Man City 115 charges — fan discourse MW1 → MW34
How often fans bring up Manchester City's financial case — and what they actually say. Posts were flagged when they hit the unmistakable signal ("115", "state-funded", "sportswashing", etc.) OR when a City reference (Man City / MCFC / Pep) co-occurred with a charge-related term (ffp, psr, charges, breaches, cheating, strip titles, commission / hearing / verdict, financial doping). Matched across 2,890,140 Reddit, X/Twitter and YouTube posts & replies, then each scored by VADER on a −1…+1 compound axis. Peaks this season: MW33 (196) · MW22 (195) · MW29 (186).
2,030
115-related posts
net sent. +2.5
921
Posts mentioning "115"
449
State-funded / oil money
Share of conversation per matchweek
Share of posts/replies that matchweek that mention Man City's 115 charges (or an equivalent state-funded / cheating framing). Normalised so high-volume matchweeks don't distort the picture. The shape matters more than the absolute scale — flat noise floor with clear breakouts at MW22 and MW33. Hover for exact % and raw counts.
Sentiment breakdown
Distribution of VADER scores across every 115-flagged post this season. When fans bring up the charges they skew marginally positive — largely because tweets are full of gloating, laughter and sarcasm ("HA HA HA 115 CHARGES"), which VADER reads as positive even when the intent is mocking.
| Group | Posts | Pos | Neu | Neg | Net | Distribution |
|---|
| 115 / City charges |
2,030 |
42.3% |
17.8% |
39.9% |
+2.5 |
|
Net sentiment per matchweek
Net = % positive − % negative within 115-related posts that matchweek. Noisy early in the season (small sample weeks of 10–30 posts) — the signal is cleanest in the peak weeks. Hover for counts and the VADER compound average.
positive (≥ +0.05)
negative (≤ −0.05)
neutral
Which terms are firing
Each 115-related post can trigger multiple patterns (e.g. a post about "115 charges" also fires on 115). % is share of all 115-related posts that match that term — so columns won't sum to 100.
| # | Term / pattern | Posts | % | |
|---|
| 1 | 115 (the number) | 921 | 45.4% | |
| 2 | state-funded / oil money / abu dhabi | 449 | 22.1% | |
| 3 | charges (w/ city) | 446 | 22.0% | |
| 4 | 115 charges/breaches | 299 | 14.7% | |
| 5 | cheat(s/ed/ing) (w/ city) | 277 | 13.6% | |
| 6 | financial doping / fraud / cooked books | 174 | 8.6% | |
| 7 | strip(ped)/relegate/asterisk | 151 | 7.4% | |
| 8 | guilty / punishment / deduction | 120 | 5.9% | |
| 9 | FFP / financial fair play | 47 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | commission / hearing / verdict | 32 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | PSR / P&S rules | 27 | 1.3% | |
| 12 | breaches (w/ city) | 21 | 1.0% | |
Best / worst posts in the dataset
Most positive
Top-scoring posts mentioning 115 / City charges. Almost all are laughter, gloating or sarcasm aimed at Man City.
- MW14+1.00Rice is our midfield No.1 imo. First name on the team sheet for me. Plays the most important role and as strong as we are in depth, norgaard isn't an equal replacement.
God forbid but if Rice was to get injured then the comfort I have is that everything I've watched Merino drop back into midfield this season to partner Zubi either to allow Rice to go forward or tracking back or squad rotation.. Merino has been outstanding when dropping back. As long as we have a striker fit and we can play Odegaard or Eze in Cam role, even Gyokeres up front, Havertz behind, Odegaard and Zub in mid.
Sooo many options and that was a key factor in the recruitment process and plan wasn't just the right players and the right quality in the right positions.. versatility, players that can play in multiple positions was also crucial.
From the moment I watched Josh Kroenke's long interview a year into Mikel Arteta's appointment i bought into the vision and have fully trusted the process since.
I've heard the same comment made repeatedly by many Arsenal players this season and I think its this that is…
- MW29+1.00@ManCity @okx 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂LETS ALL LAUGH AT STATE OWNED 115 CHARGES TINPOT MAN CITY
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
- MW33+1.00@ManCity @okx But, but 115,115.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🏴 https://t.co/1rFOxVL4Hm
- MW22+1.00As a Forest supporter CONGRATULATIONS UTD. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN 115 reasons to beat these but 2 goals will do I don't follow the England team anymore but it's patently obvious to me to take HARRY MAGUIRE to the world cup He scores a few too So when England reach the quarter finals and are a goal down in the 97th minute 😂😂 they get a corner!!! MAGUIRE jumps up !!!! The ball ⚽ is flying across and onto his head AND !! Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrr it hit the bar England are out Scotland are through to the final 1 nil 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 Hey you never know Citeh got beat and bloody good too Don't like cheats in sport And if justice is honest and true this time next year they'll be in the national northern league Here's to justice Well played Mancheater United ⚽🥅🏐♥️🙊🙉🙈
- MW30+1.00@ManCity @femiakerele70 @okx 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 😂 😂 🤣 😂 😂 🤣 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Your tears is my happiness for ever now face the 115 charges whiles Arsenal wins quadruple, Rats!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 https://t.co/dNvLlMeArm
- MW14+1.00@aurynwestwield1682It doesn’t matter about respect. I don’t care about people respecting me, and I don’t care about the opinions of losers. I care about winning and that’s all that matters in life. If you’re a winner, people are forced to respect you even if they don’t like you.
