{"id":23199,"date":"2025-09-15T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23199\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:19:06","slug":"manchester-city-sack-barman-for-wearing-united-shirt-while-working-during-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/23199\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City sack barman for wearing United shirt while working during derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have dismissed a bar worker who wore a Manchester United shirt while serving drinks at the Etihad Stadium during the derby on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The club were made aware of the worker via a post on X from an account called @Mataniels. It included a photograph of the man in question handing over a pint while wearing a black shirt containing a clearly visible United club crest, alongside the caption: \u201cAbsolute joke @ManCity \u2013 letting one of the bar staff in block 315 wear a United shirt on Derby Day #mcfc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">City\u2019s Man City Fan Support account messaged back: \u201cThank you for making us aware of this. We can confirm that this individual has now been removed from their position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The @Mataniels account no longer exists, possibly due to some replies on X pushing back against the message highlighting the worker wearing the shirt. City declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">City won the 197th Manchester derby 3-0 with a goal from Phil Foden and two from Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            Guardian\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have dismissed a bar worker who wore a Manchester United shirt while serving drinks at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,8579,917,112],"class_list":["post-23199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}