I’m a Sunderland fan but during lockdown I chose them as my Bundesliga team and I’ve kept an eye on them ever since. Can’t help but feel it’s my fault

Went to a Herta game a few years ago while in Berlin and had some beers with their fans after the game, they were made up that people from England had gone to watch them instead of Bayern or Dortmund and were genuinely the nicest fans I've ever met. Hopefully they can turn things around for the fans

As a Berlinerin, lifelong Herthanerin and fan of this channel I’m absolutely thrilled you made this video! Hearing those last few years summarized sure was a wild ride and crazy trip down memory lane. But I enjoyed it nonetheless thanks to your dry humor, great storytelling and sarcasm. Probably the most endurable rendition of Herthas recent fate I’ve had the pleasure of taking in. A few corrections / clarifications though: 1. Herthas members didn’t actually deselect anybody. There were motions for every single member of the committee to be deselected but they either stepped down before the vote (like Gegenbauer) or got a result technically good enough to stay in office but de facto so bad that they once again decided to step down (like e.g. the former Vice President) 2. Kay Bernstein is a former Ultra. It’s true that he founded the „Harlekins“ and helped build up the „Förderkreis Ostkurve“ and was our Capo but he hasn’t been / done any of that for years. So it’s not like we elected someone from the Ostkurve straight into presidential office. But it is of course still true that he is a Herthaner through and through and that that definitely helped him win. 3. The members meeting where Bernstein was elected took place on a Sunday. Not that that is really relevant :D 4. The picture you show when talking about Berlins city council isn’t of Berlins town hall aka „Rotes Rathaus“ but of the „Reichstag“ where the German parliament meets which also happens to be located in Berlin. Once again completely irrelevant to Herthas fate but the Berlinerin in me had to point that out. Regardless of those few things this was once again a great video by you and I really enjoyed it!

Was baffled they had a budget on FIFA of 61m, 3rd highest in the league but guess I'll learn why soon

As a FC Union Berlin fan, I am trying desperately not to delight in this video’s existence, but I never thought I’d see the day that Hertha beat us to the bottom of the Bundesliga.

i’m not one to leave suggestions on videos, but i would love to see what goes into the making of a hitc sevens video. maybe you could mainly focus on how you make the docs, as i’ve realized that they are exceptionally well researched and organized, such as this one. i think it would be cool if you could break down the process of how you gather information and organize it, as they function very much like very good essays

Finally someone talks about Hertha Berlin

I've been a fan of Hertha BSC for 20 years now and they have driven me to a point where I was getting angry at them for not getting relegated after all the crap they pulled off in recent years. I don't know if Kay Bernstein, Fredi Bobic and new coach Sandro Schwarz are the right people to bring Hertha on track, but my expectations are at a point where I think they can't be worse than previous regimes. However a main point has to be Lars Windhorst not interfering in football affairs and learning when to stfu. If that's the case maybe we can have at least a peaceful season off the pitch. Great work on the video anyway (Even though I don't know why I watched it in the first place since this is really just reliving the nightmare Hertha fans have been through for the last years.), because instead of pointing, blaming and laughing about Hertha it shows a differentiated view of where we are, how we got here, what went wrong and where to go from now. Ha Ho He Hertha BSC

What do you think of Urs Fischer‘s Job at Union Berlin. Because they barely ever spend any money, they don’t really have star players. Yet they got better every year they were up, and are now playing in the Europa league.

I remeber going to Arequipa (Peruvian Province) and finding a little souvenir ball of Hertha Berlin in the streets. I kept it with me for years… In a strange way it aslso made me fond of the club haha

Since you mention the HSV: Do "7 Clubs that have never been promoted". In Germany, that description only fits to the Hamburger SV, who always played in the highest possible league until they got relegated a couple of years ago... I honestly wonder, if there are other clubs like that.

