The important bit from Wednesday's #UoMFoundationDay citation (sorry about the sound quality: screen capture!). @alumniUoM @tackle4mcr @ManCity @BXBrussels @SocialResponUoM Here's to you @VincentKompany

The latest Everton case and some of the responses and analyses have made this challenge clear. Once City 115 comes out, it will be a mess. Everybody will be scrambling for headlines and explainers and nobody will have actually read the decision for days (if at all). People will lie and claim they have. People will use Ai and get the wrong answer but won't know. People will then comment on the false answer and won't know that they are also wrong. Anonymous posters on social media and non-lawyers will make proclamations and ex footballers will stomp their feet (one way or the other). A wholly false position will emerge. The parties (or at very least City) will be out pushing their version of what is said and decided - it is bound to be harder for the PL in a PR sense. Whatever is decided, the analysis will be wrong for quite a while until experienced lawyers and specialists have read the decision in full. But how many are going to have the time to read it all if not engaged to do so? How many people have done it even with the much simpler Burnley v Everton case. Not many. I wonder how many news outlets (The Athletic, The Times, The Telegraph, The FT, BBC, Sky etc) intend to put their hands in their pockets and engage KCs or specialist lawyers to read and digest the decision before writing their opinion and explainer pieces? I bet none. If it goes against City, many clubs will engage lawyers to read, digest and advise on next steps and some will use that to brief their trusted media channels. But it will be understandably partial and tendentious. Whatever the decision says, be it in City's or the PL's favour, an abundance of caution will be required.

Pep saying his biggest regret is not giving Joe Hart the chance to prove to him what a great keeper he was. I can imagine Joe nodding but filling up on watching that. Joe must become a club ambassador, I'd add Nedum (@kickback_nedum) n'all. Big Meeks has other priorities and loyalties and lucrative interests to consider. It's fine but I think those interests compromise him too much to be in a role that demands unquestionable loyalty. Nothing personal. Joe's also a brilliant pundit and not part of the tedious Banterratti laughing at their own jokes. Joe and Nedum educate and entertain fans on every platform they are on. Ideal ambassadors.

Imagine telling a City fan 10 years ago that Pep Guardiola would be at an Oasis reunion in Heaton Park wearing a retro City shirt.

With Kevin De Bruyne announcing that he’s set to leave Manchester City at the end of this season, let’s revisit Phil Thompson and Paul Merson’s take on his transfer fee back in 2015.

He taught me Econometric Theory at York in the final year of my UG degree (Math & Econ) in 1982/83. I still have the lecture and seminar notes! He persuaded me to drop that and go to LSE to study the Masters in Math Econ & Econometrics - as he had done in the late 60’s. 2/4

If Trump is wondering who made the "terrible" deal with Canada, maybe he should look in the mirror

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"Let's do a 115 month contract."

Delighted to share that the peerless Mishal Husain is joining Bloomberg. bloombergmedia.com/press/mis… via @BBGMedia

The late, great, John Prescott. May he rest in peace.

Gentlemen, If you're over 40, an annual prostate test should be on your radar. Over 50 it's a must. 44,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK every year. 10,000 die. Caught early enough it's treatable. Contact your GP and ask for a test ( they're not routinely offered) or buy a recommended brand PSA test online. Get a test done, please.

Stranded was released on this day in 1973, and became Roxy Music's first UK No.1 album. #roxymusic #onthisday

A wonderfully uplifting and emotional memorial today to Sir Howard Bernstein. I was particularly impressed with the words from his grandson, who shared a passion for Lego with SHB. Great to see @MCR_Charity recipients demonstrate how people thrive when given opportunities too.

So, not quite mid-November: 2nd, 4pts clear from 3rd; 5pts to make up on Liverpool … doable

It all began with Marx and Engels sitting in Chetham's Library, Manchester, doing research that led to the Communist Manifesto.