Brent Di Cesare (born 7 April 1979), known by his online pseudonym Mark Goldbridge, is an English YouTuber and radio presenter, best known for his videos and livestreams on the Manchester United-based fan channel The United Stand.
Goldbridge's real name is Brent Di Cesare.
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 financial fraud.
Goldbridge was born on 7 April 1979 in Nottingham and lives in Solihull as of 2019.
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, vlogging and general chit-chats.
2014
Goldbridge started The United Stand in 2014 under the name "Soccer Box TV", providing videos on Premier League match predictions.
He then switched his content to post-match reactions of Manchester United games.
Later, Goldbridge started live streaming watchalongs of the matches.
BBC Sport has described these as "an amateur online version of Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday".
In September 2022, Goldbridge was invited to be one of the managers in the Sidemen charity match.
There were two teams in the charity match.
Sidemen FC which included the Sidemen and a few select influencers, including MrBeast and LazarBeam.
The other team was the YouTube All Stars which included social media influencers such as IShowSpeed 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.
Goldbridge was applauded for injecting his own style of play into his team, which was coined as 'Goldbridge ball'.
In March 2023, Mark Goldbridge held his first ever live-shows with The United Stand.
The shows took place in Dublin, 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 Behzinga were all on the score sheet for Sidemen FC, while ChrisMD, Max Fosh and Niko Omilana were on target for the All-Stars.
Goldbridge received praise for his managerial skills, especially for his rousing half-time team talk.
In November 2023, Goldbridge raised over £52,000 for the end of life charity Marie Curie.
This was part of his yearly charity live stream which saw Goldbridge participate in a number of video games on YouTube for 24 hours.
On 5 February 2024, The United Stand Youtube channel released an interview conducted by Goldbridge with Manchester United striker Rasmus Højlund.
Whilst the interview proved very popular with many channel subscribers, a month later a piece in the Manchester United fanzone United We Stand claimed to unidentified Manchester United players were unhappy with Højlunds' decision to conduct an interview with the channel the unnamed players was 'built on negativity' and that Hojlund had apologised to the unnamed players for it and according to the fanzone piece claiming he didn't know what the channel was, a claim Goldbridge refuted.
Goldbridge in an evening show on The United Stand youtube channel on 10 March 2024 defended the interview saying the interview was vetted and approved by Rasmus Højlund himself and Manchester United.
He also refuted accusations that The United Stand channel focused only on the negatives and claimed that the interview had received over 6 million views across all major social media platforms.
As manager of YouTube All Stars.
In April 2022, Goldbridge made his Talksport debut, presenting a late-night show.
