"Nothing short of the end of the earth will prevent this from going through..."

[@B00tieW4rriOR]

Robert Maxwell was Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, for those who don’t know.

[@Jakenh84]

The Queen of England allowed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to stay at one of her cabins. It runs so deep and we may never know who was involved.

[@silloweet]

Everybody knows the Royal Family are guilty of crimes against humanity

[@BigPurp9]

@@Jakenh84 that’s why I’ll never understand the way the sheep in this country blindly worship them. Being at the same events as these people is one thing but the close relationships they’ve had with various wronguns is frightening

[@sean-ve6do]

Known family of thieves and nonces

[@LN_997]

It would be baffling but not surprising unfortunately if people didn't know

[@lfc-europe]

Just hearing Robert Maxwell's name makes me jump on my internet banking to check everything is still there.

[@TehBuzz]

It could be worse, it could make you jump in and the sea and disappear forever.

[@taufiqutomo]

care to explain, please?

[@Rumpole1000]

Haha Thats clever.

[@danpreston564]

@@taufiqutomo he stole millions of pounds of his employees pension money.

[@brynetches3388]

Was gonna say check your pension as well

[@ondank]

Thames Valley Royals is such a PES name. I am sure it would have been great, but no one would ever be able to take them seriously.

[@romiarkan450]

Sounds like a cracking name for a Hundred cricket team

[@lfc-europe]

Got nothing but respect for the Thames Valley Royals. Great club. ~ Mersey Red fan

[@barbarian92]

@@parker-ii7fg There was, cause their owner at the time, Assem Allam, cause he claimed it'd help them with marketing

[@owl-arm7545]

@@parker-ii7fg From my recollection, the owner was unhappy about the team being 'Hull City AFC' (which it still is), because he felt the 'A' (for association) was outdated... which then spurred him to rethink the whole name! As it should be though, the fans won!

[@SKa-tt9nm]

@@parker-ii7fg there is a video on that. Search for hitc sevens channel and hull city.

[@Willsamuels]

Imagine being told to support it or support someone else. This almost happened with Fulham and QPR, almost happened as well….. almost….

[@imnotlazy]

😂

[@aaroneudell4388]

Nearly happened AND nearly happened too!? Woagh!

[@davidandrew7314]

Almost?

[@ennyyyable]

it almost happened

[@ZDTcko]

how close was it to happening?

[@DICECLUB]

There is an example of 2 bigger clubs in the UK almost merging more recently. Back in the early 90's, there was an effort to merge Hibs and Hearts in Scotland. Wallace Mercer played the role of Robert Maxwell. His thinking was that a 'united' Edinburgh club would be better placed to challenge to Old Firm. There was a lot of politics involved and I'm not on one side or the other but it is a fascinating story - maybe one for the great JJ to tell us all about in full.

[@senorsoupe]

I believe there was also an effort to Merge Dundee and Dundee United around the turn of the Millenium. The Hearts/Hibs thing was discussed in the BBC documentary "Scotland's Game" from a few years ago. Neither Wallace Mercer nor Hibs owner David Duff come off positively in that whole mess

[@dondamon4669]

You talking ha bout ha Scottish ha ha hee football ha if you can ha call it that ha ha sorry can’t stop laughing!!

[@dysplasiagiraffe4845]

@@dondamon4669 the world has Scottish football to thank for turning football from some provincial English game into something truly phenomenal (I’m not even Scottish before you try suggest so)

[@SportyMabamba]

@@dysplasiagiraffe4845 [Citation Needed]

[@originalvegoman]

Imagine suggesting Scottish teams (except The Celtic Rangers) are bigger than 3rd division English teams. They would struggle in the 7th tier of English football.

[@Rumpole1000]

Anything with 'Maxwell' and 'Royal' in the same sentence is bound to end up in disaster.

[@Chartley1983]

I am glad he never got his hands on Reading. Maxwell was a monumental cnut, who only understood money and not people.

[@Rumpole1000]

@@Chartley1983 Yep, he would have destroyed both clubs without doubt.

[@dysplasiagiraffe4845]

@@Rumpole1000 what was their comment? It’s not showing up

[@emekaamadi8699]

"The both club outlived him" line threw me off 😂, rip tho

[@adamcrowther7251]

nah no rip. Evil man

[@oliverqueen5883]

As an Oxford United fan since boyhood (I’m a 2000s kid so this was all way before me lol), I’m so insanely happy this nonsense didn’t happen. We’ve hated Reading since we were kids and they hate us. We would all hate being together lmao

[@4thzone697]

YELLLOOWWWWSSS!!!

