now we all like a cheeky game of a watch and the game is very fun but it does
have a lot of problems that people like to ignore in this video I'm gonna
look at one of the big issues - London Spitfire
I'm joined by semi-prooverwatch player Michael Kendall
say hello Mikey
hello everybody thank you
for having me today Scottie
no problem mate now Mikey you told me you've been
looking into the history of London Spitfire so tell us what you found
of course well to understand the issue with the London Spitfire franchise I
think we must first look into their origin information it can be quite hard
to come by and very few of these events have actually been recorded properly but
basically when the overwatch league was originally set up the franchise rights
for all of the different teams and cities were sold to different companies
Cloud9 they were awarded the rights to the
London franchise
Cloud9 but aren't they an American company?
why yes they are Scotty
but surely it will be better for the London franchise to be owned by a British company?
personally I would prefer that yes but there is nothing
inherently wrong with it of course and that plenty of other big companies in
this country are American the big issue is the way that cloud9 run the team
Oh sounds juicy spill the beans Michael indeed
the first real warning sign was that after being awarded the franchise
Cloud9 proceeded to buy out a couple of teams this includes the up-and-coming
european team laser kittens among a few others after acquiring these teams they
basically stripped them of their standout players and left the carcass to
rot instead of focus instead they decided to
focus all of their efforts on the newly formed spitfire team oh that sounds a
bit tragic but as bigger problems than that aren't there
why yes they are this was only only the prologue to be much bigger issues at
hand their relationship with London is it's an interesting conundrum
oh yes that's what really rattled my badger the team call itself London when
it's absolutely no connection to London at all the players aren't even from
there the to you isn't based there and they've never even visited
it's all a money-making scam
alright calm down there Scott yeah I hear what you're
saying and you do are some very good points but a lot of people they don't
really understand this perspective so I think we should probably try and
explained it to them carefully you've already got into a few dodgy arguments
on Twitter I've seen
I suppose lots of people just don't listen though
and just call me a racist
well why don't we try and explain it then personally I
think that a big part of the issue is the difference in culture in America so
let's start by trying to explain the problem with franchises shall we
How are we gonna do that?
well we're looking at overwatch as an
e-spot aren't we so I think the best way to compare it is to look at regular
spots here I found a football right Scotty
oh yes mate you know actually for life
yes of course well in American sports
it's actually quite common for a franchise to be relocated to a different
City if the owner believes they can make more money and the original fans
they're just left behind without a team but a new fans they'll happily flock to
the new stadium though these moves which they definitely have their problems
Scotty these are happily accepted by the league
though and it's just part of the system but when it comes to Britain we have a
very different perspective and we only have to look at one of the most hated
clubs in the country MK Dons
aye, dirty team
well why don't you tell us a bit about
MK Dons then Scotty?
can do well in this country teams have existed for over 100
years and have bare history tied to them. they're an important part of the local
towns and cities and have dedicated fans. it's part of our
culture. Wimbledon are, or were, a very famous side but they started to run out
of money this isn't rare nowadays so the club's
started looking for a new owner who could help him with the money problems well a
businessman named Pete Wincklemann basically bought the club and relocated
them to Milton Keynes before changing their name to MK Dons changing the badge
and changing the kit all things they had promised not to do
and this move did
not go down well with both fans of Wimbledon and and with football fans in
general did it Scotty and MK Dons they're still widely considered to be an
example of everything that's wrong with modern day at football
well what's all
this got to do with London Spitfire
well I think that this really highlights the
differences between America and Britain here it's important that our sports
teams they're formed naturally over time rather than being sale to the highest
bidder and moving to the most popular city
where they trying to leech off just the brand alone at London Spitfire they lack
a soul
oh yes it's all a dirty marketing ploy but it's not just the franchise
it's the players as well
why yes it is Scotty and this is another cultural
difference though in Britain we also like to focus on developing local
players and we really take pride when they make it into the team in fact some
of the top football teams they're looked down upon when they don't have enough
players from the local area or the country
oh yeah you mean like Chelsea
right yes that they're a good example Scotty
but on Twitter bare people have
been telling me that the best players don't even play for their local teams
and the prem is just full of foreigners
again I think this is just an American thing
their country is so big there are so many fewer teams in general it makes it
very hard to actually play for your local team also I'm not saying that
every player plays for the local team in the UK but if you look at any top team
you'll be able to name at least a handful for example Scotty you're a
United fan so why don't you name us a few of their English players
all right well we got Rashford Jesse Lingard and Phil Jones Chrissy Smalls
bare others
yes of course and we could also look for example Liverpool
they've got Henderson they got Alexander Arnold they've got the Ox there's loads of others
as well but we don't have time to name all of them
oh aye, but the Spitfire
team isn't like this is it they're all Korean
Indeed now I don't have a
problem with Korean players playing but when the team is supposed to be from
London I just think it's a shame that none of the players are even from the UK
what I personally found even more annoying however is that none of the
players have they've actually never been to London
oh it's ridiculous mate how can
they call themselves a London team when they've never been and make no effort to
learn the culture
well that really is the key Scotty and I hope that we've
managed to highlight some of the issues that we have if they didn't call
themselves London and we're instead based in Korea though I don't think
there'd be a problem at all so I really hope that they do make some changes soon
but but as long as they continue to claim that they are a London team whilst
also making zero effort to respect the sporting culture of the UK
and I'm afraid I just cannot support them
well thanks a lot Mikey there you
are the guys the big issue with London Spitfire I hope you enjoyed this video
I would love to hear some of your opinions down below do you agree or not
and why I want to see proper reasoning rather than just people calling me a
little r*cist there are more problems with the game that I would like
to discuss in the future so don't forget to smash that like button if you want
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