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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lot of people would resent City and its owners getting favourable treatment after they ruined 15 years of the Premier League.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The wealthy want lower taxes for them. And lower welfare for you. The low taxes results in a smaller State, picking up things like NHS, welfare, PIP, your Council, education, minimum wage The things they can afford to pay for privately, but you can’t.
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#BBCLauraK: “If you’re going to make an accusation that people are cheating the (benefits) system, roughly how many of those 10m people are you talking about?” Kemi Badenoch: "And that’s a number I’m sure we can send to you. My team have done the research”
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Live pictures from the Ferrari strategists room
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Circus Clowns Posing
Alt: Circus Clowns Posing
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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The reputation of the PL is worth way more to the UK financially than AD money.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In tomorrow's Observer and here online, my exclusive interview with Sir Alex Ferguson, on the games of his life... observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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Alex Ferguson interview – the former Manchester United manager’ tells his life story in 21 matches
In a rare interview, the former Manchester United manager tells the story of his life in 21 matches
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Man City owners' / sponsors' claims are apparently contradictory and questionable, after their previous statements to US authorities in 2015. It all sounds very dodgy, but as big money always buys its own justice, they'll probably get away with it? 🤷🏼‍♂️ #MCFC #UAE #Etihad #football #PremierLeague
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The money flowed around football. It made a lot of other clubs richer. It helped teams everywhere and especially in the Premier League." Seems a bit weird to build an entire piece around a Man City-friendly claim yet be unwilling or unable to cite anyone making it. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Man City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?
BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is what happens when you start excusing things under the banner of “legitimate concerns”
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That the BBC still puts ‘inflated‘ in speech marks tells us things about the state of BBC journalism. Bothsidesism has rotted its soul. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Man City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?
BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well that was a busy old week 😅. TFIF
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Rikard 🇺🇦 @rikard.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Almost the same in Sweden, second best and on the rise.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/10/2026
Electric cars just had their best month ever in the UK Nearly 100,000 new BEVs sold, +36% year-on-year (Data from SMMT, which continues to lobby for weaker EV targets)
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This just gets worse
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham's comments today expose the situation of selling national football teams to foreign states. He's taking a view, at least in one reading of his comments, that corrupting the national game is not as big an issue as potentially losing foreign investment in Manchester.
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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tell you what Mansour.... you dont pull you UK investments and we won't open an investigation into a massive scheme to de fraud the UK tax system lad eh...
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PercyToplis @percytoplis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham needs to shut the fuck up about City. The owners may even be criminals under UK law yet to be seen.. So shut up man.
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most hard-hitting language, which surely means Manchester City must face the hardest-hitting sanctions Expulsion, and the independent football regulator looking at a forced sale Given the stridency, can normal football business even go on? www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Man City’s staggering rule-breaking has left the Premier League with only one option
Found guilty on all but one of more than 100 charges, the club’s behaviour casts doubt over an entire era of football. How, Miguel Delaney asks, can they be allowed to remain in the top flight?
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sham Pain City Over 🍾
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Paul Dempsey @pmdempsey.com · 29/09/2026
Even redacted without appendices, the disciplinary commission report on the charges against #ManCity is damning and almost certainly not the end of the matter. Assuming no miracle appeal, even this version cannot be ignored by HMRC or the SFO. It reads far worse than I expected. Link in next post
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bluesky playing up. Not the time for that ffs
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Andrew Wallwork @andrewwallwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gonna absolutely belt out sham-pain supernova in the Enterprise National League North Etihad Stadium next June
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And I hear (on @bbc5live.bsky.social) talk of lying to auditors and misrepresenting company accounts, which sounds like a law-of-the-land thing, not just a matter for the Premier League.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dunno if Manchester City were fraudulent, as I have not seen the underlying evidence, but that is certainly the impression conveyed by the published ruling.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t use the F-word lightly, but that is my honest opinion of the import of the ruling on the basis of the published ruling.
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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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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Legal guy just interviewed about the summary of the charges on SSN just now. TL/DR oof 🔥
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Question. If you ran a regular business, not a football club, and you misreported your incomings and outgoings like city did, over close to decade, what would be the consequences of that?
