Andy Beswick

@RealTolmie Couldn’t agree more.

Huge leveller from Doku. Him apart, too many not up to it. The performance of Nunes was like watching Dancing on Ice. Gonzales will never be good enough. Kovacic showed more drive from midfield in five minutes than the rest combined. Was always relying on West Ham to do something

@djwskyblu @1cornishblue @MikeCityFc2 You, me and many others Dave, regardless of which team you support. Lads at work who follow, Leeds, Burnley, Liverpool, all feel the same.

@1cornishblue @MikeCityFc2 I’ve supported City for 57 years - a season ticket since the age of 14 - but football in the English top flight is totally fucked. I’m seriously questioning if I’m prepared to invest time, energy and money in the game. There are more rewarding and ‘honest’ pursuits in life.

Zero contact and suddenly remembers to hold his face so as to waste time. Just today’s modern game for you.

@alanzelem Injuries have stopped him becoming the recognised England right back.

What a player Reece James top baller⚽️

@djwskyblu Very poor from you David. Totally unnecessary comment regarding Rico. Never recognised you as a click bait person, but obviously I was wrong.

Dear Forest, Now you’ve hit the dizzy heights of the Europa League - thanks to UEFA & CAS - don’t you think it’d be a good idea to not only buy the England U21 skipper, but also a Champions League winner? £65m should get it done - don’t worry about the taxi fare, that’s sorted.

@PrestwichBlue Great story, the influence a great teacher can have on young people is immeasurable.

Forgive my self-indulgence but I did a little pilgrimage today that I'd promised myself I'd do over 40 years ago. At my primary school I was always in the top 3 or 4 in my year. As a result, I passed the entrance exam for the highly selective Manchester Grammar School, one of the UK's top schools. The problem was that everyone who passed the exam was in the top group in their primary school, and it was a difficult first year, not helped by a not particularly nice form master who wasn't supportive in the slightest. Going into my second year we got a new form master, and I'd got the impression in advance that he was a cold, distant figure. However I couldn't have been more wrong. He was actually quite a shy man but turned out to be the complete opposite of the previous form master. He was warm and supportive and for the two years I had him, I got my confidence back and my academic performance improved greatly. Sadly he died quite young (he was 47) in 1979 and I promised myself that one day I would pay my respects at his graveside. But all I knew was that he was buried somewhere in rural Shropshire. Recently however, I got a hint that he was buried in a churchyard in a tiny hamlet near Craven Arms in Shropshire. As luck would have it, I was returning from a holiday in the Wye Valley earlier and visited Stokesay Castle, which was minutes away from this hamlet. I eventually found the churchyard, with its little cemetery but I was disappointed that I couldn't see the grave, having looked at what I thought were all of them. Then I realised there were a few more round a corner of the church and the penultimate grave was his. It was quite an emotional moment standing in front of his grave, thanking him for his belief in me, and his support, which made such a difference to my secondary school career. It was a visit I promised myself 45 years ago I'd make one day and finally I got to make that visit today.

@MartinSLewis No ETA facility on Google Maps, thats why I always use Apple Maps

Some saying why no apple maps. I had to make a choice with only four options. And looking at the vote it seems to be about right (apple maps is clearly a subset of 'another' and its the smallest category already)

Today's Poll: When you drive, if you use a sat nav, which type do you usually use?

@prestigecar_rep @City_Xtra Same here, seriously falling out with premier league football.

@City_Xtra Really not bothered if the truth be known

Who is excited for #ManCity to return this weekend? 😁

@slbsn Its bit like claiming the club was insolvent at Xmas with £72 million cash in the bank. 😜

Intrigued by the claim that new Old Trafford is worth £7.3bn of economic uplift. Amazingly, this is what United say (via their commissioned report) is an ANNUAL uplift. That is close to a 10% uplift on Manchester GDP. 🤨 New article coming.

@iangregory70 Think you are being very harsh on him. Eddie Howe is an excellent manager. Don’t let 1 result impact on what is going to be an excellent season.

Howe's inability to change a game when we're not on it should be a massive concern. He watches the game pass him by time and time again when Plan A doesn't work. #NUFC

@slbsn Looks to me like we are adopting the Chelsea model.

Ornstein has been hacked btw. And the entire Athletic by the looks of things

@city_rabin If it flies, floats or f**ks rent it.

