Farsley Celtic did have a semi decent ground at one point, I know that because I was banned for life from there for apparently selling speed in the toilet at an 18th birthday party of a friend, about 18 years ago. Mental really as I wasn't. It was weed.
I am one of the bar staff who work at Farsley Celtic and to see this and share it is something which needed to be done a long time ago. The club has no money coming in whatsoever hence why the pitch looks the way it does. Us bar staff have not been paid our wages since last February. Hopefully this video will spread awareness and get us the money we are owed
Go on lass, what she says is completely true because I am one of those bar staff too, it's an absolute disgrace that he is being allowed to ruin our football club like this #BarthorpeOut
Ella we are with you and kiran and the others who haven't been paid that's why I lost my head and got barred people were standing like sheep letting it happen the supporters club did their boycott too late good luck to you lass I'll see you about x
@@kiransarda8502keep fighting mate me and Logan tried to shout some sense in to them look where that got us ,barthorpe is a charlatan let's hope he gets his desserts
Ella and Kiran, thanks for sharing and sorry to hear about this. I would encourage you to report this to the league, maybe HMRC. As shown in the video, once you do this it might put enough pressure on the owner to pay you what you are owed. Good luck 🤞
Besides Ben Gibbs, this is why I love this channel. Once again Ellis shows that it isn't really football he loves, it's community and what football means to the community around it. Unfortunately this time it was a bad effect the chairman has had on this club. Not that I think you should go on a run about clubs that need better chairmanship, but this is something that needs doing and few could do it as well as you Ellis.
You guys handled those guys really well, never understood why people get so aggressive but then play it off as "Just banter" maybe some of em see it as that but clearly those of them shouting just wanted to fight 😭 (With the only other 3 people in the stands)
To be fair I do find funny how people banter but wanna do the bully thing lol Just banter and not be personal Also no making threats is not banter it’s an illegal offence and can be arrestsble “ woke “ ain’t it it’s an call to action and is not part of football culture But yeah I hope you and everyone have a save week and great 2025
Can't stand people that get aggressive. I remember my local team Stalybridge Celtic played against Boreham Wood in a FA Cup game a few years back one of our regular fans has a drum and one of the Boreham Wood fans took exception to it because he was standing next to it in the next stand and kept saying for us to shut the F up next thing you know he's come over with his mats kicked the drum over and smashed it to pieces. Stewards kicked them out but what's the point it's literally a game of Football. Unfortunately we lost the game too
Thank you for covering our club’s story Ellis. I’ve been a fan and volunteer at the club for almost 20 years and this is the worst state I’ve seen it in, even compared to when the initial club went under in 2010 (at least we were able to play fixtures at home that season). The way the owner Paul Barthorpe has handled the club, particularly over the last nine months has been absolutely catastrophic (allegedly 😂). The owner refuses to have an open dialogue with supporters and as you referenced in the video just pans off the non commencement of pitch work as third-party contractor issues. At almost any point when fans question claims and promises made in the ‘chairman’s updates’ they’re almost immediately blocked by the chairman who likes to muscle in on the club’s Facebook account, rather than front up to the issues he’s created. Basically acting like a wannabe dictator. In a similar ilk, the club’s recently appointed CEO was then calling fans ‘dick heads’ on social media, when they again challenged some of the unsubstantiated claims and promises from the owner in terms of the commencement of pitch works. The relationship between senior management at the club and the supporters is non-existent and has been this way for months, almost completely down to the way he communicates or more so refuses to communicate properly with the wider club, let alone even attend first team games. Almost all of the senior and long serving players and coaching staff have left the club in recent months due to the way they’ve been treated by the owner. Despite his claims to the contrary, there have been regular occurrences where players have been several weeks behind on wages and with so little income streams currently for the club, it’s little wonder where the source of this lies. The owner has regularly stated that this isn’t the case but why would players be lying about this, particularly ones that have had 5+ year associations with the club and care deeply about Farsley Celtic? We started the season with the manager that had kept us up last season with a healthy sized first team senior squad able to compete adequately at National League North level. After he was let go and the player wages started to be deferred, our core squad started to be ripped apart with senior players and staff departing. The incoming manager is doing his best and has picked up numerous solid results so far this season but with little experience of management at this level and clearly having the budget for the squad slashed, a reliance on predominantly younger players and a revolving door of loan players is starting to take its toll on our league performances. They’re doing their best but there’s only so much they can achieve against normally functioning semi-professional sides they’re up against. It’s such a shame that the owner has brought the club into this state it’s currently in but he does not seem to want to or even be able to be honest with the loyal and honest fans that this community club thrives upon. Countless excuses about why the pitch work has not commenced just don’t wash anymore, it’s clear that combined with the issues with deferred wages, the owner simply doesn’t have the money to fund the pitch improvements, let alone cover the cost budgeted for the first team that started the season. In cases like this, as you said at the end of the video Ellis, is when owner should be honest to themselves and the fans and admit that they’re not able to effectively run the football club and make the decision to sell before it’s too late.
Got second hand embarrassment from those rushall olympic fc losers. Actual boomer old men trying to start fights in a empty stadium. They're probably the age of Ellis and Alfie combined. Barring them, another top video though lads. Keep it up
Ellis you have so much patience & tolorence with people , most people would’ve just gotten irritated or even mad at those aggro mad men. The game of football is all we need ⚽️ condolences to the fans
Thank you Ellis. I'm a Farsley fan that goes to home and away games. I moved back to Kent a few years ago and up until this season was going to pretty much every Saturday game. At times not knowing when and where we're going to play has made it impossible to afford to go to games and it feels like I'm missing a big part of my life. The owner is just a tyrant who shouldnt be anywhere near a football club. I'm sure he'll come out with lies saying some stuff you've said isn't true. Unfortunately it is true. Currently I'm unable to see his updates on Facebook when they come because he's blocked a lot of loyal fans for little or no reason. What a joke. Barthorpe out EDIT: The maddest thing is, theres plenty of things he hasnt mentioned too. Plenty of staff haventt been paid. Some bar staff since Feb!! On the way to Curzon Ashton we got placed on another transfer embargo I believe. This resulted in the manager getting off the coach. When the fans turned up at Kidderminster this year, we didnt have a registed keeper for the game until an hour or so before. The list goes on!!
