Hate the comments asking for all different videos and no one saying anything about the video, great video all the same

Well...it seems like I've won my cause on the long occasion ^^ thank you very much for that video, as usual it was very well documented!

This is so interesting for me as most of my family is originally from the Saarland. And The goalkeeper of their 1954 team was the neighbour of my grandparents! He had the most amazing oldschool football stories.

My dad's a Saarländer. It's a special little region with a special little accent and a culture just between German and French. The oldest people still sometimes call the rest of Germany "the Reich" because of the political separations of the past ("Dahemm" (at home) vs "das Reich" (Germany but abroad)). But I really didn't know about the footballing history...

As someone from Saarland, thank you for giving our history some attention❤️

Saarland is also the region where French troops invaded Germany in 1939, while the Nazis were busy attacking Poland in the East. Although, upon conquering a couple kilometers and stumbling upon a lone MG nest, the French thought that'd be enough war for today, and retreated back to get crispy baguettes (and to get invaded by the Germans a year later).

That's it, I'm starting a Saarbruken save on FM

Thank-you for mentioning- "Operation paperclip". You have gone up in my ratings x

They really punched above their weight, gotta admire that

I love these videos, being a GCSE history student studying Germany , it's great to see an insight into how the nation revived their sporting prominence following the war

Kudos to @Andris for his persistence! Very interesting topic on a piece of history that few of us would ever heard or know. 👏👏

Day 36: Best 7 Caribbean Footballers of all time. (Had to either play for a Caribbean Nation or be born in the Caribbean and be uncapped)

Day 119: "Final Yugoslavia First League Teams: Where are they now?" would be interesting with Red Star winning the 90s CL but then falling from grace as a lot of teams in the region. + maybe how a lot of them changed names or logos as socialism felt off (loosing a red star etc.)

This video made me switch to Wikipedia every 2 minutes and I love it

The best player that has had a stint with every pl club Eto'o for Everton Anelka for West Brom

I think this is one of your most interesting and informative videos.

Was going to ask about covering this Alfie, thanks for reading my mind

Tones of work put into these, I've learned so much about the sport and its history from this channel.

Great Video with a lot of insight on how things evolved in Saarland over the years Kudos for mentioning Operation Paperclip

Thank you for your work... this little pieces of history are amazing!

That's Saarland 🔥🔥

1 of your best works Alfie. Thats was fantastic 👏

Greetings from the Saarland!!

Wonderful video, knocking it out of the park again

Fantastic video, thank you so much for this great summary of this largely forgotten, yet important piece of European football history!

Fair play, Alfie, this may be one of the best videos you've made so far.

Really enjoyed the video. A million thanks! I've been a big football fan since the early 70s and love this kind of unusual story. How about a video on Escoses FC, a team of Scottish factory workers living in Barcelona...one of whom played for Barca and scored their first goal in a competitive match!!!

Wow. HITC Sevens - this is a pleasant surprise. I lived in Saarbruecken for a couple months during Uni. It was by far one of my fondest memories up until now. Some of the nicest and charitable people I have ever met, the Saarlanders were such a splendid introductory to "German Culture" and Germany overall. I definitely recommend anyone to visit if able.

I love your videos that are chock full of obscure information surrounding the game that I love! Thank you so very much!! ✌🏼💖

Great video mate. Been watching since you lot had 10k sub on the old one - great to see where you are now

I had heard of this before, because well im a nerd for football and trawling through wikipedia, but its weird that I looked at the Saarland national team article on wiki just a few days ago, and here you are with a video about it. Great minds think alike!

Great story Alfie , i learn something today , and i will look if i have any stamps in my youth collection , of Saarland . Thank you for the video .

