A Fan's Plea for Respect, Pride & Better Times | A Southend United Story 

9 games left to save our league status scored 1 goal in the last 7 games I think we are doomed

It really does seem ominous, I can't disagree one bit. But I also can't imagine this club going the ways of Macclesfield or Bury, it just doesn't seem real.

@@MrScoot27 with Ron in charge anything is possible. A 3 stand stadium shows the mans ambition and with housing and not retail outlets as first said I doubt it will ever get built

I remember playing with Eastwood back in the day, it made me a supporter

@@MrScoot27 you choose the wrong Essex side lad. Only team in Essex is Colchester

I was there and your winger I forget who it was but they absolutely destroyed us everytime they got the ball. Best of luck with your season mate

I was there and Blackpool deservedly won on the day. I know BFC fans share our pain after the terrible Oyston period and am glad to see ur club doing better.

Hopefully Southend Utd get proper management and players. Respect to all fans of ''shit'' teams who stick through thick and thin. That match vs Man Utd must have felt like being the king of the world for Southend fans.

You lot weren't whingeing about Oysten when you were in the Premier League. Now you're back where you belong........in our shadow. UTW

@@joshnicholls5040 true, but you none of you were complaining about Oysten's personal conduct when you were beating Liverpool

Need to get this out there Ron Martin wants to build flats on the roots Hall pitch with a new ground a red herring to keep us quiet. The new ground has been an on going saga since the mid 80s under a different chairman who made a fortune building flats on half the south Bank. Its disgusting what club and fans have had to put up with

You should imagine how we feel then. It is hard

First Music Makes me think about what has been done for a people's sports. Its just hard to swallow.

@@lionsroar9782 Similar to what happened to us (Brighton) luckily we are in a good place now but I remember when they sold the goldstone ground back in 97 and we literally played our games miles away at gillingham

The Martin family are parasites who just care about the flats

Not for life long true southend united fans it isn't from Wembley 5 years ago to this because of one mans greed

Do you know of any others mate? Link me

And many times very sad.

A local community should be at the beating heart of every football club.

@@copa90 But they're not - your narrator makes that very point. Twice.

@@shanewright2772 we get 5k average attendance at roots Hall 2k of those have another team mainly from one of the 3 pl London clubs because we are so close to London sufc will never be a big football club. Supported the shrimpers since 1979 and will continue to do so until Ron Martin bankrupts the club

@@shanewright2772 I'm a Blackburn Rovers fan. Have been since my first match in 86 when my backside blessed Ewoods wooden seats (now replaced thankfully) I've seen them win cups, make finals, jump up divisions, win playoffs. I watched my team win the Premier league. Every fans dream and we experienced it. Our cotton town stuck in the middle of Lancashire. We have a history. A history that makes us one of the longest serving football teams in the entire Football association. We've had heroes, we've had failures, we've got black and white footage from a hundred years ago. We used to have a packed Ewood park. We also lost a town icon. Not just a money man for the club. Jack walker. He made our town an international investor of Steel and some. Now we have the Venkys. They've ruined our club. Hollowed it out and ruined it. Still we fight and we play, the fans go but we go out of love and so we should, but we deserve more. The town deserves more. Saturdays would come around....oh boy you knew when it was Saturday.... The Bolton Road. The main road down to Ewood. FULL with fans spanning the road like ants carrying food. Not a car to be seen... WALKING DOWN THE BOLTON ROAD!!! TO SEE THE BLACKBURN ACES!!!!! BLUE BLUE BLUE AND WHITE BLUE BLUE BLUE AND WHITE!!!!! You can walk a sleeping crèche past Ewood on a saturday. Chairmen/owners need to be made accountable for ridiculous decisions

I just dont know what to say after watch this and i wanna ask is londoners the narratir refering is WHU because i just fans from over sea and mostly watch from club live tv

Can’t believe fans locked out the manager 😂😂. Shows passion and love for the club though

Wow, what was his name?

you lot gotta be careful too ey your very close

😂😂😂

Walsall are my second club! I use to live in Pelsall!

Even worse up until about a week ago when the new guy came in

return to what never was there in the first place always low league

@@nonleagueawaydays thats not what's it is about idm lower league. I want a stable club that doesn't worry about finances and players playing for the badge

He's come out of the woodwork since this video check out the shrimpers trust meeting with Ron Martin on you tube march 25th the lies and down talking to the fans is your typical business man mentality its a sport not a business

Thank you.

It appears you may have jinxed your entire season

What a difference in direction since THAT goal!

@@sufcberry Not anymore. Im sorry to hear of the clubs relegation. A friend of mine is a fan so I’ve looked at the scores occasionally. In my opinion it was inevitable, however the players put up a huge fight. Hopefully a new owner and a season or two in the national league will bring stability

The only thing holding us back is an arrogant and stubborn chairman. Once he goes we can kick on again and as you said get our act together

@@ryandeasy678 Ron Martin out. I thought vic jobson was bad and anton jonson but Ron Martin just a blatant leach

@@lionsroar9782 I guess fortunately for me I wasn’t alive when Vic Jonson and Anton Jonson were in charge. Saying that I guess I got the worse, one a true crook who has no real interest in the club all he’s interested in is developing Roots Hall into a housing estate

@@ryandeasy678 seems sufc has always been a cash cow for rogue chairman. Jobson sold half the south Bank to build flats on and anton jonson just run off with load of cash. Ron Martin is using covid to his advantage what with no fans allowed in roots hall

I respect fans of any club who go to matches. Why wouldn’t you respect someone born in Manchester area who follows them home and away?

