I think the most known curse is probably when a player touches the trophy before a final.

We are going to ignore what happened to Italy when Ramsay joined Juventus? Pandemic...

Who remembers the curse of taking a picture with Drake before the match

Michael Ballack also lost the World Cup final in 2002, so he achieved the quadruple but for all the wrong reasons 🤪

"The club named after a pharmaceutical company are still yet to find a cure for their wretched inability to win the Bundesliga title." Nailed it.

A long video on Guttmann would be excellent (being one of the handful of people who love a deep dive on hitc)

If I'm not mistaken, Benfica's youth team has also lost all 3 of their UEFA youth cup finals, including one this year. Great video as usual!

I'm disappointed to hear you didnt include my dads curse on Andy Carroll

I’m so glad you talked about the St Andrews curse, any blues talk is appreciated !! I’m surprised you didn’t mention Barry Fry (our manager at the time) pissing in every corner of the ground to try to remove the curse though 😂 Great vid btw

As an Australian, I can say with every fiber of my being that the curse was indeed real. Rewatching highlights from that match now acts as a safety blanket that comforts me whenever I have to watch us lose to developing countries in world cup qualifiers.

Any irish fans will know all about Mayo's curse in the All Ireland

9:34 Birmingham City had already won the League Cup in 1963, the club's 2011 success was both their second major trophy and their second League Cup triumph.

Video idea: the problem with African youth development

1930 world cup winning Uruguay team, where are they buried now

Benfica U-19 Lost the final against Real Madrid couple weeks ago... Not even joking...

The thing about curses is that they affect your mentality. And mentality is everything when it comes to winning or losing in football. They might be nonsense when viewed rationally, but there's always that "what if" lurking in the back of your head - if you see one thing going wrong, you blame it on the curse and start playing worse as a result because you believe there's no point. If only blessings had the same effect.

day 2: after pirlo got 107/110, 7 highest scoring managers in their uefa pro licence exams

Finally my country features on this channel and its for a witchdoctor😂 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

A video on Bela Guttmann would be incredible and extremely welcome

I'd love to watch a Bélla Gutman as he's the man who won both of Benfica's Champions Leagues and the man who prevented us from having 10 international trophies by now ahahah.

You should have included the curse of Maeda, where for 6 seasons in a row, the first team Maeda scored against each season was relegated that season, including Gamba Osaka, who were one of the best teams in Japan at the time

Lads read about Racing Club's 7 dead cats curse, it is the most interesting and weird football curse imo

Best XI of players that didn't win any trophy of all time Most liked comment for like a month please do it

When I first started watching these videos I couldn’t bare sitting through a whole one, but over time I’ve really changed my mind to love your videos, they’re informative with being boring, you and the Irish guy have the best footy channel on here in my eyes!

This channel is brilliant, it elevates football to a higher level. Love all the research you do and hearing about the history. The People's Channel indeed

Always creative content that’s enjoyably educational. Keep it up man

Ramsey has a higher death rate than coronavirus

Aussie here, the witch doctor curse reversal was done in the TV show John Safran vs God and is really worth watching. It was actually a witch doctor from Mozambique and the ritual to reverse the curse was done at the same ground of the original curse. Whether you believe it or not, we have qualified for every single World Cup since the curse was lifted.

"A sure mark of a fool is to regard anything outside his experience as being impossible" - Farengar Secret-Fire, TES V Skyrim

R.I.P. Bella Gutman And Eusebio r.i.p. 😥😥❤️❤️💙💙😭😭

See, now THIS is the content the Internet needs. Great work Alfie

Great vid again mate!

Love this Channel

I love these type of interesting videos thanx

I'd be one of the 30 people who would watch if you made the video on guttmann

as a deportivo cali fan, i’m super happy to see you talk more about colombian football, and even happier to see you talk about a🅱️erica’s curse :)

4:20 Damn Alfie, maybe do some more south american football man! Quality seems really good lol.

lol Love your videos keep going you're awesome

Awesome video.

Great video

CORRETION: Eusébio only won 1 European Cup. He was part of Benfica first team in the 1960/61 season, but he didn't play in the European Cup. Great job with the channel, by the way!!!

Technically the Bela Guttman curse is broken, we did win the International Champions Cup last season with Adel Taarabt scoring a tie against AC Milan for us to lift the title. *Is what I tell myself so I can sleep*

Colombian here, thanks for including more South American football!!

I can’t be the only one that gets excited when he says ‚I should make a whole video about this‘

Excellent work on the Colombia fan pic!

Love this one. Appreciate the new knowledge... like all of it was new lol

I love the 7's videos too tbh

Honestly, the huge disdain and sarcasm in your voice makes this one of my favourite videos from you.

Can you do more, i recommend the Bruce Grobelaar curse

“Fact, reason and logic” I’ve met many people like this over the years, they’re normally full of faith and superstitions than they’d like to think.

8:27 Correction: They lost the DFB Pokal final 4-2 to Schalke

Hilarious vid. Thanks.

I broke Bela’s cruse without even knowing I did lol (in fifa)

Interesting stories that I like to see. Thanks bro.

The neverkusen curse is probably because Bayern are winning it all the time

All time Premier League 11 vs All time La Liga 11 And same could be done for other Leagues SeriesA, League1 and Bundisliga As a Series and ranking which league comes 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th in historic 11s

The Mick Jagger curse was the most interesting thing in the 2010 world cup

8:45 as a spurs fan i died when i saw us being mentioned for not winning trophies

and not to forget, the Leverkusen players who played for germany also finished second in the world cup - that makes 4 times runner up in one season...

