EUROPEAN FOOTBALL RETURNS TO SCOTLAND! Motherwell 0-1 Sligo Rovers, Europa Conference League 

Shame you had a bit of a bad experience, your coverage of football is excellent and should be applauded for your neutrality not sabotaged by mindless immature morons! Keep up the good work.

Absolutely devastated to hear about your bad experience. I’m a big hearts fan and saw you a few times at at the Hearts games. Always unbiased and produce great football journalism. Keep up the great work. As for the small minority of Motherwell fans who made you feel threatened or unwelcome, you should be ashamed of yourselves when all this guy is doing is raising the profile of your club.

I'm a Bohemians fan (Dublin) and have recently subscribed to your channel. I find you to be not only passionate about the game but extremely knowledgeable and respectful. The way you handled the religious divide in the Northern Irish videos was impressive and I really wish you all the best going forward. You're a top fella.

Your experience last night of the anti-RU-vid brigade has disappointed me more than the result. You’ve done a huge amount to promote Scottish football and Motherwell. Don’t let a group of wee neds put you off. Keep the great content coming!

Sorry to hear, presumably, your personal safety was threatened to such an extent that you felt the only way for you to feel safe was to leave the stadium. Thanks for this vid, I'm glad someone did it and thanks for all the other vids. I love your channel. With love from Ireland.

Thanks for having me on again mate - and as always a pleasure to have a chat with you before the match. I’m disappointed in the treatment you received from my fellow ‘Well Fans - it’s not right. Hopefully this doesn’t deter you from coming to Fir Park in the future.

As a Rangers fan, who absolutely loves watching your videos when you visit Ibrox and for taking an interest in our league I am extremely disappointed that you felt you needed to leave a game early due to fan behaviour that made you feel unwelcome. Motherwell fans hang your heads in shame if this was you - football is for everyone. Once again Sam thanks for making these videos the majority of us love them keep up the good work. 👍

Hi Sam Celtic fan here please never give up covering Scottish football your coverage is incredible one of the best i have seen on RU-vid and i look forward to your videos take care and ignore the haters

Witnessed the incident with yourself last night, and it was completely uncalled for. The individual then went back into the march and had a go with a fellow Motherwell fan. Wouldn’t take it personally, clearly somebody with an inflated ego who’d had too much to drink. Keep doing what you’re doing 👍

Burnley fan here, you have done so much to get people like me interested in the Scottish League and Clubs, your videos of Scottish teams are the ones I watch the most, shame about the minority, hope it doesn't put you off.

As a life long Motherwell supporter living in Thailand , I am really sorry about the treatment you received at fir park and can only apologise about a small section of the Motherwell supporters , I am disgusted , love your channel and keep up the good work 👍🙏🏼

Been going to Well games for 20 years. Always sat in the Phil o Donnell stand. Never had a problem in there but the other stand you sat in is full of Well ultras who think they are way the most important fans there. Yet they are the most negative. Just listenin to all the booing. It gets on my nerves. I'm sorry about your Well experience but that's why I have not gone since pre vivid. Keep up the good work and keep smiling mate. All the best.

Met you Ryanair flight a few weeks ago when you were heading to Dublin Sam , Scottish football is very lucky to have a guy who puts so much effort and hard work in promoting its football in every league . You should be very proud of yourself . You do a fantastic professional fair podcast , keep up the good work and hopefully you will feature a few magical champions league nights in paradise in the comming months , don’t mind the dicks and idiots you come across on your journey covering games , and good for you calling it out . Tks for the job you do , Michael

Saw a lot of Sligo fans in Glasgow during the day, seemed a decent size of support they brought over. Good result for them.

Motherwell fans are bangers end of, keep up these fantastic vlogs man.

