Should I do the same as this in other countries?

@onceuponatimeinscotland7036

2 жыл бұрын

Germany would be class 😁

@scottthepostmanparker3029

2 жыл бұрын

@@onceuponatimeinscotland7036 Thats at least 13 divisions but some larger cities like Munich would have a team in each division

@mattjohnson9913

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely. Would be great to see you do this in England

@CammyK1872

2 жыл бұрын

Ireland would be fascinating.

@christopherward816

2 жыл бұрын

If you did this in Bristol you would have to visit about 20 grounds.

This guy does more good for the Scottish game then the corrupt spfl

@alanfox691

2 жыл бұрын

Let's tell it how it is Scottish Football is run buy Dinosaurs how are terrified of any kind of change we are lucky we how have a pyramid system at all. So much more could be done to promote our domestic at home & globally in my view. Sam could do a better job than that clown Doncaster.

@Chop2016

2 жыл бұрын

He does indeed pal

You’ve got to be the best advocate for the sotttish game beyond anyone .

So honest opinion about Scottish structure? It needs revamped, and this is how I'd personally have it. 16 - Premiership 16 - Championship 18 - League one (moving 4 teams up from Highland/Lowland league) 18 League Two, basically a mega Highland and Lowland league. Then go regional from there, keeping lowland and Highland league, but obviously restructuring teams in there and moving clubs up. Then from there you'd have an east/southern/west regionals going to lowland league and midland/northern/Highland regionals going into Highland. Could reduce the tiring system down to 6/7 depending on how it all would work out As for Dunfermline vs Falkirk rivalry, massive. I've no idea why, but its massive

Glad you visited my team Rutherglen Glencairn. I'm on the committee there. We are, as you mentioned, trying to obtain our Club Licence to play in the Senior Scottish Cup etc. I'm a ground hopper too and there aren't many Senior grounds in Scotland that I haven't been to. Thanks for the video.

Your channel is elite! Your knowledge and care for the the structure of football in Scotland and furthermore has made me take so much more notice in it. Love your content and thank you!

The introduction of this video is the key reason I love your channel!

@FootyAdventures

2 жыл бұрын

Really glad to her that thank you mate!!!

22:50 have you ever heard the story as to why they only have three stands? I live in Falkirk and to my knowledge they actually wanted four, but because they are close to the "BP" a nearby powerplant or some sort of plant. In Bo'ness actually! The blast radius for if the plant was to explord JUST reaches where a fourth stand would be! Might wanna double check the facts but this is what I was told all my life and found a few others also saying it.

@allanrobertson9595

2 жыл бұрын

Never heard that before but it’s the Grangemouth refinery that’s close by👍

@ryanlaird6447

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that story is true when the stadium was first built they were told they couldn't build one stand because of the blast radius However now the blast radius has now been changed and Falkirk can now if they can afford it build another stand and complete the stadium

@mrmervinjminky1536

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanlaird6447 Didn't know that, will be a good stadium when they finish that end 👍

@simonmason8582

2 жыл бұрын

@@allanrobertson9595 Run by INEOS.

The pyramid is a wonderful thing that was long overdue! It's a great time to be watching Scottish football as this is all going to take years to level itself out... think most would agree, especially in lowland league, a number of tier 6 teams are stronger than tier 5. I would like to see a little bit of a 1 or 2 season promotion/relegation fast track of sorts to get the stronger teams further up quicker... especially now the big West Coast sides have joined the ranks. The other great thing about it has been the opening up/expansion of clubs to the Scottish Cup... and we are seeing quite a number more upsets these days as more of these ambitious and well run sides get a go at the traditional "big league teams" Get yourself along to Broxburn Athletic... quirky wee ground that I think you'd like. And arguably Scotlands best match day pies!

Used to pass cambuslang and rutherglen daily to work. Never quite seen the grounds but the signage for them from the bus. I did go around to see the outside of them eventually. I enjoy watching these former junior sides progress in cups and league. I grew up in pollok and heard alot about them before i even knew much about football. So that is the team for me to cheer for to hopefully progress into the senior leagues.

Love these videos, well researched, great editing with the B roll and well presented. Keep em coming bro.

Funny thing about the Rangers stickers you find. I'm a Fraserburgh fan, however I am based in Banff where Deveronvale play, and it reminded me, that I constantly see Dunfermline stickers dotted around the town, which is about as random as it gets!

@ryanowen7583

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares

Thank you for content you put out there since I subscribed I know more than I ever did about Scottish football which knew little about before hand. Thank you for the effort you put in you deserve all the success that comes your way.