I really feel like you only scratched the surface with Windhorst. Like his big plan to build a new stadium that Hertha would completely own was mentioned but not much elaborated upon (this plan failed pretty hard so far) but also that the guy is being investigated for money laundering RIGHT NOW and just how much shenanigans and bullshit he has gone through with his companies. The on-again-off-again relationship with Pal Dardai in the last few years could've also been mentioned because it really shows how clue- and directionless they are. Also i feel like the absurdity of the relegation playoffs was understated. in the first leg of the playoff hertha were DREADFUL and then in the second leg they were suddenly much better. It was revealed afterwards that this was because Magath handed the reins to Boateng and Boateng was allowed to assemble the starting 11. So literally after going through 3 coaches, the guy that kept them up wasn't even their coach

The feeling of Felix Magath being a prank is exactly the way I felt when Sunderland appointed Howard Fucking Wilkinson to replace the best we've had in my lifetime, Peter Reid. My Toon supporting mate ran up to me and told me when I was getting into school. I said something like "Fuck off, imagine that man" n wouldn't believe him until another Sunderland fan confirmed it was true, I was devastated.

Can you do a video about the downfall of the Bulgarian national football team- we went from being 4th in the world in 94 to drawing with Gibraltar and losing 5-2 to Georgia a couple of weeks ago. I think it would be an interesting video+ you dont really do stuff about national teams.

interesting that guendouzi is on thumbnail when he was at marseille last season 😂

Hertha Berlin are one of my favourite respective German clubs daily and ever in this world and other planets,good friends!!!I am extremely so sad and in tears to see Hertha Berlin falling from grace slowly due to the unfortunate reasons but hopefully,they would slowly bounce back to replicate their past glories which they had achieved since their affliation in the German football,good friends!!!LONG LIVE,HERTHA BERLIN!!!🙏

I personally didn’t request this one, but the title has been ringing in my head for the past several seasons. Union are definitely the top dogs of Berlin right now, and I think it will remain that way for awhile.

Bravo! That was quite the thorough explanation about Hertha! And yes as a fan of Hertha and Berlin my second home, the issues run deep. And fact that Berlin Football culture is more about identity and not about Trophies! Every Kietz or neighborhood has a team that identifies that neighborhood in many ways..

(13:00) Klinsman - 10 games in charge: Won 3 Drew 3 Lost 1 So what happened in the other 3 games?

Fun fact #4:The furthest Hertha BSC has been in European competitions was when they reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in the 1978-79 season getting knocked out on away goals(1-0 and 2-1) by Red Star Belgrade.

waiting for this one since 2 years.. thank you Alfie!! Ha Ho He

Sorry but the take about "none team had more empty seats than hertha and fewer than union" was pretty bad as hertha has a 75000 stadium and union a 20000 stadium while the covid restrictions only allowd 25000 people in the stadium and hertha was even below teams with bigger stadiums like bayern or dortmund because the covid restrictions been more strict in berlin than in the rest of the country. After the restrictions turned down in march and stadiums could be filled again hertha had a home attendance of over 66k which was the third highest after dortmund and bayern. Sorry but absolute bad take! Hertha has still one of the best fans in germany and surely still a bigger fanbase than union for example

Alfie: I worked hard on this for you. Comments " yeah great, do 7 best under 11s players in the Maltese schools league"

and here we are a year later with Hertha about to be relegated...they kept swinging for the fences with Windhorst's money and just blew it all on terrible signings. What they need is a practical coach who understands the player's he has and some better academy system for moving their own youth players into the first team

If you're a football fan casually visiting Berlin then going to the Olympic stadium to see Hertha BSC is usually part of the itinerary. ⚽ I hope they fulfill their potential one day and grow like Dortmund have in the last decade.

Very good summary and great that the club is called Hertha BSC instead of Hertha Berlin in the clip (which always sounds weird to Germans). A little correction Bernstein isn't part of the ultra scene anymore (also Steffel is president of the handball club Füchse Berlin who are pretty succesful).

