the idea.
Do u mean like silky? Id like to ask if cr7 makes it in for you? He woudnt for me
@@StephenC-49 don’t think he gets in based on ‘no G/A freaks’
@@StephenC-49 I dont know I always found the drifters a lot more easier on the eye like messi and hazard. Ronaldo was more of a skiller idknif I make sense
Ronaldinho and jj okocha
Mousa Dembele
I'm sure fans of their city rivals, Port Vale, would argue they have worse luck. They have the unwanted record of most seasons (112) as a league club without playing in the top flight
Wembley of The North
Couldn’t have put it any better than that Alfie.
Stoke isn't cursed at all. It's just bad recruitment since January 2016 that started the trend of mismanagement. Signing managers and players without due diligence can take a well organized club into mediocrity. Good news for Stoke for now is they aren't the worst club in the Championship and they have owners who are legitimate fans of Stoke unlike many other owners in the world. However, how long can they keep this up. Sooner or later, that bubble will burst and the fallout will be catastrophic unless they change their ways quickly.
I feel like Stoke could really get good usage out of a manager like Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Having Chupo-Moting (PSG) & Joselu (R.Madrid) at Stoke City is wild
Joselu is more or less an Aritz Aduriz type late bloomer at Espanyol/R. Madrid.
Shaq ended up going to liverpool & we sold huth & he aided leicester into a great escape & a unlikely league title
Choupo-Moting was absolutely dire and I'm convinced he's still stealing a living
@@SynonymForTree i agree , i was shocked see him at psg , i nearly passed out when he joined Munich, clearly see somthing in him that stoke fans never got see
Clearly Steven Gerrard cursed Stoke for that 6-1 in his final game
This is a spot on analysis of Stoke's problems.
Alfie's book on Neil Franklin is great too.
Lou Macari wasn’t sacked by Stoke nor did he sue the club. He was sacked by Celtic and sued them. As for Gayle, did we sign the player who scored loads of goals at his level 3 years ago or the older player who’d scored just 5 in 50 premiership apps? Newcastle aren’t paying the majority of his wages out of charity. They clearly wanted him off the books.
Hughes was refused permission to speak to Everton and it all went downhill after that with some shocking signings
No fire sale but lots of players left and less than half of our starting 11 started the season in the championship.
ONeil saved us from relegation. Without him we were down. Spent little but failed to capitalise on that.
Being a Stoke fan has been frustrating this last few years - we used to be a place other teams dreaded coming to *cough cough Wenger* but now the atmosphere is dead and everything that made us unique is gone. We need something to change, and soon.
Stoke City is one of my favourite respective teams ever,mainly their aggression style of a football as a real smaller team in history with one title but recently,their form has gone dip which is like a curse,good friends!!!I do hope that one of the oldest respective teams of 160 years would get their form back from today's Championship match onwards,good friends!!!LONG LIVE STOKE CITY!!!!🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🏋♂️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I hope dyche gets sacked and we sign him then get some aggressive destroyers like brandon williams ngl.
I miss our snarling aggressive style.
@@yfns4795 I think he is the right choice to get this current squad going through their aggression as they need to playing that kind of a football which can make your beloved team's supporters to be excited and entertained,good friend!!!Brandon Williams would have the desire to be potent in his attack which his flank while defending aggresively when needed and I also do miss your snarling aggresive style,good friend!!!🙏
Depek, every club seems to be one of your favourite clubs ever
@@johnwhittaker311 Good friend,you need to know that through my ancestries,I have English heritage from my mother's side(even if I have no English heritage) and in England,except Chelsea and Manchester City,all the other respective teams are my favourites ever!!!🙏🏻
Nathan Jones has the most off key press conferences in English football, the man truly lives on Mars
It’s the club. He was brilliant for Lutonntil he showed his true baa sexual colours and jumped ship twice mid season. Stoke are just shit. Luton are just glorious. That’s fact.
Stoke reminds me a lot of HSV or if we go a bit further back, 1860 Munich. Players just entered a parallel universe after joining them, a parallel universe where they suddenly stopped being proper footballers.
Yes, that is most likely the case. I trust your non-farmers-league football expertise there, Sir. @@StephenC-49
The same thing happens to managers at Stoke
i knew this video would come someday from you, were an absolute shambles of a club, really hurts to think about how good we were only a few years ago
Relegation is just crazy to me. Must be so frustrating for these fans
Why is it crazy?
@@jtufneveryone was saying that we were going to possibly get to play offs this season because we had got lots of good signings but now we have lots of injuries and are struggling are lot
If you think about it, smaller market franchises live in a type of relegation. Unless they hit a lottery pick, or some mega free agent picks them for some unlikely reason, they live in mediocrity for years/decades.
