Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrexham and Merthyr are Welsh teams that play in the English leagues. They are very old Welsh teams and when the first English National Football league was formed in 1888 (previously there were only local leagues) there was no national league in Wales and would not be for a long time. The five Welsh teams all applied successfully to join English Leagues. When the Welsh national league was formed they declined the offer to join. Swansea became the only Welsh team to have represented England in European club football in 2014.
@@Glund117 Chester is in England. Fun fact: A long standing law in Chester was that any welshman found inside the city walls after midnight could be hanged!
Good choice they made too as the Welsh League is a mess. Fun fact, the biggest, best team with the most titles (by far) in the Welsh League is English. The New Saints, from Oswestry in Shropshire.
I'm from Swindon that team that got relagated in the 1993/94 season. I was 7 years old at the time and went to every game with my Dad. For our town that was the best ever season playing against the best of the best. And we've never been back to the Premier League since
I’m from Swindon but I ain’t a footy fan (I watch the hockey - which have won more silverware 😉) but I’m rooting for the Robins to finally get out of their L2 and L1 era and to finally get into Championship and hopefully the Prem!!
The video forgot to mention in 21-22 season was the first season ever, every single club could finish in a different position depending on their last day result, which made it very exciting
Liverpool had basically won the title before Covid restrictions were enforced although a lot of rival fans will mock them by saying it was a covid title and it doesnt count when obviously if it was that easy to win it then someone else would have. 99 points with 25 point difference at one stage in the season is a crazy achievement which wil forever be disrespected.
It’s crazy as a Bournemouth fan, as a child we were always between the 60th-80th best team in the country to suddenly being consistently in the premier league
I used to watch Southend a lot as a kid, I remember going to watch a lot of Southend v Bournemouth games in Division 3/League 2, it is mad how Bournemouth have risen through the leagues
I remember Ipswich town finishing 5th and the next season they hosted Inter Milan at Portman Road….. it was so bizarre. Ronaldo turning up at a field in Ipswich with all these drunk farmers taking photos of him. It must have been like a fever dream for him.
@Spencer 50:01 good spot on Swansea. Although the Welsh do have their own league, there are a few historical teams that were admitted to the English league way back at the start. Cardiff and Newport County, Wrexham also play in the English divisions. No Scottish or Irish teams do though
I am an Oldham fan and have not forgotten that they were founders of the Premier League. After 68 years they got back into the 1st Division only for it to change into the Premier League. Oldham were the last 1st division side to agree to the change, since they knew it wasn't in their interests. Last year they became the first ex-Premier League side to be relegated from the Football League. A few Welsh teams play in the English league - off the top of my head: Swansea, Wrexham and Cardiff
Since the 1990s Wales does have our own league, like Scotland, called the Cymru Premier. However the 5 biggest teams in Wales all decided to continue to play in England's leagues (Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County, Wrexham and Merthyr Town) this is because theres a lot more money in the English leagues than the Welsh
Ipswich was once a force to be reckoned with. Winning the 1st Division (now premier league) in 61/62, FA Cup in 77/78 and EUFA Cup in 80/81. As of writing this Ipswich are statistically the most "inform" team in Europe having an unbeaten run of 21 matches in competitive matches. To put that into perspective Ipswich haven't lost a competitive game since the 22nd of January and currently sit 1st in the championship (2nd tier of English football). Ipswich are also unbeaten at their own stadium in European matches
There was talk of abandoning the 19/20 season due to Covid. Being a Liverpool fan that was the last thing we wanted, we were so far ahead. Jurgen Klopp got the title job done for us which was so badly needed, he is well respected by LFC fans. I watched this reaction from start to finish which I didn't think I'd manage more than 10 minutes!! Well done guys for keeping my attention ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
There are two ways people try to invalidate Liverpool's PL win. One is to cite the pandemic, which is insane given how far ahead Liverpool were when everything shut down, (we only played two matches after the lockdown restart before the title was won) and the other is the myth that VAR was disproportionately favourable to Liverpool that year. The second one falls down if people actually take the time to look at it properly. Liverpool were 10th in terms of how teams benefited from VAR decisions, exactly mid-table. As it happens Brighton were the team that gained the most points from VAR decisions with City and United both also above Liverpool in that regard.
@@NUFCOfficial Liverpool played TWO games after the return from the first lockdown before the title was sewn up. The title was done before Covid struck; they won. It quicker than anyone else ever has and they did it in full stadiums home and away. All Covid did was stall the momentum and stop them getting 100+ points. Feel free to disregard City’s win the following season if you wish, but you can’t disregard 19/20.
Love or hate Manchester United you were wrong to assume that they bought success. The backbone of their success came from a strong youth set-up with most of their players coming up through their own ranks combined with the outstanding management skills of Alex Ferguson they didn't really spend that much money on transfers in comparison to other teams.
United we’re very fortunate with the level and amount of youth that blossomed at similar times - partly luck partly good scouting partly city being a shit option at the time - they did make a fair few record signings too and could out compete other clubs on wages - cantona yorke Sherringham cole keane van persie- not only strengthened United but weakened their opposition
There is a Welsh league but Cardiff, Swansea, Newport & Wrexham play in English league & cups, purely due to size of the towns & cities in such a small country as far as I'm aware.
As a Newport fan, it's worth pointing out that Newport was actually one of the founding members of the football league third division in 1920. At that time, Newport was in Monmouthshire, there was a lot of ambiguity on whether Monmouthshire was in Wales or England, and was usually a mixture of both. It wasn't until 1972 that Newport and Monmouthshire was officially declared part of Wales. By this point, Newport had already been playing in the English leagues for a while. When they went bust in 89, they reformed and played the first season in Gloucestershire, England. That's where they got the nickname 'Exiles'.
Theres only been 6 teams in the history of the Premier League that haven't been relegated. Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. Of those teams only Everton and Tottenham haven't won the league.