As a life long Hertha fan I must say you made a good job with this video. But I have to add, that Herthas average attendance would be enough to fill most Bundesliga stadiums. It's just that the Olympiastadion is sometimes too big. Especially for unattatractive games. Right now I am more optimistic about our future then what I have been for awhile. Both Bobic, Bernstein and Windhorst want to make things better for our future. Key to that is the internal and external communication. I have a feeling that Bernstein will have a positive impact on the club culture, because he lives Hertha BSC everyday and his history as a Ultra can be helpful for the relationship between club and the fans. Bobic allready made 2 good signings this summer (both free transfers), but has to earn money first before making any bigger singnings (the pandemic and Klinsmanns recless spending have cost us a lot of cash). However I have faith in them. Also we have a cople candidates for sale (Alderete, Piatek, Ascascibar, Lukebakio) who could bring some good transfer fees and lower our wages. For example we led go of Stark after this season, because he demanded too much money (which has not reflected on his performance on the pitch) and replaced him with Kempf (free transfer from Stuttgart). The team also seems to have bonded a lot over the relegation games. If they can work together like they did, then the next season will be better. I would call a uneventful midtable finish a success after the last season and the we could build from there. But all of it will take time. There was a lot of mismanagement since 2010 when Preetz took over (we where relegated in his first season as manager f.e.).

Great video Alfie as always cheers lad.

Excellent content as always Alf mate

This was a very well researched & informative video, good job. Always wondered what this odd thing of Hertha becoming football giants on FM every season was all about!

What on Earth is Going On At Esbjerg fB in Denmark ... in 2018-2019 they got Bronze, in 2022-2023 they're playing in third tier, after being relegated in 2019-2020 and 2021-2022

great videos as always, i don t know why tho after watching / listening i always get a big motivation to play fifa 😂

I have been waiting for this videos for over 2 years!

I really loved the video and the explanation. Many thanks. I wish them all the best for the future. I love the city of Berlin. Arguably the best in Europe

Thank you for making this. You have made one of the worst days of my life slightly better

Common example of a billionaire owner making things worse

love a bit of hitc7s, but only watching this to get it out my feed, much love tho my guy

Last night i saw a twitter thread about Hertha's new president and the club's all around situation, and I thought to myself "This as Alfie Written all over it", go to sleep, wake up, and boom here we are, mind blown 😂😂😂😂

Very well researched, great video!

I've been in Berlin the stadium is actually bigger than Old Trafford

Hi Alfie, awesome docu. As a German it is a tradegy to see what they do in Berlin. They need to get their poo together and got good people in place. Speaking of a nightmare in Germany, can you donone about HSV. That is even sadder than Hertha

I’ve been to a hertha berlin match, the only match I’ve been to outside England and Wales, around 2008. I had a great time at the sparsely attended massive stadium!

Great video. Subscribed to your personal channel (and this)!

Perhaps you could do a “What’s gone right at Plymouth Argyle?” My team went from administration and nearly being relegated twice from the football league to barely missing out on a playoff spot for the championship this season, competing against teams with far higher budgets than us.

Union ended where Hertha wanted to be and Hertha ended were Union started from, money doesn’t score goals

0:53 that's Hamburg... formerly a powerhouse but have declined over decades all the way into 2. Bundesliga. What happened?

Watching this after HERTHA lost 5-0 to Wolfsburg at home today 🥲

Been waiting for this one.

Hertha is just doing Hertha things But you will always love your old lady

You could say Union Berlin is now realizing Herthas potential

Welp, now we know the outcome... Maybe a good things giving them a chance of doing a proper rebuild

A video about the success story of Port Vale since Carol Shanahan took over, considering we just won the playoff final.Her charity work, bringing in Darrell Clark, then the things he went through this season. Plus we were on a winning streak and 1 point off the playoffs and she voted to end the first covid season early.....The fact our ground was nearly bought and demolished for a car park or shopping centre or something before that as well Carol saved the club.

Day 21 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!

