Why I gave up supporting Liverpool in favour of non-league Marine FC - video
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2015
- Three years ago Liverpool fan Dickie Felton followed a whim and went to see his local non-league side Marine FC. The passion he saw at the game eclipsed the passion he was used to on the famous Kop stand at Anfield, and led him to give up his season ticket at the Premier League side and start volunteering and getting involved at the Evo-Stik Northern Premier side instead
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Can't wait for Marine vs Spurs. Hope to see a FA cup classic. #COYS
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James Nutt so get out of this country
I used to pay 100€ for season ticket plus 120€ every year to watch FC Porto, the main club of my city, but the tourists, the glory hunters, the fake supporters from other cities from Portugal were ruining my experience through years. 2 years ago i gave up on Porto to support my local team that plays in 3rd division, and it feels so much better, i dont feel like im just watching a football match, i feel im doing my duty as i was raised on those streets. And everyone there is not just supporting a team but supporting that small town. Plus for just 2€ per match what makes way easier to go to away matches. Sorry for bad English.
És de que clube?Respeito a tua decisão mas acho extremamente estúpido o que fizeste. Se fosses adepto do F.C.Porto mas não tivesses nenhum ligação com a região do Porto(nascido/ou vivido lá) então terias feito a decisão correta, pois é extremamente estupido haver benfiquistas no norte como Portistas no sul e etc...mas sendo o clube da tua cidade, então acho uma palhaçada o que fizeste, porque como dizia cantona, podes trocar de carro, de mulher , religiao mas nao podes trocar de clube...(exeto se fore nas condições que falei antes, pq isso também é estupido, mas tu não estavas nessa situação). Para terminar, essa justificação que deste dos turistas não concordo de modo algum pois também sou Portista e sei do que falo, aliás nem faz sentido o que disseste, porque como é obvio há mais turistas, mas até deste à impressão que o Dragao é igual ao Camp Nou ou Bernabeu q estão cheios de turistas. Também não sei até q certo ponto essa mundança não se deu ao facto de estarmos numa "seca" de titulos...talvez sejas uma pessoa muito influenciável. Cumprimentos
@@zzz5094 eu sou de Moreira da Maia e continuo a apoiar o Porto, mas deixei de ir ao dragão e vou regularmente ao estádio do pedras rubras assim como a jogos fora, não tem a ver com seca de títulos nem com nada que se pareça, o pedras rubras luta pela manutenção quase todos os anos. Eu apoio o porto porque o meu pai é portista e me levava a ver jogos, pra mim não é errado alguém da Maia apoiar o Porto, é um concelho muito perto do Porto no entanto se não forem as pessoas da freguesia de Moreira a apoiar o clube de terra ninguém o vai fazer. E não tive qualquer influência direta, eu vi uma publicidade ao clube no shopping da cidade e comecei a acompanhar os resultados e decidi experimentar ir a um jogo, fui sozinho ao trofense ver o primeiro jogo do clube da minha terra e ganhei o gosto como já referi no primeiro comentário, a partir daí comecei a acompanhar nos estádios sempre que podia e sabe me bem, tem um sentimento diferente daquele que sentia no dragão além de que posso beber cerveja com álcool algo que no dragão era impossível ahah em relação aos adeptos, os turistas é o mínimo, chateia me mais os glory hunters, pessoal que so apoia porque o clube é ganhador ou porque dá pra por uma história nas redes sociais e muitos nem do distrito são.
@@IOFIsickness Compreendo teres ganho uma ligação ao Pedras Rubras, não compreendo o facto de basicamente teres te desligado do Porto tão facilmente, das duas umas, ou tens uma capacidade anormal de desapego, ou então nunca foste um verdadeiro adepto do Porto(e não interessa o € q gastavas, mas sim o sentimento) logo o verdadeiro glory hunter(q varias vezes referiste) eras tu antigamente. Para mim, q amo o Porto, é IMPOSSIVEL me desapegar um dia deste sentimento, e tb ganhei um carinho especial pelo clube da minha vila, é perfeitamente facil conciliar o "amor" e dedicação a ambos os clubes( só sou contra ser adepto de clubes da mesma divisão, o não acontece no meu caso, nem aconteceria no teu). Para terminar, gostava de usar um exemplo "ridiculo": Não sei se és pai ou não, mas vou assumir q não, tu um dia que tenhas um filho pela segunda vez, vais deixar de amar de dar tanta atenção ao teu primeiro filho hehehe
@@zzz5094 eu continuo a apoiar o porto e vou apoiar sempre, acompanho sempre os jogos e sou e serei portista, eu tive lugar anual durante muitos anos e sempre fui sozinho ver os jogos, desde miúdo que gosto de ir ver o futebol sozinho e naturalmente acabei por fazer amizades na minha bancada, fui muito feliz no dragão e ocasionalmente ainda lá vou ver jogos mas de há uns 3 anos para cá que tenho dado o meu apoio ao Pedras Rubras e é o clube que acompanho ao vivo com mais regularidade, eles precisam de adeptos como eu e das pessoas da cidade que muitas nem sabem da existência do clube, sou gozado por pessoas da minha cidade por apoiar o Pedras Rubras e temos de ser todos nós aos poucos a ir mudando esta mentalidade. Não tenho problema nenhum em apoiar as duas equipas porque eu verdadeiramente sinto as duas equipas que são na verdade as duas únicas equipas no mundo que eu apoio.
