FROM FOOTBALL TO FRAUD! Hamilton Academical Football Club

[@solbamba2488]

Should definitely dig deep into hutchie vale, the amount of professionals they've brought through is unreal

[@adamg94]

100%

[@CaptainCharismaY2J]

Whenever I watch the Hamilton Sportscene highlights, I always notice the Sainsbury's in the background.

[@FootyAdventures]

That's where the old stadium used to be! 🏟

[@alanfox691]

@@FootyAdventures That's the exact location of The Old Douglas Park.

[@joshquinn4964]

When the club are low on halftime oranges they can nip across to the Sainsbury's

[@callumhayes7502]

​@@joshquinn4964 and to get the tinnies in after a win 🍺

[@spitfiregraham]

Great video mate. My local team as a kid. I now live in 🇨🇦, but it was great to see. Last game I saw there was Hamilton vs Partick 2 years ago.

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed the video about your local side! Wish I could go to Hamilton v Partick. Miss open stadiums so much! All the best mate, cheers for watching

[@spitfiregraham]

@@FootyAdventures really love the content. I have been watching your videos all morning. Always remember watching Brechin vs Hamilton in Brechin. Loved the old atmosphere, especially when a poor guy got hit with a ball and lost his pie and bovril being hit.

[@Cabez05]

Great video as an accies fan I can confirm for you it was not hamilton college it is Hamilton Grammar that was the linked school it was formerly known as Hamilton Academy it is the school I go to and it was a school team that were turned into the side we now know has hamilton academical great video keep it up :)

[@FootyAdventures]

Nice thanks for letting me know!! Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching. Much appreciated!!

[@tankracer6579]

Cheers for treating our "Sunday leagues" with respect, keep up the good work lad!

[@FootyAdventures]

Haha cheers mate!!

[@johnrice7076]

Hi Sam my hometown team Hamilton academy still stands it's now called Hamilton grammar the houses you see at the stadium is Whitehill this is where jock Stein used to live although most people say Burnbank which is just next to it anyway great video m8 really enjoyed it take care stay safe 👍

[@FootyAdventures]

Ah nice thanks for the extra info! I'll need to do a Jock Stein specific video eventually. Cheers for watching, much apprecited!

[@lucyjamieson1758]

My team practices as the jockstein

[@adamg94]

Probably up there with st mirren as the coldest ground ive been too! February 2020 aberdeen went down there on a Wednesday night was the coldest ive been at a game

[@extremeru6658]

So glad that I found this channel. Cheers from Dynamo Moscow fan!

[@FootyAdventures]

Legend thanks so much! Got more videos coming soon 😊📽 hopefully I can make some Russian videos one day! Cheers!

[@the-blue-barron2791]

​@FootyAdventures I doubt you'll be making Russian videos for a while now mate 😅

[@peterbrimer1271]

Another excellent review thanks Sam, I’ve been fortunate enough to visit the old stadium and have the hospitality at the new stadium.

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks! Oh cool!

[@peterbrimer1271]

@@FootyAdventures thanks for the reply Sam, bad result for Liverpool today. Motherwell 1-4 Hamilton

[@callumbuchanan4414]

I was at haberin vs Hamilton in 2014 good day of my life that day and we whent bonkers when we won

[@FootyAdventures]

Haha nice sounds good!

[@mosaeed5744]

great vid man love learning different clubs historic background

[@FootyAdventures]

Glad you enjoy all the different clubs! More coming soon 😊🙌

[@Alizz12]

Unlike yours 😅

[@mosaeed5744]

@@Alizz12 LOL FUNNY ORIGINAL JOKE HAVENT HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE. come up with better jokes mate

[@Chateaulait]

Superb video once again Sam, i used to love visiting old Douglas Park, even got a mouthful from well known fan Fergie (no, not the ex Dons, Man U boss) the new place is soulless..

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks very much!

[@bobsteele9581]

Another fascinating video Sam.

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers Bob and thanks for sharing on Twitter!

[@bobsteele9581]

@@FootyAdventures - no problem Sam. Hopefully it'll get more viewers for your ever fascinating vids.

[@jamesstraiton3335]

Great vid mate Hamilton academy Is now Hamilton grammar school

[@fnordy]

Hi mate, loving the content! Any chance of another video about Dunfermline? I completely understand if that's not possible due to current restrictions and the horrendous weather!! 😊🏁

[@FootyAdventures]

Hey mate! Thanks very much for the support. Will definitely be making another Dunfermline vid soon!

