Drunk Texan Intrigued by European Football (Explained for Americans)

European football explained to an American. You mean to tell me the worst team kicks KICKED OUT OF THE LEAGUE??!! BRUTAL!!

[@rafalovitch]

Offside: you’re not allowed to pass the ball to a teammate that is behind the last line of defence.

[@hooobbit6776]

Just to make it confusing its actually the second last opponent as the Goalkeeper counts. It just never really an issue as the goalkeeper is in the goal 99% of the time happened at the last world cup tho

[@korganrocks3995]

@@hooobbit6776 Yeah, most football fans find out about that little detail years after they start watching the sport! Similarly, I played and watched football for 20 years before I found out you weren't allowed to receive a pass from a goal kick while standing inside the penalty area. It just never came up somehow, and I never saw it in professional games. Of course, now they've removed that rule, which has given us lots of hilarious goals over the last few years as goalkeepers and defenders try to pass the ball around in their own penalty area and screw it up! 😄

[@cecilialeitet2794]

You also will not be offside during a throw in, when the ball is passed backwards to you (for example during a corner), or if the ball is passed to you when you are in your defensive half.

[@korganrocks3995]

@@cecilialeitet2794 Yeah, I remember Berbatov scoring a goal for Manchester United once where he was just inside his own half when the ball was played, and the last defender had a brainfart and tried to push up to play him offside, which just meant he gave him a free 40-yard run to the goal! 😄

[@sabinasabina2010]

There has to be 2 or more players from the defending team ( usually the goalkeeper and another) in front or inline of the furthest player forward from the attacking team at the time the ball was passed forwatd ( not recieved). It's not that difficult.

[@pegaz6529]

The FA cup is also known as "The giant killer". Big teams who don't take the little teams seriously get their asses handed to them because the little team plays their hearts out on the night. Its happened countless time.

[@nimay13]

Not anymore, since 2000 only big teams won it.

[@pegaz6529]

@@nimay13 I wasn't on about winning it, I was on about roughly 2nd to 5th round where a lot of smaller teams are still in it.

[@Hrochnick]

The FA cup competition is not known as "The giant Killer", but any small team that beats a bigger team in a round (yes, usually earlier rounds) are called Giant Killers. At least for a little while. The team, not the competition.

[@pegaz6529]

@@Hrochnick Where I'm from it's called the giant killer cup.

[@Hrochnick]

@@pegaz6529 Interesting, and where are you from?

[@neotheone477]

Let me say this there is no better feeling in any sport in the world than 4 or 5 teams fighting it out on the last game of the season to stay in their league it is simply fantastic even as a fan of a team who is safe or even won the league they still love to watch them teams literally fight for survival

[@arransadventures7319]

West Brom surviving on the last day in 2005 was absolute scenes

[@dobryden.6241]

Well I think that ice hoceky or floorball are even better sports.

[@duran9664]

In America, they should give them guns to survive relegation the true American way 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸

[@switchbladelee2874]

Honestly one of the best times. Would be great if arsenal could finish for once😂

[@Dan-op8fs]

Newcastle surviving relegation and then get enough points to play in the champions league in the same was just amazing

[@jdevlin1910]

I like that you picked up the promotion / relegation system straight away, a lot of Americans can take some time to understand it. You're absolutely right, fans of a team like Bournemouth who went from the 4th tier right up to the premier league are absolutely loving life right now. Conversely teams like Sunderland or Portsmouth who were Premier League teams, dropped right down to that 4th tier and basically imploded. You can imagine their fans are not as pleased.

[@reubenagboola]

Sunderland weren't relegated to the 4th tier. Lowest we ended up was League One (tier 3), but we're now on the way back.

[@chrispage8936]

Or of course there's Luton Town, who have gone from the 5th ('non-league') tier to the Premier League in ten years. One of their players has been with the club throughout their rise and played in all those five divisions. And it's NOT Premiere League, it's Premier League. From the French, premiere equates to first, premier equates to top.

[@JustFootballThoughts]

Relegation is truly a gem. I watched relegation even from 2nd and 3rd division in Germany this year and people just go crazy. The emotions when everything is on the line is just through the roof. When teams battle out finals they fight for glory but when they battle for relegation they fight for their lives.

[@jgmediting7770]

The key to all drama, conflict. Tension and release.

[@thetalker.7304]

NBA need to have that can fix the tanking for draft picks and force them to play great basketball, NBA should have That no more tanking Orlando

[@petr416]

From there comes our passionete support of our club too. Relegation is the real boogyman!!!

[@germangarcia6118]

Trust me. When you are a supporter of a club that lives on the relegation line there's a lot of excitement to live for. Sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. But then next year there is the fight for promotion! ^_^'

[@donfeloni3923]

Dude, yes! Some teams on the edge of relegation even fight back and win against bigger teams that are on their way to league win. It might be a bad draw to go against a weaker team at the end that is fighting for their survival. If you drop out, you lose tv moneys, some sponsors and need to sell your best players (that want to play on the top league) or even most of them. For example i follow Inter Milan from Italy. They are the only Italian side to have always competed in the top flight of Italian football since its debut in 1909. Never dropped down. But they are still in a financial mess right now, so its not all rainbows and unicorns even at the top.

[@BVking509]

As a Small child my home town of about 15,000 people drew a Premier League Team in the FA CUP. It was a massive event with top stars playing in it, we got Match of The Day TV coverage which was massive at the time. Generated so much money for the club, we lost 3-2 but it was super exciting and memorable, inspired many to follow the team, brought the town to life. Real excitement young and old

[@DrunkTexanSays]

That would be amazing!

[@BVking509]

@@DrunkTexanSays That's what they call the magic of the FA Cup, so many giant slayings, matches you would never see. The Milk Man down the road who plays for fun going up against a £30 million pound Italian world class striker. A team who barely gets 15 people watching each weeks sells out thousands of tickets, unforgettable memories, once in a life time, brings the community together

[@dmst13]

Nothing like a Cup upset. Unless you're the team on the receiving end (speaking from experience of going to Kidderminster Harriers in 2022 to see us lose 2-1 in the third round for one of the biggest* upsets in FA Cup history) *based on league positions between teams

[@BVking509]

@@dmst13 Nice I remember when Kidderminster got promoted from the conference but weren't allowed in to the league due to the stadium

[@Isleofskye]

@@DrunkTexanSays Good Reaction,My Friend. He is completely wrong about " No one cares outside THe Premier Leagye" ALL 92 League Clubs are well loved and many of the most passionate fans are playing next season(starting in 3 weeks) OUTSIDE the Top league. Fans like Leeds, Middlesbrough, Millwall,Cardiff, Sheffield Wednesday and Portsmouth etc.

[@rickwalker2]

Really interesting you picked up on the relegation piece. A couple of years ago there was a move by some American owners to start a competing competition to the Champions League they called the Super League. It attempted to abolish the merit based system in favour of a US sports-style format and the way rival fans across Europe rallied together to stop it from happening was remarkable- it's well worth looking into and there are loads of KZbin videos about it.

