For us, Italians, money and fame doesn’t matter. Passion and love does.

I’m a Sheffield Wednesday season ticket holder but got a love for Atalanta. Went over last year,fantastic supporters made us feel very welcome.

I get what he's talking about, top level football in England is losing it's soul. Back in the 80s my Grandad used to take me to games and it was a very different atmosphere and feeling. It was a community thing. The ticket costs, mega stadiums, different fans and lots of other factors have totally changed things and robbed the heart out of it.

In a way I can understand where he is coming from the community felt integrated in the club also had a sense of belonging. It now feels more like a businesses than anything else. The price of the tickets and the merchandise have put a lot of the original supporters off from attending their beloved football team.

Im from Amsterdam and i've been an Ajax and AS Roma supporter all my life. I go to see Roma maybe 3 times a year. When they play in europe closeby i also try to go. Forza Roma

He likes people that has the same love for the sport, nothing wron. Love soccer as well. Pasion!!

Love it. Been a fan of Italian football and the whole culture in Italy since I can remember. James Richardson in a cafe somewhere on channel 4 back in the day (calcio italia) loved it and wish it was still on. Obviously a time when serie A was flourishing but still love it to this day and the main reason I have BT sports now. I've visited a good few stadiums in Italy and get over when I can. Fans in Italy are on a completely different level to England. Its all over policed and structured here and it takes the heart and soul out of it completely. I'll never forget my first serie A experience walking into a packed stadio olimpico to watch AS Roma v AC Milan. One of those moments that will last forever in the memories. Hoping to return to a game this year. Forza italia 🇮🇹

I know where he's coming from, having experienced similarly intense support over nearly 30 years watching affordable football in Germany. Leaving the Boleyn was tragic and borderline criminal - a disaster for West Ham's support.

Because you won't find a people with a zest for life and passionate than the Italians. And as foreigner or expat, they not only embrace you with warm hospitality, but they take a deep interest in who you are and where you come from as well. Viva Italia!

No era of football can match Italian football in the 90’s… the noise, the colours, the foggy flares… all coming across our TV’s on a Sunday afternoon! Magic…. 😢

Doesn't everyone who was a teenager in 90's England have a secret Italian team they support courtesy of James Richardson and Football Italia on Channel 4. Mine was Fiorentina, the Viola 💜. Got a secret Toyota shirt I wear on special occasions. Goooolazzo!

Fully understand you

Just had a Brilliant read of the comments. So much so that i have to watch the vid now👌⚒️😊

0:36 That's all you are to football clubs mate. Purely a customer.

i was in naples last year to watch a game as soon as i saw my seat i wanted to cry it was the totenham style pillar infront off my face it took not a single minute for some napoli ulteas to approach me and help me climb the fence to get to their side i had a phenomenal game just good moods and cheering together great memories thanks to those guys ❤

More relevant than ever!

I love this story! That is how I am with Ourense CF...and, in the EPL, btw, I am a West Ham fan. Used to live at the Bolyen...literally. It is sad to see it so empty and it is sad to know that West Ham's former grounds have been destroyed!

E tutto passione❤️

Love this. Know exactly where he is coming from

As a Italian,i have always preferred English Football and Support !! At 8 years old was already a Scousers Fan; then i had to choose an Italian team:Milan AC!!! Music played its part( Stone Roses,Smith, Happy Mondays etc)

I like your mentality. I'm 52 years old now and still can agree with everything you said. In modern football professional clubs always have the problem to maintain a balance between commerciality (which in a lot of cases ensures to a bigger degree survival) and its hardcore fanbase. For many of those the most important thing is the identification with the club, i.e. not to sell out. I'm from Basel and currently there is a controversy about selling the name of the stadium. There were other issues in the past and if the fans are organised they can have an influence. You have to fight back against some developments.

Italian football is still the best in the world, while the English game is just americanised now

As a Brazilian living in UK, I can say that the way some fans support around here is like a big theater I now some fans as crystal palace are really noise but I think the Italians football support are kind of the Brazilians 🇧🇷❤️🇮🇹.

I feel exactly the same

Great Video, football is about community and passion

Guy with the Celtic top haha!! Brilliant up the Clapton

Just go to any league in England that isn't the prem

Forza Arezzo!!!

Oh you went to Arezzo :o you missed the good old days at Arezzo

I love italian football

Fratello 👊🏻

I am a lifelong Southampton fan but I get exactly what he is saying. I have completely fallen out of love with English football.

