NFL Fans React To "(European) Soccer Explained For Americans"

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[@ianp1986]

You mentioned hypothetically Kansas City winning the Super Bowl and then being relegated a couple of years later, that literally happened in real life here. Leicester City won the Premier League in 2016 and were relegated last season. They’re doing well this season and looks like they might come back up again, though

[@philhebden374]

they're cheats

[@miladeskandari7]

They know

[@VillaFanDan92]

Yeah, my club Aston Villa won what is now called The Champions League. Probably the biggest prize in world football, except the world cup. And got relegated 5 years later.

[@jamesd2251]

​@@VillaFanDan92 Deadly Dougs doing Villa getting relegated in '87

[@theonetheonlyjoey]

I hope Leicester and Ipswich go up automatically, although it would be pretty mad if Southampton made a late charge and went up

[@limitedmark]

Football is an institution in Europe, you can hear a conversation about a team in every bar across Europe, everyday, every hour, every minute. 😎✌

[@00binator]

When you meet new people, talking about football is like an easy go-to topic to break the ice 80% of the time, doesn't matter where :D

[@Fusso]

And Latin America, and Africa, and in the middle east... Honestly, very few places don't have football as the main sport.

[@palveald]

the same in South America. The best players come from South America, and they are not the best player for nothing, they were playing in the best football in the world. Last year Villareal toured south America, in 3 games received 12 goals, and converted none. They were supposed to be one of the best of Europe. I assurance that if Barcelona o Real Madrid tour South America, they will face big defeats.

[@johnnyf6617]

You talked about teams fading into obscurity, and the narrator says that "nobody cares" about teams in the national league. Just to help you understand how important the game is, even at such a low level, teams in the national league (5th tier) can play in front of thousands of fans (average gate about 3,000, the top clubs average 6,000-8,000). Even in the 6th tier, there are quite a few teams that pull in over 2,000 fans per match on average, and can go up to about 3,000-4,000 for a big match such as a local derby or top of the table clash.

[@oufc90]

Absolutely 👍 my club took 33,500 supporters to Wembley for the National League Play-Off Final in 2010

[@horumgrombo6519]

The Wrexham documentary alone proves that people do care.

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Exactly. In Sweden, Hammarby had 30k in attendance in the second tier of Swedish football (our top flight is ranked 24th in Europe lol). The idea that people don't care about anything but the elite level is so wrongheaded. Understandable that someone used to franchise sports and coming at it from the outside would think so though.

[@JuLiane]

Alemannia Aachen in german forth League regularly has 20k fans at home games. My favourite Club (fourth division, fifth division next, played a cup game against a local rival with 7k fans in the stadium and 13k fans watching the clubs' livestreams on youtube. And a lot of us don't care about Bundesliga or Champions League and are only interested in these clubs which, for the uninformed spectator, have faded into obscurity.

[@delh310]

This must have been produced before Maidstone's FA Cup run this season. Because a *lot* of people cared about that.

[@volkerp.2262]

Germany with world largest soccer association and club structure have a 13 level deep system of leagues. There are over 2000 different leagues in this system with over 30.000 teams compete in it.

[@MetalMonkey]

Football is a game of anticipation. Nobody expects more than 4 goals in a match, the average is 2 goals, 0-0, 1-0, 1-1, 2-0. The excitement is the possibility of your team scoring when they go forward and the possibility of the opponents scoring against your team. That's the very base level of football. After a while you'll understand the Ins and Outs of the game

[@24magiccarrot]

Also because it is a lower scoring game than American sports, it means the goals mean more which makes it more exciting (or in a lot of cases more like sense of relief) when your team does score. I mean I don't know why anyone would get excited over a score in basketball, they score 2-3 times in a minute.

[@Josh00T]

Even amazing passes get you excited or skills/dribbles...last minute tackles....amazing gk saves. Football just has amazing moments that have you at the edge of your seat

[@Lara_Irina-hk2uy7cd3m]

That happens a lot on the first matches at the World cup and European cup and it's annoying. That's why I loved Croatia so much. Pressureplay from the the first second.

[@MetalMonkey]

@@Josh00T Exactly, but my point was directed at Americans and anyone else that doesn't understand it. The base level is pick a team in any match and you'll feel the anticipation. They won't understand formations and what's a good/bad tackle/save etc at the beginning

[@daderr99]

Ye, I never understood the "low scoring" complaint. Personally nothing gets me fired up more then a central midfielder turning and dictating tempo after receiving from the defense, or maybe a pass combination in tight spaces that eventually shifts the point of attack, or even a really dominant defensive performance where a defender keep winning duel after duel. Theese are the things that makes me want to watch the sport, of course nothing beats your team scoring in terms of emotions, but that's mostly a competitive thing, not the reason why I grew to like It.

[@markaitcheson3212]

The idea that it's the same teams in the NFL year after year and that if you suck you get rewarded is not only boring as hell but bizarre, and that you have no comps where everybody and anybody can play is also boring, these differences are some of the reasons normal club games have way way more viewers than the superbowl final.

[@coletripp4814]

or they play twice to three times as many matches as an NFL team a season

[@markaitcheson3212]

@@coletripp4814 Not really sure of your point?

[@oufc90]

18:17 the top 4 leagues in England are all fully professional. I support a team in League One (3rd tier), Oxford United, who are a professional club. The third tier isn’t complete ‘obscurity’, there’s still thousands of fans that go to each of the games in these leagues. We managed to get to the top league in the 1980’s, and won the League Cup in 1986.

[@rogu3rooster]

I've been a Fulham fan since the old days when there was no Championship and it was Division 1-3 after the Premier, seen my team in all of the key leagues and to a European final.

[@jonisilk]

I remember you winning the League Cup. Pretty sure Ray Houghton scored for you in that game. I remember being excited when we signed him for Liverpool. He was a class act.

[@Bennyboy138]

I absolutely love the beauty of our football pyramid but one thing I don't like is the 4th league being 'League 2' and the 3rd league being 'League 1'...It should be Premier League, League 2, League 3, and League 4 imo because it might be confusing for newbies getting into it. Like why is the 2nd tier called the Championship??...cos it sounds better for TV maybe? My team Queens Park Rangers are in the Championship by a thread 😂

[@rogu3rooster]

@@Bennyboy138 it used to be Premiership-Division 1- Division 2- Division 3.

[@Jeffcoolio]

I’ve been supporting Exeter city for years. Seen a few promotions and relegations. Will never be more than a League 1 side but can always dream. Saw them get a 0-0 at old Trafford many years ago.

[@zinnia2980]

Our Football clubs are the heartbeat of our cities, towns and communities. We are intrinsically linked to them. It's the world's no 1 game and a year round obsession 👌⚽🧡

[@philhebden374]

your city is your team

[@koba2140]

​@@philhebden374Depends on the city. My team is FC St. Pauli, and we say Hamburg is brown-white! HSV supporters claim something else.