Well your very welcome at any Irish stadium and by Irish fans. 👍 pity some scots don’t agree

Always welcome back here in Ireland man, no need for that shite at the end of the game, you'll always get some idiots like that unfortunately, keep up the work man ❤️

I’m a Saint Pats fan from Dublin and thanks for highlighting the game against Motherwell it is great that both Scottish and Irish clubs get airtime no matter what the Medium is so more of your RU-vid videos please there is a pint waiting for you in Dublin cheers

Just watched this video and was shocked how visibly shaken you were on the way out, hope you are OK ... and if in any doubt about what you do, just read the many comments below and feel all that love ! Keep on doing what you do mate ...

Congratulations to Sligo for beating Motherwell beautiful town as well 🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️

Excellent commentary and coverage of the smaller clubs, from a Sligo Rovers fan

Fancy having a dig at this lad. Always respectful, comes across a good guy. Poor form from some Motherwell fans. If you ever fancy a trip to Wrexham, we'll look after you.

Don’t let one bad experience get you down or change your views on the club. You do a hell of a lot more for Scottish football than mainstream media ever have really which is greatly appreciated. Keep up the great work, hope to catch you at a game soon!

Keep your head up Sam 😃 You are so dedicated and love what you do, don’t let this get to you 👊 You do so much for Scottish football and I can’t understand why the Motherwell fans don’t like you filming because people like me want to see their marches and atmosphere in the stadium and I think they do great for Scottish football too. Surely they want to be filmed to show other firms what they are about, very bizarre behaviour. Glad Sligo won after seeing this.

Thank you for your excellent work, Sam. I really appreciate it as I live in Germany and don't get home often to see Scottish football. Please don't let the moronic fans intimidate you. I'm ashamed that you had to experience that. Best wishes going forward, John

Fantastic win Sligo, from a Shels fan. Hopefully yiz can finish the job next week. 👊🏻🇮🇪👊🏻

Dont let the Haters spoil your videos. You do a great job. As I live down in Essex, it great to actually get a good insight into the smaller Scottish and Irish clubs and to experience their passionate fans.

Derry city fan. Well done sligo .great result .once again scots team underestmates irish team .remember gretna did the same .and lost to derry 5 goals to 1 at fir park .irish teams are getting much btr

What you’ve done for Scottish football is nothing short of astonishing and you are easily respected by the whole country. Fair play to you man.

As a Rangers fan I think what you do for Scottish football is great. So much other Scottish Football coverage only focuses on the Old Firm/ is incredibly bias/ or (more often) both. So nice to have decent content that will cover a diversity of teams in a neutral way. The idiots that behave like that will in the end, only harm their own team more than anything. I hope you always keep doing what you are doing, and next time you are at Ibrox I'd be happy to buy you a pint!

Very disappointing to hear you had to leave early but not a massive surprise, Ultras bring much to the party but sadly they also bring enormous egos and a sense they are bigger than the club let alone their fellow fans, I’ve experienced similar things all over Europe with Ultras including here in Scotland so can relate to your closing comments 100% Keep up the great work Sam

From Nova Scotia ... as ‘Well fan for 50 plus years, I am very disappointed to hear that you had trouble at Fir Park. You do great videos, keep up the great work ...

Well done sligo 👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 great videos in ireland sam keep up the good work...from a mad celtic fan in cork city 🍀🍀

Keep the head up man. From a cork city fan. Life moves on. Come to Ireland for the 2nd leg

Rangers fan here mate and keep doing you, you’ve done tremendous amounts for Scottish football and you are entertaining keep it up m8

Can’t stoop laughing at the score predictions, delusional😂

Great result for sligo. Bohs til I die

Sorry to hear about the incident Sam, your coverage of Scottish football is always great to see as it's rare to see the game up here from a neutral perspective which makes your videos very entertaining to watch. Embarrassing performance on the park for Motherwell only matched by embarrassing behaviour towards you off the park by a small number of individuals.

Keep up the good work .Great to see some of the so called smaller clubs getting some attention .