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Si Lloyd @smnllyd5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😂😂😂😂
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing I would say - first few pages goes into helps understand the long time frame. Each party ‘fought extremely hard’ at every step; both Party’s cases numerous 00s of pages long; documents searched for disclosure ran into ‘many millions’; and a ‘vast amount’ of them disclosed.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To give this the technical legal term: oooofff
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Chauman @chaudman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And this genuinely isn't meant to be partisan but I think that the way city are responding to and managing this is absolutely fucking appalling. At some point someone needs to act like a fucking grown up. (And that point was probably last Friday). If this was United I'd be calling them fit to burn.
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Glamorgan Cricket @glamcricket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Club Moment of the Year goes to Tom Norton for his outrageous First‑Class debut hat‑trick at Sophia Gardens against Somerset, flipping the game on its head and becoming the youngest Glamorgan bowler ever to do it, and the first player in 120 years to take a hat‑trick on debut 🙌👏 #OhGlammyGlammy
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Get Me Zarniwoop @martinmorrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The Premier League has confirmed #MCFC guilty of all charges related to breaches of financial rules" "the club arranged 'sham contracts' with ... commercial partners, as well as 'relying on sham agreements to artificially inflate the club's revenues'" www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches
The Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here we go. Premier League ruling on Man City (redacted): resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleagu... Premier League statement: www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
premierleague.com
Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man City didnt just screw the League. They screwed their own players. The following signed for City after the guilty charges were revealed to the club but before everyone else knew: Enzo Fernández Iliman Ndiaye Allan Ayyoub Bouaddi Geronimo Rulli Elliot Anderson www.espn.co.uk/football/sto...
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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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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Man City knew they’d been found guilty of the charges during the summer, and proceeded to spend nigh on half a billion in the transfer window 🤔
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Premier League statement re Man Cheaty #DefinitelyGuilty
Premier League Statement about the Man City chargesPremier League Statement about the Man City charges (continued)
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Been substituted as well, but didn’t look too bad in the end
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dorgu down injured in the #DENvWAL game
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Manchester City charges: What punishment could club face after Premier League verdict and will they appeal?
It has taken more than two years, but a judgement finally appears to have been made on the 115 charges levelled against Manchester City. Here's what it means.
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Brilliant race #montreal2026
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John 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔴👹 @j0hnbev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watching Exeter v Gloucester. Fair to say that both Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake, who is captain, have made an excellent impression on debut #rugby
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
January 2024 - A marketing executive central to Manchester City’s sponsorship agreement with 8XBet was, just months earlier, working with a politically-connected Chinese businessman accused in the International Criminal Court of running Filipino meth labs. TBC.
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8XBet's Duterte connection - josimarfootball.com
A marketing executive central to Manchester City’s sponsorship agreement with 8XBet was, just months earlier, working with a politically-connected Chinese businessman accused in the International Crim...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 2023 - While Manchester City was celebrating its latest Premier League triumph, a young man was running for his life from a Cambodian “cyber slavery” compound connected to the club’s mysterious betting partner 8XBet.
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"Everyone who hears the name is afraid" - josimarfootball.com
While Manchester City was celebrating its latest Premier League triumph, a young man was running for his life from a Cambodian “cyber slavery” compound connected to the club’s mysterious betting partn...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
August 2023 - Qnet, an official partner of Manchester City since 2014, has been implicated in human trafficking investigations, and faces ongoing allegations that it is a Ponzi scheme which contributes to suicide and financial ruin.
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City of dreams - josimarfootball.com
Qnet, an official partner of Manchester City since 2014, has been implicated in human trafficking investigations, and faces ongoing allegations that it is a Ponzi scheme which contributes to suicide a...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 2022 - Mystery surrounds 8XBet, Manchester City’s new Asian betting partner. Open-source intelligence points to the UAE.
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Ghost in the machine - josimarfootball.com
Mystery surrounds 8XBet, Manchester City's new Asian betting partner. Open-source intelligence points to the UAE.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
July 2022 -Manchester City’s new training kit sponsor, cryptocurrency exchange OKX, is under investigation in Canada for “violating securities law” and “failing to comply with the registration and prospectus requirements under Ontario securities law”
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City of controversy - josimarfootball.com
Manchester City's new training kit sponsor, cryptocurrency exchange OKX, is under investigation in Canada for "violating securities law" and "failing to comply with the registration and prospectus req...
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