Just in case any of you aren't already in there and would like to be, the code to join the HITC Sevens Fantasy Premier League mini league is: fv2hbf It's a strong league, so anywhere in the top 5,000 is a respectable finish - or at least, that's what I told myself last season.

This reminds me of a recurring dream I had that I'd secretly played 5 professional games of football and nobody could remember, and the dream involved me persuading them to check the records. I loved that dream.

Always felt sorry for Diaby. Brilliant player who’s career was ruined by a late tackle in the 93rd minute of a game already won by some talentless hacker who took out his frustration on Diabys leg. Never recovered. Had all the talent of Vieira and even more skill. He could have been a truly great Arsenal player.

Now it's time to tell you about the goat player of this category, Tommaso Berni. He had a total of 9 Serie a games played and he's well reminded for his last part of career at Inter. He was the third keeper from 2014 to 2020. (0 appearances, of course) His career ended with a record breaking season, 0 appearances 2 red cards Legend.

There's a 2018 documentary about Kaiser called Kaiser: The Greatest footballer never to play. Well worth a watch.

Its like in fifa you barely ever touch your standard reserve players bench

That last guy is an absolute legend! Hearing stories like that is exactly why love this channel, plus I was reminded of Davina, a name I literally hadn´t thought about in years!

02:50 Aron Hunt is the perfect example of a footballer who is undeniably good, but only let his talent shine when his contract was about to expire so he would be offered an extension. If he had been serious throughout his career, he would have been just as good and remembered at Werder Bremen just like Özil and Diego were.

A good inclusion would have been Ryan Meara. Had 1 season as the first choice GK for the NY Redbulls in 2012. He got injured, and his “temporary” replacement went on to start nearly every league game for the next 6 seasons breaking the MLS record for consecutive league appearances with 183. Excluding appearances in the PDL (an amateur/ semi-professional league) early in his career, Meara has made 35 appearances for the Redbulls first team from that first season and the odd cup match over the years, 30 for the Redbulls reserve team in the USL championship (US second division) and 1 appearance on loan. 66 total appearances over 10 years. Still at the club today, hes a fan favorite despite his lack of games. A New York Native, he’s seen as a loyal, blue collar professional, more than capable of occupying the number 1 shirt, who has been unfortunate to have been at the club at the same time as one of the all time great MLS goalkeepers.

Idea for a video: 7 managers who have never played football as players. Thanks for all the content and your hard work Alfie!

I have a pretty good idea for a video. Widzew Lodz were one of the biggest clubs in Poland, but they went bankrupt so they were taken over by a fans group and had to start out in Division 5. They built themselves a stadium and kept getting promoted until they are now back in Polands premier league. It's a riches, to rags back to riches story which might be quite interesting.

Can you make a video on the 7 nations most likely to become 1st time World Cup winners by the end of the 21st century?

As a Chelsea fan, Kevin Hitchcock immediately springs to mind. He made nearly 300 league appearances in total, but managed a grand total of 96 appearances in 12 years at Chelsea. He doesn’t quite meet the criteria, but must be worth an honourable mention.

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

as a bayern fan, bernd dreher is one of the first people to come to mind. he had an active time as #1 of uerdingen for years before joining us (before i was even born) and proceeded to be bayern's 3rd choice goalkeeper for a whopping 10 years total (over a 12 year span, he retired for 2 years and then came back for another 3 at the age of 39, i believe). during his time at bayern he made a total of 15 appearances for the club.

We as south Africans kept a particularly good attention to Manchester United that featured Quintin fortune. We remember almost every appearance he made that featured in television

Best player to retire at every age

I really liked this one Alfie great effort and delivery

S Taylor was in the three keepers to get a Premiership medal on the same team in the same season. Never done before

Hello Alfie! Looking very much forward to your documentary about the rise of Bodø/Glimt. Hope your research about the arctic circle club goes well 😊

Here in Brasil we have several cases like that of the kaiser. My team, Fortaleza, has had a bunch. An integral part of the scheme is for the player to have a stint in one of the "big 12" clubs in Brazilian football on his CV. With that he is ready to go through several teams, play 1 or 2 bad matches, earn months of salary and go cheating on another club... "Look... he played for gremio... flamengo... he must have some potential" And the dude just.... colect his pay... and moved on

Imagine living your peacuful life somewhere in Greece or remote area in some exotic island and suddenly you get mentioned in HITC Sevens and random people come to you asking autographs next day or asking question about your footballers career, which you barely remember yourself 😜

Met Tony Pulis in Tampa Bay when Anthony was St Louis manager, called his name out and he came straight over and shook my hand, feel like he thought we must have known each other as why else would I have recognised him! :p

Day 14: A detailed look at the state of Crotone would be nice, going from Serie A in 20/21 with a 20 goal a season striker (Simy) to Serie C by 22/23. Two relegations in a row, something surely has to be wrong at that club.

