EURO 2012, The Most CONTROVERSIAL European Championship? | Countdown to Euro 2021 

Hope you guys enjoyed this one! Got another interesting euro video for next week as well.

Conclusion: When a football tournament takes place in a year that ends with the number 2, it's going to be one of the most controversial in history.

I love how 80% of the video is about Ukraine. As a Pole i think that euro was a huge marketing succes, even though a lot of investments weren't made in time for the tournament, and I believe the biggest controversies were how highways were build on private lands which shockingly were owned by some politicians and so they could earn money on selling them. And the other one was that most companies that built stadiums went bankrupt because they couldn't bare the cost of repairs after the tournament.

Nah 2012 the year of Jamie vardys dreadlocks and Marc Albrighton being a wonderkid 😂

*Max looks for more controversial tournaments... *2022 Qatar World Cup: Oh you haven't seen anything mate (laughs maniacally)

I was at the EURO 2012 in both Poland and Ukraine, and honestly I haven't found any sort of controversy at all. And I was in Donetsk, which is by now occupied by actual russian fascists.

I think judging a country by their football fans is never a good idea. Here in the UK we have a lot of racist, homophobic and antisemitic behaviour from football fans, and it’s generally defended as “just a bit of banter”. Like the Spurs fan who threw a banana at Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and said in his defence he just picked up the nearest thing to throw and it happened to be a banana, or the West Ham fans who verbally abused a Jewish passenger on a plane to Belgium.

As a Portugal fan this Euro literally broke my heart. I knew Spain was the team to beat but we had made it out of the group of death with only a 1-0 loss to Germany and I thought we could go all the way. Yeah Spain was the best team, but any of the semi-finalists had a good chance

that summoning salt bit was actually more funny than it needed to be

The state controlled BBC made a hit piece so that people would go to London 2012 rather than the Euros

As a Czech, I must say that EURO 2012 was one of the greatest championships of all times. The memories from there are simply extraordinary, mainly because of the atmosphere Polish fans brought. I vividly remember the match against Poland, where Petr Jiráček scored an absolutely astonishing goal, which sent us to the quarter-final. It gives me goosebumps :'-))

That Summoning Salt reference lmao

Sol Campbell could probably win the idiot of the year award of some kind in 2012 when he said that black British people shouldn't come to Poland because they will return in caskets (because of alleged racism) and all British people had much fun at the tournament (totally took over Krakow during that time) and returned home with good memories

Not a Euro, but arguably one of the most (if not the most) controversial football tournaments has got to be the 2002 World Cup. Especially with all the referee bribing involved, including a ref that would go on to be caught smuggling drugs a few years later 😂 Would make up a good video

Euro 2012 was a classic tournament tbh.

The Unai Emery book and the lube though.....

Sorry but it's terribly one-sided and condescending take BBC documentary was extremely biased in the way it pushed its narrative. It led many black sportsmen living in Poland to make statements condemning Cole for his ignorant and racist rant. I remember travelling a lot at the time of the tournament, seeing fans everywhere and it generally was a massive celebration. In fact same hooligans you're talking about warned their supporters not to try to attack foreign fans or else they'd be dealt with by themselves. For the amount of people that arrived in Poland it was extremely peaceful tournament

Nice video as always bro:) You should make a video about the hypocritism by the english. They were calling Poland and Ukraine racists and what happend on the euro 2020 when they played in england. Booing opponents national anthems beating up danish family, destroying italian restaurants in london, lasering on Kasper Schmeichel then racial abusing messages to the three english players that missed the penalty.

0:35 didnt age too well

Jeez, it took me a second to realize. That Ritz price is a current price. It's been ten years since Euro 2012. That means it was probably a decent chunk less back then, making the prices even MORE outrageous.

Anyone else notice that Maxwell, the Arsenal fan, has an Unai Emery book lmao

These videos are just getting better and better

I like how this focuses on the specific tournament it’s unique, and the kit videos good stuff man 👌

the summoningsalt music at the speedrunning infrastructure part looool, absolute legend

so glad that i found a youtuber for football that also meshes with other references to stuff i enjoy, its the perfect mix. what a g

bro this is quality content. more vids like this plz

Wow, your videos are really well made dude!

Dude love the channel!!! Just found you a couple days ago. This vid was very interesting due to current times. I really hope the war does not spread in Europe and we can still have the World Cup

To be fair, Euro 2012 and 2018 World Cup was a precursor for Russia and Ukraine before they ignited a deadly conflict this year. Ukraine hosted Euro 2012, and two years later, Russia annexes Crimea from Ukraine, thus starting a crisis. The Ukrainian crisis only happened several weeks after Winter Olympics in Sochi. Russia hosted 2018 World Cup. The same year, Ukraine also hosted the Champions League Final in Kiev, when Liverpool's Loris Karius made two infamous goalkeeping errors.

Euro 2012 will always hold a special place In my heart because its the first competition i remember wathing. I remember nothing of the 2010 World up but i remember 2012 espescially the sticker albums

As a Pole I do not confirm that.

Please make a video about WC 2018 in rushists federation

i have to say it honestly. there are very less chanels in youtube who make these type of football vids, idk whether you will discontinue these series in favour of career mode or not, but personally i like these kind of vids and would subscribe if such videos continue

I just found out about your channel and god I love it.

