Underrated part of Sampdoria history: Years before that 91-92 team that lost to Cruyff’s Barca dream team in the UCL final, they started building by signing Liverpool’s captain Graeme Souness to lead the young team. Souness was coming off of winning 3 CL trophies with Liverpool. Souness instilled a lot of toughness in the Sampdoria team, finishing 6th in the ballon dor voting in the process (while playing one of the most under appreciated positions on the field). He was long gone by the time they won the scudetto in ‘91, but his fingerprints were all over that team.
Used to be Sampdora on the old manager games from 2005. Remember them as a plucky underdog that made Serie-A exciting in the 90's. Sad to see the state of that club now. Hope they recover, return to Serie-A and be a plucky underdog again one day.
Do a video on IF Brommapojkarna and how they were promoted or relegated in every season (bar 4 seasons) from 2006 onwards. 7 promotions, 6 relegations and they haven't stayed in the same division for 2 consecutive seasons since 2006. Joel Asoro, John Guidetti, Dejan Kulusevski, Anders Limpar, Kristoffer Nordfeldt, Lucas Bergvall, Ludwig Augustinsson and Albin Ekdal are notable players who have started their career there
Video request: Please make a video about FC Twente. Became champions in 2010, but entered a steady decline from 2015 when it came out that the owner had committed shady deals and ran the club into the ground. This led to relegation in 2019 and the club nearly losing its professional license. The club has slowly returned to form however and qualified for the Champions League last season.
tonight, the champions of the Welsh premier league will be hosting Astana of Kazakhstan in the Europa conference. despite this the Welsh top flight is still ignored and has never attracted a crowd of more than 2,000. please dive into the short history of our league and where it may go from here
ngl I wonder why there is only one Welsh professional club playing in the Welsh league (all the others I know of play in the English league system, i.e. Cardiff City and Wrexham)
Merthyr Town. Almost all the team born in Wales and kicking Southern English butts every week. Their fans are happier than a granny throwing her knickers at a Tom Jones concert.
@@havoc3-243the really short answer to this is that the Welsh League was only founded as its own entity in the early 90s. Before that, Welsh clubs competed in the English league system. For the big five - Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham, Newport and Merthyr Tydfil - there was no financial incentive to joining the Welsh League as the vast majority of the other clubs making up the initial league were basically village teams - not one of them had played above Step 8 of the English leagues at any point. So, from a business point of view, there's more money in playing Bristol Rovers than Aberystwyth and the Welsh League wasn't going to change that. It probably won't happen in the near future, either, Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham are all likely to be playing at Championship level - at least - for most of the foreseeable future. So, to get them to switch, either the FAW need to find a billion-pound TV deal or sponsorship, or the four professional Welsh clubs (Merthyr have sadly gone bust and been reformed) would *all* have to be stuck in and struggling to get out of the National League for a while, leaving the prospect of European football through the Welsh League as their most lucrative route of income. And, even then, it would have to be an especially weak National League with no other ex-league clubs in it.
@@havoc3-243 we didn't have our own domestic league until the 90s, so all our teams played in England. when the league of wales as it was known then was formed, 8 Welsh teams refused to join (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrecsam, Merthyr, Colwyn bay, Caernarfon and barry if I remember correctly) Caernarfon and barry eventually gave in, so did Colwyn bay in 2019, but the rest are all still in England.
Would be interesting to have these: 1.Rise of the Indonesian national football team. I don't talk about that controversial Bahrain game, which seems to be a trending topic. I would say we still have a long trip to play for the World Cup due to the naturalized players. And also, their youth levels were so phenomenal. The U-23 team had almost went through the Olympics. If it was a thing that prevented us for achieving great results, the answer is simple: the referee! 2.Shocking downfall of Ghana national football team. They were surely didn't qualify for the next AFCON after 2 abysmal AFCON performances, which is a massive failures for such a big African country. They didn't even win a single game in the qualifiers. The World Cup qualifiers seems to be far, but Comoros were quite tough.
As a ferrari fan alfie, showing a ferrari f8 spyder instead of the F430 spyder that you just mentioned is a crime punishable by prison sentence under tifosi law
I would love to see What has gone right at Aberdeen and possibly what has gone wrong at Partizan Belgrade. They are on their 3rd manager of the season.
