Atkins couldn't even get the charges right. His central claim was that City's sponsor deals were "inflated above market value" but that suggestion was dismissed by all parties after repeated audits. The central allegation is that some of our sponsor payments came from Sheikh Mansour not directly from the sponsors but that was debunked totally by CAS and stressed in their written statement (that angle was the headline they used on their press release) Atkins is, as you point out, a stooge.I get all that, but my point is that this so-called academic can be nothing of the sort (or at least not a legal academic) if he thinks the application of a limitation period is a loophole. The fact he’s said that it is on BBC News suggests he’s a charlatan, which certainly suits the narrative to which you point.
They’ve basically interviewed a know nowt **** because of what he’ll say, not because of his knowledge on the subject.
It’s not just League 2. I was watching the non-league playoffs last week and they were playing out from the back like a Pep team. His influence on English football has been immense.
His reply to Twosips jokey but polite tweet tells everyone what sort of 'man' Carragher is.Which makes Carragher’s Twitter comments the other day all the more preposterous.
In a Chris Sutton voice - "Come on Ros you are better than that..."
Just watching sky with Darren Lewis and Melissa Reddy. I thought she had an epiphany. Now she back to normal
Excellent article. Thanks for posting something so positive and intelligent for once about our manager
Carragher being all matey with our lads on the TV last night, pretending to be professional. The next day he’s calling for the Premier League charges to stick and calling us cheats. I think it’s long overdue we start banning these twats from the stadium. What do we actually get out of them being let in? Literally nothing in it for us.
It was extremely complimentary from the start. However after ten minutes Reddy has ruined it by bringing the 115 charges and money into it. And from 10:10 onwards it’s been all about that.There’s a sombre mood on Super Sunday right now!
Excellent piece.
May I ask where you’ve been hiding for the past decade or so, with your join date of January this year :-)
Yeh, I wonder what she was hinting at when she said she’d spoken with arteta on Friday and he’d said “I can’t say too much cos I was there, but I know what we are up against”. He might have been meaning the intensity of the back room staff to keep the levels up etc, but I’m sure she was hinting at something more sinister…Just watching sky with Darren Lewis and Melissa Reddy. I thought she had an epiphany. Now she back to normal