Everton along with Liverpool were relegated from the old top flight in the early 1950s.but since the mid 1950s they have never been out of the top flight. They are also the two closest clubs in terms of distance, either side of Stanley park in Liverpool. Alan Shearer only managed for the last 6 games of that season as the previous manager was sacked. He went back to doing Match of the Day afterwards. He did rally Newcastle but just could not get them over the line.
Everton weren't relegated (they are, I believe the only team that never have been, although they seem to be trying to fix that these days) but Liverpool were relegated then (only a couple of years after having won the league). The club floundered for a few years until a certain Bill Shankly came along and dragged them back to the top.
The fact that you could keep up with the video is impressive. 52:50 That's the first time i heard someone say "Winningest". I saw a video of Americanisms that annoy Brits, or something, and Winningest was one of them.
One thing most people forget is that in the 2019/20 season Liverpool basically had already won the League at X-mas before Covid hit.. LFC went undefeated for the first 27 games !!!
You should watch the history of Manchester Utd because I think I will surprise you. They have a huge tragedy and they had to completely change the club. After watching that you’ll see why they’re success was deserving and how amazing their journey was to becoming the biggest club in the world. Great reaction though👏🏼
Alan Shearer actually took over in the 08/09 season for like the last 8 games. That newcastle season was bonkers. Kevin Keegan resigned because the board signed players he didn't want, and that they'd only seen on youtube. He was then replaced by Joe Kinnear. I don't remember if this was the time he called the reporter Simon Bird a f***ing c**t or not, but he also mispronounced two of his players names. He left due to surgery needed so Shearer took over, and had no hope, and then afterwards went straight back to Match of the day as if this time in charge never happened.
10:37 well not just football generally, this English football league existed for over 100 years prior to the name change to The Premier League. It was just known as the English first division before that
In the pandemic year Liverpool were about 20 points clear at the top before the pandemic even existed, so it can’t really be argued that they didn’t deserve it
The first rule of the Premier league, is to ignore the Premier league only stats, because that's a wealthy person saying ignore the poor And we never ignore the poor The top tier stats go back over a hundred years Don't let the marketing people control your thoughts
Hey guys! Congratulations on hitting 100k subs your videos are fantastic! I do agree with you that there should be promotion and relegation in American sports as it gives team something to actually play for. The joys and happiness of promotion contrasted with the inevitable agony, sadness and tears of relegation. When I see American franchises supposedly ‘tanking’ their season to get a higher draft pick I always think you’re lucky to still stay in your league/division. But if you even dare to tank your season here there’d be NO higher draft pick to look forward to in a draft … but only the very heavy price of RELEGATION to endure. I believe there was a vote of owners of the USLC (US Soccer League Championship) in Colorado Springs (on the 9th and 10th of August) about if pro/rel should be introduced in the tiers below the MLS to start with. I don’t know the results of that vote but hopefully pro/rel was voted for. Keep producing great stuff guys and stay safe!
I think they did try to get Celtic and Rangers in the PL in the 90s when it was first starting up, but UEFA said no. However, they allowed a joint Belgium-Holland league so it was thought it might become a reality sometime, with the British government likely to back it as an attempt to stave off Scottish Independence, and the PL wanting to shake things up, though the two Scottish teams would be unlikely to do too well initially without a lot of work, whereas they're quite comfortable at the top of the Scottish league.
A Belated 'Congrats' guys! Work takes up more time now sadly and I don't want to pay for a TV license here in the UK because I don't watch any but sadly the cheeky BBC now declares that without a license one cannot watch live YT stream, what the heck is the coprorate world coming to! Anyway big hi, stil watching and liking your stuff (on all channels!), from your biggest fan, stan, erm roger, maybe Jimmothy or Timmyjim... ok got it... simply from one of 100k fans of yours :)
I know this is really only meant to scratch the surface but some of the 'smaller' clubs really deserve a closer look at. It is a mind-blowing achievement for both Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion to reach the top flight, never mind stay there. Both were in danger of dropping out of the football league completely, and even ceasing to exist, in the 1990's. The work done by the fans and staff back then deserves to be recognised and are worthy of a documentary in themselves.
The part of the video about shearer managing a relegated Newcastle is not entirely accurate. Shearer took on 8 games at the back end of the season when we were all but relegated anyway. We had a string of bad managers throughout the season and Alan stepped in because we couldn't really find anyone else. The writing was on the wall with or without him
The first season the official name was the Carling Premiership, later called the. Barclaycaed Premiership then the Barclays premier league, also called the English premier league and simply the premier league. I've probably forgotten a couple of other names.
Wales does have it's own leagues but there are a handful of Welsh clubs in the English leagues as there are a handful of English clubs in the Welsh league most of the English clubs are from Shropshire which is just over the Welsh border
That sounded like a load of Salop****lol) but I never knew that Gillian. I knew Wales had their league biyt I never knew that some English sides were in it, ***I trust that you get that "Salop" joke:)
Mahrez in that Leicester season was insane, still the best First touch in football ever, and it wasnt a fluke, Vardy, Mahrez and Kante went onto being PL legends for yearssss later after that league win
Every single team in England has been relegated at some point, most just before 1992 and the Premier League, so always remember the massive asterisk next to the records of clubs who claim to have never been relegated. Some teams have never been relegated in all their existence just not in England, like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Club in Spain, Celtic and Aberdeen in Scotland, Boca Jrs and Flamengo in South America, and most of the other big European clubs from various nations.
Bayern Munich is the most successful club in German football history, having won a record 33 national titles, including 11 consecutively since 2013, and 20 national cups, along with numerous European honours. In 2020, Bayern Munich, under the head coach Hans-Dieter Flick, won the sextuple and became the first team to win the UEFA Champions League by winning all matches.
