Football content creators have always been at the heart of passionate football lovers and followers.
From creators like Thogden to StuntPegg, avid football followers love their content when they make one.
Fan vloggers who travel home and away, tactical analysts who spend hours on how teams play, amateur editors who sit through 9GB match files, this is a football content creator’s life.
But, all of this came like a slap onto the faces of these genuine football content creators when, recently, a video went viral in which a fan was seen trying to heat/cook a beef steak inside the stadium.
Yes. You heard that right. A beef steak!
— Premier League Out Of Context (@PL__OOC) November 8, 2025
This video is from the 6th of November, 2025, when TikTok user (@johnnellis_), attended the Reading vs Stevenage League One match at the Select Car Leasing Stadium in Reading, England.
John Nellis is an Irish content creator specialising in football videos, challenges and much more. He has 11.7 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. He is also active on other social media platforms like Instagram and X (formerly, Twitter). He was awarded the “TikTok Sport Creator of the Year 2024″. He has also been listed as a partner with XLFC, a UK-based organization that helps men improve their physical and mental health through football.
John wanted to see whether it was possible for him to cook a steak inside the stadium. For this, he first went into the stadium’s kitchen area and asked the staff whether they would be able to cook the steak for him and obviously, they (staff) came back with a “no”.
Then, he decided to heat the steak with a lighter while keeping it on an aluminium tray. And, later, he went on to cook the steak with seasonings in boiling hot beef water/broth.
While, he did manage to cook it in the end, this low-level, cheap behaviour was received with a lot of backlash on Football Twitter.
Next time you can’t get a ticket to a game, just remember this.
— JJ (@JRJLFC) November 9, 2025
These are the type of lads who end up getting free tickets, free channel promotion and end up getting invited to events and shows etc just because they make mind numbing content and clubs take that as good promotion when I reality it disconnects their actual fans from the club
— James Williams (@jameskd170) November 10, 2025
This is the worst internet content I have ever seen. Think how low that bar is.
— Ó Catháin (@keezokaner) November 9, 2025
Just remember regular lads spend hard earned money to go to games while this tool gets to go to whatever game he wants
— Christian Quirke (@ChristianQ29934) November 9, 2025
It obviously is not humorous. It’s hardly “creative.” It is a cheap way of screaming for views – and it might actually be the saddest new chapter of football content creation.
Fans save money to buy season tickets. They queue outside the ticketing zone for hours.
Fans even make sacrifices to visit the stadium and watch games once in their lifetime. So, this isn’t just a slap onto the faces of the football content creators, it also is a slap on those die-hard fans who come to watch every game of their team play.
There is a line for everything and this kind of behaviour has clearly crossed it. And, people could not believe that a creator with 11.7 million subscribers would have done something very cheap like this.