[@matthewjamison]

Relegation/Jeopardy in the league makes it far more exciting. Like this season in the Premier League, it's looking like a 3 horse race to win the title between Liverpool, Man City & Arsenal & it will probably go down to the last game of the season to see who is crowned champions. But there's 5/6 teams at the bottom who will all be scraping it out not to be 1 of the 3 teams relegated on the last day of the season. Making it a nail biting last day of the season, with loads of different storylines all being played out.

[@colinpearce5856]

The extra spice to these matches is teams trying to stay in the league will be playing teams trying to win the league. Hence highly fancied winners have to travel to away stadiums with passionate fans cheering on their strugglers to put one over on them. Fans of other teams that will be effected by the result will, if not publicly support the team that could provide the better outcome for their own. A fantastic mesh of interest & passions not even involving your own team !!

[@necessaryevil3428]

Will still never beat Man Utd thinking they'd won it...... Agueroooooooo !!! 😂

[@matthewjamison]

@colinpearce5856 No doubt. Gonna be a lot of heartbreak & a lot of joy. The championship is the same with 3 teams battling for the 2 automatic promotion places

[@user-jv7se6ft9t]

Just look at Everton and their desperate race against FA. This already more thrilling than most of American sports. Can they score enough points? Will FA add some more penalties for them? I found myself cheking this situation almost every weekend, and I'm not even Everton fan (just a little rooting for my boy Miko). Name me something in any american sports that can be so entertaining?

[@matthewjamison]

@@user-jv7se6ft9t 🤣🤣🤣

[@RudyCantGame]

Arsenal (my club) even told their fan channel, Arsenal Fan TV, and made them take out the Arsenal part.

[@tinudur2284]

So in soccer, offside is similar to offside in ice hockey, but the blue line is not painted on the field because it is "moving" with whoever the last defender before the goal is. That's why the two side refs are usually always on the same level as the last defender.

[@muhammadryanelyeddari8631]

On the release clause thing, when you pay a player's release clause they don't actually get released. It's basically a transfer fee that the club has to agree to. For example if a player's release clause is $50,000,000 and a team bids $35,000,000 for him the club would be able to choose whether or not that release clause is good enough but if a team bids $50,000,000 then the club is required to accept the offer and then they can negotiate with the player. If the player refuses to join the team that bid $50,000,000 for him he'd just stay at his old team. He can't choose to move to a team that didn't pay his release clause if they didn't accept. Also if more than one club activates the release clause it's up to the player to choose what club he wants to go to or if he wants to stay at his original club. Most players don't have release clauses since Spain is the only big league to require them but Spanish player's release clauses are usually massive because they'd prefer to go through standard negotiations so that they can reject offers from rival clubs or if the player becomes better than how good he was when the contract was first signed the release clause would still be too high for any club to realistically pay no matter how good the player becomes are. There are plenty of players in LaLiga with release clauses of $1,000,000,000. This is because of a transfer that happened in 2017. A player called Neymar - you may have heard of him, he was touted to be as good of a player as Messi and Ronaldo however his career came a little short, he was still an amazing player but not on the same level - had his release clause in his contract with a club called Barcelona of $235,000,000. He was Barcelona's star boy along side Messi and Barcelona thought that no club would spend $235,000,000 for a player but one extremely rich club did. Paris Saint-Germain or PSG for short activated the release clause and signed him. This left Barcelona with a lot of money to spend on replacements however the replacements were not the best. They bought two players, both for $145,000,000. The first was Coutinho from Liverpool and the second was Dembele from Dortmund. Coutinho would end up leaving the club for $20,000,000 in 2022 and Dembele (Who was injured for a long time and didn't really do well until 2022 and 2023 when he started playing amazingly for Barcelona) ended up leaving for $50,000,000 with a release clause that only activated 5 years after his original signing. However the contract also stated that Dembele would get 50% of the transfer fee from the release clause so Barcelona only made $25,000,000 on him. Because of that happening with Barcelona selling a player for $235,000,000 then buying two replacements for $290,000,000 but then ending up making only $45,000,000 back from those sales only 5 years later (So they basically lost $10,000,000 and their second best player in Neymar leaving, one of their best players in 2022 and 2023 in Dembele leaving, and a player who did really poorly for them in Coutinho also leaving.) Most big teams in LaLiga - especially Barcelona - give all best players $1,000,000,000 release clauses so that no team can buy them out so that the same thing won't happen again.

[@robotrockargos]

What the video failed to mention is that in England, the top 2 teams gets promoted straight to the premier league, while third to sixth are sent to a knockout-style mini tournament playoff with home and away legs, with the winner getting the third promotion spot. Also championship playoffs are usually the hypest set of matches of the year due to how much is at stake.

[@24magiccarrot]

He intentionally simplified it because the rules regarding promotion and relegation vary from country to country I think he just wanted to present a baseline understanding that would fit most countries' systems. He only used the English league as an example.

[@derekardito2032]

Football ( soccer to moron USA American ) is a TACTICAL game, tactics require intelligence something USA American games all lack. Foot ball players are fast, they are are also averagely heavy, you try running at speed and being fouled and not getting hurt. The attack is looking for an opening, a chance to score, one cannot score if they are not in charge of the ball.

[@simonwilkins2082]

You said Arsenal blocked content.. Do you know who owns Arsenal? An American Stan Kronke who is a big owner of LA Rams amongst many other U.S teams in various sports and is worth in excess of £7bn +.. everything arsenal do on or off the field has to be ratified by him

[@rjb29uk]

Release clause is kind of "if someone offers this money we have to accept it", so it takes the owning club out of the equation. And then the team that offered that money can negotiate with the player directly on their personal contract. The player doesn't have to accept the move if they don't want to. Anyone else who wants to buy the player would have to offer the same money as the clause to negotiate with the player direct. So it doesn't make the player a free agent. In England, we don't really have many release clauses. I'm not sure I've heard of too many players moving in England because another team decided to play the release clause. Although I think in Spain release clauses are compulsory in every contract. That's one of the reasons Paris SG bought Neymar back in 2017. FC Barcelona set his release clause at 222m Euros, thinking they were safe, as only the previous year Manchester United set a new world record fee when they bought Paul Pogba for 89m Euros. But the Qatari owners of PSG were happy to more than double the world record fee to buy Neymar out of his contract, and Neymar himself wanted to go there and there was nothing Barcelona could do about it.

[@georgeloyal2051]

I think many contacts have release clauses but many are never triggered

[@mathres17]

@@georgeloyal2051 yes, specially for young, seemingly promising players that flop.

