@Ch1llzDoesStuff
That one clip of Antony not being able to dribble past a reading play my most favourite part of the vid another banger
@AS_Lancaster
Brilliantly thought out and presented. The issue has also rippled down - Oldham and Rochdale are traditional lower league clubs but now find themselves out of the football league, whilst Bury and Macclesfield dropped out of existence. There is a rebuild going on at Wigan and Bolton, but it is purely to help us be sustainable and likely to turn us into feeder clubs rather than ones chasing success
@zelix1361
sheffield "the home of football" with the oldest clubs in the world still shocks me how much they under preform
@RobyyJUsmile
i was skeptical when i heard your definitely-not-northern-english voice BUT this video was very well done actually! handled the issue really well, thank you sir
@simonn2045
Probably worth noting that the move down south is not just down south but specifically London. Northern football clubs tend to be in towns and smaller cities, when you're on £100,000+ a week you're going to want to spend it and London will let you do that (northerner for the record)
@dnstone1127
Lancashire (which historically includes Manchester and Liverpool) has dominated English football since mid 1960s and won 22 of 31 Premier League titles.
@omamuzoobemure1260
As a Serie A fan the opposite is the case in Italy. Italy only has two Southern clubs (four if you include Rome as South Italy which is a stretch and is akin to saying Birmingham is in Northern England) Lecce and Napoli and Lecce might get relegated this year meaning only Napoli represents the South. Southern Italy is also where most of the stadiums with character are located and teams like Bari, Catania or Messina are replaced by plastic clubs like Sassuolo or Udinese in the North. It is even worse in the under 20 level where there is no Italian under 20 team more southern than Roma and Lazio which aren’t even Southern clubs and this shows the poor youth infrastructure in the South of Italy (that even Napoli are in the 2nd division of the Under 20 leagues). All of this is actually sad ngl. The farther from Milan the less the investment EDIT: Apologies Lecce U20 is actually the most (and only) southern team in the under 20 top flight but it still proves my point that Southern Italy is struggling with proper youth development. Lecce is one of the only clubs doing it right
@shortperson1
3:33 "success comes down to money" Immediately after shows Anthony. Lovely
@vamoswpd
Brilliant video. I’m from Bolton and a lot of what you said here is true. We went from the premier league to league 2 in 10 years and nearly ceased to exist due to many of these issues. BWFC
@michaelspezial1481
Buck FC is new to the game. Been putting out awesome videos for the last year or so. I think his content is better than 90% of these large channels. Big fan, and the cowboy hat is the cherry on top. Keep it going Buck! Phins up!
@asg698
Another reason that Northern Clubs don’t do well in the Premier League is due to a rule called financial fair play. This stops newly promoted/non “big 6” sides from spending money. This basically means newly promoted teams will always have a worse squad than anyone else as they cannot spend money.
@kitsunewhisker
Look at the top of the championship right now - Sheffield United, Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland, Blackburn and Middlesboro. As it stands, all northern teams are going up to replace probably southern ones (hopefully Everton miraculously survive again)
@mikawimmer1905
As a Brentford fan, you often get people who look at us and feel like we’ve unjustly taken a spot in the league away. I don’t really get it, if anything I’d be pissed off at the big money brand teams who can buy their place in the league even through horrid management. With our budget, if we were run as poorly as Manchester United there is not a lick of a chance we would stay up. I personally would much rather watch a prem in which high performing small clubs can knock out a big club if they play better football. If you’re a struggling club from the north, I don’t think Brentford should be your enemy, because really it’s the unsinkable corporate clubs that are watering down the competition.
@nickdaniels5262
Next season should see it back up to 40% because the top 6 of the championship are northern team and some of the teams threatened with relegation are southern.
@fakemcfaketon249
Really good video, especially from someone not from the uk, a lot of insight that seemed really specific
@rstein926
Similarly in Scotland, Glasgow is the only major city to have football clubs representing the west (Celtic, Rangers, Patrick & QP) & as well teams in the outskirts like Motherwell, St Mirren & Airdrie. You also have Kilmarnock & Ayr Utd. However in eastern Scotland there are more teams: Hearts & Hibs (Edinburgh), Dundee, Dundee Utd (Dundee), Aberdeen (Aberdeen), Dunfermline, East Fife, Raith Rovers, Kelty (Fife) & the likes of Arbroath, Montrose & Peterhead. All eastern Scotland.
@thomasgoldthorpe1158
Great video. Didn't expect you to be American which makes your analysis even more impressive. As a Sheffield Wednesday fan it kills me to see more modest clubs like Brentford and Brighton killing it in the Prem and being so well run while my own club languishes in the Championship living on the breadline being run by an absolute madman.
@garycroft8213
Also in parts of the North, particularly the M62 corridor, Rugby League is popular. In fact many have turned their backs on football due to ticket prices and commercialisation of the premier league.
@robertwhitaker3779
not just football, but there is a massive lack of investment from all quarters in Yorkshire. Look at the HS2 ( i know its been cut back) but origonally it bypassed Sheffield. The upgrading of the A1 to motorway spec was cancelled at Peterborough, Manchester and Sheffiels are 35 miles apart but that can take over 2 hours as the routes between are winding roads thru hills and villages ( dont ever get stuck behind a 42 ton truck doing 25 mph). Where does the M62 finnish? in reality it goes all the way to Glasgow , while the M1 finishes just east of Leeds. Whats the largest airport in Yorkshire, Leeds Bradford and its just been refused expansion plans. The train line berween Leeds and Manchester has had services cut, not because of lack of use but over use has made the trains unreliable. NOTE at the UK olympics, if Yorkshire had fielded its own team it would have come 7th. Take that number away from the UK results and where would it be?
@allhailthelegs