*Furthermore the "Intercontinental Cup" in 1976 and 2001, the FIFA Club World Cup in 2013 and 2020. Plus, in Germany 10 times the DFB-/DFL-Supercup and 6 times the DFL-League-Cup. No other German team won more titles/trophies in every national or international competition.* 🔴⚽😈❤🔥
1:25:29 so just to give some actual facts about 20/21. - man city won the league very comfortably over man utd, with no notable title race occuring. - Leicester spent most of the year 3rd but slumped to 5th and just missing out on champions league, mostly because Liverpool scraped a win against West Brom thanks to their goalkeeper scoring a last minute winner - West Ham, having avoided relegation by 6 points last year, managed to finish 6th. Their season was a right mess, they sold their most promising young star, sold their only striker, meaning they were playing an aging right mid up front, they signed someone whos career was the most memed on the internet on loan, as well as an old and slow defender who had just relegated his last two teams. suddenly it all came together and they got the most points in a season they’ve ever managed. - Spurs finish 7th and Arsenal finished 8th. This was significant as Spurs qualified for the new UEFA europa conference league, a third tier european tournament to make the europa league less congested with teams and improving the quality. Spurs, usually being champions league regulars, were believed to be guaranteed to win this tournament….. they got knocked out in the groups (first round) - relegated were sheffield united, who completely fell apart after the season before due to continuous centre back injuries. West Brom, which broke infamous relegation specialist manager Sam Allardyce’s record of not being relegated from the premier league. And lastly fulham, who were infamous for missing seemingly every penalty they got this season. in addition to the games mentioned, some other notable games were - Spurs 3-3 West Ham, west ham were 3-0 down in the 82nd minute, no team had ever been that far behind that late and not lost. - west brom 5-2 chelsea. Idk how it happened either lol. - Arsenal 0-3 Aston Villa, 4th loss in 8 games, started a run of 7 games without a win. - man city 2-5 Leicester, this type of result early in the season made people think there was no favourite this season to win the league. I think it might have been a premier league record, because at least 7/8 different teams were top of the league at some point. This season was actually very good, but it was ruined by no fans and a lack of a title fight in the second half. For example, at new years, the top 10 were split by only 7 points, which never happens halfway through a season.
I feel I'll be repeating what a lot of others might have said but by the time the pandemic hit Liverpool had already gained a massive points lead over everyone else. By the time the league got postponed there was no doubt about who was going to win the league so the whole Covid/lockdown issues didn't affect the league winners at all. Actually Liverpool tended to play worse in the empty stadiums.
I support a small local team, Southend United, we have never been in the top division, and can only look on in awe at the money being spent on players now. We were in the league below the Premier league for a while, and even beat Manchester United in the cup with Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo in the team. Since then we have been relegated 3 times...In 2 weeks time we are in court over debts of £275,000, if it is not paid we will cease to exist. We needed a special decree to start the season, we cannot sign players, water was switched off at the ground for a while and the staff weren't paid for 4 months. The prem has so much money, and then the smaller clubs like us barely scrape by.
Amazing video , matched by the reaction. I dont know whats happening but there is a wave of US sport fans watching EU football as of late and its so great to see. I feel its a nice way to bridge a gap of why football means so much to us- plus you now have Messi to watch, literally a footballing god. Being a massive Chelsea fan at some points it was a hard watch lol but im still proud of what we achieved. I remember crying when Terry missed that Penalty- but English football you are welcome we made you better than Spain haha. I also remember where i was for all prem titles and CL wins. Good times man. Been tough as of late but we have changed the club from top to bottom. Most teams fall off because of one player or a manager change tbf but the internet has no memory haha. I want to give a shout out to a few players I feel were missed here. Bias maybe but Lampard needed more air time. He ran our midfield for years and was so consistent. Shout out to Rory Delap , man should have gone into javelin or something. His throwings were a corner and when they had a throw in your half , it was a scary time. Shout out Ashley Cole, bias again maybe but he is the best left back to ever do it for me. Shout out both Morten Gamst Pedersen and Mathew Taylor, they could only score absolute bangers. I also have to mention Cheick Tiote, was a rock for Newcastle and scored one of the best goals in one of the best games ive ever seen against Arsenal. May his soul rest in peace. Also shout out the beach ball , with the only inanimate object with a premier league goal haha.(post/bar and in dont count )
fact about the year Newcastle got relegated when shearer was in charge, he only managed the last like 8 games, the damage was already done by that time tbh, we were shocking that season with multiple managers.
The last English manager to win the league was Howard Wilkinson for Leeds in 1991/92 season which was the season before The Premier League’s inception.
The premier league is just a reformation of the original English league! All the teams that went into the premier league were already teams in the English Football League! It just happens to be that in 1992 all the Larger clubs would form a much more competitive League that was then called the Premier League! Something I think should be noted that changed football forever!!! The premier league became the most competitive a league in the world because the revenue from Cable and Adverts were distributed fairly amongst the entire league!!! This is much different ( EVEN TILL THIS DAY! ) to every single other league in the world! Every other league like Spain or Germany give most of their Television and Ad proceeeda to the top 3 or 4 biggest teams in their league…… This is why even till this day, the Premiere League remains the most competitive league in world football! Wellll that, and the fact that the Premier League created such a massive new precedence that the fan base for it will always be the strongest in my opinion…..
The season runs from ~ august to may, so var was introduced in the 2019/20 season, so it was running for almost half a year before the pandemic. The next season (2020/21) was affected by corona, but the league/clubs were better equipped to deal with that. There was no break in that sense.
He clearly doesn't like Liverpool does he? Not one mention in the video of the treble we won in 2001 (FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup), or any mention of us winning the Champions League in 2005, or 2019. Also, In 2020, Liverpool were basically 3 matches away from sealing the title BEFORE the season was postponed by Lockdown. It was a formality by that point, but people still tried to get the season cancelled out of spite (Basically, every single United & Chelsea fan)
Everton founder member of the football league and premier league, 5th most successful club in England in terms of league titles. An institution of English football.
Bruv, it's called relegation :) Nice reaction boys! EDIT: also, Salah at Liverpool was not at his first season in the PL, there is actually footage of him playing for Chelsea earlier in the video.