[@harryradwell185]

also need to mention the fact that oxford and reading are practically rivals, although our (oxford) main rivals are swindon, reading are close second. similar to an arsenal vs man united type situation

[@ReidTheRulesGuy]

Wow, the Arsenal Man United rivalry has just gotten sad over the years. It used to be the best game all season. Now it's normally a battle for who will finish 5th and who will finish 6th.

[@JasonWilliams89]

He said that

[@wugglebee9522]

You know, people say "The sea is a cruel mistress" but at least it killed Robert Maxwell for us

[@sergiowinter5383]

Time would have killed him anyway

[@wugglebee9522]

@@sergiowinter5383 Sure, but it's nice to know he suffered.

[@sergiowinter5383]

@@wugglebee9522 Big if. He could have died instantly hitting his head on something, or was unconscious when he drowned

[@wugglebee9522]

@@sergiowinter5383 Don't ruin the fantasy

[@niggilywiggily]

can y’all tell me who he is and what happened

[@johnmitchell2269]

Yellow shorts, yellow sleeves with a blue and white hooped main and blue and white hooped socks. Imagine such a monstrosity.

[@Pueininog]

'A move that Smee thought :"Very illegal" '

[@emiljanomici608]

The professionalism of this channel never fails to impress me

[@thegreathadoken6808]

The personification of the quote: "We're gonna need a bigger boat" EDIT: It seems to me I am a poet, until right now I did not know it.

[@footyvalz-e]

lol

[@TheeAcid]

ruined it with the cringe edit ngl

[@seanandrews5329]

I don’t get it

[@kevintheman4408]

What a comment

[@jameshuggett]

Hopefully, your doors are wide enough to accommodate your head? Luckily your ego won't be measured.

[@biggiecheese5347]

that ending came out of nowhere and i love it

[@youngdolo8]

How do you own one club and then buy a large stake in another club, a rival club? Why did he think a merger between the two would ever work? Imagine the Glazers and FSG tried to merge United and Liverpool. There'd be war!

[@ooohlawrence]

Great point, terrible examples. Try Everton and Liverpool??

[@youngdolo8]

@@ooohlawrence In what universe is that a terrible example?

[@alexandroschalymourdas8706]

@@youngdolo8 because there is a rivalry between them unlike between Oxford-Reading

[@SKa-tt9nm]

@@alexandroschalymourdas8706 all you have to do is scroll through comments for a minute to figure out that there was a rivalry between Oxford and Redding as well. May be a better use of your time than reflexively correcting others.

[@alexmiddleton2276]

@Cian Dolan Liverpool and Everton are better examples as they’re both incredibly close to one another.

[@thebug202]

“Both clubs outlived him” ouch

[@SinnohGreen]

Next time someone comes to buy a football club, can we make sure they've actually been to a football game, in the stands with the fans, so we know they understand what the sport is about.

[@Alex_Deam]

The fans should own the club full stop imo

[@SKa-tt9nm]

@@Alex_Deam hasn’t really worked in Germany.

[@Alex_Deam]

@@SKa-tt9nm I don't see any Maxwells doing this in Germany

[@SKa-tt9nm]

@@Alex_Deam I also don’t see German clubs competing at continental level.

[@Alex_Deam]

@@SKa-tt9nm I'm not sure that's inherent to that model, but regardless, why is a minority of fans getting to enjoy their team in Europe more important than all fans having a stake in their club?

[@isiaharellano3789]

Imagine merging clubs like Newcastle United and Sunderland AFC lol

[@bwabymafia]

Thank goodness my home city Oxford did not merge with Reading. It's nice for the city to be represented and known independently.

[@dominiclowe7703]

Reminds me of the time one of Oldham's directors tried to merge Oldham, Bury and Rochdale into Manchester North End

[@thelionsam]

love the closing momento mori...

[@gazzalfc7230]

He also almost bought the rights for Tetris from under the nose of Nintendo

[@adilmohammed6897]

and then tried to merge with pac-man

[@ethancrofty]

Being from near didcot it’s very weird hearing it’s name in a tifo video, certainly unexpected!

[@archie3343]

Wallingford is even weirder

[@Rumpole1000]

I recognised Ditcot from the David Brendt song 'Lady Gypsy'. Up until today I'd never heard of it mentioned anywhere else.

