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CAS judgement: UEFA ban overturned, City exonerated (report out p603)
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tolmie's hairdoo
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Haha, me neither. Although I always liked Brian Glanville - he may have smelled and dressed like a tramp but I never had the feeling he could be bought.
It's quite sad actually, only last few years I woke up to it.
They aren't friends, they aren't even acquaintances, just people working you and others.
I hated what the job had turned me in to, worrying nightly what others thought about you, how I could keep earning, the people you have to suck up to.
I attended CBT therapy last year and my counsellor pretty much sat open-mouthed throughout, hearing how as a teenager I once had a telephone thrown at my head in the office, always being told I was a useless ****, people mocking me when it could clearly be seen I was upset, editors ringing me at 2am to have a go at me.
Hearing sexist comments, jobs for the boys, token offerings to minority reporters to tick a box.
I thought you had to take all that to get on and get on I did, but she explained that was not normal human behaviour, I had been taken advantage of from a very young age, straight out of school, fuelling anxieties and insecurities which will take a long time to fix.
tolmie's hairdoo
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Always first there, always sat on the front row and always shoehorning his ability to speak several foreign languages into any news conference
I once had the misfortune to sit with Steven Howard at a semi-final.
Fucking hell, I was drunk just smelling him.
A bit like Dave Whelan broken leg, someone would always bring up he used to date Kate O' Mara.
One of most genuine people I have encountered in football was Sir Bobby Robson.
As for journos, old schoolers such as Mike Ellis and Alec Johnson were always class acts towards kids like me coming through.
blueyorkie
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Well, it's been brewing ever since I observed the nauseating, hysterical, hyperbolic glee with which the football press responded to the original Der Spiegel stories based on the Football Leaks materials. I've been waiting ever since to have my say once the matter was properly disposed of, a moment that arrived with this week's publication of the full CAS report.
It probably also doesn't help that I'm currently in a Russian hospital undergoing treatment for Covid and associated pneumonia. I can't say I felt in much of a mood to soft-soap my views, to be honest. (I'm doing fine and am much improved compared with my rather pitiful state earlier in the week, thanks.)
Get well soon pal
portisheadblue
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Didn't Winter ask Mancini at his first presser as manager if he knew the sort of people he was now working for?
He certainly did .... I was somewhat gob-smacked with his language .... but the sneer was all over his face .... and it needed a nose as long as his to look down over.
He went on my shit list that day and he’s still there.
Prestwich_Blue
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Sometimes it said "the Panel" and sometimes it mentioned a majority.I don't think I've seen it mentioned by anyone - I must have overlooked when it was!
I did wonder whether the report said 'unanimous' anywhere in it.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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When you think about it, over the last 10 years, they’ve had weekly press conferences from Pep, Mancini, Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson to name 6. Some of the finest tactical minds ever to have coached/managed in the history of football and all they can ask them are the same inane questions, week after week. Tactical insight questions? None. Questions about the game coming up? None. Insightful questions about the game just played? None. Charlatans and frauds is applicable to the majority of them, sadly.I've attended a few press conferences at City and I’m always struck by how utterly childish the press pack are - they are like kids on a school trip. No respect, no decorum and utterly unprofessional pretty much all of them.
When you think about it, over the last 10 years, they’ve had weekly press conferences from Pep, Mancini, Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson to name 6. Some of the finest tactical minds ever to have coached/managed in the history of football and all they can ask them are the same inane questions, week after week. Tactical insight questions? None. Questions about the game coming up? None. Insightful questions about the game just played? None. Charlatans and frauds is applicable to the majority of them, sadly.
Because all they are about is a headline they not interested in tactics of a team.
Mr.Banks
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When you think about it, over the last 10 years, they’ve had weekly press conferences from Pep, Mancini, Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson to name 6. Some of the finest tactical minds ever to have coached/managed in the history of football and all they can ask them are the same inane questions, week after week. Tactical insight questions? None. Questions about the game coming up? None. Insightful questions about the game just played? None. Charlatans and frauds is applicable to the majority of them, sadly.
You only tend to get those questions from the foreign journos. If you watch Pep's pressers, especially the CL ones, his whole demeanour changes when he is asked those type of questions. Before that he looks like he'd rather be anywhere else.