@@cliffcrancher4474 Deluded sense of self grandeur. They think themselves more than those they judge because they deem their own pursuits to be more "noble" or whatever.

Right because i chose to support united I ain’t a true fan.. jog on child

@@niamh9500 I did not say that at all - my point is these fans have been through a hell of a lot more struggles than those who consider a 4th or 5th place finish a bad season

True , i know alot of people that say they support a world team like Chelsea, Liverpool, United , hell i even met some guy in the Netherlands that supports Leeds United , which i respect , but if i ask how many trophies each team had they didn't know.... And then they say that i don't know nothing about football just beceause i support fan culture of usual lower tier teams more then the prem. .. jup i am the kind of guy that rather go see a millwall game instead of a west ham (not to say west ham has bad support, one of the best in the prem imo😂😂)

Me too, but will Southend last that long 😢

It's my club to if Southend United go I see me supporting any other club Southend United til die

As an arsenal fan i really miss you guys Portsmouth would always grace the premier league and not to mention your cup glory in 2008

Thank you.

leeds fan too, relate on the same level never nice to see a proud club mismanaged like this

And speaking as a Southend fan I was disheartened when I saw Leyton drop in similar circumstances. Up the O's.

I appreciate that sentiment, especially as the club media team mocked as Orient dropped out of the league. It's the sort of thing you wouldn't wish on your biggest rivals

Maybe Colchester, to be fair

​@@ArchefluxxMusic we are both utterly wank. It's been a real shite time for Essex football

Thanks Gillingham away is always a good one. Not when it rains though How can you have no roof on a stadium?

That's the question I cant answer,like most chairman they tell you what they want you to hear then never act,our away end since the temporary stand went up has been 20yrs in the waiting ..I would just like to say the league table will not be the same if you guys are not in it

@@aaronturner3015 hopefully we will be able to play each other soon!! Martin out!!!

From a Brighton fan would love is gillingham and southend to get a new stadium. I think you both clubs want can grow you fan base like we did

@@gsrywebley4617 could not agree more,think most football teams would be better run by fans,as for your team Brighton they have a fantastic stadium and PL Football, good luck for rest of season

So always curious in this scenario...who would you want to win if they played each other?

@@cliffcrancher4474 very much the same for me... from a family with an arsenal crazy dad he brought me up to support arsenal and as I got older was told by my best mate about supporting your local and since have supported Southend and still now I support both Southend and Arsenal as much as each other... years ago I wouldn’t be able to answer that question but I think I’d say Arsenal so they don’t get bantered online

@@cliffcrancher4474 depends the situation, friendly probably Southend, but in a cup West Ham

@@Matthew.03 Its definitely common

True. My family is from Highbury but I was born in Rochford so I'm Arsenal and Southend.

You're 100% right. English football fans only care if the owner of their own club is not doing well. Pompey fans even voted to sell the club again after they rebuilt it as fans. That's why I don't see anything changing.

English football was ruined when the Premier League came along.

@@yaneyd93 tbf to pompey they couldn't afford to maintain all the costs coz they didn't have enough fan members

@@skog5209 absolutely 100% correct .. and Sky TV is soooo far up the Premiershites arse

@ Lara Schou What a sweeping and inaccurate statement from someone who probably knows precisely nothing about English football? How has English football been ruined by the Premier League? Mismanagement at a lower league level is not their responsibility and it’s not as if it is a closed shop for those aspiring to gain promotion to the top division. As the oldest league system in the world that aspiration has never been any different since its inception as the old division 1. English football from the multiple pyramids of clubs is deeply embedded in their communities. Evident from the army of supporters and volunteers who love these clubs and where there are more amateur clubs and players than anywhere else in Europe, so this is the real English football.

Good luck for Saturday when we play you mate we need 3 points and we need a David crown right now

It was ever thus....though, never as bad as things are now. I was a regular fan as a kid in the late 70's, early 80's (Colin Morris, Dave Spence, Alan Moody etc etc), when we won the old 4th division, then went up...stayed a bit and got relegated again. Sad times.

I can't imagine we will be back for a while sadlh

What a memorable night for The Shrimpers.

Beat Newcastle United 4-0 at roots Hall to go top of the old 2nd division as well

@@copa90 They actually have the best record against Manchester United of any club. Bonus trivia - the team with the all-time best record against Barcelona is Dundee United.

@@shanewright2772 Pub Quiz knowledge right there Shane.

@@copa90 i was there that memorable night when Freddie Eastwoods free kick hit the back of the net

No matter if we go down or not I'm Southend till I die!!!

Easy 3 points for you tomorrow

Southend are scum

@@JN-cq4lb who do you support then mate

Hello, Tel 😎

This guy is obsessed by the football league.. if your not good enough you go down....it's not the end of the world...

@@djrudog1158 oh look, it's another one of those obvious troll comments that end with... Getting boring now. It's not even funny or original

@@generichuman2044 no...if your team is not good enough they go down....they get replaced by a team on merit...then the team that has gone down has to prove its self at the level that they are at....

@@djrudog1158 lmao do u think what you’re saying is profound u weirdo “...”

@@fozlesgitit1568 not weird....it's fact....are you ok you seem disturbed 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bit hard with covid. Ron Martin has had an easy ride only since this video has he come out of the woodwork

Because most football fans are Man United fans from Wiltshire unaware of the existence of football beneath the Premiership or before 1992.

Agreed. Like it is in Germany

Sky sports screwed football

Real Madrid and Barcelona are owned by members. They have elections and don't need to be bought up like property. I think this is possible everywhere in the world.