Big up those Doncaster fans who kept on supporting their club during those horrible times.

Can we just appreciate that every video he writes literally an essay for his script

Updated in 2023: *The American Glazers family who burnt down their own club.*

I'm a doncaster lad and always remember the cup run where they beat villa and man City, and playing arsenal at the old belle Vue, now a nice housing estate which I go past everyday

I was living in Florida at the time , his daughter Julie was my American wifes best friend and she took a lot of the rap and for months hid out at our house in Florida with her mother. I knew Richardson , he invited me to west riding sacks to have lunch with him and tour the company. I found him one of the unhappiest men I had ever met , he was egotistical, arrogant selfish but desperately unhappy . I know even more about this horrible man that I cannot type here , this scandal is the tip of the iceberg , his life was always a mess .I always wonder if he really regrets his life the way hes lived it

as a Doncaster fan and someone who has lived in Doncaster my whole life. going past the location where Belle Vue was still brings back the bad memories.

There was a documentary called “They Think Its All Rovers” about Donny’s relegation season just before Ken Richardson was jailed for arson

Day 9:Please make a video about DINAMO BUCHAREST...The story of our club is a hard one...And you telling it can really help us a lot,our club is clinging to survival,and we raised 2 milion euros to try to save the club... Dinamo is one of the biggest clubs in Eastern Europe,it has 18 league titles and 13 domestic cup titles...It reached the Champions League Semi Final in 1984 after beating the holders of the trophy Hamburg...In the Semi Final they played against the great Liverpool side of the 80's...After the 89 revolution the club lost one of their greatest generation after their players where bought off by western clubs,similar to what happened to the clubs in East Germany that you already talked about...Corruption and neglect brought this giant of romanian football to it s knees...At the moment Dinamo is preety much the ONLY true historical side in Romania's top division...This team stood afloat thanks only to it's fans...In the summer some new spanish chiarman came and bought the club,brought players on huge contracts and left without paying them...The players just broke the contracts and the club accumulated even more debt...If the fans did not step in and accumulated 2 milion euros the club would have been dissolved...For anyone watching outside of Eastern Europe it might be hard to understand it s value...If u re English imagine Liverpool being dissolved...This club is OUR Liverpool,and it's stadium OUR cathedral...With all the fears of relegation,players leaving and managers coming in and leaving the club still managed to fight it's way to a Romanian cup Semi Final...Please,make one video about our story too...

When you hear about stories like this, it is ridiculous some of the grievances with chairmen and owners that some fans of top clubs have.

Thanks for making this video, absolutely crazy times! Small correction; Rovers beat Dagenham and Redbridge in the 2003 Conference play-off final, not Leyton. It was a golden goal winner! I seem to remember fans also had a mock funeral for the club after dropping out of the football league, I wonder if that's ever happened before?!

Reminds me of Basingstoke's owner selling parts of the stadium on ebay

Day 8: 7 Players who've (surprisingly) never been mentioned in any hitc sevens video.

When you really think playing Football Manager counts as experience

The only new videos I get excited for at 1am and if for some reason im actually asleep they're the first thing I watch every morning. Keep up the great work, from Orange County, CA

Great video as always, must admit I do miss the lower league dramas sometime. If you want to do a video on the year a board tried to relegate their team so they could keep all money from the sale of the ground then feel free to drop a message.

The switch to these long form, near essays, is what's finally made me subscribe. Keep it up my guy :)

Thanks for posting this video. The scars of Richardson's time at Rovers are still there, I remember well the protests during games. Belle Vue, not the prettiest ground, did have a good atmosphere, even with only 3000 inside. I have even been inside Belle Vue when there was over 20,000 and that was special. Things at Rovers aren't great at the moment, a play off place at the end of this 2020.21 season is all but been thrown away so hopefully the right appointment of manager will be made soon and a quality team can be assembled during the summer to turn the club around.

And I thought the team I supported, Carlisle United, had the worst owner in League Football back in the 1990's. Michael Knighton was a joke and very nearly sent us to the wall, but he couldn't hold a candle to Richardson. Congrats to Doncaster Rovers and their fans for not only surviving the Richardson years but excelling in the decades that followed. Great video, very informative.

Fascinating video! Thank you, Alfie

Love these documentary style video! 👍🏻

Cracking video as always, I love the documentary style videos about the subjects that fans may not know about

These documentary videos are fantastic

Doncaster fan here! Great video, brilliant watch

As someone who grew up in Bridlington, I wondered what had happened to Brid Town - thanks great video essay

not often i see a vid about my club. it's certainly a story worth telling! much love alfie

Some channels do very lazy videos. This is not one of them. A great amount of detail and effort every time. Great vid.