Carlos Kaiser manage to get 3 clubs to sign him twice despite having no ability. Legend.

I haven’t watched the video yet, and even within two seconds of seeing the title I thought… Stuart Taylor, GK for Villa, Arsenal, Saints etc. Now I see if he’s included…

As a Walsall fan, I remember Rene Gilmartin in goal. I'd say he played less than 50 games for us in about 5 seasons before moving to Watford I think. Seemed to bounce around for a while, never establishing himself anywhere as a first choice keeper. Retired last year... I'd bet his amount of appearances is less than 100.

Are you making a Barcelona fc bancrupt video and your videos are amazing keep doing what you are doing

Your so good at making these videos

Hey Alfie, can you make a video about the fall of Esbjerg FB, they were 3rd in the danish superliga in 18/19 and then have suffered 2 relegations in 3 years

Alfie, you should research Nuno Espírito Santo of Wolves fame, he spent his career as bench goalkeeper in Vitória Guimarães, Deportivo Corunha and FC Porto.

A List much like this one but about professional players who competed in other pro sports either before during or after their footballing careers.

Stuart Taylor in fact was great in one of the old CMs :) He would even play in the England NT. I don't remember whether it was CM 9798 or CM 0102.

Eli Babalj - left Melbourne Heart in 2012 after 35 appearances. Largely disappeared off the map after that and has made 58 appearances since then. Comes back to the A-league every now and then, which is so typical, and does nothing before going back overseas to some obscure league

The surprise is there aren't more goalkeepers. It's a position that lends itself to being good enough to make a club but not playing much due to somebody else being better. Taylor is a prime example of how that can happen.

I am wondering about seven players that played outside of the top five leagues but still made an impact at the World Cup.

Video idea: the 7 greatest 'what if' players Like players who's bodies let them down e.g reus, ledley king Or players who let their bad habits get the better of them e.g ravel morrison

Wow, what a tough criteria, you really challenged yourself 👏🏾

Alfie, when will you release your documentaries on Turkey's Big Three (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş)? I remember you teased them back in your Süper Lig video.

Have you done a video about Molde?

I remember pullis on the bench for Portsmouth against Blackpool in the fa cup

How about players that played at senior level at other sports i know there are a few like Kevin Moran who played Gaelic football for Dublin but are there many others.

This is why I always make sure when I play championship manager, I give my fringe players at least three appearances per season. (By fringe players, I mean the 22 non frontline players of my first team squad, I don't mean that I move in reserve players for games willy-nilly! And, yes, I try to have 33 players in the first team squad, three goalies, three right-backs, three left-backs, six centre-backs, three defensive midfielders, three attacking midfielders, three right wingers, three left wingers, and six strikers. That should be more than enough cover for every position!)

I haven't heard of most of these for a very good reason by the looks of it.

Whats with the image at 14.41 with the GK saving the ball and a player upside down? 😅😅😅

I wish you do a documentary on Carlos Kaiser and other fake footballers

Pulis reminds me of Manager John Bond's son Kevin at Norwich. Constantly terrible as a full back but constantly in the line up and hardly ever played for any other Championship/EPL side if his father wasn't managing it...

Throwbacks! When I was a kid I remember meeting Richard wright, he was tipped to be the next big gk at the time, I’d been selected as a kid with potential and we got 2 hours with him and he was such a great dude, spoiler alert I didn’t make it lol

Isn't it kind of a cheat to have 3 goalkeepers in this list? They're the most likely to be logging extended time on the bench, since by definition only one goalkeeper can play in a side. The same cannot be said of outfield players, who usually could slot in to more than one place in a given squad, depending on the system.

Request that could be interesting: 7 Players from different eras who would've benefitted from position changes. IE 90s number 9's who could've made good number 10's or wingers today, and vice versa

Kaiser iconic. What a legend.