@@IOFIsickness É ridiculo seres gozado por apoiares o Pedras, devias era ser aplaudido. Eu percebi q continuas a apoiar o Porto, mas deixares de ter lugar anual só pq tb apoias o Pedras na minha cabeça não faz sentido...se me disseres q tomaste essa decisão por dificuldades económicas, aí aceito completamente essa justificação, agora se foi pelo simples facto do surgimento do Pedras na tua vida, então para mim essa decisão de nao renovar o lugar anual não tem cabimento
I'm from the US and I wish we had the same football culture. I'd love to support my small town team.
I'm in the US too and I agree. That small town,local field atmosphere looks so nice to experience.
Just to be clear, what do you mean by 'football' here?
@@sparkling.water. football, not American football. But I conpletely agree with the original comment. I'm from the US and it would definitely make our football culture a lot better
And now he gets to see Spurs in the FA Cup
As a Liverpool from Liverpool fan I completely agree with the video absolutely spot on
Liam Ready lmao what
Weirdo turn it in
Liam Ready as a Liverpool fan you must be inbred
I rarely get down to Goodison Park these days, for all of the same reasons. I watch Bootle FC and Marine AFC (along with AFC Liverpool, Skelmersdale Utd and Burscough also). I love the non-league game, and Bootle and Marine as clubs. Both very friendly and very welcoming.
Kieron Sloan I get down to southport every now and then
Kieron Sloan also when I was at southport there was no card machine so at HT they let us out to get cash back so I could get a drink
Fair play to him. As an Ipswich town season ticket holder I love the club but hate modern football, the way the club is run, and how much it costs. I'd love to go and watch non-league every week but don't have the balls to give up the ticket
James Gilly same (Reading Fc fan)
James Gilly 🔵👀
do both James , watch none league when Ipswich don't play ..
Feel sorry for him now fans can’t be in stadiums and how there doing in the fa cup
tottenham
I think marine are allowing fans into the ground due to there place in the pyramid
Im a red,season ticket holder with me dad and uncle,im from liverpool But ive been starting to go some non leauge At tranmere rovers it 2quid over the river and 5 to get in 10 pound i take that would get me a pie and a water on the kop i still go liverpool and love to the core follow home away euorpe everywhere ive grew up doing it,but its full of outsiders should be locals only full of passion anyone should give non-leauge ago
Swa
I'm a Leeds season ticket holder and sometimes I watch Dulwich Hamlet. The friendly atmosphere at Ametuer grounds is brilliant.
Fair play I’m from large town called East Kilbride which is part of greater Glasgow it’s a quick 5 minute to 10 minute drive to Glasgow which means large group of people support the old firm I used to be a Celtic fan however with bills and stuff to pay found myself being priced out of football so started watching and going to ek fc games in non league it’s 1 league below Scottish league 2 with hopes to go up as we are the largest town in Scotland not to have a league club as we are the second largest town in Scotland and the 6th largest settlement with close to 76k people I have been going for some time now but have never purchased a season ticket which I will be doing at the start of next season as it’s a lot more affordable
I gave up going to anfield every week and started watching Witton Albion in the Northern Premiere League in 2011. Still support Liverpool though.
Marine always have amazing support I support a team in the northern premier (hednesford town) and they are amazing
When I go to LFC it's now dead full of Asian Tourists and that annoys me while I do have marine as my second club is southport fc I feel no league football clubs have more passion like mfc and sfc and lot of tourists at arsenal and Liverpool and arsenal but also in big clubs in the prem
Being a Chelsea fan I know exactly what you mean about the tourists and pricing.
John Hooley yeah instead of young load singing young men who starts a chant and stands up like it was back in the olden days now we have business men sitting down doing nothing but having a chat
How is that such a problem?
@@sl9wdive 3 years ago me, alot of the people visiting Liverpool fc I've found to be east Asian tourists aka the ones on there phones which kills the atmosphere. The more popular lfc gets the worse it comes
@@sloth-gaming believe it or not I saw a asian tourist at a aston villa game.
When he said Liverpool didn’t feel like it was his club anymore I’m getting the same vibes with Newcastle United
Dickie Felton....you are a legend.
I support my local 7th division team in Berlin. You can get a ticket, Programm, drink and hotdog for only 5€. And everyone is a great community.
