![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve actually enjoyed the last couple of weeks on it, and I seem to be a little bit calmer.”ĭespite producing a swathe of content on a daily basis, Goldbridge does occasionally find the time to take in an actual match, where he is frequently recognised. Then I played Football Manager – as I used to play Championship Manager years ago – for a little bit, but thought I’d dip my toe back into FIFA on United career mode. I didn’t play it for about a month and felt a lot better. “You can see the rage and blood pressure. But I was coming off it and my wife was saying, ‘You’re going to end up killing yourself,’ and I actually had people messaging me saying, ‘You’re going to kill yourself’. “I was even playing online and I got to quite a good level. “I had this period between September and Christmas where I was playing it regularly,” he reveals. Indeed, much of Mark’s ire is reserved for FIFA sessions, which he regularly broadcasts live accompanied by a trademark stream of consciousness, peppered with profanities. I’m a relaxed person away from football.” I don’t do it watching EastEnders – although I don’t even watch EastEnders – but I don’t do it watching Game of Thrones or anything like that. “As long as I keep it to the YouTubing and when I’m watching football, I’m fine. I don’t really swear much away from that, but it’s my release. “I become very passionate and very engrossed in it. “I’m a different person when I’m playing FIFA or when I’m playing or watching football,” he claims. He’s probably got a wife who’s always nagging him, and this is his moment to release.’”Īmateur psychologists might point to this childhood episode as a precursor to Goldbridge’s own bouts of rage. There was this guy about three seats down from us and he would stand up and go, ‘Nigel Clough! Lay down and die!’ My dad would turn round and tell me, ‘Look, this is his moment. “But we lived in Nottingham so my dad used to take me to watch Forest games on a weekend. My dad’s a Chelsea fan and my mum’s a United fan. ![]() “But my mum and dad separated when I was about six. “People call me a Forest fan because I’m from Nottingham,” says Goldbridge. Indeed, this has led to even more cynical observers coming up with a conspiracy theory. Then I did a couple of Man United reactions and they were getting more interaction than the generic thing.”īasing his output around the self-styled biggest football club in the world obviously has its advantages in terms of finding an audience. Initially I started it off as a more generic thing, just talking about weekly Premier League predictions. “I thought YouTube probably wasn’t a bad idea, to put a video up to say how you feel and get people to comment below. I was lying on a lilo in the pool and just thought that I’d spent a lot of time on forums straight after a game, venting out and then waiting for people to reply. “England had just been knocked out and I went on holiday to Majorca. “It started in 2014 at the World Cup,” he says. Now approaching five years on screen, Goldbridge remembers the genesis of the channel. As he freely admits, when he started broadcasting he was still in the police – investigating financial fraud – so had to come up with an alias. The man sat in front of me is one Brent Di Cesare, an ex-copper. The waters are muddied further by the revelation that there is no Mark Goldbridge. “I’ll go and get a job acting then,” he chuckles. There have even been suggestions that Goldbridge is a construct, a character played by a comedy actor. They were the two I grew up watching when I was really little, and then into my teens – I’m Alan Partridge, The Office, Phoenix Nights and all that lot, so I take it as a compliment.” “There’s probably a bit of Only Fools and Horses in there, and there’s probably bits of Basil Fawlty. “I’ve got no problem with that because we’re all influenced by our upbringing,” he says. They are comparisons he welcomes, though. But it’s this ad-hoc mangling of the language that has resulted in his subscriber base shooting upwards despite a number of detractors, some of whom point out his similarities to both David Brent and Alan Partridge. Technically, the collective noun for ants is a colony. ![]()
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