Ironic how Sky sports think of Gelsenkirchen as a shithole when there are plenty of similar cities in Britain 😂

As a German, the cameo by Lutz van der Horst was the most unexpected thing that has ever happend in your Videos. Wish you a good stay.

No german has ever spoken so fond of Gelsenkirchen. I am amazed.

No way you casually met Lutz Van der Horst and the Heute Show. Its really huge in Germany

I would never have thought that the "Anzeigenhauptmeister" would be mentioned in Alfie's videos.

People over here in England don't realise how big of a club schalke is over in Germany

Having lived in Stoke-on-Trent for a time, I cannot fathom the sheer gaul of some brits calling Gelsenkirchen and the general Ruhrpott area ugly. The stretch of Stoke down to Birmingham is the Pott ordered on wish Another great and fun Video, Alfie!

A Heute-Show and HTC Sevens connection isn‘t what we wanted but we needed.

Hey. Heute Show is basically the German version of „the daily show“ and Lutz - the guy you met - is one of the off-site reporters. Heute Show usually has between 1 and 2 million viewers on regular television and a lot more on streaming.

As a german I wanted to compliment you for your very nice report. So an englishman showed me Gelsenkirchen, sometimes KZfaq still is a beautiful place. Enjoy your stay in Deutschland ❤

17:02 That dude is making a parody of a German "celebrity". So there's this dude called 'Anzeigenhauptmeister' (high master of complaintments) who wears a uniform similar to the man in the video. He rides around on a bicycle and files reports on people for small misdemeanors like parking wrong in his free time and sends hundreds of them to the local authorities. He even reported his neighbor for parking wrong. He's really harsh, like he will file a report, even if your car is just two centimeters within a no-parking-zone. On his uniform he wrote POLIZFI (a misspelling of POLIZEI, police) therefore that dude wrote UEVA instead of UEFA.

We got a HITC Sevens vlog before GTA 6

People in 95% of Germany: "LUL he says Gelsenkörschen, not Gelsenkirchen" People in the south of Gelsenkirchen: "What are you guys talking about??? He says it exactly like we do"

miss seeing Schalke in the Champions League. Huntelaar's volley against Real Madrid during their 7-1 loss is one of my favourite goals ever

Bruh the most unexpected Lutz van der Horst / HeuteShow x Alfie collab 😂😂😂 The guy‘s a legend in Germany, if he was more drunk you two could‘ve had a nice long conversation about the complex entagelments of football, politics and society lol

Kinda funny to meet Lutz van der Horst out in the wild.

Smart decision with Germany to have Gelsenkirchen as a host. Big football atmosphere, great stadium, and most importantly, huge economic stimulus to a struggling city

I respect your determination to pronounce every single german e like the e in the english alphabet and not the e from expert expansion or expactation. The Anglo Saxon is strong in you!

It was a pleasure meeting you in Dortmund at the Italy Albania match and I actually mentioned I would be in Gelsenkirchen for the Italy Spain match so this is awesome to see. Cheers from the US

Appreciate the fact that you are at the euros and still can put together another video package for us. Appreciate your time Alfie

🇩🇪 Schalke 04 🤝 Heart of Midlothian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

As a South African, I am so envious of the European football fan experience.

Wow you're so lucky to have met Lutz, he's a legend in German late night :D

“German trains aren’t that much better than English trains and that’s probably as strong of an insult as you can get” Americans(me, I’m Americans) weeping about Amtrak in the corner: 😢

Dude, you are great at this documentary style. It was fascinating and informative but in a live vlog! Awesome

Funny thing is: I'm from Belo Horizonte (mentioned in the first seconds of the video) and my grandma, who made me a Schalke fan, is from Gelsenkirchen! I was thrilled by this tiny coincidence and even happier with such a fantastic video about a city and football club that I've learned to love and cherish over the years. Long live the GEil Gelsenkirchen and my ever resistent Schalke 04 💙

This is one of my favourite sevens videos i've ever seen. So relaxing and insightful.

this video feels like it should've been posted on your personal channel

The interesting thing about Gelsenkirchen is that in the late 60's - early 70's, the German government offered a serious amount of aid to small glass producers with one caveat - some had to merge and move to Gelsenkirchen. So Gelsenkirchen still has a fairly good glass industry.

Ah yes, my favorite Vlogger, Alfie Potts Harmer

In the rest of Germany, Gelsenkirchen is exclusively known for Schalke. Nothing else. No cathedral, no beer, no bridge, no nothing. It IS a phenomenon.

