Brent Di Cesare (born 7 April 1979), known by his online

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Mark Goldbridge, is an English

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known for hosting The United Stand, a fan channel for the

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football club

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Personal life

Goldbridge was born Brent Di Cesare on 7 April 1979 in

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...

and attended

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. He lives in

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as of 2019. He has stated that he created the alias when he started his YouTube career. This alias was used at the request of his employers during his job as a police officer investigating

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YouTube career

Goldbridge has four YouTube channels: "The United Stand", which consists of Manchester United content; "That's Football", which consists of general football content and watchalongs of non-Manchester United matches; "Mark Goldbridge That's Entertainment", which consists of clips from his recent livestreams; and "Mark Goldbridge", which includes more personal content such as cooking,

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and general chit-chats. Goldbridge started The United Stand in 2014 under the name "Soccer Box TV", providing videos on

match predictions. He then switched his content to post-match reactions of Manchester United games. Later, Goldbridge started live streaming watchalongs of the matches.

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has described these as "an amateur online version of

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' ''

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''". In April 2022, Goldbridge made his

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debut, presenting a late-night show. In September 2022, Goldbridge was invited to be one of the managers in the

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. There were two teams in the charity match. Sidemen FC which included the Sidemen and a few select influencers, including

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and

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. The other team was the YouTube All Stars which included social media influencers such as

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and Noah Beck. Goldbridge managed the YouTube All Stars, who lost 8–7 to Sidemen FC. In total, they raised over £1,000,000 for their select charities. In March 2023, Mark Goldbridge held his first ever live-shows with The United Stand. The shows took place in

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, Manchester and London. In September 2023, Goldbridge was back for the Sidemen Charity Match as manager of YouTube All Stars, where they raised over £2,400,000 in just two hours. The Sidemen won the match, beating the YouTube All Stars 8–5. Miniminter, W2S and

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were all on the score sheet for Sidemen FC, while ChrisMD,

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and Niko Omilana were on target for the All-Stars. In November 2023, Goldbridge raised over £52,000 for the end-of-life charity

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. This was part of his yearly charity live stream which saw Goldbridge participate in a number of video games on YouTube for 24 hours.

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