PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Or, alternatively, you could bill @Ric at your usual hourly rate.

Win/win as you don't lose out financially and we all get the benefit of your unrivalled legal expertise....

I’ll leave @Ric to comment on this post…

 

[MadchesterCity]

Get the flour out, I’m up first

 

[bridgeno1]

One daft possibility that occurred to me this morning (won't happen, but neither will most of the bollocks I've read from both sides of such an extreme argument)

City find themselves 2 points clear with just a few games remaining, but are then docked 6 points, despite being cleared of all the major charges, aside from non cooperation

City immediately appeal on the grounds that they didn't gain a sporting advantage, but in the meantime Arsenal are crowned PL Champions.

Oh the irony of Arsenal having a big asterisk and an anti climatic trophy parade.

As an Arsenal fan I can tell you that I wouldn't count that as a PL title win. It would be like one of those boxers who becomes world champion because the other one relinquishes his belt due to not taking on a specific fight - like when Riddick Bowe threw his belt in the bin.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Does the **** not realise that it wasn't just Mancunians who died in the attack and that Liverpudlians were killed too?

It’s a hate crime. I would report him to the police

 

[Mid Wales blue]

This is the problem. If we win, we won’t want to torch the Premier League to the ground because the main point of being a football club is to, err, play football matches.

Also, as I understand it the PL rules state that a club can’t sue another club. I’m not sure how set in stone that is but I’d have thought if we had clear evidence that other clubs and individuals at those clubs have tried to sabotage our club and business model then we may be able to take action another way, ie: through the courts. Not mentioning any names of course but a certain lanky bald-headed streak of piss working for a club in North London may well be having sleepless nights. After all, I doubt our manager would go around naming names if there wasn’t something concrete behind it.

He’s certainly a bald-headed streak of piss, but calling him lanky (5ft7” max) would be akin to the Premier League case against us, total bullshit!

 

[BlueRockape]

As an Arsenal fan I can tell you that I wouldn't count that as a PL title win. It would be like one of those boxers who becomes world champion because the other one relinquishes his belt due to not taking on a specific fight - like when Riddick Bowe threw his belt in the bin.

Not many will think the same

 

[Cassandra]

So in effect give the prosecution prior notice as to what our defence will be allowing them to specifically prepare counter arguments for it? Yeah, great idea!

Yes, it is frustrating to see City being publicly passive but as we see with Bernstein anything we say will be edited by the media to make us look bad.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

Not sure I’d describe Daniel Levy as “lanky”. He’s about 5ft 5”!

Beat me to it :-)

 

[supercity88]

Costs will go with the loser. If City won on everything there is a good chance they would get what is known as “indemnity costs” of 80-90% back. A split decision would make the costs decision trickier. Everton got very lucky on their costs IMO - given their big loss they were lucky to only pay about half of PLs costs

I said earlier that surely our costs are going to be hard to recover if we are deemed not to have cooperated. Similarly to CAS surely there's the expectation that we could have avoided all of this if we had cooperated and provided what was requested. We don't know the details around this of course, although we know why we wouldn't have given all of the information in advance.

 

[Lord Blue]

My feeling is that if we win (and i have faith that we will), we won't want to "destroy" the Premier League for the simple reason that we are a part of it. It's our house too.

We may highlight some inconsistencies in how clubs are treated.

We may highlight some deficiencies in the Premier League rule book.

But our owners ooze class and they will want to be a shining light, a beacon.

After all, isn't that the point of their outward investments?

 

[Centurions]

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Same scouser from my previous screen grab. Fuck his anonymity here.

Is that a "friend" on texts or whatsapp or just a random on twitter?

 

[feelymcfeel]

Is that a "friend" on texts or whatsapp or just a random on twitter?

Just some random **** on facebook. Any friend saying that wouldn't be for much longer.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

As an Arsenal fan I can tell you that I wouldn't count that as a PL title win. It would be like one of those boxers who becomes world champion because the other one relinquishes his belt due to not taking on a specific fight - like when Riddick Bowe threw his belt in the bin.

Fair enough mate, but on reflection I should have used Liverpool for the example, as Carragher is the one who always bleats and sneers about asterisks

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Question: Were the vast majority of the charges thrown out would it deter the RDAHMeedya and Dan Roan from howling the same dirge? I think not!

 

[willipp]

It’s gonna be a really fucking tedious few months isn’t it.

 

[Lord Blue]

One daft possibility that occurred to me this morning (won't happen, but neither will most of the bollocks I've read from both sides of such an extreme argument)

City find themselves 2 points clear with just a few games remaining, but are then docked 6 points, despite being cleared of all the major charges, aside from non cooperation

City immediately appeal on the grounds that they didn't gain a sporting advantage, but in the meantime Arsenal are crowned PL Champions.

Oh the irony of Arsenal having a big asterisk and an anti climatic trophy parade.

It would be funny if they had the whole parade, and then we won an appeal, and they had to reverse the bus all the way back into the garage.

 

[mancboy]

It’s gonna be a really fucking tedious few months isn’t it.

we are on day 2 and im bored of it already.

 

[Vic]

Question: Were the vast majority of the charges thrown out would it deter the RDAHMeedya and Dan Roan from howling the same dirge? I think not!

If all the charges were thrown out, then howling the same dirge might be actionable. The cost of a few libel suits would be small fry compared to the costs of the hearing now.

 

[Semper aggressus]

I’m not a fan of the idea that we go on the attack and try and sue clubs/people, claim damages etc. Just keep winning trophies and be top of the pile. That’s the best way to piss everyone off.

Even better, if once freed of the PL’s arbitrary financial shackles we buy Vinicius, Yamal and Musiala.

That would still cost less than what the rag shits have spent on their dross in the last two years yet somehow never get investigated for.

 

[richards30]

My feeling is that if we win (and i have faith that we will), we won't want to "destroy" the Premier League for the simple reason that we are a part of it. It's our house too.

We may highlight some inconsistencies in how clubs are treated.

We may highlight some deficiencies in the Premier League rule book.

But our owners ooze class and they will want to be a shining light, a beacon.

After all, isn't that the point of their outward investments?

We should go after Talksport, Sky, the BBC and so called journalists like Stone, Delaney etc?