Shadowing Practice: This NYC Football Pitch Doesn’t Feel Real! - Learn English Speaking with Video

I had originally planned to film a video like this in New York on my last day, where I was going to visit multiple football stadiums in one day and see how many I could get inside.

It's a concept I've done in different locations, and I thought it'd be great to do one in America.

But New York is so big, I just couldn't fit it all in in one day.

So this video is going to be a little bit of ground hopping like the ones I was able to get to.

Literally every stadium from where I was staying was just a day trip within itself.

There was then me exploring New York on my last day.

It was like 40 degrees Celsius.

I cycled around for hours.

I walked around for hours.

It was incredible.

And whilst I was doing that, I told you everything that I learned about the World Cup, about Americans and how it was watching Scotland, which was my main reason for being there.

I wanted England to do well.

I'm English.

At the end of the day, I want England to win the World Cup.

But I live in Scotland, love Scottish football, and was following Scotland in America.

So I do sum that up towards the end of the video.

This is a fun one.

I absolutely love filming it.

I just, it's actually quite sad watching it back.

Now being back in the UK.

It's a fun video.

Hope you enjoy it hit the like button, subscribe if you aren't already, and I'll see you in NYC.

You've got this incredible view of New York from Staten Island.

You can see Manhattan, you can see parts of the world I didn't know existed.

There's that many buildings, that many skyscrapers, that many cargo ships.

The stuff that's going on in front of me here is incredible.

But the only place I'm interested in is the random little stadium there, who I don't even know who plays in it.

There's a few World Cup things going on here.

That's the World Cup beer logo.

I did see a world cup logo around the other side

so maybe they've been having like watch parties here

or something looks more i was gonna say it looks like a cricket ground then

but as you can see from the field not the pitch the field

that is a baseball stadium predominantly by the looks of things

but i think football might get played here i think a lot of the time baseball

and football share a lot it seems like what a place to watch it that'd be imagine

that big screen there and then that's your view on a nice day, pints with the lads out there, home of the Hawke City.

I'm over from the UK for the World Cup, I noticed you had a stadium here, would it be possible just to come and have a quick look at the picture tour?

Unfortunately, no. But gates do open at 4pm so you guys can come in to watch the gates.

Oh, so they screen their World Cup.

We have FanFest this week here at the stadium.

Amazing.

And does a football team, like soccer team, would the soccer team play here or is it just for baseball?

Just baseball.

Even in the off-season for baseball?

Yeah, the off-season, yes.

Oh, okay.

And who's the team?

Stand-off Ferry Hawks.

I did actually type in soccer stadium and it brought me to here.

The SI Ferry Hawks.

here we go look at this a little open astroturf pitch right in the heart of new york city here

manhattan financial districts there like world trade center buildings literally like just behind that one there.

Look at that!

Wow and ready for the view of the World Trade Center?

there it is there oh

that might be the best placed football pitch i've ever seen

can't even get it all in even with the 0.5 zoom

i can't get the shot that's mental i don't think anyone

specific like football team like senior men's team would play here i think i just typed in like soccer field

or football pitch or whatever on google maps

and this is like the closest one to where i'm staying so cool to see it but there's something that's similar.

Give me 20 minutes, we've got to walk that way.

Wow, imagine playing soccer, football here as a kid.

Like you've got the car park up there and the Hudson Rivers there and that is a view.

I feel like there's great development in, it seems like kids soccer and girls soccer

but obviously the men's fandom needs to grow a little bit and hopefully it will do after the World Cup.

What's this, is it DUSC?

Downtown United.

Do you SC, Downtown United Soccer Club?

Do they have a men's senior team or is it just kids?

We used to have a men's team for the summer, but not for this summer.

So they'd have a full 11-a-side picture, and would they get fans coming to turn them up and watch?

Sometimes, yeah.

And what would they, stand around the top?

Yeah.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, just by the bleachers right here.

Right, I've been walking for a wee bit, as I've been doing in New York, just like taking it all in.

and yeah literally hours and hours tens of thousands of steps the past few days um

but i've stumbled upon literally and i've been recommended um a really good pizza place

which should be around the corner but who knows

if there'll be like a mental cue crazy line or whatever

but look how nice these vibes are

if it's too busy we'll go somewhere else

but i want to watch the football as well which is just kind of starting

This is my first ever time in here.