Played cricket against you a few years ago when Tonbridge were playing Farsley in a pre season friendly- seems an age ago now! Such a shit situation for you all, remembered you saying that you went to all the games even though you were in Kent, hopefully you get your club back soon 👍🏼
@@ruharris2274 yeah can’t complain, hope you’re doing well all things considered. Your boys are smashing it at cricket! Get yourself to Tonbridge, always a good atmosphere 👍🏼
He used to support Walsall and got banned a few years ago. I went to a Rushall game with my girlfriend recently and he made it a miserable experience shame as there a lot of good people at Rushall.
Good on you for bringing light to this, something really needs to be done with owners doing this kind of shady crap. Oh and the guy causing drama probably just made the preassumption you’re exploiting the club for UA-cam clout instead of highlighting the issues the club is having, if he had any sense he wouldn’t make presumptions and just made himself look a Pratt to thousands of people, wouldn’t worry about it mate.
You should go to a scunthorpe game and talk about there bad ownership and their fall from league 2 and even championship at one point. Great vid as always
I was going to comment something about scunthorpe, I'm a fan we have got rid of the bad ownership now luckily but now how a long way to go to get back to where we was
As a Blyth Spartans fan who was on the other side of their final day survival I really want to hate them but having seen them play South Shields and talking to fams feel so desperately sad about the whole situation. Fantastic video again Ellis
Just three games ago Farsley won away at Curzon Ashton, who are top of the league. So it's pretty clear the quality is there and they could be a comfortable mid-table team if the owner puts even a modicum of effort into running the club.
Those fans should be embarrassed by their behaviour. Why the hell do grown men act like they are all hard. Disgrace! You handled that well. Great video.
So so sad. Visited Farsley 3 times with my club York City. A great ground and lots of memories. Great, friendly bar staff, food was amazing and always looked after us york fans. Genuinely so sad what’s going on, even being fairly local. You see the odd news article about them but MORE AWARENESS IS NEEDED! Thanks guys for documenting this for the wider football audience 👍
George is a very nice lad tbh ,when at Scarborough he once bought a young Scarborough lad a drink and asked stewards to give it to him, last season or start of this one Very nice lad
I'm a Rushall supporter and I can speak for a good majority of us, Definitely disappointing to see their attitude and puts a HUGE dampener on what was for us a direly needed win for Rushall. You're a top fella Ellis and I appreciate what you do for clubs in our league, If you ever find yourself covering another game that involves Rushall in the future, I would hope to see better people representing our club as there's some fantastic people in our fan base. Genuinely heartbroken to see some of ours acting like that. I'm sorry you had to deal with those unwarranted threats, and I would hope the rest of the clubs followers would agree seeing this video.
Get in there Away Days! That ground looks mint, better than a lot of places we have here in Province. So happy this new video popped up , Happy New Years from Canada!
Ellis lad, you’re it! What great work, great advocacy and solid reporting that can hopefully have a genuine impact on this club. Keep doing you Ellis! You’re a treasure and we so appreciate you and the away days boys! ❤
What a bunch of absolute mellon's those away fans are. You were just having some fun, I was enjoying the chanting back and forth, that whats it's all about. Well handled. One day it might be their club in trouble, and they need someone to help raise awareness, bet they soon change their tune if it happens to them.
Massive respect to every Farsley celtic fan.who has to travel two hours for a home game.i do hope you move back soon. Loved coming to Farsley. Great people and very welcoming 🙏
This is a brilliant and informative video Ellis. As a Leamington fan (and Head of Media, but fan first), we were Farsley’s first “home” game of the season - that was meant to be at Farsley, then Bradford (PA), and then Alfreton - where it was finally played. We were lucky that Farsley fans didn’t boycott that one as it was their first (and meant to be only) game played at a neutral ground & we got to speak to many of them (about 30 there) and really hear first hand about everything. Really hoping that something gets sorted soon for them and their close knit fanbase 🤞💛
Its sad to see Farsley Celtic in such a state now. Loved our pre season friendlys with them. Hope everything gets better for them soon. Halifax town fan 💙
Well done Ellis, showing what has happened to Farsley really opened my eyes to the dire situation lower league clubs face, and this is terrible. Hope Farsley manage to get a new owner who cares for the club, and sorts out returfing quickly. As for the abuse you got, I think that was jealousy because you where covering Farsley and not Rushall.
loving this video and fair play to you and Ellis just keeping calm with the situation of agro. about farseley I completely understand about ownership problems , I'm a reading football cub fan and it's hard day in and day out trying to deal with supporting a club dying inside. so fantastic video all the best for them really hope they sort it out soon !!!!
Great video Ellis, my club Truro city is definitely a club you might want to cover, we had been homeless for years. We've finally got a home again now back in Cornwall with a great new facility but the story of the last 15 years or so has been crazy, not least the last few. Having to ground share with multiple clubs the farthest being Gloucester city 200 miles away, playing 10 games in 20 days at the end of last season being just a couple of the situations we've had to deal with. Thankfully with the new ground, new owners, big attendances and having a great season in the NLS we can finally look forwards to a bright future. Keep up the good work.
