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

tolmie's hairdoo said:
Bosses are looking forward to the CAS explanations, believe it will tell a few more home truths.

I can't believe the number of inaccuracies spouted by that guy on SkySports at the top of each hour.

At no stage has anyone recognised the actual main charge of inflating sponsorship was completely dismissed.

This clown even stated David Silva will probably stay now.

Dick.
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Even Mrs Daze spotted that one! Says a lot about so called professional commentators
 
SebastianBlue said:
What did he say?

Hate him as a player but I have found him to be generally tolerable as a pundit and did actually expect him to be more objective in his remarks, to be honest.
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He blames the incompetence of Uefa for the outcome rather than the fact we were innocent. Which I don’t agree with. But his views on FFP are sound - owners should spend what they can afford
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I especially like the thick fucks, and I include professionals in there who really should know better, who are linking the ‘didn’t fully cooperate’ with certain issues being time bound thus suggesting that we’ve not cooperated to ‘drag it out’ thereby ensuring the time limits were breached.
This country really does need to invest in a much better education system as people seem unable to grasp concepts which are easier than simple. Unless there are suddenly a raft of job opportunities involving piss-boiling, they’re doomed....
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Those responsible for recruiting them need to be seriously questioned too,
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Bosses are looking forward to the CAS explanations, believe it will tell a few more home truths.

I can't believe the number of inaccuracies spouted by that guy on SkySports at the top of each hour.

At no stage has anyone recognised the actual main charge of inflating sponsorship was completely dismissed.

This clown even stated David Silva will probably stay now.

Dick.
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I think the delay is brilliant. CAS have inadvertently given the media 4 or 5 days worth of rope, and they are hanging themselves en masse, writing up their angry, bitter responses and opining on morality without even seeing the reasons.

Even the normally sensible, like Henry Winter, haven't managed to keep their powder dry for just a couple of days until they got the reasoning.


I feel quite confident that 90% of the articles written today will be completely wrong factually by Saturday.
 
I have to hold my hands up. I've worked in newspapers for almost 40 years now ... including working with the sports desks at The Sun, The Daily Star, The Expess and the Mirror among others, as well as all the football mags ... and never really subscribed to the idea that there was a deliberate, coordinated bias against City. It seemed to me that papers, traditionally, would just seize on whatever the big story was and pursue it, regardless of the personal loyalties of individual journos and editors. But the coverage of City and FPP, compounded by the reaction to the CAS ruling today, has been eye-opening. I don't know whether it is tribal, or hubris and a refusal to concede that they were wrong ... or more depressingly, just plain old racism and xenophobia ... but the vitriol and antipathy towards our club across swathes of UK print media is irrefutable. Hands held up.
 
cleavers said:
Perhaps we even conspired with him to do that ? Maybe he wasn't at those games to convince us, maybe we were convincing him to let us take it down ? It would seem a very high risk strategy that, because if we'd failed it would be a heavy loss financially.
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I wondered about because he seemed to distance himself from it from the beginning. If he knew how weak the case was and knew it was a rushed hatchet job that wouldn't stand up in a court he may have been convinced that City would beat it. As you said maybe that meeting was convenient for both parties involved.
 
TueartsOHK said:
He blames the incompetence of Uefa for the outcome rather than the fact we were innocent. Which I don’t agree with. But his views on FFP are sound - owners should spend what they can afford
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Yes, I completely disagree with his assessment of the reason the ban was overturned; though, I imagine that may have been more calculated self-preservation than anything, given his allegiances and employers.

His view on FFP, from what I have heard, are very much anchored in his investment in Salford City, so no surprise he would come down more on our side than UEFA’s there.
 
Had a fillet steak meal tonight to celebrate.

It tasted awful; ruined by all the salt!
 
BigJoe#1 said:
I genuinely believe that had Leicester won yesterday, we may have seen a different verdict... possibly a year, but hey ho, now united are likely to get CL football next season by way of finishing fourth we are okay!
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I think the verdict was delivered long before yesterday’s match. it was originally scheduled for last Friday, but UEFA requested that it be moved because of the draws.
 
lonestay said:
Think someone has had a word with Dan Roan this BBC report he is doing on 6pm news is almost fair!!!
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It's changed but he still reckons that FFP is defeated and clubs will be able to spend what they want and transfer fees will spiral out of control. City ruining football with their money is the usual bollocks. We have no record transfers! Also put UEFA guy on before that reckons football will just be a spending competition between Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. Not in the slightest racist.
 
We should look at legal action against Dan Roan - 6 o'clock news - still trying to make out in that clever journalistic way of twisting things, that we're guilty even though the headline is exonerated/innocent.
 
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