It adds jepoardy that is not there in American sports
Less frustrating more depressing tbh. I just started losing hope and hating watching the sport for a while after we got relegated, probably partly down to outside forces but ya know.
Spot on with everything however I’m so glad we’ve gone 3/3 and are up to 11th now . Still early but good signs
Why didn't you mention they are the biggest taxpayers in the country, all family members don't dodge their responsibilities, the daughter is the biggest taxpayer in the uk she paid £226,000,000 last year and the family combined £476,000,000
Most my family are Stoke fans. Really impressed by the depth of this video. My brother who has talked to me in depth about Stoje's demise has brought up most the points raised over the years.The League cup semi v Liverpool does seem a key sliding door moment. And Wimmer. Oh dear.
Only part i would add is the pre 1980s.
1930s Stoke nearly won the league but a key player left for Colombia (as you do) and a friendly in Ireland just b4 a key league match lead to fatigue and them losing out.
Ww2 robbed Stoke of the peak Stanley Matthews who Pele rated a better player than him.
And finally. In 1970s Stoke had a very talented squad. Nearly won the League mid 70s and won League cup.Then an uninsured stand caught fire and the best players were sold off. 8 years later Stoke were relegated.
Not so much a curse but a lot of What-Ifs.
Still. Could be worse. I am an Evertonian.😀
No, the roof blew off the stand in 1076
Wednesday: Hold my pint of Hendersons Relish
great video, but our window this summer was purely fantastic, just needs a bit of time
you should make a podcast series
Stoke always seem very similar to Sunderland in terms of poor long term management and throwing away a long stint in the Premier league with nothing to show for it
This will be my Everton before too long if we're not already there.
Yes if your team gets relegated through bad list of injuries and players past there best i think most fans no matter how upsetting can understand and take it, but when its self inflicted its suicide and makes fans so angry.
My friend takes his young son to Stoke matches . To help him to learn to deal with disappointments in life when he’s older?
MLB comparison: seattle mariners
The only cursed thing about Stoke at the moment is the amount of injuries they’ve had this season. 10 first team players out injured since the start of the season, and considering their longest serving permanent player against Sunderland was Enda Stevens who literally signed 8 weeks ago…
Birmingham fan. That league table at 30:23 is painful to look at. Best thing that happened to Stoke this season was Birmingham appointing Rooney.
As a crewe fan whose listened to Stoke fans every week since their 08 premier league promotion via local radio, the fans themselves have a part to blame...
They were never satisfied even when they were top half of the Premiership!. Pulis was berrated for negative football and Hughes was berrated for not taking them onto an even higher level!
The fans forced the boards hands on multiple occasions.. I have family who are Stoke fans that still wholeheartedly agree with these views to this day...
As far as i'm concerned they have no sympathy from me and i have no animocity towards them.... (Vale on the other hand! 😆)
Couldn't agree more. Utterly negative fans who love booing players and destroy their confidence. The players leave and regain confidence and start scoring goals.
you're talking shit crewe fan
Still feel like there needs to be a swansea one of these, they’re like stoke but without all the gambling money, and every time they start to build something it gets taken out from under them
Swansea's not in England though and Cardiff are more cursed than Swansea anyway.
@@franohmsford7548 so?
@@franohmsford7548Swansea play in English football though so you could feature them or Cardiff for that reason.
@@franohmsford7548also cardiff were never very good, especially in the premier league era. Relegated immediately after promotion both times. More of just a lower mid-table championship club being lower mid-table. Swans have a trophy and played in Europe the last 10 years, only Leicester can say that out of all clubs in the division (obviously they’ve won much more than Swansea have)
@@andrewramos5938 Thank you for making my argument for me.....Cardiff are more cursed than Swansea!
Had the "pleasure" of witnessing Stoke blowing a 3:0 lead against Cardiff City in the Span of 10 Minutes during my term abroad in England in 2021 and I can't help but love them as my chaos team of choice since then
Hi! Love the videos, but can you make videos on Leicester and Ipswich, they're both doing great in the championship and nobody is talking about them.
Leicester is a non story. Recently relegated Premier league club with a squad miles ahead of every other team in the league and bags of parachute money.
Ipswich is more interesting but they're not the underdog people are making out. They were among the bookies favorites to challenge for the championship before the season began and had been outspending Championship clubs even when in league 1
@@MenWithVen With Leicester, I actually disagree. The parachute money is insane, yes, but they are still breaking record after record in the championship which I don't see many clubs do. (Leeds and Southampton just from this season) A lot of Championship clubs are rich, but unlucky/poorly managed like Stoke ad West Brom. I like Alfies content as he doesn't just focus on the prem or top 5 leagues and I think that these clubs doing exceptional is something to be celebrated.