Aylesbury United is also an interesting story. They have had no home since 2006, they play at our place (Chesham United) they’ve bounced around since 2006. The situation asto why is complex but to simplify it, Aylesbury town council mugged them right off.
I know this is a far cry, but you should come to Chester fc, our stadium in in 2 countries, and the club has a lot of history all round, it has no owner - community owned - and I think the atmosphere is great home and away! If you see this, please consider it, as always a great video :)
As Buxton are my team with United I hope you enjoyed the visit to the ground and the place, and be sure to come back another time when it’s our club playing 😊
Ellis. I love the humour of your content. But this must be the single most depressing but important video you have ever done. Thank you for sharing the pain for those poor fans
As a farsley Celtic fan for the last 10 years it is really sad to see what’s been happening and I appreciate you showing a light on this. P.S the farsley scorer in this game is my mate from school, top top player
Ellis, please come to Dundalk in Ireland to see us. We used to win the loi every season and playi in Europe against Arsenal just couple seasons ago, now we are relegated and in financial ruins and almost went bankrupt. Please come over and share the story of our once great football club. Thank you
Great video Ellis, highlighting once again the problems with ownership in football. Hopefully there will be a resolution reached soon, such a shame to see.
Check out Truro city and their 23/24 season. Homeless, had to move ground 3 times due to matches being postponed at the venues they were ground sharing. Ended up playing games in Gloucester. And because of those postponements had to play 8 matches in two weeks at the end if the season. Their commute to Gloucester for matches? 3hrs.
Went to Farsley Celtic twice, one with my team FC Halifax (in a friendly), then again as a neutral when they played Alfreton Town in 2021, I had no idea this had happened to them, I hope they can get it all resolved soon, Good Luck Farsley!!!
Been a farsley Celtic follower for the last 15 years, started going due to the cost of going to Leeds United games, had some great seasons about 5 or 6 years ago but I haven’t been to a game this season because of other commitments and the fact a 10 minute commute to the home ground has turned to a 2 hour one, thanks for sharing light on the shady side of non-league
Guiseley being mentioned is top tier, my dad is a season ticket owner and I go to games every so often. I remember Farsley Celtic being a team in Leeds when I was a kid, had a couple of friends who played for them (Or at least said they did)
As a Coventry fan, we've been through hell and back, two groundshares among other things so I know exactly what Farsley fans are going through, its horrible and I really feel for them. They don't deserve it, pure and simple. I know other clubs are really struggling too, Scunthorpe being one that comes to mind, it always comes back to the chairman and what almost feels like a personal vendetta. Utterly fair play to George for taking you to the game and putting the story ahead of his own personal boycott. Please have him back on sometime even if it's just an update on the club.
A lot of people hate on Wrexham now because we’re rich but we had a terrible owner who wanted to run us into the ground and build houses where our stadium is. All the best Farsley, I hope this story turns around for you like ours did
Always sad to see. Sympathies from another team that lost their home (and club itself) AFC Rushden & Diamonds. We figured out how to get into our 6-7k seat stadium so we could sit in our old seats and walk on the ruined pitch like these guys but eventually they demolished it and all that is left is rubble. Such a nice ground it was (Nene park), after Rushden & Diamonds FC went bust, Kettering Town left their actual home in Kettering and tried to take it on.... which resulted in them nearly going bust as well and now they and AFC RD are ground sharing at local clubs still over 10 years later.
Nene Park was a fantastic ground, even as a Kettering fan it's a shame to see it gone when driving up the A6. In another spectacular display of poor football club ownership by Imraan Ladak and incompentency from the council, we lost our home of 114 years at Rockingham Road. I can't even look at the houses built on it when I drive past there. When we moved to Nene Park there was no chance we'd afford to keep the lights on. The only thing I liked about R&D was the diamond burger! Some cracking memories of big derby days which I hope at some point in the future we'll experience again. UTP! ;)
Ironic quoting the Wealdstone raider - Wealdstone fc’s owner sold their ground in Harrow to build a tescos and left the club homeless - ripped the heart out of the town and caused the club issues for decades
Ellis!! - Get yourselves over to the 4th oldest football club in the world! Worksop Town FC, myself and my better half love watching your videos & we live literally round the corner from the club! (Also, I flipping love Alfie, please bring Alfie along too!) 😊
Don't do social media so trying youtube. Thankyou for making this video, i'm not a farsley supporter but fly the flag for non league in Leeds, and have watched Farsley home and away many times, including the game when they stayed up (saw myself on the pitch in those clips haha). Its a joke what is happening, barthorpe is a disgrace and sadly the 'allegedly' after every statement is probably needed. According to FSSC theres buyers who have expressed an interest too so it's just simply ego at this point from barthorpe, and it was in the first place, he wrote on facebook he only bought them becuase of football manager. If that really was the Rushall chairman i would have had a word about that blob. Absolute wetwipe, fair play for keeping the camera on him a worldwide embarrasment is deserved. Thanks again.
Another brilliant blog as all yours are. keep the great videos coming and don't take any notice of any fans that gives you stick, you don't deserve it. Considering your a leeds fan fan from Norwich your a good guy from Colin a Ipswich fan
Although it's probably not for me to apologise but as someone who grew up with Rushall as a local team I am sorry a few moronic supporters impacted your video. Dales Lane where Rushall play is a great family stadium for a club playing well above where they would be expected to be. Unfortunately like at all clubs we have a few idiots. Keep up the good work and up the away days 👏🏻
I am Walsall fan from Rushall who also watches Rushall a few times a season and wishes them well.. The Rushall idiot is an ex Walsall fan and a well known embarrasment with a alcohol problem. I think he got banned from Walsall about 8 years ago. Sorry you had to put up with him Ellis. Whats happened to Farsley is a terrible story that you are rightly bringing attention to. Well done on making the video
as someone who lives near the celts, its sad to see as i used to go to most home games with friends and enjoy watching a local team but now the players i liked have gone and i cant even watch them.