I was one of those who asked for a "What on Earth is Going on at Sampdoria" video two seasons ago when they had that horrific 22/23 campaign. I'm a Napoli supporter, and seeing them this close to going down to the third tier of Italian football has to be the biggest club-level disaster that Calcio has seen since ours and Fiorentina's bankruptcies in the early 2000s; and we've seen a LOT of these disasters over the years, see Chievo and Parma. I hope we get to see them back in Serie A sooner than later.
The fact that Quagliarella outscored CR7 at the age of 38 is crazy, Nd then he got beaten by Immobile as well the next season shows how normal train of thought doesn't apply to Serie A. Anything can happen
When I think of sampdoria I think of waking up early Saturday mornings mid 90s watching football Italia on channel 4 to see this young midfielder they had coming thru who was gonna be a star called Clarence seedorf
The reason they were as good as they were in the 90's was directly contributed to Vialli, Mancini, Vierchowod and Atilla Lombardo. The Italian core and all internationals. Sampdoria's fall is directly a picture of the struggles of developing talent local talent in Italy. Italian sides were as strong as they were due to the Italian players being as good as they were. The generation after the Totti, Pirlo, Buffon generation didn't come to the fore. It's seemingly at a turning point now. It's impressive that we won a trophy with our worst generation though in a dark time for our football.
They really just couldn't maintain on keeping their top Italian players as all of them left sooner or later for bigger clubs. Vialli leaving for Juventus, Mancini going to Lazio, Lombardo going to Juventus, as well as Vierchowod.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 689) Alternativly you could do "Best German players who played outside the Bundesliga" or something like that if you prefer. I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Which clubs have filled the void of the 1990s superclubs in Italy? Parma and Sampdoria have fallen off as mentioned, but which clubs are only now contending for Europe regularly? It feels like the same six odd teams every year
@@SKa-tt9nm True, I forget that they weren't considered a major club for most of their history, Atalanta and Bologna were still high up on that all time table too
@@manxmanc4951 in case you don't know 3 European cups exist, Champions League, Europa League, Conference league and Olympiakos won the Conference league,these are the European cups in our dimension.
@@manxmanc4951 there are 3 european cups in our dimension my friend....Champios league,Europa league, Conference league and Olympiakos won the Conference league and the European Youth league being the first team ever wining 2 European titles in the same season, I would like to hear from you what european cups you have in your dimension
Still wondering when will a video about Thailand's football mismanagement come to play. Having one of the best football leagues in Asia and clubs among some of Asia's richest, yet their national team is so mediocre with that insane investment. In fact, they could not even beat a weakened China in the WCQ said something.
I often look at HITC videos and think, that might be interesting to watch , then i see another 30 minute plus video and think nah , there is only so many facts to listen to before you have the story. Videos around 20 minutes of a nice bite sized chunk , where you can watch with a cup of tea are what youtube is about. 30 odd minutes just become long and drawn out imo. It's so off putting.
Fortunately for you there’s always a club in crisis eh. As usual after 15 mins I find myself drifting off in thought about other matters whilst you drone on in the background seemingly endlessly until after 36 excruciatingly long minutes the pain finally ends and all is well on UA-cam again. Why watch then you may ask? I’m a masochist so there’s yer answer.
Exactly, the videos are so drawn out on far too many "facts" I just want the interesting part about the club and what happened , not what someone had to eat in 1979 , I get 5 minutes in and just realise its going to be a long hard slog to get through, I see 30 minutes and stop watching. 20 minutes , less long drawn out facts are ideal for youtube imo. I think subscriptions would go through the roof if he cut down on the drawn out long winded "facts" It's almost like he talks without commas and full stops.
I think your attention span may vary depending on your interest for the subject matter. You probably don't care enough for Sampdoria and/or Italian football to watch a 36-minute video.
Underrated part of Sampdoria history:
Years before that 91-92 team that lost to Cruyff’s Barca dream team in the UCL final, they started building by signing Liverpool’s captain Graeme Souness to lead the young team. Souness was coming off of winning 3 CL trophies with Liverpool.
Souness instilled a lot of toughness in the Sampdoria team, finishing 6th in the ballon dor voting in the process (while playing one of the most under appreciated positions on the field). He was long gone by the time they won the scudetto in ‘91, but his fingerprints were all over that team.
When Sampdoria lost to Barca in 1992, it wasn't the UCL Final. It was the European Cup final.