I would argue us Bolton Wanderers are far more cursed than Stoke. Check the team who’s been in the top flight the most without winning the league. Also the season which caused our downfall, Fabrice Muamba had a heart attack finished his career season before Stuart Holden had career ending challenge what finished his career, Lee Chung Yong had his leg broken in a pre season friendly. Marc Tierney who we bought played 1 game before his career was ended. Sean Davies who we bought played 3 games before he had a bascially career ending injury. Then check the last game which relegated us against Stoke funnily enough where the referee allowed a goal where the keeper was pushed into the net. All this accumulated the game after we played Stoke in a Fa Cup semi final season before when we lost 5-0
I don’t see a ‘curse’ all I see is a shockingly run football club
Can you do one about Newcastle instead of just slagging the club off
Video on the life and times of Barry Vennison please
DAMNIT ALFIE WHAT WAS THAT BEEPING SOUND EFFECT, mans is trying to kill me cos I stand with Palestine
Should never have sacked Pulis and got that Jonah in. Mark Hughes. Ruined the club.
I sat next to Peter Coates at the derby vs Stoke game with Mel Morris behind us , we lost 4-0 but his wife was lovely offering me her coat cause I was freezing. I got a photo but Peter had his eyes closed. 🤣🤣
a whole half hour vid about my club.....absolutely love it but what a fall from grace we've had
At least you were spared the "What on Earth is going on" title. Much more personalized this time.
This is basically a word for word history from any Stoke fan. If you want the real curse you need the arsenal hot dog man, butler st stand and joe allen…
Yeah, but can they do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?
Jese's performances were poor for Stoke but he went AWOL because his son had some serious health issues. Unfortunately, everything else seems spot on but players and managers underperforming when joining the club seems to be a huge problem. It's like they lose confidence after their first game. Vidigal thankfully been an exception to this so far.
Sparky was our curse ,
Was at blackburn an qpr and they both went down ,
Coates allowed his reckless spending on some dodgy players ,
Players had no disire manager become clueless & coates didnt sack hughes sooner allowing the rot set in
Tbh i'm a stoke fan whos happy be in the championship more games to go & no VAR
Not having VAR for me breaks the curse , if var was in use when we were a pl club we wouldn't of stopped up as long as we did
Stoke have always looked a lot like Sunderland and have nothing to show for long-term mismanagement and a long spell in the Premier League.
Do a video on the last 13 years at Birmingham city
We’ve just had injuries.
Vidigal, mmamae, wilmot, stephens, Rose, Pearson suspended an Wooster burger and hoever
And how many goals do you think they will score between them if they played every game?
@@rogermoore-gd9do about 1 knowing stoke
If they're cursed I think Barry Fry should be able to sort that out.
You want to see cursed an actual curse was placed on the Mayo Gaelic football team after their All Ireland win in 1951 after they passed a funeral after they passed a funeral without paying their respects and they have never won it since and have lost something like 13 finals since that time it may not have been the reason why that is but its absolutely incredible bad luck all the same to be losing finalists that amount of times
Lifelong Stoke fan aged 56, I would agree the worst jobs in football management are Stoke and England. As for the promotion to the Premiership, how we stayed up that first season with the squad we had can only be attributed to a miracle or aliens.
Macari never managed at the Brittania stadium, the first season, the one we were relegated 97/98, chic bates, Chris kamara and Alan durban were in charge of the team
Stoke was a shorter length slightly better Palace with more money in the mid 2010s
The biggest misfortune Stoke have had, has been missed off.
In 1976 the Butler Street stand roof blew off. This was a era when Stoke were playing in Europe and for 3 seasons in the 70s finished in the top 6.
To pay for the repairs we had to sell and we weren't the same club after that.
In recent years I wouldn't say anything is particularly cursed. Our recruitment hasn't been good enough. We are constantly starting from afresh in terms of managers and players. It doesn't seem like it now but one day, somebody will find the right mix and we'll have better times, that's football.
Stoke are in the same bracket as Sunderland, Middlesbrough, WBA, Derby, Sheffield Wed, Leeds, Bolton, Blackburn. The list goes on, clubs who were having good times and somehow it all got away.
In the Prem now Forest are struggling and Wolves are slowly heading in the wrong direction. Football is a very tough business to sustain success
Stoke have been cursed throughout their history, having been voted out of the Football league twice before WW1 and then WW2 robbed them of a few league titles and fa cups when they had Neil Franklin and Stanley Matthews.