[@PSYCHOSCION]

let me stop you there mate. It wasn't a move by American owners, most of the teams were owned by European/ foreign owners. Out of the 12 teams, only 4 were American owned. Furthermore, it wasn't even an American-started league/ competition, the super league was started by the Real Madrid president who is a Spaniard, and a club owned by Spaniards. Where and how do we get the blame for this when we weren't the ones who started it. The American-owned clubs withdrew before the Spanish-owned clubs.

[@rickwalker2]

@@PSYCHOSCION it’s probably unwarranted that the American owners get tarred with all the blame but they do, alongside Florentino Perez. It’s probably perpetrated by the fact that it was US funded (JPMorgan) and the American owners were (and are) highly unpopular in English football. It was a model of sport very much based on the American system with Joel Glazer, Stan Kroenke, and John W Henry being firmly in support. In fact, out of the 5 members of the exec leadership team, all 3 of these people were members.

[@AlexandreMonnier]

regardless it wasnt an american competition. your characterization of the super league would make any european football fan crack up@@rickwalker2

[@M1ggins]

@@PSYCHOSCION yeah, the Spanish & Italians started it because, after years of being richer than anyone else, suddenly they weren't.

[@saeedabdullah9300]

@@PSYCHOSCION3 out of the 5 Is executives were American owners. The format proposed for the Superleague was American through and through. Permanent team of 12 with no relegation and promotion and divided into 2 conferences were the winners of each conference facing off in the finale. The fact that they have divided Europe the smallest continent into 2 conferences was stupid in itself and kills the beauty of knockout football. Americans have a 2 conference system since they are a large country/continent and having an LA team play home and away with a team from New York is a nightmare but implementing such system haphazardly everywhere is foolish and shows how Americans can’t see the forest from the trees.

[@threefivetwogames2944]

As an Everton fan the threat of relegation this past season almost cost me my sanity but I wouldn't have it any other way!

[@michaeldjguardianmeans6281]

As a Liverpool fan I completely understand why you would lack sanity as being an Everton fan 🤣😂😜🤪😅🤣😂

[@jdevlin1910]

Don't worry mate, it'll finally happen this year

[@willvardy6792]

As a kopite I hope you lot do better this season

[@adenkyramud5005]

Stuttgart fan here. That's just our normal state at this point😂

[@KetwigKeith]

​@@willvardy6792sound as that is don't see it helping Maupay as he puts his 4th open goal of the season wide next weekend

[@stephenhodgson3506]

I've always found it strange that American Sports reward failure which seems a very un-American thing to have. However if you have spent millions of dollars to buy an American sports franchise you can understand that owner not being willing to risk losing their investment if their team falls from the major leagues.

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Yeah a lot of teams are historically terrible like the Cleveland Browns in the NFL. Its trash!

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

​​@@DrunkTexanSaysn contrast to many parts of the world most of the teams and stadiums are owned by municipalities. if the team is successful then the team will be made into a private company and fans can buy a percentage of shares in the company. and limited private companies may not own more than 49% majority of the stadiums are also state-owned. making cheap ticket prices for the public because they don't need profits. and you can buy bir for only 3 USD. Or just 20% more expensive than outside the stadium. and You can even bring your own food with family

[@stephenhodgson3506]

@@DrunkTexanSays The other thing I hate about American sports is where a team can decide there are perceived better opportunities elsewhere and move to another city. Or they demand a city build them a new stadium to increase their revenue with no cost to themselves, like the Oilers and many others have. Football teams in England have moved to another part of their town or city but I can only think of one instance where a team has moved city's. In that case the fans started a new team and now both the old and new teams are in the same division.

[@SonOfBaraki359]

@SonOfBaraki359 il y a 1 seconde No, it totally makes sense: murrircan hates losers so much that they refuse to lose, even when they have lost

[@SonOfBaraki359]

@@DrunkTexanSays Do you also have this kind of jokes "a judge ask a child where he wants to live after he was taken from his parents. The kid think a few minutes and say "i want to live with the "Cleveland Browns". The Cleveland Browns, ask the judge ? Why ? cause they never beat anyone" ?

[@michaelderrick3587]

Jose Mourinho is considered one of the best managers of all time and is well known for his effective defensive playing style (which has won him many trophies) and his personality in interviews. He famously dubbed himself "The Special One" upon arriving in England having just won the Champions League with Portuguese team Porto, who were extreme underdogs. This comment won't do him enough justice, so I'll link a short montage of his best moments for your convenience. He is currently coaching Roma in Italy if you are looking for a team to support. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2q8dISQob14d5o

[@Cynicayke]

Mourinho called himself "a special one", it was the English press that changed it slightly to "The Special One" and continued to use it as a nickname.

[@mariowilliams9206]

The chosen one

[@germangarcia6118]

Mourinho is famous for it in recenty history, but "catenaccio" used to be the Italian specialty. In Spain we call it "parking the bus" (in front of the goal).

[@jjryan1352]

Mourinho has been out of the picture for a while. He's considered old fashioned and has crashed and burned at several clubs, although taking MU to 2nd place was a major achievement.

[@jlangism]

Jose is an excellent coach, but to the previous comments his version of “parking the bus” or “sufferball” can be hard to watch in modern day football

[@dianabialaskahansen2972]

Release clauses are not really that common, except in Spain's La Liga, where it is mandatory. However there is not really a limit for how high you can set the fee, so while a player may have a market value of $10 million, the release clause may be $100 million or more. The exception is that many players will also have a relegation release clause, which allows players from relegated teams to be purchased quite cheaply.

[@17arando]

Though sometimes there's a case like Neymar's 250 million clause getting triggered by PSG. But yeah, usually the release clause is set to "fuck off" levels, like Pedri's billion dollar clause

[@monkeechicken]

this is wrong, many contracts have a release clause and they get triggered quite often

[@17arando]

@@monkeechicken Yeah, but most places it's not mandatory, so it's up to the agent to negotiate one if they want it so definitely less of a thing in say the Premier League, though it's becoming more common with younger players at smaller clubs who hope to catch the eye of the big boys

[@BryanHernandezchineseguy94]

While release clauses are mostly used to deter bigger teams from poaching your players, the price limit is up two both sides (players+agent and team) reaching an agreement. If a player does not like his clause he could as well mot sign or extend his contract. So, the player has some level of control in that regard. Moreover, they could ask for different realease clauses depending on different scenarios (relegation, injury, better teams, teams in better leagues or comps).

[@fgsaramago]

in Portugal theyre very common despite not being mandatory

[@LeDardeursPalace]

You should look up Jean-Marc Bosman, he was a bang average unknown player in Belgium but he went to court against the league because players could never change teams unless their team agreed, even if the player's contract had run its course.