LongsightM13
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Wasn’t Howard also the actor Leslie Howard’s son or grandson?It's quite sad actually, only last few years I woke up to it.
They aren't friends, they aren't even acquaintances, just people working you and others.
I hated what the job had turned me in to, worrying nightly what others thought about you, how I could keep earning, the people you have to suck up to.
I attended CBT therapy last year and my counsellor pretty much sat open-mouthed throughout, hearing how as a teenager I once had a telephone thrown at my head in the office, always being told I was a useless ****, people mocking me when it could clearly be seen I was upset, editors ringing me at 2am to have a go at me.
Hearing sexist comments, jobs for the boys, token offerings to minority reporters to tick a box.
I thought you had to take all that to get on and get on I did, but she explained that was not normal human behaviour, I had been taken advantage of from a very young age, straight out of school, fuelling anxieties and insecurities which will take a long time to fix.
James Lawton was a kind old soul with a soft spot for City
LongsightM13
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Lol the working classes have always in the main tried to dress sharp, from teds to mods and casuals, it’s the toffs and their middle class tribute acts who think it’s a statement to cut about looking like you’ve been chained to a radiator in Beirut for a year.Fucking hell, if a bloke from Lingsight is caking then scruffy! No offence
At a big boxing night once, I sat their pissing myself as two journos turned up in almost identical tweed jackets. Then spent the next three hours arguing over whose was more expensive, eventually had to be separated after almost coming to blows
LongsightM13
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Castles?One cannot hope to bribe or twist
(Thank God) the British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to.
Chesterton?
BringBackSwales
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Listen mate I’ve been out in Longsight and even I felt well dressedLol the working classes have always in the main tried to dress sharp, from teds to mods and casuals, it’s the toffs and their middle class tribute acts who think it’s a statement to cut about looking like you’ve been chained to a radiator in Beirut for a year.
At a big boxing night once, I sat their pissing myself as two journos turned up in almost identical tweed jackets. Then spent the next three hours arguing over whose was more expensive, eventually had to be separated after almost coming to blows
M18CTID
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I would like to see the rumoured merger of Etihad and Emirates.
1. It would mightily piss of the Arse, who would be dropped.
2. Since no journo has criticised Arse for that sponsorship, it would be very funny watching them twist in the wind as they tried to explain why our new sponsorship was different.
I said the other week that Arsenal aren’t the brightest as they’re the one club we could really damage for getting involved in sending THAT letter to CAS. If City wanted to be proper c*nts about it, our owner only has to make one phone call and Emirates pull the plug on their long-standing sponsorship deal with Arsenal. Of course, I think there are still several years to run on the present Emirates deal but I’d guess there are conditions in the contract and perhaps they could legitimately cancel it on the grounds that Arsenal tried to fuck us over.
MillionMilesAway
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Wasn’t Howard also the actor Leslie Howard’s son or grandson?
James Lawton was a kind old soul with a soft spot for City
Was that 70s City?
I thought the last years at the Indie he was so pro-Utd and not in favour of City it was laughable. Seemed to be quite well respected in the industry though.
MillionMilesAway
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One cannot hope to bribe or twist
(Thank God) the British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to.
Chesterton?
Google says Wolfe, 1930.
Never heard of him!
M18CTID
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I doubt CFCB would claim that, although it seems that UEFA were trying to do so in 2014. If CFCB were to claim that Etihad, Etisalat and City were related parties then their whole argument about disguised owner investment falls flat on his face. CFCB's interest would be in showing they weren't. But it's irrelevant as their was no owner funding of these sponsorships.
They paid a load of money for lawyers, who lost the case, when they could have come to me and I'd have put them right.
Yep. All they had to do was read the Open Skies document and it was all in there. Fucking idiots.
LongsightM13
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He wrote an award winning book about the Mercer era shortly before his death but I’d expect that as the industry changed he knew which way the wind was blowingWas that 70s City?
I thought the last years at the Indie he was so pro-Utd and not in favour of City it was laughable. Seemed to be quite well respected in the industry though.
LongsightM13
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The likes of Delaney, Harris x 2 and the other dicks dismissed it out of hand as irrelevantYep. All they had to do was read the Open Skies document and it was all in there. Fucking idiots.