THE red and white stripe in general has been working for some time.
David Mitchell just called, he says that at 24:20 you mean UNinterested, not DISinterested.
We also had by far and away the best squad in the country in 1939 before WW2 broke out and destroyed our hopes of league title. We missed out on a title due to goal difference a few years after, we are still to win a title. We are yet to win an FA Cup also and were robbed in a 1972 semi final when an ice cream seller in front of the Butler Street stand, inadvertently played arsenal onside for a winner that should have been chalked off. The tales of misfortune and woe are never ending for us Potters.
The ice cream seller incident was at Goodson Park in the replay
@@deker1053 i stand corrected! I wasn't born til a decade later..
That BEEP tho😮
Stoke city need a better shirt sponsor and everything.
In 2026 we need a new one gambling sponsors will be banned
@@BORLMBK good.
Yeah we went from a bank - Britannia - to a gambling company which sums up so much lol. They own it and employ most of the people in Stoke lol. I miss the name, I hate 'BET365' name. I still call it Britannia
@@HelenM1994 true Helen.
Do you think you’ll go down? Or stay up?:)
Most teams does
Thanks for covering my club Alfie, it's been a tough few years relative to where we had been. I feel when mentioning Michael O'Neill you did neglect to mention how he brought the wage bill down and that did hamper him when recruiting players. It may be my personal bias shining through here though as I feel he was harshly sacked last year and our recruitment issues aside, Alex Neil has done very little so far to make me feel he's the right man for the long term. As far as the Coates family are concerned, I have my gripes with them, I want the club to succeed and for them to heed the fans' pleas to modernise the football infrastructure, yet in spite of all that I wouldn't trade them for anyone considering they do have the club's best interests at heart.
Nah, they actually are cursed, in my fm save, I was at Stoke for 9½ years, we would be 10 points clear at the top of the table at gw40, qnd then by gw46, we'd dropped into a a spot between 3rd and 5th, and wouldn't get promotion even with a team which could probs be a top half table team in the prem
Stoke City is always annoying AF to play in career mode.
finally, a stoke city video
And a very good and honest one at that.
@peterpann2331 yeah, I've only just been getting into football this year, but stoke is my local team and the one my family support. Best to know what I'm getting in for
Disagree. They are not cursed. At least they have had a good time in the Premier League and have just returned to their level - The Championship.
Try being a Bristol City fan who dreams of one day even having 1 season in the top flight.
Thanks for that super loud beep sound, good job there...wtf man?
For the second oldest league club in the world, our trophy cabinet and success rate is not good and we have had many, many problems over our whole history, we were not just born when we got promoted to the Premier league but I wouldn't support anyone else!
You could do 2 episodes on the signings and injuries respectively
I'am a stoke fan ,
We are not cursed at all , we started off ok once ipswich tore us apart everyone lost confidance in eachother .
You can add to many new players to a squad , the other season we looked a league one side and stopped up
I dont blame a curse , i blame half hearted players dodgy tactics , giving bad managers a long time in charge and better ones trown aside
My youngest is 4 she will be 20 and i dont see me taken her see any stoke game in prem
Brilliant vid mate.
Both Sheffield clubs, especially Utd over history, have by far and away been more unlucky than Stoke City…
At least you've got a championship and 4x fa cups (even if they were all pre WWII and mostly pre WWI even) stoke could've won the league a few times post WWII but faltered late on, including losing on the last day once at bramhall lane no less when winning would've won the league.
But I agree that I sometimes look at the sheffield clubs and think it's weird how they both often underperform. It's a big city and they're both fairly large clubs. For the size of the city and fanbases it should always have at least 1x prem club.
Think the cricket club cursed United when they got evicted from the Lane. Also, since the cricket side has gone you can't time waste by booting the ball towards the cricket pavilion
Pretty much hit the nail on the head, seem to be making the same mistakes again this season
So glad to see them in this state.
Aaron Ramsey probably is too.
I wouldn't say Stoke is almost an hour away from Wolverhampton - It's only 33 miles and the M6 connects the two cities, so long as junction 10 is clear it's not going to take an hour.
The Train takes 30-36 minutes.
Derby is only 34 miles away via the A-50 - Again traffic might be an issue but with clear roads that's nowhere near an hour.
It is a 46 minute train journey - not sure why the train takes so much longer to go an extra mile but 3/4 of an hour is not almost an hour.
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Talking of Derby - 11 points! If Stoke are cursed what about Derby?
Derby have 2 league Championships and FA cup Stoke have sod all.
@@rogermoore-gd9do Oh we're going back 50 years are we?
