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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 9h

LOL he’s doing the meme

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 01/10/2026

Is it just me or is Big Gabi tapping up Haaland?

Gabriel Magalhães 6
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 30/09/2026

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

Bar graph

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 · 29/09/2026

Waiting for that irrefutable evidence

Alex Winters & Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot

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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 13/09/2026

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

3:35
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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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 04/09/2026

New friend-shaped bobcat kittens exploring the deck…

Two bobcat kittens looking around a brown. Wooden deck. Flowers from a butterfly bush in the foreground

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 11/08/2026

Being a parent is really hard sometimes

A young boy from behind wearing a KANE 9 England jersey

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 07/08/2026

Another blow for Luke Edwards, as Newcastle’s CEO describes Arsenal’s work on the Bruno transfer as that of “professionals”

- Newcastle CEO David Hopkinson:
"The value of the deal was not the amount that Arsenal had hoped to pay, and of course we wanted to get a larger amount"
"But when both parties are professionals in negotiation, this is the natural shape of negotiations"
"The fees we received are satisfactory for us. And if you want to look at it from a marketing angle, it is the highest transfer value for a player in this position and at this age"
"Was it a good deal for Newcastle? I think so. And in return, Arsenal got an exceptional player and personality, so I see the deal as financially successful f both parties"

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 15/07/2026

I’ve been going to protests for most of my life and…Yeah, this captures it.

All protests are different in their own way but at the heart of them they are all usually pretty simple:
It doesn't have to be this way.
I refuse to let it be this way.
We refuse to let it be this way.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 07/07/2026

Graham Platner: campaign dead Mitch McConnell: brain dead Flo Balogun: alive & starting

USMNT lineup for Belgium with Flo Balogun starting at striker despite being suspended via red card for the game

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 06/07/2026

Interesting briefings in US political press on Trump’s involvement w/Balogun suspension: - USSoccer had already launched appeal before Trump involvement - Lutnick leading from admin - Trump call with Johnny Baby was informational more than directed as evidenced by Trump not taking credit more

• Zoom in: Trump called Infantino to understand why a red card was given to Balogun and why the one-game suspension was imposed, according to a source familiar with the call.
• Infantino explained the rules, noted the U.S. had already filed a challenge, and said an independent FIFA body was reviewing the matter. "There's nothing I can do," Infantino said, per the source.
• "He wanted to understand what the red card meant and what the process is," a source familiar with the call said, adding that Trump "just knew the guy was 'suspended'" and isn't "a soccer guy."

• Behind the scenes: The effort to challenge the red card started before Trump's call.
• Commerce Secretary Howard
Lutnick, who led the U.S. delegation to the Bosnia game, read through FIFA's rules on the flight home and began mapping out how the U.S. might contest the call.
• Andrew Giuliani, executive director of the White House Task Force on the World Cup, then took up the effort, pulling in Trump-aligned lawyers and supporters to pressure FIFA.
A Trump adviser downplayed the idea that the president shaped the outcome, noting he hadn't asked Infantino for specific action: "If Trump had put his thumb on the scale and achieved this result, he would have a field day bragging about it."

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 05/07/2026

Not taking culinary rankings from you mate

Tim Stillman holding a giant sandwich with a thick slice of onion and cheese in it

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 04/07/2026

Incredibly this address also has a gym called “Tequila & Deadlifts”

A facility with a ramp and a sign that says Tequila & Deadlifts

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 02/07/2026

It hasn’t been a red in this tournament or any other. There’s no force. It’s a tangle of legs. Messi had far far more force and contact higher up the leg and it wasn’t even a foul or reviewed.