15:15 It shows how recent the 'Big 6' is when in 2003/04, Portsmouth, in their first year in the Prem, finished above Spurs and Man City.

Wolves, Villa, West Ham, Brighton and Newcastle would love this scenario today

Moves did an absolute magnificent job turning Everton from perennial relegation fodder to a regular top 6 side.

Everton were of course in the original big 5 during the inaugural EPL season alongside Man Utd' Liverpool' Arsenal and Spurs which is really hard to believe nowadays but Everton certainly are a long with very rich tradition and have played more seasons in the English top flight than any other team

God as an Everton fan this was a depressing watch to see how far we've fallen. I'm glad some people could see what an unreal job Moyes did for Everton though. Great video mate.

This video is the example of what would have happened if the super league happened.

Leicester finishing 5th back to back was miraculous looking back at it

How about Scottish league winners without Celtic or Rangers that would be an interesting one perhaps Hearts vs Hibernian would become the new old firm

Depressing watch as an Everton fan take me back to those late 2000’s early 2010’s years😢

Forgot to mention Leeds's greatest achievement in 2000 was Erling Haaland being born there that year

So basically what we have gathered is that the new big six is Villa, Newcastle, Blackburn, Leeds, Leicester and Everton are the new big 6, whilst Southampton was the 7 team that was always in the league but never really close of winning, (such as the current Everton)

Day 21 of asking a "What Went Right for Stade Brestois?" Video This is currently, by far, the best season in club history, one which could result in their first ever qualification for Europe in over 70 years of existence. There's a fascinating story to tell, from going bankrupt and slowly climbing back, to various great names that played there such as Ribéry, Makélélé or José Luis Brown, to the story of the Brest president going up against the Colombian drug cartel. Plus, you can have a lot of Brest related puns. Would love to see that concept for other leagues, such as Spain

I remember the first premier league season, especially being a villa fan. UTV! Thoroughly enjoyed the video Alfie.

*Alternative Video Idea:* Premier League winners if each previous winner was removed

As a Blackburn Rovers fan I can safely say I would be more than happy if this was the universe we lived in

Can't believe there was no 'Further Adu'joke in the video... devastated

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 609) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

CHAMPIONS 2014/15 🥲❤️🤍❤️🤍

I remember seeing the statistics for the 20/21 season after the Super League episode, if you took out all the big 6's results, West Ham would actually have more points than Leicester.

The rate that these high quality videos get pumped outs at is insane

This is one of my favorite ever vids of yours Alfie. Love it. Thanks

Premier league, la liga and bundesliga have missed the teams you know over the years!

Newcastle's Robson era was some of the greatest campaign The Magpies have done, especially with the likes of Given, Bellamy, Shearer, Lua-lua and Ameobi.

I guess I’m going to have to be that guy, but to be really true to the mission of this video, you’d have to deduct every point that teams got from the Big 6 clubs instead of just looking at the real world table. But I appreciate that it probably would’ve been way too much work.

Solid video idea Alf, always thinking outside the box. Keep up the good work. I'd like to ask if you could incorporate more players'nicknames? I think it's a shame the English side of the game doesn't partake in it as much, as say the Latin side. I'm sure as you go, you'll find more obscure ones, but for now I'll give ya 5, and whoever you mention in the video. Di María - El Fideo (The noodle, because he's skinny) Enzo - La Perla (The pearl) Ivan Zamorano - Bam Bam (He liked the Flintstones as a kid) Gary Medal - Pitbull (Yeah) Cade Cowell - El vaquero (The cowboy, this one is interesting because it's so recent, but he's really taken to it since he's moved and he's become a fan favorite. )

In fairness the last time the top flight of English football was unpredictable season to season was the 70s. Title winners, Arsenal, Derby, Everton, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and even then Liverpool became dominant by the end. But come to think about it, Bob Paisley made the 70s less predictable than 1960s top flight.

As a fellow Englishmen who despises the Premier League and all that comes with it, I love this video.

@HITC, rate the top 10 series. But the What on earth is going on at... and the deep dives into Countries are top tier lad. Love from New Zealand. Keep it up!!! It's always red panty night when you drop

Interesting video! I didn't fully appreciate that the one year I was living in East London was that exact season where we won the "non-big 6" table - I was mad we dropped under Man United during their banter era.

God that Big Sam Bolton team was good. Reason I'm a Bolton fan to this day. Its... its been rough.

It'd be a lot of work but I'd be curious if the results remain the same when you remove the matches against the 'big six'

Alfie dropping another banger. Any morning I see a new vid I know the day will be good.

Love the Villa on FIFA reference. Those years were what made me a Villa fan (as a yank) and I’ve been along for the ride ever since.

Thank you for recognising Beckford. Quality Striker. Loved him at Leeds. MOT

Lovely video as always for Alfie! Does someone know channels who do similar videos, maybe also for serie A or other league?