Oh my gosh, welcome.

I've been recommended to come.

If I was to have the best experience, what should I order?

I would say, do you like prosciutto?

Prosciutto?

Yeah, I think so.

I would get the Lindus.

Oh, the ham?

Okay, right.

Yes, it has prosciutto, burrata, basil, parmesan, olive oil.

Very good.

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Nice one.

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Cheers, lads.

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Thanks mate.

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World Cup's on, there's been a goal.

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There's been a goal and there's been a pizza pizza

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Where else can you have a pit and look at?

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Pagio, Perlo, Pagio again, Pink Goodform,

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Bernascone, Matarazzi, Kiss and the Wonka,

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there was a few more Zapparese and Gaccio and Wotogaf.

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Thank you mate, that was so good, cheers.

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I beat the queue.

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Did you see that?

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There's an actual line in a little bloody James, a cordon.

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Right there now.

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I got right in and watched the first half of France, Sweden.

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I love how invested everywhere is in the World Cup.

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Whether you go to a pizza place, a cafe, a hotel bar, a regular bar, pubs, anything.

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There's just World Cup on absolutely everywhere.

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I love it.

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Look at this place.

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This feels like proper New York now.

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It's just another one of them where it looks like it's just kind of open for the public to use.

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I don't imagine you have to book it or anything.

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Look at that.

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Imagine this, nice sunny day like today with the lads.

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Little footy and a bit of game of one touch.

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Oh, and volleys bum smacks here against

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that wall oh unbelievable boys i've just been walking for ages

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and i've just seen i think this must be brooklyn bridge here how do we get up there ready

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ecuador ecuador oh it's very good uh gatorade How much?

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Five dollars.

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Can I pay by Apple Pay?

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Yes, one dollar tax.

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I've finished that and we're not even at the first bit of the bridge.

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Wow, look at this.

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You can literally touch it there.

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Bit arch of old lychee this, innit?

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Oh, sick.

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Look at this, this is one busy old bridge.

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We're ruining our pic, sorry girl.

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There's just too many and if you stop for one person there'd be a massive queue.

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You've just got to make do with the background of the people, use them to your advantage in the photo, choose your moment wisely.

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Like that, look at this.

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1875, not as old as Queen's Park Football Club this bridge.

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All Rangers I think, 1872, I think Stranraa maybe as well, possibly Kilmarnock, all older than the Brooklyn Bridge.

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It might lack proper football stadiums absolutely anywhere in it, but it is one spectacular Let's set here then.

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The waves are mental!

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just goes on again in

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that direction there any other city you come to it's got like one skyline maybe something else interesting

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that makes it unique and you can like recognize

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that city from it but new york i've never been there's over there

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and the statue of liberty around there and there's all

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that stuff there and then there's here and we're in brooklyn here

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and you've got two bridges it's like what oh probably the

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most photogenic city i've ever seen in my life i lived in sydney

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and melbourne this takes the piss what's been your highlight of the trip from scotland I was just thinking that earlier on,

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I think definitely that win in Boston, Haidi.

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Staying in Providence and winning against Haidi was a...

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Did you go to the Marlins, Miami Marlins?

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No, no, no. Or the baseball, Fenway Park?

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Not big baseball fights, but yeah.

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Oh, fair enough.

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And what's been the highlight of the World Cup for you, would you say?

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I don't know, I personally would be a bit sceptical coming out, but I reckon just Americans have been brilliant.

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Yeah, they've been so good haven't they?

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It's definitely one thing I wasn't expecting.

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They've been so welcoming.

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Buying us beers and stuff.

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And they've actually been quite keen on the football as well.

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Yeah, well that's it.

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It's been on every bar, everywhere you go, it's been shown on TV as well.

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Speaking of the American Mike as well, the biggest thing about this whole thing is Americans are now getting into soccer.

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And also, they're now realising that Scotland isn't Ireland and it isn't England.

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Yeah, they finally figured that out.

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I mean, it's a bit of education for them.

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Yeah, 100% yeah.

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Nice.

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All the best, get back to Evinness.

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Yeah, no, it's very nice.

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I hope the wind wasn't too bad on that clip then.

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Nairn County fans.

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These free need a couple of quid to use one of these back home Oh mate that's not the real.