Proud Sampdoria fan from Singapore since 1995.
Day 4 of Requesting Top 7 Best Footballer Hair Transplants
i swear if this gets done before my Welsh premier league idea I'll lose it 😭
@@ifan_1234 i hope you support Airbus United
my friend I'm with you on this one
Berbatov and Salah come to mind. Conti as well. Didn’t KDB get one as well?
Agree
Used to love Sampdoria in the 90s, David Platt, proper legend!
Used to be Sampdora on the old manager games from 2005. Remember them as a plucky underdog that made Serie-A exciting in the 90's. Sad to see the state of that club now. Hope they recover, return to Serie-A and be a plucky underdog again one day.
Ah I feel sorry for anyone in the UK who missed out on watching James Richardson presenting Football Italia in the 90s. Absolute peak football TV
Love opening YT at lunchtime and there being a hot, steaming new HITC7 vid
Do a video on IF Brommapojkarna and how they were promoted or relegated in every season (bar 4 seasons) from 2006 onwards. 7 promotions, 6 relegations and they haven't stayed in the same division for 2 consecutive seasons since 2006. Joel Asoro, John Guidetti, Dejan Kulusevski, Anders Limpar, Kristoffer Nordfeldt, Lucas Bergvall, Ludwig Augustinsson and Albin Ekdal are notable players who have started their career there
Love that we’re close in age so your football memories match mine. Alfie is a big dork and we love him for it ❤
Video request: Please make a video about FC Twente. Became champions in 2010, but entered a steady decline from 2015 when it came out that the owner had committed shady deals and ran the club into the ground. This led to relegation in 2019 and the club nearly losing its professional license. The club has slowly returned to form however and qualified for the Champions League last season.
Please do a one like this for Boavista FC. It should be a good review.
tonight, the champions of the Welsh premier league will be hosting Astana of Kazakhstan in the Europa conference. despite this the Welsh top flight is still ignored and has never attracted a crowd of more than 2,000. please dive into the short history of our league and where it may go from here
ngl I wonder why there is only one Welsh professional club playing in the Welsh league (all the others I know of play in the English league system, i.e. Cardiff City and Wrexham)
Could've swore he already did one about the Welsh league
Merthyr Town. Almost all the team born in Wales and kicking Southern English butts every week. Their fans are happier than a granny throwing her knickers at a Tom Jones concert.
@@havoc3-243the really short answer to this is that the Welsh League was only founded as its own entity in the early 90s.
Before that, Welsh clubs competed in the English league system. For the big five - Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham, Newport and Merthyr Tydfil - there was no financial incentive to joining the Welsh League as the vast majority of the other clubs making up the initial league were basically village teams - not one of them had played above Step 8 of the English leagues at any point.
So, from a business point of view, there's more money in playing Bristol Rovers than Aberystwyth and the Welsh League wasn't going to change that.
It probably won't happen in the near future, either, Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham are all likely to be playing at Championship level - at least - for most of the foreseeable future.
So, to get them to switch, either the FAW need to find a billion-pound TV deal or sponsorship, or the four professional Welsh clubs (Merthyr have sadly gone bust and been reformed) would *all* have to be stuck in and struggling to get out of the National League for a while, leaving the prospect of European football through the Welsh League as their most lucrative route of income.
And, even then, it would have to be an especially weak National League with no other ex-league clubs in it.
@@havoc3-243 we didn't have our own domestic league until the 90s, so all our teams played in England. when the league of wales as it was known then was formed, 8 Welsh teams refused to join (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Wrecsam, Merthyr, Colwyn bay, Caernarfon and barry if I remember correctly) Caernarfon and barry eventually gave in, so did Colwyn bay in 2019, but the rest are all still in England.
Next teams have to be Bodo Glimt, Indonesia national team, Valencia, The New Saints
Don't ask about Indonesia. Trolling our country isn't good. We were so f***ed up by the refs!!!
Do a video on the rise of Villa! Exactly two years ago king Unai took over
Still just another pathetic bottlejob English team.....
Can't believe this is episode 45 of the what on earth series lol
Would be interesting to have these:
1.Rise of the Indonesian national football team.
I don't talk about that controversial Bahrain game, which seems to be a trending topic.
I would say we still have a long trip to play for the World Cup due to the naturalized players.
And also, their youth levels were so phenomenal. The U-23 team had almost went through the Olympics.
