Have just sent this to the BBC :
As has come to be expected, BBC Sport continuously act as a propaganda mouthpiece for Liverpool FC and Manchester Utd FC. Today, the full CAS report on Manchester City FC’s case was released, the key takeaways being UEFA used doctored emails as evidence and evidence from before FFPR existed. The case proved City’s innocence at what was accused, that they disguised equity as sponsorship, the only thing City were guilty of was refusing to cooperate with a corrupt case by holding back evidence so they could use it in court. City have cleared their name but that didn’t stop the BBC Sport department using their main headline on the issue to focus on the lack of cooperation on City’s part. You decided to take the most negative sentence towards City in the whole thing, in dozens and dozens of pages, ignoring the most important factor of the case, to continue to push a narrative of guilt.
As a City fan, I don’t expect preferential treatment, we know we won’t get it, even up against a foreign organisation that has now proven to have conspired against a British organisation... but we do expect fairness, not reporting the one negative in dozens of pages of a report that has proven innocence as your headline.
Would your regular news channel run a headline of a defendant initially resisting arrest, when someone has been through 6 months worth of a murder trial, only to be found that they weren’t in the country when the murder took place? Or would you run the headline as the defendant being found innocent?
I don’t need an answer to that, I know it.
Why do I pay you TV license money to see such impartiality?
You should change the headline to “UEFA used doctored emails as evidence, proving City’s innocence”.
Will you though? Of course not.