Andrew Lindsay

Famous Hollywood actor, long-time undercover BBC/ITV journo. MA leader @SalfordUni; @CardiffUni cyn-fyfyriwr; host of your event. @linds6y on the other place.

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

Our @SalfordUni third years are on industry placement this week after three weeks of this:
https://t.co/tUi9Sg0fdj
#journalist #journalism

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@AndyMitten @UtdArts1 @UWSmag Thought so. Enjoy his articles in UWS.

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@AndyMitten @UtdArts1 @UWSmag I still have that very mag. That's not Alex G speaking is it?

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@arghkid @AlternativeMUFC Not sure it's cool now it's no longer surrounded by James Richardson, a second cappuccino and Il Duomo. But I'd take it.

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

Scarcely believable that this could happen in football.

[Cream of Manchester @CreamofMamucium]

🚨Man United World Transfer Exclusive📰
We reveal how the manager's plans are being threatened from WITHIN Old Trafford.
https://t.co/mPHbSf8TEw
#mufc #transferwindow #manutd #transfers #EPL

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@laurennUTD Hope she's had a top day.

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

Read the room, TikTok.

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@sspencerukk @back_the_BBC @elisjames so sorry for your friend, please keep this news away from him as long as possible...

[Cream of Manchester @CreamofMamucium]

Stretford Enders' season ender. @Carly_Lyes went along. #mufc
https://t.co/L5TkkTiGAM

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@gordonhill54 Sorry for your loss, Gordon. It's a cruel thing.

[Samuel Luckhurst @samuelluckhurst]

A fan who held up a placard in front of the directors' box and was escorted onto the concourse has just returned to his seat to applause from nearby supporters after being absent for the best part of ten minutes. Sir Jim Ratcliffe is here. #mufc

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@AndyMitten Which of their presidents said Mourinho's football was "like watching shit drip from a stick"?

Actually just realised you're not Google, looked it up and think it was Jorge Valdano when he'd been Sporting Director.

At ease.

[Cream of Manchester @CreamofMamucium]

Final Count Down, Cynicism Up https://t.co/s1b3TLfOpp

Mentions:
@TelegraphDucker
@terrychristian
@BPete1970
@BanditNanna
@CornedbeefstRed

[Miller @mufc_miller]

I’ve been going the match since 87’. I have a platinum ST. I am in the loyalty pot. I have 12 European credits.

It is five days to renew my ST and I don’t know if I want to. This is the closest I’ve come to quitting the match.

I hate so much about modern football.

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

This has reached incredible levels now. Football needs proper intervention.

[Aston Villa Updates @avfcbreaking]

There was a time when a European final belonged to the supporters who dragged their club there.

Not anymore.

When Aston Villa were handed roughly 11,000 tickets for a Europa League final in a 70,000-plus stadium, the number itself told the story. UEFA can package the event however it likes — “festival of football”, “European showpiece”, “global celebration” — but the modern European final is no longer built around supporters. It is built around clients.

The supporters fund the journey. The corporates inherit the destination.

Villa fans will have spent thousands following the club across Europe. Flights, hotels, time off work, loyalty schemes built over years. Yet when the final arrives, huge sections of the stadium are reserved for sponsors, hospitality guests, executives, delegates and “neutral” allocations that often end up on resale sites within hours.

And supporters are expected to accept it.

UEFA’s defence is familiar. Sponsors fund competitions. Broadcasters need space. Hospitality drives revenue. All true. But football crossed a line when the event surrounding the final became more important than the supporters inside it.

The optics are awful because fans can see it themselves.

A finalist gets 11,000 tickets while corporate packages costing thousands remain available. Genuine supporters scramble through ballots with lottery-like odds, while neutral areas fill with tourists taking photos during the warm-up.

And UEFA wonders why resentment grows.

Supporters are constantly called “the lifeblood of the game” until ticket allocations are discussed. Then they become an inconvenience to work around premium inventory.

Football did not become Europe’s dominant sport because sponsors created atmosphere. The noise, colour and emotion UEFA sells globally every season is generated by match-going supporters — the same people increasingly pushed aside at the biggest games.

The “neutral fan” concept is perhaps the biggest fiction of all. In theory it promotes access. In reality it fuels resale markets, inflated prices and thousands travelling ticketless out of desperation.

UEFA could change it tomorrow. Finalists could receive 70 per cent of the stadium combined. Corporate sections could shrink. Hospitality would still exist.

But that would mean sacrificing revenue.

And modern football has shown repeatedly which side wins that argument.
#AVFC #scfreiburg

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

Some scores in the youth games today.

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@AndyMitten My mother took two of us there when I was a kid and a splinter from a wooden fork lodged in my throat. Not an easy thing to remove. The anti-plastic brigade are strangely quiet on that one.🤬😡😠

[Cream of Manchester @CreamofMamucium]

Full episode as Goldy from @WiseMenSayPod join @utocue @Themanicpatrol and briefly @redhod99 to talk: FA Youth Cup Final Shambles, that Poznan in 2012 and will Sunderland sign Diogo Dalot?
https://t.co/0taQTivGrL

[Andrew Lindsay @utocue]

@sarm0161 Straight Outta Crompton.