[@georgeloyal2051]

@@mathres17 even those who don't flop but turn out decent might have like a 40 mil release close that might not ever be triggered

[@supersasukemaniac]

And right now, due to Barcelona doing things like setting an astronomically high Release Clause and pretty much over paying everybody. They are in a deep financial hole, and still refuse to sell players.

[@AlienDenzil85]

To add to this existing thread, in Lionel Messi's final contract with Barcelona, his release clause was reportedly set at €700 million (around $750 million). Nobody was willing (or able) to pay that, so he didn't move during that final contract. If someone had offered say $600 million, Barcelona may have accepted it, but even that is crazy money as the world record transfer for a player is around $250 million. So his contract expired, he became a free agent and joined Paris St-Germain. After a couple of seasons there, he became a free agent again and moved to Miami.

[@FilterHQ]

Offside rule: When the attacking team with the ball passes the ball forward...the player recieving the ball MUST be behind or in line with the last defender (not including the defending goalkeeper) ie as soon as the ball is kicked (touched) by the player passing to him..he cannot be ahead of the last defender..or it will be ruled offside. There is slightly more to this with various circumstances, but thats the basic jist of it. This is when you see replays of the attacking move freeze framed on screen with 2 lines accross the pitch..showing where the last defender and the attacking player who is being passed to as the ball is kicked. It can literally come down to a half inch difference sometimes. The attacking player must time his run perfectly to beat the offside trap set by the defending team.

[@akosbogar1885]

The second to last defender counts. If the goalkeeper is second to last and there is a defender behind him, he is still offside in soccer. Being a goalkeeper doesn't matter.

[@almostyummymummy]

I utterly disagree with the (idiotic, to say the least) statement that 'only their Mum's care about the league at this point.' Considering there are 20 tiers in England alone.

[@footballforlife2643]

*YALL need to watch this video By Zealand " WHY THE USA SUCKS AT FOOTBALL ⚽" He explains the history of the sport in the US*

[@richardmatthews7275]

Centre backs who stay in defence. John stones: "Am I a joke to you" 😂😂

[@unwokeneuropean3590]

Joško Gvardiol, CB in MCity. He loved to score all of his life.

[@belegur8108]

Franz Beckenbauer, one of the most offensive center backs of all time... but back then the game was so slow, he was able to make it back to position when a ball was lost in offense...

[@richardedgar9670]

I’ve never understood the idea that football is slow or boring compared to US sports. My wife watches baseball and they celebrate if someone hits the ball. Once. It changes personnel quickly I guess, but nothing happens for most of the time.

[@101steel4]

Exactly. American sports are slow and boring. Football is the complete opposite. It's not the game it's Americans attention span that's the problem.

[@Chrizzmeistah]

yeah same with the NFL, i actually can enjoy it but most of it is the coach coming up with tactics and players trying to remember those tactics and standing around. The 'plays' are mostly bursts of couple of seconds. And matches take 3 hours.

[@sirsancti5504]

I tried to watch an NFL game once. I've seen more ads than grass of the field.

[@davidmontgomery9846]

The richest single game in sport is actually the championship league play off final which is played at Wembly .The winner takes the third place promotion to the Premiership which is worth several hundred million pounds .

[@markwyatt8991]

Banging video :) The European Championships is coming up this Summer, I highly recommend trying to watch a few games. Or at least watching the daily recaps each day for the month it's on, might be useful to get a grasp of the top players in the modern game, etc ...

[@101steel4]

Waste of time. There were a few "watch along" world cup videos posted by Americas, and they're simple not interested in the game. Americas has the attention span of goldfish, that's why their sports stop every 10 seconds 😂

[@eznorelol1174]

Ok, this is the first football video I've watched ever since today, so I'm gonna rant here. It's been 2 years in a row of Arsenal absolulutely bottling the Premier Lague title. Our biggest title race competitor, Liverpool, just fumbled away crucial points against a midtable team, and we just lost against a midtable team as well. Now our second competitor, Manchester City, that were given for dead, are 2 points ahead of us in first place and both Liverpool and us have already played our 2 matches against them. Now we relly on the midtable teams that Manchester City has to play against in his last games to tie or win against them, which is nearly impossible. We are doomed.

[@generichuman2044]

Football is full of different playstyles. A lot of the top teams are possession sides but you have counter attacking teams, very defensive teams, teams who play a fast passing style. That's what keeps the game insteresting

[@lloydwaycott8178]

A player is offside if any part of his body that can legally score a goal (that's every part except the arms) is further upfield than the last opposing defender when the ball leaves the foot of the player passing to him. It was brought in to stop teams just leaving one of their players standing by the goal all match.

[@Tomurow]

This is a good explainer video at laying out some of the key appeal that may get lost if you don’t know what you’re watching. For me it’s always been a couple of things: both teams are 20/30secs away from scoring…. and the free-flowing nature of the game. This creates a gnawing see-saw of tension that isn’t so present in sports where there are short bursts of coordinated action. With soccer, there’s an unpredictable quality that can be utterly anxiety inducing when you’re invested. Because of the ‘low-scoring’ deadlock nature of it, one tiny mistake and the punishment can be brutal. There’s more to it, of course but this idea is good to have in mind when getting into it…👍⚽️

[@JonathanReynolds1]

We don’t have vuvuzelas in Britain 🇬🇧 - that’s just a South African 🇿🇦 thing!

[@cathyb46]

Every European fan hated them for the racket they made. 😂

[@prouvencau6343]

Definitively a great video from this guy, and great thoughts from you too 👍🏻

[@shapeshifter8778]

Midfielders are considered the generalist, all round players. They are usually the brain of the team. Many great football coaches and managers used to be midfielders in their playing days.

[@josebucio3105]

3:50 nba basketball court fits inside one of the 18 yard boxes where the keepers hang out

[@johnp8131]

A few teams in England have gone from the top flight to the fifth tier (Still mainly full profesionals). Notable teams are Oldham Athletic and Luton Town, although Luton have recently won promotion back to the Premiere league after nine consecutive seasons, which is pretty good going considering the little they've spent compared to most?

[@rjb29uk]

I don't still understand the e on the end of Premier (or the pronunciation). Is it that US English never calls anything premier, they only know the French word premiére and say it "preem-yeah" same? It's ok, we've anglicised it already, it's "prem-yuh".

[@scotthub3256]

Tactics also involved in playing the ball around, is to try and tire your opponent out, so when you attack they have run out of energy.

[@Lara_Irina-hk2uy7cd3m]

You were the King of the draws Daniel! It was really fun to watch it while you were outside at night. What about the European Cup? You have to watch that as well. Writing all the predictions on a paper. Sorry we threw you out of the World Cup. We still don't have a great team. We have no real strikers yet.

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

I tried to tell an an American movie reactor to try the running around a field experiment after he said footballers go down too easily, he really didn't understand.

