Andy Broadbent

I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think. In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards. Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted. City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it. From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system. From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.” If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor. We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?” And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.

If Trump granted UK citizens the right to swift citizenship anywhere in the US, who would go and where?

Birmingham to London is 118 miles, that’s over $1B per mile of railway track. It’s corruption. If I was in charge, I’d hire the Chinese to do it for $5B with the condition that British engineers can shadow the Chinese workers for training. I’d then spend $1B to make luxury trains akin to first class emirates flights with $94b to spare

Manchester United don’t need a rebuild… they need a GENERATIONAL reset. This isn’t a tweak it’s a full overhaul. Must address THIS summer: • LB & RB • 3 Midfielders (2 elite + 1 high-upside) • Left Midfield • Backup Striker • Centre Back • 2nd GK (if Vitek leaves) Also worth watching: • Right Midfield • AM (cover/plan for Bruno) Potential OUTGOINGS: Højlund Rashford Sancho Casemiro Ugarte Zirkzee Shaw Mount Onana Bayindir Injury concerns / question marks: De Ligt 🚑 Lisandro Martínez 🚑 Dalot This squad isn’t one or two signings away. It’s a complete reset job. One window won’t fix it… but this one HAS to set the tone

I think that the US withdrawing from NATO is a good idea while the US is governed by a Russian agent Later, when the US is run again by a government not beholden to Russia, they may want to rejoin NATO and at that point I'm sure they will be welcome

We went to a dinner as a group and had a $500 bill. We tipped $40. We were happy we can be able to give our server something, but her reaction was the opposite. She told us she assumed we're going to give her at least $120. When we asked for the manager, she said she was just joking, but she wasn't smiling at all. Idk, but is $40 tip enough for $500 bill? I just feel like expecting $120 is not realistic. ~Lea Robertson

Not only has Eni Aluko doubled down, but she’s come across even more arrogant than before. And by this logic, does this mean we can’t have women involved in punditry panels for men’s games? Goodness me… 🫠

Jason Wilcox was booed on arrival at Old Trafford yesterday. via @_StrettyEnd