Nice work again Mate 👏 and there are haters everywhere but let me tell you there are more people out there that are good people enjoying your coverage from all over the world cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

I’m a shamrock rovers fan great to see you visiting our league I’m also getting to know Scottish football outside the top two 👍

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. Don't let it put you off, you do a great job of covering Scottish football at all levels and I'm sure 99.99% of fans are really happy to see you make a video at their club. Hopefully you can manage to do one at Aberdeen this coming season.

Alright mate, sorry to hear about the encounter you had at the Motherwell game. You have been a breath of fresh air covering the Scottish game. Your videos are always insightful and Balanced. Don’t change and keep doing what you do!!! ❤️

Shocked mate! I can't get my head around the mentality of some people having a go at you when your channel has done so much to promote Scottish football! You bring joy to thousands who have got your back as you are the fairest commentator on YT!

Have recently discovered and subscribed to your channel. Really enjoyed your Dublin stadia video where you visited all of the league grounds in Dublin and ran into Brian Kerr outside St Pats ground ( my team) without a clue who he was 😀 Brilliant and priceless. Really like your stuff and such a shame you were made to feel threatened last night. You’re welcome back to Ireland anytime. Keep up the good work.

As a supporter of another LOI team in Dublin, well done to Sligo, but I also have a bit of a soft spot for Motherwell. That said, I want Sligo to progress, which I believe they will. Motherwell are undoubtedly going to come at Sligo next week which is probably going to leave them vulnerable defensively and I can see Sligo scoring a few goals whilst maintaining a very strong resolute defence like in Fir park. It's only half time, as they say, but I believe a more battle-hardened Sligo will be well prepared for next week and are going to win the game in the showgrounds.

Sean Fallon presented me with a league winners medal when I was at school in Glasgow. A memory that has stayed with me for almost 50 years.

Would never underestimate any Irish team. For Motherwell to have one training game and one friendly as prep! Keena used to play for my team Hearts so happy for him. Be interesting 2nd leg.

Rangers fan. From Northern Ireland. Good to see Irish teams doing well

I'm a lifelong Motherwell fan and I'm genuinely sorry you received any hostility by our fans, it's also really disappointing to hear booing going on, I understand people are disappointed but it's never been something I've been about. I hope you'll return to Fir Park one day and we can make it up to you. Thanks for the coverage of Scottish (and wider) football, your channel is a treasure trove of interesting facts and stories.

Sorry to hear what happened Sam, you were clearly shaken at the end. Please don’t let the experience at Motherwell dampen your enthusiasm, your work is to be admired and everything you do is clearly from the heart.

Keep up your excellent work! I am very sorry to hear about your experience at Motherwell. It's such a shame that a minority of people can have such an impact. I just want you to know about how I think your work is excellent, very fair and informative.

You’ve done more in the last few years to promote Scottish Football at all levels than The SFA , SPFL and any individual clubs , gutted to hear that you had to leave early due to some idiots Don’t let it put you off Sam and keep up the good work 👍

Good coverage as usual..Shame about the idiot minority who really should support their team and any coverage it gets...

Sam, your bigger than that. Your well respected far and wide. Your coverage of British football in particular, is fan-tastic. 👍

From a 58 year old Well fan I am so sorry some of our fans made you feel intimidated enough to leave early. Had this problem even during my time watching all these years. You give a fair and honest view on teams from all leagues . About the game I think lack of preseason games did not help but Sligo took the chance they had. Been here before against Llanelli and think we will pull it back COYW

Hey Sam, I admire and respect what you do. I would like to visit Motherwell's home ground some day. I have never been there before. Hope you are ok after the match. Take care.

Hope your okay Sam. Keep the videos going, So e folk dont realise just how good, useful and interesting your channel is. For those who cant get to games for one reason or another it makes them feel like they can experience it in a way the main stream media cant. Keep it up but mostly stay safe.