People should know about Sassuolo football club in Italy, they currently sit at the top of serie b after being relegated last season for the first time in around 10 or so years, because of the owner and his wife passing away in quick succession, giving ownership then to the son of the previous owner. After a poor last season, theyve been doing not too bad in serie b. They've been playing in Reggio Emilia a town thats over an hour away from Sassuolo and pushed the home team (ac Reggiana) out of their own stadium (also in serie b), forcing them to play in another smaller stadium, even though they have the mapei (stadium tricolore) stadium in their own city. You can't even buy any merch from the stadium, only some snack and beer. I've been to a game against Spezzia, one of the bigger games in the season, and barely anyone was there. It was surreal to see such a large and neat stadium go empty. The away fans were almost more and were definitely louder than the Sassuolo fans. If you find the budget to go over to Northern Italy (directly between Parma and Modena) definitely visit Reggio Emilia and Sassuolo.
Jesus christ i've never seen anything like this before. Really feels like a ghost town watching this match. The owner really needs to resign because he's dictating everything and making stupid decisions it's ridiculous. And those small middle-aged Rushall fans, good god...Hope things will turn out well for Farsley Celtic
I’m originally from Farsley and this whole situation is horrific The cynic in me is thinking the posh new houses built next to Farsley stadium and the stadium land could be worth something….allegedly 🙈👀 Your speeches here were superb mate, spot on with every word Up the Away Days
Suggestion: how about visiting some grounds with the best food or food trucks outside the stadium and sharing an Away Days food experience? One site I found has Birmingham City, Grimsby Town, and Rotherham as the top 3.
You should watch a Leamington FC game, specifically for the manager, Paul Holleran. He has been in charge since 2009 so has to be one of, if not the actual longest serving manager in English football right now.
I watch each week the is no need to threaten you boys! Another great video. Alfie you done really well. I listen to you dont know what you doing. You always mate me smile. Thanks mate for you being you and I wish you all the best for the wedding you deserve happiness mate. Once again thanks. Tom
Absolutely heartbreaking story, there’s obviously a lot us fans of other teams don’t know too. Shame there couldn’t be a targeted game for fans of outside teams to turn up and show what a mess this club is in, get the media and TV on board and it would be great exposure. We maybe tribal but at the end of the day we are also a football family and as a supporter of Blackpool FC I’m more than aware of other clubs fans been very supportive in our hours of need. Good Luck Farley Celtic and great work Ellis and Away Days
Farsley Celtic did have a semi decent ground at one point, I know that because I was banned for life from there for apparently selling speed in the toilet at an 18th birthday party of a friend, about 18 years ago. Mental really as I wasn't. It was weed.
This made me laugh out loud 😂
Tbf probably be banned for weed too anyway
Allegedly
I thought this video was going to be about Truro
Football really is beautiful eh
Ellis to take revenge by attending every Rushall game for a season. Guaranteeing relegation.
Hopefully they go down anyway l. Scummy fans don't deserve to watch good teams
GET. THEM. DOWN.
Yeesssssssss Ellis
Don't curse them 😅
Imagine a typical Walsall fan and remove a few braincells... that's Rushall
I am one of the bar staff who work at Farsley Celtic and to see this and share it is something which needed to be done a long time ago. The club has no money coming in whatsoever hence why the pitch looks the way it does. Us bar staff have not been paid our wages since last February. Hopefully this video will spread awareness and get us the money we are owed
Go on lass, what she says is completely true because I am one of those bar staff too, it's an absolute disgrace that he is being allowed to ruin our football club like this #BarthorpeOut
Thank you for sharing this, so sorry to hear this too.
Ella we are with you and kiran and the others who haven't been paid that's why I lost my head and got barred people were standing like sheep letting it happen the supporters club did their boycott too late good luck to you lass I'll see you about x
@@kiransarda8502keep fighting mate me and Logan tried to shout some sense in to them look where that got us ,barthorpe is a charlatan let's hope he gets his desserts
Ella and Kiran, thanks for sharing and sorry to hear about this. I would encourage you to report this to the league, maybe HMRC. As shown in the video, once you do this it might put enough pressure on the owner to pay you what you are owed. Good luck 🤞
Rushall Olympic fans abusing Ellis? They’ve a new enemy in me. Only your fans are allowed to abuse you.
Hahahahahahahaha
@@awaydaysfootball ellis u on smoke today legendddd
Besides Ben Gibbs, this is why I love this channel. Once again Ellis shows that it isn't really football he loves, it's community and what football means to the community around it. Unfortunately this time it was a bad effect the chairman has had on this club. Not that I think you should go on a run about clubs that need better chairmanship, but this is something that needs doing and few could do it as well as you Ellis.
You guys handled those guys really well, never understood why people get so aggressive but then play it off as "Just banter" maybe some of em see it as that but clearly those of them shouting just wanted to fight 😭 (With the only other 3 people in the stands)
To be fair I do find funny how people banter but wanna do the bully thing lol
Just banter and not be personal
Also no making threats is not banter it’s an illegal offence and can be arrestsble “ woke “ ain’t it it’s an call to action and is not part of football culture
But yeah I hope you and everyone have a save week and great 2025
Can't stand people that get aggressive. I remember my local team Stalybridge Celtic played against Boreham Wood in a FA Cup game a few years back one of our regular fans has a drum and one of the Boreham Wood fans took exception to it because he was standing next to it in the next stand and kept saying for us to shut the F up next thing you know he's come over with his mats kicked the drum over and smashed it to pieces. Stewards kicked them out but what's the point it's literally a game of Football. Unfortunately we lost the game too
They just wanted to slap someone other than their misses for a change
Nothing banter about this. Needless aggression.