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It's so hot though

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so i know this video has been a bit random it

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was supposed to be the i visited certain amount of stadiums in a day in new york kind of video

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but everywhere is

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so spread out literally to go to one stop is essentially

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a day trip in itself of how long it takes to get there how long i'd to be there

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and then get back again like new york is just too big to do

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that so um it kind of turned into the rooftops the poking about in the one on staten island

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and then yeah just a little bit on a couple of others

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that we visited and then it just so happens

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that it just ended on the last day of my trip this video this was the one

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that i was yeah just kind of hoping to film over these last couple days

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but i didn't quite get it done

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but since it was my last day anyway i was always going to do a video sharing my thoughts

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so we'll just like merge it all into one

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and here we are are now let's start with scotland's tournament

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as a whole it kind of felt a little bit like

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how scottish teams have been in europe the past few years

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for americans who don't know scottish clubs have got some great history in europe

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and while rangers did reach the europa league final

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and have had some good europa league results in the last

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five to six years the recent couple of seasons have been awful

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and it's like the coefficient is meaning

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that from the following season after this one coming up i

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think scotland are losing a place in europe they have five now i think it's going down to four

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because of how poor it's been

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and that's kind of how the world cup felt i think there's a mentality issue

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that everybody speaks about in scottish football um and it obviously transcends club

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and like tournament football right now like seems like

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when scotland gets put on the world stage it can't quite

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seem to yeah get themselves over the line yeah my one game

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that i came to uh the massive moment covering scottish football through bleak winters at bloody wick

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and Dalbiti star building up to Scotland in a World Cup

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with a chance to qualify from the group for the first

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time ever all they really had to do was get a point in

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that game or if they'd have won

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that would have been the most iconic Scottish football match of

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all time this channel's got a weird way of doing things

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and could the universe deliver for me on this occasion no

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it couldn't we didn't even register a shot on target conceded within the first minute

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and the game just fizzled out into a 1-0 to Morocco

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in one of the most disappointing performances you could ever have imagined to go to at least at least

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if it was a 4-3 loss you'd have had three goals a crazy thumbnail

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and just something to shout and cheer about

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but yeah in the end i paid thousands of pounds to go to that game

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and scotland didn't register a single shot on target didn't make

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the goalkeeper make a save there were very few moments of excitement

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but the general overall experience was just absolutely incredible in boston

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and i feel like maybe that's the universe's way of telling me there's a ying

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and a yang to life you can't have the whole incredible amazing experience of everything

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and get the win as well so

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and scotland went out on goal difference again

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if you know anything about scotland's record and history

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and tournament football you will know how many times they've gone

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out on goal difference i think maybe even goals scored one of the times as well um

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but they are the biggest nation who's played in the most

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amount of tournaments that's never made it past a group stage

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think of all the great scottish players from down the years

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kenny dalgalish dennis law graham soonest even more modern ones like darren fletcher

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and the current crop like scott mctominay

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and john mcginn andy robertson these guys have never made it past a group stage of any tournament ever

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that they've qualified for

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when i went to scotland v morocco i was hoping to see something different

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but i just witnessed another edition of

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that terrible record it makes all the hundreds of trips i've

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ever done from the highland league to the west of scotland

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league the premiership all the way around the spfl makes all

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of it worth it just for these moments i've had with

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all the scotland fans out here getting to know them back at home

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and for them to know me through the videos

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and to meet them out here and the love

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that i got honestly was just absolutely unbelievable the best vlog

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i ever made i think was on this trip the miami madness at the marlins

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and then the south beach march the next day

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so fun honestly just seeing people from back home

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and seeing how much they're enjoying themselves it's just such a

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shame it didn't go on as long as it did

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but genuinely showed themselves to be the best fans in the world

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and so much fun no animosity seeing bernard as well bernard ground opera fc going to boston seeing all

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that honestly like the traffic cones everything just from getting there

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i obviously got there halfway through their whole boston experience

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so everyone was all settled in by then and it was just

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so scottish when i got there

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and it was just a home away from home the freedom

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trail guys even just going through the freedom trail on my

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own americans trying all the scottish snacks seeing boyd on the

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day of the scotland v morocco game as well these are all memories

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that will last forever on to the home euros next in 2028

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so let's get past the groups lads please good luck to whoever the new manager is

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and however the squad gets on genuinely want the best for scotland hope

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that they do well

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but for me i am english i always want to see england do well first

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and foremost but live in scotland love scottish football

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and would like to see you guys all the scottish

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that are out there do just as well as humanly possible what a spot to do this outro

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last day in america there's always something going on all right i've not done this

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for ages we did this in glasgow a few times remember years ago

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or the americans who had just started to watch the channel

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won't remember we've got a bike let's get up let's get on it come on

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oh the seat is so hot i need to put the seat down

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but as they say it's just like riding the back oh freedom sick Oh, lads.

