James Allcott is just a great guy. I could sit and talk to him for hours and hours. Love the bloke.

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I loved the ball street content back in the days

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well done he made people know who you are lol

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will sending booze could be calculated, it cements friendships with people who might one day be bigger than him

this is a great great interview. Inspiring, honest, and valuable. Well done

You could tell with XO vids they didn't really know what they were doing videos would start with an idea and then it felt just to stretch the vids out they just thought of something on the spot see xo vs f2 and reacting to our first videos

I remember the launch promo videos for XO and I found them so embarrassing and self important. “ everywhere you look you see Xs and Os” wtf are you talking about

Waste of time watching

Moist Slug here, James and Flav make everything worth it❤

I still miss Ball Street and Long Ball Street and One For The Weekend and all that.

That reason was INCREDIBLE

Imagine asking Cafu if he wants to play RB.... Jimbo..... mate.

James 'don't leave me out' Allcott

XO seemed like it was caught in between ideas. True Geordie (and Laurence by association) were the only real football creators out of the original four. Some of the early sports stuff was really good, but it didn’t really maximise Will and Stephen

Has WillNE done anything original, reactions, =3 style reviews and mr beast clone

Thogden: "i grew up supporting Barcelona" Also thogden: "hala madrid!" This melt panders to anything that'll boost his money

I think fundamentally the problem with the XO was that the directions Will and Brian wanted to go with the channel were too different. The videos felt too disjointed from one another.

Glazing Will because he sent him some booze is embarrassing

Ball Street North was awesome. Misses Social Club!

Caked in makeup, looks terrible

Man I loved ball street

I really miss that era of UK KZbin in general and XO felt like the next great thing to come from it. I think it could've and should've been a big success. It was awesome while it lasted though :)

KZbinrs like to blow smoke up their own arses and their mates arses as if they are genius and insanely talented. Tries isn't that funny. He is ok. Let's not sit here and threat him as some sort of Ricky Gervais.

The way James has always spoke, you’d think he’s a huge name with serious talent and millions of subs. Seriously needs an ego check, quick.

any idea on who the famous peron is at 1:37

I feel like the main issue is that all the members made completely different types of content

XO didn't work because it was dog toffee

Ty needs a bit of work on his articulation. No hate though, just friendly advice.

Shoutout to Cam Kirkham ... the forgotten member

this pod was so good!! i had to come back and watch it a second time. it was great getting to know sharky on a personal level. i would love to see the other members on here sometime.

I still love the true Geordie, everyone can make mistakes

From afar WillNE could be the best at maximising value from KZbin, but he's also the poster child for low effort slop in my mind. The old reaction stuff, the over the top thumbnails and algorithm hunting. It works, but it also turns your content towards a child audience.

JLA is one of the sweetest guys out there a genuine down to earth lovely guy. Always super happy to hear of his success. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Who are they discussing around 3:35 not true geordie, the guy they speak about after, Will something?

What a top top bloke

The GOAT 🐐 of UK KZbin Is, was & will always be KSIOlajideBT

Ball Street Social Club North !!! #NoPedNoParty

You need to split this into three groups. Entertainment channels, podcasts and informative football channels. Tifo, The Athletic and FourFourTwo will do in depth tactical breakdowns and analyze players and how they are able to be effective. Not entertaining, but interesting and good for learning/understanding more about the modern game at the highest level. Podcasts where they have discussions with former players tend to do well (depending on who the former players are). Entertainment channels. In the past the top one was obviously the F2 freestylers. But imo I dont particularly find any of them entertaining. I gave XO a go when they first started up, and it was just silly, immature nothingness. If you like watching people act like prats, then you will probably prefer to watch nonsense like the Sidemen. This is why Sky have now taken over (in terms of views) with regards to KZbin. Years ago you had the Sunday Supplement on tele which was kind of boring, albeit I've always rated Henry Winter as a journalist. But it was too formal and treated like a group of men discussing politics not football. Then Soccer AM finished, which was a shame as I really enjoyed that. And then the KZbin channels as mentioned in this, saw an opportunity and had years of progress and popularity. But Sky are currently killing the competition on KZbin because they have all the areas covered. With Roy Keane and Ian Wright plus Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, they have big characters with plenty of personality talking about the current/relevant topics but from a place of experience. Plenty of jokes and banter, great chemistry between them all, but also mixed in with strong opinions. They make it fun and enjoyable, but also take it seriously.

Between two ferns

When I watch a game I will turn the sound off and listen to Mark, I do not agree with a lot of his views but he is entertaining and makes me laugh.

I honestly thought at the time that XO was going to be huge, its a shame it never worked out as with the people involved you would assume it would have.

2 top lads

Love this type of behind the scenes content, great to see for a small creator how it all works, Keep it up Smithy!

Need more episodes! In the autumn the run of guests was generational, I absolutely love listening to these

Oh, it’s the pancake girl

You support who ya da supports, end of.

The players are there to do a job it’s business they don’t support the team they play for them what kind of point have you just made 😂