Interesting and well researched. Thankyou

Brilliant as always!

Thanks for filling in the blanks on this story, I cleaned up the home changing room after the fire, I remember there was a sign on the wall that said Keep fighting, I'm glad for all at DRFC that they did.

Love the content dude! 👍🏽👍🏽 Cheers from California

Great video! Would love more content like this!

Every video never disappoints

Just discovered this excellent channel. Instant subscriber 👍🏻.

i remember all of this vividly. i loved belle vue, it absolutely reeked of vix vaporub, bovril, dry pasties and steam from the tea boilers. the players always spent time with us kids signing our programs. i remember the pitch invasions, so sad. but we made it back. i stopped going when they built the keepmoat, just admire from a distance. i miss the 90s. great video.

quality content as usual, keep it up lads

alfie keeps producing qualify documentaires at an increasing rate , keep it up 💪🏾

Thanks for this video Alfie and you're welcome for Grant McCann xx

Day 55: 7 worst players who scored a hattrick in either the premier or champions league

I watched my first football match at Belle Vue, from next to that stand. What he said about the car park was absolutely true, and it got much worse when it rained

class video mate great to see small clubs like us get coverage

Every video, every day, a treasure. Thanks for all your hard work. Its appreciated :)

yes my guy! my hometown club. haha so weird to see someone giving them 20 minutes. i'm 35 now so i started watching donny at belle view age 9 around 94/95 season. i saw EVERYTHING. what a journey the last 25 years. so proud of what they've achieved. john ryan is a god.

I’ve heard of this before, but it was before my time. My Uncle supports DRFC and mentions if often. when someone mentions DRFC, it reminds me of their win against Leeds to get to the Championship in 2008 and the Coppinger goal v Brentford to return to the Championship in 2013.

I love these types of videos.

Get well soon Darren Moore. (Wednesday fan here. love your work and youtube channel)

Though not a Doncaster fan, I really enjoyed that. Thanks.

Amazing story. Thanks

Another brilliant episode. This is a reminder that football sold its soul a long time ago.

Cheers from Donny. Much appreciated.

Make a video about Luton Town and the shite we went through 10+ years ago.

Ah " They think it's all Rovers " tale . Such a great but tragic documentary .

Not many people like myself knew about that Nice video Alfie

Actually, when Fergus McCann took over Celtic in the 90s, he came with a 5 year plan, at the end of it we had a new 60,000 seater stadium, bought the likes of Di Canio, Van Hoojdonk, Larsson, Lambert etc and stopped Rangers from completing their own 10 in a row also. Just meaning that some 5 year plans can work with the right implementation.

Very good vid

I'm trying to work out why between 12:09 and 12:31 the talk is about 'Huddersfield town great David Cowling' while showing a photo of Willie Morgan during his Bolton Wanderers days?

Its funny how that the horse racing scandal you mentioned at the start is literally the plot of one of Sir ACD's Sherlock Holmes novels, Silver Blaze.

The only Fact I knew About Doncaster Rovers is that It is supported by Louis Tomlinson and He even got into the first team squad for a season.

I miss Saturdays in the Keepmoat so much.

You have this video set to auto-generate the CC to Dutch, making the CC not understandable in English (it converts from the Dutch auto-gen to English). I've been seeing this happen a lot on YT lately. I don't speak other languages, so I pretty much watch English language vids exclusively, so I'm guessing YT has fucked something up on their end during the settings phase of the upload.

I found this video very interesting & fascinating

What a great end to a terrible story, very happy the for the fans

15:40 I enjoyed this but Leyton Orient weren't in the Conference in 2003, it was Dagenham and Redbridge that Doncaster beat in the Conference playoff final. Orient didn't get relegated to the Conference until 2017 after 110 years as a football league team. Great video otherwise, sorry to be pedantic!

Could you do a video on the history of Brighton in the 90s

Thanks for the brilliant video. One small error….Rovers beat Dagenham & Redbridge in the 2003 playoff final😀

I remember that 97/98 season. They got beat 8-0 twice, and most of the players that were brought in were part-timers from the 8th and 9th tiers, who were seemingly on weekly contracts, and they'd play 3 games and then disappear back to the 9th tier and be replaced by another one. Think they used about 40 players. It was a mad season for Donny.

