Matt Lawton on reports that Man City's appeal is already 'undermined'

The Times' chief sports correspondent spoke to Cathy Newman, and his short clip left the paper's own long podcast on the scandal far behind.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 213,579 views a day, 26 times a normal first day on this channel (8,128).

Man City Appeal ‘Undermined’, Reports Suggest | Matt Lawton

"Man City Appeal ‘Undermined’, Reports Suggest | Matt Lawton" is a radio clip on Times Radio, the YouTube home of The Times and The Sunday Times. In it, the paper's chief sports correspondent tells Cathy Newman that Manchester City's appeal against the Premier League's guilty verdict may already be in trouble. As the description quotes him: "No sooner had this appeal gone in than there are reports suggesting that there are flaws in this case." The clip also has the veteran Sunday Times sports writer David Walsh in conversation with the former culture minister Ed Vaizey.

Ten hours after it went up, the clip had passed 120,000 views. A new video here usually finishes its entire first day near 8,000.

The Times is not short of City material. The same day the channel posted "Inside the Man City Cheating Scandal," a full podcast episode with Manveen Rana as host and the chief sports reporter Martyn Ziegler as guest. Its description says the club was found guilty this week on all charges of serious breaches of the league's financial rules, and the episode sets out how it got there. That longer explainer has done respectably. The short clip about the appeal has drawn many times more people.

The comment section moves just as fast, with nearly 300 replies in those first ten hours. Some viewers predict the appeal will be over sooner than expected. Others ask how the club's owners pass the league's owners' test, or argue that the 2018 cut-off in the charges was only a line drawn to make the case manageable. A few stop to praise Walsh.

The channel also had a former ambassador on the oil crisis that day, and Ruth Davidson on the Conservatives and net zero. The football clip is the one people came for.

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The numbers

Here are the figures behind a clip that far outran the channel's usual first day, along with the busy week around it.

the video's first day

usual first day here

8,128

this video

213,579

subscribers

1,300,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

610,500,503

views per day

1,863,157

typical day: 785,865

the video

views

123,143

likes

752

comments

292

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

news.com.au

1,390,000

Times Radio

1,300,000

Times Now World

1,290,000

Arise News

1,250,000

7 News Spotlight

1,210,000

Speeches Uncut

1,190,000

As of October 3, 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.