PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Dribble]

As for Pannick, he looks sly, maybe not the best term, confident maybe , gives away a lot in his gestures.

He might have crippling wind that he's struggling to hold in?

 

[Ric]

 

[Dribble]

Don't fuck with Bobby Manc. Still one of us...

 

[halfcenturyup]

What has that got to do with referee bias?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Mods and ric have said back on topic for much less than this , it is irritating to have to plough through shit to get any info on this important subject when there is the refs and var and more threads for discussing pigmol

Well, possibly. But asking for a yellow card is never a good look.

 

[johnnytapia]

Most of them gamble a lot too.

And you know this how?

 

[dadnlad]

thats another good funny song ruined
thanks bobby ;)

 

[jaiguruKun]

Mods and ric have said back on topic for much less than this , it is irritating to have to plough through shit to get any info on this important subject when there is the refs and var and more threads for discussing pigmol

Quite frankly, it's irritating to have to plough through posts like this when all I want to read about is the latest conspiracy theory.

 

[paulchapo]

And you know this how?

I know it from media reports of them doing so and snippets of information. Footballers are notorious gamblers.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

I loved, and still love, Bobby. He was the perfect man for that time in our journey. Perfect.
And I never, ever thought I could feel as strongly about another City manager again. But then the uefa ban happened and Pep, a man I - to my shame these days - had thought didn’t ‘get’ us, came out swinging in our defence. And then this latest fucking farce came upon us and Pep came out again, only more forcefully, and even more articulately.

By God we have been blessed these last few years haven’t we?

 

[Metalartin]

I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who don't believe that the media indulges in systematic bias against certain clubs, when they absolutely do. I'm similarly amazed by those people who will acknowledge the possibility of political bias on the front pages of particular newspapers, but deny the same possibility when it comes to the back pages.
Just taking the Mail as an example, every article comes with a comments section. The paper's aim is to ensure that as many people as possible click on those articles, in order that they might maximise the advertising revenue central to their continued existence. It does this on the front pages by appealing to its largest readership demographic. Endless negative stories about lefties, teachers, lazy public servants, Meghan Markle, soft judges, asylum seekers, the cancel culture, 'militant' unions, remoaners, Gary Lineker etc etc are always the order of the day, because the Mail knows its foam flecked gammon army will hammer away with such fury that their keyboards will catch fire.
As to the back pages then, which two clubs have far and away the biggest fan bases in this country? And which club do you think is an oven ready enemy for both, having deprived them of hundreds of millions in prize money and trophies since 2011? Once you've joined the dots by answering those two questions, the penny should drop. City have been portrayed as football ruining, cheating, nouveau riche, sportswashing, plastic, no European pedigree, obscene spending (complete with squad cost comparisons, once famously when we weren't even one of the teams playing), human rights abusing, dodgy Arab owned, corrupt, 'dirty' oil money funded, success buying filth, non-stop for 15 years now, and our 'guilt' as regards the current PL investigation has long since been declared as fact.
Other papers, most notably the Guardian, have clear editorial policies when it comes to City and I defy you to find a single article from Miguel Delaney, Barney Ronay, Jonathan Liew etc that doesn't contain at least one of the phrases "state owned project", "oil funded" or "sportswashing". I've seen other journalists call our fans 'grubby apologists' and 'filthy rats', I've seen domestic broadcasters stuff their panels with rag pundits for our European games and listened to them call us mercenaries and wait until the half time interval to pan the camera around the crowd and sneer at us for having empty seats, and I've turned on the radio and heard us called "disgusting" and a "Frankenstein club". It's been relentless and no other club has ever had to put up with an onslaught of even remotely comparable degree. It doesn't mean that all journalists and broadcasters are out to get us, but compared to our immediate rivals we're a country mile ahead in the vilification stakes

Someone send that to Martin Samuel so he can sneak it in the editor's pile and skip off gleefully around a corner to watch him read it.

 

[Centurions]

What has that got to do with referee bias?

Don't you just hate it when posters who should know better try and derail threads?

 

[Centurions]

Surely that means Mancini's contract can't be part of the investigation? They'd have contacted him or his agents at some point I'd have thought?

 

[manimanc]

Surely that means Mancini's contract can't be part of the investigation? They'd have contacted him or his agents at some point I'd have thought?

We all know it isn't.
But the cocks called british journalists insist that it is.

 

[117 M34]

Surely that means Mancini's contract can't be part of the investigation? They'd have contacted him or his agents at some point I'd have thought?

They've probably got years before the hearing so plenty of time yet

 

[daveoswald]

Surely that means Mancini's contract can't be part of the investigation? They'd have contacted him or his agents at some point I'd have thought?

Never mind that how is Terraloon going to occupy his time.

 

[aguero93:20]

Any chance we can get back on topic mods, i have just wasted ten mins wading through refs are bent shit when there are other threads for that , thanks

No.

 

[M18CTID]

They've probably got years before the hearing so plenty of time yet

Fair point. Mancini’s comments on the matter seem to be cut and dried though. If he can prove he paid the relevant tax and NI on his earnings, I don’t see how that line of investigation can go anywhere. Like with some of the stuff that went before CAS, the accusation about under the counter payments to Mancini appear to be nothing more than innuendo (and I recall that was the same word CAS used in relation to at least one of the charges in their report).

Of course, there may well be cast iron evidence that proves otherwise such as CCTV footage of Khaldoon handing Mancini a big fuck off brown envelope full of used banknotes each month but I think it’s safe to say that this present day City aren’t as stupid as the likes of Peter Swales, George Graham, or whoever was running United back in the 60s when they tried (and failed) to buy off the parents of Peter Lorimer in order to get him to join them instead of Leeds.

 

[manimanc]

This needs to sent over and over and retweeted to Rob nostrils Harris, the smarmy little shit who thought he was a clever dick asking pep after the cup final this very thing.

Unlucky harris, found out yet again.

 

[horlock_was_super]

Fair point. Mancini’s comments on the matter seem to be cut and dried though. If he can prove he paid the relevant tax and NI on his earnings, I don’t see how that line of investigation can go anywhere. Like with some of the stuff that went before CAS, the accusation about under the counter payments to Mancini appear to be nothing more than innuendo (and I recall that was the same word CAS used in relation to at least one of the charges in their report).

Of course, there may well be cast iron evidence that proves otherwise such as CCTV footage of Khaldoon handing Mancini a big fuck off brown envelope full of used banknotes each month but I think it’s safe to say that this present day City aren’t as stupid as the likes of Peter Swales, George Graham, or whoever was running United back in the 60s when they tried (and failed) to buy off the parents of Peter Lorimer in order to get him to join them instead of Leeds.

What if they’ve got proof that Bobby Manc was being paid secretly somewhere like, ooh off the top of my head The Cayman Islands. Then again nothing dodgy could happen in a sleepy little backwater like that now could it?