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

[Ted_Bovis]

So happy they’ve had to call an emergency meeting to tell everybody how happy they are

 

[Bluearmy]

What it does confirm is that there is a cartel, in cahoots with the PL, who are targeting specific clubs, and the media are complicit in their ‘monopoly washing’.

Proper noses in the trough, the dirty fucking cunts!

Yep. Many of us completely vindicated after years of smirks and innuendo

 

[brazilians hurt]

It's my twitter profile pic now. Many thanks.

I think upon a little reflection the extent of City’s victory depends on the club’s objectives. If it was to destroy APT (which I highly doubt) then it’s correct to say it’s somewhat limited, although still material. If it was to recalibrate the rules (which I expect it was) then the success would have to be, at the very least, characterised as highly successful.

However, what cannot be open to debate is the extent of the PL’s defeat. A de facto public authority having a finding that its rules were unlawful, as was the way they were applied, is huge. As are the findings of procedural irregularity and unfairness.

To fail to understand this is to fail to appreciate the function of an authority such as this, the laws of natural justice and the burden and standard of proof required to establish such findings.

This following from the Leicester shambles further underlines this organisation is not even close to being fit to oversee a multi-billion pound industry that has attained huge strategic and commercial importance to the UK.

That should be the story, but instead all we have is mental gymnastics from the media about how neither side won - when one of them manifestly lost.

Absolutely bang on and I feel confident City are delighted with the tribunal’s findings. They have absolutely broken the cartel with this. By having shareholders funds included in PSR they have changed the landscape for several owners including Arsenal. Basically several rich people are going to have write off about £1.5bn in loans or fail PSR.
A bit more than a pinch! The lesson being don’t fuck with the cleverest people in the room
The PL hierarchy and cartel is totally fucked they cannot expect to escape government regulation now.
And finally ultimately having built their model City will want an acceptable version of PSR to protect their investment, they just didn’t want the model Arsenal, Liverpool, United & Spurs wrote. Make sure we emphasise this to our rivals hopefully the penny will drop eventually.
Whilst a huge win it is not the biggest fight we currently have on.

 

[bavarian blue]

Kicker.de German football site say City have won their case.

 

[WestGorton]

It's called racism. It started for City in 2008.

 

[johnny crossan]

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Seems from the judgment that advice was shared.

That's "legal advice"? I think the punctuation alone of that extract renders it nonsensical.

 

[colinbellsboy]

I'm sure North West tonight
Just said City have failed in their bid to get the ATP Case won and it's Directly linked to 115?
Did anyone else hear this
1 min ago?

Yes they did. I had to rewind it to make sure.

 

[cheekybids]

What the point that the IC say that nominal interest will need to be calculated when owners have soft loans which almost certainly will either see those loans converted to equity which for all intents and purposes they are already equity or the fact that APT will probably in one form or another still be in place.
Of course 7 clubs could vote against the whole concept but I don’t think that will happen

No & placed on ignore you bore!

 

[johnny crossan]

The Times, The Mail, Mirror, SKY, even the Guardian are reporting a City win and have done all day. Even TalkSPORT did as well. The BBC are the outlier.

Mirror decided it's a draw now.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Today is the last straw for me as to why the BBC is corrupt.

10.00pm local bbc news

“Manchester city have failed on the majority of charges brought against the PL”

Absolutely fkin incredible!

What a joke. It must be run by a rag/dipper.

I complained once about a text they put out during a game and they replied but it was just a load of bollocks mumbo jumbo. Journalists think they are so fucking clever and us plebs can be fed any old shite. I would love soneone to bring down that organisation.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Can’t wait for 10am slot on talksport.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

What the point that the IC say that nominal interest will need to be calculated when owners have soft loans which almost certainly will either see those loans converted to equity which for all intents and purposes they are already equity or the fact that APT will probably in one form or another still be in place.
Of course 7 clubs could vote against the whole concept but I don’t think that will happen

 

[Wanchope n me Dickov]

We’re playing premier league jenga with these fuckers at the moment and any minute now we’ll pull the brick that makes them all fucking fall.

Like that one

 

[ShedDweller]

They have claimed it as a victory ;)

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Mirror decided it's a draw now.

But the PL won on penalties.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

SSN reviewing the headlines - carefully avoiding The Times - Samuel is not alone - Lawton and even Ziegler are all agreed the PL is a gonner.

Sky are the real cartel in all this, don’t expect anything other than a white washing from them, probably leaving the listener/reader to their own biased judgement.

 

[cleavers]

It's called racism. It started for City in 2008.

It properly started in May 2012, the very date of "realisation".

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I think the most important thing to sort out first is the Premier League board members and its voting system on rule changes, I think MANCHESTER CITY should call for a vote of no confidence in the Premier League system and call for major changes and ask the chairman to stand down

Ask the chairman to stand down ????

Tell the **** he's fired and to clear his desk now. - that's what happens in the real world .

 

[TheGhost]

My personal favourite coverage of the Tribunal decision is from the BBC.

Nearly every other purportedly reputable outlet has not only provided a full analysis immediately as the story broke (i.e. they had it ready in advance of the decision being released to all the clubs), but they indicate that, on balance, this is a win (if not a major one) for City.

But BBC has given it the minor story treatment on the Sport and Football news pages, and it’s barebones blurb attempts to set the narrative that this was not a defeat of the PL’s APT rules and enforcement, and definitely not a victory for City.

The way that you know this is a dubious narrative is that, had it actually been a win for the PL, the story link and image would have been a massive block at the top of both the Sport and Football pages, and the immediate write up would have been an in-depth analysis of all of the ways City failed in our challenge.

PL-captured “journalism” at it’s worst.

Those Match of the Day highlights come at a price

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

To take a charge on the assets probably and ease of administration. Equity requires admin and legals. Loan much simpler.

Is it not that loans can be repaid, equity can’t be withdrawn?