YouTube Space, Kings Cross is more Silicon Valley than Selhurst Park, more TED Talk than Talksport, and yet this was the venue for Arsenal Fan TV's fifth anniversary.

For the uninitiated, Arsenal Fan TV (AFTV) is straight-forward: a presenter, a cameraman, and a stream of readily available Arsenal fans to interview. Against all odds, it's actually compelling and addictive viewing. It's also leading a revolution in football coverage with fans at the centre.

Its videos now generate over 20 million views a month across all its social media channels. It's spawned countless memes and vines, incurred the wrath of Gary Neville and featured in an original Arsene Wenger diss track. Much of this success is down to its recurring cast of regulars.

Throughout the night younger fans were clearly buzzing to meet their icons, grabbing photos with the likes of Troopz and Claude when they could, and shouting "legend" at the sharply dressed founder of AFTV, Robbie Lyle (AKA Man Like Robbie). Even Ian Wright found time to cause a stir when he made an appearance as a guest speaker. As Robbie later said, "you always know when Wrighty's in the room."

Robbie Lyle, AFTV founder

"Before we came along a lot of people had an idea of what that traditional fan looked like. The Stone Island wearing fan that turns up, who loves a drink and all that - listen those fans are there and we get the opinions of those fans, but we've also shown that football is a very diverse game. There's a lot of black fans, a lot of Asian fans, there's disabled fans, there's women. We've shown that actually it's not just your traditional Football Factory type of fan out there."

"I've got nothing against traditional punditry. But nobody gave a voice to the fans. What about the fans who go? They are also a very important part of football … their opinions are now being heard loud and clear."

"We give fans a chance to have their say. If we play Bayern Munich and we've just been beaten back to back 10-2…I remember one fan said to me we shouldn't interview on days like that. That means you're a dishonest channel…that goes against the very reason we started."

"Of course we'll still survive because we're always talking about Arsenal. I think over the transfer window we had a show that we did every single day. That transfer show was averaging 150,000 views every single day. It's very hard for even TV companies to compete with those sorts of figures."

Hayden, 26, an avid AFTV fan

"I'll tell you one thing. This season I wasn't going to really watch too many Arsenal matches ... but Arsenal Fan TV has actually made me watch more. It's just the passion. It's contagious man."

Julian, 22, runs a football YouTube and Twitter account

"Arsenal FTV have just fans on and I think people are going to find that a lot more interesting going forward than just the ex-pros who have just winged their way into these high profile jobs, who just say boring stuff."

Troopz, AFTV regular

"I never thought it would be this big fam, because it's just normal fans going to the game, do you understand? The reason why they like it is because it's real and we're at the games every week. We spend the money. Travel home and away Europe. It's real emotions. I feel privileged that people stop me on the end of roads and it's like rah this is weird. It's just amazing."

Daniel Levine, runs an influencer marketing agency

"This is the fan revolution, so I think we're going to see more and more of this. This is just the start. And obviously Robbie is pivotal in this movement."

Moh Haider, AFTV regular

"I think it would show a laughable lack of self-awareness if any of us AFTV guys had a problem with Hector speaking his mind," says Moh Haider, a regular on the channel. "For the record though, I do disagree with what Héctor Bellerin said. [The] numbers don't lie and the numbers prove that AFTV profit from victories, draws and defeats."

Ian Wright, former Arsenal player

"The thing is with Arsenal Fan TV is its essential watching for me. The fact is it's the voice, the voice that the fans have now got in respects of reaching people. People listen to you now. The fans now do not realise how powerful they are. Because the mainstream people cannot do and reach what you're reaching…and [the fans] are the only thing that's left that's pure in the game."

Tom, 19, student

"I think Arsenal Fan TV has become a platform which has got more people involved than anyone ever expected. And it's not all negative. Remember that as well. When we beat Spurs earlier in the season everyone was so happy. When you lose a few games obviously the media want that negative reaction to try and make a story out of it."

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