Football's $1 Billion Bank Fraud Scandal 

I've learnt a surprising amount about Eastern European politics through this channel

man can we just appreciate the huge learning value of this channel? its not just a football channel lmao

The Conference League has already provided Irish clubs our strongest performances in Europe for a while. Although Shamrock Rovers remain the only team standing, 1 round away from the groupstages, Dundalk and Bohemians gave amazing accounts of themselves against Vitesse and PAOK respectively. The Conference League is already a success in my eyes.

'Moldova has played a key part in European money laundering for some time'. Moldova's money laundering activities are a drop in the ocean compared to the city of London.

Takes Alfie exactly 44 seconds to piss of Spurs fans. Impressive xD

Alfie, that wasn't just a burn. you torched Tottenham with nuclear fire. rendered them down to a bubbling grease.

Even Alfie is firing shots at Tottenham, they really can't catch a break. 😂

I go to my local team who are in the conference north and it is nice to sit and watch football without all the frills and overpriced food and drink. Making it to first round proper in the FA Cup is a dream, this Uefa Conference league gives that sort of vibe so its good imo, be nice to see teams from all over and learning about new clubs. It's the love of the game.

A video about Unirea Urziceni from Romania would be interesting. I remember when they played in CL 2009/2010. And since 2011 or 2012 the club do not exist anymore. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Even as a spurs fan I still enjoyed this video despite getting third degree burns. As tax for this I am once again requesting a documentary on portsmouth's near bankruptcy in the years after they won the FA Cup in 2008 :))

Day 13: where would a team of Alfie Potts Harmer lookalikes finish in the premier league?

All clubs are equal, well some clubs are more equal than others.

You MUST do a vid about Copa Peru. Incredibly confusing organization, cows on the pitch and a guaranteed place in the First Division to the winner, no matter what level of the pyramid they come from. And those are just the tip of the iceberg

The way I see it, if you're not running a billion dollar bank scam, you're not a real club owner.

I just got back from a trip to Moldova this week and was wondering what football was like in the country after seeing 3 stadiums. This couldn’t be better timed. I recommend a visit.

13:09 Maia Sandu is actually hugely praised in Romania as well. She's far better than any of Romania's politicians. Romanians have a very strange relationship with anti-Semitism, and by that I mean that many people just tend to brush it aside as long as someone's name pops up on the news or in a history book consistently enough. Another politician may have openly praised or stood by Antonescu, so this example actually feels very mild as a Romanian

The Conferance league is the only likely way teams from the league of Ireland and teams from other smaller nations will be able to compete regularly in European football because they simply cant compete on a financial basis with the elite of Europe which is growing year on year.

Shor is now living in Israel, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with Moldova, so I wouldn't expect him to see the inside of a jail cell anytime soon

Ah, Milsami Orhei, the club that made history by bankrupting a country.

Only found this channel recently but it's quickly becoming one of my go to RU-vid channels. Love the videos you produce.

Ah Alfie! Agreeing to the hipster tag I see!😂😂

Just got back from Greece and got to see AEK Athens get knocked out by Velez Mostar there... was pretty cool. Think the tournament is kinda silly, but was awesome seeing the AEK fans go crazy over it and the Mostar players celebrate at the end of the penalty shootout...

Interesting info,always good going for journeys to places we never thought of.Good job Alfie.

Actually really looking forward to the conference league. Its a return to the Europe that had a certain mystique. Much as I like the CL and EL, that side has been lost. Why shouldn't smaller clubs have a chance to shine?

UEFA accidentally made something good.

Amazing video, Alfie. I'm from Romania and I knew about the team but nothing really about the owner ot scandal. Cheers

The Sir David Attenborough of football documentaries! Top stuff!!

As a local Moldovan i am flattered

Bro I have to give it up to you. I love the content you distribute. Keep the good work going and thanks so much for your daily and weekly football journey. Viewing from 🇯🇲🇯🇲

I'm from Moldavia, all that he had described is true, so say thanks to God, that you had been borned in normal countries.

As always, a brilliant well-documented video. Also, this is probably the only football youtube channel where I'll hear the name of Romeo Surdu

Another amazing in depth work! Appreciate your hardwork 👍🏼

Imagine we're freaking out at the 1 billion mark meanwhile psg owners: They're trying mimic a fraction of our power

I'm also a huge fan of the Conference League. As a Swede it's great to see more teams than Malmö FF from the Allsvenskan having a chance to play in Europe.

Hi mate, was amazing to hear you support are from Hull, me too! You don’t have the towny accent most of us have! Keep up the great work

ey... I'm Moldavian. Certainly didn't expect pictures of my hometown when clicking on this video. Thanks man!

You did good research on the video, well done.

One of the best channels on RU-vid, discovered you a week ago. WHAT LUCK

6:08 "Shor showed shrewd management". Try saying that after six pints of Stella.

Ah, the prestigious Europa Conference League! Watch out Paços de Ferreira and the mighty Larne, here we come! 😄🍻

Alfie maybe a documentary on the original MLS?

Always love watching your videos alfie 💙

As to "A who's who of high-profile Moldovans" I am afraid I will need a bit more than that descriptor unfortunately. Great job as always Alfie!

Day 5 of asking for "What happened to Livorno?"

Great video mate. I love these.

Amazing detailed video, as always!

I have a good video idea that you could do. "Why are there so many former Premier League clubs in League One and League Two?" Love your content, keep up the good work.

