Why Ben Foster QUIT Pro Football To Be A YouTuber 

I have massive respect for Foster. His videos were not the reason why Watford went down last season, it was just sheer incompetence from the ownership and just not having a good enough squad to stay up. It’s not like he’s recording private team meetings or showing anything confidential. He’s a proper professional who just so happens to be a charming and funny guy off the pitch. Blaming him for Watford’s demise is a bit cowardly

Ben said that he got an offer from Newcastle becaaue they had a few keepers injured earlier. He rejected and the signed Karius instead. If Ben had accepted, he would be playing in the Carabao Cup Final. Instead I have to watch Karius in a final (nothing bad has ever happened before in finals for Karius)

To be honest I don’t care if a footballer does RU-vid as long as they still play good and focus on there job

As a Watford fan (who lives in America) his videos in the championship and prem were such a treat, especially since EFL games are hard to catch here but ofc they got very frustrating during the 2nd half of the relegation year, with his dip in form but he's still very much a legend in the club (was even here during our 2nd PL promotion ever in 2006), and has also been an inspiration for me as a keeper

I think Ben is smashing it and defo one of my top youtubers to watch! As a goalkeeper myself, the discovery of this channel for me was hugee, big up Ben!

Jamal Lowe celebrating in front is one of the best highlights of Ben's channel

Personally I am a big fan of this. I remember in lockdown I would watch all of Kun's streams (even tho I don't understand Spanish lol) and I would find it so refreshing to see people you idolise just chill like anyone would.

I used to brag in school my dad's second cousin is Ben Foster the man united keeper Now I say Ben Foster the cycling GK

Could you do a video about what is happening with Schalke 04. Since 17 January 2020 they played 71 games in the Bundesliga and they have 5 wins, 20 draws and 46 losses. Despite being one of the 3 biggest football teams from Germany, they are bottom of the Bundesliga for the second time in three seasons and it seems like they will be relegated again. I can't understand how a team that produced so many talented players such as Sane and Draxler not so long ago, find themselves in such a crisis.

As a Watford fan I assumed this would be a Ben Foster love fest video and would criticise us Watford fans like others have (JaackMaate). It's fair to say I was very pleasantly surprised at how balanced and fair it was to Ben and Watford fans alike. Fair play Vizeh, great video! You've gained a lot more respect from me.

Highly rate you viz, your always producing quality consistent content. AND active in the comments, well done young man keep it up you’ll reap the rewards 👏🏼

As a Wycombe fan, I love Taf’s content as it gives a unique insight into the club I love

Really enjoyed hearing you in the Chelsea space yesterday Liam, good stuff

I had no idea who Ben was before his YT channel was recommended to me, (I live over seas) but I wish I found him earlier to really appreciate his career, he seems like such a genuinely nice dude, and really does well to shed the stereotypes of being a pompous arrogant Englishman.

watford fan here- i think alot of people were getting annoyed by the fact ben was focusing on youtube more but tbh he was defoo still focused on football as it would be his main income, it was very interesting to watch his videos as a fan, we now have dan bachmann as the main keeper and hes doing well. ofc when we were loosing game after game and all ben was saying was 'unlucky... LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE", it kinda looked like he didnt care as much as he used to?? ygm?

I Just watched the Irish guys video and was about to do some re search till I saw your video

Im glad you're doing these types of video vizeh

5:08 nice shout-out "Become Elite" was one of the first pro footballers i watched

You need to do a video on the fall and rise of rangers, not seen many big channels do a video on it and with your presentation and style it would be some watch. Keep up the good work ❤

Watching this after he joined wrexham💀

fantastic video mate- all your points are completely spot on from a watford fan

I think it super interesting when a footballer give his perspective of being a footballer it gives a weird but also interesting way of showing his life as pro player

Could have played a cup final if he went to newcaslte

When Amazon want to do it it's great, but if a footballer wants to do it it's disgraceful. We had the Arsneal one last season, all the struggles, everything was recorded. I love the idea that Ben had and loved the idea behind these videos.

love ur content w my whole heart

A footballer can be a youtuber at the same time there are other people who do it like Connor Parsons who plays in Ireland for Waterford

Honestly if a player does it like Foz and can at the same time ‘separate’ the player and the RU-vidr then 100%, I’d even say more should it also helps us fans humanize the players and connect to a favourite player and a club.