Guaranteed they're on the beak.
Thank you for covering our club’s story Ellis. I’ve been a fan and volunteer at the club for almost 20 years and this is the worst state I’ve seen it in, even compared to when the initial club went under in 2010 (at least we were able to play fixtures at home that season).
The way the owner Paul Barthorpe has handled the club, particularly over the last nine months has been absolutely catastrophic (allegedly 😂).
The owner refuses to have an open dialogue with supporters and as you referenced in the video just pans off the non commencement of pitch work as third-party contractor issues. At almost any point when fans question claims and promises made in the ‘chairman’s updates’ they’re almost immediately blocked by the chairman who likes to muscle in on the club’s Facebook account, rather than front up to the issues he’s created. Basically acting like a wannabe dictator.
In a similar ilk, the club’s recently appointed CEO was then calling fans ‘dick heads’ on social media, when they again challenged some of the unsubstantiated claims and promises from the owner in terms of the commencement of pitch works. The relationship between senior management at the club and the supporters is non-existent and has been this way for months, almost completely down to the way he communicates or more so refuses to communicate properly with the wider club, let alone even attend first team games.
Almost all of the senior and long serving players and coaching staff have left the club in recent months due to the way they’ve been treated by the owner. Despite his claims to the contrary, there have been regular occurrences where players have been several weeks behind on wages and with so little income streams currently for the club, it’s little wonder where the source of this lies. The owner has regularly stated that this isn’t the case but why would players be lying about this, particularly ones that have had 5+ year associations with the club and care deeply about Farsley Celtic?
We started the season with the manager that had kept us up last season with a healthy sized first team senior squad able to compete adequately at National League North level. After he was let go and the player wages started to be deferred, our core squad started to be ripped apart with senior players and staff departing. The incoming manager is doing his best and has picked up numerous solid results so far this season but with little experience of management at this level and clearly having the budget for the squad slashed, a reliance on predominantly younger players and a revolving door of loan players is starting to take its toll on our league performances. They’re doing their best but there’s only so much they can achieve against normally functioning semi-professional sides they’re up against.
It’s such a shame that the owner has brought the club into this state it’s currently in but he does not seem to want to or even be able to be honest with the loyal and honest fans that this community club thrives upon. Countless excuses about why the pitch work has not commenced just don’t wash anymore, it’s clear that combined with the issues with deferred wages, the owner simply doesn’t have the money to fund the pitch improvements, let alone cover the cost budgeted for the first team that started the season.
In cases like this, as you said at the end of the video Ellis, is when owner should be honest to themselves and the fans and admit that they’re not able to effectively run the football club and make the decision to sell before it’s too late.
Grown men who work a dead end 9-5 jealous of lads making it big on UA-cam. Up the away days
Wonder if their work bosses would be happy to see them behaving that way on camera??
Got second hand embarrassment from those rushall olympic fc losers. Actual boomer old men trying to start fights in a empty stadium. They're probably the age of Ellis and Alfie combined. Barring them, another top video though lads. Keep it up
Their biggest achievement would be winning the Birmingham senior cup 😂😂
Ellis you have so much patience & tolorence with people , most people would’ve just gotten irritated or even mad at those aggro mad men. The game of football is all we need ⚽️ condolences to the fans
I love the banter with the keeper 🤣 "Let one in will you?" "I already have"
Thank you Ellis. I'm a Farsley fan that goes to home and away games. I moved back to Kent a few years ago and up until this season was going to pretty much every Saturday game.
At times not knowing when and where we're going to play has made it impossible to afford to go to games and it feels like I'm missing a big part of my life.
The owner is just a tyrant who shouldnt be anywhere near a football club. I'm sure he'll come out with lies saying some stuff you've said isn't true. Unfortunately it is true.
Currently I'm unable to see his updates on Facebook when they come because he's blocked a lot of loyal fans for little or no reason. What a joke.
Barthorpe out
EDIT: The maddest thing is, theres plenty of things he hasnt mentioned too. Plenty of staff haventt been paid. Some bar staff since Feb!!
On the way to Curzon Ashton we got placed on another transfer embargo I believe. This resulted in the manager getting off the coach.
When the fans turned up at Kidderminster this year, we didnt have a registed keeper for the game until an hour or so before.
The list goes on!!
Played cricket against you a few years ago when Tonbridge were playing Farsley in a pre season friendly- seems an age ago now! Such a shit situation for you all, remembered you saying that you went to all the games even though you were in Kent, hopefully you get your club back soon 👍🏼
@@Steadman19 Haha yes mate! I remember. Hope you're doing well. Been meaning to go to a Tonbridge game with all this going on. Maybe see you soon!
@@ruharris2274 yeah can’t complain, hope you’re doing well all things considered. Your boys are smashing it at cricket! Get yourself to Tonbridge, always a good atmosphere 👍🏼
Ru does more miles to home games than the farsley team do he has to be fan of the century x
Rushall fan probably been banned from every other club in Birmingham and surrounding areas and has been forced to support them
Ex walsall fans sadly
He used to support Walsall and got banned a few years ago. I went to a Rushall game with my girlfriend recently and he made it a miserable experience shame as there a lot of good people at Rushall.
Sure would be a shame if someone posted their socials and the Internet did what the Internet does@@ankrett19
“Is that all you bring away” was amazing 😂
Good on you for bringing light to this, something really needs to be done with owners doing this kind of shady crap. Oh and the guy causing drama probably just made the preassumption you’re exploiting the club for UA-cam clout instead of highlighting the issues the club is having, if he had any sense he wouldn’t make presumptions and just made himself look a Pratt to thousands of people, wouldn’t worry about it mate.
