Big up those Doncaster fans who kept on supporting their club during those horrible times.

@owendrfc6412

3 жыл бұрын

As a Doncaster rovers fan my self who can't remember them times but have been told

@noscopefuzion9290

3 жыл бұрын

@@owendrfc6412 coming from a Scunthorpe fan Respect to the club for being able to live through that shit that they put you through

@neilroberts2448

3 жыл бұрын

At one point you had to shout to speak to the person next to you, unfortunately not because of the noisy atmosphere but because they were stood so far away. I'm I was at a match with more away fans than Rovers fans. Glad those days are behind us now and hope no other club has to go through it.

@owendrfc6412

3 жыл бұрын

@@neilroberts2448 what stand do u sit in a keepmoat

@neilroberts2448

3 жыл бұрын

@@owendrfc6412 unfortunately can't get to matches anymore, work stopped that used to sit south east corner

Can we just appreciate that every video he writes literally an essay for his script

@imaginebeingacityfan3831

3 жыл бұрын

That’s why it’s a video essay

@paulandranian5525

3 жыл бұрын

@@imaginebeingacityfan3831 hey I like ur name even though I’m not a fan of either city or United haha

@poshorange6757

3 жыл бұрын

That’s his job tho...

@vetleallum2965

3 жыл бұрын

No we cant

@Sarchis

3 жыл бұрын

@@poshorange6757 kinda, he would get more views on list videos, so we should appreciate him doing this out of more passion

I'm a doncaster lad and always remember the cup run where they beat villa and man City, and playing arsenal at the old belle Vue, now a nice housing estate which I go past everyday

@owendrfc6412

3 жыл бұрын

Up the rovers

@gingercrashgaming6382

3 жыл бұрын

Great year. Nearly beat arsenal too if it wasn't for a last minute equaliser by Gilberto Silva. Excellent time to be a Donny fan all decade

@lewis3725

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly I didn’t get to go to the bell vue at all but from everything I’ve seen it was a nice little ground which i would’ve loved to go to

@owendrfc6412

3 жыл бұрын

@@lewis3725 same here. If I could go back in time I would go and see belle vue

@lewis3725

3 жыл бұрын

@@owendrfc6412 who do you want as new manager

as a Doncaster fan and someone who has lived in Doncaster my whole life. going past the location where Belle Vue was still brings back the bad memories.

@mowvu5380

2 жыл бұрын

i have only happy memories of going past belle view. i wish they'd have kept it open and used it for donny reserve/youth games and donny belles etc. i love that little golf club hanging on the end of that new estate😂 totally out of place lol.

@mrwhoannon300

6 ай бұрын

Poor soul having to live in Doncaster, how do you survive in such a shithole?

Updated in 2023: *The American Glazers family who burnt down their own club.*

@3dsaulgoodman43

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you're just mentioning that they're an American family and not saying that they are who they are because they're American. I'm sick of the anti-American xenophobia that comes out of the fact that the Glazers and Stan Kroenke are idiots.

@Jules7777

3 жыл бұрын

@@3dsaulgoodman43 well a lot of people don't like Americans because of how they seem to act with European and mainly English lifestyle and tradition But just coz their American doesn't mean their bad lol

@iamkristofjakab

3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't surprise me

@DBuckyBoy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jules7777 1:"They're" as in "They are"! Jesus!!! And in a post about "England" and "English" ..... Oh the irony! 2: Just because YOU and maybe a few people around you don't like Americans, doesn't constitute "A lot of people". "A lot of people" ARE American, and I'm hoping they like each other.