A CDM

@AndyhHolt The crap you receive on here for trying to educate people about the challenges you face running a football club and a business makes me wonder why you do it.

@prestigecar_rep @craigSBrown93 @ManCity Hadge Johnson another Failsworth Blue passed away this weekend.

@craigSBrown93 @ManCity Sorry for your loss, I saw the tragedy unfolding on my way into K Entrance . RIP Blue 💙💙💙

Manchester City are aware of the tragic news that one of our supporters passed away following a medical incident at yesterday's match. The thoughts of everyone at the Club are with their family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.

Every time I get an Uber the driver complains for most of the trip that the fare I am paying is not enough. I agree that Manchester Central to Preston for £45.00 on a Friday night isn’t a lot but I didn’t make you accept the price.

@AndrewLeeWard @matt_shent @implausibleblog I think you are wasting your time trying to educate those who don’t want to be educated.

You are cherry picking your data. In 2022-23 Sainsbury's made a loss. So swings and roundabouts. Regardless, did you know their revenue was £36bn in 2023-34, so £137m profit a profit margin of 0.3%. Even if it were sustained at £667m this would only be a 1.8% profit margin. These are wafer thin margins, they are hardly extorting the consumer. Getting a bit heavier; From an economic standpoint, low profit margins for supermarkets means they experience minimal 'market surplus'. Market surplus reflects the overall benefits to buyers and sellers within a market, like a cake to be divided, and they dont get much of it. When margins are wafer-thin, it implies there isn’t an excess of producer surplus. Their slither of cake is small. So in reality, retailers like Sainsbury's are not significantly "profiting" beyond their costs. Which is in conflict with the argument you are making. Essentially competition benefits consumers, keeping prices lower than they might be in less competitive sectors. So, in this context, the majority of any surplus goes to consumers rather than supermarkets, giving us lower prices but leaving little buffer for profit on the retailer's side to handle shocks like this NI rise. If supermarkets did have high profits, we'd see a larger producer surplus, manifested in those higher profit margins, which would suggest less competition and potentially higher costs to the consumer. So you can see, the market forces means you are I are getting a good deal on our groceries and the supermarkets/producers are the ones being stretched. So it's really not unreasonable for them to raise prices in response. Unless you'd prefer them to lower pay, of course. Because, as I demonstrated in my last post, they don't have sizable profits to be able to swallow this, so something else must give.

Sainsburys and M&S would still make hundreds of millions in profit after applying Labour's change to National Insurance But instead of absorbing the cost and making a little less profit, they're using this as an excuse to increase prices again Anyone else uncomfortable with this?

@InvertTheWing @DadEmcfc Arteta looks like his biggest influencer has been Simeone rather than Guardiola.

Makes you miss the Liverpool vs. Manchester City title races. Attacking, free flowing, integrity defining football. Mikel Arteta’s 24/25 Arsenal are the downright most disgusting, morally unsound, corrupt team I have ever seen play in the recent era. Playing defensive football is one thing — faking injuries, constantly stopping and delaying restarts, injuring opponents, time wasting is something else. It’s against the integrity of the game. Thank you Pep Guardiola. Today Manchester City showed karma is real, and Arsenal still lack the bottle, despite all their black magic tactics.

Foden throws the ball at Ronaldo’s face” 😂

Another Masterclass by Douglas Murrray! 🇮🇱 I have literally never seen a more eloquent, calm, and decisive presentation on live TV. Douglas Murray just fit 100 books and 300 podcast episodes into this 3-minute soliloquy. He completely shut down Pierce Morgan’s argument, clarifying that Hamas, not Netanyahu, is the true obstacle for peace. He criticized Hamas for using foreign aid to build tunnels and enrich its leaders, rather than improving Gaza. But most importantly, he explained that peace with Hamas is fundamentally impossible, as they value conflict and death, not peace and life; thus, unless Israel is allowed to decisively win, the cycle of violence will continue ad infinitum. Thank you Douglas Murray for being the absolute most important voice in the world right now to defend Israel and the Jewish People!

Two of the most insightful and educational paragraphs ever written on the blatant bias and hypocrisy relating to ‘Financial Fair Play’ and Profit & Sustainability Rules, putting the corrupt and protectionist policies of the Premier League’s red cartel into sharp perspective.