[@jameshuggett]

@@archie3343 they've got a football team as old as Headington United

[@arya6085]

@@Rumpole1000 didcot

[@luccass6793]

Fans are probably the main factor protecting sports from becoming pure businesses

[@tomasemitchell]

Just wanted to say the map (and other graphics) in this video looks great

[@suleimanmustafa1473]

The merger that makes sense is Bristol Rovers and Bristol City to form Bristol United.

[@johnnahason4851]

just as trying to combine Liverpool and Everton, Man City and Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea..

[@markthacker9975]

The arsenal Chelsea one is a bad comparison, maybe go with spurs and arsenal

[@jameshuggett]

Did you even watch the video? How have you come up with your analysis of todays Prem teams?

[@markthacker9975]

@@jameshuggett I think they’re trying to get the point across of putting two rival teams into one

[@randomshotz13]

Do one on Archer Bellotti and the near extinction of Brighton

[@Poopyduckling9999]

Not many people know but Robert Maxwell had an enormous amount of influence on academia he and Paul Rosebud formed Pergamon Press which paved the way for modern aggressive publishing techniques especially for the scientific journals. Later it was sold to Elsevier, which as we know did try to hide many COVID related studies behind paywall.

[@zanyeze]

Gotta love a happy ending

[@hanhly3732]

They should merge Man U with Oldham and call themselves Oldham Athletic.

[@khotsomoabi]

The same jack dunnett who tried to merge brentford with qpr, happily we've outlived him too

[@morgjones13]

Great to see a Reading Fc story, don't usually get much coverage

[@arya6085]

So so weird hearing my local club and local towns on a tifo video

[@daramurphy2824]

Could you do one on the Dublin Dons ? Wimbledon tried to move to Dublin

[@jortheo]

It reminds me of the other aborted merger: Manchester North End was to be the merger of Oldham, Preston North End and another team which escapes me.

[@Macattack-wc1cu]

bury? edit: quick google apparently rochdale too

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

I’m surprised Maxwell didn’t try and sue someone over the failed merger. That seemed to be his favourite thing to do, when he wasn’t screwing people out of their pensions.

[@tomislavsekerija1957TN]

Wow! You made me watch something I really have no interest till the last second. Epic skill.

[@mingo8229]

3:39 Millwall Football Club No One Likes Us

[@mikeisthelunawolf]

I was not expecting this ending... Damn...

[@owl-arm7545]

Take almost any British club, rewind 40 odd years and almost nothing is the same; different crest, stadium, kits, staff/personnel etc.... the only thing that remains the same is the name and the fans!

[@TheFallorn]

Love a happy ending

[@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere]

Berkshire's a big place. Even if he couldn't build a stadium in Didcot he's got a Slough, Aldershot, Bracknell. Y'know he's got a Swindon, Yateley, y'know, my.. Winnersch. Taplow. Y'know because he was boss of both clubs he could... Burfield.

[@michaelvitz-wong4968]

ah I love a happy ending 🏊‍♂️

[@dajo8723]

Good video, but one mistake. The man Smee teamed up with was Roy Tranter, not "Rodger" Tranter.

[@Ese96Agboaye]

If you like your rugby, you'll remember stories of Racing 92 and Stade Francais potentially merging back in Spring 2017

[@samjohnson7193]

yesss, more EFL please 🙏🏼

[@no.2177]

Feel like I’m tripping on shrooms trying to read the text lol

[@peterclapton625]

A win for the good guys!

[@Cold_Logic]

Helluva story, but you should hear what his daughter got up to!

[@nathanngumi8467]

Interesting history...

[@ahmadhabib2836]

Well that ending took a dark turn....

[@theconservativecoconut6887]

Si quema cuh

[@multifaceteduser3405]

wonder if it was really a 'accident' or he did'nt pay his debts and was sent over board to sleep with the fishes

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

"Millwall Football Club" "No one likes us" *O* *o* *f*

[@hugonongbri8100]

Isn't he Jizzlane's dad ??

[@bunga_raya96]

Didn't umax it cover this?

[@dennischen5367]

3:07 if the fans don't protest the merger, they won't have a oxford united or reading anymore to support - thereby also becoming supporters of someone else (the "thames valley royals" that is).

[@TheRahewitt]

Brutal ending 🤣

[@williandalsoto806]

How are both clubs doing nowadays?