[@user-yk1cf8qb7q]

One of my local teams was relegated down to league 2 (the 4th level) but this year they are now back up into the Premiership. There are instances of lower league team, below league 2 haveing been promoted to league Football. The football player gets a percentage of the transrer fee when they move clubs.

[@PhilTough-hn8qj]

Not every player has a release clause . In Spain it's a rule that every player has a release clause but most of the good players have ridiculous ones that no one would ever pay. If your a minor team with not much money you might have a young kid come through the youth team and you know you won't be able to keep him so a release clause would be a good idea. If another team bids the amount set in the release clause that player has to atleast enter negotiations but is not under obligation to leave but usually the bidding team is better so he leaves.

[@nocturne7371]

I never immersed myself with fotball as a kid or even as an adult. But living in Europe and it being all around me all the time I picked up on most of this. Even the offside rule that so many people struggle with felt really logical to me. I must be weird.

[@CaptainFirefred]

Offside is, when the forward pass was played, when the attacking team has the closest player to the enemy goal, involved in the attack play.

[@JonathanReynolds1]

We have a few football teams here in the UK that we call “Boomerang Clubs” as they often get promoted to a higher league one year only to get relegated back down again the next year. Peterborough United is a big example of a Boomerang Club.

[@stuartmcivor2276]

Rotherham United even more so. 6 years in a row between the Championship and League 1, last season they stayed up - this year back to League 1!

[@neilforbes819]

We call them yo-yo clubs in Scotland - Hearts & Dundee Utd being notable examples ;)

[@supersasukemaniac]

I've heard the term "yo-yo club" not Boomerang Club.

[@samsby14]

Yeah prety sure theyre called yoyo clubs

[@belegur8108]

my team is the 1.FCN here in Germany and it is THE "Fahrstuhlmannschaft" - "Elevator Team" of the Bundesliga, relegated 9x down to Liga 2 and 8 time up to Bundesliga. It still holds second most national titles in Germany with 9, but mostly they won in the 1920s... the good old times... nowadays we are far too long in Liga 2, but at least this saison we do not have to worry about relegating into Liga 3 🤪

[@jacksonconstantine5740]

27:47 when players are signing kids, they’ll be scouted whilst at school, usually when they’re playing exceptionally for county or district clubs. They’ll then join the club’s school system (which most big clubs have) or move in with a foster family close to the club they’ve joined and go a normal school there. At either a football academy school or local school they learn and get their qualifications whilst also training and developing as a player. Eventually when they enter their late teens, they’ll either get promoted to their club’s first team if they’re exceptionally good, get released and have to get a job of join a lesser club, or get sold/loaned (temporary transfer-usually for one season) to a rival who thinks they have space for that player in their team.

[@philhebden374]

the modern way of playing is to now pass in the own half not for defending but to draw the opposition in and then to break

[@TomNoles007]

Really interesting video fellas, it's great to see you guys getting into footy. It's the Euros this year, are you guys gonna watch? Anyhow, cheers from England 🍻👍

[@Vyperus69]

the offside rule is very simple, if you are ahead of the play/ball whilst being between the defender closest to the oppositions goal line (where the touchdown zone would be in NFL) and his goalkeeper, whilst in the opposition half when your team passes the ball forward or shoots and it touches you, you are offside. If you are behind the player with the ball and between the the defence and goalkeeper and the ball is passed to you you are on side. You also can't be offside if your behind the opposition defence in your own half of the pitch (the side your defending)

[@stuartbrierley103]

In england you could set your own team up and if things went incredibly well you coukd eventually find yourself in the premier league. Its highly unlikely but the "pyramid " structure gives fans of all clubs that essential thing they need.....hope.

[@arwelp]

And the current classic example is Dorking Wanderers - founded in 1999, they started playing at level 17 of the football pyramid. As of last season they’ve been promoted 12 times in 24 years and are currently playing in the National League (level 5).

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Happens often in smaller leagues. In Sweden, we have plenty of smaller clubs, often formed by immigrant communities or a friendship group in specific parts of a town relatively recently, that have managed to reach the highest or second highest tier of the pyramid. As of now, you'll find FC Stockholm Internazionale (founded 2010), Nordic United (founded in 2004 by Assyrians), Ariana FC (founded in 2015 by Malmö Afghans) and FC Rosengård (famous for their social outreach) in Division 1 (the third tier, semi-professional). In the fourth tier you can find Dalkurd (Kurds from Dalarna, have played in the top flight), FBK Balkan (Yugoslav immigrants in Malmö, Zlatan's first club), several Syriac clubs, etc.

[@alpinenewtplaysgames4509]

@@arwelp They featured in an episode of Welcome to Wrexham. That owner/manager is quite the character, the Del Boy of football.

[@arwelp]

@@alpinenewtplaysgames4509 Yes, they’ve got a KZbin channel, @BunchOfAmateurs . Unfortunately it looks like they’re going to be relegated this season.

[@dasy2k1]

The other big name is FC United who started with a group of fans of Manchester United who didn't like what the cubs new owners were doing (hardly surprising) so they set up their own team which is interesting in that it dosn't have an owner instead being owned by its fans. It's currently in the 7th tier

[@___day]

the offside rule is basically a rule against 'cherry picking'. an attacking player cannot be involved in a play when they are ahead of the last defender. so basically they have to be either behind or inline with the defence when the play involves them like receiving a pass

[@manurr5287]

usually players use diving after faults to gain some rest and slow down the pace of the game

[@Nitr8Dj]

most teams dont have a release clause for its contracted player i mean u get it sometimes at some european clubs but mostly the buying team will be told by the club who own the wanted player how much they want for him then they end up haggling until either they agree a price or dont

[@jaysnipz5524]

To answer your release clause question, if team A committed to paying the release clause, it won’t be fulfilled until the player has agreed to his contract with the club so his wages, contract length, any bonuses etc. so it wouldn’t be opened to other clubs but often if one club is happy to pay the release other clubs will be so the player can choose where he goes. Release clauses aren’t activated often as it’s normally the two clubs will negotiate what they feel is fair for both sides.