That's Hamburg SV @ 0:53 but other than that it was another great video 👏

Heading to Berlin with my mates in a few months and we’re heading to a hertha game, part of the reason why we’re going, we was buzzing when they stayed up last season

Can we get a “What On Earth Is Going On At Reading FC?”. My club is being run into the ground 😭

can i make a suggestion please can we have a yearly what's going on a Hull. I think we would all enjoy it and I think it would help with your frequent references to hull in your videos. Also it woudl just be fun.

Thank you for this video. Enjoyable to listen to but as a life long fan also very difficult to hear the truth. I can only hope that it improves but I doubt it. Well done Union

My fave German team. Went to most of Hertha's games whilst on a 2 year posting between 79 & 81 at the Olympic Stadium. They weren't very good back then either ! Saw them play at the post stadium against my Foxes in a friendly (1-1) Larry may got Leicester's goal.

The Hertha 2nd team made the DFB cup final (only losing 1-0) - now that is a documentary that needs to be made!!!!

We surely must be getting close to a "what on earth is going on at West Bromwich Albion" video. Mid table premier team when a "billionaire" owner took over. Finished in their lowest position in the championship in 20 years. Rather than investing the owner is taking money out of the club in "loans". Players being given ridiculously high contacts when underperforming. Players who are obviously not good enough being signed for painfully high fees/wages, and players being sold for under market value, sometimes behind the managers back.

Hertha are the biggest club in Berlin, but at this moment in time Union is much bigger.

your "what is happening at X" are my favourite videos after the "where are they now" videos

new HITC Sevens podcast about some football club yaaaaaaaassssss

Do an aleague video, how it compares to the mls and how it competes with other sports in Australia

As a St. Pauli fan, I love what Union Berlin has achieved, while also making me somewhat jealous

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

As of September 2023, they’re 15th in the 2. Bundesliga table. They were just relegated last season.

Any chance of one of these videos on Catania in serie C/C? Sounds random but I started a football manager save unemployed and ended up there, a very old club with a lot of history in italian football that has been in the past demoted for match fixing scandals, many many financial issues and it looks like they weren't allowed to finish the season with 3 or 4 games left this year with very little explanation or information online as to why? I would love to know a lot more and I'm sure you would find it. Would be a very interesting watch

Chose this team as my lockdown team, I enjoyed watching Cunha play

This video came just as I was looking for a new team to play in football manager

Day 48: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 7 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population

@HITC Sevens, can we get a "what on earth is going on at Birmingham City". League cup winners in 2011, 20th in the championship this season. 8 different managers from 2016, 2 transfer embargos, and a point deduction.

9:40 I always wonder how there are people who don’t know what 50+1 is. Real Madrid is also a 50+1 club, it’s not like this is a concept exclusive to Germany. And also one shouldn’t confuse companies and clubs. While there are still real clubs in the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga, some have converted into companies and public stock companies. BUT - and that is the important part here - those companies still are under majority rule by a so called „eingetragener Verein“ = registered association under German association law. And that registered associations have to follow the 50+1 rule. I just wanted to mention it because you said „companies“ twice, which isn’t the correct term for registered associations. So while the members may not be able to directly vote on decisions made in the professional football companies of their associations, they are however able to influence that business by voting on how much power is given to the football company, who’s in the councils overseeing the company and deciding who runs the company and also they can vote on changes to their statute the football company has to follow to a certain amount. In real and still fully registered associations without an „outsourced“ football company, so teams like 1. FC Nuremberg, members can vote on anything concerning the club. There have been talks whether founding a football company in Nuremberg would give us the opportunity to raise more money but at the moment members would deny such a move. Tradition and power of the members is much more important than money. It’s still somewhat strange to me that the English have sold the soul and tradition of their football history just for money, I doubt they even realize what they’ve given up with that decision

"Windhorst who described Klinsmanns behaviour as *[dramatic pause]* unacceptable. Easy Tiger" looooooool

I’m a simple man I look at my KZfaq recommendations I see a documentary by Alfie with an interesting title I click on it

Aaaaaaand they went down the drain of 2. Bundesliga this year. I'm not a Hertha fan (more of a Union kind of boy) but I do feel bad for Hertha. Hope they can return to Bundesliga in 2024 with Schalke and Hamburg.

