The thread title is still fine imo - there were reports that City had secured a "potentially significant victory". Whether or not those reports were true remains to be seen, however.
City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)
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Cobwebcat
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As you were. Seems Stefan is correct.
yeah whatever !!
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It'll soon be on sale at the Old Trafford chippy...Vinegar on your chips sir :)
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Now this is the bit that confuses me, City sued over the February changes, not the 2023 changes where they abstained ( i believe ) So did the PL change the rules straight after the February vote and publish it? or did they wait until the end of the season to change the rules so it would appear in the new rule book?
If it is the latter then at this point the PL do not need to do anything but postpone after postpone.
Matt Diablo
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Starters for 10. Not even that we already won 1 case. Nothing has changed. Just one big witch hunt scam . . .
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That sounds as if it was dictated to him by the Premier League PR department
exactly what I was thinking - why would two of the most credible journalists about jump the gun & put their name to something if they didn't genuinely believe there was any truth to it?
Afew on here have seen a couple tweets from Stefan, & shat their pants.
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Oh right, so the Times has now said that the proposed "strengthening" of the rules was to do with access to the database, which is presumably why Panja has concluded that City's limited win is to do with the database and that is why it was withdrawn.
Not sure that follows unless the PL has given information to Liverpool who have leaked. Unlikely to have happened I think. It's the opposite side of the coin to every other news outlet saying City have secured a potentially significant victory based on a withdrawn vote.
Still unsure of the timing of all this. After three months it would be surprisingly unlikely if the judgment was made available to the PL the day before a shareholders' meeting.
Still much more to this story, I think.
Not sure that follows unless the PL has given information to Liverpool who have leaked. Unlikely to have happened I think. It's the opposite side of the coin to every other news outlet saying City have secured a potentially significant victory based on a withdrawn vote.
Still unsure of the timing of all this. After three months it would be surprisingly unlikely if the judgment was made available to the PL the day before a shareholders' meeting.
Still much more to this story, I think.
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Panja is basing his story purely on what was withdrawn from today’s meeting. He has no idea what the outcome was - nobody does.
Sometimes being petty is the only reasonable response :)
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Basically fuck all has actually happened.
You can stop standing by your beds.
You can stop standing by your beds.
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I thought the database thing was the vote that was pulled today?
I think he’s got the complete wrong end of the stick, but wtf do I know?
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It really isn't that simple. If the verdict was available and, say, some rules considered illegal, they would have to made inoperative immediately (in which case it would be leaked). The PL can't just keep applying rules that are illegal until they decide to get together to approve new rules.
I would imagine the process would have to be: inform clubs which rules are no longer operative, draft new rules, get legal opinion on them, approve them in meeting.
They really can't do nothing until they make new rules.
So if there has been no communication with the club's, and the rumours of some City "wins" are true, I guess it's most likely the judgment still hasn't been issued.