[@fnordy]

@@FootyAdventures Ah cool!! Gimme a shout if you need any help with anything!

[@petermcghee8695]

Hope you liked the walk in the park at the start of the vid give the group that looks after it a wee like on Facebook facebook.com/bothwellroad

[@69cobsy]

Another quality Scottish football post ⚽️💙⚪

[@FootyAdventures]

Thank you!!

[@jaymimackie7881]

Amazing vid mate

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks!!

[@TheSuperlime]

You should go back to Berwick. Non league side Tweedmouth Rangers play on a pitch adjacent to Berwick Rangers. Think it might be the closest two grounds in England

[@jeffpeter68]

Yes the Accies, the team everyone expects to be relegated each season, but somehow, someway, sneak their way out of the relegation zone by the end of the season. I fully expect the same ending this season, starting with the 4-1 thumping of Well.

[@FootyAdventures]

Yeah that was a big result for them v their big rivals!

[@kostas9718]

Thanks for the video... Keep up

[@YeOldeHamiltonian]

Great video as always, but a wee bit of history to top it up. The Club were left with £650,000 to build the new ground after the crooked dealings of the then Directors. Over £7 million "disappeared" from the sale of the old Douglas Park which was the real fraud. Thus,this is why we only have two Stands instead of four. The new ground was to have been based on Utrecht Stadium and further Overage money from The Retail Park would have paid for a retractable roof. As fans, we paid the wages of the players and had demonstrations, publicity stunts,meetings with the local Council and put forward a Fan for Parliament under the 'Accies Home Watson Away' banner in a By Election. The then good Owners were ousted and the charlatans ran the show until Ronnie McDonald took over. The rest is history.

[@theSlabberingCabbage]

With the title of this video being called " from football to fraud" I thought this was going to be a video about the defunct old rangers FC 🤔

[@gavinfindlay2092]

Refreshing video ty

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks gavin glad you think so! New video coming later today 👍😊

[@davidcraig9538]

The stadium was where you where standing when facing Sainsburys

[@FootyAdventures]

Ah cool thanks for letting me know

[@williampalmer5324]

Amazing video

[@FootyAdventures]

Glad you think so!

[@vividdark5934]

Can you do a video on raith rovers

[@FootyAdventures]

Yeah I covered them briefly in my Fife video a few months ago but will do a more extensive one on them soon!

[@vividdark5934]

@@FootyAdventures ok great video by the way

[@FootyAdventures]

@@vividdark5934 thanks very much!!!

[@E.andjoef]

Great vid after a good win for accies 4-1

[@FootyAdventures]

Yeah massive win. Thanks for watching!

[@only1city611]

What happened to Bon Acord a team from Scotland who hold the record for the heaviest defeat a long time ago now when they lost 36-0 to Arbroath

[@FootyAdventures]

Ah yeah I mentioned them in my Arbroath video. Will have to cover them in a video eventually!

[@ryanoconnor5612]

Great content 👍🏼

[@FootyAdventures]

Comments galore tonight! Cheers for still watching son 🤪 BetterThanSomeone 😉

[@jeffersson991]

Gracias por el vídeo hermano

[@garymcgowan6533]

Great video mate

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks 👍

[@Daviebhoy25cfc]

£1,000,000 in fraud is insane. Wonder what happened to the employee responsible....

[@martinmccluskey3903]

Love the videos learning a lot please Go to East Kilbride fc building new stadium ext be nice to see my home town team

[@FootyAdventures]

Hey Martin, thanks for watching glad you're enjoying the videos. I went to EKFC recently to visit the community pitch they play on but I'll definitely have to visit the new ground once it's built! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKWyp5-hp7CKprs

[@danielshankland6326]

Accies and Celtic are my clubs

[@DarrenPhillthomson]

Great video

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks mate!

[@DarrenPhillthomson]

@@FootyAdventures welcome

[@iamcontent1686]

I saw St Johnston play the accies and the saints win 2-1

[@lesforrester7652]

why not come to falkirk and to the old ground of east stirling ,the old ground is run down but you can still walk around it ,,,its in firs street in falkirk at the back of the retail park...les

[@jimbrown2044]

interesting...I assumed it must have been demolished or redeveloped...would be worth a look.