VAR was introduced to try a rule out mistakes by the officials that potentially changed results. The season prior to it’s introduction the League Cup final ended Manchester United 3 Southampton 2, with tv reruns showing that Southampton had a perfectly legal goal mistakenly ruled out, when the score was 0-0. I think this was the mistake that finally pushed the League into introducing VAR.
Im a Bradford City fan, and it was great to see them plsy in the Premier league. Unfortunately, they are now languishing in the 4th division, which is now called Division 2 !!.
Great to see Blackburn Rovers were in the top four in the first couple of years of the Premier League. Blackburn Rovers were the subject of the first ever football match filmed, in 1895, not at the same ground, obviously:-)
Wrexham is Welsh too, but yeah they are intergrated into the English leagues too although their is a separate Welsh League that they do not participate in. I'm a Man City fan since 1989
Bradford city qualified for the intato Cup. Because it was the original fair play cup. And yes other fans called it the micky mouse Cup. But how many English teams can Bragg about qualifying and playing in Europe. Not many.
He glosses over so much in the final three seasons. Liverpool lost 3 games in the league in two seasons. They had the best defence of any team since 2005 Chelsea. They matched the most wins consecutively, and went 38 games unbeaten. They were fighting for 6 trophies all season in the 19/20 season, the only team to compete for six trophies in a season. The rivalry between City v Liverpool deserved more time spent on it due to how dominating they were in ways we had never seen before.
By the time he got to the last 3 seasons his brain was probably fried & was more concerned about just getting the important parts & assumed that the last 3 seasons everyone had fresh in their minds
it was not just the money was foreign money, the bigger issue was the large money, just buying excuses rather then using better tactics, and buying well and so on.
Congrats on 100k been watching you since the rona…. Man Utd are most successful in premier league era but prior to that hadn’t won much for 20+ years despite having biggest income
@@DarkAngel-vb2hu well English teams were banned from Europe in the 80s and Liverpool were dominant in that era. United were the most supported club and were doing what theyve been doing lately just paying over the top prices for big names rather than buying players that suit the tactics or style or the plan. I dunno could be worse could be Spurs.
As a Liverpool fan they had more or less won the league going undefeated until near the end with covid they tryed to void the season which isn't fair. There was no catching Liverpool they should have crowded us champs before thinking of robbing lfc
You guys should react to the greatest Playoff comeback of all time from last year when Sheffield Wednesday came back from 4-0 down to win on penalties after a 5-5 draw! It was truly magical and went viral all over the world. Would love to see you react to it! P.S. Send me a message if you want suggestions to the specific best videos of the games!
Welcome to Wrexham season 2 is coming up this September 12. The season documented Wrexham AFC journey to the Promotion to the EFL2. You should do a live "watch along" video. It is gonna be good content for your channel or Embrace the Suck 21
I've got a friend who is a Leicester fan who puts £5 on then to win the league every year, that year that they won, he was on the way to put the bet on and his friend rang to see if wants to go to the pub and he decided to use the money for a couple of pints and didn't put the bet on, he would have won £25000.
The first season the official name was the Carling Premiership, later called the. Barclaycaed Premiership then the Barclays premier league, also called the English premier league and simply the premier league. I've probably forgotten a couple of other names.
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Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrexham and Merthyr are Welsh teams that play in the English leagues. They are very old Welsh teams and when the first English National Football league was formed in 1888 (previously there were only local leagues) there was no national league in Wales and would not be for a long time. The five Welsh teams all applied successfully to join English Leagues. When the Welsh national league was formed they declined the offer to join. Swansea became the only Welsh team to have represented England in European club football in 2014.
@@SimSim-zf9if Cry more
Chester as well
@@Glund117 Chester is in England.
Fun fact: A long standing law in Chester was that any welshman found inside the city walls after midnight could be hanged!
Good choice they made too as the Welsh League is a mess.
Fun fact, the biggest, best team with the most titles (by far) in the Welsh League is English. The New Saints, from Oswestry in Shropshire.
@@Glund117 Didn't Chester apply to play football in Wales and then immediately went bankrupt.
Every time I heard ‘deregulation’ it made me laugh.
@@Matthew2398”religation”
@@Matthew2398hahaha the irony
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Relegation?
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I'm from Swindon that team that got relagated in the 1993/94 season. I was 7 years old at the time and went to every game with my Dad. For our town that was the best ever season playing against the best of the best. And we've never been back to the Premier League since
Millwall fan. Formed in 1885 and only 2 seasons ever in the top division and we haven't been back since 1990.
You reds
Yeah, but you have XTC .
I’m from Swindon but I ain’t a footy fan (I watch the hockey - which have won more silverware 😉) but I’m rooting for the Robins to finally get out of their L2 and L1 era and to finally get into Championship and hopefully the Prem!!
@croceyzx2433 Ice hockey?
The video forgot to mention in 21-22 season was the first season ever, every single club could finish in a different position depending on their last day result, which made it very exciting
Liverpool had basically won the title before Covid restrictions were enforced although a lot of rival fans will mock them by saying it was a covid title and it doesnt count when obviously if it was that easy to win it then someone else would have. 99 points with 25 point difference at one stage in the season is a crazy achievement which wil forever be disrespected.
100,000 well done fellas. Us Brits like to watch, hope you're doing well from the channel you deserve it!
It’s crazy as a Bournemouth fan, as a child we were always between the 60th-80th best team in the country to suddenly being consistently in the premier league
I used to watch Southend a lot as a kid, I remember going to watch a lot of Southend v Bournemouth games in Division 3/League 2, it is mad how Bournemouth have risen through the leagues
For now...., need to build a bigger stadium and try to get more fans in and youll be ok.
@@BlueSunRUclips stadium planned to be completed by 2028 season i believe. Almost finished our new training complex.
I remember Ipswich town finishing 5th and the next season they hosted Inter Milan at Portman Road….. it was so bizarre. Ronaldo turning up at a field in Ipswich with all these drunk farmers taking photos of him. It must have been like a fever dream for him.