@Jules7777

3 жыл бұрын

@@DBuckyBoy im fucking agreeing with you Lad what are you going at me for? Lma

I was living in Florida at the time , his daughter Julie was my American wifes best friend and she took a lot of the rap and for months hid out at our house in Florida with her mother. I knew Richardson , he invited me to west riding sacks to have lunch with him and tour the company. I found him one of the unhappiest men I had ever met , he was egotistical, arrogant selfish but desperately unhappy . I know even more about this horrible man that I cannot type here , this scandal is the tip of the iceberg , his life was always a mess .I always wonder if he really regrets his life the way hes lived it

@eddixon2015

2 жыл бұрын

That was kind of you guys to host them

There was a documentary called “They Think Its All Rovers” about Donny’s relegation season just before Ken Richardson was jailed for arson

@mrkipling2201

3 жыл бұрын

Certainly was. It’s on KZread. What a shitshow it was . Mark Weaver was his puppet. Richardson’s I meant.

@mrkipling2201

3 жыл бұрын

All I remember from that documentary is “ Weaver out !! “

When you hear about stories like this, it is ridiculous some of the grievances with chairmen and owners that some fans of top clubs have.

@SK-vc4nh

3 жыл бұрын

try supporting arsenal then

@fmtaketheballpasstheball4994

3 жыл бұрын

@@SK-vc4nh Try supporting Bury or Macclesfield both went bust because of their owners. If you still have a club and you're spending millions then you can fuck of with your complaining.

@seahpo6737

3 жыл бұрын

@@SK-vc4nh arsenal owners are shit in the way alan sugar was shit, but kroenke's not gonna cause arsenal to completely dissolve. smaller clubs can be shafted way more, like my club 1860 Munich who almost folded in 2017 because our shady owner refused to pay his own debts, and we dropped down to the fourth tier. and we got lucky, we still have a club and have bounced back a little. like the dude above said, bury and macclesfield, or clubs like aldershot and the original wimbledon, don't even exist anymore because of their owners. complain all you want but you still have a club, are still in the prem, and still within shot of europe (maybe not this year but in general)

@BOABModels

3 жыл бұрын

@@seahpo6737 this! 🤜🤛 I'm a Portsmouth fan and we had a very similar story following unscrupulous owners. We may have won the FA cup and got into Europe, but the next few years spelt 2 administrations and 3 relegations.

@SpringtrapLover2010

3 жыл бұрын

@@SK-vc4nh yeah theres so many similarities with Arsenals owners, Doncaster had players sitting doing nothing on 300 grand a week wages and spent 70 mil on 1 player. Arsenal have bad owners who just like The Glaziers take more out of the club than they put in, but we have a club, it's not like Bury who dont even exist because not only did there owners bleed them dry all the so called PL clubs sat back and did nothing to help. If every PL club put 1 million together no club would ever have that worry, you could save clubs like Bury and remove the people who destroyed them. Have the club being owned by the people who care, the supporters.

Thanks for making this video, absolutely crazy times! Small correction; Rovers beat Dagenham and Redbridge in the 2003 Conference play-off final, not Leyton. It was a golden goal winner! I seem to remember fans also had a mock funeral for the club after dropping out of the football league, I wonder if that's ever happened before?!

@donquixote2553

Жыл бұрын

Was about to pick up on this but guessed that somebody would have beat me to it. Only 'GG' goal to win a play-off tie in the UK (and probably any competition). Then 12 months later, silver became the new gold which totally befuddled the ref at Gay Meadow, after the Shrewsbury v Barnet second-leg had gone to extra-time.

Day 9:Please make a video about DINAMO BUCHAREST...The story of our club is a hard one...And you telling it can really help us a lot,our club is clinging to survival,and we raised 2 milion euros to try to save the club... Dinamo is one of the biggest clubs in Eastern Europe,it has 18 league titles and 13 domestic cup titles...It reached the Champions League Semi Final in 1984 after beating the holders of the trophy Hamburg...In the Semi Final they played against the great Liverpool side of the 80's...After the 89 revolution the club lost one of their greatest generation after their players where bought off by western clubs,similar to what happened to the clubs in East Germany that you already talked about...Corruption and neglect brought this giant of romanian football to it s knees...At the moment Dinamo is preety much the ONLY true historical side in Romania's top division...This team stood afloat thanks only to it's fans...In the summer some new spanish chiarman came and bought the club,brought players on huge contracts and left without paying them...The players just broke the contracts and the club accumulated even more debt...If the fans did not step in and accumulated 2 milion euros the club would have been dissolved...For anyone watching outside of Eastern Europe it might be hard to understand it s value...If u re English imagine Liverpool being dissolved...This club is OUR Liverpool,and it's stadium OUR cathedral...With all the fears of relegation,players leaving and managers coming in and leaving the club still managed to fight it's way to a Romanian cup Semi Final...Please,make one video about our story too...