[@FootyAdventures]

Hi mate, yep planning that video. It'll be out very soon :)

[@Nerdyfootballfan26]

Do Queen of the south next

[@kyotocoversjimanderson782]

Another good video. The Accies are doing well to stay in the top flight these days. That stadium, though, is a truly horrible place for watching football.

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers! Yeah the Accies have done well the past few years. Would like to see a match at their ground at some point!

[@ronmac9522]

Every fan is sick to the back teeth with the old firm, LOL. I've never been to New Douglas; I remember the old stadium and their most famous fan Fergie, Who used to stand behind the goal and swear.

[@alanfox691]

Alan Shields Hamilton South Lanarkshire. You started off this vlog in Bothwell Road Park that's just a long the road from where my Girlfriend works. Hamilton Academy & Hamilton College had nothing to do with Hamilton Academical it was former pupils from Hamilton Grammar that's closer to the town centre than New Douglas Park is that founded Hamilton Academical football club. Hamilton College is a private Education School they take in Children from as young as 6 mouths to 18 years of age. Most former public clubs went on to take up Rugby Union Hamilton Academical are the exception to the rule they are the only F.P Football club you are much more like to find Rugby Union club with F.P as in Former Pupils In Rugby Union Like Dundee High F.P that's a Rugby Union Club in Dundee for example. The Old Douglas Park was whare Sainsbury's now stands that is the exact location from what I have been told. The Norwegian League has mostly artificial pitches but not e very single club last season there was only two clubs that did not have artificial pitches. Personally I feel The Accies need to to a lot more to attract a larger fanbase as they dont have as meny fans in this area as they perhaps could have. Haveing lived most of my life close to Paisley Saint Mirren have much more of visible in the local community than The Accies are in Hamilton people know Hamilton more because of The Races Course than The Accies. Could you do a similar vlog about Dundee United next that would be interesting to a lot of people outside of Scotland I would think as they started out with some members from Dundee Harp they went to the wall some of the members then formed Dundee Hibernian.

[@FootyAdventures]

Hi Alan, thanks for all the extra info on Hamilton, really interesting! Will definitely do a full Dundee United video when I can 👍 cheers all the best!!

[@gingerwithaguitar1]

Pretty sure Hamilton were formally founded by Hamilton grammer

[@lukenewman9811]

I recommend going to the hill on game day

[@FootyAdventures]

Not a bad idea!!

[@u.k.trainandbusvids]

Next video Heart of Midlothian FC

[@FootyAdventures]

Check this out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/movEmZeAmcenlZo

[@keithlongworth2350]

Great video.

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks!

[@jordancain1460]

Mon The Accies

[@andrewjohnston5942]

Hamilton Academy changed to Hamilton Grammar

[@FootyAdventures]

Cool cheers for letting me know 👍

[@gemma6510]

👏👏👏

[@FootyAdventures]

🙌🙌🙌

[@paullatimer1497]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers for watching mate!

[@michaelstewart8236]

🔴⚪️ ❤️

[@FootyAdventures]

🙌🙌

[@ruaridhagnew8328]

We’re now 11th don’t worry lads

[@Zcotia843]

Ranger sfan swear Hamilton could. Survive hiroshma dk how they do it 😂

[@ruaridhagnew8328]

Hamilton grammar was where accies were founded

[@FootyAdventures]

Nice cheers for letting me know!!

[@motormouthalmighty]

COME ON ACCIES! BEAT CELTIC AND I'LL LIFT THE RESTRICTIONS.I DO LOVE CELTIC BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BEAT THEM!TOUGH NUT TO CRACK.SENSEI HAMILTON ACADEMICALS! SENSEI LEE! YOU HAVE TO HELP ME! NO MORE HAMILTON 0-8 CELTIC! GET AT 'EM!

[@eriks.lundestad9365]

Norwegian top league have a lots of plastic pitches

[@FootyAdventures]

Would love to go and watch some games in Norway!

[@neilstafford3131]

Google video

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers Neil

[@aldorfc7287]

Hamilton are playing some good football at moment

[@rossbaillie5973]

Hamilton are an embarrassment to the top league of Scottish football

[@Busybee65]

The only embarresment is the Celtic and Rangers buses leaving Hamilton to give their hard earned to the bigot brothers.