This channels becoming one of my faves atm haha

I understand his attitude after losing was maybe too positive however I think I would want too see behind the scenes during a dip of form just too see how the staff were trying to fix the issue

It’s quite simple really. The Watford fans loved the content while they was winning and at that point it had no effect on his performance. But once they started losing the whole thing suddenly became a “distraction”. Had they done well in the prem no one would’ve cared he was making videos.

Imagine if he had the gopro behind the goal for the carabao Cup final

1:33 ofc i dont think that its bad, i mean why not, be both youtuber and footballer, i mean RU-vid is currently the fastest rising media today, but not only that, as the years go on i think more and more youngsters and new football stars are going to talk about guys like KSI or W2S playing FIFA and opening packs or Sidemen legendary football videos with guys like Callux, Calfreezy, ChrisMD, F2, etc, i mean just recently Aaron Ramsdale talk about youtubers and generally being involved into that scene

would have been so exciting if it was ben vs united in the cup final soon, that would have just been so amazing to watch

I’m sorry but we ask for more behind the scenes content and this man delivers it in the best way possible honest true fun and friendly and humble and people have a problem? It just shows the true catch 22 of things

Great vid with a lot of truth: this might actually potentially be a new career for pros to delve into after their careers. Would love to see Haaland set up a stand-up channel telling deadpan jokes.

As a Watford fan, the fact that he was asked to stop but didn’t showed me that he didn’t care anymore, would make a short clip after loosing 4-0 saying “we lost, but here is a giveaway of a shirt from …” . I wouldn’t have minded if he was playing good with a good attitude, but he didn’t

I’m a Watford fan and I think it’s important to share our POV, as we look quite bad from Ben Foster fans POV. Really didn’t have a problem with Bens content when he kept it to the confines of his own day in the life. He would post his own personal stuff at the start which I found very interesting. But it was when he would start match day vlogs and sticking his camera in teammates faces and upload rather clickbaitey titles after a devastating loss that I genuinely believe played a role in our slump in form in the championship and our relegation the second time round and why so many of our fanbase turned against him. I’ve not got a problem with him now he’s retired and doing his own thing.

I hope more footballers give podcasting and such a try after retirement - I think humanizing footballers more can only be a good thing

As a Watford fan, I am still a fan of Ben Foster, however his RU-vid had a time and place, it really worked behind closed doors as it gave an insight into life as a football player, of course we all enjoyed the videos as we were doing well, even into the next season they started off absolutely fine, like the boys from DNSYE said that 5-0 hammering from Liverpool was the turning point, the club was a mess and it came across like Ben didn't care about trying to stay up and it seemed as if when we got smashed "it's just good content" other stuff like going through his fpl team with players playing against Watford being in there and getting points didn't help. I still like the guy and think his podcast is fantastic, but that season he severed a lot of the relationship he had with many Watford fans because of the way he conducted himself off the field, making silly football videos with the sidemen or Chrismd when in reality he needed to be switched on and in the mindset to help us stay up. All in the past now, Great video Viz.

Another banger❤️❤️

It's his life his choice whatever he wants to do he is a great man

Ironic how nobody complained about him vlogging when they went up to the prem, but as soon as they were relegated there was a problem.

I would add another point besides being annoyed when my team doesn't play well: that is before big games. Even if my team played well and they won, I'd still like to think they put 100% into this game. When playing Southhampton or Leeds he can film away as much as he likes, but when Spurs play, say, Arsenal, I wouldn't have any of that Youtubing stuff, even if he saved 20 shot and gets MOTM.