Thanks again Sam for another excellent review, best football channel on KZread.

Fantastic vid Sam. Your coverage of and support for all levels of Scottish football is fantastic. 👍

Awsome video mate. You did well explaining the pyramid set up and its system. Your interest and love for lower leages and teams is brilliant 👍

Great as always. You been to Morrisons in Falkirk? They have loads of old Falkirk stuff there including a Turnstile. Love lower league football. Keep it going buddy. Brilliant to see the channel growing so well

Hey there Sam! Dunfermline fan here, you are right - Dunfermline have a massive rivalry with Falkirk. Glad you got along to East End Park once again! We'll have to see about getting inside the stadium next time. I'm going to the game vs. Hamilton so won't see the half time show but it will be posted on ParsTV's KZread channel so I'll give it a watch when it goes up. 🏁 As usual, keep up the fantastic work! 👍

Loved the video. Go down to Devon, or perhaps a closer look at the angus clubs Arbroath and Montrose?

I love watching your videos as I learn so much about football and it is very interesting to hear you talk about some of the small clubs. Here in Oz we only tend to hear about the really big teams.

Love all your videos Sam, you shine a spotlight on some of the lesser known or smaller clubs in Scotland, keep doing what your doing, it's a good thing 👍

@samaritansspain212

2 жыл бұрын

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Superb video, mate! And delivered on my birthday as well - what a treat!

My favourite grounds in Scotland are Albion Rovers and Queen of the South. I also like the old Clyde ground at Shawfield. Whilst the new Falkirk ground is impressive, it's not a patch on the old ground it replaced.

Love your enthusiasm for grass roots football! Excellent video.

I always wanted to do this but never had to means and probably have some bias as i support a club in the top flight. You can deliver this better than i could anyway and without any bias which makes for a better showing overall.

Hi buddy , new to your stuff, loving it, highlighting bottom tier clubs and grounds is great. Being a scot myself and living down in England now ( Cambridge) it's great to see so many of the places I know and love on your journeys, would love to see you do a video on Irvine Meadow f.c. keep up this good work pal and take care on your travels. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

@FootyAdventures

9 ай бұрын

Welcome to the channel! I appreciate you watching my lower league videos. I love Irvine Medda, been many times! Here's my favourite videos I've filmed there... kzread.info/dash/bejne/i2qnua9-lqbVZLA.html Enjoy!

Glad to see the pyramid structure starting to expand. Last year i was wondering if the highland league would have feed leagues. I knew about the north caledonian league and the junior league up there. The midland league is a new one for those eastern teams but not so far up north. As for the lowland league feeders yeah it's getting a bit hectic but im sure it will make more sence as time goes on. I am not sure if they making another league with 7 going down in the west league if it will make an extra 9th tier with this. I do hope to see the teams who win the highland and lowland to get promoted right away (with 2 from league going down.) but i think it's to due with SFA licence's for the lower league since members needs to obtain that to even play in those playoffs to enter these leagues. Although with how good the teams live cove rangers and kelty topping their current leagues aswell as edinborugh city who are doing and teams similar quality down there still i hope they hurry it up or expand championship, league 1 and 2 to 12 or something and let a good number of them in.

@mboothy

2 жыл бұрын

Yes the WOSFL will have a 9th tier next season, it'll be Premier - First - Second with 16 teams in each, and a Third Division with an unknown format. As for SFA licences, all teams in the Highland and Lowland already have a licence so that is not stopping them from getting promoted into League Two.

Kept this for a bedtime watch. Cracking vid 👍

Great video!! you should come down in the summer to Devon and Cornwall and visit all the stadiums around that area

Have you thought about doing a video on remote football grounds in Scotland? I.e Campbelltown, rhu, isle of bute...ect? Great Channel btw 👌

Superb yet again Sam

Great video this ! , would be great to see you do this in England and also if your interested in doing any videos in Bristol let me know and i can provide you with details !

Nearly 80k subscribers. You're famous man 😁

I love that you just rock up to the pitch without arranging a visit in advance. Just like, "Hi, I'm visiting a club from every level on our pyramid today. I haven't truly planned it, and I'd like to have a wander on your pitch, is that okay?" And they're usually like, "Yeah, mate. Go knock yourself out."

What a cracking episode great insight thanks

This was a very good watch FA. I've watched football being played on just a field before as low as the Kent County League and then all the way up to the Premier League and I think the same as you those teams who are right down the pyramid are just as important as those teams at the top. Also because football is football at the end of the day and I'm not bothered which division a team is in as long as the footy is good. I support a team in the Southern Counties East Premier Division (SCEFL).

