Fans baffled as Mark Goldbridge 'chats up Alisha Lehmann' on Baller League live watchalong

FANS BAFFLED

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FOOTBALL fans have joked Mark Goldbridge was “chatting up” Alisha Lehmann during their unexpected collab at Ballers League.

The YouTuber and Manchester United fan joined the Juventus star to discuss the tournament’s opening matches from London’s Copper Box.

Lehmann, a former WSL star dubbed the ‘World’s Sexiest Footballer’, co-owns a team in the competition.

The 26-year-old joined up with TV personality Maya Jama to watch their MVPs United face FC Rule The World.

During the contest, Sky viewers were treated to a sit-down interview between streamer Goldbridge and the Swiss striker.

But in an awkward start, Goldbridge said: “We’re going to have to share the microphone. It’s a technical issue.”

Lehmann claimed she was delighted with her team’s 5-4 victory in the tournament opener.

But the interview had to be cut short as a flustered Goldbridge appeared to forget if MVPs United had won a bonus point.

Reacting to the unexpected collab, one confused fan wrote on X: “Mark Goldbridge chatting up Alisha Lehmann on a Monday night wasn’t on my Bingo card.”

While a second joked: “We’ve got Mark Goldbridge and Alisha Lehmann on the same stream before GTA VI.”

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Lehmann spent three years in the WSL with Aston Villa but moved to Serie A club Juventus last summer.

She joined her boyfriend Douglas Costa at the club in a first-ever boyfriend-girlfriend transfer.

Maya Jama and Alisha Lehmann team up to become managers of Baller League team

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Boasting almost 17 million Instagram fans, Lehmann is a successful model away from the pitch.

And she appears to have a knack for management after MVPs United roared to victory in their opening match.

Lehmann said: “I think it’s always good to start a tournament with a win. It gives us a good feeling.

“We will analyse this game. From game one, game two and game three will be better. People will know the ground and the ball.

“We have space to work on. The players need to get used to the pitch.

“The quality will also be better!”

The Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates delivered a letter to Los Angeles elected officials on Tuesday, March 25, urging them to avoid across-the-board cuts without considering their long-term impacts and offered recommendations to address a nearly $1 billion deficit at City Hall in the coming fiscal year.

Glenn Bailey and Jay Handal, co-chairs of the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, delivered the group’s annual White Paper, a report on the city’s spending and services, to Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles City Council. They urged the city to evaluate the structure of city departments and to consolidate them if necessary, as well as to consider moving employees back into City Hall or offer work-from-home opportunities to reduce costs with leases.

“This is a pivotal moment in our city’s history,” the letter reads. “It is not a time for politics but for responsible financial stewardship. We must make tough but rational decisions.”

“This is also an opportunity to think about what kind of city we want in 10 years and structure the decisions accordingly,” the letter continued.

The budget advocates also noted that history has shown “indiscriminate reductions” — especially in revenue-generating departments — can result in unintended consequences. They warned against slashing critical administrative functions such as personnel, which could leave the city struggling to recover once economic conditions improve.

In the letter, the budget advocates provided the following recommendations:

— Update the four-year General Fund budget outlook to reflect anticipated raises for city employees;

— Develop a two-year budget;

— Conduct open and transparent labor negotiations that require significant outreach to Angelenos before, during and after the negotiations;

— Place a ballot measure that would prohibit the city from entering into any labor agreement that would create a current or future deficit, which in the short term could be implemented via an ordinance;

— Develop a long-term infrastructure plan;

— Create robust reserve fund that can only be used in declared emergencies and not to balance the budget (a current practice); and

— Establish an Office of Transparency and Accountability to oversee the city’s budget and finances in real time.

In its 116-page report, the budget advocates also provide a department-by-department list of potential cost-saving measures, which can be viewed at budgetadvocates.org/white-papers.

Under a system established in 1999, members of Neighborhood Councils are volunteers elected by residents of their respective communities. The councils advocate on issues such as homelessness, housing, land use and public safety.