🇧🇪 FOOTBALL IN "WORLD'S UGLIEST CITY" 

I loved my time in Charleroi! It's DEFINITELY a city people should visit. Hopefully I can see more games in Belgium in future. Please subscribe!!!!

Sam trying to pronounce French words after getting up at 3am and having an 8% beer is my new favourite thing

I was there in the away end supporting my team Club Brugge. Can't believe you were there, I watch your videos all the time 😁

Whoever was the snowflake that named Charleroi "World's ugliest city" has definitely never step out of western Europe lol

You haven't seen цgIу cities till you've visited India. 🤦🏻‍♂️😄

I'm a huge fan of Sporting Charleroi, liked your video a lot. Clearly not a classical city for foreign people. Nevertheless this city and its people suffered so much from the deindustrialization. Back to early 1900's, it was the second richest region in Europe. The city improved a lot but still so many things to work on. On sport side, Sporting Charleroi is a subtop team in Belgium with a nice and very warm atmosphere. New stadium is planned to be ready in 2025, right in the middle of this post industrial area you visited. Feel free to come back, I never miss a home game so feel free to send a message if you ever come back.

Belgian football is criminally underrated. Sure, we ain't got La Liga. But Club Bruges and Anderlecht have been very difficult for some top European clubs in the past.

as a bruges fan , lovely to see you catching a game ! but we are far from our normal "form" but that new striker Feran Jugla that scored the first 2 goals ... ex barcelona B squad player ... the dude is on fire !

Being from the US and visiting most regions there I can probably name several cities which would beat out this for "World's Ugliest City".

I'm from Charleroi and I juste want to tell you : THANK YOU !! Amazing video, I hope it will change the things about my city

COME TO ROYAL ANTWERP! Like Celtic being proud of their Irish roots, Royal Antwerp are very proud of their ENGLISH roots and sing a lot of their chants in English. Also, they're Belgium's oldest football club. 👏🇧🇪🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Gotta say you seem like one of the most genuine and generally nicest people I've ever seen keep it up it's rare in todays society your a credit to football and your channel absolute legend I'm gonna take a leaf out of your book watching your videos makes me want to be better and be nice to people strangely you give me hope in society when I'm at my worst and depressed and hate the world top man

The thing about Charleroi is that it's the most industrial city in Belgium which is why it's so ugly because it's just industrial buildings everywhere, Belgium is a nice country tho you could argue that Charleroi is the most ugliest city in Belgium. There are some nice cities to visit in Belgium such as : - Dinant - Brugge - Ghent - Liège - Mons - Tournai - Durbuy (World's smallest city) - La Roche-En-Ardenne - Rochefort - Namur - Antwerp And so many more 😉

I born and live in Charleroi my whole life. I want to thanks you for your positif attitude! If you want to know why Charleroi is like that they are several factor but the most reveleant is lack money. Charleroi was rich because of the coal and after they shut their production it was like a rich ppl getting bankrupcy but still living like a rich guy. After that we had mayor who cheat with the money of the city and use it for personal use (he also use civil worker for personal use). But yeah Charleroi is recoverying for all the bad year. Look we will get a Legoland now!

Actually, Charleroi has been quite known as a hosting venue for the EURO 2000 which took place in the Netherlands and Belgium. The Stade du Pays de Charleroi looked totally different back then and its capacity was much higher, but it was drastically stripped down (or was it completely rebuilt in a very simple way?) about ten years ago because it was way too oversized for its club R.C.S.C. England beat Germany 1-0 there, I remember this very well. England managed by the beloved Kevin Keegan. This was probably the worst EURO Germany has ever played so far, the only point they gained in this group came from a lucky draw vs. Romania. So they were eliminated in the group stage and finishing at the last place, including 40-year-old Lothar Matthäus being called up into the squad. :D P.S. At 17:11 you're pronouncing the city's name utterly correct for the very first time. ;) Thanks for your brilliant video. I have to say that I like places like this and I'm living in an area of Germany which best days are just as long ago as those of Wallonia, being a former coal mining area as well.

I hope you enjoyed time here, in Charleroi. I hope you'll comeback here to discover the atmosphere in the stand back the goal. It's a kind of 2nd house for Charleroi's fans. Glad that you met 3 of our players and that you enjoyed belgian beers... Maybe, next time... You'll have the luck to taste Charleroi's beer!? 🙂 I really spend good time watching your video. Thanks for coming in Charleroi 🙂

Lived in Belgium for 8 years and you have to know 1 thing: Belgium is not a country, but 2 countries: Flanders (Dutch-speaking part) and Wallonia (French-speaking part). The places are worlds apart. Like night-and-day. Flanders is rich and has very beautiful cities (Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp...) while Wallonia is quite poor and has very grim, ugly cities. Sad but true.

It´s Belgium´s Gary, Indiana. It has character. The Dutch with their hyper modern truman show soulless cities don´t understand authenticity.

Charleroi has a fantastic Photography Museum which is located in a renovated neo gothic Carmelite convent.