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

25:10 Release clause is payed after the negotiation between the player and the buying club are concluded

[@S2Mac1980]

The release clause is for the specific team that pays the release clause but multiple clubs can pay that release cluase then the clubs have to then offer that player a contract then the player makes the decision

[@Jeffcoolio]

The owners of Arsenal are American. They also own the LA Rams. Might explain a few things 😂

[@joem191]

Need to watch the part 2 of best chants of 2023 😊

[@drdassler]

That was a brilliant video. All the essential information with handy graphics. It is strange it didn't connect with Americans the same. You can go anywhere in the world, not speak the language, but gather a group of lads & throw a football down & it all just happens. We've all experienced that. It's truly magical. You really missed out. Those Man City documentaries are good but I am a City fan. Not sure how old that was. City did the treble last season, there's a documentary on Netflix about that. 👌🏼

[@Jee123123]

On strategy there is a risky tactic where when you get the ball you kick it as far as possible up the field in the hope your team gets the ball and scores more than the opposition. This is a risky tactic against good teams but used in the 1980’s to early 90’s by a team that used to be called Wimbledon FC this took them from the lowest leagues to the top league and a FA cup win. A famous former player is the actor Vinnie Jones from lock, stock and two smoking barrels and Xmen where he played The Juggernaut, some of his highlights on the pitch is when fouled an opposition player in 3 seconds from the start of the match (note that teams must be on opposite half's of the pitch before game starts). And the time he grabbed another player called Paul Gascoigne between the legs.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

A pretty good explanation for beginners , he didn't mention we do have play- offs though . In the lower leagues the top two sides win promotion automatically and the third to sixth teams play each other with the final being at Wembley for the third promotion slot . It keeps the season alive up to the very last day .

[@Jee123123]

On the FA Cup and other European domestic knockout cups where any team from any league in the country can play! Yes they are normally won by top tiered teams but for the smaller clubs from the lower leagues if they get a chance to go against a top team like a Manchester United / city, Liverpool, Barcelona, PSG etc the financial reward they can get is sometimes a life saver for the clubs especially if they get play at the big clubs much bigger stadium as win or lose the small club gets a % of the gate, considering that some of these smaller clubs have much less seating capacity in their stadiums this could bank roll the clubs for years. There used to be a situation where smaller clubs would give up the "advantage" of playing at their place so that they could play in the bigger stadium and get a % of the gate from the bigger clubs stadium even if the turnout was low for the big club it would still be more than the small club could get in the terms of gate receipts from having the game played at their place.

[@georgesamuels3402]

JJ Watts said something super interesting in a UK interview. He said, America aims for all teams to be kinda central and in the middle of the the league.

[@richt71]

Signing very young players is getting stricter in the PL. As these 8,9 and 10 year olds can't be bought but are free to move on a youth contract the biggest clubs would poach the best kids by offering well paid jobs to the parents and maybe a brand new home to move in with their talented son. They decided this was exploration and strictly speaking the under 14's can only be picked to train with a club within a certain radius. 14-17 year olds that can't sign a professional contract until an adult and 18 can sign a contract elsewhere but the club losing the player can demand a 'training' fee which could be as much as £2m based on achievements. A tribunal will decide the fee if the clubs can't agree. After 18 it's a matter of making an acceptable offer to the players club to buy the player or paying the release clause. To answer your question, no a player never has to accept a transfer out of a club. There's been stories of managers putting players on planes to fly to sign for another club and the player not arriving. There was also the famous story of Bogarde at Chelsea. Signed by one manager who left after a few weeks of signing him. The next managers didn't want Bogarde and tried numerous times to sell him. He refused so they kept making him play for the u21 and then the u18's. He played 11 times for Chelsea during his 4 year stint. Collecting a reported £160k a month during this time!! Of course the flip side is players or their agents try to engineer a move out of a club. That happens a lot.

[@philipmcniel4908]

That first bit you typed was something that really caused some serious problems for Ben Lederman:/

[@kylebeggs3845]

So for the release clause is only for that club, but the player doesn’t even have to consider their offer. The transfer of a player only happens when a player agrees terms with the other team. So the release clause could be offered or another fee agreed but if the player ends up not wanting to move… the transfer doesn’t happen. Additionally, a player may pay their own release clause to become a free agent essentially.

[@x0kosmus0x]

25:09 It's a complete deal. You only pay the release clause if the player signs a contract with you. Usually you start negotiations with a player or his personal agent, and after you have an agreement you pay the other club

[@Myke001]

Look up Luton Town, current premier league team, who went from the national league to the premier league in just 9 years. Which is amazing considering the budgets etc involved. it's an amazing story and there's even 1 player who's been with them in every division

[@lorenzobordignon6997]

I don't know where you guys specifically live, but you could go watch a game of the Maryland Bobcats, only pro team in the state that plays in 3rd division in Boyds, MD. If you want to see 1st division game there are both the Philadelphia Union and the DC United, and even Loudoun United a 2nd division club from Leesburg, Virginia, just west of DC

[@avmavm777]

The pace of the game varies across countries. England and Scotland tend to have fast paced games with a lot of running. Italian games tend to be slow for long periods, followed by frantic end to end running and bursts of high speed. Some of this is down to climate, but it’s also the culture of the game in different countries. Different tactics and strategies also play a part.

[@avmavm777]

With the positions and strategy there are different schools of thought. Some football managers believe in disciplined teams staying in positions and doing their allocated jobs. Others go for a more fluid approach. Holland used to be known for “total football”, which meant every player (except for the goalie) should be prepared to play in every position

[@cryogenixoldskool5803]

Relegation introduces Jeopardy, Jeopardy introduces Drama and Drama is what makes Football interesting

[@hqueso]

I complained about the amount of time spent sitting around passing in soccer until I had a friend complain about the time between plays in American football. I explained that if you know what is going on in NFL pre-snap strategy and positioning, it's pretty interesting from a tactical perspective. Then it hit me- the same probably held true for the "boring" passing in soccer. I looked into some rules and strategy and watched some matches, and sure enough, it's really cool to watch them set up the plays now.

[@kay9din]

5:18 Last Sunday, I was watching a Portuguese league game (FC Porto vs Sporting CP) with 2/3 minutes left to finish, Porto was winning 2-0, I went to the kitchen to prepare a coffee, When I returned to the living room it was already 2-2, Sporting in a minute scored 2 goals...

[@ohauss]

The key issue with relegation is that there's really a massive difference between leagues in terms of revenue from TV rights, advertisements etc. So being relegated means a club will take a major hit financially. They will often have to sell some of their higher-salary players (who will often be happy to leave if they can take another slot in the higher league), which will in turn limit their capabilitites. Being relegated can break the back of a club and some end up dropping down yet another league as a consequence - and some just cease to exist after a few years. Especially clubs which have been in the top league often have a stadium to maintain that was built or upgraded with top-league revenue in mind. If that money isn't coming in any more, but the bills are, plus you also have to pay the players, that can be a serious problem and at a minimum, the consequences can tie a club down in the lower league for an extended period.

