Mark Meadowcroft
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Husband, Father, Son. Legacy Bert. Tennis addict. Music obsessive. History bore. Yes, I was on the radio in the 1990s. European. Pop-crazed youngster.
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In about ten minutes on the pitch and on his 30th birthday, Bernardo Silva did this, scored a goal, celebrated wildly, took a terrible penalty and bear-hugged Akanji when we won. Is it possible for a player to be more beloved?
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Liverpool won a penalty against Manchester City last month. The referee was Michael Oliver
You’ve got no chance of winning a penalty against Manchester City when Michael Oliver is running the show
Seen this before
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It’s easy to be generous when you are as rich as
@aguerosergiokun
but look at the body language and the way he interacts with the support staff at
@mancity
- deeply impressive
😍🇦🇷 QUÉ GRANDE SOS, KUN 😍🇦🇷
Antes de irse de Manchester City, Sergio Agüero les regaló un reloj Hulbot/Tag Heguer a cada empleado del club como muestra de agradecimiento. Además, sorteó su Rang Rover que se la llevó un utilero 😱
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@GreenJ92
Contrarian view. Goodison is completely outdated and not fit for purpose. If you can’t see the pitch properly, it’s no good
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This looks awful. Trying really hard not to be a conspiracy theorist on what is only a game but
@premierleague
really badly need to get their story straight. The pictures entirely contradict their own story about why this goal was disallowed.
#mcfc
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Before that 10 successive away draws, 9 of them at PL teams with zero lower league draws from 2011 until 2018. It is called reversion to the mean
Teams that Man City have been drawn to face in the domestic cups since 2018 (so excluding finals): Oxford, Fulham, Leicester, Burton, Rotherham, Burnley, Newport, Swansea, Brighton, Preston, Southampton, Oxford and Port Vale.
Absolutely astonishing.
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I thought the 2009 City original was witty and original. I also thought it would have been forgotten about in a week. Little did i know that our local rivals would still be in therapy 12 years later. Wow.
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Evening at the Etihad spoiled somewhat by the bloke behind me who thinks the players and rubbish and Guardiola doesn’t know what he is doing. He’s about my age so presumably will have seen Alan Ball managing Gerry Creaney. Inexcusable
#mcfc
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Drivel. Jamie Pollock scoring the greatest own goal in history to relegate us to the 3rd division is disastrous. I have a Wembley ticket, Real Madrid are coming to town and there are going to be fireworks at CAS. Sorry to call you out
@JNorthcroft
but you deserve it
#mcfc
What a disastrous season for Manchester City. Among the problems UEFA's ruling presents is they need a rebuild but have suddenly got a lot less attractive to leading players.
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I know it’s the Mail so usual caveats etc but this is an extraordinary tale. This a football club from East Manchester ffs. Huge kudos though to
@city_rabin
for plugging away at this for so long. He is vindicated. His opponents who have attacked him viciously not so.
Facebook crack down on fake news campaign aimed at discrediting Manchester City |
@MikeKeegan_DM
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The headline is inaccurate
@guardian_sport
- He has signed from Troyes.
The likes of
@barneyronay
@bglendenning
@JohnBrewin_
@jonawils
@PhilippeAuclair
and the rest moan with poor grace when direct factual inaccuracies are pointed out. Maybe the City fans are right after all
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Not saying this is the wrong decision for Klopp and Liverpool. But I am saying that if Pep and
#mcfc
did this they would take the most almighty hammering for weeks. Liverpool will not.
Jurgen Klopp says that no senior players will be involved in the FA Cup fourth round replay and he won’t manage the team. Neil Critchley will be in charge
#LFC
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@tariqpanja
Tariq - when you find out about Bayern Munich and Adidas in the 70s you are gonna be REALLY shocked
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@ScouseSocialism
Jay - not true, I think you mean 2016 not 2018 (still not true), Liverpool outbid City for a defender in 2017 and you just lost to a team with CBs and two full backs injured who played 48 hours earlier. Maybe there’s another reason?
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I know that Miguel Delaney has blocked almost every
@mancity
fan out there but this comment on the Maguire case does win the World Chutzpah Championship
@slbsn
@lloyd_scragg
@AndrewDettmer
@dannyrubin
@MCFC_Petersburg
@PrestwichBlue
@charteredtax
@JustVeryFrank
@howiehok3434
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Ten Hag isn’t the first manager to say this about Sancho. But to throw him under the bus while protecting Mason Greenwood is just abhorrent. Something deeply wrong about the values and culture at that club
Ten Hag: “Jadon Sancho out? Based on performance on training we didn't select him”. 🚨🔴
#MUFC
“You have to reach the level every day at Manchester United. That’s why in this game he wasn't selected”.
