City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

[ufo]

I'm obviously missing something but if only 12 clubs voted in favour, and you need 14 for an overall majority, then isn't there a chance of City losing the legal challenge, but the motion not being passed anyway?

+-2 margin of error is a fantastic start but a good indication of where city’s stand point .

 

[train man]

Any idea who proposed that change?

This is a very good question.
The PL is the sum of the 20 member clubs - are rule-change proposals put forward by a member, or number of members, or does the PL administration submit proposals (bias-tailored, as we may expect) autonomously for review and agreement by the member vote?

 

[ArniArason]

This is what happens when you’re swayed by propaganda, haven’t heard City’s side of the story, and aren’t that close to the club you support.

Great post. Irishblue, rather than spending time posting on here, just do your homework on both the history of the red clubs boardroom dominance of the PL and read up from fact based sources e.g. Stefan before questioning your own club and owners

 

[slbsn]

does anyone has link to @projectriver interview ?

will be out at 1pm. And on Youtube in pieces later I suspect.

 

[Tevez City]

I was happy until I listened to these two journalists

 

[BobKowalski]

He’s guessing a bit. The evidence is the thing and no-one has seen it yet. I assume he believes that such challenges are inherently difficult to win. Pannick, however, is not beyond stretching a point.

I’d also guess (not having heard what he said) that he is referring to the second part of the suit which is a claim for damages which is hard to prove. The main thrust is the uneven crafting of regulation to inhibit specific clubs and are thus discriminatory.

Could be wrong, though.

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

This is what happens when you’re swayed by propaganda, haven’t heard City’s side of the story, and aren’t that close to the club you support.

Or when you take the blinkers off and look objectively

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Never mind all this talk of good guys and bad guys, its very hard to imagine that we're totally innocent of everything, to be perfectly honest.

So what's the end game here, if we do win the case and take the Premier League down as many City fans are calling

If we win and there are resignations and ultimately reform in the Premier League that to me is a good thing.

No-one gave a toss when Liverpool and Utd were buying up titles left right and centre. Now its City on top, rules are suddenly implemented and then changed seemingly yearly simply to restict our success and to benefit certain other clubs.

 

[ufo]

I was unfortunate enough to be in a car with Talk Sport on in the background for a few minutes this morning. First of all a snippet from that completely unbiased “journalist” Jamie Jackson “I m not sure why City are doing this, they need to come out and explain themselves” next Henry Winter “City want a free for all with no controls”.

I think City have had enough of this bullshit and are going for broke, the EPL who I think Stefan said ages ago just aren’t geared up to be constantly fighting legal battles, well welcome to the new normal, you want to fuck us about, let’s dance.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Interesting to read that City are calling the PL's own sponsorship deals into question, saying that they have a conflict of interest. There's definitely a case for a governing body to regulate the PL's commercial deals. Let's have a forensic look at the PLs accounts and commercial activities and see what's going on.

Could be a few issues around corporate governance I suspect?

 

[halfcenturyup]

This is exactly how I feel as well. I have been a City fan for the best part of 60 years and all this “noise” is ruining my enjoyment of the game. I just want to watch my team play football. I am also struggling to understand why APT rules are a bad thing. I don’t really want to see a league where the team with the deepest pockets wins all the prizes.

Because the APT rules are a false and unnecessary construct targeted at two clubs because they have better contacts than the others?

There were perfectly good rules for making sure that sponsorship from well-defined related parties were at fair value.

Targeted and discriminatory. Real fair.

 

[mscenterh750]

“Put on your red shoes and dance the blues”

Damn right David. You red cunts dance to our blue tune.

 

[ArniArason]

Or when you take the blinkers off and look objectively

If we were in a zombie film like 28 days later, I'd be highly suspect that you'd been bitten and were on the change, I'd be close to doing away with you to be honest ;-)

 

[Dialog]

I don’t really want to see a league where the team with the deepest pockets wins all the prizes

Dear OntarioBlue. I am sorry to disappoint you, but the team with deepest pockets has always been the one to win the prizes! MANUNITED. CHELSEA. ARSENAL. LIVERPOOL. PSG. BAYERN. REAL MADRID. BARCELONA BEFORE THE CRISIS. JUVENTUS BEFORE THE CRISIS and so on and on and on and on. If in your heart of hearts think it was any different than this, then I pity you. I am not sure I should call it naivety or innocence? Whatever it is, you have one!

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

Worked 33 years in education. Got right to 'the top'. Bagged early retirement at the first opportunity. Honestly, with respect, you have no idea how diabolical it is. Not having a go, just agreeing with you, on turbo wheels. The illiteracy among teachers, actual teachers, is mind blowing. But, that's a mere snippet of the monstrous amazon of utter shit shite that it is. I have a million stories, and occasionally, over a pint in the pub, I try to tell them to mates. People think I'm making it up.

Just joined the profession. Must be mad!

 

[ufo]

“Put on your red shoes and dance the blues”

Damn right David. You red cunts dance to our blue tune.

hahaha

 

[halfcenturyup]

Never mind all this talk of good guys and bad guys, its very hard to imagine that we're totally innocent of everything, to be perfectly honest.

So what's the end game here, if we do win the case and take the Premier League down as many City fans are calling

No-one is taking the PL down if it has to reverse its APT rules. What is wrong with people?

The worst that will happen to the PL if City win this is that they will have to go back to the rules under which they have just referred the club to a disciplinary panel for 115 alleged breaches. Oh, and maybe pay a few million damages.

Wow. The end of the PL is nigh. Not.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

 

[wattle]

I’m chuffed city have done this - about time - but I don’t know about anyone else, I’m totally exhausted with it all and just can’t be bothered anymore. I’m just glad it’s the end of season. Football’s a fucking farce in this country now and will be played in the court rooms for the foreseeable. And that’s the Premier League’s fault, and certainly not ours.

 

[Tb1981]

It begs the question, if as Stefan said we are very unlikely to win this case, why have the club taken it on?

you will win some points and lose others
Both sides will take it away as a win.

In reality if city win on any points, the premier league have lost.