I know I'm late but.... what team? cuz I think German Sunday League sounds amazing.
Can't complain about that.
Loved this video
I have gone to to Liverpool a few times but Now I am a sandgrounder who is a southport season ticket holder since i was 13
I'm still a season ticket holder at Anfield, over 30 years but I've recently started watching non league, Anfield has become a museum for tourists and the Kop a tribute act to its old self. Liverpool treat its loyal supporters like dirt.
Same with me. I've been a Manchester City fan of 38 years!!! I don't bother going anymore for the same reasons. As an Exile Mancunian living in Scarborough 115 mile away, it made the decision that bit easier.
@@craigmullen9046 fair play mate 👏 👍
Same with me at Newcastle that club is becoming a tourist attraction
Revolt against the modern world. Support your local non-league team.
First division football has existed for a long time as well.
Based and localpilled
My local club sells a hotdog, lucazade, main ticket and programe for £11
Same
What a bargain
Yep. I'm American and agree thats a bargain. Pro sports are a rip off when it comes to consessions. I went to a European football match in Paris like 3 years ago, and I remember paying a bunch for consessions. I wish I had the receipt to show that pro sports are scams nowadays. Its a massive cash cow
Yep, I've also moved to non-league football, which I still consider football, unlike the circus the Premier and Championship have become (I still have my One Hotspur subscription, due to the waiting list for one being measured in years).
I've only been to our new Stadium just before it was finished, never having seen a game there, and having pledged never to attend another game in which VAR is present.
Aside from that, Premier League Corporations, are so far from being clubs, they have been totally sanitized, and now feel more like generic food Franchises than anything one can be passionate about. For me, VAR was just the final straw in the destruction of the beautiful game I grew up with. Long gone are the days of blood, sweat, and tears. Now we have to put up with overpaid primadonnas who are more than willing to change their "skin" for another hefty paycheck.
Non League Football is the sport I grew up with, and it is the greatest thing on earth,
Cheers.
And when spurs played Marine FC they were 167 places below as well, how incredible is that
Theirs something about the ground will put it on my list all the best from Scotland
I support Liverpool but football is not a TV programme! Support your local club guys! - I do something similar with non-league football on my channel!
Chinua Cole not a Liverpool fan unless you're a scouser or go to games
Craig Miller Lies
Chinua Cole I agree i support my local team even though there in the championship as the ground is 10 minutes from me (Reading fan)
I came into this video expecting to dislike a lot of things he was going to say but, let’s be honest, he isn’t wrong.
I’ll always support my team (Reading) but I do get a lot of joy going to a lot of the local non league clubs, in and around Berkshire. Some of my favourite away days in recent memory, before Covid, was Bracknell and Didcot (the latter in which me and a friend had a few too many San Miguel’s and I fell down on the short walk to the station.....twice)
Always support your local when it’s possible to do it again, they need us all more than you’ll ever know.
As for price, I’ll say what I had at Bracknell a few seasons ago.
Bus to Reading station, £1.70, return train to Bracknell was £5.80, pub right outside the station and the stadium 5 minutes away, so spent about £7 in there. Match ticket, adult, £5!! And a couple drinks in the club house, which you can take to the sidelines and behind the goal, at £3 each. All of that came to around £25, which is what I’d pay to see Reading, before anything else is paid for.
I agree I’ve been goin down to City of Liverpool FC and it’s been boss. Sense of local pride. Wish anfield wasn’t a tourist hotbed :(
Brilliant video..how true is this
In Chester their are loads of football fans but not many come and watch Chester FC please in your spare time come are watch Chester football club at the deva stadium thank you
I’ve supported the mighty Marine since 2018
I can’t wait to go
José Mourinho plz don’t go we need you
Lovely video.
Modern football is like modern music all about £££
Agreed!
Modern music was in every era
1980s music was once modern music
1990s as well
I don't entirely agree with Paul Leary about pricing. It would help if Marine allowed entry for half price entrance for anyone who has a season ticket with another club not just Everton and Liverpool. PS my season ticket for the biggest club outside the premiership works out at £13 per game. Marine is £10 per game not a great saver.
The biggest club outside the premierleague?? Looking at your channel you support villa , they aren’t the biggest club outside the top flight though
I think these sentiments are being echoed round the country. I can certainly relate to the pre match "entertainment". So loud!!! Fans are given 2 periods of 45 mins to make some noise. Before that it's hopeless trying to build up any sort of verbal support.
Doesn't help that with seated stadia everyone has a numbered seat so there's not the urgency to get along early to find a good place to watch the game.
..plus you might get a season ticket wit your seat next to a w****r you can't get away from!
Non league , affordable football for all .