As a Spurs fan, I dont recognise that we are treated the same way as Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City. We have gradually built our way into a position where we can more or less safely assume a top 8 finish every year, but we never start the season with a real prospect of winning the league.

Imagine if Alfie also had to cover all pre-PL seasons as well.

how, as a spurs fan, have you managed to rob me of even more titles by choosing the big 6 instead of just former winners

In the last five years the "most unpredictable league" has been won four times by the same club.

Northampton mentioned 💪💪

Just wondering... when compiling this video, did you go purely based on final league positions each year, or did you actually remove each team's results versus the Big Six? In many cases it would have made no difference, but it may have done on some occasions...

In sum. Before the Premier League , it was a big five (Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Everton & Spurs). During the 90s, Everton and Spurs dropped back to mid table, at best. Leeds, Blackburn, Villa and Newcastle competed at the top end on a semi regular basis - before most dropped back by the end of the decade. Chelsea, for the first time since the early 70s, rejoined the elite in the late 90s - cemented further by the Abramovich takeover. For most of the 2000s, it was a big four (Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool). Man City, and following in their slipstream, Spurs, come up at the beginning of the 2010s, to turn it into a big six. Everton, Leicester, Villa and Newcastle have tried occasionally to crack the elite at different points in the last 12 years, but not on a consistent enough basis. And that is where we are now.

isn't the Aston villa owner like the richest outside of Man City and Newcastle?

I'm going to be a pain, but if you're serious about recalibrating the table without the 'top 6', you should remove the results of the remaining teams against those six in order to work out the real 'winners'. Also, as you say, the notion of the 'big 6' has changed over time, so it's slightly unfair to include Man City (and Chelsea pre-Abaramovic) in the early years, while excluding Blackburn and Newcastle who were among the biggest teams in England at the time.

Of all the videos made to take the pressure off as you research something deeper, this is certainly one of them

#thepeopleschannel a video on the Bangladesh premier league and the rise of Bashundhara kings would be good A team who went into the top flight after promotion and won the last four league titles now! Are they the next Newcastle? Are they a team to keep a eye on next few years? Thanks Alfie 😊

Another suggestion: Independent Yorkshire XI if all eligible players declared allegiance.

Alfie’s Freddy Adu joke gives me so much joy

Blows my mind why you haven't yet featured my team Ipswich in a video. So much to talk about there.

5000-1 baybee! That was such a miraculous year, the right people in the right place at the right time as the top 6 falter.

2:24 you really have a way with words alfie

How about La Liga without the big 3 (Real Madrid, Barcelona & Atletico Madrid)?

As interesting as this scenario is, it should be remembered that the owners, managers, and players of the missing big six would/could been involved among the other clubs (and national leagues).

Hopefully one day this could sort of become the norm. Prem and other top 5 leagues NEED more competition like this to happen more often

I remeber that Burnley season so well. I trust Vinny but man do I miss Dyche

Alfie, what was your method? Did you remove the results/points all teams got against the Big 6? Did/would that method have created a different result than just using the "highest finishing non-Big 6" team?

Before watching the video, I specifically remember that the second half of Crystal Palace's season under Tony Pulis, we were really good at beating every other club in the league EXCEPT the big six (in fact we were top of the table if you excluded the top 8's results). I wonder how high up we would be with just the top 6 removed. And then the first (full) season under Roy Hodgson was the complete opposite. We upset the Big Six repeatedly and lost to the teams at the bottom of the table. EDIT: Oh, you literally just checked the table to see who was closest to the top. That's boring. I was hoping for some actual data analysis.

Suggestion: Similar video for other leagues, or for other cup competitions

Chaos and excitement = fun so.... Just play heads or tails for game result. Maximum excitement.

Babe wake up! Alfie just posted 🔥

The polish Ekstraklsa is kind of like the 1992/93 PL season. But here everyone is so mediocre that every score is always possible. Lechia was fighting for the championship only to drop down year later with the same squad nearly and also every few years a random club like Piast wins the league only to struggle to not go down in the following year

I love your intros

You Should make a Video Like the What is going At Malaga one you made but About The Turkish Team Bursaspor The Team Who played Man Utd in the Champions League in 2010/11 Ever since then Bursaspor have been Relegated 3 time and are now Bottom of the Third Division in the Turkish league I thought this would be a Good video idea I don’t know

Off topic but what are people's thoughts on how Luton will do in the Champ next season? (Lets be honest they're going down which is no shame considering budget & the shambles of the 2 'better' promoted teams) personally I think they'll float around mid table with the big players they'll lose & I don't think many players 'too you'd for the level will trust they can go back up

Including Newcastle in the "Rich 7" is assuming FFP isn't a thing. The owners' hands are tied, it's why we had to sell Saint Maximin, get Hall on a loan to buy, couldn't buy anyone in January, and Dan Ashworth has thrown his toys out the pram. To finish 4th with a squad including the likes of Jacob Murphy, Miguel Almiron, Sean Longstaff and Dan Burn is crazy. I'd say only Leicester winning the league is a bigger shock in the last 10 years. I admire Alfie for always taking a moral approach with his videos, and that's partly why he's one of my fave football content creators. But I would be interested to know what he would do if his beloved Hull City got bought out by a state. It's a catch 22 for Newcastle fans, and I'm sure it's the same for Man Utd fans in regards to the possibility of Mason Greenwood returning.