I came here to watch your video on Charleroi because it's in the news in Belgium. Being from region of Charleroi, I'm happy to hear foreign people speaking in a positive way about Charleroi because even in Belgian we are often laughed at. People from Charleroi may be not rich or may not have a beautiful city but they're nice and friendly. You should come back and visit the city and its region, believe me there are very nice places

Not as ugly as Middlesbrough.

Charleroi is indeed the worst depressing city I have ever been. I am Belgian. The same grey everywhere. Houses, buildings, streets... It's actually unbelievable what it does to you. Feeling very happy and then visiting Charleroi, instantly you just do not feel that happy anymore. I rather visit any graveyard then Charleroi.

If they think this is the uglyest city in the world they never seen Blackpool or Birmingham!

Hey, I’m belgian and I live near Charleroi. Thank you for your video. It can be hard sometimes saying that I’m from Charleroi bc of the bad reputation of the city. It’s so good to see tourists spending a fantastic time here !

You would have thought the presenter would of done his research and learnt how to pronounce the name of the city. Embarrassing

Looks like a northern English City to be honest. Great fasade on the Stadium , probably slightly old style. But I like it

Honestly, Charleroi reminds me of quite a few cities in the UK.

for any one that drives a car or lives in the developed world , places like this exist to provide the world with its goods ......yet get shite from people that live in a village some where nice

Like craven cottage

I travelled through Belgium in may , despite hearing it was one of the ugliest / dirtiest countries in Europe , it was absolutely beautiful , hope you is a great time

I did like the city a lot ✨ wanna visit it and mostly, I wanna see a match there 🔥 please do visit🙏

I've seen much worse places than Charleroi.

Great video again lad! Would love to see you visit a Roda jc game which is my local club in holland the derby between roda and mvv always has a class atmosphere!

Love these kinda videos you do mate, look forward to the German and Dutch vids 👍🏼 (if you got the degree for crossing the streets in Netherlands that is 😂)

you should look up pictures of what the stadium looked like during Euro 2000. I thought it was the most beautiful stadium of that tournament. It's a shame they had to downsize that stadium like that. I understand that you do that when the stadium is much too big or poorly maintained. But it really was a fantastic stadium. As for the city. i went there once. Well, when you visit Belgium from the Netherlands, you get the feeling that you are going back in time 50 years. that starts on the highway. But Charleroi itself is dated compared to the rest of Belgium.

Charleroi…..you can tell I am getting on; 17th June 2000 seems recent. England beat Germany in Charleroi! That town square was taken over by England fans and where you standing water cannons were used to regain order. England actually were eliminated at Charleroi. One of the Neville’s got the blame. We could of and should of done better.

They've hit a new low by throwing around dead rats painted red in their last game in and against Standard Liège. Don't believe me? Just search for "Charleroi dead rats".

You took Ryanair Seriously

damn...i didnt know that the city looks this ugly...and the stadium itself isnt that good

Seems like Belgium has a system similar to Australia. First past the post is regarded as the Premiers or Minor Premiers. For most sports the teams finishing in the top 4 or 8 then go into the Finals knockout series, with the eventual survivor being the Champions.

As a Sporting Charleroi fan and a local, this "award" was way exagerated, and now the city is changing a lot😅

You should visit royal club antwerp. The oldest team in belgium. Our supporters are unique in belgium and europe. You won’t be disappointed

Looks like paradise compared to Stoke and Hull.

Charleroi isn't remotely ugly compared to many other cities in Europe and the US.

U should visit the bosuil, playground of Antwerp!

Players just before a game hanging around in a cafe downtown enjoying a coffee? I gotta say, I like their style! :D

None sense, you obviously didn't travel long enough and haven't seen the real ugly cities..

Love thé vid and i am supporting Charleroi 🖤🤍 love thé club

belgie staat er weer goed op gdv zomaar men land uitschelden

Sporting Charleroi is planning to build a new stadium by 2025

Look here, we got nice Belgium buildings, Belgium dogs, Belgium air, Belgium grass, Belgium people, Belgium rocks, Belgium mountai--- Yes, because you are in Belgium.

I think Charleroi is a nice city despite being apparently,the world's ugliest city and fully like all the respective Belgian clubs from the top till bottom tiers of the Belgian football,good friends!!!A fantastic football match between Royal Charleroi and Club Brugge indeed LONG LIVE BELGIAN FOOTBALL AND THE COUNTRY WHICH IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITES EVER,GOOD FRIENDS!!!BELGIUM EVER!!!🇧🇪

Pls go to kv mechelen

lol why u travelled that far ? Edinburg is ugly enough

It appears Belgium has their own version of Detroit

If you haven’t watched ‘ in Bruges’, I’d watch it. I know it’s Charleroi, but, just thought I’d mention it. Also, the Belgian Trappist beers are superb. Strong…. Definitely, but, very flavoursome. Glad you enjoyed your time there.

Thank you for coming out to the game man, glad you enjoyed the pyro show ! We might not be the best team in Belgium, but the atmosphere in the stands is usually pretty good! Hope to see you in Charleroi again, thanks again for the vid 🤍🖤

After your visit to Charleroi, go to see Bruges... The most beautiful city of Belgium 😀

Thought it was grimsby town fc at first That description would suit them more lol

Ryanair 😫 The worlds ugliest airline

Middlesbrough is worse….awful.