Day 8: 7 Players who've (surprisingly) never been mentioned in any hitc sevens video.

@lillexus5589

3 жыл бұрын

Thiago Cionek

@elliotcoffman2643

3 жыл бұрын

Youssef atal? Never heard him mentioned here

@philthornton1382

3 жыл бұрын

John Utaka

@andrewt836

3 жыл бұрын

Leo Fortune-West

@Mj-6056

3 жыл бұрын

Harvey Barnes. Ballon d'or winner

Reminds me of Basingstoke's owner selling parts of the stadium on ebay

@guguy00

3 жыл бұрын

Wait WHAT?

@TIAdor-um8gc

3 жыл бұрын

Pls a little deatil

@neilroberts2448

3 жыл бұрын

Richardson actually sold the 5 a side pitch (tarmac bit behind right hand as you look it goal at 8:21) to Asda (just out of shot behind that goal) even though he never owned it

@YMSD1993

3 жыл бұрын

I LIVE THERE!!!! Im pretty sure the club n that going on Ebay was a hoax. Ngl, the stadium was a shitter and was rusting away for the past 20 years anyway (played there a few times when I was younger).

@YMSD1993

3 жыл бұрын

They “tried to sign Ronaldinho” to.... that was also a hoax.

The only new videos I get excited for at 1am and if for some reason im actually asleep they're the first thing I watch every morning. Keep up the great work, from Orange County, CA

Great video as always, must admit I do miss the lower league dramas sometime. If you want to do a video on the year a board tried to relegate their team so they could keep all money from the sale of the ground then feel free to drop a message.

When you really think playing Football Manager counts as experience

@MS-vr3it

3 жыл бұрын

But he got maidenhead to the prem in 7 years

@Eibarwoman

3 жыл бұрын

Frankly, many playing FM would probably do a better job than anything ran under Ken Richardson if given enough time and scouting staff.

@jonpaul3868

2 жыл бұрын

Been playing FM (CM) since season 00/01, even I know that playing FM is not 1/4 experience of real life football managing. Too many variabels in real life.

Fascinating video! Thank you, Alfie

The switch to these long form, near essays, is what's finally made me subscribe. Keep it up my guy :)

Love these documentary style video! 👍🏻

Thanks for posting this video. The scars of Richardson's time at Rovers are still there, I remember well the protests during games. Belle Vue, not the prettiest ground, did have a good atmosphere, even with only 3000 inside. I have even been inside Belle Vue when there was over 20,000 and that was special. Things at Rovers aren't great at the moment, a play off place at the end of this 2020.21 season is all but been thrown away so hopefully the right appointment of manager will be made soon and a quality team can be assembled during the summer to turn the club around.

Cracking video as always, I love the documentary style videos about the subjects that fans may not know about

@williamlowry5652

2 жыл бұрын

9

And I thought the team I supported, Carlisle United, had the worst owner in League Football back in the 1990's. Michael Knighton was a joke and very nearly sent us to the wall, but he couldn't hold a candle to Richardson. Congrats to Doncaster Rovers and their fans for not only surviving the Richardson years but excelling in the decades that followed. Great video, very informative.

@josiewallace7968

10 ай бұрын

Is it true that Michael Knighton tried to get Carlisle United into the Scottish leagues

not often i see a vid about my club. it's certainly a story worth telling! much love alfie

Doncaster fan here! Great video, brilliant watch

These documentary videos are fantastic

Some channels do very lazy videos. This is not one of them. A great amount of detail and effort every time. Great vid.

Interesting and well researched. Thankyou

quality content as usual, keep it up lads

Brilliant as always!