Other video suggestion: cities that would challenge for trophies with United teams (can't have top flight sides currently) - e.g. Bristol, Sheffield (now relegated), etc

They beat Dagenham and Redbridge not Leyton Orient in 02/03 play off final. Heartbreaking day for my 2nd team 😢

I want to know the process for finding stories like this.

Alfie can you do a video on Brighton, showcasing from when Archer took over as owner, nearly going out of existence and then the rise to the premier league?

Could u do a vid on the 2008/09 league 2 idk what exactly maybe a season review or a quick look at the 4 teams that got points deductions with 74 points taken in total from those teams 3 are now in the championship and 1 is in non league game

FINALLY Accrington Stanley get featured (somewhat) in a HITC Sevens video!

I have to say I absolutely pissed myself laughing at the way they were caught I can't be the only one!

Donny Rovers fan here. Just want to say well done, that's quite accurate. There is of course far more to the story but that's a good summery.

There's also an excellent DVD of the tale of Donny over the same period and the rise of the club under the chairman who saved them

@ 12:12 isn't that Paul Jones of Bolton? had a very effective Centre Half partnership with Sam Allardyce

I was at that FA Vase final, as my home town team (Tiverton Town) were the opponents and I was in London anyway.

My best friend is a donny fan, one of the only few in Worksop, which is where I live and only half an hour from Donny

AHH Belle Vue, was ball boy a few times there as a kid, also one of my most embarrassing moments as well, I switched off during the game as it got a little boring, not a lot of action going on, teams kept losing the ball (couldn't remember who rovers were playing) anyway I was sat behind goal not paying attention next minute I know I've got Andy Warrington screaming at me for the ball, I go to pass it to him only to miss the ball completely 🤦

you should do a video on kettering town fc. Hired Gazza as a manager and then fired him after 39 days. pretty interesting history of a small football team

Be great to see you do a vid of Ex Carlisle Utd Chairman Micheal Knighton. Came to carlisle, built a stand that didnt align with the pitch as part of his "30,000 all seater stadium" plan. Almost drove Carlisle utd extinction.

A similar thing happened to a football club in Colne, Lancashire - Colne Dynamos. Won the FA Vase trophy following major investment by a business man and within a few year went bust.

Finally a video on the mighty Rovers, just a shame that this is what we're best known for.

About damn time

Cannot believe Ken Richardson would do that to his own football club since he left Doncaster Rovers had a new lease of life once new chairman was appointed he listens to the fans as they wanted to return to the EFL and new chairman was the catalyst unlike Richardson

Talking of northern teams starting with D have you ever considered a video on all the going ons that resulted in Darlington moving into that 25,000 seat stadium when their record attendance was 8k prior to it opening and they never managed to even half fill it

"The worst concoction of waffle, piffle and flannel they had ever heard" 🤣 Amazing that this man owned a successful business really!!

Probably the best history lesson ever

Doncaster Rovers logo is excellent 👍🏼

Chernobyl style car park 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 classic. Those were the days. Great video 👍👍👍

Danny Beghara getting a shout out✌️Here’s to the man from Uruguay🔵⚪️

I remember reading about this when I first found out about the football pyramid back in '98 or '99. Shocking stuff -- I forgot how sloppy the arsonist was!

Would love to see a video include the shambles of when nicolas anelkas brothers, Claude took over raith rovers, made himself manager and brought in French 5 a side players

Speaking of stadium disasters, you should do a video about the Valley Parade fire.

Damn didn't know about this. Kind of recent as well.

Probably won’t be a comment to get noticed, but the image at 12:10 isn’t David Cowling, it’s Paul Jones I’m pretty sure. He did also play for Huddersfield Town to be fair though. Never had anything to do with Donny as far as I’m aware.

I still have my seat from the main stand that survived the fire. I sat in it for 20 years. All seats were replaced with plastic ones apart from the entire back row which was hard to remove. When Rovers left Belle Vue they let me in and I removed my wooden seat. It's now 100 years old and hangs off my wall.

Day 43: Dedicated video about the Azkals, the Filipino football

Alfie day 70 of asking for the Kroenke video from DECEMBER Also 7 ways to fix international football

I suggest reading a book about the burning of another Yorkshire clubs ground by the chairman - Bradford CIty FC. The book is highly recommended - "56 The Story of the Bradford Fire" by Martin Fletcher. The chapter when Martin decribes his own expereinces at the fire & the deaths of his relatives are some of the most harrowing non-fiction pages I have ever read.

Hi Alfie I was wondering if you could do Doncaster rovers 13/14 season players where they are known please up the donny