Crazy looking stadium 🏟

can you do a documentary on the rise of RC Strasbourg in recent years

Watching bundesliga relegation playoffs this season was bizarre: 2 great clubs from 2 largest cities in Germany, and both teams completely sucked ass. Hertha won because they were just a bit less terrible than HSV.

Video Idea: An XI of players based on their best single-game performance

What is going so sideways at Sheffield Wednesday? That would be interesting.

Most recent highlight as a Hertha fan for me was that when I tried to buy the new kit my 10% off coupon turned out to raise the Prise by 10%… like how tf do you mess up so bad?! Oh and don’t let me get startet with the problems that arose while trying to buy a season ticket

Day one of asking for a What went right at eintracht Frankfurt

Could you do a video about what's going on at Burnley under the stewardship of Vincent Kompany? Thank you.

Spoiler alert for anyone watching this after the 2022-23 season: Hertha got relegated. It did not get better.

I'm a Hertha fan and it's been soul destroying the last few years. sometimes I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than actually watch Hertha.

Finally a video about my club

It would be awesome if you could do a video about Kerala Blasters in the Indian Super League (premier division football in India). We're the team with record average attendances in Asia, and have the highest number of social media followers for a football club in Asia. Kerala is unique in the sense that although India as a whole loves cricket, the province of Kerala prefers football and has a rich footballing history. I think that it would be an interesting video since hardly any videos are made about football in India.

Why is there a pic of Hamburg @0.56?

As an Everton fan i hate how similar this is to our situation.

0:53 Hamburg pic sneaked in.

Can you do a club profile or some video on Johor Darul Ta'zim - they are a Malaysian Super League club and have a very interesting history. They have an incredible fan base and owner who's passionate about the club. They recently reached the last 16 of the ACL for the first time in their history and put Malaysian football on the map. They've attracted European talent like Fernando Forestieri and Jordi Amat. Could be a good success story video :)

very good video but you kinda talked down the hertha fans alot. Yeah hertha is the clubs with the most empty seats BUT the problem is that hertha has a stadium the size of bayerns stadium. Eventhough the team has been absolute trash this season and was on the 17th place in march, after the covid restrictions turned down in germany hertha had an average home attendance of over 66000. Before Covid the average home attendance was at ca. 50000 which is the same frankfurt or gladbach. Hertha needs and wants a smaller stadium (55-60k seats) which is a REAL FOOTBALL stadium without the running tracks etc. Hertha has one of the best fans in germany, one of the biggest fanbases and are pretty underrated and overhated!!!

Lars Windhorst should have realised that to turn Hertha into a Football Club on the scale of Bayern Munich, he would have needed to invest Billions into the club. Especially when €370 Million gets you 3 World Class Players at most these days.

Yo Alfie could do u a documentary on Borussia Mochengladbach. In the 2019/20 season they managed to finish in the top 4. Now they have gone 2 straight seasons without European football having finished 8th and 10th respectively. They sold Zakaria to juventus, they have players over the age of 30 and they had the 3rd worst defence in the Bundesliga last season with 61 goals with only Furth and Hertha conceding more. They even conceded 17 goals in 4 consecutive games.

This year they are going down for sure.

Hertha is the only club I've visited as an away fan, where their own stadium security rooted for my club to beat them and not just one person.

Kevin-Prince Boateng actually announced retirement after the coming season!

If this video was made a few months later it would have been 2 hours long considering how much has happened with hertha. We got relegated, windhorst was convicted of blackmailing via a israelian hacking firm, pal dardai is back as head coach, benny weber is new sporting director and Kay Bernstein, who actually created a new love of fans for hertha and is loved by everybody tragically died 3 months ago. Rip