Miguel Delaney joins Gary and Alan for the Man City questions
The Independent's chief football writer helps take on expulsion, relegation places and whether City's owners could be forced to sell.
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Gary & Alan Answer Your Man City Questions
The Rest Is Football spent nearly its whole week on one subject. Five of its six uploads were about the verdict in Manchester City's 115 charges case, and the follow-up brought in a new voice: Miguel Delaney, chief football writer for The Independent, sitting in with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer to answer viewers' questions.
Those questions, as the description lists them, go straight at the hard parts. Should the public condemn City before the appeal plays out, given how the old UEFA case ended? Would the punishment be a fine, a points deduction spread over seasons, or expulsion? If City were thrown out, would two clubs go down instead of three? And could the owners face a retrospective fit and proper person test? The description also notes City deny any wrongdoing.
The original reaction episode, which we covered here when it passed a million, is now past 1.4 million and still the channel's busiest video. Its comment section keeps circling back to Micah Richards, the former City defender at the table: many viewers write to him directly about his title medal and what the ruling means for the players in that dressing room. A light short on exactly that, insisting no one is taking his medal away, followed close behind.
The week ended on a change of subject, a short asking who is England's greatest player ever. The channel's daily views are running below their usual pace now that the verdict has passed, though it still added about 4,000 subscribers and drew more views than all but two of the similar football channels around it, behind FutbolEssence and Zedsnap.
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Richards played in Oldham Athletic's youth system before joining Manchester City's academy as a teenager.