In life people care about winners, not losers hence why Chelsea have won many trophies and people respect them even if they hate them because elite level sports are based purely on results just like everything else in life.
Only losers talk about meaningless and subjective things like club history or respect or sportsmanship because they don’t win any trophies. If they won trophies they would be talking about that not any of this feel good nonsense. History doesn’t matter it’s all about what’s happening now and in the near future.
If you’re not doing everything in your power to win and you’re not looking for every possible advantage then you’ve wasted your time and you’re a loser. I wish Barcelona “cheated” like Chelsea and Man City did, maybe we would have more trophies and not be a laughing stock.
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Most negative
Lowest-scoring posts — anger, accusations of cheating, calls to strip titles or relegate.
- MW31-0.99I am an Arsenal fan and I really do not want the Amad penalty being a penalty that should be removed from the game. Amad is looking forward but in the current game that is a penalty and they keep giving them all season. Then to make it worse they give a penalty and a red card for what I would say was less contact up the other end.
I have been wrong and for years have always enjoyed misfortune on rival teams but I am at a point where that is boring. I have had enough and I am now calling out these errors as it could easily happen to my club and the PGMOL are actually deciding more and more games which is in turn deciding who wins trophies and who gets relegated and it needs to stop. Regardless of fan bases we should all be angry with this decision and these refs lying and making errors and covering for each other. United every clubs fans unite they have the perfect way to hide. They will bank on rivals laughing and lying and trolling each other when bad decisions happen. The moment every fan base Uniteds they have no choice but to address it and deal with it.
This does not include…
- MW14-0.99Needless to say, but as shit as we are, holy shit Newcastle are terrible.
I couldn't quite believe it when they said we're above them in the league. We have won like twice since August and you're still behind us?
What a horrible team full of cunts. Even their backhanded bribes can't turn them into a relevant team.
Worst penalty call I think I've ever seen. Bentancur does absolutely nothing wrong. He screens him, he never once actually grabs Burn, most definitely not with both hands. You can argue he hooks an arm at one point (hooks his own arm onto Burn, not Burn's arm itself) but that itself is not disallowed, that's jostling. I am flabbergasted that this amateur hour rent-a-cunt of a ref watched those replays, saw Burn set Bentancur up for a DDT that Jake the fucking Snake Roberts would smile at and somehow still gave it.
We are shit, but at least my annoyance is at something other than us for now. I still don't want Frank here, but a draw at Newcastle is a good result however you get it.
Fuck the PGMOL and fuck those sportswashing cunts who think they're a big club.
- MW34-0.98Chelsea fans, you are a delusional and entitled fanbase. A dodgy Russian previously bought you. His money bought you success. He’s gone now. And you’ve reverted back to what you were before- a mid table club with a few good attacking players. You do not have a divine right to win the PL, let alone CL. Resenior may not be the one, but he’s the one you have right now. Mocking someone who’s inherited a mess, seems genuine, and is trying his best underscores how nasty you all are. You may not like how he speaks, but that is scrapping a very superficial barrel at this point. You’ve hired and sacked everyone else, so who in their right mind would want to work there beyond getting a payoff a few months later? Your problems run faaaar deeper than Resenior. Not even Pep, Flic, or Enrique would win you anything with this current squad and incompetent leadership above. As much as you all complain about your club, you have tiny stadium that makes no money, owners who use ‘creative accounting’ to mask how poorly run things are, contracts no player will ever finish or get halfway through, a small…
- MW33-0.97Always going to be a tough one today with recent form! I was praying you'd grind out a win or draw at least but you have to take your chances and you didn't - Havertz takes the brunt of that blame for me - embarrassing apart from the sole press on the goal - being outpaced and out muscled by Bernardo Silva is criminal!
My lad is the Arsenal fan, not me but they have kinda become my 2nd team, plus I hate the cheating oil bastards and Pep...
- MW4-0.97so when they lose, do they question Pep about his system? do they dig deeper into all the financial cheating? do they discuss all the players that he seems to fall out with? how big was the story on Donnarumma and his salary?
Their player salaries are on another level of ridiculousness so stop losing your head over this loss.
Also their defence work was impressive. Maybe lack of Cunha hindered our attack more than hoped for but we didn't create nearly as many chances as we have in the past.
My post is about being aware of the media bias and narrative.
Lastly, with that insane wage structure, them coming in fourth should have been a scandal. Sure as hell would've been if it was us.
- MW33-0.97Fuck all this negativity. I’ve got my beer stocked up, snacks ready. Good to fucking go.