Probably a lot more work, but it would be interesting to see what the results of this would be if every result against Big 6 teams were removed from the final points totals as well

A "Big Six"? Sounds like a dream for the German football fan, having Bayern München win the Bundesliga for 10 years now, only being somewhat rivaled by Borussia Dortmund.

@21:19 it's the very nice philadelphia unions stadium. DOOP!

Possibly video idea - which cities have the most professional clubs, so London has 7 in the prem, 1 in the champ, 2 in league 1 and 2 in league 2. So that's 12 London clubs in our professional leagues. I know you could also include 5 from the national league and 1 from but those leagues aren't considered professional like the 92

Don't think that the stats were adjusted for the teams not playing the top 6.

Hey Alfie, I have a video idea for you - with Liverpool’s Caribao Cup winning team containing three sons of Premier League players, maybe you could do the 7 best nepo babies (headed by Maldini?) or the 7 worst (and you could add your own perspective on whether Alex Bruce wins this one!)

"It's this degree of chaos and excitement that should happen every season that makes football fun." To which the Lords of the English Game said "Well, we can't have any of THAT, now can we?"

Big six should really be a big ten and include Newcastle, Leeds, Aston Villa and Everton/Blackburn.

Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Tottenham, Everton, Aston Villa, Newcastle…

The English Top Flight has always been interesting starting with Big 5, then Top 4, now it’s Big 6. Soon we shall witness new or evolved players.

whats david bentley up to nowadays?

Does this video take the end table of each season and simply remove the positions of the big 6? Or does it remove all points gained/ lost for teams against the big 6 and recalculate the table accordingly?

I wonder how much the table would change (and if it would change at all) if we would also remove the points of the matches the big 6 were involved in

This would be so much better than what we have now!

A great video would be FA/League Cup finals and winners since 2000 without the big six.

would be interesting (but time consuming) to work this out with the points from games vs top 6 teams in it. Basically making a 14 team league table

I probably won't cry 😢

Ridsdale was like me at the blackjack table in Vegas.

The main take away I took from this is that Moyes is insane

Did you expunge all the results of matches involving the 'big 6'?. This could have an effect on where 'the rest' finished.

If we take Newcastle as an example, people complain under PSR that they cannot spend big. BUT their Stadium can be either upgraded and enlarged, increasing revenue. They can invest heavily in their Academy. They can look at ways to increase revenue. None of that involves PSR.

So basically Leeds, Newcastle and Everton are by far the big 3 in this scenario.

2:44 I was about to point that out

I am really curious to know if this was a full recalculation of the league table as if it was a 14 (or 16 in its first seasons) team league and the matches against the 'Big Six' had never happened, or if it was just a look at the table and drawing lines through the 'Big Six' teams with everything else unaffected. The shots of the actual table each season makes me think it was just the latter, but the former could have been really interesting. For instance if a team had lost both games to all of the 'Big Six' in reality, in the what-if they'd lose no points from those matches not happening. Meanwhile a team that had a poor season but managed to beat the 'Big Six' more often would lose points from those games being magically removed from existence, so they would fall down the what-if table. If I'm right, this is more of a "What if the 'Big Six' were excluded from league placement", rather than "league without the 'Big Six'".

All these people saying Tottenham shouldn’t be in the big six yet they finish in the top 6 most seasons. They also have brilliant facilities and a lot of money, silly people.

The old premier league in the 90’s reminds me of how the Brazilian serie A is today - very unpredictable with teams that were promoted one season leading the league that same season like Botafogo and almost even Grêmio

This is David Moyes’ world and we’re all just living in it

The 7 best trophy-less seasons

I’m said it once Bring in a premier league playoffs

Can you rank the premier League winners since separation?

Can you do a similar video for La Liga (without the big 3) and the Bundesliga without Bayern

This isn’t title winners without top six, this is the highest finishing team excluding the top six, you would have to take out the results against the big six to get a true result. Come on Alfie I thought you put more effort in to your video than this

Still no Barry Vennison, but a mention of Stan Staunton will do I suppose

And there's me thinking about the best non-top 6 team in the league

I've always wondered why Everton and Newcastle have had a long-running hatred of each other. This video explains exactly why. They're battling for best of the rest.