I'm exile Mancunian what lives in Scarborough now. And after Supporting Manchester City for 40 years. I'd just had enough of ludicrous ticket prices and silly kick off days and times to accommodate Sky and TNT sport's!!! Watch none league Scarborough now
Anyone get an ad about Liverpool before the video?
I support Leeds united, but as I live 5 minutes away from York road I sometimes cheer on Maidenhead
There saying I support Maidenhead as well
went down the other day to check em out, great day out even though they got stuffed 0-2
I'm a leeds season ticket holder from wales. All that travelling when I could just watch my local team. tbf leeds doesn't have the same problem with other teams though in terms of atmosphere and plastic fans so it's not as bad.
Modern day football is all about money stupid transfer costs I love non league football
I really understand him. Got so tired with top tier football that now I support more clubs from 3-6 divisions of Ukraine (6) rather than from the first 2 (only 4). Quite the same in Europe. From 13 clubs 3 are amateurs and another 3 are from second divisions. Though still like to support Liverpool and some other top tiers. But modern football gets me really annoyed
Just got this recommended after Marine v Spurs lol
This is the point of sport, competition that unites locals together. I've always followed Man Utd since I was a child, but I'm not interested in contributing a cent to the Glazer's already well lined pockets haha.
Your hundred percent right.
Spot on sadly the Premier League is completely lost money has ruined it.
Not neccesarily money, but the fact you aren't allowed to be fans, the fact the "smaller" teams aren't allowed to compete.
I got to South shields fc homes
I've grown up in Nottinghamshire and it seems all my friends are Liverpool or Manchester Utd fans. It drives me a bit mad. Local non league will come into its own soon i think.
I'm from the US. West Ham is the team I support but I actually adopted Nottingham Forest as my second side.
It's already happening m8, attendances are on the up at non League grounds all over the country. It's great to see..
Completely agree tourists and money ruining our game but I just couldn’t give up on supporting liverpool
Liverpool 05 Liverpool are shit anyway
Tourists ruining the game? what are you... Trump?
@@Belforhir I'm two years late but yea I agree. I don't like how all the locals are commenting about the tourists ruining the atmosphere and stuff because if you look at the clubs, they're made up of mostly foreigners so it's hypocritical
Le Jeu Avant Tout
Glentoran FC
Visit Indonesia
Wonder why this has been recommended🤔
York City FC my second team
wonder if hes regretting it now?
Well he might not be able afford to go anyway.
Getting recommended this after spurs vs marines 😂
Best of Luck Marines with Spurs!
Why
I turned my back on the premier league its shit. Rather support Non League
There is something called supporting 2 teams
something that should NEVER occur
Shouldn’t happen
Yes, indeed. You can do what you want and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.. 👍🏻
would start watching a non league side near me if they had a little ground with a terrace.
still city till i die but away prices and cup prices are ridiculous, cant really complain on season tickets atm
MCFC
Droylsden
Guarantee that Dickie Felton headed back at Liverpool once Klopp started winning. Who are we kidding?
Might not be able to afford go back. Why a lot of working class support who supported premier league clubs, have gone to none league to begin with because of cost. Let me give you example how ludicrous ticket prices have gone in the premier League over the last twenty odd years. I seen an old ticket stub Premier league match Arsenal V Man United 1994 it was £10 I put that in the inflation calculator for 2024 30 years down the line. In today's money that is £25. That how ridiculous prices have gone up over the last 30 Years!!!
Is it fuck louder than kop
yeah i know
understand his point completely, but I can't see how he can abandon his club. disloyalty?
he became desillusioned by the ridicoulos amount of money going around in the PL
Henry Leutner no he can't afford it
it's not disloyalty. Many fans are disillusioned and cheated by their clubs. Getting charged a lot of money, then being told to sit down and shut up so they cant support the team. These premier league clubs are not run correctly anymore. That is why I boycott the Premier League and considering the Champions League and Championship. Is it fair being a championship club fan and paying £45 knowing you can see top football for less. Also we support our local club who care about us as we care about them.
Not his fault its liverpool's fault
Disloyalty??? Well if fans can't afford to go anymore. What choice do they have mate??
Why is this in my recommendation
City of Liverpool football club the working class club of the city now . A.M.F
roadend78 Or Prescot Cables
Big mistake after 6 champions league title
@Evan rules Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup. 3 trophies in 1 year now, the size of the mistake got the best of itself now lol
Not a mistake, you can claim to be a Liverpool fan, if you don't go games it means absolutely nothing. This fella lost all connection with the riches of prem liverpool and supported his local non league team means more than anyone sitting at home being a Liverpool fan....
If he’s not a glory hunter it’s not a mistake
What’s the point of you can’t be there to see it
Well he might not have a choice if he can't afford to go anymore!!!
If you just “gave up” supporting Liverpool then you were never a proper Liverpool fan👍🏼
Maybe he just couldn't afford it anymore. You know Football isn't the cheap pass time it once was!!!