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Man City are just like the suffragettes, if the suffragettes never publicly advocated for women having the right to vote but instead successfully did voter fraud for decades

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 5h

Hard to look at this trend line and not presume City continued to use sham finances consistently since 2018

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From soccer community on Reddit
Commercial revenue (£ million)
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
£64.7m
50
E52.9m
0
£23.4m
£23.4m
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
Commercial revenue (as recorded in Manchester City's accounts)
MANCHESTER CITY
COMMERCIAL REVENUE
AS REPORTED IN ACCOUNTS VS. COMMISSION-IDENTIFIED SHAM REVENUE
2018/19 ONWARDS
OUTSIDE THE COMMISSION'S FINDINGS
£341m

2009/10-2017/18

SHAM REVENUE THROUGH THE DISGUISED FUNDING SCHEME

£143m
£121m
£70.8m
ESO.3m
E37.3m
£166m
£54.5m
£173m
E107m
£65.8m
£178m
E120m
E57.8m
£218m
£1.30m
£232m
£135m
£97.3m
£345m
£340m
£309m
£272m
£246m
£227m
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
2020/21
2021/22 2022/23
024/25
Commercial revenue after removing Commission-identified sham revenue (genuine commercial revenue)
Sham revenue through the Disguised Funding Scheme (identified by the Premier League Commission)

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 19h

Waiting for that irrefutable evidence

Alex Winters & Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 20h

I think the right approach is for the PL to move in two pathways: 1. A nuke from orbit punishment on the 114 convictions 2. Agreement with the PL independent regulator that they need government intervention to force a MCFC sale concurrently.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 23h

Funny they're still surprised. Surprised in 2023. Surprised last Friday when they gave an on-the-record quote to Ornstein. Surprised today when the verdict they knew about in July was announced.

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

City began their "disguised funding scheme" to avoid posting the largest losses in PL history, just in time to rebound and win their first league title with this ownership group two years later.

iii) The Club’s financial position: H2 2009 and H1 2010
64) While the Club’s commercial revenue increased during 2009, by Q3/Q4 2009 the
contemporaneous documents show that the Club
a) Had not been able to generate the levels of commercial revenue for which it had
budgeted. ‘Doing deals’ (both generally4 and with AD Sponsors in particular) had
proved more challenging than the Club had anticipated
b) Was anticipating that it would suffer very significant losses in the 2009/10 financial
year and in future financial years
c) Recognised that the only way to fund its planned levels of expenditure in the coming
months and years would be by ADUG continuing to provide very significant sums by
way of equity contribution. 65) The Club’s financial position caused two principal reasons for concern at that time in the
months and years that followed:
a) As regards the short term there was real concern that the Club’s total losses in the
2009/10 season would exceed what was at that time the record single season financial
loss by a PL member club (Chelsea FC in 2006) of £140million. That was a record that
the Club was adamant it should not break
b) As regards the longer term
i) was of the view that the Club would likely continue to suffer large losses
for at least the following five seasons
ii) There was concern as to whether – and if so how – the Club might be able to comply
with the UEFA FFP Rules5 that were under consideration at that time and that (it
was believed) would likely be introduced (as well as any domestic FFP Rules that
might in time be introduced into English football).
66) Receipt of ever-increasing amounts of owner funding from ADUG would not enable the
Club to meet those concerns6

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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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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Khaldoon Al Mubarak releases statement.

The David Perdue campaign meme, but with the text changed to read:

Manchester City
TOTALLY EXONERATED,
NO WEONGDOING
On 1 of 115 charges

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 28/09/2026

“Somehow country music is both the soundtrack of the real America and, also, a precious wittle underdog that needs to be handled delicately because the elitists in the big cities won’t support it.” @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social

garbageday.email

Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit

Read to the end for FlubberLover01

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the AI era has taught us anything, it’s this: it’s fine to judge people based on their aesthetic preferences

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 26/09/2026

another day volunteering at the manchester city museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the 114 convictions. buddy, they wont even let me fuck em

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 26/09/2026

It’s wild how Man City getting convicted of industrial scale cheating has made so many other teams’ fans on here furious about Arsenal

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

“A soft punishment here would essentially codify that the rules are optional if you have enough will and the power to threaten the league. The legitimacy of the league still hangs in the balance. Does state-backed wealth trump everything, or are there actual limits and rules that must be followed?”