[@coyotelong4349]

Every sport has the pioneer free agent, it’s kinda interesting

[@M0ralAp0stel]

19:50 _The Treples, Quadruples, Quintuples, Sextuples_ There are some examples where clubs won 3 or more trophies. As you can see, there are some more trophies to win 2009 - FC Barcelona - 6 Trophies (La Liga, the Copa del Rey, Supercopa de España, UEFA Supercup, UEFA Champions League and Club World Cup) 2013 - FC Bayern München - 5 Trophies (Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, UEFA Supercup, UEFA Champions League and Club World Cup) 2021 - FC Bayern München - 6 Trophies (Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, DFB Supercup, UEFA Supercup, UEFA Champions League and Club World Cup) 2023 - Manchester City - 3 Trophies (Premier League, FA-Cup, Champions League) 20:48 _Release Clause_ Yes, there are exit clauses in football. But it mostly depends on which country you play in or which club you play for. In Spain, for example, it is common for such a clause to be included in the contract. For example, at FC Bayern, the club has categorically ruled this out. On the other hand, Bayern have now signed the best Italian defender in a mega deal by activating the release clause and paying Napoli €47m. Napoli were very keen to keep him, but the player was keen on the move himself. Some clubs also write utopian transfer fees in the contracts, such as FC Barcelona recently. FC Barcelona has set the transfer fee at 1 billion euros for Pedri's contract extension. 23:41 _TikiTaka_ This term dates back to the time when the Spanish national team drew attention to this style of play in 2006. The team refined the short passing game in combination with high possession of the ball in such a way that it was almost impossible for the opponent to get the ball. So the players literally danced merrily around their opponents while passing each other the ball. And the term was born.

[@MotherGoose264]

👍 CORRECT, i wanted to write a similar comment, but you saved me the time 🤘❤️

[@your_waifu_hates_you]

How about barca 2015

[@your_waifu_hates_you]

And 2011

[@M0ralAp0stel]

@@your_waifu_hates_you Thanks for adding, I just wanted to give a few examples and not let the comment get too big

[@samuelpinder1215]

The sextuples, playing soon at a pub near you

[@NathansWargames]

F.A cup also has huge financial gains for tiny clubs who can win a couple of games and get to play a huge Championship/Prem team because of the tv revenue. could literally transform a club in debt to a financially stable club for years to come just because they played a big club on tv for 1 game

[@thomasskinner2259]

just type in most trophys in world football u will reveal the best the famous glasgow rangers wrtp

[@aleksamapparat]

Fun video, nice seeing more and more Americans getting into real football. About Mourinho and his attitude. He won the treble with Inter Mailand. He had a very good striker called Samuel Eto'o, but he used him on the wing. After Mou, who is called "the Special One" Inter Mailands new coach asked Eto'o if he's fine playing on the wing. Eto'o famousl replied (No, only for Mourinho) About the treble, quadruple.. FC Barcelona - probably the most beautiful football of this century was Barcelona in between 2008 ans 2014. They won the sextuple, 6 titles, in 2010. Followed by FC Bayern a decade later

[@jacobharris954]

Wrexham being prime example

[@Flippityflap]

@@aleksamapparat Mailand? dude

[@erichbrown4906]

the fa cup has a 50/50 split of money made at turnstiles. so if a small club got lucky and played arsenal at their home. that small club would get 50% of the revenue generated from match day ticket sales.

[@DiegoSanchez-jh2oz]

In mi city, Tijuana, we got to live one of those fantasy dreams where everything lines up perfectly. We got into the first division for the first time in our history in 2011 and in the first year, won the league. No one could believe it, it was madness!

[@edinonjunio]

I remember Tijuana from 2013 when my team, Atlético Mineiro, faced you guys on our way to the Libertadores trophy. That second leg of the quarterfinals was something out of this world man, I almost coudn't believe when Victor (our golie) defended Riascos penalty shot right at the end of the match (I almost died of a heart attack when that happened LOL), and overall you guys where quite the opponent on both matches! I'm surprised to know that just 2 years before that was Tijuana's first time on the Mexican first division, seemed to me like a very seasoned team!

[@DiegoSanchez-jh2oz]

@@edinonjunio That's a painful but good memory, that last penalty was sick! And you're right, those days, with just 2 years in the first division, Tijuana was quite the team, but just the owners started selling every good pleayer we had, so now, Tijuana is just another low end team, just existing to make money of player trades. It sucks.

[@enzipenzo]

Love how open minded you are, and open to new ideas. Totally respect/love the content!!

[@gaynorhead2325]

Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney bought Wrexham FC a Welsh team in the National League (5th tier) where they had been relegated to for 15 years. Within just a few years Wrexham this year won the National League and have been promoted back up into League 2! So it is possible to get back.

[@purplefood1]

Everyone loves a good promotion story

[@dmore]

The release clause thing isn't quite as big a factor as the video makes it out to be. They aren't super common in contracts in a lot of places (for example not many players have a release clause in England). In some countries, like Spain (La Liga), it is a mandatory rule for all contracts to have a release clause but for their good players clubs often just make the clause unreasonably high so that it's very unlikely another club with be willing or even financially capable of paying it. So for example when Messi was last at Barcelona, his release clause fee was $825 million! You could buy an entire club in the English Premier League (bar the Top 6 or so) for that amount.

[@adobecolour5404]

Barcelona made Neymar's release clause a high figure of 222M. PSG paid the release clause

[@dmore]

@@adobecolour5404 Which was very much the exception not the rule, hence why it was so shocking at the time.

[@Guevon_Pajaro]

Yeah, the release clause is rare, and usually you have to deal with the club. But yeah, if you're lucky enough to have that clause, you can get out easy enough if the other club pays the fee

[@Conan1996]

Real Madrid and Barcelona keep release clauses for a lot of their youmgsters( Vinicius-Rodrigo-Pedri-Gavi) at 1B$

[@RobBrown1991]

I think the video may have been slightly conflating the release clause with the Bosman ruling. The Bosman ruling truly was transformative in the way it affected the club/player dynamic.

[@jimmywenger8979]

"drunk Texan?" sippin' light lager.

[@amekgomo5250]

A team called luton town just got promoted to the premier league for the first time this season, its such an amazing moment.

[@Isleofskye]

Better achievement than that,my friend. They are the only team to have descended from The Top Tier to the 2nd/3rd/4th/Conference(nearly went bust) and 5th-4th-3rd-2nd= to,as you say, The Promised Land of THe Premiership. lol

[@MotherGoose264]

The fact that players can move from one team to another easier ( if the release clause is paid) is thanks to one player -> Bosman. Not the biggest name, but he went to court and challenged the labour practices in Soccer. He won and rules changed,.... but he never played for a big team again ( they did kinda took revenge on him). So he basically sacrificed himself for everyone else to get a better deal in the future. 🤘❤️

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Wow thats really interesting!

