City’s Goldbridge

[Johnny Mars Bar]

That was 'CityWatch' I'm sure. Guy who set up CityXtra is a young lad called Freddie.

City Watch..that was it!

 

[MarsLlama]

I might be misremembering but was it City Xtra who the original guy who set it up went to prison for being a nonce a few years back?

You are misremembering- that Was CityWatch. City Xtra originally had a lot of the same writers, as they wanted somewhere else to write about City after they found out what he was, but nearly all of them have moved on now.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Let’s hope so. His lack of self awareness is staggering and a complete embarrassment to all city fans and the club. Maybe he should have sat in during some of his basic English geography lessons in year 2 of big school and just maybe as a purported footy voice he should have a basic appreciation of football below the big shiny league.

Nail on head. He's also managed to insult the good people of Peterborough for no good reason.

 

[DruntBlunt]

They're one division above where we were a short while ago wankstain.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I feel like a lot of the people slating him are watching a clip of him for the very first time because he’s actually sound. Yeah, he shouldn’t have called them shit in the way he did, it was disrespectful, but that is definitely out of character for him. The rest was him genuinely not knowing where Peterborough is in the country and whilst most DO know, that isn’t something to call him out on. He filled the time whilst he searched for where they are with attempted humour/banter, but it was nothing more than that. It’s the bit at the end that I get people not liking. But those using a 10 second clip to paint this guy as the antithesis of a City fan are bang out of order too, as he’s a top lad and I’ve never seen him say anything like this before to cause such outrage.

Should he have called them shit? No, the way he said it was disrespectful. Was it out of character? Yes, absolutely. Is everybody over-reacting to a 10-second slip up? Yes.

Must be the new age supporter in the Premier League era where they have no interest other than the PL.

What I personally found embarrassing, for him, not me, was that he’d never heard of a well known football team. And he’s fronting a football channel?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I just offered further related info without opinion.

Personally I don't get 'Watch-a-longs', nor random talking heads discussing some information (hence why I find video news so annoying these days with completely unrelated nobodies asked for their opinion on the street about an event - the limited news time could be better spent by someone explaining the story in more detail... but I digress).

No worries JASR, wasn’t suggesting you were trying to cancel him.

We've got 7 pages so far ranging from “what’s the fuss about” through “the guy’s actually sound, but made an error of judgement here” to “I hope his channel fails, the entitled prick”.

Welcome to a day in the life of social media.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Must be the new age supporter in the Premier League era where they have no interest other than the PL.

What I personally found embarrassing, for him, not me, was that he’d never heard of a well known football team. And he’s fronting a football channel?

I think he has probably heard of them, but for comedic reasons, pretended he hadn’t.

I bet he wishes he hadn’t bothered now though!

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Based purely on that clip I've seen the following assumptions made about this person:

- He only started supporting us after we got taken over
- He used to support Chelsea
- He used to support United
- He'll be supporting Newcastle in a few years
- He's filming from his mum's basement
- He's filming from his mum's spare room
- He's hungry for fame
- He's classist (weird one)

Agreed that it was a stupid thing to say, but definitely out of character and he likely just got caught up in playing to the camera. People banging on about 'respect' are taking football a bit seriously IMO. It's all very Dennis Reynolds. I'm confident I wouldn't have been so outraged if it was us on the other end of that 20 years ago, not that YouTube existed then.

Your mate, watch the channel or both?

 

[paulchapo]

I feel like a lot of the people slating him are watching a clip of him for the very first time because he’s actually sound. Yeah, he shouldn’t have called them shit in the way he did, it was disrespectful, but that is definitely out of character for him. The rest was him genuinely not knowing where Peterborough is in the country and whilst most DO know, that isn’t something to call him out on. He filled the time whilst he searched for where they are with attempted humour/banter, but it was nothing more than that. It’s the bit at the end that I get people not liking. But those using a 10 second clip to paint this guy as the antithesis of a City fan are bang out of order too, as he’s a top lad and I’ve never seen him say anything like this before to cause such outrage.

Should he have called them shit? No, the way he said it was disrespectful. Was it out of character? Yes, absolutely. Is everybody over-reacting to a 10-second slip up? Yes.

If you're going to set up a channel and put yourself out there and spout shit like this then you're rightly going to get hammered. It might be out of character, he might otherwise have a great channel but one ten second clip as bad as this is all it takes to ruin all that

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

I feel like a lot of the people slating him are watching a clip of him for the very first time because he’s actually sound. Yeah, he shouldn’t have called them shit in the way he did, it was disrespectful, but that is definitely out of character for him. The rest was him genuinely not knowing where Peterborough is in the country and whilst most DO know, that isn’t something to call him out on. He filled the time whilst he searched for where they are with attempted humour/banter, but it was nothing more than that. It’s the bit at the end that I get people not liking. But those using a 10 second clip to paint this guy as the antithesis of a City fan are bang out of order too, as he’s a top lad and I’ve never seen him say anything like this before to cause such outrage.

Should he have called them shit? No, the way he said it was disrespectful. Was it out of character? Yes, absolutely. Is everybody over-reacting to a 10-second slip up? Yes.

I've just watched it for the first time and it is dreadful. I won't watch or listen to him with much interest if I come across him again. Your argument Tricky Trev that it's out of character is similar to the one used by racists for what they say. That doesn't necessarily make them racist and this doesn't necessarily make this guy a wanker. However, it puts me off.
I suppose we like to think of our fans as not having that sense of entitlement and arrogance that the red teams have and I think broadly that is true but I wouldn't want that to become part of City bingo