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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 14h

I built a tool that aggregates all the headlines across the Arsenal men's, women's, and academy teams plus top social posts and podcasts to make keeping track of everything easier. It made sense to make it an email so I could read it wherever I wanted. Now you can get it too if you want it.

buttondown.com

[Sept 30] Man City found guilty, Odegaard ankle injury, Gyokeres scores again, and more

Men Manchester City found guilty of almost all 115 Premier League financial charges An independent commission found City guilty of sham payments, of...

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 18h

The "think of the jobs and investment we'd lose" argument for City really breaks down when you use it in other contexts. Apply it to dictatorships. Nope. Crony capitalism? Nah. Illegal drug dealers? Nyet. Hmm... seems like it doesn't apply at all when the underlying feature is corruption & crime.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 23h

What if we bundled Man City, Chelsea & Infantino as a Football League Starter Pack and sold them to the highest bidder

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

america dot gov, our administration's latest AI gambit, is off to a great start

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Get this man a job writing headlines NOW

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Been thinking quite a bit about the differences between one nation state that runs a club that plays by the rules and another that doesn't. City would be more like Newcastle if they'd played by the rules & I think most old City fans wouldn't have minded that one bit.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

City cheated so hard it even broke Bluesky

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you haven't seen this yet, go watch it. It's on r/mcfc. Dude doesn't blink for 3 minutes and looks like he's being held hostage. Decent chance the Club leadership flees the country within the next 24 hours. It's bad and they know it.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A little ditty I just wrote. Sung to a tune we all know. Fuuuuuck City Forever Whatever the weather They're just cheating cunts And their club will be forgiven never Their shame will forever run through the league Maybe a rendition by @gunnerblog.bsky.social someday?

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First they bribed half our team with illegal funds. Then they robbed us of what this man was capable of creating with a talented team. Then they inspired idiots at AFTV to shout about being like them and divide our fanbase. Then they laughed at us for doing things the right way. Fuck City Forever.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who is redacted in Paragraph 70? Short block of text that has to be Sheik Mansour. No other potential fit I can find. IMO, p70 is possibly a politically-motivated inclusion. Save face for Mansour who can throw everyone else under the bus. Maybe leave door open for him to continue owning City.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Manchester City chief exec Ferran Soriano questioned after the club was found guilty. He's got nothing to say but his face says all you need to know.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Manchester City has made a laughingstock of the Premier League. We've all known it for years but now it's been irrefutably proven. What choice does the Premier League have at this point but to delete the club from existence?

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bingo. What the Clippers did was child's play compared to City.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

City signed Abu Dhabi sponsorship deals at inflated fees. The sponsors paid a fraction of the fee & ADUG paid the rest. The club booked all of it as commercial revenue. £950m recorded revenue against £119m in real money over nine seasons. Then they hid pay and costs the same way in reverse.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every City title from 2011/12 to 2017/18 was won by a club that was willfully ignoring the rules it signed up to, by a lot, every year. The commission's phrase is "clearly intended to circumvent." That's intent, not error. City are an absolute disgrace to the league, football, and sport.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And that is City's defense shot full of holes, with receipts

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

485m of cash in equity investment made by ADUG to City in the first two years alone

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

May 2013. A £20m surprise liability put City £9.9m short of UEFA FFP just six days before year end. Within days the club generated amended sponsor agreements "without AD Sponsors even being approached," including bonuses for events that had already happened.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus. From 2011/12 through 2015/16, City's sponsors paid a flat £16m every year while the recorded fee climbed from £86.75m to £136.17m. By 2017/18 the sponsors paid £11m against £145.73m on the books. Outright. Blatant. Fraud.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was this done on purpose so City could drop a casual £450 million on players this summer in preparation for a transfer ban or is it just incompetence? Hard to believe the latter when the panel's processes had been nearly airtight up until then. Remember this when the punishment is announced.

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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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Compliments before I've even finished my morning coffee 🥲

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear City fans, Your club has been found guilty of 114 charges. Not if. Not maybe. Not possibly. Guilty on 114 of 115 charges. Period. Full Stop. You didn't break the law yourself and as a fellow football fan, I can see how and why you defended your club. It's natural. But that time is over.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Take it all away and City will still have won the league more recently than Spurs 😂

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fair play to Arsenal skipper Martin Ødegaard's father, he refused an offer from a law firm to set up an offshore company in a tax haven to manage his son's image rights when Martin signed for Real Madrid, saying everyone should pay taxes. 🔴⚪

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

+2 weeks for the appeal +12 weeks for final ruling Honestly, a pretty short time to be in purgatory for the sins they've committed

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love Arsenal (obviously) and plan to keep watching them for years to come, but if the Premier League doesn't drop the hammer on City, how can we have confidence in future results? If rules aren't followed & cheaters aren't punished, can I honestly continue caring about a compromised competition?

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My club, the league, and the beautiful game were cheated out of fair results for nearly 20 years. What Manchester City has done is a fucking disgrace & it will remain that way until the end of time. I'm obsessed with making sure everyone knows this in hopes it prevents it from ever happening again.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's objectively hilarious that Manchester City and their fans are being left hanging in this violent suspense

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really sums it all up that on the same weekend City were found guilty of rampant, industrial-scale cheating for decades, their dirtiest player sets out to intentionally injure the Arsenal captain

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When did Ricky Martin start turning into Brad Pitt?

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

once a cheating rat, always a cheating rat

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The amount of City fans saying they had to cheat to even compete is unreal. FFP & PSR were put in place because Abrahamovic broke the system and tightened because City took it to the next level. Dozens of clubs participated in the Premier League during this time & didn't have to "cheat to compete"

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On vacay in north Georgia. Big Trump country vibes. Popped over to a town next for a bite. Thought I'd get an easy meal and bounce. No hackles raised, yeah? The restaurant was hosting a beauty pageant for girls under 10. What in the actual fuck.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And these are just the charges we know of

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Premier League Cheater of the Month nominees for September: Manchester City (x114) Chelsea Newcastle United

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The league will be considering the harm it would do to their brand, the sponsor brands, etc to send a multi-title champion packing in disgrace. Every replay, every clip, every player & manager from that time period will forever live in disgrace. I doubt the league is willing to live with that.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly, I think this City finding will result in a forced sale of the club with minimal punishment to ease ownership transition aka the Chelsea Model I hate it but there's precedent for it. It punishes a bad actor, lets the league off the hook with a meaningful action & keeps their money flowing.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love the mad lads that decided to drop the 114 FC news on the first Friday of an extended int'l break. Now it has all weekend to run and weeks to stay fresh unhindered by club tribalism. Well. Played.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd rather City get obliterated than we get retroactive titles. Sure, it'd be nice on paper but their blatant cheating and corruption robbed us and fans of other clubs from incredible moments of joy, years of happiness, and the happiness that comes with knowing a competition isn't rigged.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally! Only 7 more years of City appeals and legal wrangling for them to announce the retroactive points deduction and transfer window ban.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Textbook example of a hip drop tackle - illegal in the NFL with players that do it subject to hefty fines because it's so dangerous. It would be the easiest thing in the world for football reffing bodies to look at what's illegal in more violent sports and update rules & punishments based on that.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Took last evening off of social media. First thing I see today is Havertz's injury and this little article about Saliba. Think I might take some more time off.

economist.com

Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless

Millions of operations should be scrapped

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Day 3 of the extended Interlull and this is where we're at

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