@Spencer 50:01 good spot on Swansea. Although the Welsh do have their own league, there are a few historical teams that were admitted to the English league way back at the start. Cardiff and Newport County, Wrexham also play in the English divisions. No Scottish or Irish teams do though
I am an Oldham fan and have not forgotten that they were founders of the Premier League. After 68 years they got back into the 1st Division only for it to change into the Premier League. Oldham were the last 1st division side to agree to the change, since they knew it wasn't in their interests.
Last year they became the first ex-Premier League side to be relegated from the Football League.
A few Welsh teams play in the English league - off the top of my head: Swansea, Wrexham and Cardiff
My first prem game was Oldham athletic. (From Rdale)
Great days
and Newport County ffs
Merthyr Tydfil also are/were in the English non league structure
Also, Woking fan here, how do you think you'll get on this season?
Since the 1990s Wales does have our own league, like Scotland, called the Cymru Premier. However the 5 biggest teams in Wales all decided to continue to play in England's leagues (Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County, Wrexham and Merthyr Town) this is because theres a lot more money in the English leagues than the Welsh
Ipswich was once a force to be reckoned with. Winning the 1st Division (now premier league) in 61/62, FA Cup in 77/78 and EUFA Cup in 80/81. As of writing this Ipswich are statistically the most "inform" team in Europe having an unbeaten run of 21 matches in competitive matches. To put that into perspective Ipswich haven't lost a competitive game since the 22nd of January and currently sit 1st in the championship (2nd tier of English football). Ipswich are also unbeaten at their own stadium in European matches
There was talk of abandoning the 19/20 season due to Covid. Being a Liverpool fan that was the last thing we wanted, we were so far ahead. Jurgen Klopp got the title job done for us which was so badly needed, he is well respected by LFC fans. I watched this reaction from start to finish which I didn't think I'd manage more than 10 minutes!! Well done guys for keeping my attention ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Even as an Arsenal fan I truly felt for Liverpool fans not being able to be there. I was gutted for you.
@@SimSim-zf9ifYou posts some nonsense don’t you. Muppet.
There are two ways people try to invalidate Liverpool's PL win. One is to cite the pandemic, which is insane given how far ahead Liverpool were when everything shut down, (we only played two matches after the lockdown restart before the title was won) and the other is the myth that VAR was disproportionately favourable to Liverpool that year. The second one falls down if people actually take the time to look at it properly. Liverpool were 10th in terms of how teams benefited from VAR decisions, exactly mid-table. As it happens Brighton were the team that gained the most points from VAR decisions with City and United both also above Liverpool in that regard.
covid title doesn't count
@@NUFCOfficial Liverpool played TWO games after the return from the first lockdown before the title was sewn up. The title was done before Covid struck; they won. It quicker than anyone else ever has and they did it in full stadiums home and away. All Covid did was stall the momentum and stop them getting 100+ points.
Feel free to disregard City’s win the following season if you wish, but you can’t disregard 19/20.
Love or hate Manchester United you were wrong to assume that they bought success. The backbone of their success came from a strong youth set-up with most of their players coming up through their own ranks combined with the outstanding management skills of Alex Ferguson they didn't really spend that much money on transfers in comparison to other teams.
All true and to think,Fergie was one game away from the sack and Mark Robens saved him...
United we’re very fortunate with the level and amount of youth that blossomed at similar times - partly luck partly good scouting partly city being a shit option at the time - they did make a fair few record signings too and could out compete other clubs on wages - cantona yorke Sherringham cole keane van persie- not only strengthened United but weakened their opposition
There is a Welsh league but Cardiff, Swansea, Newport & Wrexham play in English league & cups, purely due to size of the towns & cities in such a small country as far as I'm aware.
And Merthyr, but they play in the 7th or 8th tier down.
As a Newport fan, it's worth pointing out that Newport was actually one of the founding members of the football league third division in 1920. At that time, Newport was in Monmouthshire, there was a lot of ambiguity on whether Monmouthshire was in Wales or England, and was usually a mixture of both. It wasn't until 1972 that Newport and Monmouthshire was officially declared part of Wales. By this point, Newport had already been playing in the English leagues for a while.
When they went bust in 89, they reformed and played the first season in Gloucestershire, England. That's where they got the nickname 'Exiles'.
Leicester City fan here. 15/16 was the greatest year of my life!
Theres only been 6 teams in the history of the Premier League that haven't been relegated. Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. Of those teams only Everton and Tottenham haven't won the league.
As a spurs fan…. M8 no need to remind us… we know😭
didn't Tottenham win it in '51 and '61?
@@joshy1965 premier league started in 1992, any history before that sadly doesn’t really get recognised
Everton along with Liverpool were relegated from the old top flight in the early 1950s.but since the mid 1950s they have never been out of the top flight. They are also the two closest clubs in terms of distance, either side of Stanley park in Liverpool. Alan Shearer only managed for the last 6 games of that season as the previous manager was sacked. He went back to doing Match of the Day afterwards. He did rally Newcastle but just could not get them over the line.
Everton weren't relegated (they are, I believe the only team that never have been, although they seem to be trying to fix that these days) but Liverpool were relegated then (only a couple of years after having won the league). The club floundered for a few years until a certain Bill Shankly came along and dragged them back to the top.
@@chrispalmer7893 according to history twice, 1929 to 2930 and 1950 to 1951.
@@jimbo6059 My bad, for some reason I thought it was Everton but it's Arsenal that have never been relegated
Since getting into the top division in 1919 Arsenal have Never been relegated.
Forest and Notts County are the closest grounds in England the closest grounds in the UK are the 2 Aberdeen clubs
The fact that you could keep up with the video is impressive.
52:50 That's the first time i heard someone say "Winningest". I saw a video of Americanisms that annoy Brits, or something, and Winningest was one of them.
Congrats lads. Here's to the next 100k
One thing most people forget is that in the 2019/20 season Liverpool basically had already won the League at X-mas before Covid hit.. LFC went undefeated for the first 27 games !!!