[@ffcw4860]

As of writing this, currently Reading FC are 15th in the Championship and Oxford United are 15th in League 1. Both teams in far better positions than they were back then.

[@jamesbissonette]

unnecessary clickbait title

[@scottyc6341]

The most shocking fact in this video is that Oxford won a league cup 😯

[@tja713]

Couldn’t even play in Europe though because of liverpool fans

[@hausafootballtv]

@@tja713 me trying not to laugh here 😑

[@infrasleep]

Indeed, but there's only so much Maxwell would ever be able to win and achieve with the Mirror pension fund.

[@zayn1172]

❤️🔥

[@elijahtchilembe-mpovie2715]

This is similar to the creation of PSG.

[@grid462]

Found dead overboard his ship.. or was he? Old spy.. they've done stranger things.

[@ryant331]

This lovely bloke being the father of Ghislaine Maxwell? Wow

[@jameshuggett]

Glislaine Maxwell use to attend matches at the Manor. She was always attracted to men with power & didn't mind the attention at all.

[@jmarquez1220]

Best Title ever

[@LordWay]

this would have been awful if it went through

[@andrewcunningham3447]

His daughter didn’t do too well..

[@alohatigers1199]

Technically, he had the last laugh because nowadays small clubs are STILL financially struggling and with COVID and lockdowns, there’s no way of coming back. The rich clubs in the premier league stays at the top. And small clubs are struggling financially. The rich stays rich. And small clubs can’t compete against rich clubs. NBA & NFL already solved this issue.

[@saulbuxton153]

We all know who maxwells daughter is to😬

[@calahoon22]

Trying out the old clickbait titles I see....I thought you were better than that Tifo!

[@calahoon22]

@Ben B Artist To those who are unfamiliar to the story would have no clue what the quote is talking about, could literally be any topic. Its clickbait because its designed to make viewers want to click to find out what is meant by 'this' and the word 'will' suggests it is something about the future and not a video about a past event. Even the 'end of the earth' adds drama to it making it more desirable to click. Compare it to their other videos "Newcastle and Stepping Stone players" which tells you what the subject is and you can see how much of a clickbait title it is. Its not as bad as other clickbait titles but still a clickbait title all the same!

[@silvesta5027]

It got me to click on the video, so the clickbait worked. And I mean c’mon it’s KZbin, clickbait is so pervasive here it’s almost expected

[@Daniboi971]

Football is out of control

[@NostalgiNorden]

Another example of fans shooting themselves in the foot.

[@Evalsam]

Very cheeky, Tifo; the phrase on millwall’s logo. Very cheeky.

[@gavjan]

Mane

[@the.brokenhand]

my kind of clickbait

[@carletto3319]

Obviously its a scandal to try to merge two clubs that don't get on, but I think it'd be interesting to see two clubs that like each other join forces to become better. Not that it is remotely possible because if you're close enough geographically you're doomed to be bitter rivals. Does anybody know of clubs that share a town or city that don't despise each other?

[@adilmohammed6897]

ISL (Indian Super League) saw Mohun Bagan, one of asia's oldest club with a rich history, merge with ATK Kolkata which was a newer club with more cash in ISL. Mohun Bagan played in the I-League, which was seen as "below" ISL despite being much older. Also ATK used to be earlier owned by Athletic Madrid and its first name was Athletico Kolkata but Madrid sold their shares and left the partnership if I am right.

[@legendscleaningservices4587]

LEGENDS ❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️

[@ReidTheRulesGuy]

Hello

[@kwazilucas]

English football is better than Spanish football.

[@UnionGrays]

Thank you for doing a video on us 💙🤍

[@EpicVideoMaster11]

gg

[@jonnyso1]

In a paralell universe, suporters ironically bond over their mututal hate for each other and the merge and end up agreeing with the move in the end ahahaahah

[@darrenchin_]

nice video but not a fan of clickbaity video titles

[@paramjeetohlan]

One of the most shallow Videos from your Channel. C'mon c'mon

[@harjonotanuwira8226]

1st

[@T.E.S.S.]

lol

[@danielromao6576]

Second

[@fine5461]

First

[@watteffer]

That was quite disrespectful of his death. I would expect a bit more professionalism from Tifo.

[@mahbluebird]

thirteenth

[@wolafire]

That last line, lmao What a childish, disgusting and petty way to talk about the death of a person.

[@prodbytaeko]

Who’s back before the Derby match today. First time since 2004 🟡🔵⚔️

[@tovikasho1367]

First