Fun fact: Ben foster could of won his 4th league cup If he signed with Newcastle 🏆🏆🏆🏆

I like it because you can see behind the scenes of a footballer, like how they get to training, what they eat, travel

How can you forget the legend that is Jimmy Conrad lol

If Robert Sanchez started doing this I wouldn't really mind as long as he stayed consistent, if it made him make 1 mistake more per game id want it gone.

Watching this some time after he Won Promotion with Wrexham.

Superb video Liam. As a Watford fan at the very start I thought him doing RU-vid was a brilliant idea as we were in lockdown and I felt very lucky to see behind the scenes at Watford and watch my goalie do videos but around 6 months later his attitude was fully on RU-vid as when we lost to Swansea in January 2021 which was a promotion 6 pointer at the time Lowe decided to celebrate in his go pro and foster then came out and asked if people wanted it in the video as a Watford fan this made us all furious as like I say we’ve lost a big game and our goalie is focused on RU-vid. He was then dropped however around September 2021 he was back in the team and in October he invited paddy The Baddy to the Liverpool game and then when Liverpool scored paddy the baddy celebrated on the Watford end and as you know no matter who you are or why your there you can’t celebrate in opposition end. He was then chucked out and went to social media to say how bad of a club we were all that started because Ben foster invited him also to bear in mind he had no Salah in his fantasy team. Watford then asked Ben Foster to stop the blogging which he didn’t what seems like a nice bloke on RU-vid but really seems like an arrogant bloke aswell saying “he’s been in this game to long to know what he can and can’t do” if the club say you can’t do something then you can’t that’s his boss. Despite all this no real hate intended towards him just came around to me as a stubborn arrogant player

VIZEH IS A LEGEND, PASS IT ON🙌🏾

Wouldn’t say he quit football he was 39 and took the opportunity to retire and pursue a different career as he gets older no point in being a bench warmer at Newcastle

A lot of people forget that footballers have lives outside of football. Ben foster didn't really do anything different to what every other footballer does day-to-day. He just brought a camera with him to record it. Footballers can play fpl too and 90% probably do. You can argue that him filming football challenge videos was bad but players do media days like that all the time for sky, jd etc. Just because he made podcasts on the side doesn't mean that he didn't try on the pitch. But fans would see that 3 days before a defeat to Newcastle or Leeds etc ben posted a video and therefore blame him because he wasn't focused on the build up to the game. But it's fine for outfield players to put in bad performances if they don't post videos. It doesn't make sense to me really.

Now he plays for Wrexham and The Go Pro is back

I miss the go pro vlogs

I think it's naive to think that it took anything away from his football. He have addressed this himself many times, and said that the worst thing for him is to get into his own head and think to much about the game beforehand. He have so much experience that the best thing for him is to go on muscle memory and reflex. And how do you not get into your own head? You stay busy. Another thing I want to say is that I think people should view footballers more as humans than they do now. Foster knows that he has to stay positive even though they're losing, both for the benefit of his team, and for his own mental health. Being angry for him staying positive is implicitly wishing him and his team mates to have it worse and to feel bad. So, all in all I do understand than some fans might would be annoyed by it, but I do also think that Foster is a trailblazer when it comes to humanizing the footballer, and I honestly hope to see more footballers do this. And yes, I would love for someone on my team to do this.

Ben foster is my favourite youtuber! Had no idea he was ever a football player. Thank you for informing me Vizeh!

Nice vid 👍

love u vizeh

I loved the go pro in the goal from Ben foster

The🐐 upload

To be honest i like how ben is thinking for HIS future and tbf he could be doing worse things.

The Prem should’ve let him it would’ve been the coolest thing for me and I think many others

I don't see any problem with Ben Foster (along with all other athletes) having a RU-vid channel to grow his audience. We all know that athletes operate on a limited timeframe (with their careers lasting around 5-10 seasons) and having ventures (business, vlogging, or anything in general) outside their respective sport would be a safety net that ensures them that if anything bad (like a career-ending injury) or if they fall out of favor, they have other means of generating income.