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Deeply upsetting that I have to go through this whole “off to a major final” rigmarole. Yet again. Boring! For the benefit of
@guardian_sport
I am refusing to smile
#mcfc
@9320pod
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@ChrisPJGodfrey
You’re a journalist. Have a think about that tweet. Look at the evidence calmly and not just after a match. PS - the three former City employees at your club will all think you still have a good chance of winning it. They’re right
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Great pre-match listening. Trigger warning: contains nuance, balance, respect for both evidence and the way non white male Britons may perceive or approach history, all of which can’t be summed up in one tweet. Highly recommended.
Jaam nga fanane. To mark England's big game tonight,
@TheRestHistory
heads for SENEGAL, exploring the island of Gorée and its controversial House of Slaves. What really lay behind the forbidding and mysterious DOOR OF NO RETURN?
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@stephenpollard
I am politically homeless. I don't think Hitler was a Zionist and I don't want to invade Spain. That is apparently a niche market in 2017.
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You’ve had a bit of a nightmare here, mate.
Dockers 1-0 Hedge Funders.
It’s what you like to see. 🔴⚪️🔴
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@pouchyboy71
@BBC
@Robert_E_Kelly
is on the BBC and others very frequently and is great on twitter. He always assures us the door is locked. The clip is wonderful. His continuing analysis is totally on point
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Guardiola has just called this “a nice game to watch.” The faintest of faint praise.
I cannot imagine the scale of the bollocking the players will be getting right now.
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@A_Hess
“Completely devoid of charm”. Absolutely gormless take. Totally decent, friendly bloke, popular with everyone he meets and a working moral compass. Just someone who prefers not to speak in English in the media but will do so very happily off camera
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One of Big Dave’s better tweets
Experts agree, there'll be a hole in our finances if we leave the EU. That will mean higher taxes, spending cuts, more borrowing, or all 3.
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@MiguelDelaney
@NcGeehan
Today - evidence that Rabin is a shill paid by City or someone close to them -zero
Evidence that
@NcGeehan
source is paid by the Qatar Foundation - 100pc admitted.
Case rested.
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This is a laughable thing to say. I don’t care about some rando United twitter account but
@TimesSport
really should understand how credibility shredding it is to say this. If City are guilty, Berrada is. United’s recruitment decision says more than I ever could
🚨 | Omar Berrada did not play any role in the sponsorship and salary deals that have led to Manchester City being charged with 115 alleged rule breaches by the Premier League. [
@TimesSport
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Hi
@MiguelDelaney
- so Lebedev’s motivation for owning a prominent UK based asset is different to Mansour’s motivation for owning another UK based asset? That’s one hell of a prior to be starting from - and you accuse City fans of being one-eyed.
Cc
@city_rabin
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@AndrewDettmer
@SamLee
He’s not going to United. Far too logical a signing for them and given the position he plays, it’s difficult to create a system deliberately not to suit him like they have done with Sancho. I suppose they stick him in goal and play De Gea at DM.
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Special moment to take my Dad to his first live City match post Covid. As a holder of every single football pay TV subscription (my Mum can list them) he’s seen almost every ball kicked in the last two years, but the away end at Southampton was special for him and me
#mcfc
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Stefan is an elite level Bert. Memory and list of grievances almost as long as mine
I'm not bitter but good to see Ashley Young finally punished for a handball
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“Leading European club directors exchanged messages to discuss next steps...Soon enough they were deliberating whether to lobby UEFA to take City to a Swiss federal court.”
It’s never been about fair play. It was always about keeping the riff raff and brown people out
#mcfc
What's it been like behind the scenes at City recently, and what comes next? Story from
@AdamCrafton_
and the gang here:
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@2009foreverblue
@DavidMooney
Pep will need to extend his contract for another two thirds of a season to secure his legacy
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Can’t help feeling this is significant. The oldsters and hipsters are giving it a pass but are being replaced by the pester-power generated by the fact that City are now the Kings of the school playground. In many ways a good thing but people like me will need to adjust
Manchester City have sold all 31,500 tickets for their Community Shield game with Arsenal, albeit with the majority of sales to members rather than season ticket holders. Fan groups who had urged a boycott are still fundraising for Manchester foodbanks
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This should be published with the exact same prominence as the original story - in this case a screaming two-page spread.
