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

meltonblue said:
The reaction to today has showed that this isn’t over yet.

There’s a couple of key bits to me. The first one is the narrative being set around the evidence being not established. I have a feeling a few will have even more egg on their faces when the CAS details fully come out and it shows that the evidence was so easily refutable it begs the question why Uefa felt it was anywhere near conclusive enough in the first place.

The second bit is around the time barring. I’ve seen a few journalists make snide remarks about the best lawyers or us getting off on a technicality. I have not seen one properly question how on earth Uefa could think they could possibly charge us, breaching their own regulations in doing so. Not only that but also after being pulled up by CAS for trying to do exactly the same already when they overruled them in the PSG case.

If you couple those two together, it’s beyond incompetence to me, to the point of even wondering if this outcome is actually what Uefa wanted all along (conspiracy theory I know!). Show publicly they’re doing what the ECA wanted them to knowing that it was destined to fail and then use that as a basis to properly overhaul the system.

The fact that not a single journalist has properly picked up on that though and not really questioned the real story here, which is the actions of Uefa and the underlying motives behind it, means there’s still a lot more mileage in this yet.

Bring it on :)
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The point is we went to CAS fighting UEFAs compliance with their own rules not the fairness of them.
We won using their own unfair rules against them.
 
Elliot houghton said:
This is brilliant
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The Delaney tweet just cracks me up every time.

Every other journalist is hiding behind the time-barred thing, but Delaney is so fucking petty and gets in so many scraps with city fans online that he managed to outright dismiss it as a possibility and insulted anyone who thought it could be.

CAS couldn't have drafted a ruling to make him look more of a cretin if they tried.
 
SilverFox2 said:
The point is we went to CAS fighting UEFAs compliance with their own rules not the fairness of them.
We won using their own unfair rules against them.
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I know, that’s my point! CAS has already found against them once for the exact same scenario, that is beyond incompetence to the point I really question the underlying motives.
 
Every single article I’ve read from this afternoon onwards is the same cockroach’s praying the premier league investigation can nail us these fuckers are so desperate it’s a disgrace!
 
Now we have beaten UEFA I wonder what shit the Premier League will throw at us and will any of it stick? Could we finish up back at CAS but this time fighting the Premier League?
 
Kazzydeyna said:
More proof if it was ever needed that this whole fight has been one, not for our ability to compete in the CL for a year or two, but for our very existence as a top club.

What a brilliant article. A must read for those who thought talk of our being destroyed for a generation if we had lost today was so so ott.
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Samuel is a proper old-school journalist who is not driven by clickbait. He knows that the real story behind the smear campaign against City is a bigger one than the "Arab oil cheats" narrative peddled by most of his churnalist colleagues.
 
How about a colossal yell of thanks to Khaldoon and the backroom team. Our lawyers - just like our players on the pitch - an amazing team. It's not just a case of being innocent, you have to prove it against a twisted organisation and their FFP which restricts trade and is like some 1980s command and control Soviet Block communist idea.
 
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