Great stuff buddy. Hopefully see you follow the jam tarts in our european adventures. Keep it up 😎

Sligo man designed and re-laid the composite pitch in Motherwell for the new season... cracking match lad

Alright m8 was great to meet you yesterday, so sorry for how you were treated at the game wee arseholes think they're hard, hopefully this doesn't change your perspective of the club as I know how much better it can be

Keep going with these videos mate despite the haters, as a lower league English footy fan, your work in showing us the vibrant footballing culture in Scotland, NI and Ireland is much appreciated. 👍

I'm a Sligo Rovers fan and we knocked Motherwell out of Europe for being so hostile to you. You is a G. Much love from Sligo.

I remember years ago in Milltown, Shamrock Rovers old ground, being threatened and having to leave before the end of the match. Never happened before or since but it was scary, I never forgot it, things got so ugly so quickly. Glad you're OK, keep up the great work.

Really poor to hear you got grief off a section of the Motherwell fans. They aren't exactly a big club and you were giving them positive exposure. Karma came full circle and bit them on the arse it seems.

Really enjoy your videos, hate that you had to go through that nonsense. As a Bohs fan, living in Cincinnati, wonderful to see Sligo Rovers get the result. You should head over here to see a FC Cincinnati game....and experience the Bailey!!

These teams were getting to play in European qualifiers. Ireland didn't gain any slots. I liked the idea of conference league but it has alot of teams that's were in Europa League taking it over. Roma won the first one. That hasn't changed anything for smaller clubs. They should do it like the ice hockey and have it include only league under a certain coefficient

Killie fan , Love your videos Sam , The one at Killie Vs Arbroath was so professional...

I understand people complaining about RU-vidrs when they're taking a ticket off an actual fan for a huge, sell-out game. When it's Motherwell - Sligo and you can't fill your stadium, however......

Mate keep up the great work. Really enjoy your videos. Your summer vids have been on another level really enjoy the history and the geography of it all . Hope to see you back in ireland soon

You do a cracking job supporting the game up here mate. Pay the wee dafties no mind!

Hi mate how are you was at the game my self as a neutral disappointing result for Motherwell but congratulations on making Europe Motherwell

Good result for Sligo you'd think Motherwell were Barcelona the way their fans were belittling of Sligo, nice result from the Blues against Bodo/Glimt the other night as well.

Well done Sligo, great video as usual Sam

Well done sligo from a munster man , great to see you guys do well, finish off the job now in sligo, I'll be listening online to ocean fm who are brilliant commentators Who will sligo play in next round ?

Sorry to hear of your treatment mate you do more for Scottish football than anyone I know and your ch is the best.

Had a feeling you'd make this game, good stuff ^^ was an intriguing match to watch, Sligo looked comfortable for the most part, Motherwell offered surprisingly little, however one would have to expect a different approach away in Sligo, however being a LOI fan I would prefer to see Sligo through to the next round ;)

Good work as usual Sam. Good to see teams other than rangers,celtic etc get to have some exposure.

That Motherwell March was hilariously unorganised. Couldn’t clap in time and were walking too fast on the flanks. I think they need more practice pretending to be ultras. Big shout out for the stick insect in a balaclava too 😂

Always welcome to Firhill. Hopefully see you there a few times again this season

Great that you cover all aspects of the game. Shame that some don't take to your filming, you would think they would be happy to have coverage of their club. Makes me want to support Sligo in the second leg. Keep up the good work!

Shocking from the Well fans mate your only trying to promote the teams and games . I'm a Rangers man and like 99% of the fans love your videos even the Celtic ones . It's promoting our game . It's sad but i would just give them the cold shoulder now . Plenty other teams happy to have you 👍

Another class video great work mate 🙌🙌🙌

Great video! Good job to Sligo and your vlog

Absolutely embarrassing, should be ashamed of themselves!!!