The mystery box thing is awesome and I'm tempted to buy it. I think though they should have you type in your favourite team for the reason say you like Man United, the last shirt you want is a liverpool or City shirt.

Hi Sam thanks for a great video, how did you choose the club to visit in each division?

Great content very interesting. I'm Canadian its similar to our hockey but yours seems much more vast in terms of leagues.

@jonathonfaragher7580

2 жыл бұрын

i find the hockey set up so strange, been here in Canada for 3 years, few lads in my gym play. when they tell me oh I play jr B or AAA or GMHL or OHL it means nothing to me😂 I dont understand how they move from one league to another but at different levels for different teams but still owned by another team, its confusing

Brilliant! Love this video and your channel. I have a question for you, where would be the best place to ask? Do you have an email?

I love looking up football pyramids of different countries. Glad that Scotland have modernised theirs. The Russian soccer pyramid and the old Soviet pyramid is also a good read. Bit far to go at the moment though!

Great video Sam

I’ve missed the groundhopping! Great concept and video 👏👍🏼

Like your videos mate, keep them up. I'm a Rangers fan & I agree with what you were saying about changing the pyramid system, it should be changed & the leagues should be reconstructed so everyone plays each other just twice in the league. You've been to my local football team Glenafton Athletic's ground you should come back again for a game ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great video mate some match day vlogs coming up? Aberdeen v Rangers on Tuesday would be a great one 👌

Hello mate, loved your video Just to let you know, Rutherglen isn't part of Glasgow, it is a Royal Bourgh and part of South Lanarkshire keep up the good work

Nice if you to visit Falkirk mate hopefully I see you at a Falkirk game in the future

Best time of the day is when fotty adventures uploads a new vlog 😃

@FootyAdventures

2 жыл бұрын

You're the man Ewan! Thanks for the continued support!

This was a great watch you should come to a johnstone burgh game in the wosfl conference A

@connorkeegan2688

2 жыл бұрын

Agree with Mark, another 8th tier team with a brilliant youthful fan base 🇦🇹

Stenhousemuir ochilview park.... the home of the first scottish youtube charity football match. Good memories. 👍

I live about a minute walk from Newtown park in Bo’ness,hope you can get to a game soon,29/1 v Edinburgh uni and 12/2 v Berwick are the next 2 home games

Madness this guy is vlogging at the same pitch 2 teams from my school played “derby day”. The lads from PE in Gleniffer played here summer 2020 had pyro n everything 🤣

Brilliant video.

What is the netting all about at Stenhousemuir ? Loving all the videos, thank you 😊

Great video mate the bee analogy was.....interesting thought I was watching Sheldon cooper for a minute lol

@FootyAdventures

2 жыл бұрын

😅 Cheers Ryan haha!

@Ryandunbar1996

2 жыл бұрын

@@FootyAdventures compliment not insult lol

Great video have a good new year

Love this , hope we can see you in Suffolk at some point 😉😉🔵⚪️

@FootyAdventures

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! And yes definitely :) I want to cover EVERYWHERE!!!

great video my local team St Andrews United play in the east of Scotland first division conference A I love watching them I go to pretty much every home game

Used to play 7s at fergusli (The first pitch). I remember the state of the pitch was awful. If you fell you would have a hell of an astroburn

Another smashing video!

i played on that pitch with my old team its a good pitch but one side of it turns in to a pond well it did when i was there it was raining thst the 1st pitch at the start

glenvale pitch is right next to my house i go there all the time to play with my mates it’s so cool to see my local pitch on your channel

You should get over to Norn Irn Sam. Linfield, Glentoran and Portadown.