[@Valjean666dk]

I don't think those two things are related. The Bosman ruling just meant that once a EU players contract runs out, he is free to change clubs without a fee. The issue with Bosman was that his contract had run out, but the club wouldn't accept the bids made for him, so he was forced to stay at the club, and be paid shitty wages, so he took them to court, and after that a player became a free agent when his contract ran out. Release clauses are mainly a Spanish thing, where it is a mandatory part of a contract, since 1985. 10 Years before the Bosman ruling.

[@nicoladc89]

That was about the Freedom of Movement of the workers within the EU. It's all another story. The release clause isn't mandatory in Europe (it is only in Spain I think). Anyway a worker has the right to broke a contract if he want, he has to pay a penalty to do that, the release clause fix that penalty. Usually if a player want to change club, the club accept that and let he go.

[@ajorngjdonaydbr]

That's totally wrong, that ruling (The Bosman Ruling) is to allow players who are out of contract or about to be out of contract (the final 6 months) are allowed to speak to other teams to arrange a free transfer to a new club.

[@jaxcoss5790]

​@@ajorngjdonaydbrExactly.

[@krasmazov009]

One of my fav genres of yt videos is American learning about sports outside of the USA.

[@davidsenra2495]

Relegation is a good way to create added drama and to keep most of teams invested until the last round. I mean, if you don't have playoffs, you have to find ways to keep the interest for every one who is not fighting for the title anymore (basically everyone in the later stages of the tournament)

[@DynoKea]

Going to throw in, but a lot of the lower leagues (Championship down in England) all have playoffs between a set of teams who didn't finish first to gain promotion. Can be incredibly tense and dramatic days and a good introduction to who the new teams might be

[@bwoahh1222]

Jose Mourinho He is a Portuguese football manager who has won major trophies while mostly working with smaller teams beating much stronger opponents. He has a reputation for his style parking the bus which is basically sitting back letting the other team have the ball, defending and striking the other teams in transition with quick bursts of energy while opposing team players are in spread apart and leaving huge gaps defensively.

[@fgsaramago]

"parking the bus" is not something Mourinho came up with. Its how smaller teams have traditionally played in Portugal from before Mourinho was even born

[@SigurTibbs]

@@fgsaramago His system was a little more involved than simply parking the bus, that's why he was so successful. But yeah he didn't invent it, he was just one of the best to do it he went something like 9 years without losing a home game.

[@georgegalway7583]

I love your comprehension of what you're listening to, you pick up the meaning and significance of things so quickly and it's awesome to watch as a football fan! My local team, Brighton and Hove Albion, recently qualified for a European tournament for the first time in our history (the club was founded in 1901); just 25 years ago we were in the fourth division of English football, and battling to stay in the top four leagues thanks to toxic owners selling our assets (a relegation would essentially destroy the club), and we fought back to be where we are today. Anything can happen, keep an eye on us this year as we are going to be playing against clubs we've NEVER played against, isn't that crazy. If you're interested in the team there are many amazing documentaries about our journey, but a short one on KZbin is "Brighton & Hove Albion: a journey from nowhere to the Premier League" 😅

[@belalugosiundead177]

Roberto De Zerbi is a masterclass tactician. The two biggest miracles in Premier have been done by Ranieri and De Zerbi (both italians). I wonder what's general opinion of english fans about italian managers (Mancini and Ancelotti were there too)

[@mionellessi3086]

What clubs do you wish for in your group?

[@NathansWargames]

there's 2 types of trebles 1 being much more important than the other. Manchester United and Manchester city have both won the more important treble that being the Champions League the Premier League and the FA cup in the same season. Liverpool F.C in 2001 ( I'm a Liverpool fan btw) won the " Lesser" treble when Liverpool won the FA Cup the League cup and the UEFA cup (Europa League's previous name) No club in England has ever won the Quadruple, Liverpool got the closest in recent years (2021) Losing the Champions League final and Finishing just behind Man City in the League but won both Domestic cups ( FA cup and League Cup )

[@bhvillaman4401]

How can you be the closest recently when city won 3 trophies last season and you only won 2 in 2021

[@FoxMoss0823]

​@@bhvillaman4401because they got 2nd in the prem and lost the final, whilst man city was booted out of the carabao cup I think in the round of 16? (Don't quote me on that exactly I'm not too sure) but that distance away from winning the competition is why Liverpool was the closest

[@JonaxII]

Germany had actually two examples of small clubs that rose from the bottom to top bundesliga within a handful if years. In both cases it was someone taking sponsoring to another level: Hoffenheim was a small regional club, and then a local tech rich guy who used to play there as amateur gave them loads of money to both deepen their playing infrastructure and training, and then buy giid players' contracts. They went from almost nothing to Bundesliga from when he started it in the 90s to 2008, and are still up there. The other example is actually a completely new founded club, RB Leipzig from 2009. They were specifically made as a private sponsor thing by Red Bull, although tor legal reasons the RB doesn't actually stand for Red Bull, supposedly. They are also up there now.

[@kaypirinha1982]

wo wäre wohl der VfL Wolfsburg ohne VW? OK, die ganze Stadt würde ohne VW nicht existieren

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

fck Hoppenheim fck RB

[@josebatxu32]

Offside: Think about it like you're not allowed to pass the ball to a teammate that doesn't have at least 2 other players in front of him at the time the pass was played (Usually the goalkeeper and a defender), however, this rule does not apply if you passed the ball when your teammate is on your side of the field. It also doesn't apply during goal kicks (as the opposition would just stand at the halfway line and prevent you from punting that b*tch to high heavens) or during throw-ins.

[@Malam_NightYoru]

Btw, there is no offside if you are behind the line of the ball during the pass too, that's something that was very common to happen, but stopped happening because teams are playing a much tighter defense now.

[@robjmorse]

It is great to have you back, you have been missed.

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Thank you!

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

@@DrunkTexanSays nice to have u back again.

[@garydavies4895]

@@DrunkTexanSays yeah same missed your videos

[@richt71]

Hey Mike. Welcome back. No English team has won all 4 trophies although my team Liverpool came close in the 21-22 season winning the league cup, fa cup...lost the league to Man city on the last match of the season and got the the champions league final but lost 1-0 to Real Madrid.

[@DrunkTexanSays]

That’s incredible! So close!

[@bravo2zero796]

So really you were fucking miles away from winning the quadruple. Only 2 teams have won the treble and they're both the Manchester teams. Liverpool could only dream.

[@micheleduritto]

@@bravo2zero796 "Only 2 teams have won the treble" in the Premier league...because it was also won in Spain, Italy, The Netherlands (2 teams), Germany and.....Scotland.

[@nickchivers9029]

​@bravo2zero796 two results from a quadruple is closer than any team in history, so yeah.

[@insouciantFox]

@@nickchivers9029 What about the two sextuple teams?

[@MarquisFoxborough2736]

This video was recommended and I’m glad it was. This is awesome. Subscribed!!!

