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I’m sorry for swearing so much, I never thought I’d be on a channel this wholesome. My bad. But yea totes get a used PS5 and play Fifa 21 career mode. Couple of seasons and you’ll understand how the leagues and Champions League works.

I recommend to just start watching some games and after a while it will come naturally which team you like the most/have the most sympathy with.

23:20 - He's not kidding. For some reason it's entertaining and hilarious watching Arsenal fans lose their sh*t when the team loses.

Not only Premier League champions, Leicester City have also just won the FA Cup and the FA Community Shield. Compared to other top flight teams, they win on a shoestring budget.

"Is that real?" Yeah, that's Brazilian commentators for you. I've heard 30 seconds of GOOOOOOOOO[...]OOOOOOOOOL.

Historical fact: Everton were one of the original Liverpool teams. When the football league was founded in 1888, Everton and Accrington Stanley represented the Liverpool area. For a few years Everton played at Anfield but a dispute over rent led to the owners building a new ground (Goodison Park, the first purpose built football stadium). The owner of Anfield then formed a new team which became Liverpool FC. If Everton had paid the rent all those years ago their greatest rivals might never have existed! Everton have also spent more years in the top division than any other team, only spending four seasons in the old Second Division (Arsenal have the most *consecutive* seasons in the top division).

The English League system used to include a lot of Welsh teams as well, although many of them were smaller clubs... In 1992, the Welsh FA created their own competition - the Welsh Premier League - and Wales-based team had to decide whether to move to this competition, or remain as part of the English league system - the largest Welsh clubs (such as Swansea, Cardiff and Newport County) stayed as part of the English system.

I'm a leicester city supporter, everyone's favourite 2nd team, and every one is jealous of our fantastic owner. You need to watch LEICESTER CITY : OUR STORY.

Watching it live is what makes it so special, slightly pointless watching the replay

I think that one of the best things when trying to pick a team to follow, is learning about some of the players and getting to know them. For me it was Frank Lampard that made me choose Chelsea as my team, mainly because of his playstyle and personality. I'd recommend you watching this video about the story of our golden boy Mason Mount "The Pride: Mason Mount" and even the "Coming Home" series. This might help you become a fellow blue. KTBFFH💙

Premier League does include Wales but presently there are no Welsh teams in the league. Cardiff and Swansea will be trying for promotion from the Championship this season to get into the Premier League..

''or Spurs maybe. Kane plays for them'' does he though? Does he?

The best way to choose your team would probably be to watch several matches through the First half of the season, in doing so you'll find yourself feeling a pull to the playing style and player of one of the teams. There is no wrong choice, let your heart guide you! 😉 or put a pin in a list of teams 😁

Don’t worry about saying Premier just call it the Prem that’s what we call it anyway, love your vids.

For added interest and fun Roger and Scarlett could also ‘pick’ their own teams to follow.😊⚽️🐕

Liverpool fan here from Nigeria. Picked my team in 2004 and have never looked back.

Please watch a video about Leicester City winning the Premier League. That story has literally everything you could want.

Makes me happy to find an American really invested and learning about it, big ups to you 🙌🙌 🇬🇧

All the teams will create their own narratives across the season. You'll find yourself drawn to one of these ongoing stories. You mention Harry Kane, who is the story at the moment. He wants to go to Manchester City but Spurs are tough negotiators.

the best way to watch highlights in the UK is by watching BBC's MOTD (Match of the Day) which will give you a good round up of the weeks games, don't know if you can view it on BBC America

With all the Harry Potter references, I'm surprised he never mentioned Brighton & Hove Albion, managed by Graham Potter (referred to as Harry Potter when he works his magic).

If you wish to be despised and hated follow Leeds, if you want to see fantastic football follow Leeds, if you wish to see terrible football follow Leeds. If you want to support a team who can win 0 - 5 one week and lose 6 - 2 the next follow Leeds. Leeds are the dysfunctional family member of the football league. But it's fun.