I'm 🇮🇹🇺🇲 from Bensonhurst Brooklyn born and raised 🇮🇹💯% ive had Italian citizenship since I was 22 my moms family is from Trapani in Sicily and my dads family is Neapolitan i absolutely understand where he's coming from but the Italian ultra scene isn't what it was especially with the fan id system but there is something special about attending games in serie a more so than premier league games but i think the English championship has some great environments also

I lived 4 years on Green Street, I’m a Lazio fan and obviously West Ham, everything changed since they move the club, no more atmosphere no more brotherhood..... LONG LIVE THE BOYLEN!!!! Lazio & West Ham 🦅⚒️

Great video

I've been trying to bring Ultras to my local non-league club Wingate & Finchley but we only get 4 members at a game plus a few more people who join in sometimes. Everyone from the club appreciates us but it hasn't grown as much as others and I wanted it to. We only get 140 or so a game in a league that some teams get double or triple that but it still doesn't take away the positive atmosphere from the fans who come. We also have a friendship with a Greek 3rd division side and have met people from other ultras group. If anyone from North London and South Hertfordshire wants to join in with all the noise and be part of a new welcoming community you're welcome to join by just turning up to Wingate & Finchley games. We have a nice atmosphere suited to people who want to have their football fix, meet mates, bring family or people who are just fed up of Premier and Championship football. Turn up as it's cheap, a great place to socialise and destress yourself from whatever is happening outside of the stadium Stadium location: Summers Ln, London N12 0PD

I’m from arezzo but why this video is on my youtube home?

respect bro, from lecce

This moment he goes back to the Boleyn, when you see what has happened to the hallowed ground where you invested so much passion and emotion. Where your Dad took you as a small boy. Where you went with your mates as a teenager, where you took your son. And you see the second rate flats and shops and BS that has replaced it. This is truly the definition of sadness as a football fan. Perhaps it’s also a lesson. Same thing for me seeing what has happened to Highfield Road. PUSB.

Come in Cosenza and you'll love the ultras there! Especially now that we are in serie B, Forza Lupi!🐺🔴🔵

Community as football in support.

Love this brothers passion,Salud my West Ham bredren From the States

Totally agree

Do get all you’ve said, 100% . I’ve done the same , but dropped down our divisions there’s a lot going in your home country

Should have went to Salernitana instead. A club who play in maroon/claret colours, have a nice (but oversized) stadium and possibly a Serie A club soon

Random question here but does anyone know the name of the track that is playing when he is in his kitchen talking about when he was working in the clothes shop???

I supported Spurs for 45 years. And it got to the stage I was spending fortunes and they won nothing. My wife is Italian and she said go with family to watch Inter at the San Siro. I’m now a season ticket holder for the last 5 years. Price €525.00. I have also made so many new friends and travelled to Salzburg & Madrid for the CL games. Flights £60+ return and I stay out there from Friday to Monday. Forza Inter 😉

This is very cool! There are so many hidden gems in lower league football. As an Arsenal fan I won't say I lost any of my passion since the move to the Emirates, but I do feel less of a connection than sitting in the clock end. My personal favourite is St Pauli! Brilliant experience!! P.S. no violence in football, please. Banter is more than enough

Great story

Green Street Hooligans 4 : Becoming The Ultras 😂

Come in San Benedetto..

Does anyone know this guys name, doing some research for my uni dissertation would love to get in contact with him

This might be the most bbc three doc ever

I understand , I don't agree with him 100% but I understand!

This story is just sad

I’m a Cesena fan and we have a “second tier rivalry” with Arezzo but… I want to say: big respect for them and for you also. Football establishment want customers instead of supporters to squeeze any possible money from fans… that’s sad. I think, step by step, the people who will be capable of resisting to that thing will be just on little club stadium. Many people will surround but the positive side is that maybe some people will support their little local team instead of big club (big companies)

8 years after leaving Upton Park I still despise the London stadium

I'm a football coach from Liverpool, lived and coached in England, Scotland & USA. I will be moving to Italy in the next year to coach and learn as much as possible from the Italian game. Not only has the clubs become disconnected from the fans in England so have the FA, SFA & FAW, they want to charge 15k for UEFA A & Pro licenses, the FIGC in Italy charge 3k! Remember when people on Sky Sports News used to say Italy should follow the English model by developing the stadiums and facilities and it will bring a better standard of supporter in and end the ultras culture!

Ive been around Europe watching games in Germany, Italy and Spain predominantly and the way the fans are treated at those clubs is far different to the money hungry machine that is the Premier League. A lot of people simply can't afford the financial commitment to head to support their local professional sides and are turning more to non-league which is a much better day out I find.