Footy Adventures,, Sam,, as done brilliant videos all over Scotland, from the Premiership, Championship, leagues 1 and 2, highland and lowland leagues and even noneleague,, always with an unbiased view. An English man who more often than not, praises Scottish football. The idiots who use an antyoutube excuse are nothing more than clowns!! Did they chase out the two young lad Sam interviewed before the game who are both have RU-vid channels, one a Motherwell fan as well. You did the right thing and leaving early. Keep up the good work Sam.

Come to the Stmirren v Motherwell game on Sunday Sam, you know you're always more than welcome at the SMISA Stadium... and keep up the great work you do mate don't let some moron put you off

Excellent video and one of the very best football RU-vidrs around. The videos across the island of Ireland were great as are the others. The footage you provide is invaluable.

love your style, keep up the good work, so many interesting stories you have found

Over the last few years there have been very few media outlets with better Scottish football coverage than this channel. Scottish football needs all the help it needs when it comes to promoting all the leagues. This channel from the bottom non-league teams to the top has been superb. It's a poor reflection from Motherwell fans when Sam had to leave because of abuse, what message does this send to any young fan in the area that's thinking about attending a game? I've got an 8 year old that is a Scottish football fanatic now and has a Raith Rovers season ticket because he saw Sam at one of their games last season. He gets me to take him to the odd Kelty Hearts game as well. Keep up the work, this channel has been fantastic and has put bums in seats in Scotland for a fact. Bringing the younger generation to games is always a positive thing.

Like most Well fans, gutted about the result… However shocked about your treatment by some of the Well fans giving you grief. I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the videos you do about Scottish football.

sorry to hear you had to leave early yourcoverage on you tube is interesting and certainly passionate keep vlogging

Was at the bala v Sligo game. Sligo just edged it on the night. Believe as with the other Welsh v Irish games all were tight affairs over two legs. From the sentiments I'd heard most opinions suggested the Irish teams ought to be superior and now the sentiment is that Scottish teams are stronger than their Irish counterparts. Generally underestimating the opposition nothing should be taken for granted in football. A long time ago I stood with motherwell fans on the terraces at Dens Park Dundee a young idiot was berating his own players an old feller with his grandson politely put it to him he was trying his best to which the thug confronted him wanting a fight. Idiot's everywhere though not just at the well. Another visit there was pleasant and I was given a scarf as a keepsake after striking up a conversation in the ground with a proper fan.

Don’t worry about the experience mate you make great content regardless

I'm pretty new to your channel, and absolutely love the content, I'll be making my way through all your videos this week. Your incredibly easy to listen to, unbiased, enthusiastic, friendly, and educate us in every video. As a Scot, its great to get a bit of coverage, and learn about the smaller teams, here and in Ireland + NIreland too. There is so much bigotry here, and you manage to concentrate on the football mostly, which is great. I hope you don't get put off by the small minded folks who gave you a bit of trouble, obviously their problems not yours. They should be happy the exposure you have given Motherwell here. Anyways love the content, keep it up mate!

Hi Sam, I'm sure all proper fans are pretty annoyed with your wee incident last night, as a Celtic man I find your videos are fair and more importantly bloody good to watch! From fifty years of watchin my beloved Cellic, never ever had any hassle with Rangers fans, it always seems to be the wee teams that like to noise up and 'have a go'..... any more hassle, just let me know and I'll get my mate Begbie ower fae Leith tae sort things oot....oh God I am only kidding!!!!

League of ireland is now as good as Scottish league , it's getting better every yr with dundalk, shamrock, now sligo

Ffs , you’ve got to laugh at these Motherwell fans thinking they’re a bunch of hard men.

Sorry to hear the issues Sam. You are great at what you do, the main stream media in scotland could learn a lot from you by giving every club in scotland equal coverage. I could tell in the video you were clearly upset and I agreed with you to leave a bit early and get right out the way. Have a good season and your welcome back at Kilmarnock anytime.

Sorry to hear about the trouble you got at fir park, hopefully see you back there soon, always welcome to sit in the davie cooper stand