Even if you go for one of the big names, perhaps keep Crystal Palace as some mid-table interest. They are known as The Eagles after all, so significant American symbolism there. And their name is derived from a spectacular building (not an actual palace) so there's some interesting history. Unfortunately the building burned down, and that hints at the sort of experience you might have as a fan. Starting the season well, then staging a spectacular collapse; losing to teams they should beat, then beating the current champions: It can be a roller-coaster ride, and perhaps more interesting - and frustrating - than a team that's glued to the top of the table.

"Kent is my ancestral place" - Hears the closest club to Kent is Crystal Palace FC "It's actually my grandparents, not mine"

I was so worried about this, but, to be fair, he explained it really well! Oh and he's a Red so good lad ;)

As a brazilian i gave myself the right to choose a new team in the big europeans leagues every season! Bandwagon for the win! I already suffer enough with my own team here in brazil :(

No!!! Before you choose any club, watch Match of the Day a few times first. It's a great highlight show covering all the games every weekend. There's one show on saturday and one show on sunday. You'll find yourself just falling for a club that way. It's just like Harry Potter, the club chooses the fan.

Watch the games that is supposed to be the most exiting. Then choose to watch teams that plays the style of football you like the most. And then narrow it down.

The best way to choose is to just watch a bunch of games each from the teams and choose which one you prefer

He's talking about watching live because if you live in England/Italy/France/Spain ... and decide to record the game to watch it when you come back from work, there's no way someone wouldn't spoil you the result (or any tv report, google news on phone ... etc)

SoGal, you probably should go watch the highlights of Premier League week 1. you’re gonna get to know how each team plays their football.

You should do a separate reaction to Arsenal Fan TV

I'm brazilian and I follow mainly Tottenham, Leicester and City. Tottenham because of Son, Leicester because they're underdogs, and city because they win stuff.

YESSS. Chelsea is a great pick and I might be a little biased because I am a Chelsea fan myself but you're in for a A LOT of entertainment with us.

Really enjoying your Videos ! Oh and... i'm a Chelsea fan 😉💙

Leicester are the smaller brother that somehow managed too stand up to the older brothers. Now they have the respect they deserve, I mean they are everyone’s 2nd team 🦊 But Leicester have won the FA cup and Community shield in the last 4 months so to call them scrubs would be harsh.

Good for you getting to see all the games live and legally on TV. We in the UK can only watch some games on TV. You have to go (as in the actual stadiums) to some games in UK to watch live legally. That is why most of the games are at the same time on Saturday.

hats off to you SoGal for attempting the word premier...

My brother now lives in Chicago, he'll get up at the crack of dawn to watch an Everton game. x

As a spurs fan I welcome you to the life of depression and disappointment.

I see a lot of comments suggesting to watch Match of the Day which is on BBC in the UK, I looked it up and apparently they show Match of the Day in America on NBCSN on Saturdays but I don't know how true this as I don't live in America, if it is true they'll be a Match of the day 2 showing highlights from games on the Sunday

I think the big thing if you're not a local is finding a style of play that you enjoy watching. There are some teams that play a fairly negative style (Wolves and Burnley spring to mind) that it's hard to love as an outsider, especially compared to a much more exciting and dynamic team like Liverpool. Some teams for years prided themselves on playing the 'right way' (West Ham, Everton, Spurs, Liverpool) and Arsenal changed to be like that in the 90s when Wenger arrived so they are probably more likely to keep playing nice football in future, but it can always change. Chelsea are kind of transitioning away from the very negative style they had under Mourinho, so they aren't as dour a spectacle as they used to be, while Spurs are not the attractive open side they used to be after Mourinho managed them for a while. In terms of romance and human interest, it's hard not to pull for Leicester, it was a very humble squad that pulled together to win a championship ahead of many teams with maybe about 3 times their budget for player wages, including Marc Albrighton who lost his mother in-law in a terrorist attack ahead of the season they won the title. It's the antithesis of Man City where the club is essentially a PR operation for a questionable regime that are constantly pushing the edges of what they can get away with financially. Abramovich at Chelsea got his money in questionable circumstances but there doesn't feel like there is an ulterior motive to him, it feels like he is just indulging his love for the game (and is now selling up because of the crisis in Ukraine)