Congrats on the 100k mark lads! Very well deserved.
Football goes way further back than the 1800's. It was around in the 11th century and before.
You should watch the history of Manchester Utd because I think I will surprise you. They have a huge tragedy and they had to completely change the club. After watching that you’ll see why they’re success was deserving and how amazing their journey was to becoming the biggest club in the world. Great reaction though👏🏼
Alan Shearer actually took over in the 08/09 season for like the last 8 games. That newcastle season was bonkers. Kevin Keegan resigned because the board signed players he didn't want, and that they'd only seen on youtube. He was then replaced by Joe Kinnear. I don't remember if this was the time he called the reporter Simon Bird a f***ing c**t or not, but he also mispronounced two of his players names. He left due to surgery needed so Shearer took over, and had no hope, and then afterwards went straight back to Match of the day as if this time in charge never happened.
10:37 well not just football generally, this English football league existed for over 100 years prior to the name change to The Premier League. It was just known as the English first division before that
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In the pandemic year Liverpool were about 20 points clear at the top before the pandemic even existed, so it can’t really be argued that they didn’t deserve it
Aguero moment will forever be the most rememberable PL moment
The first rule of the Premier league, is to ignore the Premier league only stats, because that's a wealthy person saying ignore the poor
And we never ignore the poor
The top tier stats go back over a hundred years
Don't let the marketing people control your thoughts
Brian's Clough Nottingham Forest winning the Old division 1 that a underdog story.
Some people did put a bet on Leicester
Hey guys! Congratulations on hitting 100k subs your videos are fantastic! I do agree with you that there should be promotion and relegation in American sports as it gives team something to actually play for. The joys and happiness of promotion contrasted with the inevitable agony, sadness and tears of relegation. When I see American franchises supposedly ‘tanking’ their season to get a higher draft pick I always think you’re lucky to still stay in your league/division. But if you even dare to tank your season here there’d be NO higher draft pick to look forward to in a draft … but only the very heavy price of RELEGATION to endure. I believe there was a vote of owners of the USLC (US Soccer League Championship) in Colorado Springs (on the 9th and 10th of August) about if pro/rel should be introduced in the tiers below the MLS to start with. I don’t know the results of that vote but hopefully pro/rel was voted for.
Keep producing great stuff guys and stay safe!
The media has skewed what “it’s coming home” actually means
The Liverpool league win in 19/20 was already pretty certain before the pandemic, we would've had to lose 7 games out of the last 9 to not win it
I think they did try to get Celtic and Rangers in the PL in the 90s when it was first starting up, but UEFA said no. However, they allowed a joint Belgium-Holland league so it was thought it might become a reality sometime, with the British government likely to back it as an attempt to stave off Scottish Independence, and the PL wanting to shake things up, though the two Scottish teams would be unlikely to do too well initially without a lot of work, whereas they're quite comfortable at the top of the Scottish league.
A Belated 'Congrats' guys!
Work takes up more time now sadly and I don't want to pay for a TV license here in the UK because I don't watch any but sadly the cheeky BBC now declares that without a license one cannot watch live YT stream, what the heck is the coprorate world coming to! Anyway big hi, stil watching and liking your stuff (on all channels!), from your biggest fan, stan, erm roger, maybe Jimmothy or Timmyjim... ok got it... simply from one of 100k fans of yours :)
I know this is really only meant to scratch the surface but some of the 'smaller' clubs really deserve a closer look at. It is a mind-blowing achievement for both Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion to reach the top flight, never mind stay there. Both were in danger of dropping out of the football league completely, and even ceasing to exist, in the 1990's. The work done by the fans and staff back then deserves to be recognised and are worthy of a documentary in themselves.
Congrats guys... love your reactions to British tv comedy, etc
The part of the video about shearer managing a relegated Newcastle is not entirely accurate. Shearer took on 8 games at the back end of the season when we were all but relegated anyway. We had a string of bad managers throughout the season and Alan stepped in because we couldn't really find anyone else. The writing was on the wall with or without him
I believe it was called the premiership first in the 90s before it was changed to the Premier league
The first season the official name was the Carling Premiership, later called the. Barclaycaed Premiership then the Barclays premier league, also called the English premier league and simply the premier league. I've probably forgotten a couple of other names.
Congratulations lads ❤ toon toon barmy army
Wales does have it's own leagues but there are a handful of Welsh clubs in the English leagues as there are a handful of English clubs in the Welsh league most of the English clubs are from Shropshire which is just over the Welsh border
That sounded like a load of Salop****lol) but I never knew that Gillian. I knew Wales had their league biyt I never knew that some English sides were in it,
***I trust that you get that "Salop" joke:)
Mahrez in that Leicester season was insane, still the best First touch in football ever, and it wasnt a fluke, Vardy, Mahrez and Kante went onto being PL legends for yearssss later after that league win
congrats on 100k lads
Congrats on 100k subs🎉
Every single team in England has been relegated at some point, most just before 1992 and the Premier League, so always remember the massive asterisk next to the records of clubs who claim to have never been relegated. Some teams have never been relegated in all their existence just not in England, like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Club in Spain, Celtic and Aberdeen in Scotland, Boca Jrs and Flamengo in South America, and most of the other big European clubs from various nations.
After getting into the top flight of football in 1919 Arsenal have Never been relegated.
@@frankgunner8967 1913 ring any bells?
Bayern Munich is the most successful club in German football history, having won a record 33 national titles, including 11 consecutively since 2013, and 20 national cups, along with numerous European honours. In 2020, Bayern Munich, under the head coach Hans-Dieter Flick, won the sextuple and became the first team to win the UEFA Champions League by winning all matches.
*Furthermore the "Intercontinental Cup" in 1976 and 2001, the FIFA Club World Cup in 2013 and 2020. Plus, in Germany 10 times the DFB-/DFL-Supercup and 6 times the DFL-League-Cup. No other German team won more titles/trophies in every national or international competition.* 🔴⚽😈❤🔥
1:25:29 so just to give some actual facts about 20/21.
