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Here's the RAWK page of us at 09:31 yesterday when news of our successful appeal came through. Enjoy:
https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=344681.6280
I didn't know Eddie Izzard supported the Dippers!
Back on topic...
Here's the RAWK page of us at 09:31 yesterday when news of our successful appeal came through. Enjoy:
https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=344681.6280
Jesus H!!!Back on topic...
Here's the RAWK page of us at 09:31 yesterday when news of our successful appeal came through. Enjoy:
https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=344681.6280
Usually?The Times' The Game Podcast has Alyson Rudd talking about it. Just listening now. She's usually very biased towards Liverpool so should be interesting.
I particularly like ‘City were fined- that means they were guilty’Tony Attwood has had his say. Check out the comments. “You are aware that City were found not guilty of breaking ffp rules?” someone asks, to which Tony oddly replies “What an extraordinary question”:
https://untold-arsenal.com/archives/82154
Snarky little woman Mourinho isn't she?Gotta laugh at Jose and Klopp being salty about this too.
The wish is father of the thought.Why did they take the 'wrong side of something' in the first place?
I think it may be easier to understand for us having been on the receiving end of piss poor media coverage pretty much as soon as the ink dried on the takeover contract.Regarding the media reaction, even though most don't deserve fairness/would never offer it to City fans in the reverse:
If we are being fair, isn't some of the reaction human nature? Nobody likes being on the wrong side of something, of course their eyes scanned the CAS verdict statement, for something, anything to cling on to. "Ah time-barred, that's it"
I have been asking myself, had this gone the other way, if I'd have been able to hold my hands up, just based on the initial brief statement. Not likely at all, I'd be asking for proof, details, immediately.
The real test is if the details in the coming days, do spell out that there was no technicality to it. That City did not do what they were accused of, for the central element of the case.
Will they then be big enough to say: You know what I can see they didn't do it, I had been convinced UEFA had something but they never did. No clinging on to a smaller irrelevant issue to save face.
I think if UEFA had hard evidence that the money did come from Sheikh Mansour/ADUG, eventually City fans would start looking at the club. Maybe move onto to FFP being a scam, rules that only the elite really wanted etc.
These journalist haven't lost much themselves in this, not the way City fans would have felt had it been upheld. So that should be a much easier task. Perhaps we should wait for the details to emerge and judge them on the reaction to that.
I'm beginning to think that the real reason Liverpool and United fans hate and criticise us so much is nothing to do with the finances. They are just sick and tired of watching City play such brilliant football, week after week, and thinking to themselves...God, if only we could play even half as good as them!!!. Come on City.