He’s spot on with his explanation of Spurs 😂 but let me try sell my team to you for a second. It’s very easy to select a team at the top, if you choose city, Liverpool or Chelsea you’re likely going to watch the team win every single game very comfortably, it’s like eating cake, it’s fun at first but it gets very boring very quickly. The reason Sports is so popular across the world is the drama, the story lines, the highs and lows.The good times aren’t quite as good without the bad to compare it to and no team epitomises this quite like Tottenham Hotspur. We don’t do anything by the book, we could be 3-0 up in a game and throw it away and lose 4-3 in the last ten minutes, the other side of the coin we can win a game against a team no one expected us to (we just beat the champions Man City at the weekend, in the glorious stadium that you mentioned) the point I’m making is there is never a dull moment and you’re guaranteed entertainment which is what football is all about at the end of the day. We’re an up and coming team especially in Asia and the states with 314 supporters clubs globally many of those in America 🇺🇸. It’s quite the rollercoaster and if I’m being honest it’s likely to crash into a wall at the end but it’s never boring 😂

As a die hard Fleetwood town supporter I'd recommend catching a few of the lower league matches. Plenty of heart and grit and play offs a plenty

Aston Villa is worth keeping an eye on. They're a historic club but somewhat of a dark horse at the moment.

Yesss you picked well. You are a Chelsea fan now!

$80 A MONTH!!! That's what you call dedication, people!

Some of the teams have interesting histories. For example Everton actually started as a church cricket team. Manchester United started life as Newton Heath which is a poorer area of Manchester.

Technically we have 2 playoff knockout competitions with the FA Cup and League Cup which every English and some welsh teams take part in.

It's lovely to see your enthusiasm for learning about football. Are you still following the Premier league this season? I loved the Christmas fixtures, got m y mojo back after not really seeing it live for the last few years. Saw Brighton best Brentford on Boxing day, then went away 3 days later to see them draw at Chelsea, dramatic last minute equaliser. Then they won away at Everton on Sunday, loved it. Come on Seagulls! Going to be the best season in their history

Remember the movie Fever Pitch, with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon, where he's a Red Sox fan? Well, it's the American version of an English movie of the same name (which was based on a book of the same name). In the English movie, the main character is an Arsenal fan, and it's about the 1988-89 season, when Arsenal won a league title after 18 years. In fact, not only that 1970-71 win also happened after 18 years without a league title, but right now the last league title of Arsenal was in... 2003-04 (when they were unbeaten), which means that if they're champions this season it would also be after 18 years.

If your ancestors came from Kent and you didn't necessarily wish to follow a successful club, can I suggest Arsenal. They originated as a works team at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, which was previously in Kent, and let's face, they're lightyears from winning anything.

We are Harry Potter land, lol You could always follow Leicester as they were underdogs for eons, despite having the likes of Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton. They have followers from around the world.

I think a commen way to get a connection to a team you follow and love is by watching matches. You will properly get some favorite players you like to watch, and then you will start to follow their teams. At some point you will start to connect to a certain team and then you want to learn more about the team and players. Of course it could also be that you connect to a specific style a team plays with. Or something else, like a smaller team does it way better than expected. Or a combination of different things. One thing is for sure, a growing interest in a specific team can happen after one match or over a period of time. Just like love.

You follow a team that you're attracted to. They might not be successful but you have an attraction and follow them through good times and bad times. You have an invisible bond with your club. That's what following a team is about, oh and you never ever change your allegiance.

As an American, I appreciated this.