Shit on the Villa
Loved the rant about the chairman. Hope he watches!
What a disparity between the fan having a civil convo and the one saying he was gonna assault you. Ruins the sport for everyone
Clearly a sniff head too
You should go to a scunthorpe game and talk about there bad ownership and their fall from league 2 and even championship at one point. Great vid as always
I was going to comment something about scunthorpe, I'm a fan we have got rid of the bad ownership now luckily but now how a long way to go to get back to where we was
They are on the way back hopefully
@@RueRuzzaim a scunny fan aswell. Im so glad we got rid of the fat controller. UTI
We’ve managed to get rid of our bad owner thankfully. Back on the right track
As a Blyth Spartans fan who was on the other side of their final day survival I really want to hate them but having seen them play South Shields and talking to fams feel so desperately sad about the whole situation. Fantastic video again Ellis
Those Rushall "ultras" made me spit my tea out, I'm crying laughing at them!
Just three games ago Farsley won away at Curzon Ashton, who are top of the league. So it's pretty clear the quality is there and they could be a comfortable mid-table team if the owner puts even a modicum of effort into running the club.
Those fans should be embarrassed by their behaviour. Why the hell do grown men act like they are all hard. Disgrace! You handled that well. Great video.
So so sad. Visited Farsley 3 times with my club York City. A great ground and lots of memories. Great, friendly bar staff, food was amazing and always looked after us york fans. Genuinely so sad what’s going on, even being fairly local. You see the odd news article about them but MORE AWARENESS IS NEEDED! Thanks guys for documenting this for the wider football audience 👍
George is a very nice lad tbh ,when at Scarborough he once bought a young Scarborough lad a drink and asked stewards to give it to him, last season or start of this one
Very nice lad
Can see he carries himself well tbf. Fair play to the lad ! Hope he sees his team on the up
I'm a Rushall supporter and I can speak for a good majority of us, Definitely disappointing to see their attitude and puts a HUGE dampener on what was for us a direly needed win for Rushall.
You're a top fella Ellis and I appreciate what you do for clubs in our league, If you ever find yourself covering another game that involves Rushall in the future, I would hope to see better people representing our club as there's some fantastic people in our fan base. Genuinely heartbroken to see some of ours acting like that.
I'm sorry you had to deal with those unwarranted threats, and I would hope the rest of the clubs followers would agree seeing this video.
Calling someone you don't know a nonce is never banter. Can get people into a lot of trouble, they always seem to find the morons don't they. Top vid
Go back there to watch Buxton mate, a cracking day out, with a very passionate crowd and on the up!
What a good video idea and honestly I really really enjoy and look foward to seeing “awaydays has uploaded” on my news feed ❤
Get in there Away Days! That ground looks mint, better than a lot of places we have here in Province. So happy this new video popped up , Happy New Years from Canada!
Ellis lad, you’re it! What great work, great advocacy and solid reporting that can hopefully have a genuine impact on this club. Keep doing you Ellis! You’re a treasure and we so appreciate you and the away days boys! ❤
No way the team bus stopped for Ellis..🤣
What a bunch of absolute mellon's those away fans are. You were just having some fun, I was enjoying the chanting back and forth, that whats it's all about. Well handled. One day it might be their club in trouble, and they need someone to help raise awareness, bet they soon change their tune if it happens to them.
Massive respect to every Farsley celtic fan.who has to travel two hours for a home game.i do hope you move back soon. Loved coming to Farsley. Great people and very welcoming 🙏
This is a brilliant and informative video Ellis. As a Leamington fan (and Head of Media, but fan first), we were Farsley’s first “home” game of the season - that was meant to be at Farsley, then Bradford (PA), and then Alfreton - where it was finally played.
We were lucky that Farsley fans didn’t boycott that one as it was their first (and meant to be only) game played at a neutral ground & we got to speak to many of them (about 30 there) and really hear first hand about everything. Really hoping that something gets sorted soon for them and their close knit fanbase 🤞💛
Its sad to see Farsley Celtic in such a state now. Loved our pre season friendlys with them. Hope everything gets better for them soon. Halifax town fan 💙
Well done Ellis, showing what has happened to Farsley really opened my eyes to the dire situation lower league clubs face, and this is terrible. Hope Farsley manage to get a new owner who cares for the club, and sorts out returfing quickly. As for the abuse you got, I think that was jealousy because you where covering Farsley and not Rushall.
I think this was my favorite episode. Hilarious but also deadly serious. Well done, Ellis.
loving this video and fair play to you and Ellis just keeping calm with the situation of agro. about farseley I completely understand about ownership problems , I'm a reading football cub fan and it's hard day in and day out trying to deal with supporting a club dying inside. so fantastic video all the best for them really hope they sort it out soon !!!!
A strange, but thought-provoking video Ellis. Expertly handled, and, I hope for the sake of the fans the club is sold. Keep up the great work.
Great video. Hate seeing proper football clubs mismanaged and run into the ground. Brilliant work highlighting the issues
Leeds have a stadium, no?
Yes they do buts that’s a totally different thing
Are you f kidding ms
No, they have a school playground, banter club
It’s the fans in Leeds that are homeless
Well done. Dumbest comment ever! 🎉
Great video Ellis, my club Truro city is definitely a club you might want to cover, we had been homeless for years. We've finally got a home again now back in Cornwall with a great new facility but the story of the last 15 years or so has been crazy, not least the last few. Having to ground share with multiple clubs the farthest being Gloucester city 200 miles away, playing 10 games in 20 days at the end of last season being just a couple of the situations we've had to deal with. Thankfully with the new ground, new owners, big attendances and having a great season in the NLS we can finally look forwards to a bright future. Keep up the good work.