If you want to explain to a German where Gelsenkirchen is located, the simplest way is to tell him "it's near Schalke." The city quarter is more famous than the city itself, due to the football team. A large part of the population has Polish roots, migrants who came in the 19th century to work in the coal mines. The Schalke team which dominated German football 1933-1942 fielded many players with Polish names. The two most famous of them were Fritz Szepan and Ernst Kuzorra. One of them played for Germany once, the other two times. The Nazis wanted their players in the national team to be Germans, and disliked Schalke. But the team was too famous and popular to undertake measures against them, other than ignoring them when the national team was selected, or rigging some games against them. Until 1942 that is; after the fall of Stalingrad, many of its players were drafted to the army.

I’m really impressed how Alfie did those live segments in a long, single takes. Didn’t trip up over his words, and was so packed with information

Alfie in the field, gotta love it

I miss the Royal Blues playing in the German top tier.....

That you just casually met Lutz shooting for the Heute Show is the funniest shit I've seen in a long time 😂 I was just sipping a drink when his face popped up and I had to laugh so much I almost chocked to death 😅 On another note, what an amazing video, actually looking at the city behind the games and at the culture. I hope you have more of this planned it is an absolute joy to watch

When you're from Hull everwheres a haven......except Scunthorpe

No way they're talking about the Anzeigenhauptmeister on HITC Sevens

Underrated match banter from Alfie, looked like you boys had fun. Just to say im an Everton fan and fell in love with Schalke as they seemed like a German version of us, up the Royal Blues. My yearly FM first save is always 3 teams, Everton, Schalke and a randomly selected new team (Blackpool for FM 24).

I am german as well, and not being a soccer-fan, today i learnt something about Gelsenkirchen from a Brit! Thank you, for your interesting video and you got a cool, calm style in presenting your stuff. I especially liked the historical background in the beginning, combined with you walking around the city. Cheers! (Btw. Lutz ist der Coolste!)

Allie working hard to repair British reputations abroad. Can you help us Americans abroad next?

Lad, I need more of the same content, can't get enough of it! Cheers

We have so many cities like this in the UK. If you're from Yorkshire or Lancashire you probably feel at home

Great to have met you Alfie and agreeing to having a photo taken with myself. You are a top bloke and just as nice as I thought you would be. Your work is great. This video is amazing. I came here in 2006 and it left a lasting impression. I described it as being “stuck in the 1960s” and I meant that in the nicest possible way. I remember that it was a small town centre - it seemed a lot bigger this time- very quiet with not much to do. And to top it all it had this amazingly modern and massive football arena. This time I ventured more and with my 2 mates we found this amazing brutalist building just minutes from the centre with a tourist information centre. There was nobody in and it seemed that there was a volunteer hub for the Euro volunteers. There’s a lot more to this place than meets the eye. I too found it very charming… I love a brutalist building…this is brutalist city. In 2006 I remember how great the public transport was and been telling everyone how great it was. I don’t know what’s happened this time. We went to the game and instinctively knew there were issues and it was apparent that it would not get better. We got to the town centre….it was empty. We got a Uber and thank God we did having heard the stories the next day. Keep up the good work Alfie….. And let’s hope England win… I would love for Gareth to win it…. He is much maligned for his style of play but that’s his trademark . I don’t expect anything different in our next game but we do look solid defensive and tight defences win trophies.

Nice video Alfie. Enjoy your stay and hope you have no climate guilt for travelling so much.

Sit back, relax and join me on a journey to a fucking piss up

Gelsenkirchen is the most obssesed city and one of the vibrant cities in Germany and all of Schalke 04's home matches the loudest I have ever heard in a German football,good friends!!!:-D

Gelsenkirchen being in the centre of the Ruhr area (one of biggest urban areas in Germany with over 5m people) probably also contributes heavily to Schalke's popularity. Just like the fan you interviewed many supporters aren't from Gelsenkirchen itself but from one of the many big cities around (Dusseldorf, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum etc.). Gelsenkirchen is more like a quarter of a much bigger city.

As someone from Germany I can confirm that the Heute Show cameo of Lutz van Der Horst is obsolutely amazing. Edit: I also took like 10 secs to figure out why Alfie had to explain "public viewing" to viewers.