Damn, Poland is doing good, keep going!

yeah about that, I'd say Ukraine is the most... "problematic" of those two its kind of amazing to see a video of someone describing Ukraine for what it has been until recently. Now, I'm not an idiot, I'm not saying "oh so actually they're the bad guys", nothing justifies this invasion. it's just wierd and somewhat refreshing to see such a nonchalant review of Ukraine's darker side without everyone going nuts. Oh and just to make it clear, I repeat, whatever is said about Ukraine cant justify acts of war against them, but its healthy to be aware of everyone's shenanigans

4:56 this little kid is from USA giving stats abour racial incidents, meanwhile USA in 2012: "According to statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 5,796 criminal incidents involving 6,718 offenses were reported in 2012 as being motivated by a bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability."

Congratulations for another excelent video. This one was right on spot!

As a croat this has to be one of my least favorite tournaments. The final was in our group🥲

These videos are amazing there so entertaining and reignited my love of football

The summoning salt music is so nostalgia love it

Not football, but the Berlin Summer Olympics of 1936 were probably quite controversial.

Boy … you should really do a Video of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics! the most expensive and corrupt Olympic Games in history!

Currently listening to this while doing a big project for my government class. 👍

Can you do one episode on the 2014 World Cup? As a brazilian, I can see many correlations between Ukraine and Brazil hosting these events

English media in 2012: don't go to Poland and Ukraine, or you will be back in coffin. Real life in 2012: fans mostly singing in Polish, and Ukrainian cities, and loving our woman police officers

Great video and editing

Where can I watch the episode about the most controversial World Cup, ie 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea Japan? It was the only tournament in international football that was characterized by such overt corruption, racism, discrimination and harassment of fans.

Not saying you're wrong, but jacking up prices before an event isn't so surprising. And I don't know what it might compare to. Not saying that the prices would go up as much in Charlotte, but I"m curious what you could compare the Euro Cup to happening IN Charlotte. there's the quantity of the games being played. Let's say ALL of the NCAA basketball games were going to happen in North Carolina, except people were treating each game like the finals of the NBA. I doubt the prices at the 5 star hotel would go up as high, but how do you compare how much Europeans feel about Soccer with an event in the USA? I do think the three star prices would be higher over all, considering Euro's are worth more than the US dollar. Thanks for your videos, and price hikes were on the lower end of issues you mentioned. I look forward to your WC 2026 videos. :D

The SummoningSalt refrence is legendary

As a Spanish this euro was the best 🇪🇸🤩

I love the speedrunning part where you use the music that summoning salt uses for his vids

What about World Cup 2002? The so called most controversial world cup in history apparently.

1:34 what a reference earned a sub

lmao this is the most chill corruption dissection i’ve seen

Funny how all these issues disappeared in the last year, somehow... hmmm...

AINT NO WAY HE MADE A SUMMONING SALT REFERENCE

The Dutch training racism was investigated and found to be a false allegation made by Robben when the crowd were protesting in the stadium

0:33 that didn't age well.

I know I'm late to the party but I must show my appreciation for the Summoning Salt reference

great video!

Summoning Salt reference was banger

Bruh this video deserves a lot more attention and views Great story

if we look at maqwells sub count right now, we can see that he likes listening to juice wrld

Ukraine: a lot of problems Poland: wait, we are hosting something?

Nice video bro

Hahahah the song when he mentioned speedruning, amazing reference

This aged well lol!

Bruh be chillin with the lotion over there🤣

Bro u just show Rusia TV xdd

Anyone notice the had an Unai Emery book with a bottle of lotion on top

the unai emery masterclass book with the lotion on top omfg

Jit has a bottle of lotion on his desk 🤣

Love the summoning salt refrence

Fantastic video. These horrible don't deserve ever to be forgotten. Keep up the good work.

the logo looks clean imo

That beautiful summoning salt joke🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

that lotion on Emery's book screams suspicious actiBities

the season was awesome! i remember watching this season. stanley the king of the

Is nobody going to mention the Summoning Salt reference? I didn't know the guy was this popular.

The real sponsor of this video was that moisterizer 🤣

Still got my 2012 sticker book

The moisturizer 💀

Plzzz do the world cup 2002 it was very controversial

4:51 we need a base to compare to. A number is big when compared to something else.

3:28 yep great way to defend one of your star players

Nice shirt!!

We aint gonna talk about the unia emery book with lotion on top

so were not gonna talk about the lotion on the desk

1:30 nice song choice. Summoning Salt!!!

great video and all but the unai emery book and moisturizer really is bothering me for some reason

The racism part 2 thing didn't actually involve poland tho that was the fans.

Good video, the 2012 were controversial, this steered the nation to the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, we all know how that panned out.Euros have always been controversial, the 1988 Euros in Germany are best remembered for the Dutch vs German rivalry,there was a lot of political undertones to the whole gig.2016 Euros will be best remembered for the riots between Russian hooligans vs English hooligans. Needless to say Putin enjoyed seeing English hooligans running away from a losing battle lol!

1:23 the guy who built that graduation online

max why do you have lotion on your desk?

It's ironic how people see Ukraine as good

Do a kit collection vid

Nah bro, what you doin with unai emery’s book maqwell 💀

you know, there is a reason Yanukovych got revolution'd TWICE

U underrated af!!!