It is also an apology for confusion caused (ie not an apology at all). It should be an apology for telling racist lies.
@HackedOffHugh
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When a 15-year-old Sergio Aguero made his debut for Independiente in 2003, he played against an 18-year-old Pablo Zabaleta, who was at San Lorenzo at the time.
Eight years later, they'd be team mates at
#MCFC
!
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@PatrickTimmons1
@Beardamendi
To answer you question, Patrick
1. He's black
2. He plays for City
3. He's rich
4. He doesn't play the tabloids game.
Perfect storm
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Hi
@ptgorst
and
@IanByrneMP
-
@mancity
support an independent regulator. The hedge fund owner of
@lfc
opposes it. Desperate charlatans the pair of you
"If this battle is won by Man City, I genuinely think it is the end of football as we know it."
Labour MP
@IanByrneMP
warns of the "utterly terrifying" outcome if Man City win legal case against the Premier League, as an independent regulator is demanded.
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In spite of everything that has happened since this is unquestionably the most important day in the history of
@mancity
in my lifetime. Aguerooo, Istanbul, the lot. 25 years on. I was there and I am still in recovery. Thank you Horlock, Cooke and Edghill and above all Paul Dickov
2️⃣5️⃣ years ago today 🌟
2-0 down with minutes to spare... the rest is history 🩵
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@slbsn
Delayed a restart on a yellow card which is frankly thick. He gave the referee a decision to make. If it was City, I would be far more annoyed with the player than the ref.
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The quietest football news weekend for two years, so time to scrape the
@mancity
FFP barrel yet again. I know you want it to be true so badly
@TonyEvans92a
but this is like the Lennon singles released years after his death. Extremely thin gruel
#mcfc
I know City fans put everything down to a witch-hunt against them by other teams and supporters, but the FFP issues are far from over. Uefa, as well as City, are going to be in the line of fire
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Your regular reminder that Goodison Park, Villa Park and Elland Road are all unused that weekend
The dates and kick-off times for this year’s
#FACup
semi-finals at Wembley Stadium have been confirmed.
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Anyone who went to Uni can think of things we did as students that weren’t great. But there is a scale on which these are measured and this really encapsulates it.
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Sheikh Mansour currently reading the Riot Act. His players and coaches were meant to be immune from the Covid he paid to create. He wants to know who only had one job but...
Major Covid outbreak at Man City. 21 members of first-team bubble isolating, including 7 players. Pep Guardiola has tested positive. Tomorrow’s game at Swindon still going ahead as it stands.
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He’s wearing suit trousers, a t-shirt, two zipped fleeces and a formal coat. And still looks stylish. How?
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A beautiful example of an expert (Dein is a class act and his reply is measured and insightful) not giving the interviewer the answer he so desperately wanted to hear. Morgan ends up looking ridiculous even by his standards
Even Arsenal’s former vice-chairman, David Dein doesn’t believe that Piers Morgan’s revelations are a smoking gun.
David Dein, "I cannot see City having any titles taken from them."
😂😂😂
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Remembering Neil Kulkarni -
@KaptainKulk
- his back to back dissections of Orville and Renee and Renato will always be absolute high points of
@ChartMusicTOTP
and there are countless other examples but this is elite writing. Elite.
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This is unpleasant stuff and it’s not too late to take it down and say it was a mistake.
And before going off about oil and deserts, what is your stadium called?
Grim.
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I accept the not guilty verdicts (which is not the same as innocent) and acknowledge that the jury did an honest job. But the admitted behaviour here is incompatible with the privilege of playing professional football for
@mancity
….
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@SkySportsWSL
14 years and you haven’t grasped the nuance of the original? The thing that made it so incendiary? Good God
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@Lawton_Times
Do you really think “mega rich” helps to establish the credibility of your reporting? I have an NCTJ qualification and I think my tutor might have had issues with it.
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Hi
@ap
your reporter is denying facts here. You really do need to stage some sort of intervention. Facts - in this case the precise ownership of
@mancity
- do matter.