If it was a thing that prevented us for achieving great results, the answer is simple: the referee!
2.Shocking downfall of Ghana national football team.
They were surely didn't qualify for the next AFCON after 2 abysmal AFCON performances, which is a massive failures for such a big African country.
They didn't even win a single game in the qualifiers.
The World Cup qualifiers seems to be far, but Comoros were quite tough.
As a ferrari fan alfie, showing a ferrari f8 spyder instead of the F430 spyder that you just mentioned is a crime punishable by prison sentence under tifosi law
I don’t like Italian football but I’ll still watch the video 👍
I would love to see What has gone right at Aberdeen and possibly what has gone wrong at Partizan Belgrade. They are on their 3rd manager of the season.
I was one of those who asked for a "What on Earth is Going on at Sampdoria" video two seasons ago when they had that horrific 22/23 campaign. I'm a Napoli supporter, and seeing them this close to going down to the third tier of Italian football has to be the biggest club-level disaster that Calcio has seen since ours and Fiorentina's bankruptcies in the early 2000s; and we've seen a LOT of these disasters over the years, see Chievo and Parma. I hope we get to see them back in Serie A sooner than later.
The fact that Quagliarella outscored CR7 at the age of 38 is crazy, Nd then he got beaten by Immobile as well the next season shows how normal train of thought doesn't apply to Serie A. Anything can happen
About time you done a video on this great team....
Have to do Ghana next HITC
Sampdoria, a club my mom supported for her part. Sad to see what's now.
Man, I missed Maya Yoshida when he was a Sampdoria. Maya Yoshida speaks Fluent Italian.
Sampdoria always reminds me of Football Italia on Channel 4 back in the day.
Video suggession : Arne Slot first ever Feyenoord XI, where are they now
danny drinkwater is outside your house alfie
When I think of sampdoria I think of waking up early Saturday mornings mid 90s watching football Italia on channel 4 to see this young midfielder they had coming thru who was gonna be a star called Clarence seedorf
you know your club is cooked when you get the alfie classic ‘what on earth’ video made on you😭
Fun fact, the SS Andrea Doria, is/was a luxury ocean liner that sank in 1951.
I thought that name sounded familiar lol
Their kits are pure class
I remember going to watch Sampdoria v Lazio early 90s , great game although 3-4 to Lazio. Sampdoria had Platt and Gullitt in their team.
Please make a video on Ghana's downfall
Thank you for making this video a sad outcome for a once great team
The reason they were as good as they were in the 90's was directly contributed to Vialli, Mancini, Vierchowod and Atilla Lombardo. The Italian core and all internationals. Sampdoria's fall is directly a picture of the struggles of developing talent local talent in Italy. Italian sides were as strong as they were due to the Italian players being as good as they were. The generation after the Totti, Pirlo, Buffon generation didn't come to the fore. It's seemingly at a turning point now. It's impressive that we won a trophy with our worst generation though in a dark time for our football.
They really just couldn't maintain on keeping their top Italian players as all of them left sooner or later for bigger clubs. Vialli leaving for Juventus, Mancini going to Lazio, Lombardo going to Juventus, as well as Vierchowod.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 689)
Alternativly you could do "Best German players who played outside the Bundesliga" or something like that if you prefer.
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Have mercy Alfie!
lmao copy and pasted.
bro is already going longer than the German offensive into the USSR
😂😂😂😂😂
Which clubs have filled the void of the 1990s superclubs in Italy? Parma and Sampdoria have fallen off as mentioned, but which clubs are only now contending for Europe regularly? It feels like the same six odd teams every year
Atalanta and Napoli. Napoli was pretty bad in the 90s, relative to their Maradona heyday.
@@SKa-tt9nm True, I forget that they weren't considered a major club for most of their history, Atalanta and Bologna were still high up on that all time table too
You could add Lazio to the list of clubs who have dropped off.
Do one on Inverness CT
Gonna take a wild guess and say Massimo Ferrero is the culprit given how bizzare he is
What On Earth Is Going On At Valencia 2024 Edition, please. Rock bottom of La Liga table.
Who could have figured. Selling both your stars halfway through the season is a bad idea.
Sampdoria: 4x Serie A champs and 2x Champions League winners thanks to me in Football Manager
0:25 Sampdoria isn't a city. It's an acronym for the former clubs merge. Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria make up Sampdoria
If youre my age you think of Graham Souness.