Guttman was the manager of the legendary Hungary teams of the 50s the mighty Magyars! Who lost the 1954 to West Germany! Please do a Guttman video as I think the Football Historians would like it!

There are days when I dream that Benfica has won all those finals.

Great choice of pic for Colombia

Another German one: Schalke. They won the German championship 7 times (but all before the Bundesliga was launched), but since then, they won sometimes in international championships or in the DFB Pokal, but always ended somewhere between 2 and 18 in the Bundesliga. Even though they won for example the title in the 2. Bundesliga twice, they never won the big title in the Bundesliga. They also are number 7 in the all-time Bundesliga table, making them the best team who never won the Bundesliga title. They came close in the 2000/01 season, but in the end Bayern still got a goal against the HSV, giving them the needed point to win the title. And all of that was decided in the last few minutes of the season. We also have a joke here: Schalker kriegen keine Schale (Schalkers don't get a bowl), since the trophy is shaped like a bowl

Nice vid, but what about the World Cup champions curse

you mentioned your book here mate, where can I purchase it online? would love to give it a read. love your work Alfie! big ups from australia

I'm convinced it is other dimensions interfering with our own all Doctor Strange style...lol. Great videos.

would definitely watch a video about Bela Gutman

Ypu should definitely do a video on Bela Guttmann. Fascinating man. Failing that, you ever thought about teaming up with Simon Whistler at Biographics? :P

Personally, I'd definitely watch a video about Bela Gutmann. Fascinating character x

There was one player that (kind of) broke the Neverkusen curse with Lucio winning the 2002 World Cup.

a quick question, wich active footballer would feature in your top 100 players of all time that didnt feauture in 2017

DO A VIDEO ABOUT GUTMAN PLEASE! I love you ❤️ btw

Thanks for thinking about Colombia :)

There's also the Cat Curse of Racing Club which deserves it's own video.

Olimpia (my team) had an 11 year local trophy drought that lasted from 2000 to 2011. A wild story at the time was that some people went to a witch named Kumanchu, to give the club luck at the Libertadores 2002 (which the team won), but they never payed him afterwards. So in return, he cursed the team. That period was the worst in the club's history, which even got close to the relegation places at one point. Allegedly, someone went to the witch in 2011 and payed the debt so he could lift the curse. That same year, the first title in 11 years was won.

Disappointed that you didn’t include Mexico’s Cruz Azul curse. They way they’ve lost finals is really something.

As a Australian your on point that was probably the best team we ever had I think we had 4 players from the prem and the rest played in European leagues

Thanks for taking Jimmy bullard on behalf of all Fulham fans.

That ‘r’ roll on Urrea... Alfie you’re Mr Continental

this should’ve been a halloween special but regardless class video

Part 2? These are really interesting

You absolutely have to make a video about Bela Gutman

Pls make a video about the Egyptian golden generation which won 3 afcon's in a row (2006-2010).

Yes you should make a video about Bela Guttmann. I would be one of those 30 people and you are the People's Channel after all...

At 2:14, you say that Bela Guttmann , alongside Eusebio, won a european cup twice in the space of 3 years, but Eusebio didn't win the first one. He signed a year after that. However, this didn't change the quality of the content, in this video. Keep it up!

Can you make a video of teams that get promising young players but it never pans out? (HSV, Schalke, A.S. Roma, Valencia, etc...)

My country Vietnam had a curse in SEA GAMES (southeast asia's olympic), we have to wait 60 years (from 1959 to 2019) to win a gold medal once again, in those 60 years we managed to choke on 7 finals, 7 semi finals. Needless to say how happy we were last year when the curse was broken

Talk about the 1987 Brazilian league 1st division title! The championship that year was divided in 2 modules, the green and yellow if I’m not mistaken. The champions of each module should play against each other to decided the title, but Flamengo refused to play and Sport Recife were crowned champions. To this day, more than 30 years later, Flamengo still disputes the title in the judicial system, never having any success.

Cruz Azul curse in Mexico. Hasn't win a league title since 1997. Played 17 league finals and win 8 and lost the rest

Thought for sure you'd mention the World Cup Winners curse in which they get kicked out in the group stage of the following World Cup.

Im watching this 1 day after Wales-Turkey where ramsey scored So far the curse has been broken

Can we just appreciate the heroics of Conrad Logan during that cup run tho GGTTH

Best XI to have never of played in the champions league

Top 7 attack duos of all time across the top 5 leagues

The 7 best attacking duos of all time across the top 5 leagues

Good video Alfie, always nice to enter Sillyville once in a while. How about doing somewhat the opposite, like 7 curses that turned out to be total falsehood, erm I mean were "broken"?

That Ramsey curse really a big thing back in the day

"Urrea's curse on Cali" title should be corrected. Cali is more related to referring crosstown rivals, Deportivo de Cali. America de Cali is referred to as simply America or los Diablos. Otherwise, worth looking into America de Cali as a team. Very interesting on all fronts.

mate can you do a video about why italian clubs share stadiums plz

Would have put money on Leeds being mentioned - the Damned Utd, the curse, Revie and his superstitions about birds (Leeds being the Peacocks, Elland Road being the Old Peacock Ground and the city emblem being an Owl.