This was the best and most thought provoking thing I've seen for a while. I got out of the UK because of the way things were going, as did a lot of people, not just EU citizens, on a scale well beyond what is being widely reported there. I've seen an estimate of 1.3 million, which might have something in it and explain the current empty shelves and unharvested crops. However Moldova lost a third of its population? Wow! The exodus from the UK was/is on nothing like that scale. When I look at the UK and see the almost daily steps back towards the dark ages (the utterly pointless restoration of imperial weights and measures anyone?) I get depressed and angry, but it's nowhere near on the scale of what has happened in Moldova. I don't know whether to feel reassured and think the situation in the land of my birth is not so bad in the grand scheme of things or whether to look at the abyss that is Moldova currently and despair at how bad things can get without a turn of the corner being forced. Not bad for a video which when I started watching it I assumed was all or mostly about football.

Quality video with insane levels of attention to detail

Somebody Let "Fat Tony" know they can recruit another member of the "Legitimate Businessmen's Club" 17:30 in the Simpsons

Content on fire as always, Alfie. Thank you, as always ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

Another cracking video well done sir

Found the channel about 1 month ago love the content

Alfie repping us East Riding lot with constant morning fire videos

These documentaries are brilliant

Great videos, keep them up.

Alfie, thank you for making this video

Great work

Delighted to see my local club Bohemians on here, I was at the PAOK game and the atmosphere was electric.

Hitc sevens and DW are the most underrated football channels

When Alfie finally disappears from making videos on corrupt politicians, oligarchs, clubs owners and the likes, it may be very difficult to locate him seeing as he would have been siphoned through various shell companies around Europe, middle east and Asia 🥺🥺

Great video as always,.

6:09 "Shaw(sp) showed shrewd management..." Respect if you got that tongue twister down in one take Alfie 😂

God i love this channel 🤣🙆‍♂️

Thanks for a interesting, funny and frustrating video

The Romanian pronounciation you have is like those bad "Engrish" H*llywood accents + strangling a cat. I love it.

Fun fact: The Shor party is now at almost 20% in Moldovan polls which is insane.

Never knew you were a city fan, great escape was my favourite season… Gary Brabin and Joyce played like men possessed… we don’t honour Warren like we should. I miss the Scarborough games too!

The puns are only getting better.

Don’t get me wrong I enjoy most the videos of this channel but these style ones are spectacular

All the original european cup teams or champions league teams, where are they now?

Fantastic video. What happened to Panathinaikos?

I like that Shor’s surname translates to “bull” in Hebrew and he actually was born in Israel

"SOR SHOWED SHREWD" , did you you get that in one take? Interesting, as usual I learned something.

Uefa have basically brought back the cup winners cup...that was Europe's 3rd cup back in the 90's

Says "any how..." Puts a pic of Eddie Howe. That was gold

Can you do a video about South East Asian football????

I'm proud of myself that I actually knew who Ilhan Sor was before this video

Lol that draw with AS Roma standing out like a sore thumb

Could I get some opinions on this. I’m Australian and the first football fan in my family. When I was getting into football we had a foreign exchange student from Munich who got me into supporting Bayern. This was at a young age and I’ve only started watching the games over the last few years. It comes today when I’ve became more passionate about Australian football that I’ve learned about the likes of Harry Kewell and Viduka and how good they were at Leeds and it has made me fallen in love with the club. Is it plastic to switch?

Your pronunciation of Moldavian clubs and cites kills me😂😂 They pronunced totally different in romanian P.S. As a side note, not the club ruined the country that was already struguling but the currupt politicians that run the country and it just happend that one of them owned that club

Isle of Man XI would be fun to do

0:39 No obscure team, it was Rubin Kazań, who lost their numbers on t-shirts, they were playing against our polish Raków Częstochowa :O

I'm curious now, what stadium is the one built with old tin cans?

Video topic idea here: Have a look at the ongoing legal battle between former Premier League players Dimitar Berbatov, Stiliyan Petrov and Martin Petrov, and the current management of the Bulgarian Football Union, which has been accused largely of being incompetent, corrupt on a massive scale for the last 15 years and on resulting in the devastating state of the sport in the country.

Sounds like Shor Industries is as diverse as the Sheriff corporation. Someone should make a video game where you run a massively diversified conglomerate in a shady country and also try to win the football league.

Pls do a video on the history of the Balon'dor

When are we getting that video on UCL champions that didn't win local league.? Thanks

@ 1:20 there’s a Strasbourg flag among the Hull City flags, is there some sort of supporter relationship between our clubs?

Permanent marker is preferable to city's alarm clock numbers.

I watch Bradford City in their one brief encounter with European football when they played at RKC Waalwijk

I forgot I was watching a football video half way through

Alfies video with the least football so far. Loved it nonetheless

For the record FC Alashkert from armenia 🇦🇲 and HJK Helsinki from finland 🇫🇮 have qualified for atleast group stage of either uel or uecl 😍

The Europa Conference sounds like the Inter-Toto Cup....or the Angelo-Italian cup lol

Give me content like this over a video about Man City or PSG any day of the week. Bizarre, fascinating and totally new to me. 😁

As a Romanian who still considers Moldova as stolen land, this has been a brilliant documentary. Hats off, thank you!

My brother and to some extent I support Hammarby, a first division Swedish team, as Sweden doesn't have a big league before this change the team that won the Swedish league only got a qualification playoff place to the Champions League and 2nd and 3rd place got qualification playoff to the Europa League, but now 2nd, 3rd, and Swedish cup winner get Europa Conference league now. The Swedish teams usually don't go far in the Europa League if they even qualify, so the Europa conference league gives smaller teams a chance to win a European competition.

I’ve been saying this for years. A conference league structure can benefit smaller teams against top club with financial advantage to offer top players larger contracts. The NBA, NFL, MLS is the best example. People look down on it for no reason. So i have a question: Do you like competition? Do you like to see smaller clubs have an opportunity to compete on a level playing field with the top teams? If competition is what’s good for football, if competition is entertaining, then conference league is the structure.

I would like to watch your videos but im bombarded with ads every 3 minutes.