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@rjb719.bsky.social
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Man Utd ST holder (W3101), also make the odd away. From Swinton originally but now live in Wales. I mainly use this to scroll on after Utd games as an echo chamber of moaning, mostly about MUFC players and VAR.

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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 19h
Who’s the next manager then you reckon? Pep’s available if United can get some sham agreements together 👀
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yeah that’s what I mean, I think Gabriel made that point and what made me laugh was Tielemans’ face.. he wasn’t happy. I reckon he had words when he went back in 😬😂
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Tielemans didn’t look too impressed with Martinez’ quote put to him by Gabriel Clarke 😂😬😬
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Atleti player.. just voluntarily collapsed his legs. Incredible.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That is absolutely wild hahahahaah. Red cartel indeed.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Absolute lol at Clattenburg’s comms on the handball. ‘Needs to be deliberate as didn’t directly score goal should STAND’ … [ref called to the monitor] … ‘the question is does he gain an advantage and he has so this will be handball’ Jon Champion: ‘you called it right Mark’ Did he aye.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No I told you it was a decent performance. (Very much one of those very stupid UEFA handballs, but United have been on the end of some shockers - Martinez against Sociedad at home a 3/4 seasons back for example - so fuck it).
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yeah this is all my fault. 🫪😂
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Probably being blinkered but those daft first 5 minutes aside I think this has been a decent Euro away performance tbh against a good side. Done enough to have at least equalised with some half decent finishing.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Too much time on Twitter 🤝 Supporting Manchester City - same effect.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Insert the GTA San Andreas ‘ah shit, here we go again’ meme.
lauriewhitwell Michael Carrick with a strong message amid focus on his position.
Sitting in stadium where Champions League final will be held in June.
"I love this part, of sometimes when it's not quite going for you, you see who's really there, you see within the group, the players, the squad, the club, who's really there and who wants to be here for the for the long term and is really attached to it and who it really means something to.
"The supporters are there, they they're desperate for it, and we've got to give them something. You've got to embrace the challenges to get to where you want to be, and we're right there now in the middle of it, but totally believe that we'll work through it."
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The bananas etc fair enoguh, pretty funny. That AI slop pro-Khaldoon banner yesterday though. Fucking hell. Said before but, they really are so far gone aren’t they now. I wonder what the owners would actually have to do for City fans to be remotely critical? 😵‍💫
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mental that they always seem to still look more knackered than the oppo every game too.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also would been a fair sub, totally agree re Bruno. Whoever it was - really needed some pace on the break to finish the game off.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A painfully thick team. And cowardly by Carrick not gambling with Rashford earlier imo given 1-0 up and Spurs chasing the game with ten.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Love it
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Birds charge on power lines 😂😂😂😂
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m not a parent. But. Imagine thinking reading a book to your child as a ‘problem’ to ‘solve’. Fucking hell.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Calf absolutely went in hockey tonight. Never had anything like that happen before - can’t believe how searing and sudden the pain was. Honestly thought someone had hammered at ball at me from behind. Also a grim reminder of my age showing.. all downhill from here 👴🏻
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Sam @sb92.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘Red Cartel’
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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘Red Cartel’
Whatever he thought then, Burnham now faces a diplomatic headache in his new role as prime minister. Yesterday, the Daily Telegraph reported that the UAE has warned Burnham that it will pull billions of pounds of investments from the UK in retaliation for the guilty verdict against City.
Bloomberg revealed that the club's chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, who runs one of the country's sovereign wealth funds, met Burnham's business secretary Jonathan Reynolds in Downing Street just two weeks before the Premier League's bombshell announcement, at which point Al Mubarak already knew about the outcome. The Department for Business insists that Manchester City was not discussed.
The UAE is one of Britain's most important overseas partners, with investments in offshore wind, life sciences and our fibre network estimated to run into the tens of billions of pounds. That means men like Mansour and Al Mubarak have serious leverage over our leaders. In his first call as prime minister with the president of the UAE, Burnham thanked his counterpart for the country's investment in Manchester and its "incredible impact" on the city, according to a Downing Street readout from late July. The next call between the two men is likely to be more challenging.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yep all above board. Using a newly invented ‘fast track’ system to block the star player from playing against the club he was chairman of for saying a couple of naughty words. Nothing to see here.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘Red Cartel’
In the meeting was Eddie Smith, a senior council officer who worked closely with Bernstein and was described by the Manchester Evening News as "the man who helped rebuild east Manchester" when he left the council the following year.
According to Boyle's notes, Smith said in the meeting: "You don't criticise the council's relationship with the football club in this organisation and hope to survive."
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🫪 ‘Red cArteL’ 🫪 manchestermill.co.uk/man-city-bur...
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A very Mancunian scandal: How Man City forced Andy Burnham to face his past
We tell the inside story of a city's relationship with Abu Dhabi, including notes that show a council official saying: 'You don’t criticise the council’s relationship with the football club’
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Trumpton Fire Brigade ultra @captainflack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In today’s least surprising news
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Will say again - it is mad how much worse a version City have become of everything many City fans have always mocked United for being. They’re drowning in the kool aid at this point.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely gross. What a club this ownership have turned City, and at least a decent wedge of its fanbase, into.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😂😂
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 02/10/2026
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly generational stuff. I’m in tears listening to this.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Im fucking crying here - the way you can hear the host trying to hold it together fucking hell 😂😂😂.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh my GOD
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC
What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just seen this sorry - unfortunately real work got in the way! I will do if I post more - I’ve still got half of it to read through..
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ooof. The Commission explicitly decide City’s explanation of the Disguised Funding Scheme was ‘concocted’ after the event to ‘conceal and obscure’. Again in the legal judgment world - this type of language is about as damning as it gets.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any lawyer will tell you - the language used in this Decision is, within the legal sphere, as strong as it gets. ‘Sham’ and ‘disguised funding’ etc. They wouldn’t be so blunt if they’re weren’t very sure. City even systemically hid true origins of sponsorship £ from their own auditors and advisers.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ferran Soriano’s statement I’ve just seen. Jesus. A mammoth decision reached after a hearing taking place over weeks, after consideration of seemingly millions of documents / 000s pages of witness evidence. But he just lazily labels it a ‘PL conspiracy’. Pathetic.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perhaps the most damning document in English football history. resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleagu...
resources.premierleague.pulselive.com
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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Commentators reading the Premier League ruling on Manchester City.
The wincing stones meme.
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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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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
www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727... Core Decision linked too which will make for some nice lawyer nerd reading tonight. It’s incredibly detailed decision even from just a cursory scan through.
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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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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genuinely insane he’s got away with it with VAR.
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😂😂
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rjb719.bsky.social @rjb719.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
100% - always a bad sign when this break is a welcome one, but it definitely is for United 😂. And I have to say I actually enjoyed the England game last night tbf.
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