[@firstnamelastname-bu1xm]

25:20 It might have been said already, but the release clause basically is something a player adds to his contract when he joins a club these days (almost all the time).. It is to ensure a player is not treated as a slave at a club... i'll explain that bit next paragraph. if a club comes along that the player wants to join, he can- leave the club, regardless of whether the club he is at wants to keep him or not. Once a club offers the release clause fee, it is down to the player whether they want to sign for this other club or not, the club is obliged to accept the offer (and its usually very high) .a few decades ago, a player called jean marc bosman wanted to leave his club at the end of his contract & A club in france I believe wanted to sign him, but his club didn't accept the offer. They then reduced his wages during the next season and stopped playing him... he took the club to court and won on the grounds of" freedom of movement". He successfully won his case . This created what became known as "the bosman ruling". This ruling meant that players could leave at the end of their contract and join any team that wanted them. After this ruling, the "release clause fee" was soon introduced, to allow players who where unhappy- or could be unhappy or maybe wanted to move to a bigger club in future, the opportunity to leave their club immediately in a transfer window- but the club that wants the player must pay the full fee. It allowed the clubs to get something back for the player and for the player to go a club that clearly desired him. ALTERNATIVELY, the player could wait out his contract, and join another team at the end of his contract on a "bosman"

[@philipmcniel4908]

Sounds a little like waivers in the Major League Baseball players' collective bargaining agreement, where if a major-league baseball team wants to demote a player to their minor-league farm team (basically the equivalent of a reserve squad), they have to first give him a window where other clubs are allowed to take him, on the condition that they actually put him in their major-league squad. It's a little like if an EPL team couldn't demote a player to their reserve team, at any time of the year, without first giving other EPL teams a chance to pick him up if they're willing to make him part of their first team and not their reserve squad. So players can't be forced to play on a minor league (equivalent to reserve league) team if there's a major-league team anywhere in the league that's willing to let them play major-league ball.

[@firstnamelastname-bu1xm]

@@philipmcniel4908 interesting!

[@ThomasDonnelly1888]

A typical timeline of a football fan will start in July: with the preseason friendly games, kind of like US exhibition games, this normally means big teams playing in the States or more medium sized teams playing against random opponents they have arranged to play. August: Not long after Champions League and Europa League qualification begins, half of the teams in these competitions have already qualified based on their result the previous season that ended in May, but the final spots are made up of teams that will play each other for the last spots, this is normally a 128ish team knockout, with teams from places like Iceland and Luxembourg in the early rounds with clubs from bigger nations joining in the last few rounds. Brackets don't really exist as its common in football for draws to happen, not draws as in 0-0 2-2, but where names are pulled out of a ball like the lottery to decide the fixtures. After the Qualification begins the leagues often start, not all leagues start at the same time but its normally at some point in August. These will normally be played on weekend, occasionally Mondays/Fridays, and the odd midweek game on Wednesday. Some countries play a super cup to start the season, Superpokal in Germany, Supercopa del Rey in Spain, this is where the League winner plays the Cup winner, this game you'd think from an American perspective would be the biggest game, but most people don't value it highly. A few weeks into the season Cup games which often happen midweek start, these are separate from the league tables and will see teams play teams from other divisions, these are domestic, ie you only play teams from your own country. Cup competitions often predate the league since back in the day leagues where harder to arrange as they required season long commitment from teams rather than playing a few games at a time like a cup. Cup games often lack momentum as they are played weeks apart but they are an important traditional part of football. The league is only valued more as it is the fairest competition, it doesn't have upsets, truly the best team wins, but the cup allows for more underdog stories. September: Champions League/Europa League group stage begins, this will be 6 games, where you play each team twice, similar to how the Bears have to play the Packers, Lions and Vikings twice a season, the groups are random though as different teams, from different countries enter each year. this last from September to about December. October to New Years: The season runs as normal, some countries like England and Scotland have two Cups, one called the Leagues cup, normally its ____ Cup after a sponsor, like Carling Cup, Carabao Cup, Viaplay Cup and the more traditional Cup ie the FA Cup or the Scottish Cup. The traditional one features every team in the country where as the league Cup is only the ''league'' teams, which is a term that describes the top 4 leagues in the country ie the leagues that are fully pro and not semi pro/amateur. This is minor but its important to know. Most places dont do this. January: at this point the season is underway, the Champions League and Europa league group stage will be done and top two teams from the groups of 4 will progress to the knockouts and the 3rd place team in the case of the CL will play an extra round against the 2nd placed EL teams, both tournaments then having 16 teams that will drop to two for the final. at certain weeks during the last 5 months there will have been breaks for national teams to play in friendly matches or against each other to qualify for the World Cup or the Euros(the Euros is the WC but just for European teams, each continent has one). We might also be down to the last 16 or 8 teams in the Cup. The league will be halfway done, we often look at the team who is top of the league at Christmas as the team who will win the league, or if they fall off and choke we say, 'how could you do that you were top at Christmas'. May: Most seasons often end about May, just like how the leagues start at different times they will often end at different times, if the top teams is so dominant that they have more points than the second place teams and the second place cant mathematically catch up they are crowned champion before the League ends. The Cup finals in most countries happen after the last matches of the league have been played, and that ends the domestic seasons in most countries. Teams that finished in the top 4 places in England, Spain, Germany and Italy are now in the Champions league for the next season. Other countries get less spots which is unfair and maybe the only big downside to Football in Europe. The Champions League final will now be played in late May early June. This is at a neutral venue that will be selected ahead of time, like the Superbowl, except tickets aren't a rip off so that only the elites can go. There are no halftime shows and only people who like Football will watch it, you won't have watch parties where people make stupid bets and only watch for the singer, not acceptable behavior. in Europe. After the Champions League the season is over and the preseason games begin a month later. Other things: Transfer of players can only happen during transfer windows, if a player has a contract at a team for say three years and he has only been there a year then he can only move to another team for a fee during the window, these windows normally start at the end of the season and will close a few weeks into the new season, and there is a second window at Christmas to late January. You can sign players outside these time periods but they can only play once the next window starts. These rules are consistent because European football has an Organisation that maintains every thing called UEFA, often labelled UEFA MAFIA by many ultras. They control the Champions League, they are very corrupt but are necessary evil to maintain order. 2 years ago twelve teams from England Spain and Italy tried to break away from UEFA and found their own league and this failed hard because the fans saw that this was only for greed and they protested, and they had to step away from their multi billion dollar plans. Last thing is that every two years Either the Euros happen, or the World Cup happens, this is the biggest and most important event in the whole sport, so pretty much 2/4 years there is no off season, meanwhile the off season of college football lasts 8 months, sheesh. South American seasons start in January due to their seasons being inverted because they are in the Southern Hemisphere, some countries like Japan and the US also do this for their leagues. In Brazil in particular the season starts with state leagues since Brazil is so big it has individual states that are comparable to countries so they play a league competition which last 3 months before the real league starts in about March. Non Brazilian Leagues in the Americas in places like Argentina and Mexico often split the league into two halves with a champion awarded in the middle and at the end so there are two national champions a year plus the cup, I have no clue why this is and this will be foreign to even die hard European football fans but considering Argentina's influence on the world stage with Messi, Maradona, teams Boca Jrs and River Plate and their World Cups I'd thought I'd mention it. I don't know if anyone read this but thanks if you did.