[@volkerp.2262]

tiki taka is a strategy where you keep the ball contacts for the individual player real short. You play a series of quick and short passes and denies the opposite team to attack individual players. the combination move the ball really fast towards the enemy goal but you need also very quick acting players to give the player with ball continuous options for the next pass.

[@WoefullistMaro]

Spain used it

[@volkerp.2262]

@@WoefullistMaro I think Brazil and Argentina also.

[@sangfroidian5451]

Welcome back Mike, nice to see you!! 😁

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Wow that was fast! Thanks!

[@choconoisette9737]

I remember when I was a kid, I used to go to the local Ligue 2 team of Tours (In France) and in the French FA cup we managed to get to the eights finals and we nearly beat a top Ligue 1 team, Saint Etienne we crazy goals, I remember a crazy long shot volley aswell as a attempted bicycle kick that hit the crossbar at the last minutes... Crazy scene for a small city like this and memories for life

[@amandev6]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video, great job good sir!

[@_rosski]

Release clauses are not mandatory either, they are agreed upon during contract negations when a player joins a new club. His or her agent will specify a release clause, usually if the player is aiming to use the club as a stepping stone club to a bigger deal. That said, every player has their price, and the current transfer market in the premier league is the craziest we have ever seen :) - Loved the video, thanks for the content!

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

For some leagues they are in fact mandatory.

[@marblwrexbro458]

If you want a good documentary, try Welcome To Wrexham. You get to learn not only about the pyramid tier system with promotion and relegation but what our club means to its local community. The club has been made more famous due to being taken over by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney and the subsequent documentary. We often get visitors from the US and Canada which is weird but in a good way.

[@zelayagarcia1717]

Yes!!!! I was looking for this comment lol

[@vinnyganzano1930]

Congratulations Wrexham on gaining promotion back to the football leagues and also on your exhibition match where you whipped the US women into submission. Equal pay my arse ladies.

[@Nordle69]

im forever blowing bubbles is a song west ham football supporters sing

[@DrunkTexanSays]

I gotta look it up!

[@DC3Refom]

leave that monkey alone 😂

[@marcuskingstanley9522]

@@DrunkTexanSays and its not a reference to michael Jacksons monkey. just to make clear

[@daviddas6846]

more football videos please! loved this!

[@QWERTY18024]

Being from Houston as well and a passionate soccer fan this is gold keep the good work man

[@coltsfoot9926]

Long time, no see! Glad you're unravelling the intricacies of proper football 😂

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Heck yeah!

[@dominicyoung7920]

First time viewer. Really nice to see you understanding. Top guy. Super articulate, timing's perfect etc ✌️

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Well thank you! Hope to see you on the next one!

[@morganbrokaw5190]

For the record we have an "FA Cup" here in the US. It's called the US Open Cup, and its been running since 1904. Occasionally a minor league team will make a run and knock off a few MLS teams. It's pretty fun.

[@RodrigoCML7]

This was a great watch, love the attitude you bring into learning this stuff. Also the condemnation of soccer of course adds points.

[@davidforman6191]

Glasgow Celtic won the quadruple of league, scottish fa Cup, league cup and the then equivalent of the champions league in 1967.

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Wow!!

[@denes-fekeshazy]

In England there are about 18-20 levels in the league system, depending which county you are in. So if you were to create a new team in one of the lowest leagues, it would take the team 18-20 years of back to back promotions. Plus at some of the higher leagues there are requirements for entry to the league such as stadium size and financial commitments. So if a team earns a promotion, does not necessarily mean they will actually go a league up. While it is not really hard of in the top leagues, it does happen once or twice at lower leagues.

[@MRTransportVideos]

Not neccesarily - if the team is ambitious enough, and their business case is strong enough, they will be admitted to the Pyramid at a much higher level, with recent examples including Isle of Man, Jersey Bulls and Guernsey, who were all admitted at Level 9, while reformed or 'protest' teams (such as AFC Wimbledon, Macclesfield, FC United of Manchester and FC Hereford) also tend to gain entry at Level 8/9.

[@gazlator]

Mike??! You're back! It seems a while since you were on KZbin last; good to have you back!

[@Mister_Matthew]

dude you're hilarious, definitely subbing

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Mike. My home city team, Bradford City worked their way up the divisions to the Premier League as I grew up. Unfortunately they are back in the fourth tier, having been relegated a few times. It works both ways. As a fan of Rugby League, I am with the NFL fans on the subject of falling over as if hit by a cannon ball, at the slightest touch. I actually enjoy watching women's football, because they seem less inclined to feign injury. However, this does not include the goalkeepers, as they seem to be able to create a situation like a time-out by laying down clutching their knee. Check it out in women's Word Cup, "playing now on a TV near you", live from down under. You would also see any VARiations of offside.

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Haha hit by a cannon ball thats hilarious! But yeah I’ll have to check it out!

[@timglennon6814]

The FA Cup is a great tournament to watch. From the 3rd round of the tournament if an amateur team has done well the could get drawn against a top team in the Premier League, and some of these small clubs have caused an upset over the years.

[@InvalidJuzernejm]

Hey sir! Great video! I just moved from EU to USA (Houston) and I am glaad some Houstonian making this kind of content. Subscribed!

[@colinwinterborne]

Good to see you back.

[@joselozano4515]

FC Barcelona won the sixtuplet in 2009-2010 season which was insane and they were dubbed the best team of the 2000s. There are videos on youtube about that amazing season.

[@michaelmcgowen8780]

I grew up near St. Louis, where soccer has been played since the 19th century. In fact, St. Louis had a professional soccer league as early as 1905, and has had a municipal soccer league dating back to the 1890's. Myself, I've been a soccer fan since I was 7-8 years old (I'm 63 now). I saw Pele play, lol. I've been a Manchester United fan for 30 years. Here in the U.S., we use to call the game "soccer football", but that died out by the end of World War 2 when we dropped "football " from the name. By the way, "soccer" is a 19th century English slang abbreviation for "association" in "association football" (the actual full name of the sport).

[@gabrielesolletico6542]

Oh, that's interesting! Thank you!

[@samuelpinder1215]

And only recently got an MLS team

[@michaelmcgowen8780]

@@samuelpinder1215 That's very true. Two reasons for that, as MLS has wanted a team in St. Louias since the league began play in 1996. First, no one from St. Louis stepped up to operate a team in St. Louis with the dfeep pockets MLS is looking foir. Secondly, there was no place for the team to play as the then St. Louis Rams didn't agree to share the Dome, and the Cardinals didn'y wish a team to play an entire season in Busch Stadium either. Now St. Lous has an owner with deep pockets, and a socce r-specific stadium.

[@josedeleon9639]

San Antonio texas in the housee!!! Good video bro! Keep ‘em coming!

