Yes, we had one or two dalliances with that lot in the late 90s/early 00s. I remember one of them shouting, 'Come on then City, I'll give thee a bunch of sixes'.Remember the fixture well but not the result because we were in the Burnley end getting acquainted with some ruffians named the Suicide Squad.
Hee the good old days
Seems that‘s a huge allegation that would be impossible to prove without a huge team of investigators, do you think the Premier League would be happy for this to run for another four years? Also is this three person committee or our accusers at the Premier League even qualified to carry out a forensic investigation on such a serious allegation? Seems everything is based on the hacked emails which is basically a bank got robbed when you were in town and you have a large amount of money in your account that you cannot account for but we have no evidence you robbed the bank.It boils down to one big claim really. That at least 9 years of Manchester City Football Club accounts are not true and fair (and were knowingly provided to the PL in bad faith). Everything else is noise. I've always thought it would take a long time. Nick di Marco KC says 4 years. Good enough for me
Of course it will no matter what, if any punishment is given to us. We’ll dust ourselves down, lift our heads and carry on supporting our wonderful Football Club.Please tell me that everything will be good to our beloved club.
Why tf would city pay. It would have been from AJ. More to the point how could city have paid for something they hadnt accounted for?If City paid him directly for Al Jazira contract then I guess this issue will be hard to defend.
I’m not sure you can take your case with the bouncer to the High court.
The fact they have to say impartial means they’ve considered it needs to be, therefore it won’t be.And some are saying it will all be done professionally, and impartially. bwhaaaaaaaaa
It is like a Criminal case being Prosecuted by a good friend of the Victim, Judged by a Relative. And 12 of his best mates on the Jury.
I can not believe one, or two, are actually expecting an unbiased conclusion. They need to give their Head a huge fucking wabble.
They have already found us guilty without trial. Their Dogs in the Media are providing the narrative to throw the metaphorical Kitchen Sink at us punishment wise, pontificating afterwards that the excessive punishment was "For the Good of the Game" and not to protect the Top 4 Sarc.
This is going to the High Court.
Yet some happy clappers on here think these KC’s won’t have any sort of bias. Fuck what they say, if they can’t see its rigged then there’s no helping them. Everything is being set up for years of red shirt dominance, again. That’s unless if our lawyers go to town on them.It is not an independent panel if the PL are choosing who sits on it. It is an unbelievable situation in terms of national justice. I was previously opposed to the concept of an Independent Regulator but this whole pantomime has proved that the PL can't possibly regulate itself.
Just think about it. The PL is composed of 20 clubs and a significant group of those clubs (at last nine who have gone public) have supported a smear campaign against us for naked commercial reasons. The CEO (Richard Masters) was personally vetted for the job by Directors from two of the clubs (LFC and MUFC) and the new Chairperson of the Board (Alison Brittain) has stated she is a "lifelong MUFC supporter."
A decision which could literally destroy the fabric of our club leading to big job losses and a major impact on ongoing development of Manchester will now be taken by a panel of three people chosen by the PL itself. They have hit us with 101 charges dating back 14 years (just think about the sheer volume of evidence) and demanded we respond in 14 days. Even in a proven corrupt country like the UK this really is taking the piss.
Or have we suckered them in ?One thing i cant get my head around is that liverpool scandal hacking the accounts etc.
why was there hardly any news on this?
Are we really to nice and allowed them to just pay the one million and thats the end of it or did the dippers threaten us with something a lot bigger.
This should have been as big a story as ours is now.
It is not an independent panel if the PL are choosing who sits on it. It is an unbelievable situation in terms of national justice. I was previously opposed to the concept of an Independent Regulator but this whole pantomime has proved that the PL can't possibly regulate itself.
Just think about it. The PL is composed of 20 clubs and a significant group of those clubs (at last nine who have gone public) have supported a smear campaign against us for naked commercial reasons. The CEO (Richard Masters) was personally vetted for the job by Directors from two of the clubs (LFC and MUFC) and the new Chairperson of the Board (Alison Brittain) has stated she is a "lifelong MUFC supporter."
A decision which could literally destroy the fabric of our club leading to big job losses and a major impact on ongoing development of Manchester will now be taken by a panel of three people chosen by the PL itself. They have hit us with 101 charges dating back 14 years (just think about the sheer volume of evidence) and demanded we respond in 14 days. Even in a proven corrupt country like the UK this really is taking the piss.
You can be certain Rosen personally knows the Directors at Arsenal from corporate events. No matter how impartial he is there is a clear conflict of interest. This is unfair and has to be challenged.It’s not being an Arsenal ‘fan’ I have a problem with, it’s the fact he is a season card holder. A fan can be many things, like having a team for the sake of it, or a celebrity being given one on soccer am, following the team your family does, many ‘fans’ don’t even follow that particular teams results, it’s just a label for some, there are many instances, but this fella is a SC holder and I doubt it’s just to impress clients. I know it boils down to integrity and so on, but it just feels like the PL are laughing in our faces with this appointment
Has that ever been confirmed? If so, that’s dodgy as fuck and I’d love to know how we manage to pull that one off.One of the CAS panel worked in the Middle East office of Etihad and Etisalat's lawyers.
Thank fuck for you colinThis is brilliant. I'm writing my next missive for KOTK so have been going through the rule books to see exactly what we've been charged with, and it's clear the PL have fucked it up big time. For example, in 2011/12, they've charged us with a breach of Rule E11. That rule in the 2011/12 Pl Handbook says "Each club shall enter the FA Cup".
I've looked at a few others and it's a similar story. They've seemingly charged us against another rule which says that, except for televised games, all PL games will be played on Saturdays at 3pm.
It's an absolute fuck up.
It’s the scale of the allegations which is the problem. On the balance of probabilities, I fear they will get us on something. Mission accomplished.The River project sets this argument out in detail and it is a strong one on paper. However, there is imo enough scope to engineer some form of High Court appeal should it become necessary. Time will tell.
I don't think they will stop till they finish us.What do people think the outcome will be of this hearing?
Liverpool and Utd thrown out the league and city awarded two retrospective CL's.What do people think the outcome will be of this hearing?