We might have mentioned from time to time our horror anytime "Mullered" is spotted within a mile of wherever we are playing. Mostly because his attendance usually presages either an under-par Poppies performance, a defeat, and usually both. But "Mullered" is only one of any number of vloggers filling Youtube with hours of content wrung from most levels of the game, but mainly from non-league football, and mainly from the levels below the National League structure.
Fusion Josh - YouTube
But no, despite our oft-grumbling, we mostly enjoy watching all manner of unofficial Poppies related footage of a Saturday night. Some of the creators come across as quite personable, while others seem to seek to encourage the wearing out of the fast forward button. Nevertheless, the sometimes crisp, sometimes wobbly footage gathered from the army of amateur and semi-professional filmmakers is the only sight a lot of supporters get to see of their team's away games. So, it can be very useful. Even if you are at the filmed games, the videos can show action and goals from different viewpoints.
The missus and I once sat at a hospitality table at Latimer Park with the vlogger Fusion Josh and his mate Ryan and they were good lads. The video he made at Latimer Park that day is well worth a look.
Likewise, GamingBlomp has covered us home and away a few times and his vlogs are very well made. He even managed to catch the Poppies earlier this season when we played well AND our pitch behaved itself! And even though he is a Hereford fan he seems sound.
Some of Away Days footballing adventures need to be seen to be believed, while Stuntpegg is equal parts knowingly guileless, easy on the eye and daft as a brush.
The Padded Seat seems to do nothing except get invited to fill their boots with hospitality at every sports ground in the country - nice work if you can get it!
The aforementioned Mullererd probably watches the Poppies more times in a season than the average Kettering fan, and must surely commit 90% of his waking hours to travelling to and watching non-league football at all levels.
And these guys are only the absolute tip of the vloggosphere iceberg. Sad perhaps but not as sad as any other number of hobbies that may or may not include a thermos flask, notebook, and train timetable.
You won't need to spend much time trawling the thousands of hours of amateur Youtube footballing footage before two things become startlingly obvious: -
Firstly, the exponential increase of Youtubers, suggests that within 5-years fully 90% of people at games will be there ostensibly to create online content.
Secondly, and this is far, far more apparent watching these videos than it is when attending games, is the amount of times supporters spend shouting "Go On!" "Go On!" "Go On!" "Go On!" Honestly, it's like it's ALL we ever exclaim! That and calling the goalie a c**t of course. In a distant second place of terrace utterances is "Hit it!, but this is often mixed in with the mass of "Go On's!" Boy, do we not come off well.....
Chuck in a few "Fecks" and "Nuns" and you'd be forgiven for thinking you were watching an old episode of Father Ted.
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