@dannyrubin
@lexirichards
@Alfoid
@MiguelDelaney
@DuncanCastles
Sorry, very hard to have a rational discussion on facts with you, regrettably, as facts are denied
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@Irvine_1980
@slbsn
We didn’t beat United once in the 90s. Can confirm that the 1989 5-1 and the 2023 treble were both celebrated (ahem) lustily and vociferously in this household
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@PrestwichBlue
@JamesPearceLFC
If they are stunned they were either not paying attention to the facts of the case or they aren’t as clever as I thought they were. What happened was overwhelmingly the most likely outcome based on facts in the public domain
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@barneyronay
Talking about city’s finances isn’t xenophobic. Straw man argument. What is racist and xenophobic is holding football clubs with brown owners to higher standards than football clubs with white owners. That’s the problem.
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The definition of “odious” and “malevolent” is not “someone who has challenged your opinion and provided a substantial quantity of evidence in so doing”
@NcGeehan
@NMcDermottNHSE
@AndyP1693
@MiguelDelaney
@Ianguildford
@pritchardinnit
@city_rabin
@mellotrono
He's an odious malevolent presence, presenting disinformation as analysis and implicitly but quite obviously encouraging online attacks on critics of City's ownership. In that regard he is very successful - look at the abuse on my timeline and on others.
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Hi
@ManCity
fans. This guy wants you to take him seriously.
Pro tip
@EwanMacKenna
- don’t amplify a laughable evidence-free conspiracy theory because people will think everything else you write is as worthless
@gavinroberts5
@DuncanCastles
@city_rabin
Rattled? It's a pathetic effort and an obvious one too. Getting kidnapped off buses at gunpoint rattles me, not City's PR department.
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This is a fantastically clever way to thank, motivate and keep grounded young multi millionaires. Give them something money can’t buy and connect the present directly to where it all began. Very cute
#mcfc
@9320pod
Gracias a todo El Barrio la Paloma por tan lindo homenaje, en espacialmente a los chicos. Me llenó de orgullo y emoción que a la distancia estuvieran presente para celebrarlo conmigo. 🙌🏻🤗 Les mando un cariño muy grande y muchos éxitos. Thank you
@ManCity
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@IAPonomarenko
Look, I’m sorry. It’s a terrible embarrassment. However, at least Wallace is staying. UK policy towards Ukraine will not change.
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Interesting that
@premierleague
felt it necessary to brief
@martynziegler
about the
@mancity
“referral” the day before the government regulator report came out before telling the club but didn’t feel the need to do the same with Everton. What a cynic I am.
The Premier League's charge against Everton for breaching profit + sustainability rules is potentially serious.
- only 2nd time (after Man City) that such charges have been brought
- sanction could include points deduction
- important test case for the Premier League
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Hi
@tariqpanja
- I think you will find it is
@bdoaccountant
who is saying this and not
@mancity
. If you think there is a problem, you should speak to your accountancy correspondent colleague because that would be a much bigger story than mere football
#mcfc
@city_rabin
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@city_rabin
City should offer £2.5m plus Otamendi for Davies, Kimmich, Gnabry and Lewandowski. It’s “our valuation”
@GoodKidManCity
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Hi
@MarkJLittlewood
- excellent idea. Let’s call it “income tax” and levy it on all people lucky enough to earn that money and not just working class black men from Wythenshawe. I am sure we can count on your wholehearted support
Idea for
@MarcusRashford
- could he get the PFA to agree that all Premier League players will pay a 20% "anti-poverty" levy on earnings above £1m pa? This would raise c£360m pa & could then be used for vast range of free school meal schemes etc. It would make a big difference.
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@city_rabin
@NcGeehan
Hi
@NcGeehan
you may present yourself as a pious defender of human rights but we see you and call you out. Your behaviour towards
@city_rabin
has been disgusting and totally trashed any credibility you may have. I really do think you should delete your account.
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It doesn’t exonerate City because that is not the question CAS was asked. However, you sir don’t understand what City were accused of and why CAS for many reasons were unwilling to uphold UEFA’s verdict on the substantive issues. Hope this helps.
I've read the 93-page CAS document. Anyone who thinks it exonerates City is reading through blue-tinted glasses. They won't see it, though, just like those who thought the 115 page FA report exonerated Suarez.
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Pep demonstrating elite Berting skills normally only seen in a Droylsden pub. Love to see it. Big match tonight. We have to win and Spurs have something to play for, although it does help that a draw is now useless for them
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I sung this in away ends at Wycombe, Northampton, Barnsley, Port Vale and many others. It wasn’t laced with irony. It was an outrageous lie but one that sustained us when reason laughed at us. Tonight it is true. If you know, you know. Having a drink.