I love his podcast

this aged well mate maybe you could add something to the vid to make sense now

Vizeh is literally the best RU-vidr in the football space right now

It could never work long term. He was employed by Watford to play football and not to make videos. I could see any employer be sympathetic to a one off video but, week after week , is a different proposition. Then there the copyright situation. TV companies pay a lot for football rights. When they have a player filming a subset of the match and making money out of it, is not going to work. He made the right decision. His media work is top quality. He could lose a lot by leaving it for a year.

To be honest I do wish ben foster continued his football career

I recently got recommended Peter Crouch’s podcast.

For the algorithm 👊

Prime Example why Pros mostly don't like either Fans or Media. Let them have Fun ffs.

That Watford statement seems totally nonsensical considering they seemed to have no issue with Foster doing it during a Promotion Campaign, which requires as much focused attention as any relegation scrap. Those videos made me more interested in Watford; a team I previously did spare much of a though for, but now I look out for when checking the league tables. just seemed like management pointing fingers to try distract from their own mismanagement

people take soccer way too serious, they see players have a bad game and then ask "why is he eating dinner with his family smiling after such a bad loss?" i dont think foster having a youtube channel suddenly makes him unable to play, his team was shit and it didnt matter who was in net they werent surviving

Popular watford fan channel with just under 2k subscribers? I Can understand the Sporting director and CEO’s wishes but I feel like it was only so the public couldn’t see how much of a train wreck the club was at the time which would be the director and CEO’s fault partially right? They were just trying to save face during an embarrassing season. Very fair video once again my guy, keep it up!

Personally, I only watched a couple of the videos. Didn't really care and I certainly don't think they had any effect on his ability to do his job. What annoyed me was finding out he had been asked to stop and continued regardless. As a senior member of playing staff what sort of example does that set for the younger players?

I don’t see a problem tbh. Just because he plays for the club you support doesn’t mean you can dictate his life off of the pitch. The club has given him a contract so Ben is entitled to play for them. If he decides to do RU-vid on the side then that’s none of the fans nor the clubs business. If they feel it makes him perform worse then drop him or terminate his contract but it’s clear they didn’t feel that would benefit the club. If you’re a fan then tough luck. It’s bens life. If you want someone to blame for poor performances then blame Watford for playing him.

Good video

ozil was posting before fenerbache plaing good football hasnt posted since

Love Ben Foster, Hate CyclingGK- common trend around the Rookery

honestly, the Prem season reaction from Watford fans and the board later completely misattributing everything, the former just choosing the easy thing to blame, old boomers who don't understand loving to whinge about anything that isn't "traditional" and the latter, seeing the boomers hate it gave them an easy way to shift the blame away from themselves, who were the real ones at fault

I would like to give a shoutout to one og footballer youtuber Lassi Hurskainen. Has been on yt for 16 years.

Not Fosters fault Watford went down, its a team game and not just down to one player. They just weren't good enough that season.

Fickle fans having a pop at him for making those videos are what I hate about football fans. He gave them a service to see more about their own football club that turned neutrals into Watford fans too and he got other people to run the videos on matchdays when they were in the Premier League being totally professional but people still gave him shit even though he was actually quite good for Watford last season

Niklas Wilson Sommer does both. Player fpr Waldhof Mannheim.

He is bigger than Watford

Davies does twitch

I love your content but you mentioned 2020 and I Cringed hahahaaha

Bro is like Almost 40, let him go chase his hobbeis

No he didn't!

He should resign for West Brom with our current goalkeeping situation. He could literally play with a go pro in his hand and I would take him.

Ben Foster is a legend!!

What do you mean by quit my guy was already 38 year old.

James Rodriguez?

Ene of the day its his life let the mad do what he wants if he is having fun who cares

They used him as a scapegoat, tinpot club

Hector bellerin had a strong channel but stopped abit ago was promised to be successful but just stopped

Newcastle needs one GK now! Ben Foster >>> Karius

Memphis depay and his music

Did you team up with irish guy lol

Love his channel