Salty reactions from other fans and the media

mat said:
Straw clutching at it's finest.

The hateful 8 were banking on a ban to follow it up by putting a vote of huge points deduction.
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I knew that the PL would investigate if we were found guilty today, but surely the fact we've been exonerated of everything apart from cooperation with UEFA means the PL can't do a thing now? Or have I missed something?
 
ayrshire_blue said:
I knew that the PL would investigate if we were found guilty today, but surely the fact we've been exonerated of everything apart from cooperation with UEFA means the PL can't do a thing now? Or have I missed something?
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There's something about the Dream Academy in Ghana and a Danish club and whether our understandings with them breach rules about youth recruitment and third party ownership, but it's hardly going to enter the realms of points deductions, trophies withdrawn or CAS tribunals.
 
It makes it even better that the salty twats in the media are still peadling shit & twisting things, just shows how much they are hurting.

As for fans of teams outside the what's now the big 6....any with a brain will be able to see this ruling still gives them a possible route up the pole, the others and big 6 followers can fuck right off.
 
MillisleBlue said:
The following are extracts from an article published by The Guardian in April 2019:

Standard Chartered fined $1.1bn for money-laundering and sanctions breaches
Standard Chartered has been ordered to pay $1.1bn (£842m) by US and UK authorities to settle allegations of poor money-laundering controls and breaching sanctions against countries including Iran.

The British bank has agreed to pay $947m to American agencies, including the US Department of Justice, over allegations that it violated sanctions against a string of countries including Iran.

Separately, it was fined £102m by the Financial Conduct Authority for anti-money-laundering breaches that included “shortcomings” in its counter-terrorism finance controls in the Middle East. It is the second-largest fine ever imposed by the UK regulator for anti-money-laundering failures.

The US treasury department said the latest fines settled “apparent violations” of sanctions imposed against Burma, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Sudan, Syria, and Iran.

US assistant attorney general, Brian Benczkowski, said: “Today’s resolution sends a clear message to financial institutions and their employees: if you circumvent US sanctions against rogue states like Iran – or assist those who do – you will pay a steep price.”

The Financial Conduct Authority had raised concerns about anti-money-laundering controls at Standard Chartered’s UK-based correspondent bank and its United Arab Emirates branches. It highlighted “serious shortcomings” in customer due diligence and said the bank also failed to ensure its UAE branches applied proper counter-terrorist financing controls.

The FCA gave examples where a customer was able to open an account by handing over around 3m UAE dirham (£500,000) in cash in a suitcase, with little evidence that the source of the cash was investigated. It also said Standard Chartered failed to collect sufficient information on a customer exporting goods that could have a “military application” to regions involved in armed conflict.

It said Standard Chartered processed transactions worth $438m between 2009 and 2014, the majority of which involved Iran-linked accounts from its Dubai branch routing payments through, or to, its New York office or other US-based banks.

The Rawkites just don't do hypocrisy, do they?
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The one glaring omission in this quote is the fact if we were sponsored by Standard Charter, there would be a reference to City in every other line.
 
Not sure if Ewan MacKenna, (Irish freelance journalist living in Brazil, sometimes writes for NYTimes!), has committed libel with his salty tweets?:

"That some Manchester City fans see this as a game, and come after journalists who have tried to highlight the mass murder of their backers and board shows just how far they've gone and been indoctrinated. That CAS ruling isn't a point back or suddenly making the above alright..."

Followed by:

"Just thinking, Manchester City fans would have loved the OJ Simpson trial. Didn't matter that he was clearly guilty, as long as you can make sure the evidence isn't allowed into the trial, that's the important part and you stroll out with no consequences with blood on your shoes."
 
Plain Speaking said:
Not sure if Ewan MacKenna, (Irish freelance journalist living in Brazil, sometimes writes for NYTimes!), has committed libel with his salty tweets?:

"That some Manchester City fans see this as a game, and come after journalists who have tried to highlight the mass murder of their backers and board shows just how far they've gone and been indoctrinated. That CAS ruling isn't a point back or suddenly making the above alright..."

Followed by:

"Just thinking, Manchester City fans would have loved the OJ Simpson trial. Didn't matter that he was clearly guilty, as long as you can make sure the evidence isn't allowed into the trial, that's the important part and you stroll out with no consequences with blood on your shoes."
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Calling @projectriver .
 
Plain Speaking said:
Not sure if Ewan MacKenna, (Irish freelance journalist living in Brazil, sometimes writes for NYTimes!), has committed libel with his salty tweets?:

"That some Manchester City fans see this as a game, and come after journalists who have tried to highlight the mass murder of their backers and board shows just how far they've gone and been indoctrinated. That CAS ruling isn't a point back or suddenly making the above alright..."

Followed by:

"Just thinking, Manchester City fans would have loved the OJ Simpson trial. Didn't matter that he was clearly guilty, as long as you can make sure the evidence isn't allowed into the trial, that's the important part and you stroll out with no consequences with blood on your shoes."
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‘Gone and been indoctrinated’? Lovely bit of writing- if you’re semi-literate.
If anyone was responsible for making sure that ‘evidence isn’t allowed into the trial’ Then he should be looking at uefa’s foot dragging over the time limitations. They had plenty of time to get their case in before any limits but, I believe, they deliberately missed deadlines for the very purpose of leaving doubts about guilt and technicalities because they knew that they were never going to win on the substantive issues.
 
Bill said:
what a wonderful thread.it is however a waste of time unless the club take action against them. at the very least they or their employers should never set foot in our stadium again.
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Agree Bill. I think the club really need to listen to the fans and understand how much it really pisses us off to hear a load of shite being written about the club, only for the perpetrator to be at pressers or the game. I hope the club treat this ruling as a watershed moment against those who denigrate the club at every opportunity.
 
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