[@anokieonhockey9242]

Enjoyed your takes! Will be back again

[@vaudevillian7]

I love North American sports, especially Football and Baseball but I think the one thing I would change is the whole league structure to make it more like this as you say there's always something to play for and it makes pretty much every game mean something. Also I'd make Football PAT rules more like Rugby, so for the PAT you have to kick the ball from inline from where the touchdown was scored - so if you just made it on the right-hand edge of the end zone the kicker will basically be kicking from the sideline

[@drs-xj3pb]

How about if, in American football, you had to actually touch the ball down like you do in rugby?

[@Sonofjesus-cm8jf]

Glad your back 😂🎉

[@anap3333]

First time here, you seem to be one of the nicest youtubers I’ve ever seen, subscribed.

[@HootMaRoot]

Good to see you back hope you enjoyed your break from youtube. Football soccer I think it's only in recent years folk have become so sensitive and what you call it, but when I was a kid I used to wonder why they called American football, football because you very rarely see a foot near a ball

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Very true!

[@korganrocks3995]

The soccer/football thing is ridiculous, because while I agree that it SHOULD be called football, there's no way to force Americans to rename their national sport, so just accept that they do things differently than the rest of us just like when it comes to measuring temperature, distance or weight.

[@Mrhandfriends]

He’s back !

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Hell yeah brother!

[@Mrhandfriends]

@@DrunkTexanSays we love Texas ! Hope you are good !!

[@christopthermorris6071]

Great video man, I think you would really love to look at these two teams called Luton and Wrexham! I’m a Liverpool fan but I’ll definitely be supporting them this year as well

[@whoknows3PX]

“He keeps the goal” almost like a goalkeeper😂

[@nickchivers9029]

Jose Mourihno (Joe-zay) aka "the special one" is well worth looking into, hes done some amazing things, won tournaments with teams that on paper had no business winning.

[@cieslik7564]

Like he took all veterans and kiced all younger teams out. :)

[@korganrocks3995]

I mean, winning the CL with Porto was a great achievement, although if you look at the players they had it's not nearly as shocking as some people would have you believe. Chelsea and Real Madrid were financial juggernaughts, so they definitely had business winning trophies. The Inter treble-winning season is the only other example of punching above his weight, and in recent years he's lost his mojo and has mainly underperformed, thrown players under the bus and fallen out with everyone around him. Still a fantastic career, and plenty of managers have gotten less out of Chelsea and Real Madrid than he did, but just like Pep there's a tendency to talk about star managers as if they are head and shoulders above the competition when 9 times out of 10 the best teams are the ones that spent the most money.

[@jamesyboy4626]

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[@gabrielesolletico6542]

@@korganrocks3995 You're not even mentioning A. S. Roma. He made Roma won his first international trophy, in more than 90 years of history of the club, in 2022, winning the first ever Conference Cup, with a rooster fullfilled with injured players; then this year, he reach the Europa League's final, with basically the same, thin rooster of players, plus Dybala, but was robbed of the cup by the referee! This count for nothing, according to you? And I also think that he reach an important final with Tottenham, and was fired just before he could manage the team into playing the final game! That's madness!

[@nickchivers9029]

@korganrocks3995 I'm not sure what your point is, none of the things you said disprove anything I said. He DID win trophies with teams that no one thought would win, you even said it yourself.

[@NathansWargames]

the lack of relegation in American sports + being in the biggest economy in the world is the reason why even the worst NFL/MLB teams etc are worth as much as world renowned clubs like Real Madrid

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Yeah relegation is an awesome concept and I wish they would do that here!

[@almostyummymummy]

Pro/Rel wouldn't work in the US. Right now, it would actually destroy the game outright, I would think. Mostly due to the fact that the game's foundation can't support it. No clear multiple pathways to the top for the players - partly thanks to the exorbitant pay-to-play system in place. Partly due having to spend at least a year in college before going pro - losing out on a good four years of professional footballing experience the rest of the world has. Kids being forced to play by parents as status amongst their rich friends. Those same kids leave the sport resenting parents and loathing / detesting / despising the sport itself. Building a sport from the top down (roof first), is a recipe for disaster. Focus on the grass roots, the foundation - build those generational ties to the sport. A roof with no house... Pointless, really. Like we do in NZ with rugby. It's sad. Because who knows how many potentially global superstars of the game have been lost.

[@jamesgibson8088]

Relegation battles in the last few games of the season with the teams at the bottom are some of the most exciting games you’ll watch, players/teams that have been shite all season all of a sudden turn into superstars because everything is on the line. You’ll quite often get upsets where a team at the top who’s trying to win the league will play a team at the bottom who are fighting for their lives and a game you would look at on paper as being a walkover turns into a major upset affecting the top and bottom of the league

[@fankrys]

Offside: when passing the ball forward to a teammate, there must be at least 2 players of the opposing side (usually the goalkeeper is one of them) between the end goal line and the player receiving the ball. This rule exists so you don't have a player staying near the opposing goal waiting to receive a pass and score. The forward must move back and forth with the opposing defense line to stay onside.

[@Kimellis0]

Well, Hello Mike, it's good to see you again.♥

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Well howdy ma'am! Good to be back!

[@timglennon6814]

Would you ever react to English football/soccer chants, or USA v’s European football or Basketball fan chants?

[@danhudson4614]

Offside: An attacking player is behind the last defender and in front of the goal keeper of the defending team as the ball is kicked forward to them or anywhere towards them or the goal. If that player touches the ball, interferes with play in any way at all leading up to a goal for that players side it would/should (ref dependant) be disallowed. This will result in a free kick to the defending side mostly.

[@onionman2117]

Offside : There must be at least two defensive players (Including the goalie) between you and the goal at the point a forward pass is played to you. The rule was introduced to prevent "goal hanging", a player standing right next to the goal waiting for the ball to be passed forward to him. If a ball is played level or backwards to you then you cannot be offside, even if there are no defenders between you and the goal.

[@bearcb]

Good video and review, I just missed him talking about the World Cup, it’s a global event bigger than the Olympiad. He also didn’t mention South American football, which is not at Europe club level, but has strong national teams and shares with Europe all the World Cup wins. Also, all major European clubs have imported South American players.

[@pauldeamer9581]

How could u do a video and not explain World Cup? The most popular football world wide. Still a great video. I learned a lot. Vai Brasil!

[@korganrocks3995]

Probably because the World Cup is the one tournament Americans actually know already.

[@Zeerse_Chef]

I've found it easier to explain what is on-side, if you don't meet that definition you are off-side. On-side is if an attacking player has more than 2 opposition players closer to the opposition's goal line at the point the ball is played towards them. You are always on-side in your own half. You are on-side if you are behind the ball. You are onside if you are in possession of the ball. You are always onside if your team wins a "throw-on" (but as soon as the first player touches the ball, all other on-side rules reapply).

[@drs-xj3pb]

Finally a decent explanation! Though on the last point: offside does not apply when the ball is returned from out of play, which means throw-ins, corner kicks, and goal kicks.

[@KingJerbear]

Love your channel from the couple soccer videos I've watched so far, would be cool if you threw the link of the video you watched in the description just so we can support that creator too.