Give this man Sam an award

In terms of the unbalanced structure in the West of Scotland League (and to a lesser extent the East), this is a transitional season due to both the changeover from the juniors & Covid messing things up. The West of Scotland League will go from a Premier, 3 Conferences & Division 4 to 16-team Premier, First and Second divisions with the rest in the Third division at a new tier 9 (possibly in 2 conferences or regional divisions as there will probably be too many teams for 1 single division). The old West Juniors Premier had 16 teams, but they've expanded to 20 as they wanted to promote teams in the abandoned Covid season without relegating, plus Bonnyton Thistle made the switch from the South of Scotland League. Geographically they were a West team, but as they wanted to be in the pyramid, they had to join the South due to the lack of a West league. When joining the West, they were allowed to join the Premier as they were already a tier 6 team so it wouldn't be fair to make them start at the bottom, bringing the Premier for this season to 20 but with the aim to go back to 16 again. That also explains why 7 teams are getting relegated from the Premier. The East is fairly similar, although they were an established league in the pyramid before the juniors entered and the main junior exodus to the East was before West teams made the switch. Their Premier division of 18 teams is also going down to 16, with a First and Second division below and then all other teams in the Third division. There are slightly fewer teams in the East, so they will probably be able to just have one tier 9 division (for now at least as new clubs keep joining). I agree with your points on more promotion/relegation though, especially between tiers 4 & 5 and then 5 & 6. But as the pyramid here is really still in it's infancy, I'm hopeful more changes will follow in the near future. Just like England took time to get to a clear structure, it will take time here too (and in England it's still evolving, I suppose you can't ever fully finish it as situations change!). I love non-league in Scotland and watch games all over the pyramid and country, but mainly lower tiers, hence why I know a fair bit about the structure. It's definitely better now all teams that were in the juniors are in the pyramid and quite a few amateurs made the step in the last few years too which I can see continuing. Sometimes I wish change would be faster, but change is there now and it's going in the right direction. Thanks for highlighting not just the top, but also the lower tiers of Scottish football.

You should visit a st Rochs game, good links with Celtic would be a class vid to do 👍

Next time you’re in Dunfermline you should head out to halbeath and come into b&m. You might get served by a nice gentleman on the tills 👀😂😂😂

Really interesting video! Do you think you could visit a team from every step of the pyramid in England?

Once again another great trip around scottish grounds. I love watching your videos and you're actually more passionate about our game than the people running it. Thanks once again.👍👍

When you were at Bo’ness I Kew it was Bo’ness right away love it go to the games with my grandad

Rutherglen...to put things into context. My team Portsmouth were formed in 1898. Strange how teams/clubs develop. After all...AC Milan were formed in 1899.

sickest vids on youtube!

My team Royal Albert are in tier 7 and a fun fact about them is it was a Royal Albert player who scored the first ever penalty in football James McLugge in 1891 vs Airdrie, 4 days after it was introduced!

Have you ever been to tiverton town in devon in england?

I've played at raydale park got battered by an older gretna team. The score was 12-1

First ground in Feegie you’re a brave man!

I'm disappointed you were at ferguslie astro and never went to St Mirren!

amazing vid can you do this in england?

Would be so cool to see you do this in another country like Sweden, Germany or something like that! If you ever get the opportunity to do so that is!

Massive rivalry between Dunfermline and Falkirk! Always has been but nothing like the rivalry between Dunfermline and Raith Rovers

Can you make a video like this in Malaysia? It would be great video!

I have been watching u from st.Lucia great content!! Also I am a very good player and I have been looking for the opportunity to play over in Scotland can u help me out .

You may be the perfect person to talk some sense into the United States Soccer Federation. They clearly don't understand how football pyramids work and focus entirely on the top tier. There is an exception in the NISA system (still a work in progress, but I'm happy to report that the lower league club I support starts playing in a NISA affiliated league this year).

Falkirk vs dunfermline is called the kincardine bridge derby Next time they play you should go to it is usually a good atmosphere from both sets of fans

Could you do a video with someone from the West of Scotland League so they can talk about how the league will develop over the next few years

They're is actually two junior teams from Paisley the other one is St Peter's who play in the same division as Glenvale

I love this channel ❤

@FootyAdventures

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

The Taylor report and the regulations that the SPL put in place meant Falkirk had to move from Brockville after they were denied promotion to the SPL due to not having a 10,000 all seater ground(No longer a requirement today). In terms of the Lowland League letting in the b teams of Rangers and Celtic into the league as if one of them win the league then there will be no representive from Lowland League in promotion playoff

You should go to cove vs Montrose at weekend it’s 1st vs 2nd in league 1

Go to blyth spartans vs Gloucester City I enjoyed the first game

very interesting video.

Hi when are coming to Chesterfield fc?

Great ground hoping video love these. Please go to a Chester FC🙏

main one for me should be no relegation play off from leage 2. 2 team should go down with tje winner of both lowland and highland league going up

The bee analogy was a stretch...haha

Went to Bo’Ness, should’ve went to Linlithgow Rose 🌹

Love Bo’ness park great Astro park and good team

Nice to see the Rutherglen Glencairn ground, our manager Brett Agnew is a former player

Some 8th tier teams have grounds similar to that of the 6/7th tier.

Hi are you going to the talbot v hearts game

@FootyAdventures

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah mate, I'll be there!