Dont choose a team Focus on watching games and understanding the plays Your favourite team will emerge. Whether its fancy footwork, a powerhouse team, or the sort of team that doesn't play fancy football but through grit and determination..youll just end up rooting for a team that matches your philosophy P.s. - for a great round-up of the weekend football, get a vpn and set ur location as UK so you can watch Match Of The Day and MOTD2 on bbc iplayer free streaming service) 5 - 10minutes of highlights for each game plus analysis and breakdowns :)

Can't wait to see who you pick!

Living in Maidstone in Kent, the nearest Premier League club we have is West Ham Utd, supported them since the age of 12, so 54 years now. They are just through the Blackwall Tunnel, now located at the London Stadium, previously used for the Olympics, the ground they are most associated with is Upton Park, or the Boleyn ground.

There are no Welsh teams in the Premier League this season but both Cardiff City and Swansea City have recently played in the league.

Most diehard football fans will want to watch their team in the middle of the night because they don't want to risk some idiot telling them the result before they've had chance to watch their recording. So, you've narrowed it down to a choice between the Pensioners, the Reds, the Lilywhites and the Foxes. If they form the top four at the end of the season, I, for one, will be very happy.

That fella has actually made a very, very good video about the Premier League.

One of the best explanations of the competing teams ever ! Great Video. If you can find the highlights, watch last Friday evening's opening match between newly promoted Brentford and Arsenal. A great atmosphere, Brentford at home, playing their first Premier League match in 50 years against the mighty Arsenal.

Hey! Hope you’re doing well and having a great day! If you have family from Kent and people are saying to support Crystal Palace, I’d say that’s a good plan! Another reason would be that my dad played for Palace and I’m a subscriber! (Although my dad did also play for Leeds and Everton so either of those are fine as well) 😜😂

And you definitely need to check out the two Ted Lasso soccer comedy short clips…

Palace are great for atmosphere and a sense of community! We’re known for having the loudest fans and honestly having been to Selhurst, they’re brilliant to watch. The atmosphere is insane. We’re a midtable team so we tend to have runs of being either really good or really bad throughout the season. For some reason we tend to do better against teams that are doing well. But, yeah, I would definitely recommend palace! Our mascot is also an eagle and it flies across the pitch at the beginning of every game; so that will probably suit you as an American ;)

One casual team you won’t of heard of is AFC Wimbledon who play in league 1. 2 leagues below the premier league. The history is our club was taken away and now is completely fan owned and just moved back into new 32 million pound stadium home in Wimbledon after 30 years. At least they are everyone’s second team

Check out a wolves game they play Tottenham this Sunday, wolves have players that are fun to watch, and a new manager, so it will be like following a team at a new start. the new manager also likes to play attacking football!!!

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose Brentford. One Brentford fan couldn't hide the emotion of seeing his side win on their return to the top tier of English football for the first time in 74 years, as he didn't hold back the tears at full time. Did happen few days ago, fairy tale is on the spot ➡ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etigZNerxL-uZGQ.html

Perfect thing to watch to take a nap to. Wake up and didn't miss anything.

For the live thing. Most people who a fans of teams follow them on social media or have friends who also support that team. So if they dont watch live they will probably find out what the score is and that takes away a lot of the fun.

The English Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world, with 1.3 billion people watching at least one match each week.

A Leicester man here, that year was incredible. Memories of dancing in the streets. There were a fair few people who always betted on Leicester winning the league who got a massive payout

A suggestion: as a first step into following the Premier League I would strongly recommend watching Match of the Day (MotD) from the BBC. It covers all of the Saturday games (MotD2 is also there for Sunday games) provides plenty of context and some straight forward analysis. I think you'll love it!