Aylesbury United is also an interesting story.
They have had no home since 2006, they play at our place (Chesham United) they’ve bounced around since 2006.
The situation asto why is complex but to simplify it, Aylesbury town council mugged them right off.
I know this is a far cry, but you should come to Chester fc, our stadium in in 2 countries, and the club has a lot of history all round, it has no owner - community owned - and I think the atmosphere is great home and away! If you see this, please consider it, as always a great video :)
I also back this! Had a great time there! Was surreal watching the game in Wales 🤣🤣🤣
we want gibbs.
As Buxton are my team with United I hope you enjoyed the visit to the ground and the place, and be sure to come back another time when it’s our club playing 😊
Ellis. I love the humour of your content. But this must be the single most depressing but important video you have ever done. Thank you for sharing the pain for those poor fans
As a farsley Celtic fan for the last 10 years it is really sad to see what’s been happening and I appreciate you showing a light on this. P.S the farsley scorer in this game is my mate from school, top top player
Such a sad subject, but thanks Ellis for getting it out to your audience.
Kudos to George for helping yall.
Allegedly! ha
Ellis, please come to Dundalk in Ireland to see us. We used to win the loi every season and playi in Europe against Arsenal just couple seasons ago, now we are relegated and in financial ruins and almost went bankrupt. Please come over and share the story of our once great football club. Thank you
Happy new year mate. Heres to another cracking year. Hope to see you back in Oxford when the new stadium comes to my ends ! Be a pleasure to have ya
I found my new fm24 save! I’ll have them in the champions league with a 30,000 all seater stadium in 10 years lol
With Lamine Yamal being their star player 😂😂
Of course you will because the game lets you win so you keep playing.
Get rid of the owner tho
Great video Ellis, highlighting once again the problems with ownership in football. Hopefully there will be a resolution reached soon, such a shame to see.
Well done Ellis and crew for raising the profile of this. Hopefully it gets sorted ASAP.
The abuse disguised as ‘banter’ is something that is unfortunately really common, you could see it in the “we became refs” video as well. Sad
Feel for the Farsley fans. It’s an absolute nightmare for them this season. Usually a nice and close away day aswel 😫
Check out Truro city and their 23/24 season.
Homeless, had to move ground 3 times due to matches being postponed at the venues they were ground sharing. Ended up playing games in Gloucester. And because of those postponements had to play 8 matches in two weeks at the end if the season.
Their commute to Gloucester for matches? 3hrs.
Went to Farsley Celtic twice, one with my team FC Halifax (in a friendly), then again as a neutral when they played Alfreton Town in 2021, I had no idea this had happened to them, I hope they can get it all resolved soon, Good Luck Farsley!!!
Been a farsley Celtic follower for the last 15 years, started going due to the cost of going to Leeds United games, had some great seasons about 5 or 6 years ago but I haven’t been to a game this season because of other commitments and the fact a 10 minute commute to the home ground has turned to a 2 hour one, thanks for sharing light on the shady side of non-league
changing teams 🤮
@@leedsalexshush it’s not like he picked a new club in the championship or something. Don’t be a child lol
Looks like their actual stadium has been transported to Chernobyl 😮.
Fair play to you Ellis for bringing this to the attention of more people.
Guiseley being mentioned is top tier, my dad is a season ticket owner and I go to games every so often. I remember Farsley Celtic being a team in Leeds when I was a kid, had a couple of friends who played for them (Or at least said they did)
Rushall Olympic fans embarrassing themselves
Credits to you, Alfie and that Farsley Celtic fan for attending. This club must be revived before it's too late.
as someone who live in the middle of the us and doesnt know jack about soccer, your videos get me so invested somehow
*football, my apologies
Glad to help! 🤝
Ellis, this is my club. My first team. It's true heartbreak. Makes you want to cry 😔
0:12 no need to talk about Elland Road like that
I saw the title and thought he was going to talk about Flamengo
As a Coventry fan, we've been through hell and back, two groundshares among other things so I know exactly what Farsley fans are going through, its horrible and I really feel for them. They don't deserve it, pure and simple. I know other clubs are really struggling too, Scunthorpe being one that comes to mind, it always comes back to the chairman and what almost feels like a personal vendetta.
Utterly fair play to George for taking you to the game and putting the story ahead of his own personal boycott. Please have him back on sometime even if it's just an update on the club.
Great video as always, you never miss. Its so sad how there fan base went crazy to what it is today. They need a saver ASAP
"lay it back I'll whip it over" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
So SO upset with myself
That attempt to “whip it back over” is probably the single funniest Away Days moment ever
😂😂😂😂
@awaydaysfootball to be fair, it was better than I could do
A lot of people hate on Wrexham now because we’re rich but we had a terrible owner who wanted to run us into the ground and build houses where our stadium is. All the best Farsley, I hope this story turns around for you like ours did
Thank you so much for covering the mess we're experiencing Ellis. You're a legend.
Great to see you highlighting the plight of the non league teams and how the real fans fight for their club/community
Glad to see Ellis is giving the classic football shirts lawyers something to do
your videos never miss! always a pleasure to watch
Always sad to see. Sympathies from another team that lost their home (and club itself) AFC Rushden & Diamonds. We figured out how to get into our 6-7k seat stadium so we could sit in our old seats and walk on the ruined pitch like these guys but eventually they demolished it and all that is left is rubble. Such a nice ground it was (Nene park), after Rushden & Diamonds FC went bust, Kettering Town left their actual home in Kettering and tried to take it on.... which resulted in them nearly going bust as well and now they and AFC RD are ground sharing at local clubs still over 10 years later.
