PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Stephen230]

You can put million pound bets on in the Asian markets if you know how.

Can you expand on how that works? Who’s laying these million pound bets?

 

[oakiecokie]

I suspect that was in 1938, mate, as I’m sure you remember well…

Yes the infamous champions one year followed by relegation. I remember it well.Could only happen to City. ;)

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Crouch and Hewitt should be made to catch a ball, take a proper throw-in and be quizzed about away goals before setting foot in that room.

Parry has his tentacles everywhere. Two of the three speaking to the Government (Parry and Debbie Hewitt FA Chair) are lifelong LFC fans based in Cheshire. Richard Masters (Aston Villa fan) has very close links to MUFC Directors who vetted his appointment. And so the Circus rolls on.
The timing of the investigation of City (and now Everton) seems like a political stunt by the PL to show the Government that football doesn't need an independent regulator but I think it might backfire.

 

[dario2739]

Parry has his tentacles everywhere. Two of the three speaking to the Government (Parry and Debbie Hewitt FA Chair) are lifelong LFC fans based in Cheshire. Richard Masters (Aston Villa fan) has very close links to MUFC Directors who vetted his appointment. And so the Circus rolls on.
The timing of the investigation of City (and now Everton) seems like a political stunt by the PL to show the Government that football doesn't need an independent regulator but I think it might backfire.

Since they blackmailed the FA to form the PL, United and Liverpool (mainly) along with Arsenal and Spurs tagging along behind, have been pulling all the strings... I would love us to expose the whole corrupt nest of vipers!

 

[dario2739]

The fact that these betting syndicates (Who can control all refs in the PL) havent done the same (and made a killing) on Fulham/West Ham/Bournemouth is totally lost on him... cue some ridiculous theory on that!

....And I actually believe corruption of some sorts does happen, but these guys make it all sound fkin ridiculous!

The problem with conspiracy theories is that there are a lot of cranks out there spouting such theories... and if anyone reveals a true conspircacy, it's easy for the powers-that-be to spin it so they appear to be cranks too...
Social media and the internet help push narratives... especially now with troll/bot farms and the advent of A.I... it would be easy to bury a truth under a mountain of conspiracy accusations.

 

[johnnytapia]

Can you expand on how that works? Who’s laying these million pound bets?

Mancini

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Yes the infamous champions one year followed by relegation. I remember it well.Could only happen to City. ;)

How did you feel when we had to sell all those players in 1906?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Nobody is getting anything like a grand on a 5,000/1 shot. Would be pointless anyway, as the max. payout on most football bets at most major bookies at the time was £500,000. The highest reported bet on Leicester pre season was £50 and that was cashed out well before the end of the season. The highest recorded bet that was left to run the course was £10.

As a gambler, one of the first things you learn is that nothing can be ruled out and anything that can happen, has a chance of happening. No matter how unlikely.

But the thought of a whole bunch of referees colluding pre season to help Leicester to the title, is in the category of “pretty unlikely” for me.

The thing about conspiracy theories, is that some of them are right, at least in part, the problem is the people that are most inclined to believe them are usually incapable of applying facts and logic to the theory, especially if it’s a juicy one.

They let their hearts rule their heads too readily, because they so want it to be true, principally for reasons of self-vindication.

Too many people would need to be in on this to make it remotely plausible.

The PEDs thing, maybe I guess, but the notion that there was a widespread conspiracy to make Leicester win the league that year from before a ball was kicked descends into the realms of the absurd.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

The thing about conspiracy theories, is that some of them are right, at least in part, the problem is the people that are most inclined to believe them are usually incapable of applying facts and logic to the theory, especially if it’s a juicy one.

They let their hearts rule their heads too readily, because they so want it to be true, principally for reasons of self-vindication.

Too many people would need to be in on this to make it remotely plausible.

The PEDs thing, maybe I guess, but the notion that there was a widespread conspiracy to make Leicester win the league that year from before a ball was kicked descends into the realms of the absurd.

Spot-on. Over the years there have undoubtedly been instances of corruption, drugs cheating, match-fixing, bungs, and there is a lot of skullduggery between clubs off the field (including a campaign against City by LFC, MUFC, and AFC). But that doesn't mean there is some over-arching conspiracy. There have always been opportunist crooks in all walks of life and always will be.

