Media thread 2022/23

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BeerIsTheBest said:
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i suspect this is more water off the oil soiled ducks back.

Below extract was publicly available in June this year and currently resides on the internet. ‘Facts’ backed up by a mysterious City employee via an intermediary! And fresh evidence at that!!!!! It’s recycled and discredited horseshit that was trashed at CAS.

Still he has to make a living I suppose

‘The only solution to the overwhelming greed at the top of European football is intervention by the European Union.

That was the key take-away from the final panel of the third day of Play the Game 2022, entitled ‘Billionaires and breakaways: Is that the future of football?’, as a distinguished line-up exposed multiple instances of avarice and self-interest.

The government in United Arab Emirates paid sponsorship deal​

Opening the panel, English journalist Nick Harris provided fresh evidence of how Manchester City, which is owned by Emirati royal Sheikh Mansour, managed to get around UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules in a sponsorship deal with Etihad Airlines from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Harris said: “In 2014, after City’s first punishment, an employee at Etihad, via an intermediary, alleged to me that Etihad’s sponsorship department was only paying 8 million GBP a year of the 35 million+ money, and the rest was being paid in disguised – and banned – funding via other entities controlled by Sheikh Mansour.

“The employee could not risk their job and go on the record, and City said “no comment”, and the story didn’t run. Later I got documents that apparently showed it was true, and lots of more documents and correspondence publish by Der Spiegel backed this up,” Harris said.

Harris brandished a falsified invoice from Manchester City to Etihad claiming 12 million GBP in sponsorship. Producing another document, Harris explained: “And here is an email from Etihad to City, saying, but we only have to pay 4 millions of this, you need get the rest from Abu Dhabi’s Executive Affairs Authority, a branch of government in the UAE.”

The meeting ended with a rendition of Blue Moon.
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Nostrils Harris has got issues.

He's definitely on the spectrum along with that other thicko deloony.
 
Devil's Advocate said:
Funding from the Executive Council?
Sounds like Harris picked-up on your Open Skies revelation.
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I probably shared it with him quite a while before the CAS case. I got it off the New York District Court website, where the case was heard, and it'd been circulating well before that.

None of these supposedly shit-hot "investigative" journalists like him & Conn managed to find it. They needed me to point it out to them.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I probably shared it with him quite a while before the CAS case. I got it off the New York District Court website, where the case was heard, and it'd been circulating well before that.

None of these supposedly shit-hot "investigative" journalists like him & Conn managed to find it. They needed me to point it out to them.
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Both probably attended the in-depth investigation techniques seminar run by Merseyside Police
 
Rashford to lead Engerland to world cup glory after an electrifying display against Villa...
 
bluealf said:
Again, he didn't deserve to be in the team of the tournament, I thought I'd made that clear.

I don't care about Tarkowski either tbh it was more the point we are taking a fucking shite defender to a world cup, a defender that would struggle to be our 6th best CB.

You keep saying unproven, we have had countless friendlies for these unproven players to be given a chance, what is going to happen, for the next WC, you wheeling slabhead out in a wheelchair?

He would certainly be faster like that.

Over the last few years, there has been plenty of players selected because of club bias.
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I'm ignoring your point on what he deserved because he got in the team of the tournament. It happened, it's a fact. He was part of a squad that conceded two goals in the whole tournament, one a free kick, one from a corner. Not bad.

Southgate has played others and they've not proven it for England or at their clubs. Maguire gets in on what he has done before, end of story. It's a simple choice.

I remember Kompany having long spells of injuries and poor form but he would still be in for the big game because he had never let us down in them. Southgate sees Maguire in the same light. You might think it's mental but the Stones and Maguire or Walker, Stones, Maguire partnership has been very solid for England.

Tell me what your squad would be and I will pick a million fucking holes in it. You'd do the same to mine. His squad is about the best he can pick. The debate is around 1 or 2 players who won't see a minute of football unless there are injuries anyway.
 
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supercity88 said:
I'm ignoring your point on what he deserved because he got in the team of the tournament. It happened, it's a fact. He was part of a squad that conceded two goals in the whole tournament, one a free kick, one from a corner. Not bad.

Southgate has played others and they've not proven it for England or at their clubs. Maguire gets in on what he has done before, end of story. It's a simple choice.

I remember Kompany having long spells of injuries and poor form but he would still be in for the big game because he had never let us down in them. Southgate sees Maguire in the same light. You might think it's mental but the Stones and Maguire or Walker, Stones, Maguire partnership has been very solid for England.

Tell me what your squad would be and I will pick a million fucking holes in it. You'd do the same to mine. His squad is about the best he can pick. The debate is around 1 or 2 players who won't see a minute of football unless there are injuries anyway.
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I can only imagine the disappointment you'll feel soon enough.

Also putting Kompany in the same sentence as slabhead, fucking hell.
 
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bluealf said:
I can only imagine the disappointment you'll feel soon enough.
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@bluealf Alfie, Alfie lad. Leave it. The man you're having a go at took on the Albanian Mafia. There are not many central defenders/ centre forwards (depending on Ten Bob's mood) in the Premier League that can say that.
Plus as The Clash said 'I fought the law and the law won'
 
Blue Mist said:
@bluealf Alfie, Alfie lad. Leave it. The man you're having a go at took on the Albanian Mafia. There are not many central defenders/ centre forwards (depending on Ten Bob's mood) in the Premier League that can say that.
Plus as The Clash said 'I fought the law and the law won'
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I never ever thought there would be a slabhead fan club on BM, shocking stuff, let's hope it is a membership of one.
 
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