Nene Park was a fantastic ground, even as a Kettering fan it's a shame to see it gone when driving up the A6. In another spectacular display of poor football club ownership by Imraan Ladak and incompentency from the council, we lost our home of 114 years at Rockingham Road. I can't even look at the houses built on it when I drive past there. When we moved to Nene Park there was no chance we'd afford to keep the lights on. The only thing I liked about R&D was the diamond burger! Some cracking memories of big derby days which I hope at some point in the future we'll experience again. UTP! ;)
Ironic quoting the Wealdstone raider - Wealdstone fc’s owner sold their ground in Harrow to build a tescos and left the club homeless - ripped the heart out of the town and caused the club issues for decades
Ellis!! - Get yourselves over to the 4th oldest football club in the world! Worksop Town FC, myself and my better half love watching your videos & we live literally round the corner from the club! (Also, I flipping love Alfie, please bring Alfie along too!) 😊
Your red face after your kick I think I felt the heat from Eastbourne lol love your content mate .
The ultimate Away Days: a team with no home.
Don't do social media so trying youtube. Thankyou for making this video, i'm not a farsley supporter but fly the flag for non league in Leeds, and have watched Farsley home and away many times, including the game when they stayed up (saw myself on the pitch in those clips haha). Its a joke what is happening, barthorpe is a disgrace and sadly the 'allegedly' after every statement is probably needed. According to FSSC theres buyers who have expressed an interest too so it's just simply ego at this point from barthorpe, and it was in the first place, he wrote on facebook he only bought them becuase of football manager.
If that really was the Rushall chairman i would have had a word about that blob. Absolute wetwipe, fair play for keeping the camera on him a worldwide embarrasment is deserved. Thanks again.
Another brilliant blog as all yours are. keep the great videos coming and don't take any notice of any fans that gives you stick, you don't deserve it. Considering your a leeds fan fan from Norwich your a good guy from Colin a Ipswich fan
More than sad...Thanks for covering this.
City of Liverpool or Warrington Rylands would be interesting clubs to look at too.
Although it's probably not for me to apologise but as someone who grew up with Rushall as a local team I am sorry a few moronic supporters impacted your video. Dales Lane where Rushall play is a great family stadium for a club playing well above where they would be expected to be. Unfortunately like at all clubs we have a few idiots. Keep up the good work and up the away days 👏🏻
I am Walsall fan from Rushall who also watches Rushall a few times a season and wishes them well.. The Rushall idiot is an ex Walsall fan and a well known embarrasment with a alcohol problem. I think he got banned from Walsall about 8 years ago. Sorry you had to put up with him Ellis.
Whats happened to Farsley is a terrible story that you are rightly bringing attention to. Well done on making the video
as someone who lives near the celts, its sad to see as i used to go to most home games with friends and enjoy watching a local team but now the players i liked have gone and i cant even watch them.
Your skin looks great mate! I took the same medicine you did for acne and I’m so glad it worked for you
People should know about Sassuolo football club in Italy, they currently sit at the top of serie b after being relegated last season for the first time in around 10 or so years, because of the owner and his wife passing away in quick succession, giving ownership then to the son of the previous owner. After a poor last season, theyve been doing not too bad in serie b. They've been playing in Reggio Emilia a town thats over an hour away from Sassuolo and pushed the home team (ac Reggiana) out of their own stadium (also in serie b), forcing them to play in another smaller stadium, even though they have the mapei (stadium tricolore) stadium in their own city. You can't even buy any merch from the stadium, only some snack and beer. I've been to a game against Spezzia, one of the bigger games in the season, and barely anyone was there. It was surreal to see such a large and neat stadium go empty. The away fans were almost more and were definitely louder than the Sassuolo fans. If you find the budget to go over to Northern Italy (directly between Parma and Modena) definitely visit Reggio Emilia and Sassuolo.
Jesus christ i've never seen anything like this before. Really feels like a ghost town watching this match. The owner really needs to resign because he's dictating everything and making stupid decisions it's ridiculous. And those small middle-aged Rushall fans, good god...Hope things will turn out well for Farsley Celtic
I’m originally from Farsley and this whole situation is horrific
The cynic in me is thinking the posh new houses built next to Farsley stadium and the stadium land could be worth something….allegedly 🙈👀
Your speeches here were superb mate, spot on with every word
Up the Away Days
Imagine being one of the twenty odd Rushall fans and giving it like that 😂 bet their other halves are all at home looking longingly at train times
7:30 reasonable crashout
Good to see you doing videos on non league clubs that are in desperate need of help, Farsley Celtic are a sad state of affairs currently
This is the first time I've watched one of your videos and it's at a ground I've been to! Apart from Wembley to see Saints win the playoff final. 🏆
Suggestion: how about visiting some grounds with the best food or food trucks outside the stadium and sharing an Away Days food experience? One site I found has Birmingham City, Grimsby Town, and Rotherham as the top 3.
You should watch a Leamington FC game, specifically for the manager, Paul Holleran. He has been in charge since 2009 so has to be one of, if not the actual longest serving manager in English football right now.
I watch each week the is no need to threaten you boys! Another great video. Alfie you done really well. I listen to you dont know what you doing. You always mate me smile. Thanks mate for you being you and I wish you all the best for the wedding you deserve happiness mate. Once again thanks. Tom
I suffer with mental health and it's good to know there are good people out there.
Absolutely heartbreaking story, there’s obviously a lot us fans of other teams don’t know too. Shame there couldn’t be a targeted game for fans of outside teams to turn up and show what a mess this club is in, get the media and TV on board and it would be great exposure. We maybe tribal but at the end of the day we are also a football family and as a supporter of Blackpool FC I’m more than aware of other clubs fans been very supportive in our hours of need. Good Luck Farley Celtic and great work Ellis and Away Days
They also used to ground share with Albion Sports, a team based in Bradford, Farsley is Leeds way