- man city won the league very comfortably over man utd, with no notable title race occuring.
- Leicester spent most of the year 3rd but slumped to 5th and just missing out on champions league, mostly because Liverpool scraped a win against West Brom thanks to their goalkeeper scoring a last minute winner
- West Ham, having avoided relegation by 6 points last year, managed to finish 6th. Their season was a right mess, they sold their most promising young star, sold their only striker, meaning they were playing an aging right mid up front, they signed someone whos career was the most memed on the internet on loan, as well as an old and slow defender who had just relegated his last two teams. suddenly it all came together and they got the most points in a season they’ve ever managed.
- Spurs finish 7th and Arsenal finished 8th. This was significant as Spurs qualified for the new UEFA europa conference league, a third tier european tournament to make the europa league less congested with teams and improving the quality. Spurs, usually being champions league regulars, were believed to be guaranteed to win this tournament….. they got knocked out in the groups (first round)
- relegated were sheffield united, who completely fell apart after the season before due to continuous centre back injuries. West Brom, which broke infamous relegation specialist manager Sam Allardyce’s record of not being relegated from the premier league. And lastly fulham, who were infamous for missing seemingly every penalty they got this season.
in addition to the games mentioned, some other notable games were
- Spurs 3-3 West Ham, west ham were 3-0 down in the 82nd minute, no team had ever been that far behind that late and not lost.
- west brom 5-2 chelsea. Idk how it happened either lol.
- Arsenal 0-3 Aston Villa, 4th loss in 8 games, started a run of 7 games without a win.
- man city 2-5 Leicester, this type of result early in the season made people think there was no favourite this season to win the league. I think it might have been a premier league record, because at least 7/8 different teams were top of the league at some point.
This season was actually very good, but it was ruined by no fans and a lack of a title fight in the second half. For example, at new years, the top 10 were split by only 7 points, which never happens halfway through a season.
Congratulations guys
98/99 was special! i was a utd fan and they won the treble (league, fa cup and champions league) its was such a great team and great time!
I feel I'll be repeating what a lot of others might have said but by the time the pandemic hit Liverpool had already gained a massive points lead over everyone else.
By the time the league got postponed there was no doubt about who was going to win the league so the whole Covid/lockdown issues didn't affect the league winners at all. Actually Liverpool tended to play worse in the empty stadiums.
fyi. The Lyric of 'Coming Home' refers to England eventing the modern game of Football. Not that we won the WC in 1966.
Congratulations guys 🎊👏🏻🎊
MANCITY COME ON, won 1st PL title difficult and UCL difficult, we never do things easy
I support a small local team, Southend United, we have never been in the top division, and can only look on in awe at the money being spent on players now. We were in the league below the Premier league for a while, and even beat Manchester United in the cup with Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo in the team. Since then we have been relegated 3 times...In 2 weeks time we are in court over debts of £275,000, if it is not paid we will cease to exist. We needed a special decree to start the season, we cannot sign players, water was switched off at the ground for a while and the staff weren't paid for 4 months.
The prem has so much money, and then the smaller clubs like us barely scrape by.
Also my mother was a fan of your channel so I started watching as well. RIP Mum, January this year.
Amazing video , matched by the reaction. I dont know whats happening but there is a wave of US sport fans watching EU football as of late and its so great to see. I feel its a nice way to bridge a gap of why football means so much to us- plus you now have Messi to watch, literally a footballing god. Being a massive Chelsea fan at some points it was a hard watch lol but im still proud of what we achieved. I remember crying when Terry missed that Penalty- but English football you are welcome we made you better than Spain haha. I also remember where i was for all prem titles and CL wins. Good times man. Been tough as of late but we have changed the club from top to bottom. Most teams fall off because of one player or a manager change tbf but the internet has no memory haha. I want to give a shout out to a few players I feel were missed here. Bias maybe but Lampard needed more air time. He ran our midfield for years and was so consistent. Shout out to Rory Delap , man should have gone into javelin or something. His throwings were a corner and when they had a throw in your half , it was a scary time. Shout out Ashley Cole, bias again maybe but he is the best left back to ever do it for me. Shout out both Morten Gamst Pedersen and Mathew Taylor, they could only score absolute bangers. I also have to mention Cheick Tiote, was a rock for Newcastle and scored one of the best goals in one of the best games ive ever seen against Arsenal. May his soul rest in peace. Also shout out the beach ball , with the only inanimate object with a premier league goal haha.(post/bar and in dont count )
fact about the year Newcastle got relegated when shearer was in charge, he only managed the last like 8 games, the damage was already done by that time tbh, we were shocking that season with multiple managers.
there is a welsh league, but typically the bigger teams like swansea cardiff and wrexham all play in english leagues for more money
The last English manager to win the league was Howard Wilkinson for Leeds in 1991/92 season which was the season before The Premier League’s inception.
Blackburn rovers, the pride of Lancashire
COYB!
The premier league is just a reformation of the original English league! All the teams that went into the premier league were already teams in the English Football League! It just happens to be that in 1992 all the Larger clubs would form a much more competitive League that was then called the Premier League!
Something I think should be noted that changed football forever!!! The premier league became the most competitive a league in the world because the revenue from Cable and Adverts were distributed fairly amongst the entire league!!! This is much different ( EVEN TILL THIS DAY! ) to every single other league in the world! Every other league like Spain or Germany give most of their Television and Ad proceeeda to the top 3 or 4 biggest teams in their league……
This is why even till this day, the Premiere League remains the most competitive league in world football! Wellll that, and the fact that the Premier League created such a massive new precedence that the fan base for it will always be the strongest in my opinion…..
The season runs from ~ august to may, so var was introduced in the 2019/20 season, so it was running for almost half a year before the pandemic.
The next season (2020/21) was affected by corona, but the league/clubs were better equipped to deal with that. There was no break in that sense.