Yeah Stoke were more cursed than Derby in the 70s sure but given Derby barely staved off liquidation a couple seasons ago and are now mired in League One I'd have to say that right now Derby are definitely the more cursed of the two.
Especially considering Stoke recently spent 10 straight seasons in the Prem.
there is no curse. Money are useless if spent the wrong way. Even real Madrid understood it, galacticos era didn't bring major trophies, they still buy the best players but following a precise idea and project.
You must have broken a curse making this video - 3 wins on the bounce and up to 11th!
I hope 🤞 😅
Am expecting bournemouth video soon how dumb of a move was sacking of Gary O neil
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Day 6 - Alfie, please do a video on the pitiful situation the Bulgarian national football team is currently in. Here are a couple of points to give you an idea about what I'm talking about:
- Currently, the team is in a streak of 8 winless games, at the bottom of its qualification group for the 2024 Euro, with no chances of qualifying, after losing to opponents such as Montenegro and Lithuania.
- The team's last win was almost a year ago - on 16.11.2022 in a friendly against Cyprus. Our last win in an official match was more than a year ago - on 26.09.2022 against North Macedonia.
- The national football team of Bulgaria has been constantly performing bad for at least the last 20 years. The last big tournament we played was the 2004 Euro in Portugal, where we were humiliated in the group stage.
- Many supporters blame the current bosses of the Bulgarian Football Union for this downfall. The most notable of them are Borislav Mihaylov, Emil Kostadinov and Yordan Lechkov - 3 players who were part of the great 1994 WC team which reached the semi-finals of the tournament. Sadly, those people's success as players has been overshadowed by their lack of capability or willingness to resolve many of the problems in our football - the out-of-date training systems, the poor football infrastructure etc. What's worse is that they refuse to resign a failure after another and they have changed the rules of the union in a way that makes them irremovable for more than 18 years.
- Recently a couple of players from the next generation - Dimitar Berbatov, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov started a campaign, trying to overthrow the aforementioned but as I said the rules are in the bosses' favour.
- Meanwhile fans are getting really angry with the situation and are starting to take measures. Last weekend, during many matches of the First and Second Football Leagues the fans were chanting against Mihaylov and company and displayed banners against them. Of course, the BFU fined the clubs for "obscene chants and banners".
- There is a campaign on social media calling fans of all local clubs to put their differences aside and come to the Euro qualifier with Hungary on 16.11 and show their disapproval of the current BFU leaders.
That's the main points, I'm sure that if you dig a little you'll find much more. Please consider doing such a video, the anti-BFU sentiments are getting stronger and we need to disturb those self-serving ex-legends in every way possible. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Besides a moaning group of supporters who whines when a new manager joins to bring change and does not bring us top of the table within the first 10 games I really think one of the biggest issues is consistency. Both in recruitment and on the medical/physio department. Throughout all the managers and all the players who has been through the club gates the last 7-8 years we have always been quite subtable to injuries hence the lack of consitency. I think the recruitment is spot on now and out team looks more sexy and in balance since the good PL days.
A solid midtable club in the prem but when tried to bring in more different style of players to try and push up the table they mostly flopped
yes, i think the summary comment is very salient - essentially we've a lot of money but no idea what to do with it - surely we are not a money laundering mechanism - that can't be right (instead i assume " a fool and his money are soon parted")
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Disinterested does NOT mean uninterested. It means neutral. If Joe Biden or Sunak don’t have a vested interest in the Israel-Palestine war, they are disinterested. It means they don’t support either side. It doesn’t mean they’re not interested, but it means they’re neutral. I might want to watch Stoke vs Man United, so I’m interested, but I don’t care who wins, so I’m disinterested. Jesé was UNinterested at Stoke, not DISinterested. He wasn’t neutral, he lacked interest, so he was uninterested. You can be interested but disinterested. You cannot be interested but uninterested. If you’re implying lack of interest, you use the word uninterested. I understand why you use disinterested, I’ve wanted to use it myself because it sounds like a smarter word, but it comes off terribly once you realise that you’ve used it in the wrong sense of the term. I’m sorry, it’s stupid I know, but it’s a misuse of our language I’ve heard too many times, on this channel and even Tifo. It seems to be the most common English usage mistake and it’s got to stop. Rant *finally* over.
Please stop using the word disinterested when you mean uninterested. I’m uninterested in this misuse continuing. 3 times now. Come on. You’re smarter than me, except on this little thing, but it gets on my tits, I’m sorry.
That shit caught me off guard ngl 🤣🤣
I think birmingham are most cursed club in world not just uk
Remember when teams were kicking it out for a corner because they were scared of the Rory long throw. Used to love those days. SCFC