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The 33rd general assembly of the European Football Clubs takes place in Copenhagen this week. The Premier League’s representative on the EFC board? City Group CEO Ferran Soriano. You couldn’t make this shit up.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 7h

May as well have posted “Yes, I knew. Of course I fucking did”

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harry Redknapp doesn't think Man City should be punished for fiddling the books. That's Harry Redknapp who opened a bank account in Monaco in the name of his dog to avoid tax.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 22h

How ‘LabourLGB’ felt after straight up typing out: ‘Do you know that schools can only record the sex of a child and that was introduced by our Labour Government?’

Victoria beckham on an early 00s computer

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.

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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone's praising Burnham for what he plans to do. But he's PM now. He could have prosecuted water CEOs for polluting the environment - he could have nationalised water. He could have stopped jailing grannies for peaceful protest. He could have gone after the fascists etc He's full of it.

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Sam @sodazen.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026

As always, @jonathanliew.bsky.social's commentary is incisive - from the root "incision." "The top end of English football is…owned by bored men given more money than they can possibly know what to do with & more power than it is ever advisable to invest in a single human being."

theguardian.com

The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew

When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did Andy Burnham have any words of comfort for the UK’s 10m Black and Asian people who have witnessed the government tacitly nod along to pogroms or the LGBTQ community where trans people face toilet segregation and Section 28 the sequel in schools and cis LGB folk are facing erosion of our rights?

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are Stoke a “big team”?

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please note: Burnham keeps saying "public control" when talking about watercos, not public *ownership* These are not the same thing

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foolsrushin.bsky.social @foolsrushin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

£900m identified sporting fraud. That is everything they were built on. They have to suffer the most serious penalty

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.com

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty much the first thing Andy Burnham did on reentering government was to endorse a segregationist politics of hate. It’s quite hard for me to be very interested in the man’s plans for a hypothetical 2029-34 Parliament when that’s your starting point.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who is City’s first game against after the international break? Asking for a friend who makes banners.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Tbh it was a good speech and I would really like to be able to back the man, I just need him to have a decent position on our human rights obligations. Which is also a necessary component of any future relationship with the EU.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Keep politics out of sport! OK. Who is playing? The best players from within the rigidly defined borders of nation states, including those who have ancestors that met that nation state's legal definition of a citizen. But that's polit... Never mind.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 29/09/2026

So for all the chatter about the ruling's potential impacts on the City players, either their new signings were lied to about the charges by Man City or their new signings were informed & signed with full knowledge of who they were joining (and presumably made comfortable in their contracts)

espn.com

Man City learned of guilty verdicts in summer before transfer activity - sources

Manchester City were first informed that they had been found guilty of more than 100 breaches of the Premier League's financial rules in the summer, sources told ESPN, before spending heavily in the transfer market.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Re: previous post. This is what the likes of Noel Gallagher and Rodri seems to miss when they say people can’t take away the joy they felt and the experiences they had. In saying this they are providing the evidence as to why the punishment needs to be as severe as possible.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“This affects people’s lives in tangible ways. Not just hopes and dreams, but employment, wellbeing, the goals you work for all your life. How many families have been uprooted, incomes affected, moments of happiness scrubbed by outcomes that might have gone the other way?”

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 2019, Jurgen Klopp told Rog that winning wasn't everything and that "all the other guys who won with ignoring all the rules" would be ultimately be judged differently 👀

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Leo @leor7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good to see they’re taking it well in Manchester

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But Alternative Parade Route Wouldn't Allow Us To Pointlessly Create Tensions" Orange Order Confirm waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…

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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trans athletes are a tiny % of all athletes. Fewer than 10 out of >500k US college athletes identify as trans. I don’t hear anything abt them haze raping. Yet, 1 in 5 women will be raped during their time in college. How about bitching against frat houses who drug & gang rape women & get away w/it?

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smtm_LFC1975 @smtmlfc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cracking Album this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s because he has no respect for the rule of law.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you are bitching about the 8 trans athletes in the NCAA, but are staying silent about a woman being gang raped for 7 hours, you don’t give a shit about women. Post Anything Here: InteractInk.com

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So the report is that Netanyahu had a secret meeting with Mohamed bin Zayed in order to ask him to deny giving Bibi a warning he never gave him? Is that right?

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

25 August High Court quashes decision to restrict annual Drumcree parade www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 27 August Parades commissioner resigns after Drumcree case www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Yesterday: Permission granted for a march for the first time in 29 years #R4Today

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wrdtrggr.bsky.social @wrdtrggr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"And we were watching it on the news, weren't we Emma?" "Yes dear" "And I said they should be allowed to march down that road, what did I say Emma?" "You said they should be allowed to march down that road"

Screenshot of a BBC news article, focussing on a picture of the Northern Ireland Assembly's Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly and her party leader and small giant Gavin Robinson; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmqlwn60yyq9o

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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

S.Peggie loses on every point apart from the administrative failures of NHS systems. GC lawyers have wasted NHS time and resources for a vanity project with net-zero result for them or Peggie. The aim is never to win legally but use the story to lobby politically through media.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m blaming all you fuckers who bought tickets to see their shit reunion for the fact that anyone thinks what the Gallaghers have to say is of any fucking interest to anyone.

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Simon @bitginger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I fucking hate international breaks.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 27/09/2026

🚨 The squad registered by Ireland for today’s game includes QPR defender Jimmy Dunne registered as a goalkeeper, so as to fulfil the ‘three GKs’ rule

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/09/2026

Also reported by @gcooney93.bsky.social in the Irish Times tonight that following the team meeting and vote, some players “turned on Bazunu, one of whom is understood to have abused him to his face”

irishtimes.com

Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI

Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 27/09/2026

On a packed train with my family. Couple across the aisle both alternatively playing social media videos on speakers at full volume. Managed not to say anything until the woman started playing a documentary about serial killers. I'm here with my daughter. I politely said...

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The Women’s Football Insight @wfinsight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WSL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool 2-0 Everton Liverpool win the 1st Merseyside derby of the season against Everton The home side won the 3 points thanks to goals from Beata Olsson & Cornelia Kapocs The win lifts Liverpool above Everton in the league

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I genuinely cannot believe we're back here. It's so viscerally upsetting.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.