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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 22h

City commercial revenue by year: 15/16: 177m 16/17: 218m 17/18: 232.3m 18/19: 227m 19/20: 246m 20/21: 271.7m 21/22: 310m 22/23: 341.1m 23/24: 344.7m 24/25: 340.4m The press are currently reporting as if City's inflated commercial income stopped in 2018. Look at these numbers. A thread.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 14h

Sod off Man City. This one is evergreen.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 15h

That's a hit and a half to be fair.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 15h

Great hit Russo, great work from Baum.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is really very very good. Fan-led writing is so good sometimes, and this is one of the best current examples.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking at the back pages, none of the papers went for 'Sham Pain Supernova'. Seriously, it was right there.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Other people have already made this point but it's a good one. If City are deducted so many points that they are effectively relegated, they'll just rest their players for the cups and Champions League and be fresh for those, PSG style. This whole season is a mess of their doing.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We presented irrefutable evidence to the committee" Didn't really turn out to be irrefutable, did it?

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Complete side note, but one that just made me chuckle. You're Sports Interactive, preparing to release FM27 in November. What exactly do you do now? Usually the game is only outdated at the end of the season. Not this time.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This season is already a wreck. City will appeal before Friday's deadline, and the 12 week appeal will run to January. Only then will the sanctions been determined, which they will also appeal against. What do even the next few months look like? There's a giant asterisk over the whole league.

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@Feverpitch from that there Twitter @originalfeverpitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

• Egg, bacon, sausage, and Sham • Sham, bacon, sausage, and Sham • Sham, egg, Sham, Sham, bacon, and Sham • Sham, sausage, Sham, Sham, bacon, Sham, tomato, and Sham • Sham, Sham, Sham, Sham, baked beans, Sham, Sham, Sham…..

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joe Hart: "My honest opinion is I've got no reason not to trust Khaldoon Al Mubarak. What he said is enough for me." I think this is disqualifying for his punditry career.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking more on this - I genuinely think the scale of City's punishment may ultimately land with the EFL. It's almost a given now that City are being relegation, whether via points or expulsion. The next question is what the EFL do.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's really interesting is the panel absolutely hammered City on their lack of cooperation. City's response is to double down. That Trumpian tactic really isn't going to work here. But then the alternative is to admit guilt, and they aren't going to do that either.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Three things are required, at a bare minimum: - Titles stripped - Massive points deduction - Forced ownership change Originally, I thought we'd get one or two of these. Now, looking at the scale, I'm not even sure it'll stop at these three. It's an astronomical subterfuge.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just look at these figures. £830m of extra revenue via disguised ADUG input. £830 million of cheating. It's difficult to think of any way a legal sanction will ever be enough.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem with this country is that Burnham's speech is full of some really good ideas and plans, but tomorrow all the right wing press will be screaming that he's going to take away pensions.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I thought people were exaggerating when they said that Bernando Silva tried to hurt Odegaard last night. They weren't exaggerating. It was 100% deliberate. And you can tell from Odegaard's reaction that he knows it too. streamain.com/en/TSlQ0k6rd... Odegaard is now injured. Great.

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Goonerrhea @goonerrhea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Outstanding article on how Man City have robbed all football clubs and their fans. open.substack.com/pub/thenonne...

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What Manchester City Stole From Us All

On the confirmation that the City dynasty was a falsehood, the sadness that brings, and what should happen next.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would seriously recommend avoiding reading anything Martin Samuel has to write. It's beyond obvious whose pocket he's in. Don't give yourself the aggravation.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“City won their trophies on the pitch.” “Lance Armstrong won his races on a bike.”

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What has really struck me this morning is that much of the club writers are doing a better job reporting on City than some of the bigger journalists, many of whom are making glaring errors. Some are misrepresenting appeals rules, the plank on Sky is referencing the UEFA case as a City defence...