As a 57yr old Celtic fan I really miss the football of the 70s and 80s, seemed more real and more passionate.

🙌🙌🙌

Sounds interesting. It's political in a way. Lad's telling you what's up.

Forza Arezzo

Thid guy is 100% truth speaking. The Premier League has pitiful atmosphere compared to our European neighbours. English football fans needed to more actively participate when watching games, not just sit there passively spectatinh. Atmosphere and the fans make up half of the football experience. Take the atmosphere away, and it's a little bit boring to be honest....

english prem fans are custumers, we are ultras!

I went to the San Siro a few weeks ago which was something I'd wanted to do for years and I actually thought the atmosphere was pretty rubbish. Thousands of empty seats and most of the fans only piped up once they'd gone 1-0 up. The ultras were brilliant singing, dancing, beating drums throughout but they were at the other end of the stadium. Everyone around us was pretty quiet.

You follow your team because of the connection you have to it. I don't know how you could give up supporting your club because of a ground change.

“I can never change my colours” “I moved to Italy because they built a stadium I didn’t like” But but I’m passionate 😂

Oldham fan here, but I feel at home in Frankfurt ik it’s not Italian but both have ultras 🤷

As a Forest fan I completely agree with how this guy feels. I've seen football in Europe and it's a different level. The English game is passionless, bland, safe and sanitised

Once a hammer always a hammer

My club Preston North End, beat West ham home and away in the championship not that long ago then bobby zamora ruined my life. Deepdale is the oldest continuous used football ground in the world and is actually re designed and modelled off of an Italian stadiums architecture. We had the national football museum but it left for old Trafford because they are a "bigger club". All I can say history is history, and sometimes its not best to change, especially when society wants to take tradition out of your proud club. Upton Park, the old Wembley, Highbury etc.. the list goes on. I'm only 40 and the "new modern fan" wouldn't even know of these once great stadiums.

‘Posh’ flats in newham 😂😂😂

wondering if he is back to west ham now with hammers winning a european trophy

Be a lot cheaper to get a train across town to Selhurst park!

How i feel about being a Arsenal fan and now prefer to support Rangers

Bet he was in Prague for the Europa Conference final.

"I feel like a customer" "I've lost my community, my sense of belonging" These words are far bigger than football. This is modern Britain

Whats the name of this guy?

It would be easier to wander over to Brisbane Road to watch Leyton Orient... and if it weren't for the old animosity you could go south of the river to the Den.

Now Millwall is still a Proper club

West Ham season tickets are 310

Is this guy a parody? 5 years on and I still don’t know.

W Ultras Italia 🇮🇹✝️🇮🇹

Is this a mockumentary?

12% fluent

English football crowds have become an audience now rather than fans. While the ball is in play it's almost silent at times similar to tennis. It's all down to the high ticket prices pricing out working class fans. Fans expect to be entertained for the price their paying

Gammons starting young these days

U should have join Catania

IS west Glam still worth me support ?

Wait, so my guy didn't like the hammers moving stadium and buying tickets for extra, but he has to go to Italy for loads, buy a house (for loads) and buy a ticket, still cheaper but everything combined is super expensive lol, buy a house near the stadium lol but I can still kinda get his mindset and I respect this guy tho. *_(_* You can also just switch to lower division teams lol, it's much more fun there *_)_*

Theres far to many kids and mums at the football these days eating candy floss and wearing silly hats 😂

Know what you mean,I've transferred to Aldershot

Greetings from Juventus Ultras Hamburg (Germany) 🏳️🏴🇮🇹🇩🇪

our rivalries are sarcastic banter within the Tifos and chants, and that’s how it should be. I urge you to go watch the videos this week of 400,000 inter fans lining the streets of Milan and then remember that our city brothers could easily do the same. It’s great to see Germany & Italy being recognized by uefa now too as the leading leagues….even though the media will try to tell you otherwise. Football belongs to the fans and somewhere along the line English clubs forgot that and decided it belonged to a yank businessman or a Saudi oil baron.

I can understand him, but not a fan of drums and megaphones

A couple of years ago, I drove along Green Street, and the area looked different now that the staduim had been knocked down and replaced with new flats. Globalism has taken over Football is England, rising ticket prices has changed the atmospheric at matches.

more connection, is it really west ham, liverpool or arsenal when everyone is from africa and south america

AREZZO OVUNQUE

Why not find like-minded West Ham fans and start your own group?