Great video! This seasons probably gonna be the most competitive season yet, many clubs with great squad and top players in europe coming to play in this league. I predict all four teams in the top4 will compete for the league title (rarely happens) Exciting! I want to add my own little (not little) guide for you, teams I predict will get top 6 not in order. These are my opinion btw. (some of these may be contreversial) Chelsea: Great team. Rich club with great players. Plays entertaining football. Competitor for the league title and definitely will finish top 4 in the league. Also will go far in the UCL (current champions) Man united: The biggest and most successful club in the country, (and probably has the most haters because of it.) Has great history and character. Finally a good team after years of rebuilding but still not as good as chelsea and man city, slightly. This season is the season to finally compete and win some trophies. Competitor for the league title, definitely top 4. (Rivals: liverpool, man city, arsenal) Liverpool: Up there with the most successful club in the country (rivals with man united on whos the best club) Great culture n history. Just won the league 2 seasons ago after 30 years without winning. Has proud n passionate fans (and sometimes gets a little bit annoying). Strong team, play fast attacking football, title contender, and probably top four. (Rivals: man united, everton) Man city: The noisy neighbors of man united. The team to beat. Rich owners with the best players and the most expensive team in the league. Domestically been the most successful team in recent history. To be brutally honest, other than their own fans, nobody really cares about them really, it feels like they use cheat code and just spend so much money. (well when you won the lottery you can buy whatever you want, we dont really care) Such a powerful team, plays great entertaining football, favourites to win not just the league but every competition theyre competing in. (Rivals: man united) Arsenal: A clown of the big clubs. Massive club, biggest in london (bigger than chelsea and others) with great history and success. But has been a laughing stock for the past decade and just keeps getting worse. People just love to see the outburst of their fans after they lose a game. Doubts about the manager and doubts about the players. Sad times for them but fun for the rest of fans to follow. Boring pragmatic football, wont make top 4. 6th is a good progress after finishing 8th for 2 consecutive seasons. (Rivals: tottenham) Leicester: the “best of the rest” team. Better than teams other than the top 4 but just not good enough to get top 4. A well run club. But never as big and rich as the rest mentioned. A neutral club where nobody dislikes. Even when they won the league, everyone loved it, what a fairytale story. Plays good football, good players, will sit comfortably btwn top4 and midtable.

25:17 "is that real" wait until you hear arab commentators 😭

A really good video you should react to is 'Ferguson my football father' it's about the relationship between Ronaldo and his Manchester United manager very good video

Hi SoGal , Really enjoy your football vids (still waiting for one with The Real Ronaldo :D ) . How to pick a team to follow? Why not use the Tried & Tested Cup Draw method. write all the team names on paper bits, fold separately, put into a hat, and have someone pick you out a team to follow. look forward to see who you choose

Liverpool v Chelsea game is coming up in couple of weeks time. You should do a live watch party for that!

Yes! Pick Chelsea! I’ve been following them since 2012 and oh boy, everyday is a new drama with this club, be it good or bad drama, but it’s so worth it! Try looking for the story of these teams, if you identify with any players in there, the colors, the fan base… all of this can be taken into account when choosing a team. I chose Chelsea because during the Champions League final we played against Bayern Munich and we ended up winning on penalties and nobody had faith that we would win it. Pundits and other fan bases always consider us the underdogs, we’re never the favorites for anything and most of them hates us. That’s definitely one of the things that makes cheering for Chelsea so good and exciting!

If you don't support Middlesbrough... well, I can't blame you. But one day, we'll be back in the Premier League. One day

While he was talking about the games they played` he brought up having to play in cups too ... like the Champions league, but he failed to mention that All the teams also have to play in the F.A. Cup and the League Cup ... during the season too ... plus any really good players may also have to play for their Country too. That is why many of the big teams often have a squad of around 150 players that they can use at some point in the season ... plus they are always scouting for new talent from all around the world .. and of course` they have Reserve teams and under 18`s or under 23`s playing in their own leagues too ... plus they have their youngsters coming through local Academies at each team.

I know plenty about the NFL and College Football thanks been watching them since the mid 80's. I do find it interesting that some Americans pronounce Leisure as "LEESURE" yet when they see Leicester for whatever reason the Lei becomes "Lie" and an H suddenly appears in the word too.