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rodri is without doubt an incredible footballer. But every time he opens his mouth, something extraordinarily stupid comes out.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is very good. Football is going to be weird until at least the turn of the year.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So if the Premier League complete tomorrow, then City have until 10th October to appeal, the deadline for the appeal to end is 2nd January, and the written reason published no later than 1st February. That's the weekend of they play Arsenal in the league.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In fact...not *that* long.

According to the Premier League rulebook, the appeal process has a stricter time frame, whereby any party who wishes to appeal a decision by a judicial panel must do so by email within 14 days of a decision being announced. Under rule W.86 any hearing should conclude no longer than 12 weeks after the first appeal is submitted. Any decision by the appeal board must also be published, alongside full written reasons, within 30 days of the conclusion of the hearing.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This sort of thing is a good side point. What will the bookies make of bets placed that the verdict affects?

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Quick reminder that Man City are currently top of the league. What a mess.

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Stefan Bienkowski @sbienkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man City Twitter reacting calmly to the news…

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm so glad we beat City to the league before this happened. No asterisks.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even putting aside the financial charges, 35 charges were related to being uncooperative in the investigation. Imagine doing that in any organisation ever - you'd be booted just for that. And they're guilty of it at least 34 times (we don't know what the one unproven charge is yet).

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All but one count. 114 guilty verdicts.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I genuinely don't see another option for the Premier League than expulsion, whether directly (hard to do in-season) or via a massive points deduction. That's likely a two-year punishment in total (one to go down, one to come back up) Anything less will look incredibly weak now (and they know it).

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Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a key point many are missing. The Premier League brought the charges in the first place. They went hard and that shows a hell of a lot of intent on their side.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Possibly the most robbed team is actually Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool. Without City's now-confirmed cheating, they'd have had a five year dynasty to speak about. This is bigger than one club being affected. It's Lance Armstrong-Tour de France levels.

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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The investigations/charges only go up to 2018 but make no mistake: everything - absolutely everything - that City have done in the years since was built on the foundations of these breaches as well. And everything they continue to do in the coming years. There is no separating these things.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The most popcorn gif of popcorn gif moments. Of course they'll appeal, so, and I don't mean this flippantly, the chances are there will be no sanctions this season.

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ChicaLolita @chicalolita.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh boy. World of dumbassery from the Israel player Saied Abu Farchi who was already booked, scored a goal, celebrated by pulling out the corner flag and pretending to use it as a rifle, second yellow card and sent off.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Injuries are annoying. Injuries on international breaks are even more annoying. But injuries right at the start of a three week international breaks are probably the best moments to get them.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bad weekend for Arsenal. But also a bad weekend for Chelsea, United and the now-bottom of the league Spurs. So not all bad.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not alone is that goal hilarious, but it means Spurs are likely to finish today bottom of the league.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two seasons ago City won their first five and got nowhere near winning the league. Last season Liverpool won their first five and got nowhere near winning the league. This Interlull will feel long, and the hype machine will be in operation, but we're barely getting started.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Very much like Liverpool last season. They won the first five but in a way that you just knew couldn't continue. And it didn't.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Arsenal have had three tough away games to open the season, with two wins and a bad loss. Watching City's defence, and I'm pretty convinced they'll lose a good number of these tough away games this season. Their next four away games? Liverpool, Villa, Forest, Arsenal.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sunderland are defending like a side who played midweek and just don't have the energy to do it again.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On the plus side, Coventry's win at Forest means Spurs drop to 19th. If Fulham get a point at home to Man Utd tomorrow, Spurs go bottom.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It turns out that almost every away game in this league is hard. Villa was hard and we managed it. Sunderland was very hard and we managed it. Brighton was very hard and we didn't. Brentford, Bournemouth, Newcastle....the away days to everyone down to about 15th in the league are all challenging.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So close to a perfect first segment of the season, but that was very very bad. But, my perspective would be that our three league away games have been Villa, Sunderland, Brighton, and we've taken six points. There's a very good chance that absolutely nobody does any better with those three.

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Pete (beautifulgroan) @beautifulgroan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, if players are going to put in an absolute stinker, might as well all do it on the same day, I suppose.

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