10:54 😂 Yeah, I probably wouldn't have wanted to be on camera either because I'm shy. It's a very interesting video. I love these kinds of videos. They're so cool to know more about the history of the football/soccer teams. I love documentary series of stuff like this. It's just such a great game. The best of all of them in my honest humble opinion. Great job on the work of the video and please do more of these. :)

Alfie, i'm so happy for you, for being over there and experience the Euros in person, deserved ! You even take the opportunity to make yet more interesting content 🖤

Thank you for the video Alfie ❤

loved the video and the city seems nice! excited for more content like this

This new vlog format looks really refreshing & interesting - keep going....

Well done Alfie with your vlogging effort, would be nice to see more of this effort from you in the near future!

Fantastic video alfie, great to see the atmosphere up close!

Great video Alfie 🙂⚽️

credit to you for researching deeply into this and as for your other videos you always do research about the location or person background

Really good watch. I reckon you have a future in vlog/documentary-style videos shall you one day decide to expand from your usual content.

Alfie making culture series is not something I'm expecting. Not bad at all.

Great vlog! Football fans must be in awe of your ⚽ knowledge 😮

One of your most insightful videos, very interesting, thank you for posting. I really hope Schalke can get back to the top of German football. Oh and was there doubts about Kane starting??? Don’t think so? His name is the first on the team sheet.

Meeting Lutz van der Horst...so surreal

Nice watch, well done on vlog.😊

I love this style mate love it

What a moment when one of your favourite KZfaq channels makes a video not just about your football club, but about your city. And one of the country's most famous comedians appears in the video and has to explain a German meme. I love everything about it.

Heavily industrialized areas are always fanatical about their teams. Goes back to days when games were the only things they had to look forward to in otherwise grim lives. Lots of places like that, not just Germany.

I would like more of these kinda videos Alfie .... You so good on camera!!!

Thumbs up once more from Germany. And even with state tv "celebritiy" non-cameo...😊

I think he likes Gelsenkirchen

Phahaahahahah, this is the most unbelievable crossover ever. This TV guy in highvis you randomly met is a very famous political satirist. Never expected to see you two meeting each other

Love this

Alfie, your video is a pot of gold.

Great, video as always mate. And good to see some video as well as the usual Getty images lol

Thus was pretty good!

Found Lens in France to have the similar vibe as this. Not much to look at in the mining area of northern france. Not glamorous at all. But passionate fans with attendances of 40 000 most home games who create a great atmosphere!

this was deeply charming!

Need a football travel show with Alfie going around and interviewing interesting people and then enjoying footie with the locals

As a guy from Gladbeck which is about 10 minutes from Gelsenkirchen and my favorite team being Schalke i love the recognition

Lutz van der Horst is a legend of German late night comedy. You were lucky to meet him!

Looks better than an average city in England to me

Brilliant idea Alfie, to make a proper vlog instead of the usual podcast type videos.

Gelsenkirchen may be small, but the Ruhr has a population of 4-5 million and half of those are Schalke fans and the other half dortmund

Best video you've done. Really tried to understand the local point of view.

Unusual but great video!

2:24 aint no way you are literally walking the corner of the street my appartment is. Quite fascinating. And I bless you for giving the world a differentiated and more correct view on Gelsenkirchen.

Great vlog I'm a iLife long Schalke my whole family comes from the Ruhr Gelsenkirchen is a little city with a big Heart. Football and Schalke is on everything.

As a schalke fan myself i have to tell you we have, since our relegation last year more mebers than our rival. Which is slightly more succesfull than as our glorius club.. great and very kind vid

I've been following Schalke since Ozil was there, huge fan of both. Great video

Hell of a vid Alf, the man on the street style is great

Great effort Alfie, still need some work on your interviewing skills. Overall, awesome format, and I hope you do this with other cities! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Nice vid

If i had a euro for every single time I've come across a youtube video describing a random city as "the most football mad" city on earth, i could own every company listed on the frankfurt stock exchange.

i can remember when football manager (15 i i think) when they didn't have the rights to call Schalke 04 by their team name and they were called Gelsenkirchen instead, which i thought odd at the time but now i know a lot more about Gelsenkirchen . Thanks Alfie!

18:47 und jetzt alle "PYYYYROOOOOTEEEEEECHNIIIIIIIIIICK IST DOCH KEIN VERBRECHEN..."

This one was literally without Freddy Adu. Thanks for sharing the experience

finally some recognition

The Serbian dude is a good egg.

Currently managing Schalke in FM, as I love fallen giants. So this is fun. Hope Schalke will recover.

I was surprised to find out that the original ground, Glückauf-Kampfbahn, still exists. Its main stand is even listed/protected. Anyway, like the HSV I hope that Schalke will soon return to the Bundesliga.