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

What are the odds the first time we see Pep post verdict, he's wearing a Melania Trump-style ""I really don't care, do you?" jacket

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

I think City being found guilty of 114 charges is making me angrier than I’d be if they’d been found completely innocent of all charges. The impact of their cheating on the league for most of this century is simply staggering. And they did it by cheating.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe a bit early to discuss the process whatever the outcome may be here. But Man City investigation started in 2018. The club was charged more than 3 years ago. In that time, the team has continued unmolested, recruiting at incredible fees, winning at great frequency. The PL still can’t comment.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

I think my ideal punishment is: Relegation out of the FA league pyramid Stripping of all titles & silverware. No alternative champions awarded. Just vacate the titles. 5 year transfer ban. They can vacate contracts, but can't earn billions selling players to fund a rebirth.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

Can't wait to find the guy who does a whataboutism by pointing out that everyone is ignoring that Man City were found not guilty of one charge

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

One thing that would make sense is for the league to relegate more than 3 teams this year. Promoting 4 would make it more likely that a negatively impacted club from City's crimes gets back in the EPL. It would also have the added benefit of not reducing Spurs' chances of relegation.

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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking even of this summer, and the Elliot Anderson fee's impact on every single deal to follow. It's hard to fathom how much this has altered everything.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

I genuinely am fascinated that City were the ones to leak this. Last time they did this, their spin was about 180° from the truth. So I am waiting.

Josh Kroenke "I would say 'be excited.'"

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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 25/09/2026

Everything they've won means nothing. All of it.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

Pep should consider the UNC soccer head coaching job.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 25/09/2026

The fact that City briefed Ornstein on this ahead of a statement from the league feels very, very notable (and familiar to previous instances of the same)

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 24/09/2026

Vinny Jones is truly spectacular in season 2 of The Gentlemen

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 24/09/2026

This is the sort of thing that I’ve always wanted to see journalists who get burned by sources do: out the source.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 23/09/2026

My lost though I’ve kept a couple shows off the list that had a singular first season but don’t do it for me in aggregate

THE 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY
My Top Shows
WIRE
The Wire
STATION
LEVEN
Station
Eleven
WATCHMEN
"2H8O
Watchmen (2019)

One Hundred
Years of Solitude
BLUcY
Bluey

Better Call
Saul
LUTHER
Luther
BANU壁BRUIENS
Band of Brothers
THE BEAR
The Bear
INTERRARI
Counterpart
See the full list: nytimes.com/bestTV

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 22/09/2026

CVH making a play for the “Why Not Dodd?” vote of 2028

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 20/09/2026

For the next three weeks at least, Spurs will stay in 20th

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 20/09/2026

Sunderland should have a penalty to make it 4-3 then score moments later. Could be 4-4

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 19/09/2026

Dems should run on 80-20 issues except the ones the rich people who pay me are on the 20 side

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 19/09/2026

My most curmudgeonly activist take is that any act of mass protest with the chant “this is what democracy looks like” is almost always a misappropriation from grassroots communities that use direct decision making process. What they usually mean is “this is what free speech & assembly look like”

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 19/09/2026

Poor decision making based on bad information from genAI today feels more likely to end the world & more urgently in need of controls than a sci-fi AGI doomsday scenario the industry wants us to talk about

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 19/09/2026

if we expect to persuade people to our side, we should really start calling it 'climate strong'

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like we are so used to living in a time of madness that we can't grasp just how insane the Kennedy Center dispute is. Trump took something that was running just fine and destroyed it because he couldn't put his name next to the murdered president whose memorial it is. That's completely nuts.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 18/09/2026

It’s remarkable that this can of beer is indirectly responsible for Lionel Messi winning a World Cup

A can of Egger marzen with Marko Arnautovic on it

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 18/09/2026

A good reminder that a lot of center-right pundits like Matt Yglesias have never worked a day in politics in their life and Dems don’t actually have to listen to them when they project their own beliefs onto the world

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 13/09/2026

Congrats to everyone who went to the mattresses on social media defending this obviously wrong decision

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Mark Ogden
Pro Ref, the Premier League referees' body, admit Man City goal 'awarded in error' by VAR in 1-0 win against Man United.
"Contact has been made with Manchester United this evening to acknowledge what we deem is an error of judgement. A review of the incident will take place," Pro Ref said.
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