Love the content dude! 👍🏽👍🏽 Cheers from California

@NiSiochainGanSaoirse

3 жыл бұрын

You guys in America are seriously catching up on loving football. Great to see.

@fs0594

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you found our club interesting!

Great video! Would love more content like this!

I watched my first football match at Belle Vue, from next to that stand. What he said about the car park was absolutely true, and it got much worse when it rained

alfie keeps producing qualify documentaires at an increasing rate , keep it up 💪🏾

class video mate great to see small clubs like us get coverage

Thanks for filling in the blanks on this story, I cleaned up the home changing room after the fire, I remember there was a sign on the wall that said Keep fighting, I'm glad for all at DRFC that they did.

Every video never disappoints

Just discovered this excellent channel. Instant subscriber 👍🏻.

@HITCSevens

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard, Mark!

Day 55: 7 worst players who scored a hattrick in either the premier or champions league

@johnmitchell2269

3 жыл бұрын

Kevin Lisbie and Carl Leaburn

@melodiclogic9904

3 жыл бұрын

pierre-emerick aubameyang

@elliotcoffman2643

3 жыл бұрын

@northsidedub1 I'd find it interesting, and lots of others would too

@Randomperson-zt3il

3 жыл бұрын

@@melodiclogic9904 lmao

@melodiclogic9904

3 жыл бұрын

@@Randomperson-zt3il being an arsenal fan hurts at the moment haha

Thanks for this video Alfie and you're welcome for Grant McCann xx

i remember all of this vividly. i loved belle vue, it absolutely reeked of vix vaporub, bovril, dry pasties and steam from the tea boilers. the players always spent time with us kids signing our programs. i remember the pitch invasions, so sad. but we made it back. i stopped going when they built the keepmoat, just admire from a distance. i miss the 90s. great video.

@acustomer3518

2 жыл бұрын

memories pitch invasion 81 promotion against bournemouth and the year they had 6.5 reading 5.4 wigan and more goals i cant remember, then tv cameras went for the next game and it was 0 0

@mowvu5380

2 жыл бұрын

@@acustomer3518 classic donny mate haha

Every video, every day, a treasure. Thanks for all your hard work. Its appreciated :)

As someone who grew up in Bridlington, I wondered what had happened to Brid Town - thanks great video essay

Make a video about Luton Town and the shite we went through 10+ years ago.

@mowvu5380

3 жыл бұрын

mate you have no idea. i was born in luton, moved to donny in 1990. my dad's side are all luton fans and i was lumped with both luton AND donny😂😂i had suffered non stop my whole football supporting life😂 it's been better the last few years, everyone has settled down thank fcuk! sorry to ramble but i GET IT👒👒and we beat the scum last week👏

@tommcglone2867

2 жыл бұрын

Holy fuck. 3 successive relegations going from Championship to Non League drowning in a cesspit of gross mismanagement so heinous that the people responsible should have been beheaded in The Tower.

I love these types of videos.

yes my guy! my hometown club. haha so weird to see someone giving them 20 minutes. i'm 35 now so i started watching donny at belle view age 9 around 94/95 season. i saw EVERYTHING. what a journey the last 25 years. so proud of what they've achieved. john ryan is a god.

Another brilliant episode. This is a reminder that football sold its soul a long time ago.

I’ve heard of this before, but it was before my time. My Uncle supports DRFC and mentions if often. when someone mentions DRFC, it reminds me of their win against Leeds to get to the Championship in 2008 and the Coppinger goal v Brentford to return to the Championship in 2013.

Though not a Doncaster fan, I really enjoyed that. Thanks.

Amazing story. Thanks

Get well soon Darren Moore. (Wednesday fan here. love your work and youtube channel)

Not many people like myself knew about that Nice video Alfie

Cheers from Donny. Much appreciated.

Its funny how that the horse racing scandal you mentioned at the start is literally the plot of one of Sir ACD's Sherlock Holmes novels, Silver Blaze.

Ah " They think it's all Rovers " tale . Such a great but tragic documentary .