Incredible video, as usual.

great video! Cheers from Saarbrücken

Excellent content. I lived in Strasbourg (France) the past 2 years and between my many many bus journeys back home to Wales, I'd always have to change buses in Saarbrücken. Was great seeing them go so far in the Deutsche Pokal last time out. Just a stopover for me but always wanted to know more about the place =)

Very interesting story, keep up with the good work Alfie

Alfie! A fantastic video again.... and despite being your former teacher, and a German teacher at that, lots of new info for me. I won't even quibble about some of your German pronununciation, as I seem to remember you only doing French at school.... your best one so far, in my eyes, but I am biased towards stories of German football... I can recommend some great literature on German football but I am guessing you have some already. All the best, Herr G.

Great video as usual!

Alfie, this is so imformative, well done great work

Cant imagine how tedious the research for this video must’ve been. Quality content

Favorite youtube chanel for over 2 years now

Videos like this is why I love this channel.

brilliant video, learned a lot and found it very interesting!

My dad, who played semi-pro in Germany in the late 60s and managed a national team in the 70s (not telling), and is football crazy, always told me about Saarland's independent footballing history. Nice to see it brought out to a wider audience. Incidentally, the manager of my favourite team's - Waldhof Mannheim - best seasons had a stint as Saarbrücken's boss, before eventually taking over the Chinese national team.

Alfie I always get educated about football when watching ur vids bro pure class as pre usual

Great video. Thanks.

awesome , very informative video thank you

Great video, I remember reading about Saarland a bit when I read about that 1954 squad which Imo had the talent to make some noise in Brasil. No surprise Saarland and Saarbrucken where as good when they had that good of a coach in their ranks

The video was amazing didn't know about this club so now I know about it so thanks ☺️

Day 22: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...

Amazing vid Alfie, proper thorough research

The impression I get is that these kind of videos are less efficient from a business perspective, but I absolutely love them. Thanks for all the hours of gold Alfie. If there was enough in it, the story of Jeff Hall at Birmingham could be a good topic. England international whose death was instrumental in the take up of the Polio vaccine. Maybe a timely video!

Very brilliant video about something I knew nothing about. Thanks!

this channel deserve more praise

Very well researched Video! I didnt konw that my home town club once was that good to create its own turnament.Fun fact my grandparents where born in the same village but in 4 different States due to the Saarland changing hands so often.

Beautiful zoom into a microcosm of European history Alfie 👏👏👏 the football is incidental to this one, but that’s life.

Excellent vid! The Saarland is a wonderful place to live....and I'm saying that as a Dutchman....wonderful landscape, wonderful people, excellent food and always veeery relaxed....

Excellent video!

This is the most interesting and fascinating historical football documentary I have ever seen.

Very interesting. Never knew about Saarland. Love the independent Saarland flag too. Thank you for this piece.

This is amazing🔥🔥

Love niche football and history subjects like this love to see more videos like this

Great video 👍

Nice video very interesting. Gj alfie

Very interesting vid. 👍🏻👍🏻

The Tim Traveller had a great video on Saarland, two of my favorite youtubers covering the same topic, fun times

So interesting. Thank you

7 players most likely to form a revolution against the monarchy and overthrow the royal family based on their weak foot ability

Great history video as always Alfie! Your video made me think that Saarbruken(I might have butchered the name sorry) was an urban myth lol

Day 41. 7 most successful club teams that no longer exist. Very interesting video today.

Superb work. The history of football (and all sport) is an integral part of how nations and cultures develop. Anyway, my ideas for a video; 1 - All time Basque v Catalan XIs, 2 - Scotland 1978 WC (We'll really shake them up when we win the World Cup), 3 - Matthias Sindelar (great story, I'm sure you know it, but lots of intrigue), 4 - Seven teams that play in other countries' leagues (not including Welsh teams in England, as the UK is the country). I'm not bothered (much) if you ignore me, whatever you choose, it'll be fascinating.

Fascinating story thanks for that

Best football knowledge channel there is. 👏👌

What a great video

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much Sir! WouId you believe it! I had not a clue of the very interesting roots, of a championship contest I have enjoyed since the 1970's.