[@Paulie-ep3hn]

On the release clauses. Thats not everyone. Thats negotiated with the player when they sign. Most players dont actually have a release clause. Its a bigger thing in europe but yh id say like 80-90% of players dont have release clauses

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Ohhh okay I see!

[@micheleduritto]

That is just because the clubs are trying to have the upper hand on the players contract...because as the guy in the video said....the release clause is something that really put the players in control of their career.....but regardless, if they have a decent agent, they are not stuck in a team they don't like.....very few clubs are going to force a player to play that doesn't want to play...and since they still cost money even if they don't play, they will be forced to find a way to sell him or loan him to some other team, until they figure out if they can find a way to mend the relation with the player, or who is the best club to sell him to, that can make the player happy, but also to make the transfer worthwhile money wise.

[@applecider7307]

Hi Mike, Soccer is also used here in the UK, In 1863 the Football Association was formed to ratify the rules in England. The game was known as association football. We also have rugby football, on which your football was based. These two games were given slang names rugger for rugby and assoccer for for football. Assoccer was abreviated to soccer so England introduced this word to the world.

[@TheeBritishGuy]

My home team drew a game against Fulham back in their heyday and we held them 2-2 until they scored twice in the last four minutes but it was a great excitement to everyone at the time, we even ended up on national television, not the first time for Kettering Town FC and hopefully it won't be our last!

[@thesonofthesouth]

José would play very defensive and use older more experienced players and sit deep in his own half, and once the other team has been attacking they would steal the ball and do a quick counter attack. He used this at Porto a team outside the top 5 leagues in Europe to win the champions league the biggest trophy in European football. He had success at Chelsea, Real Madrid, Roma, and won silverware with Man United

[@matthewdearsley123]

Liverpool were 1.5 games away from a quadruple in 2021/22. City came back in 2nd half of final game of season... and so won the league by one point. In the CL, the final was moved to France, and the French police tear gassed the fans. That kinda put a downer on the mood and they went on to lose. No one has won a quadruple in England to best of my knowledge

[@bravo2zero796]

Haha fucking crying scouse bastard 😂

[@micheleduritto]

riiight...Liverpool definitely lost because of the french police...not because they were facing the club with the most Champions league titles of all time....couldn't be that.

[@DrunkTexanSays]

So close!!!! Ugh!!

[@darriendastar3941]

What sort of bellend keeps on calling football 'soccer'? :-)😁 Great to see you back, Mike. Anyway, trivia time. The first ever recorded international football match dates from 1568. It was between England and a combined French/Scottish team. And the referee was Mary, Queen of Scots. It took place at Carlisle Castle, where Mary was being held prisoner by the English. Her captor, Lord Scope, challenged his English guards against Mary's retinue of French and Scots attendants. Mary herself started the game by throwing the ball from a window and refereed. The other reason this is significant is that it is the only football match in the history of the world where there were English, Scottish and French players and not a single person was booked or sent off for fouling an opponent.

[@scottwebb1978]

Sky Sports does...Soccer Saturday lol😅

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Wow thats insane! And great to see you again I remember you!!

[@darriendastar3941]

@@DrunkTexanSays If you remember me, you're probably not drinking enough 😀

[@pcoleman1971]

The video is directed to Americans. Therefore, it's soccer. I never hear Europeans calling it Association Football, so stop being a hypocrite.

[@darriendastar3941]

@@pcoleman1971 Ask your mother to help you write a letter to Santa Claus requesting a sense of humour this year.

[@mattgthatsme6856]

OFFSIDE: 1: You can't pass the ball to a teammate that is between the opposition goal and the last opposition player when the ball is kicked. 2: If the goalkeeper is further up the pitch there needs to be 2 opposition players between you and the opposition goal when the ball is kicked. EXCLUSIONS: 1: You can't be offside in your own half of the pitch regardless of where opposition players are. 2: You can't be offside when your team is taking a throw in. 3: You can't be offside when receiving the ball from a player who is infront of you.

[@TheBazino]

The contract system was changed a lot in football via the Bosman judgement in 1995. In the past the system was basically the same as in US sports. If a player signed with a club, he was basically owned by them. Even when his contract expired, the club could still say that they want X amount of money to let him go, to basically trap them into agreeing to a new contract when they set that amount so high, nobody else would pay that. The Bosman judgement put an end to that making players free agents after their contract ended. This completely changed the game and massively increased salary of the top players. Now a club can only ask for money from another club as long as the player is still under contract. This means that if a club actually wants to let go a player, they won't wait until his contract expires, but they'll actually market him to other clubs, to still get some money for him. This also helps player's chances to keep playing even if their current club doesn't like them anymore, because they will try to get him a new club. The other major difference to the US system is that there is no draft. Clubs are responsible to find their own talent from any place in the world. For example the Red Bull football clubs (Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig) have started academies around the world, importing very young talents (16y+) to the leagues in Austria and Germany and making huge amount of money off that. When Red Bull bought the FC Salzburg back in the day, everyone laughed about them joining football (just like they laughed about RB joining Formular 1), because everyone thought they'd just lose all their money and not be competitive. RB Salzburg is already the record champion in Austria by a landslide AND the last year alone they made 50 million in profits selling players - which is almost their average number at this point. They are making more profit with players each year than the whole of Austria's highest league clubs (in the Bundesliga) have combined budgets. Another trick they've implemented and is now somewhat standard in european football is sell-on-clauses as well as success-clauses in contracts of players they are selling. For example, they got a talent at 16y old, put them in their Red Bull Salzburg team in the Austrian Bundesliga where that talent played 2 years and became a name in european tournaments (like the Champions league). They sell him for 20 million to some german club, but in the contract it will also say that if that club sells him for profit later, they'll get another X millions AND it will say that if that club wins their league with the player playing at least X % of games they will also get a success premium for selling them this valuable player. Both are genius financial moves.

[@scirocoster]

Release clauses are pretty uncommon in English football and the actual clause can be super complicated with lots of caveats. They're normally in contracts when an very good player goes to a slightly less good club and makes sure there's a value they will release them to a top club at for a fair price. This means good, young players can go to sides that are ready to play them in most matches with an expectation to move on later.

[@Londronable]

I mean, this is specifically in England.(just adding here, not contradicting you) Release clauses are mandatory in Spain so when Ronaldo and Messi were at their best their release clause was just like 1 billion because they were simply not replaceable.

[@korganrocks3995]

@@Londronable Neymar's was up there too, but then PSG came along and paid it because they literally have an entire country's budget.