Actually, when Fergus McCann took over Celtic in the 90s, he came with a 5 year plan, at the end of it we had a new 60,000 seater stadium, bought the likes of Di Canio, Van Hoojdonk, Larsson, Lambert etc and stopped Rangers from completing their own 10 in a row also. Just meaning that some 5 year plans can work with the right implementation.

@mcbrodz1663

3 жыл бұрын

80% of the time it’s the sign of a dodgy owner whose telling you what they want you to hear

@ajorngjdonaydbr

3 жыл бұрын

@@mcbrodz1663 not with McCann, he bought over the club literally hours before the Club was technically going out of business. Every Celtic fan will agree he deserves the main stand to be named after him due to what he did for Celtic

@mrkipling2201

3 жыл бұрын

@@ajorngjdonaydbr “ the rebels have won “.

@ajorngjdonaydbr

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrkipling2201 "The Game is Over, The Rebels have won"

@mrkipling2201

3 жыл бұрын

@@ajorngjdonaydbr 👍👍

The only Fact I knew About Doncaster Rovers is that It is supported by Louis Tomlinson and He even got into the first team squad for a season.

@fs0594

3 жыл бұрын

Part of the music video Back to You was also filmed at our ground

Could u do a vid on the 2008/09 league 2 idk what exactly maybe a season review or a quick look at the 4 teams that got points deductions with 74 points taken in total from those teams 3 are now in the championship and 1 is in non league game

I miss Saturdays in the Keepmoat so much.

They beat Dagenham and Redbridge not Leyton Orient in 02/03 play off final. Heartbreaking day for my 2nd team 😢

@markab1978

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, great game and sir Francis Tierney grabbing the silver goal to win the game at stokes brittania stadium

I was at that FA Vase final, as my home town team (Tiverton Town) were the opponents and I was in London anyway.

There's also an excellent DVD of the tale of Donny over the same period and the rise of the club under the chairman who saved them

I found this video very interesting & fascinating

15:40 I enjoyed this but Leyton Orient weren't in the Conference in 2003, it was Dagenham and Redbridge that Doncaster beat in the Conference playoff final. Orient didn't get relegated to the Conference until 2017 after 110 years as a football league team. Great video otherwise, sorry to be pedantic!

"The worst concoction of waffle, piffle and flannel they had ever heard" 🤣 Amazing that this man owned a successful business really!!

Could you do a video on the history of Brighton in the 90s

FINALLY Accrington Stanley get featured (somewhat) in a HITC Sevens video!

I remember that 97/98 season. They got beat 8-0 twice, and most of the players that were brought in were part-timers from the 8th and 9th tiers, who were seemingly on weekly contracts, and they'd play 3 games and then disappear back to the 9th tier and be replaced by another one. Think they used about 40 players. It was a mad season for Donny.

Speaking of stadium disasters, you should do a video about the Valley Parade fire.

What a great end to a terrible story, very happy the for the fans

Other video suggestion: cities that would challenge for trophies with United teams (can't have top flight sides currently) - e.g. Bristol, Sheffield (now relegated), etc

Damn didn't know about this. Kind of recent as well.

Very good vid

Thanks for the brilliant video. One small error….Rovers beat Dagenham & Redbridge in the 2003 playoff final😀

Alfie can you do a video on Brighton, showcasing from when Archer took over as owner, nearly going out of existence and then the rise to the premier league?

My best friend is a donny fan, one of the only few in Worksop, which is where I live and only half an hour from Donny

@ 12:12 isn't that Paul Jones of Bolton? had a very effective Centre Half partnership with Sam Allardyce

You have this video set to auto-generate the CC to Dutch, making the CC not understandable in English (it converts from the Dutch auto-gen to English). I've been seeing this happen a lot on YT lately. I don't speak other languages, so I pretty much watch English language vids exclusively, so I'm guessing YT has fucked something up on their end during the settings phase of the upload.

I have to say I absolutely pissed myself laughing at the way they were caught I can't be the only one!

