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

[eastmanc]

He wasn't banned for it, he got a yellow card. He was banned for stamping on Van Persie IIRC and he did do it in fairness.

I don't agree, he didn't stamp on him he caught him.

 

[Damocles]

Planning to discuss this with Simon on Tuesday. He seems to have some strong feelings!

Glass him!

In seriousness, the way the media and people like him are handling this and falsely whipping up a sensationalist frenzy and it's dangerous.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

I don't agree, he didn't stamp on him he caught him.

Well you are fucking blind then, we even worked it into a song!

 

[Bluearmy]

WhatsApp themselves would be able to access that no matter what you’ve done regarding deleting it locally.

Guessing it’d need a court order to compel them to retrieve them though.

Or our own hacker ;)

 

[cookster]

Ooooo look, another conspiracy theory

I wonder if there’s anything our club plays with a straight bat?

It's not like there's a picture out there of American owners meeting in a Restaurant.

 

[eastmanc]

Well you are fucking blind then, we even worked it into a song!

Bit aggressive but never mind. Just my opinion. Now if you would of said Balotelli stamped on Scott Parker I would of agreed with you. All about opinions.

 

[jrb]

City also allege the rules were designed to stymie owners from Gulf states and members of multi-club ownership groups – something that applies to City in both instances – and were only established due to the desire of rivals to “safeguard their own commercial advantages”.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Bit aggressive but never mind. Just my opinion. Now if you would of said Balotelli stamped on Scott Parker I would of agreed with you. All about opinions.

Guess it must be as I thought Mario's was never intentional and a total disgrace that he got a retrospective ban

 

[dadnlad]

He wasn't banned for it, he got a yellow card. He was banned for stamping on Van Persie IIRC and he did do it in fairness.

Like that thug aguero elbow against West ham ok

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Like that thug aguero elbow against West ham ok

Nah that was a farce aswell, didn't Reid pull his arm into his own face?

 

[Oldham Exile]

Something that I have not seen any comment on (although I have not been able to read every post) - is the issue that I am sure was mentioned when the news broke.

Along the lines that CITY had evidence - in the form of quotes from one of the PL clubs - that demonstrates that there is clear discrimination

Did I just dream that ?

Sorry to quote my own post, but there does not seem to have been any mention of what this evidence is and with the news of the requirement for disclosure I was wondering if this could be something that CITY know will turn up in the disclosed emails/messages

 

[bluemanchester]

I was just about to ask the same question but why are we only finding out this at the last moment of a hearing.
Surely this should have been standard practise to hand over e-mails from both parties at the onset.
However could it be that the hearing has identified some skullduggery over the last 48/72 hours.
Anyone got any suggestions for a layman like myself on these legal matters ?

Maybe just maybe City have the emails, texts, etc and want to see if the conniving shakers and movers behind Masters will produce them if there is anything proving how they have cheated and twisted the rules at will with no fear of being found out.
Reverse Der Speigel anyone.

 

[lonestay]

Maybe just maybe City have the emails, texts, etc and want to see if the conniving shakers and movers behind Masters will produce them if there is anything proving how they have cheated and twisted the rules at will with no fear of being found out.
Reverse Der Speigel anyone.

Undoubtedly we have something concrete to be this confident .

 

[Damanino]

yep pretty sure we have some nasty emails, text from various time periods. test is now PL has to make sure they provide these as well otherwise there is a mismatch which makes it even worse for the PL.
I do expect some email like between rags, Arse, Levy, dippers and Masters talking to each other like "we need to stop these brown skin arabs no matter what rules we make up"

 

[halfcenturyup]

Sorry to quote my own post, but there does not seem to have been any mention of what this evidence is and with the news of the requirement for disclosure i was wondering if this could be something that CITY know will turn up in the disclosed emails/messages

I suppose it could be that the club has provided evidence to the hearing that implicates the PL or a club, and the only way to prove it wasn't part of a conspiracy is to open up all the correspondence. We don't know, though, and maybe never will.

 

[oakiecokie]

Maybe just maybe City have the emails, texts, etc and want to see if the conniving shakers and movers behind Masters will produce them if there is anything proving how they have cheated and twisted the rules at will with no fear of being found out.
Reverse Der Speigel anyone.

Thanks and that would be wonderful if that was/is the case.

 

[lonestay]

I suppose it could be that the club has provided evidence to the hearing that implicates the PL or a club, and the only way to prove it wasn't part of a conspiracy is to open up all the correspondence. We don't know, though, and maybe never will.

We may not know from City officially, but there will be signs, and of course the times will have an exclusive report on proceedings .

 

[billblu]

Sorry to quote my own post, but there does not seem to have been any mention of what this evidence is and with the news of the requirement for disclosure i was wondering if this could be something that CITY know will turn up in the disclosed emails/messages

I think it was something about describing tixxi as a terrorist (or he worked for terrorists)think it might be tolmie who posted it

 

[SilverFox2]

Who exactly requires the emails to be handed over? And to whom must they be handed? A strange omission.

Perhaps a suggestion to Mr M that he should be prepared for such an action.

 

[Atom]

One thing I don't think I've ever seen discussed in a positive light is that we have a number of sponsors from Abu Dhabi. It is always used as a stick to beat us with.

The reality is that our sponsorship department have actually got a strategy, not just a random scatter-gun approach.
If Etihad do well, the hotels in Abu Dhabi do well, so the tourism industry there does well. It becomes in everyone's interest to act together. How can you actually devise or apply a fair value test for one individual element of that synergy?
It is completely different from a simple single entity becoming the rags official toilet roll partner for example.

I suspect that this is an element of our upcoming case

I think you’re missing the point - they’re all related parties, hence the scrutiny. You’re simply emphasising why there’s a widely held theory that the entire purpose of the City ownership is to benefit and project Abu Dhabi onto the world, via football.

Surely we should have hired competent people who could facilitate investment exclusively from non-related parties and remove any doubt as to where the money is coming from.