CAS judgement: UEFA ban overturned, City exonerated (report out p603)

[BillyShears]

I am drunk as fuck.

 

[JGL07]

UEFA are simply no longer fit for purpose, be it because they are complicit in protecting the cartel (and we all know who they are), or just generally incompetent in the management of their own business and rules (which are likely to have been created to protect the cartel).
Time for a new euro league perhaps.

Never!

Whatever the limitations of UEFA, they are far better than anything likely to replace them.

The Euro League would be a self-pepetuation of the ‘European Royalty’ including clubs like Milan who ceased to be relevant years ago. There will be guaranteed places for the likes of Man United and Liverpool in perpetuity and I suspect no promotion and relegation. Even if promotion is allowed, you can bet that the financial rules will ensure that none of the ‘upstarts’ can survive.

They want a US-style closed shop like the NFL.

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Maybe just maybe UEFA, The FA and the cartel will now think again before taking Our club on

We are the club who does things the correct way, with our own money, no debt and the best owner in the world

And as people now know we will not be bent over and lubed by self important bullies

 

[Big Chap]

Do one.....

Just sent this to the Times. Will achieve nothing, but feel better now.......

Good afternoon,

Your sport’s correspondent’s article published today at noon titled “Uefa weakened in battle against wealthy clubs....” was ignorant of the facts of the case against Manchester City, and was a disappointingly myopic take on the subject.

Time-barring was only one element that the CAS verdict referred to. More pressing was the fact that the allegations against Manchester City were in relation to matters that were the subject of an earlier investigation and punishment. But Mr Winter does not feel that this element is worthy of comment.

It is a tired trope to accuse Manchester City of benefiting from the wealth of the owners, having been fully compliant with the flawed FFP regulations since that time. I appreciate that the Times is a business, and your articles need to generate clicks from readers who will enjoy an article bashing the most successful English club over the last decade.

But Mr Winter’s supercilious tone, without acknowledging the facts of the case, leaves a bad taste. An apology would be too much to ask for, but I ask that you recommend to your Chief Football Writer that he bothers to investigate the facts of topics that he chooses to opine on. After all, that’s what journalists are supposed to do, isn’t it?

 

[lee one pen]

Fuc*ing love pep more than ever. He's been letting us know since Friday. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.

 

[Bluemoonbaldboy]

It’s funny reading the meltdown over social media of rival fans. They seem to think the fine is a reduced punishment. We’ve been exonerated and have been fined for not cooperating which we did when the UEFA investigator leaked the verdict before he’d even seen the clubs records

 

[salfordbluetrue]

Well that puts the FA in a pickle, if we would have been found guilty, they could have had a field day with sanctions without fear, but now they have to deal with the Hateful Eight and their illegal formation, of course they are going to hide them but they can not if we go after them:)

 

[Ban-jani]

Lololololololololololol

 

[hertsblue]

It’s funny reading the meltdown over social media of rival fans. They seem to think the fine is a reduced punishment it. We’ve been exonerated and have been fined for not cooperating which we did when the UEFA investigator leaked the verdict before he’d even seen the clubs records

This I hope the clubs make very clear if they do a statement and include details about the 1st time UEFA moved the goalposts after telling us were were fine

 

[Vic]

Thanks ....Laura Whitmore doesn’t strike me as someone who knows who Dan Roan is so think I’ll save the moaning about him for a different audience :)

Well done Rachel. Covered all bases!

 

[EdersonsSmiley]

The world has dumbed down pal, only have to take into account that Donald Trump and Boris Johnson were elected, soundbites, opinions and shear bloddy mindiness are now more important than facts and proper investigative journalism and the drooling, uneducated masses just lap it up no questions asked.

Think the issue now is the morons can communicate with each other on social media and convince themsleves that their rambling are actually intelligent analysis of the issues.

 

[Vic]

The program is still on air until 4pm. If you go to BBC Sounds you should be able to wind back to 2:30 and hear Rachael give a brilliant performance. So measured in her comments and her best wishes to the slightly bitter Sheffield United fan was just perfect. Well done.

Actually about 2.45

 

[Ban-jani]

As long as you're not quoting Thatcher, that's fine.

Let’s not fall out about politics on today of all days.

It was St Francis’s prayer :-)

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

That’s fine for FFP, though, as they did it via substantial loans and revenue from... [checks notes] ...sponsorship of a state owned airline with ties to their management team.

He is such a twat , you would never ever get sick of punching him.

 

[FrankSwift1]

The narrative the media pushing is, they only got off cause the evidence was time barred. Pretty much every paper. What trust I had in the media has been erroded by this saga. They really have no shame.

 

[Big Dave Watson]

BBC sounds.

Click on 5live listen live and you can replay it from 14:30.

Just listened to this, she spoke really well. The Sheff Utd fan came out with the usual uninformed bollocks to start with but then backed away when confronted with some facts.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Clearly guilty?

CAS - Manchester City did not disguise equity funding as sponsorship contributions

CAS - the alleged breaches reported by the Adjudicatory Chamber of the CFCB were either not established or time-barred

Where is the basis for 'clearly guilty' coming from? A couple of out of context emails?

Hasn't this thick c*nt been outed as a contractor for Qatar anyway?

Well, I'd have thought so, but filter it through McKennaWorld and you get gibberish.

 

[Vic]

+1 but also what the fuck is up with the framing of this as City fan vs. Sheffield United fan?

No one has a right to get gifted a CL place because another club has a dispute with UEFA from 2014...

He wasn't too bothered. Just glad to be still in the PM. (Playing in Europe distracted Burnley....)

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

Ian Herbert daily mail he hates us. His headline news is poisonous to our club. Cry me a river hurbert

 

[domalino]

Lololololololololololol

Here's the link to the tweet if you wanted to draw Miguel's attention to how stupid he is.