None of those industrial areas you pointed out are in the heart of the city and most cities have areas like that . The downtown looked fine . I have seen far more depressing area walks in Britain.

I love your videos man! You are literally living my dream. I am a huge football fan myself and I always dreamed of traveling across Europe and watching random football matches in random cities, although I come from the Balkans and I can't really afford doing it, the salaries here are terrible, we barely cover our living expenses, not too much left for traveling and enjoying. Anyway, thank you for doing these videos, you literally make my dream come true even via just watching your videos, I picture myself there with you, doing the trips. Keep it up!

No, it's not Hull.

It's pronounced charlewaah

We from Antwerp where top of de league

For the record, I can appreciate the 'beauty' [ 'the eye of the beholder', etc. ] in industrial-lamdscapes. Most [ normal ] humans, however, have been conditioned not to. Each to their own, I say... #HeavyIndustry

thought you were going to Dundee

Belgium is a cool country ❤

It isn’t worlds ugliest city

You pronounce it Charleruwa

The ugliest and most depressing city is without a doubt Norilsk

Charleroi ⚫️⚪️🦓🇧🇪

my grandma is actually originally from charleroi, i've wanted to go there but haven't had a chance yet so this was a great video for me! (my gran moved to australia and thats where our family is now, i love your vids much love from melbourne)

I live in Belgian😭😂

First i think loving the video

Come to Mons, a Belgian 4th division club and I’ll be your guide touristic, for eat and for football. You are welcome 🙏

When I read the title I assumed you meant Middlesbrough...

How many grounds have you been to in total ?

15:55 the VAR is just bad

Ayr won 3-1 yyyyyaaaassssx

Club Brugge 🥰💙🖤

My city of Charleroi hosted 3 matches of the Euro 2000, including 2 times England (vs Germany and Romania). I was 10 years old and we got places in the stadium between some English fans. That was a great experience. As a football fan and specially English football, I had the opportunity to see my favorite players such as Alan Shearer or Michael Owen. Great memories. Obviously the stadium was bigger at that time with a capacity of 30 000 people, which was too big for a quite small club, so it got reduced, also because it's right in the city center and very close to houses and flats, which was quite disturbing for the neighbourhood.

Most of Wallonian cities are quite rough on the edges tbh (because of the industrial decline), the people are really nice tho. You picked out a good game for sure, always a nice atmosphere in Charleroi and they always have a pretty decent team. Maybe not known abroad but they definitely have their place in Belgium's highest division and they are tough to beat, not an easy away game.

With The manky state of Scotland’s Cities over the past few years being so bad I’m sure Belgium is not half as bad

Try Charle-wow! Close enough!

Ugliest city? No Depressing City? Yes.

I live in belgium

Kevin Muscat former Socceroo, Melbourne Victory player had a tint as manager of Sint-Truiden, in 2020, but was sacked after 6 months due to poor result by the club.

I cried laughing when you said “this geezer’s raging” while sitting right next to him 😂😂😂

Celtic and Rangers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 are 100% missing a trick by not upgrading their capacities 🏟 Celtic for example, have a waiting list of around 17,000 people! Bearing in mind that there will be many more fans who would buy a season ticket than just those on the waiting list. A boy in my work for example just managed to secure a season ticket this season, he’s been on the waiting list for ELEVEN YEARS. Take the European tickets as well, they don’t even get to general sale half the time and if they do, they sell out in SECONDS! Of course there’s the people who say “bUt THeREs EmPtY sEaTs aGaiNsT sT. JoHnStONe” etc etc. That “argument” makes absolutely ZERO sense whatsoever. The SEAT might be empty, but the TICKET is paid for! That’s the thing with season tickets people, once you’ve sold 55,000 season tickets you get that same revenue regardless of if there’s only 48,000 at the game! The seat might be empty, but it’s still paid for! The simple fact of the matter is that Celtic and Rangers could build 80,000-100,000 stadiums and they’d sell out. Not only would it benefit the club financially, but it would be incredible from a football perspective as well! Could you imagine the atmosphere at an 85,000 seater Celtic Park? WOW 🔥🔥🔥

Great vlog mate….really good vlog at Tranmere(my local team) too against Newcastle in the cup ..keep up the good work!!

Belgium football is captivating with clubs like club brugge, Royal Antwerp, Genk,Gent and Eupen. I know lots of stuff about Belgium football

It not ugly its beautiful because them plants provide people with employment....

More Belgium football please

ever been to Hull???

I'm Belgian and while I was reading the title I was like "Charleroi ?" ( I don't live there, but even in the country it's a meme )

That is only an area, maybe old Charleroi industrial area or some suburbs... The city looks nice, though. It isn't ugly, that's for sure.

Great video. Hope to attend the fixture on Friday evening weekend of 11th March. Looking forward to visiting the city. Can anyone tell me whether I can get a couple of tickets on the day of the game? Also how far a walk is the stadium from the city centre?

that beer certainlly kicked in after the 3rd goal , ihave drank 11% jupiler in belgium and the deal is you get your money back after 3 if your sober ...not a chance your getting your cash back !!!