UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[denislawsbackheel]

Fifteen two, fifteen four, fifteen six and two for his knob...

 

[Rammy Blue]

I’ve got a new phone that I’m struggling to come to terms with...

Just gone straight to voicemail again, try switching the fucking thing on!?

 

[M18CTID]

Just gone straight to voicemail again, try switching the fucking thing on!?

Reminds me of a scene from The Thin Blue Line:

Detective Inspector Derek Grim : [trying to get on the internet] I've booted up, I've patched in, I'm online, offline, downloaded

[shouts]

Detective Inspector Derek Grim : and extremely cheesed off!

DC Robert Kray : You need to integrate your power supply at source, sir.

Detective Inspector Derek Grim : What?

DC Robert Kray : Plug it in!

 

[Paladin]

We used to play cribbage at lunchtime at school when we fancied a change from playing bridge.

You call yourself posh but I bet you didn't play bridge at school.

Our Biology teacher, Olive Lines, taught a few of us how to play Bridge, in the sixth form, back in the seventies.

She went on The Generation Game and won a cuddly toy and a conveyor belt and other random stuff. Nice lady.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I wasn’t looking for a rational response, I was hoping to hear of physical violence, you are such a fucking accountant

Whatever people say about Conn, he's honest (even if you don't agree with him), thinks for himself and isn't in anyone's pocket unlike most journalists. I may not agree with something he says but he never twists facts to make a point, unlike those at Der Spiegel and many other supposedly quality journals. You get depth and insight from him that few other writers can match.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

We used to play cribbage at lunchtime at school when we fancied a change from playing bridge.

You call yourself posh but I bet you didn't play bridge at school.

We played it occasionally, not often. Burnage High was that kind of place (ahem).

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Just gone straight to voicemail again, try switching the fucking thing on!?

Just tried calling you back!

 

[Gazza]

Our Biology teacher, Olive Lines, taught a few of us how to play Bridge, in the sixth form, back in the seventies.

She went on The Generation Game and won a cuddly toy and a conveyor belt and other random stuff. Nice lady.

Maybe she thought bridge was a good game, good game.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

No they were guilty, they just got found not guilty due to good briefs

That’s where I’ve gone wrong, should put on my best briefs, and not my lucky ones!

 

[Ric]

Someone help me out here. Is this saying CAS' verdict is out today on whether UEFA's investigation is legitimate?

Yeah, just the CAS verdict today I think, but if they were to find in our favour then presumably that'd be the end of the UEFA case?

 

[Mid Wales blue]

I`m getting quite moist think about that.At my age I could well have pissed myself though.

At your age, you’d have forgotten you pissed yourself!

 

[Rolee]

Yeah, just the CAS verdict today I think, but if they were to find in our favour then presumably that'd be the end of the UEFA case?

Cheers. I was under the impression the CAS case hadn't even had a date set for hearing.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Makes you wonder doesn't it? To be fair, on this occasion Sam Lee seems to have broken the story first but put a much longer timeline on when an announcement would be made

I know Tariq Panja has come in for a lot of stick from our fans but all I've really seen from him is him breaking stories that have been leaked to him which is what any journalist would do. Unless I'm mistaken, I've not seen him go down the route of Castles/McKenna/Delaney/Harris x 2/Syed, etc, and announce to the world that the club is guilty

I think the New York Times coverage has been generally excellent and pretty balanced. Tariq Panja has mostly run rings round the UK media. He has reported the wider context of the story instead of just accepting the Der Spiegel coverage as fact. You can't blame him for running stories leaked to him. That's his job. The UK media has been a disgrace and have missed the bigger story. British hacks have hardly covered the Rui Pinto case which is the basis for everything. They just want to kick city.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Yeah, just the CAS verdict today I think, but if they were to find in our favour then presumably that'd be the end of the UEFA case?

You'd imagine so. But it's not clear who is giving a verdict today. Maybe the story about a fine is muddying the waters or maybe CAS & UEFA have been collaborating so that CAS refuse to hear our case until UEFA deliver a final verdict.

 

[bluedan]

City have failed

 

[MillionMilesAway]

https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Release_6298.pdf

Relevant bit appears to be this.
The appeal was mainly directed against the decision taken by the Investigatory Chamber (IC) of the UEFA CFCB regarding MCFC’s alleged non-compliance with UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations. In its decision of 15 May 2019, the IC decided to refer the matter to the Adjudicatory Chamber (AC) of the UEFA CFCB and to recommend that a sanction be imposed on the club.

The CAS Panel determined that MCFC’s appeal was inadmissible, considering that “An appeal against the decision of a federation, association or sports-related body may be filed with CAS (…) if the Appellant has exhausted the legal remedies available to it prior to the appeal, in accordance with the statutes or regulations of that body.” (Article R47 of the CAS Rules). In the present case, the decision rendered by the CFCB IC to refer a case to the CFCB AC is not final and can therefore not be appealed to CAS directly, because the AC is competent to take any of the decisions listed in Article 27 CFCB Procedural Rules, that are described as being final.

 

[paulchapo]

Rabin has done a huge tweet absolutely destroying Syed, not sure if it's already been posted apologies if it has.

 

[Claytop]

So they've deemed the appeal as inadmissible because we've not exhausted other available avenues first?

Or actually because we've not had the final decision/punishment from the AC?

 

[BringBackSwales]

Whatever people say about Conn, he's honest (even if you don't agree with him), thinks for himself and isn't in anyone's pocket unlike most journalists. I may not agree with something he says but he never twists facts to make a point, unlike those at Der Spiegel and many other supposedly quality journals. You get depth and insight from him that few other writers can match.

You should try violence, you are far too rational lol

 

[Claytop]

You'd imagine so. But it's not clear who is giving a verdict today. Maybe the story about a fine is muddying the waters or maybe CAS & UEFA have been collaborating so that CAS refuse to hear our case until UEFA deliver a final verdict.

Nailed it!