[@belegur8108]

great summary 👍

[@ThomasDonnelly1888]

@@belegur8108 cheers

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

13:25 VAR is just the video surveillance Offside is simple: If you are past the second last opponents player your teammates can't pass the ball to you. (second last is usually the defender nearest to the goalkeeper but it's worded that because in some cases the goalie ends up in front of other players although that's exceedingly rare) and some people think it's a dumb rule, but without it teams would have a big incentive to just leave half of their team behind to prevent those kind of passes. it'd KILL the game in the midfield and that's where you can see a lot of tactics at their best

[@ryanfebrianto8973]

Release clause or transfer fee is basically a price tag the club management put on the players. So whoever (the clubs) interested to that player had to make a deal with the current club where the player play. So to simplify, first the buyer club should made a deal with the seller club and after the deal is done the buyer club made the contract deal for the salary of the bought player

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Some teams which were in the equivalent of today's Premier League when I attended junior school in England (then called First Division), have indeed faded into near obscurity, except among their loyal fans. Everton is the only team never to have been relegated from the top league in England. Of the 22 teams in the First Division in the 1960/61 season, Sheffield Wednesday, which ended second, now play in the Championship (2nd level league), as do four other teams. Blackpool and Bolton have both sunk to the 3rd level.

[@FloatingAnarchy61]

Before the Premier League was formed in 1992 there were 4 divisions, 1-4. The old First Division became the Premier League, the 2nd Division the Championship, the 3rd League One and the 4th League 3. The old system was basically the bottom 3 teams in the Prem/Div 1 were relegated to the Championship/Div 2. In the leagues below the the Prem league there 's also promotion. This used to be the top 3 teams in a division but is now the top 2 teams who gain what is known as automatic promotion. The 4 teams below them play in a play off and the two teams who come through that play each other in the playoff final at Wembley. This can be a big day out for the fans and in the case of the Championship playoff is a very lucrative game with the winners promoted to the Prem. The FA Cup is a knockout competiion which the Premier League teams don't enter until the 3rd round in January. Teams are literally drawn against each other by selecting numbered balls from a bag. So for example if Scunthorpe have got through to the 3rd round they could be drawn against one of the big boys like Arsenal, Man Utd etc. There have been a few major upsets in the FA Cup over the years, my team Arsenal have suffered a few including a famous defeat against Wrexham. If a team from a lower division beats one from a higher div it's known as a giantkilling. We also have the League cup which a lot of fans will describe as a micky mouse cup, unless your team wins it of course, in which case it's the best cup competition in the world 😂 With the Champions League it used to be known as the European Cup and back then it was just the champions of the top divs in Europe. When it was revamped as the Champions League it was the top 4 teams from the respective European Leagues who qualified. The other two European cup competions were the Cup Winmers Cup and Uefa Cup. The Cup Winners Cup is sadly no more but as the name suggests was for the cup winners in the countries. As well as a League programme ever major European country has a cup competition. The Uefa cup became the Europa League contested by the next 4 teams in the League after the top 4 who've qualified for the Champions League. That's why even if a team has no chance winning the league they'll still try to finish as high as they can to qualify for the Champions or Europa League. In todays climate with all the money sloshing around in football a lot of teams are promoted to the prem and go straight back down again. Some teams can be too good for the Championship but not good enough for the Premier. The legendary Brian Clough got Nottingham Forest promoted from the 2nd to 1st div and they were champions of the 1st the following season. This is unprecedented to get your team promoted and the following season win the title. I can't ever see this happening again in my lifetime. The closest in comparison would be Leiceste recently but even that pales into insignificance when compared with what Clough achieved, Forest also won the European cup twice in that period (late 70's, early 80's). Sorry about the novel lads, but I hope that helps to understand the structure of the football league pyramid.

[@mannym7849]

Hi Spencer and Daniel, another great reaction guys! Now before the 2026 World Cup in USA 🇺🇸 Mexico 🇲🇽 and Canada 🇨🇦, we have the men’s Euro 2024 tournament in Germany 🇩🇪 starting from 14th June and the Final will be exactly a month later on 14th July. It’ll have 24 countries in it and hopefully you’ll get to see most of the games. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again American 🇺🇸 sports would benefit from relegation and promotion in its setup. You guys are fantastic! Keep doing great videos and reactions.

[@PLF...]

Very few players have release clauses, although it's more common with clauses like "if the team is relegated the player is released" or something like that. But release clauses are usually only for big stars. It's to deter other clubs coming to poach their best players, so they set a release clause usually waay higher than their actual market value. Often based on what they think they might be worth after e.g. a year if they are confident that he's going to do well. Either way, release clauses are not that common. And no, they are not released "outright" like an American UFA, everything is done in one swoop, the team will obviously not pay to release someone if they can't sign him.

[@rednaskela4830]

Just to clarify the release clause part. It's actually not common for players to have a release clauses unless the player ask for one to be included in his contract, typically it's the teams between them that negotiate the price. Every player have a estimated marked value but a team can put in a bid ten times his marked value and the teams that owns him can just decline the offer. Spain is the only league as far as i can remember that have release clauses mandatory for any new player that signs for a Spanish club, but even then teams can put an astronomical sum that no team would be willing to pay. Another point to mention is that a player will always negotiate a personal contract whenever he moves to a new club, so no contract transfers between clubs and the player can decline regardless if the teams reached an agreement.

[@SpikeMatthews]

I can't speak for other countries, but the England (and Wales - they're combined) leagues started out differently. There used to be one league which was split into four divisions. The top was 1st division, with 4th being lowest. After that, you also had non-league teams. The difference between league and non-league teams was basically for media coverage and betting: league matches would be televised and were used for 'the pools' (a kind of semi-skilled lottery...). Yes, teams could be relegated on the back of a crappy season, and even leave the league if they were in the 4th division at the time. However, teams were also promoted by being at the top of their current division, and there have been a lot of teams who spend most of their time doing the hokey-cokey between divisions because they are a bit too good for one division, but not quite good enough for the next one up. Introducing the Premier League was basically a cash grab on a larcenous scale - concentrate everything on the top division (now the Premier League), and ignore everything else.

[@i67x]

I miss the days when it was simply Division 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Championship sounds too good for Division 2, and League 2 sounds too good for Division 4.

[@jonbroxton7346]

Speaking about dropping through the system: as recently as 2011 Scunthorpe United were playing in the Championship. This year they are playing in a "whatevs" league. This is a team which was, until very recently, a fully professional team with a 120+ year history. Same with Yeovil Town - they were in the Championship in 2014, this year 'whatevs'. So it absolutely does happen.