I'm trying to work out why between 12:09 and 12:31 the talk is about 'Huddersfield town great David Cowling' while showing a photo of Willie Morgan during his Bolton Wanderers days?

I still have my seat from the main stand that survived the fire. I sat in it for 20 years. All seats were replaced with plastic ones apart from the entire back row which was hard to remove. When Rovers left Belle Vue they let me in and I removed my wooden seat. It's now 100 years old and hangs off my wall.

Donny Rovers fan here. Just want to say well done, that's quite accurate. There is of course far more to the story but that's a good summery.

@josiewallace7968

10 ай бұрын

I've been to Doncaster's current stadium (as a Carlisle fan), and it's a decent set up you've got there

Probably the best history lesson ever

you should do a video on kettering town fc. Hired Gazza as a manager and then fired him after 39 days. pretty interesting history of a small football team

@josiewallace7968

10 ай бұрын

It would appear that the Kettering chairman was not as sensible as Gazza....

Would love to see a video include the shambles of when nicolas anelkas brothers, Claude took over raith rovers, made himself manager and brought in French 5 a side players

Alfie day 70 of asking for the Kroenke video from DECEMBER Also 7 ways to fix international football

@samrosenberg67

3 жыл бұрын

Kroenke is a very typical big money owner who doesn’t care about the club, it’s not even like arsenal don’t invest, it’s just invested poorly

@joenewman5985

3 жыл бұрын

@@samrosenberg67 it’s not just Kroenke. There also a complete mess in the Arsenal boardroom

I want to know the process for finding stories like this.

Chernobyl style car park 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 classic. Those were the days. Great video 👍👍👍

Finally a video on the mighty Rovers, just a shame that this is what we're best known for.

@thomaskendell8146

3 жыл бұрын

Because you are a tinpot club

@Randomperson-zt3il

3 жыл бұрын

Ik Doncaster because they haven’t been in the Prem (strange Ik)

About damn time

Be great to see you do a vid of Ex Carlisle Utd Chairman Micheal Knighton. Came to carlisle, built a stand that didnt align with the pitch as part of his "30,000 all seater stadium" plan. Almost drove Carlisle utd extinction.

@mrkipling2201

Жыл бұрын

I was at Old Trafford for the first game of the 1989/90 season against Arsenal. He came out juggling the ball and shooting in the goal at the Stretford end and we thought ‘ who the bloody hell is this?? ‘. The he went to Carlisle and chased aliens!!

To watch all of this video you only have to watch 983 adverts Awesome stuff

A similar thing happened to a football club in Colne, Lancashire - Colne Dynamos. Won the FA Vase trophy following major investment by a business man and within a few year went bust.

@mrkipling2201

Жыл бұрын

That’s right. They won the HFS Loans premier division in 1989/90 but their Holte House ground was deemed unsuitable for the GM Vauxhall Conference and after playing a friendly against Newcastle Blue Star that was it. The rich owner stopped paying the bills and they went out of business. They had some high earners playing for them as well. Alan Kennedy for example. I think a phoenix club rose from the ashes of Colne Dynamoes though. Colne FC.

Cannot believe Ken Richardson would do that to his own football club since he left Doncaster Rovers had a new lease of life once new chairman was appointed he listens to the fans as they wanted to return to the EFL and new chairman was the catalyst unlike Richardson

Doncaster Rovers logo is excellent 👍🏼

I remember reading about this when I first found out about the football pyramid back in '98 or '99. Shocking stuff -- I forgot how sloppy the arsonist was!

Hi Alfie I was wondering if you could do Doncaster rovers 13/14 season players where they are known please up the donny

Never knew Big Dave played for Doncaster Rovers Albion legend he is. I wondered why he managed Doncaster Rovers

Danny Beghara getting a shout out✌️Here’s to the man from Uruguay🔵⚪️

Can you do a video on hull city

rest in peace ken richardson 18/08/2023

I remember this as a kid living in Rotherham... At least they have a decent stadium now

@tsb3208

2 жыл бұрын

It's a beauty to be fair. Not the biggest but a cracking ground.