This was good,love these old nations history.much better than the last one you did a while ago on india since its more impactful to our game in Europe

Great Video

Great research. Up there with the difficulties European historians have to deal with. So many chops and changes to a region based on continental politics.

Well researched account of a little known sage. Thanks.

I went to a Saarbrucken match in 2007, then in the Dritte Liga. (during an Edvard Grieg festival (!)). They were playing a little-known outfit who had just been bought by a mega-rich person. The club was TSV Hoffenheim. To my surprise, who was to enter the field but Mustapha Hadji, who I didn't realise was even still going. It was a dreadful game where neither team understood the concept of defending the wings. And the Saarbruckeners looked at me kinda funny as I cheered them on anyway.

This channel does a better job than legacy media in unearthing and telling the universally appealing human stories of Football.

I played a game at Saarbruchen in the German cup. It was whilst serving in the RAF in Germany. The team I played for played in the Nord Rhine Westphalian league of West Germany (the last season of this league before reunification). We were invited down a couple of days before and shown round the ground and told of their fascinating history (but I have to admit my German wasn't quite up to understanding everything that was said), there was three of us Brits playing that day one Army lad, a civvy friend who was a chippy and myself like I said was serving in the RAF at the time. We lost the game quite heavily but it was a memory that will live long in the memory

I was following this team last season as they made it to the quarters or semis of the dfb pokal and then they were introduced into fifa 21 because they got promoted so when it said about Saarland being next to Germany I knew that Saarbrucken would be mentioned

Thats a GREAT story and an amazing idea for a FM21 save.

100th time I ask for a video on champions league winners that came after losing they nation league previous season. Thanks

Best historical take ever!

Quality video

12:18 Miniscule correction: The club is called "Dresdner SC" ("Dresden's Sports Club"), with the "er" bit at the end indicating possession. The city itself is called Dresden. Just saying "Dresdener" would be like saying "Hull's" without any follow up ;) Good stuff as always! Also, day 1 of not suggesting anything :D

Could you do a video on the early history of the Southern Football League?

Can you please do a video on Newport County AFC. It's an amazing story reformation, when we were kicked out Wales and the fans took over ownership of the club and brought the mighty Exiles back into the football league, as well as completing a ridiculous run to quarter final of the European cup winners cup with John Aldridge leading the team. In recent years we have had some incredible FA Cup runs beating the likes of Leicester (the season after they won the league) and Leeds Utd and even drawing with Spurs. This season we are looking for promotion in the League two play offs

Hi mate, do a video on Benfica’s Academy. They won the award for best Academy a couple years ago.

Day 64: A premier league styled table of the 20 biggest cities and their football teams in the UK

Every French player signed in Newcastle’s ‘French Revolution’ where are they now?

Nice video

Suggestion: Best attackers in the 2020-21 season, over the age of 34.

Video idea: do a video on omonoia 1948. Basically the ultras of omonoia Nicosia (gate 9) created a new team that started from the Sunday leagues of Cyprus and by this time they are close to being promoted to the second tier.

Saarbrucken actually managed to reach the DFB Pokal semi-finals last season as well while being a 4th division side (first 4th division side ever to do so btw) !! They really love punching above their weight and it's absolutely brilliant to see.

Great video, an amazing history! I suggest making a video of someone who truly loves the sport and dedicated a lifetime to it, with great success: FC Porto president, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa! The club president with more titles in the world! 38 years leading FC Porto, with a strong relation to the players, managers and fans. Just hear what José Mourinho says about the man, as well as worldclass players like Deco, Vitor Baía, Hulk, Alex Sandro. Even the club supporters have a chant dedicated to the president. A larger than life character, and truly a fan of football and FC Porto. Cheers from Portugal!

In this and other worlds,I am the 13th liker of this video and fully like almost all the nations including this nation daily in my life forever and every generations that we would be born,good friends!!!:-D

I've been to saarbruken very beautiful place.