YES!!
Please can you do a what on earth is going on at Vitória FC? (Mourinho's Club)
Requesting a video about the Isle of Man
may you do another video on brest? everyone loves brest
Can you do a video about the incredible rise of heidenheim?
still no video about olympiakos the lowest budget european cup winner in the last 30-40 years?
Nobody cares
Olympiakos won the European cup? You must be from another dimension fella
@@manxmanc4951 in case you don't know 3 European cups exist, Champions League, Europa League, Conference league and Olympiakos won the Conference league,these are the European cups in our dimension.
@@BadselS nobody who does not know anything about football cares you mean
@@manxmanc4951 there are 3 european cups in our dimension my friend....Champios league,Europa league, Conference league and Olympiakos won the Conference league and the European Youth league being the first team ever wining 2 European titles in the same season, I would like to hear from you what european cups you have in your dimension
the downfall of a club always linked to the owner or president, i wonder what is club with the best management of all time *wink wink
Still wondering when will a video about Thailand's football mismanagement come to play. Having one of the best football leagues in Asia and clubs among some of Asia's richest, yet their national team is so mediocre with that insane investment. In fact, they could not even beat a weakened China in the WCQ said something.
Make a video about the rerise of SSV Ulm 1846
29:10 old Italian co-ownership habits die hard, eh?
I dont know but I have a sneaking suspicion that you're about to tell me
What on earth is going on at Inverness Cally Thistle?
Asian Football Confederation did Mohun Bagan dirty y'all.
💀💀💀
i'm not sure but i think the G in Quagliarella is silent
I think of Koeman and the goal that won us the first ucl
benevento next?
course
D14: 7 best female footballers of all time
1. Marta
2. Marta
3. Marta
4. Marta
5. Marta
6. Marta
7. Mia Hamm
I often look at HITC videos and think, that might be interesting to watch , then i see another 30 minute plus video and think nah , there is only so many facts to listen to before you have the story.
Videos around 20 minutes of a nice bite sized chunk , where you can watch with a cup of tea are what youtube is about.
30 odd minutes just become long and drawn out imo.
It's so off putting.
So watch in 10 min chunks if your attention span is so low.
Fortunately for you there’s always a club in crisis eh. As usual after 15 mins I find myself drifting off in thought about other matters whilst you drone on in the background seemingly endlessly until after 36 excruciatingly long minutes the pain finally ends and all is well on UA-cam again. Why watch then you may ask? I’m a masochist so there’s yer answer.
So why even comment?
Just desperate for attention?
Exactly, the videos are so drawn out on far too many "facts" I just want the interesting part about the club and what happened , not what someone had to eat in 1979 , I get 5 minutes in and just realise its going to be a long hard slog to get through, I see 30 minutes and stop watching.
20 minutes , less long drawn out facts are ideal for youtube imo.
I think subscriptions would go through the roof if he cut down on the drawn out long winded "facts"
It's almost like he talks without commas and full stops.
I think your attention span may vary depending on your interest for the subject matter. You probably don't care enough for Sampdoria and/or Italian football to watch a 36-minute video.
A review of boavista?
Are they "sleeping giants" in Portugal and Portos rival?
@@rushisking8955 They may be sleeping but they are not giants by any measure
Muriel is the best player to touch a football
day 2 of requesting a video about parma fc
Clubs just go and gone. Sampdoria does not seem attractive.
So the owner is just a crinimal. I blame the son of the origninal owner.
Andrea Radrizzani. Karma
Good to see you sticking to football and not politics you knew nothing about. 👍🇮🇱🏴
Atalanta any time, lol?
33:55 Is stripping down to your underwear really necessary?
5:14 oh, so he's a fascist 😂😂😂😂
alfie, may i have your postal address. I promise i won't send anything 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷
I put this video on full volume, now my neighbors think I'm having a party. I'm gonna have to disappoint them✨
bot *YOU NEED TO* *GET OUT!*
I don't know who came up with this video, but he's clearly a genius. And so is the cat🌺
bot *YOU NEED TO* *GET OUT!*
Watched this video and realized that my plans for the evening have changed. I will be re-watching it over and over again🌺
you're only 10 minutes into the video, must be really enjoying it
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no way he covered gorillaz fc
“City of Sampdoria” lmao
Yeah... slip of the tongue there