You need to watch the Scottish Premiership!! Last year was insane with St. Johnstone (a relatively smaller club) winning a cup double, which only the 3 biggest teams in the country have ever managed to do. Rangers won the League title to stop Celtic winning 10 league titles in a row and it was all-round awesome. This year looks even more competitive with Hearts and Dundee returning to the league, bringing back both the Edinburgh and Dundee derby's. It's already started and it's already been awesome. Plus we still play the worlds oldest football trophy, the Scottish Cup, as we literally invented the game. Definitely worth checking out.

I m french and i support : Spurs ❤❤❤❤❤

It’s the English league system but includes Cardiff, Swansea (who have both been in the Premier League) and Wrexham from Wales, for some reason

That made you giggle. Where i live, I can look across the River Mersey and see Anfield (Liverpool FC) and Everton's ground, Goodison Park.

You should watch his Manchester United video, about the Ferguson Era

Major caution - if you choose a team, about 21 out of every 22 football club fans in England will not watch any vids you produce on football. Stay neutral, enjoy the best football - and feel free to say what you thought was best!

the fa cup can have giant killers. low league teams that occasionally play above themselves, its a chance for up and coming players to shine with the big boys

As a Liverpoolfan, it would be great to see you join us but as long as you find joy and passion in the game it's all that matters. I chose my team as a 6 year old living in Sweden and it was between Liverpool and Tottenham so I got a soft spot for them as well. And yeah, practically nobody dislikes Leicester.

Its got to be Liverpool for you: the passion of the fans (not posh Londoners), the charisma of the coach, that dynamic fast playing style of the team, the history of the club and the character of the city of Liverpool. Seriously become a Liverpool fan and you will start to meet other Liverpool fans all over the world and be really welcomed into the city YNWA.

Please don’t pick one of the Rich 6 clubs. When someone chooses one of them I just think it’s lazy. Most clubs have a rich heritage and all have their hopes and aspirations. The fan bases for most clubs are big. Don’t be hijacked by all the media space given to the Rich 6. A choice outside the usual six is more interesting; Unless you’re choosing a club for silverware (Spurs excepted)!

My tip is watching all different teams and either a team or a player is gonna catch your eye. For me as a swede, I also dont have any physical connection to any team or city. But I fell in love with the playstyle and passion of a player called Steven Gerrard, who I then found out was captain of the Liverpool team at that time. So I started following them, even though they didnt win much for many years. We´ve got back to it now though, and I agree that Jürgen Klopp is one of the most likable managers in football. There is a video of him (at the final whistle of the Champions League final that they won) where he in equal parts celebrates with his players and comforts the Spurs players who just lost. Its amazing and as a fan it makes me very proud. YNWA

Arsenal play in Garibaldi red because their first shirts were given to them by Nottingham Forest - my home city team. Forest are not doing so well at the moment but we have been through bad times before we hit the the good times to be European Champions two years in a row, Juventus play in black and white stripes because they were given their first shirts by Notts County FC the other Nottingham team.

There can be only one! Go with the mighty whites! Leeds Leeds Leeds! Marching on together!

This guy did Arsenal dirty.... He didn't even talk about the Wenger era which was the most attractive football I've personally seen (outside of the 2011 Barca squad). However, I may be a bit biased lol.

One potential cause of confusion for ,though probably momentary ,is that teams don't necessarily appear in the same colours every week. Each team has a "home" strip i.e colours that they play in at their home ground, and at least one away strip that they can use when playing away from home in case of matching the home team's colours.

The best way to pick a team is to not pick a team. Just watch football and learn about various club’s histories. At some point something will click and you will feel an attachment to some club. Whether that’s in 1 month or 5 year’s time. No-one in the uk picks a club, and it’s probably the same around the world. It just happens at some point when you’re a child. Either through family or something else. That’s the only way you’ll really care. I remember in the 80s when American football was on uk tv for the first time. I picked a team, but I never actually cared or developed any attachment, because it didn’t happen naturally over time.