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@TeleFootball
@mancity
is not owned by a sovereign wealth fund. This is astonishingly basic and a total howler
@_PaulHayward
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Hi
@MiguelDelaney
- Dani Alves, Fred, Jorginho, Alexis and now seemingly Maguire all say this is objectively untrue. There is no debate. You are entitled to your opinions but you aren't entitled to your own facts.
@city_rabin
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If you want a perfect example of straight-up racism in the
@MailOnline
- I give you this comparison. Indefensible.
@MailSport
@BestoftheMail
@f365
@9320pod
#mcfc
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This wholly inaccurate bad faith hatchet job from
@SamWallaceTel
already has more views on this site in two hours than the factual reporting of
@Lawton_Times
that moved the story on in two days. This explains a hell of a lot. See also the US election.
The tribunal verdict presented as a great victory. The email to clubs suggesting further challenges (and costs) on the horizon.
#MCFC
strategy clearer than ever: more legal action until they get their way
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@montie
Mate - you supported Truss. A very very very long period of silence would be appropriate on your part.
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@BPete1970
Thank you Pete and can I add my apologies for the gross antics of the teenagers who were in fairness reported to security by numerous City fans. City fans need to act with dignity next Sunday. We did it 2008 and will do it again
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“Apart from the murder”
Just catching up on the Farage documentary. This comment is breathtaking
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@adamsummerton
The Mail is classless. You are not. You made a mistake in the heat of the moment and have owned it. On to the next match and look forward to you covering City again.
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I think that multi club ownership is something - at a minimum - in need of very tight regulation and that includes my club. But Chelsea and Palace have similar arrangements with French clubs. So we focus on the brown owner who does it better than the others.
.
@RothenJerome
on Savio to
#ManCity
: "Maybe they think that because it’s Troyes, we’re not going to be vigilant. I find that problematic. I just want to say to them: 'Get out of here, French football doesn’t need you'. I’m not ashamed to say it, we don’t need them..."
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As his been pointed out by several, UK government is not present in the room, but the UK economy is on the menu
@garrettdonnelly
Notable that UK-EU negotiations come, basically, under "any other business" and that discussion will be led by the Irish Taoiseach, given the floor to outline his position on the Internal Market Bill.
The UK will, of course, not even be present. ~AA
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@NcGeehan
@city_rabin
If you’re going to throw completely evidence free accusations about someone’s motives and interests then you need to judge others by the same standard. Game, Set and Match to Rabin. Again.
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Hi Tariq
1. Get rid of the “evidence” and “lawyers” bit. BORING!
2. Get it to leak like UEFA does.
3. Bin judges with “qualifications”. Delaney, Goldbridge and some random from The Anfield Wrap will do it for nowt.
Any more ideas
@city_rabin
@PrestwichBlue
@slbsn
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Excellent choice Jim - the man to bring the glory days back 👍
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This email has dropped this morning and is exactly what I expected. Manchester is going to have a second city centre. There are big implications to this that go well beyond 11 men or women chasing a ball round a field
Today, we are announcing that feasibility studies for the development of an entertainment destination at the Etihad Stadium are underway.
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This is indefensible.
@ManCity
fans are right to be incredibly angry about such an unfair piece that without any evidence questions their own personal morality and the Mail’s actions actively give credibility to the conspiracy theory, out to get us end of City twitter
Deleting a reposting the tweet to clean the comments doesn't make this any less of an absolute hatchet job...
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@SaraWoodward1
That’s horrendous Sara. I am just so sorry. Let me and countless others share the burden of your completely justified anger.
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This is EXACTLY why FFP/PSR was brought in
Everton had to sell Richarlison. Nottingham Forest had to sell Brennan Johnson. Now Wolves have to sell Pedro Neto.
Clubs outside the top 6 losing their best players is not what FFP or PSR was brought in for.
Something needs to change.
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They need
@StevenMcinerney
on
@bbcmotd
- former City EDS players everywhere - Poveda, Rogers, Hodge, Harwood-Bellis, Dele-Bashiru, Edozie etc etc etc
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@CitehFlip
@city_rabin
Just seen this gem. Who’s volunteering to explain to Miguel that Blackburn didn’t win the league with 11 players they found in school teams and on park pitches in Accrington?
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