THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MIDLANDS | Football History

Should the Midlands teams be performing better in 22/23 given their incredible history???

Leicester’s Club ambassador alan birchenall has raised millions for local hospitals and charities throughout the years and has ran around the edge of the pitch in the clubs traditional ‘end of season’ run for FORTY years straight! Legend ! He’s had heart defibrillators placed around the whole of Leicestershire! !

Great video. Shame to see the state of midlands football. Imagine the premier league with albion, wolves, villa, Birmingham, Leicester, forest, derby

The story of clough and peter Taylor is sad, they never got to make up in life and I only hope they are mates up there. Forever legends of english football!

Great video, Sam. What Nottingham Forest achieved in the late 70's/early 80's was phenomenal. When Clough and Taylor arrived in 1975 the club was a mid-table Second Division club. All the clubs featured have a proud history.

Great video. Birmingham were actually the first British club in history to play a major European final. The final was contested over two legs in 1960 against FC Barcelona. Unfortunately we lost 4-1 in The Camp Nou (Typical Blues). We reached the final the following year in 1961, becoming the first British club to beat Inter Milan in The San Siro along the way, once again were defeated over two legs (4-2) by AS Roma in The Stadio Olimpico. We don’t have the trophies a lot of other Midlands clubs have, but we were pioneers for British football in terms of the European game. Great Video, enjoyed it.

Only just found this video (I was at MK Dons game, love the vid 😉). How times have changed for Villa since this video was filmed. Nothing short of amazing since the appointment of Emery. Working with essentially the same squad that Gerrard had. Just shows what having a top quality manager does for a team. Loved the European games last season and it was a new experience for my son. Last games I’d been too were when Martin O’Neill was in charge. Been through some challenging times since he left but on the up moving forward and can’t wait to experience Champions League games at Villa Park. I was 7yrs old the last time we were in the top competition 😂 Love the channel mate, keep them coming 👍

one of the best vids ive seen on youtube from anyone in ages great video mate must have been a lot of travelling and hardwork.

I’m a westbrom fan good to see u showing some appreciation for our club

Yes let's go you finally went to the KP!!Can't wait to watch this banger

KEEP RIGHT ON ! 🔵⚪️

Thanks for covering us at Walsall Sam, we are often forgotten about amongst the other clubs around us! Great video as always!

All the respective Midlands' footballing clubs are my favourite respective footballing clubs daily and ever in this world and other planets but I have been totally shocked to see either of them underperforming,good friends!!!I am fully hoping for all of them to start competing to win each and other respective titles as soon as possible and long lives to all of them respectively,good friends!!!🙏

I love football history. Reading about it all on wikipedia or somewhere else gets boring after a while. It's better to play your video. Then I can see and hear everything and it's much more fun. Since I'm from the Czech Republic, I don't consider myself to be someone who can speak English perfectly, but I always understand you well and can understand all the information. You create perfect videos, you have interesting information and even a person whose native language is not English understands you well. Perfect combination. For football fans who love football, it is ideal to watch your channel. If you filmed the history of football clubs everywhere in Europe, it would be hours of interesting material and I would honestly watch it all. As for the Champions League final, not only clubs from the same countries played in it. In 2014, clubs from the same city played against each other in the Champions League final. Real Madrid vs Atlético Madrid.

the midlands is a footballing hotbed full of great historic clubs as this video illustrates well, i think it's so important for young fans to know something about football history, currently there are are about 5 premier league clubs who've won absolutely no major trophies, brighton, bournemouth, palace, fulham and brentford, of course the fact these clubs are in the top flight is incredible and shows that fortunes can go up as well as down, west brom are a massive club far bigger than many current premier league clubs but that's the beauty of the english game(even now) fortunes fluctuate, i don't like the way the game has gone, i have myriad criticisms but i still love football and i love the history of the game, very enjoyable video

So much of our footballing heritage and culture as a nation comes from the Midlands. We have them largely to thank for England's dominance in European competitions (before London caught up). I'm from Watford and support them, too - and I spend many a Saturday travelling up and down from the Midlands to watch us play there. Proper football clubs, salt-of-the-Earth people and passionate fans. Some of my favourite away days are in that part of the world. Love it.

As a Cov supporter its great to see a video on this. Most people seem to only recognise the north and south in football, where even the existence of the midlands as a region is ignored. Northerners think we're southerner, southerners think we're northerners, and everyone thinks we all talk like Dudley! The Midlands is a hotbed of football. Look at the Championship. 3 (WBA, Stoke, & Cov) of the 4 midlands clubs are in the top 8 of best supported clubs, and I'm sure Brum would if St Andrews wasn't falling down

i think albion are a really underrated club. only EVER 2 seasons below the 2nd tier, top 20 in attendances in the last 10 years and have barely even been in the 2nd half of the championship. a lot of trophies too and founding members. the 4 way rivalry between the birmingham clubs, wolves and albion is so underrated. so much history between the 4 of them and all pioneers of english football EDIT: just watched the video fully and seen you might do another video on us. would love if you came to a game. although maybe when were better on the pitch

Never really fascinated with football history until I saw this video. I have always found history interesting but watching this made me realise that it also is a part of pride of the area for decades and even a century. Great last few words there before ending the video. Nowadays you can just see fans around the world fancying the players rather than the identity of a club. You don't just pick a badge and cheer when they win, but you also sing and fight for your club.

Great to see someone talk about football history especially in West Midlands, 5 great, well supported clubs even tho none of us like eachother😂Great Vid👍