Ornstein and Horncastle take The Athletic's podcast inside Man City

A second Manchester City episode in two days opened far ahead of the podcast's usual first day, while most football channels around it ran quiet.

Channel: The Athletic FC PodcastStory of September 30, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 438,677 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (30,091).

Inside the Man City scandal, with Ornstein and Horncastle

Most of the football media channels had a soft spell. Guardian Football and Nottingham Forest were both below their usual daily pace, and Stephen Howson's channel was running at about a third of its norm. The Athletic FC Podcast went the other way, on the strength of a single episode.

"Inside the Man City scandal, with Ornstein and Horncastle" passed 290,000 views within twelve hours of going up. That puts it on course for roughly fifteen times what a new episode here usually draws on its first day. The comments piled up quickly too, several hundred of them by that point.

This is the podcast's second big City episode in two days. The first dealt with the fallout from the charges and what might happen next. This time the title promises a look inside the story, and it brings in two of The Athletic's own writers. Ornstein is the outlet's best-known news reporter, the name many supporters look for when a major football story breaks.

Even with that surge, the channel as a whole is still sitting right around its ordinary daily pace.

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The numbers

The figures show how far this episode pulled ahead of a normal opening day for the podcast.

the video's first day

usual first day here

30,091

this video

438,677

subscribers

315,000

total views

57,353,251

views per day

255,553

typical day: 253,755

the video

views

299,046

likes

3,691

comments

570

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Brentford Football Club

322,000

Stephen Howson

322,000

The Athletic FC Podcast

315,000

SportZone

310,000

Guardian Football

306,000

Nottingham Forest FC

304,000

As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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