 

[old get]

Parry has his tentacles everywhere. Two of the three speaking to the Government (Parry and Debbie Hewitt FA Chair) are lifelong LFC fans based in Cheshire. Richard Masters (Aston Villa fan) has very close links to MUFC Directors who vetted his appointment. And so the Circus rolls on.
The timing of the investigation of City (and now Everton) seems like a political stunt by the PL to show the Government that football doesn't need an independent regulator but I think it might backfire.

Even has one tentacle in the first team squad in the Academy building where his son is employed as a nutritionist

 

[aguero93:20]

just watching SSN.
They’re talking about bids for the scum and have just said that they are currently making a loss.
£210m over the last 3 seasons.
FFP come out come out wherever you are…
Operation ‘protect the elite’

Ah, but that was all spent on duct tape to plug the holes in the roof, so it's infrastructure spending and doesn't count.

 

[Dribble]

Ah, but that was all spent on duct tape to plug the holes in the roof, so it's infrastructure spending and doesn't count.

 

[bluenova]

The thing about conspiracy theories, is that some of them are right, at least in part, the problem is the people that are most inclined to believe them are usually incapable of applying facts and logic to the theory, especially if it’s a juicy one.

They let their hearts rule their heads too readily, because they so want it to be true, principally for reasons of self-vindication.

Too many people would need to be in on this to make it remotely plausible.

The PEDs thing, maybe I guess, but the notion that there was a widespread conspiracy to make Leicester win the league that year from before a ball was kicked descends into the realms of the absurd.

It might help if people on here answered a little questionnaire, asking whether they believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, ranging from Moon Landing not happening, Lizards running the world, Covid Plandemic etc.

You could add little icons under people's names and then decide if you wanted to believe their posts about the entire Liverpool team having asthma, if VAR was introduced by FIFA to help the red shirted teams in England, or if Jamie Vardy, the refs and the Asian syndicates agreed in 2015 that he should run into the box and then fall down a lot, so that a few bets could be won.

Might just save a few pages of discussion.

 

[burning blue soul]

This thread is a painful read these days

The conspiracy nuts have got me praying for another 100 PL charges for the club, just to get it back on topic!!

 

[The perfect fumble]

It might help if people on here answered a little questionnaire, asking whether they believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, ranging from Moon Landing not happening, Lizards running the world, Covid Plandemic etc.

You could add little icons under people's names and then decide if you wanted to believe their posts about the entire Liverpool team having asthma, if VAR was introduced by FIFA to help the red shirted teams in England, or if Jamie Vardy, the refs and the Asian syndicates agreed in 2015 that he should run into the box and then fall down a lot, so that a few bets could be won.

Might just save a few pages of discussion.

Khaldoon?

 

[aguero93:20]

Lizards running the world

This one is just silly. They're only running the UK.

 

[Gazza]

It might help if people on here answered a little questionnaire, asking whether they believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, ranging from Moon Landing not happening, Lizards running the world, Covid Plandemic etc.

You could add little icons under people's names and then decide if you wanted to believe their posts about the entire Liverpool team having asthma, if VAR was introduced by FIFA to help the red shirted teams in England, or if Jamie Vardy, the refs and the Asian syndicates agreed in 2015 that he should run into the box and then fall down a lot, so that a few bets could be won.

Might just save a few pages of discussion.

Let's start with a simple one - Do you think Princess Diana was murdered?

 

[Dodge]

Leicester wasn't exactly the romantic story of beating big, bad Man City it was made out to be.

Leicester City and the strange finances behind their rise to the Premier League pinnacle

The Football League is still investigating Leicester City’s 2013-14 promotion season, amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules

www.theguardian.com

Mate, I live in Leicester and I can tell you 100's of local businesses were taken for £millions by "their" club when the administrator knocked on the door. They were called in a couple of months after they finished building the stadium in 2002. Dodgy as fuck and hard-working people lost out massively. The company which built the stadium was forced to just forget about the final payment of £5.5m. The East Midlands Ambulance Service was left with a bad debt of £16,000.

But City are the pariah of English football.

 

[1961_vintage]

Let's start with a simple one - Do you think Princess Diana was murdered?

Obviously not. The whole Paris thing was a fake, with both Diana and Dodi given new identities and in fact are still living a life of bliss together with their 5 children on the Caribbean island of Dominica.

 

[Dodge]

Obviously not. The whole Paris thing was a fake, with both Diana and Dodi given new identities and in fact are still living a life of bliss together with their 5 children on the Caribbean island of Dominica.

Is this a Clarkie?