100% top and bottom of the table is all the excitement the middle is borning
Football existed before the Premier League 😊
If it didn't fuck knows what I was playing and watching as a little kid in the 80s like 😂😂😂
@@shanefoy3720 😂😂😂
Enjoy the championship 😂
@@astalavista5328😂 👍
The Lionesses may take it home, again, we'll see on Sunday
I love that my team never got Deregulated
The League that Cantona built. That first 15yrs was a glorious time to be a season ticket holder at United...... which I was 😂
He clearly doesn't like Liverpool does he?
Not one mention in the video of the treble we won in 2001 (FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup), or any mention of us winning the Champions League in 2005, or 2019.
Also, In 2020, Liverpool were basically 3 matches away from sealing the title BEFORE the season was postponed by Lockdown. It was a formality by that point, but people still tried to get the season cancelled out of spite (Basically, every single United & Chelsea fan)
My friend it's not a dig at Liverpool the thumbnail reads Entire History of the premier league not the history of fa cups and European cups.
19:08 We were! We haven’t won it since 2013 now though
The premier league was known as football league division 1 for all history previously
Everton founder member of the football league and premier league, 5th most successful club in England in terms of league titles.
An institution of English football.
Coming home on Sunday
Bruv, it's called relegation :) Nice reaction boys! EDIT: also, Salah at Liverpool was not at his first season in the PL, there is actually footage of him playing for Chelsea earlier in the video.
Wales has their own league. But is semi professional, Wales 3 professional teams play in the English pyramid leagues and always have done.
Its going home, but it just got lost somewhere along the way
Congrats lads🎉
I am a Swansea fan and I endorse this reaction. Them were the days 🇬🇧 🦢 🏴
its IS coming home. just taking a long scenic route to get here...
Just to add that Alan Shearer was only manager for about the last 6 games of the season.
VAR was introduced to try a rule out mistakes by the officials that potentially changed results. The season prior to it’s introduction the League Cup final ended Manchester United 3 Southampton 2, with tv reruns showing that Southampton had a perfectly legal goal mistakenly ruled out, when the score was 0-0. I think this was the mistake that finally pushed the League into introducing VAR.
Im a Bradford City fan, and it was great to see them plsy in the Premier league.
Unfortunately, they are now languishing in the 4th division, which is now called Division 2 !!.
It was William McGregor of Aston Villa who started the World's first Football League 1888
Great to see Blackburn Rovers were in the top four in the first couple of years of the Premier League.
Blackburn Rovers were the subject of the first ever football match filmed, in 1895, not at the same ground, obviously:-)
Big up Bastard Rovers but the only thing i want to see them competing for is relegation to league 1
Congrats guys, hope the next 100k follows rapid. 🤜🤛💯
United went 25 years without a title before the prem.
41 years before that as well.
Well done
Wrexham is Welsh too, but yeah they are intergrated into the English leagues too although their is a separate Welsh League that they do not participate in. I'm a Man City fan since 1989
blame arsenals owner the american stan kroenke for blocking your vids..
Bradford city qualified for the intato Cup. Because it was the original fair play cup. And yes other fans called it the micky mouse Cup. But how many English teams can Bragg about qualifying and playing in Europe. Not many.
He glosses over so much in the final three seasons. Liverpool lost 3 games in the league in two seasons. They had the best defence of any team since 2005 Chelsea. They matched the most wins consecutively, and went 38 games unbeaten. They were fighting for 6 trophies all season in the 19/20 season, the only team to compete for six trophies in a season. The rivalry between City v Liverpool deserved more time spent on it due to how dominating they were in ways we had never seen before.
By the time he got to the last 3 seasons his brain was probably fried & was more concerned about just getting the important parts & assumed that the last 3 seasons everyone had fresh in their minds
it was not just the money was foreign money, the bigger issue was the large money, just buying excuses rather then using better tactics, and buying well and so on.
It’s coming home I always thought was because we hosted the euros in 1996. Footballs coming home rather than the title
Congrats on 100k been watching you since the rona…. Man Utd are most successful in premier league era but prior to that hadn’t won much for 20+ years despite having biggest income
Hay, apart from four FA cups, EFL cup and the European Cup Winners cup.
@@chsh1 like I said not much for 20+ years
@@DarkAngel-vb2hu well thats something every four years so depends on your benchmark, just needed to add some perspective to this.
@@chsh1 perspective - being one of the biggest clubs in England / Europe with huge revenue streams only winning something every four years !
@@DarkAngel-vb2hu well English teams were banned from Europe in the 80s and Liverpool were dominant in that era. United were the most supported club and were doing what theyve been doing lately just paying over the top prices for big names rather than buying players that suit the tactics or style or the plan. I dunno could be worse could be Spurs.
As a Liverpool fan they had more or less won the league going undefeated until near the end with covid they tryed to void the season which isn't fair. There was no catching Liverpool they should have crowded us champs before thinking of robbing lfc
You guys should react to the greatest Playoff comeback of all time from last year when Sheffield Wednesday came back from 4-0 down to win on penalties after a 5-5 draw! It was truly magical and went viral all over the world. Would love to see you react to it!
P.S. Send me a message if you want suggestions to the specific best videos of the games!
Welcome to Wrexham season 2 is coming up this September 12. The season documented Wrexham AFC journey to the Promotion to the EFL2. You should do a live "watch along" video. It is gonna be good content for your channel or Embrace the Suck 21
I've got a friend who is a Leicester fan who puts £5 on then to win the league every year, that year that they won, he was on the way to put the bet on and his friend rang to see if wants to go to the pub and he decided to use the money for a couple of pints and didn't put the bet on, he would have won £25000.
I am a season ticket holder at Everton and we are rightly proud that we have played more seasons in the top division than any other club
The most amazing fact/statistic of all? No English manager (coach) has ever won the Premier League.
The first season the official name was the Carling Premiership, later called the. Barclaycaed Premiership then the Barclays premier league, also called the English premier league and simply the premier league. I've probably forgotten a couple of other names.
giggs retired in 14, hed scored in every season since the premier league started 21 years before!!