Everton's academy has a close link with Liverpool council as shown in this article, I'm not suggesting it's related to the tweets, just pointing out that public funds can be linked.Although I think you're right about them not being connected I wouldn't have thought public funds were accessible for building academies.
Great post, sums up exactly how City are viewed and manhandled by the English media. There is every chance what you predict will come to fruition with our academy and the class of 92 will fade year by yearThey are just getting the innuendo in early.
As we continue to sweep all before us at youth level, as we prepare for yet another youth final, this article comes out.
As we are close to bringing 2 or 3 lads through into the first team, this will get worse. The clear insinuation being that "he came from City's tainted youth system".
Every expert in the football world has been telling us for 20 years that 'the class of 92' was unique. A never to be repeated example of how 'a proper football club does it'. As there is now a strong likelihood this will be not just repeated but superseded the narrative has to be started that we have somehow cheated or acted improperly.
There is a very clear reason the great British media have it in for city.
That Indy article is written by a blue
We haven't been charged with anything, it's just normal diligence on youth transfers.
They are just getting the innuendo in early.
As we continue to sweep all before us at youth level, as we prepare for yet another youth final, this article comes out.
As we are close to bringing 2 or 3 lads through into the first team, this will get worse. The clear insinuation being that "he came from City's tainted youth system".
Every expert in the football world has been telling us for 20 years that 'the class of 92' was unique. A never to be repeated example of how 'a proper football club does it'. As there is now a strong likelihood this will be not just repeated but superseded the narrative has to be started that we have somehow cheated or acted improperly.
There is a very clear reason the great British media have it in for city.
"Man pays for £15 shopping with £20 note, gets £5 change!"This seems to be the oddest thing that it's even been mentioned as an investigation.
Sign player => review that proper procedures have been followed.
If it's automatically triggered, and there is no fault found, then it's not even news.
Yes, when he was still reading English at Oxford, Jack used to publish a blog entitled The Lonesome Death of Roy Carroll, which was the best City blog of the time. The last update was just over 6 years ago: http://tldorc.blogspot.ru/ - presumably finals and then his new career intervened after that.
To be fair, the headline and sub-heading (which won't be his work) make much more of a point of the investigation than the article does. He doesn't give it much emphasis at all, IMO.