[@HastDuWasSuchen]

24:50 Yes and no. The new club can simply pay the amount of money needed to fulfill the release clause and the old club gets the money but the player gets around 10% of the sum (depending on how their contracts are, this can vary a little bit).

[@kylebeggs3845]

So one of the funniest things about him saying to call it football if you leave the US and not soccer is that the US was not the first country to use the word soccer to describe the game. It was actually England. Back when the game was in its infancy, there was confusion about what sport was called football. Between the game we call soccer now and rugby. What ended up happening was an association formed to govern the rules of soccer in England so they began calling that association football. Well, that’s a little bit of a mouthful, so they shortened the word association to soccer to refer to association football. Eventually, the rugby union would be formed and they would adopt the rugby for their sport and soccer would drop the association and just be referred to as football because you played with your feet. The reason we don’t call is because by the time this all happened, rugby had made its way over to the US and gotten into the colleges. They began to play around with the rules a bit, and the game of American football was born. So the game of rugby came over when it was being called football and that name just kind of stuck and has forever.

[@lloydwaycott8178]

You're not quite right about the release clause. The figure appointed to any player is the amount you have to assure you are willing to pay (if the sale goes forward) before being allowed to even TALK to the player about a transfer. It doesn't mean if you turn up with the money you have the player. You only have the right to open negotiations.

[@jamespicksley5781]

My 2nd cousin has just signed to the Arsenal academy as a 10 year old goalkeeper. He does have some pedigree though, as his dad was a goalkeeper that played Champions League football with a Finnish club and played for Finland internationally- although he was unfortunate to spend most of his career as the undersudy to arguably Finland's greatest ever goalkeeper.

[@christiandent7211]

It’s football

[@ruairiwhite6303]

This video is an excellent step-by-step guide that provides a sound basic understanding. After watching this, you'll both have much greater knowledge when watching an actual game.

[@sebastianbarrios2760]

not anything they say were right, so good luck following them...

[@matthewdearsley123]

Look up Suarez Liverpool Arsenal. They met release clause by one pound. As the player decided he wished to stay Liverpool just refused to sell. So they are not binding unless the player wishes to move (at least in that case)

[@kikiisonfire1217]

my second league team is currently in the final of the german fa cup, and a third team division even made it to the semis. the third league team even eliminated bayern munich, germanies champions

[@aufaakotaro9590]

25:03 To make it simple, you need to negotiated with the player first for how much the new club willing to pay him and how long the contract would be, if the player accept it, then The new club must pay all of the player's salary under the player's remaining contract on his current team. Let's say the player's salary is $5 million, and he has 2 years remaining on his contract, so the new team must pay the team up to $10 million. Of course, the new club can negotiate the price to be cheaper or more expensive so that the team is more willing to sell their players. If the current club accept it, the player will be transferred at the end of the season (That's right, the player doesn't immediately move because the player still has the remainder of his unfinished contract). BUT if the player doesn't have any remaining contract and he didn't want to extend his contract at the current club, then the new club just only need to negotiate with the player, if the player accept it, at the end of the season he will be your player for free (without release clause) honorable mention that the new club can also just borrow the player for a short time of contract, if the contract ends the player will back to his old club, it called "loaning a player" and the system nearly the same, you contact the player, if the player accept, you contact the team, if the team accept, you can loan the player for a short time (in general only for 1 or 1/2 of the season)

[@redeyegooner]

Idk if you guys know, But Ryan Reynolds bought Wrexham (the team) in 2020 when they were in division 3, and theyve just been promoted to division 1 for next season (2024/25). Two more promotions and they will be in the Premier League ⭐🏆

[@petereastwood1]

The grea Brazil teams were always followed by commentators saying "slow, slow, quick, quick, slow"

[@perpetualidiocy6622]

regarding release clauses.. by no means does every player have a release clause. whilst it's common, it's not across the board. each player will negotiate his / her own contract via their agent. which may or may not include whichever clauses are agreed between club and player.

[@darrenfearon4288]

The off side rules is if the opposition player is ahead of the defender before the ball is played to him it is offside. If they was no offsides , even my mum would score a goal, she would just hang around with a five yard start and run towards goal lol

[@johnavery3941]

Do not worry about the offside rule and VAR that is for full discussions in any pub around the land for a forthright discussion on any decision and you will never prove who is right.....

[@willrichardson1809]

The leauge structure in England is massive, for example Macclesfield Town (always been my lower league team since a boy) they went bankrupt in 2020 while in the National league (5th tier) they reformed under new owners and had to start in tier 8th and there are leagues below that too. now Tier 6 has 2 leagues, tier 7 has more and so on, so that gives you an idea of how many clubs there are in England. The original stucture had 92 clubs in leages 1 to 4, these were all fully professional. League names have changed but the 92 are still there in the top for leagues, below that leage tier 5 is still professional, then it starte to become part time below that, untill you get down to amature several tiers below, so it is possible for a premier league club to be relagated down the leagues. I am not sure any other country has so much depth in their football.

[@user-qc2kw9ju6v]

Come on guys, please don’t force feed us Brits this stupid game.7refs,bend down,touch the ground, whistle blows, everyone bangs crash helmets, everyone falls over, ball disappears somewhere,crowd go wild, team gain 2 feet, then pop concert for 30 minutes. It must take longer to get dressed for a player than a boxer. Helmet, shoulder pads,every other part of the body pads.🌭🍔🍟🥨🥞🍕🍿🍩 that should last you until bedtime 9PM. ⚽️⚽️⚽️😂

[@Drescher1984]

Also if your local sports bars register to become a official world cup 2026 big screen spots, they can get licensed stuff others can't.

[@LadoTsulukidze]

Number of subs are up to 5 now and additional 1 if the extra-times are played in case of a draw in play-offs

[@MO-io1qy]

19:50 2 weeks ago in the German "DFB Pokal" (the same tournament like the FA Cup in England) a 2. division team (Kaiserslautern) has beaten a 3. division team (Saarbrücken) to advance to the german cup final. Saarbrücken has beaten top tier teams like Mönchengladbach. They also have beaten the record bundesliga champion Bayern munich. Bayern (929 Million €) has the largest Team salary in Germany by a mile (saarbrückens Team salary to compare: about 5 million €). It doesn't happen to much but you see, it is possible. If Kaiserslautern will beat Leverkusen in the final they will get a spot in the Euro League as a 2.division team. That would gave them a massive TV contract. That's the beauty of this Sport.

[@stephanlunden4318]

If one (or more) clubs are willing to pay the release clause the player can speak to the team(s) but he still has to sign a contract and can reject some clubs. Example: Player A has a 20 Mill. Clause and there is one team in England, one in France and two in Spain willing to pay that. Ofc the player will listen to the paycheck, but if he insists on going to one of the Spain Clubs those are in a bidding "war" (just not the salary, but also playing time, standing in the league, european competion are valid arguments).