[@thomasmartyn65]

Welcome back! 😊🎉 so glad you watched this, I’ve seen a load of other American reaction channels watch this video and then go down the football rabbit hole 😂 (I’d also definitely recommend it). Your question about the Quadruple, Celtic in 1967 are the only team ever to do it. Manchester City won a treble this season and Liverpool ago almost won a Quadruple last season. Trebles and especially Quadruples are insanely difficult to achieve and are very rare. Also about Goalies/Keepers/Goalkeepers (all mean the same thing) my dad was a professional keeper who played from (1987-2006) in the Premier League and also played for England and went to two World Cups (1998 and 2002) He’s called Nigel Martyn and you may want to check him out? There’s a pretty good short compilation of some of his saves on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmiVm6qcl96bqaM Hope you all have a great day! 😊

[@DrunkTexanSays]

Wow what a long career! You should be proud of your dad!

[@thomasmartyn65]

@@DrunkTexanSays Yeah he definitely had a good one! And I very much am, thank you! 😊

[@paulleach3612]

THE Nigel Martyn? Crikey... He was more than a little bit good while at his peak. Every bit as skilled as Shilton was, in his day.

[@thomasmartyn65]

@@paulleach3612 Haha yeah 😊 and yeah definitely! Also if you add his clean sheets for the 5 years he played before the Premier League started he’s 3rd in all time clean sheets for English football only behind Clemence and Shilton 😊

[@BurningacidxGames]

that bubble was insane action

[@jbarnes1544]

On release clauses, not every player will have one (especially if already playing for an elite team) and they are often much higher than any team will be willing to pay for that player. Some teams will put a more affordable release clause in a contract as part of the negotiation with the player, knowing that an elite side may eventually pay the release clause but at least getting the chance to sign the player in the first place.

[@johnyork4185]

"Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer." Matt Damon's Loki is Kevin Smith's Dogma

[@JCCyC]

The absolute craziest nailbiters are ALWAYS the games of the final teams trying to avoid relegation in the last couple of games. In Brazil that'd be roughly the teams placed 14th-15th-16th-17th-18th trying desperately to finish 16th or better.

[@TagusMan]

When it comes to flopping in soccer, think of it this way... Flopping is like mixing a little bit of pro wrestling melodrama into a game that can often be a little boring and tedious. If a player takes an obvious dive or rolls around while hugging his face in fake agony, instead of getting mad at him, cheer the spectacle. Have a drink. And if the player gets caught and carded for flopping, have another drink. Cheers to the ref for not getting bamboozled. But if the flopper gets away with it, then give him a round of applause for his acting skills and for fooling the ref. Have two drinks. Floppers become villains that everybody loves to hate. But some become heros or anti-heros, masters of the dark arts. They become feared and even respected. Football is like life. Sometimes you need a little gamesmanship to press your advantage. But it's a risk. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes its ugly. Either way, it's worth a drink. So cheers 🥂 . There is only one true religion ⚽.

[@reece879]

This horrifies me as a Brit. You can’t be offside if it’s from a throw in, you can’t be offside if the runner is in his own half. The runners whole body has to be behind the last defender as the ball is kicked in order for it to not be offside. Simple

[@RyanMK666]

Offside: the a teammate makes contact with the ball but your body is past the other teams defence and if you touch it, it’s a miss play.

[@bgthereformer]

Tournaments like the fa cup and carabao cup often give lower tier teams in england a chance to play premier league teams, which gives a lot of important experience for coaches managers and players of lower league teams. This generally improves the quality of football thru the whole of the England thru a sort of trickledown of experience. Even though some premier league teams will play backup squads in these tournaments, the backup squads are still competitive at a high level to give experience to smaller sides.

[@cicjose6016]

I know that total football has been around for a long time (basically one team possessing the ball the entire game and dominating possession and opportunities) was coined back in the 70s with the Dutch National team. Yes the skill levels of Barcelona during Pep's days as manager was all about that style of play but to do that at international level is extremely difficult. International teams get times to play during each season to qualify for tournaments and only short time frames for training camps and matches. The best example of a team completely dominating possession to score a goal in international football that I have seen was back in 2006 at the WC in Germany Argentina v Serbia and Montenegro Esteban Cambiasso was the beneficiary of the play to score the goal but to truly understand what holding onto the ball looks like, it is this goal Martin Tyler has been calling the game for 50 years in England and around the world, his commentary around this goal shows how special it really is

[@m0kka]

Offside is when an attacking player intervenes with the game and has been closer to the defending goal than the second last defender at the time the ball is played (the goalkeeper counts as a defender in the rules).

[@SuspendedYT]

Offside: The player which receives a pass should be behind two defending players of the other team. This includes two defenders, or mostly a defender and a goalkeeper (the latter happens generally). Offside cannot occur if all offensive players are before the mid line. Also, if they manage to dribble the ball past one or less defending players, (including goalkeeper) the ball can only be passed to another player who is behind the ball or it is offside. If this rule is violated, the defensive players get an indirect free kick.

[@nancySIX]

It is really exciting watching that journey up to the Premier League look up Luton town. Their journey has been so wow

[@BySixa]

Worth noting about release clause. It's still rare that contracts have a release clause. They usually have to be specifically requested by either the club, player or agent. If I had to guess it's probably less than 5% of player contracts have release clauses

[@PeterBuwen]

Offside is when the player stands in the opponent's half of the pitch and actively participates in the game (receives or defends the ball), although there are not at least two opponents between him and the goal line.

[@LKRTM]

I think Celtic, a team from Glasgow, Scotland are the only European team to win a Quadruple back in 1967. They won the Scottish League, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup, and the European Cup (Now the Champions League). They also won the local Glasgow Cup that season so some consider it one of the only Quintuples ever done in the sport. They were also the first British team to win the European Cup, and they were all local players who grew up in Glasgow, it's a mad story.

[@jamesmcabla1772]

Yeah so other teams have had quadruple seasons but not with national competitions. First Scotland has a domestic treble those being the premiership the league cup abd Scottish cup. These are national competitions where all team can potentially play the 1967 team won all 3 and then also the European cup which is now the champions league. The other teams that have won have done so with a domestic clean sweep of 2 trophies then a European trophy. If they have anything else it’s a weird limited competition or trophy or a more local trophy or something else. If you include these competitions then your right that Celtic had a quadruple with the Glasgow cup that was a more local competition but also means that 2009 Barcelona team won a sextuple the most ever. Scotland league is quite weird having two domestic cups is not the norm it mean that a very large proportion of the worlds trebles have been won in Scotlands domestic treble system. The important thing to remember is that the Scottish cup and league cup are equal they pay out roughly the same they work very similarly and they have a pretty equal level of competition. Because of that it fair to say the 1967 Celtic quadruple is the only one as no other team has faced that level of competition and still won everything.

[@drs-xj3pb]

@@jamesmcabla1772The Barcelona "sextuple" was accomplished in a single calendar year, but not in a single season, so I don't think it counts. It also included two Super Cups, which are glorified friendlies. Same for Bayern's "sextuple." I think we have to give it to Celtic's Quad, while noting that most countries don't have two domestic cups, so clubs in those countries don't have the opportunity for a similar quad. PSG would have a chance if they ever figure out the Champions League. And ManCity always have a chance.