Karma will work itself out. Let’s smash those human violating, murdering, cheating cunts. I hope all their titles they bought in amazing “history” gets taken away.
We beat them so bad Pep will leave.l this year. Fuck them scum. Lets go!
Sample posts from peak matchweeks
Sample posts MW33
Random sample of 115-related posts from one of the peak matchweeks.
- MW33dont ever, ever give those cheating fucks credit for anything.
we werent good enough, we havent been good enough, but never forget that they deserve NONE of this.
Pep is one of the best managers of all time and they have some of the best players in the world but the whole organization is an afront to fairness in the sport and nothing they do is legitimate.
- MW33I can understand it from a Spurs fan and would fully feel the same the other way. But everyone else cheering on 115 FC is honestly mental.
But then again, if we somehow still manage to win it against the odds, I reserve the right to be a right insufferable cunt so bring it on.
- MW33@marty_skillen @AFTVMedia Instead of pointing the finger at Arteta, Arsenal fans need to wonder how a team with 115 financial irregularities charges were allowed to buy Semenyo and Guehi in January??? 🤔😭🤫 #mancitycheats #115 #arteta
- MW33Congrats r/soccer your new love won and reignited the title race. Seeing liverpool and manchester united flairs supporting the cheating oil clubs boggles my mind. Absolute plastic behaviour.
- MW33Man City are a null club, their league titles all have an asterisk, so it’s as if no one won the league
So it’s between Arsenal winning and no one doing it
- MW33You can see in the miserable eyes of Rodri that he knows that he's a cheat. I wonder how much doping Nandrolone Pep gave him when he was out for a year?
Sample posts MW22
Random sample of 115-related posts from one of the peak matchweeks.
- MW22@kingcoolkish9413 still not as bad as Man City. Arsenal have had to follow FFP rules before especially in January. Had a January window in 2019 when we could only get loans. Same this year I think. Yet unfortunately Man City are still allowed to spend however much They want and get the chequebook out every single year. Even though they have 115 charges. Yes Arsenal spent a lot but at least we abide by the rules.
- MW22The premier league is a disgrace. Mancity 115 charges theres still no verdict yet they spend 100s of millions every transfer market is very unfair on other teams and coaches. If the epl dnt watch out theyl fall very hard just look at serie A remember in the 90s that was the biggest league, all the corruption with juventus etc look where they are now
- MW22Honestly, United, Liverpool and Arsenal are the old guard - i.e. real clubs built from the ground up. City and Chelsea sold their history down the drain for plastic fans and financial doping. I'm a United fan but if we don't win it, I'll take one of my proper rivals winning it over the Chelski investment corporation and the 115 charge brigade.
- MW22There you go absolutely destroyed the cheating side of Manchester I wonder what's happening about the 115 bunch of rats
- MW22Pep sold us out 😭 bald fraud should have pick ait nouri,cherki & reinjeders in starting 11.
- MW22@martinp5184true...just not getting carried away, and spot on about pep being a fraud
Sample posts MW29
Random sample of 115-related posts from one of the peak matchweeks.
- MW29@ManCity Oil City's world's best striker and world's best defensive midfielder, Comedy League, A scene in which the politically inclined Bernardo Silva struggles to clear himself of criminal charges 😂😂 https://t.co/dAbIdJKiW3
- MW29@DeadStarLegacy @ManCity Same ref who didn’t award Haaland a pen didn’t give anything against arsenal here.
Cheating Water bottle https://t.co/SG5Uyk95EJ
- MW29You’d think we’ve destroyed the beautiful game
Not billionaire oil clubs. Not racism across leagues. Not multi club ownership
Slow set pieces
- MW29@ManCity @MemzAFC @okx feeling it aren’t you!
Bunch of cheats! Nothing without
De bruyne
Silva
Ederson
Etc etc
- MW29@ManCity @okx Beating City at home isn't for everyone lad's so have that ya cheating wankers!
- MW29The red cartel on r/premierleague say PSR is fair bc they don’t want another Man City…clowns
Sample posts MW28
Random sample of 115-related posts from one of the peak matchweeks.
- MW28One week foden is studding player no red card, next week man city are pushing players off side disallowing goals, next week theyre handballing the ball stopping goals… then rodri is allowed to say the refs are cheating no ban which everyone else gets banned for… man city own sky sports & the prem… 💰
- MW28@Heavypapa013 @ChelseaFC What of the foolish owner wey sign cucurella because mancity go for am... But he come blind when mancity go for guehi and dementia... Na God go punish all of them for me
- MW28@Arsenal I beg you guys, please keep it up… I'd rather see you win the league than watch Manchester City lift it. I just can’t stand that oil club
- MW28So much salt over on r/mcfc hahahahah cry more you cheating cunts. Can't wait to batter them 3-0 at the Etihad purely with corner goals.
- MW28Been watching City for years and its hard to believe they are corrupt, but then remember peps convictions and the 115 charges
- MW28@SteadyHearn @ManCity @okx @antoinesemenyo Europe charge next season I'm hearing