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It was only these boys that told me to do this on my first day.

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Made me think, at least do it on my last day.

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And this is my first ever day in New York.

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Wow.

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What should I eat?

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What should I drink?

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What should I do?

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Give me one thing to do and I'll try and do it today.

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A bike.

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Go biking, man.

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Get a bike.

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We just want to go on the pier.

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Yeah, go on the pier.

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So rent a bike and go on the pier.

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Absolute legends.

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What a way to get around this is.

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I'm like halfway to Central Park already would have took me ages on public transport or walking or whatever.

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I was so expensive in a cab.

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Oh, look at this.

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This is undoubtedly the best way to get around.

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It's like 37 degrees Celsius today or something.

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About 100 for the Americans, high 90s or something.

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So it's bloody off.

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So getting around with a bit of breeze on the old cab.

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Someone's been saying I'm not wearing my cab right this whole time.

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My arse is killing me.

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Sweating my tits off, arse is killing me.

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I need to find somewhere to dump the bike now.

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Bike's away.

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I am roasting.

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I need to get out of the sun.

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I literally have the best spot in New York right now.

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what what the fk just as I say

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that I need to get out of the sun I maybe just hallucinated a turtle floating about talking to me there

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I'm honestly the sweatiest mess I've ever been let's get the bag out of the way

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we're going to thank the Americans next

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and since I made you try our snacks it's time

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that on my last day here I try some of yours

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so I got some Boston baked beans we were in Boston

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literally one of my favorite places I've ever been in the world I like peanuts candy coated though what does

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that mean and then milk duds they looked a bit like the writing from Twix

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and Snickers had a baby and that was the writing that it created that's why I got them.

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Okay, Milk Duds first.

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How can you see that?

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Chewy?

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Fine.

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Turtle one, eh?

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I've got even a snapping turtle couldn't get through these.

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And that's a bit like a curly-whirly texture from back home.

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Try the Boston baked beans in a minute.

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I just want to say, though, to all the Americans, thank you so much for everything during this World Cup.

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Am I better off sitting down here?

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Can you still hear me if I sit here?

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Bloody hell, I need to get out of the heat.

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Your positive energy is so infectious, and it just makes me want to, like, do well.

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I've had, like, well over 2K subs in two to three weeks.

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It's not like me to really mention subscribers that much and stuff, or even like ask that much in the videos.

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I might put the logo to subscribe on for like a few seconds if I remember.

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My job is to try and keep the content, the content as much as possible without...

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This is why this feels a bit weird

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because it's not like purely just a topic

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and then making a video just on that and keeping it to that within a YouTube video.

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I hope that people kind of appreciate that's the way I make the videos

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and they subscribe and stay engaged because of that.

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But to all the Americans who have subscribed, like I say, I really appreciate it.

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and if you want to stay engaged going forward i'm going to have

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so many videos coming up from back home in the uk

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and all the different parts of the world i've had loads of different opportunities

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and hopefully i can come back to america as well that's something i'm definitely keen on exploring

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so let's see how it all goes

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and um yeah stay subscribed see what i'm doing on instagram

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and tiktok and stuff as well instagram

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and youtube are my main two i post a lot here on youtube

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so uh yeah and instagram stories

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if you want to keep up to date with kind of

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what i'm doing more day to day boston baked beans let's try these

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and they've got to be a bit better than the milk

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duds they are duds please be decent please be decent kind of look a little bit like smarty almost what

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that reminds you of back home nothing's really

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that color down the hatch six at one time oh boston

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baked beans for the win back on two wheels i've had such a chill afternoon

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chilling in central park last full day cycling around it now it's got a bit cooler it's about 4, 4.30.

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But honestly, the hottest part of the day was mental.

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I'm going to race them and them.

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Smoke them.

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Oh no. I've been done.

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That's cheating.

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That's an electric bike.

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Just as I was going to go for gold then.

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What a place to end the trip.

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End of the bike trail.

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