Never thought I'd see Quinton fortune appear here - but he had a solid season or two and made a deadly partnership with John O Shea for a couple of games 😂

How about a documentary regarding the German football scandal of 2005? Could be quite interesting, as it's one of the largest in recent memories

Kerlon (the seal dribble guy) only made 68 league appearances as well

Stuart Taylor is an amazing goalkeeper in Champ Manager 03/04.

Honestly didn’t expect USCL era Orlando City to be mentioned on this channel

I think I have actually seen Pulis play for Orlando when I went to watch them

Day 39 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!

The one seriously missing is HARVEY ESAJAS - who played for AC Milan, recommended by Clarence Seedorf. His total match count is just 58 in 13 years.

Okay, getting pictures of people with similar names was a touch of genius. I lost it at bloody Davina McCall 😂

14:35 I love that picture

We all know how proud of the joke at 13:10 you were Alfie - and rightly so.

Kind of surprised, that Stuart Taylor never got caped for England. I mean, he did keep a clean sheet in the Premiere League at least once. That should put him ahead of Paul Robinson. Or Joe Hart... Or Robert Green... Or Scott Carson... Or David James...

Make a Video about Footballers whom should have Never Played as they were not up to scratch … ⚽️

Absolute unit in the Essen team at 11:00

Stuart Taylor has been a hero of mine for a while. Would love a career like that; Kaiser is running him close, but it seems like a lot of effort to do that; so think I'll stick with Taylor.

Stuart Taylor was tipped for big things. I remember seeing a doc on the England youth team at lilleshall and he was on it.

01:58 That was merciless.

Bloody hell! Kaiser is an absolute legend of a farce!

The tony pulis and his son Anthony pulis sounds alot like Steve Bruce and his son Alex Bruce and his son both going to the same team

Never thought I'd see Davina Mcall on HITC sevens...

That Kaiser guy was contracted to Botafogo TWICE :D How did he pulled that one off?

The player at 16:29 isn't actually kaiser, that's the chilean player Franklin Lobos, who after retiring went on to become one of the 33 miners that got trapped in 2010, so thats a fun fact i guess

It's no wonder Kaiser in first place never made any appearances, considering he was so busy touring the world as the lead guitarist in Van Halen.

Has this channel done a "7 most influential managers in world football" video?

If you're constantly stuck in the reserves you can relate to this.

Former Chelsea man Charly Musonda will be a good shout for this list shortly, though injuries are the cause of his not playing

I'm guessing even Steve Harper made more than 100 appearances but after that at Newcastle, someone like - and yeah I'm going back here - Paul Brayson perhaps? Paul Robinson, striker?

Do an Iron man video - outfield players that never get injured or miss games

Fábio Paím should have a video all for himself, but he would fit this list too.

Alfie, can you predict the Premier League table if the Premier League was allowed to continue throughout the World Cup in Qatar?

Alfie, make a video of 7 former AC milan players who have mover into politics. I can think of 5 right off the bat, but I'm sure you can find 2 more and make an interesting video about it.

Orlando City were heavily linked to the Stoke board and both owner and manager were Stoke born. Pulis Jr only moved there as a favour to his dad

It wouldn't make the list criteria but I remember a guy called Ali Dia who I'm sure long tenured Saints fans will remember he was the guy who conned Graeme Souness into giving him a one month contract claiming to be George Weah's cousin. Might come in handy if you do a list of greatest football player hoaxes

Before watching the video I wondered how many matches Jordi Cruyff made so I looked him up. Was surprised to see he played more for Barcelona than he did for Man Utd 😳

Lol great vid man again

Nice for the correct pronunciation of Essen.

Day 300: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.

The Kaiser story is quite something.

As someone who studied sociology for A-Levels, the Nicholas Marx section was a joy to watch 😂

Is it strange that i was thinking about this video before even seeing anything about this video, strange?

Stuart castledine for Wimbledon in the 90s

There are players you wonder just how good they could’ve been, sturridge potentially could’ve broken records at Liverpool. The one I was always most gutted about was Dean Ashton

Very surprised Kashif Siddiqui didn't make the list. 9 appearances in 10 years.

Without watching this through. Daniel Prodan at rangers should be on list

Surprised that Alfie didn't use images of Cara Delevingne for the Delevinas segment

Football trivia for you! What father & son have both won premier league titles playing in the same position?

At first i thought the title meant footballers who almost took up another career.

How about a list of footballers who have had a noticeably better international than a domestic career?

Kaiser is legendary