PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

flb said:
And by all accounts the PL are shitting themselves, that’s the most satisfying thing of all.
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Oh indeed. They got into bed with the corrupt red cartel and now they have been caught...

And despite lying here, ill in a hospital bed...

I'm lovin' it, lovin' it, lovin' it,
I'm lovin' like that, er...
 
petrusha said:
Yes, this is spot on. Recent events show that the PL is beyond question a regualtroy authority that's both hopelessly compromised by bias and chbronically lacking in even the most basic vestige of competence. That should be treated as a staggeringly newsworthy dvelopment. Nonetheless, sportswriters in the national press demur from exposing the fact.

To pick one execrable piece of journalism out of many, look at Jonathan Wilson in today's Observer. An ostensibly intelligent man, he must have composed that piece with a view to entering it in a competition that shows even Oxbridge graduates to be capable of being absolute, unadulterated, 24-carat fucking morons.
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Wasn’t he the melt who said we’d get sick of winning trophies?
 
meltonblue said:
The frustrating thing with that article (the complete misrepresentation of tyranny of the majority again aside) is that he makes a lot of points I agree with in terms of the distribution of wealth within the game and what it has turned into but then puts the blame at completely the wrong door.

Rich investors and oligarchs haven’t created this. They were drawn to the sport from what football had done to itself, and in particular what the “big clubs” had done in terms of changing the rules of match day allocation, the breakaway in forming the premier league and then the crazy money of the champions league.

Everything he’s accusing us of doing has already been done by them, this is all Franksteins monster. It’s also a strange argument to make in terms of saying that footballs now at its most popular level in fifty years, given that coincides with a period where we’ve been the most successful team, and saying clubs like us are accountable for all the ills…
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It’s almost like he’s a total and utter ****……
 
meltonblue said:
The frustrating thing with that article (the complete misrepresentation of tyranny of the majority again aside) is that he makes a lot of points I agree with in terms of the distribution of wealth within the game and what it has turned into but then puts the blame at completely the wrong door.

Rich investors and oligarchs haven’t created this. They were drawn to the sport from what football had done to itself, and in particular what the “big clubs” had done in terms of changing the rules of match day allocation, the breakaway in forming the premier league and then the crazy money of the champions league.

Everything he’s accusing us of doing has already been done by them, this is all Franksteins monster. It’s also a strange argument to make in terms of saying that footballs now at its most popular level in fifty years, given that coincides with a period where we’ve been the most successful team, and saying clubs like us are accountable for all the ill
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meltonblue said:
The frustrating thing with that article (the complete misrepresentation of tyranny of the majority again aside) is that he makes a lot of points I agree with in terms of the distribution of wealth within the game and what it has turned into but then puts the blame at completely the wrong door.

Rich investors and oligarchs haven’t created this. They were drawn to the sport from what football had done to itself, and in particular what the “big clubs” had done in terms of changing the rules of match day allocation, the breakaway in forming the premier league and then the crazy money of the champions league.

Everything he’s accusing us of doing has already been done by them, this is all Franksteins monster. It’s also a strange argument to make in terms of saying that footballs now at its most popular level in fifty years, given that coincides with a period where we’ve been the most successful team, and saying clubs like us are accountable for all the ills…
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Only thees.

Delaney is another who raises good points about where football is going but then, for one reason or another, blames entirely the wrong group of people.

It was always entirely predictable that super-rich individuals would get involved in football because opportunities are available to increase value and clubs generally are so badly managed. It was also entirely predictable that hedge funds would get involved in football because they see, and want to maintain, the potential for maximum value extraction for minimum investment.

A real clash of cultures.
 
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halfcenturyup said:
Only thees.

Delaney is another who raises good points about where football us going but then, for one reason or another, blames entirely the wrong group of people.

It was always entirely predictable that super-rich individuals would get involved in football because opportunities are available to increase value and clubs generally are so badly managed. It was also entirely predictable that hedge funds would get involved in football because they see, and want to maintain, the potential for maximum value extraction for minimum investment.

A real clash of cultures.
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Yup. The daft thing is it all in the end just benefits the owners, yet some fans have been suckered in to thinking it’s all in the interest of competition and a fair market.

Of course it isn’t. Owners are now able to sit on an ever increasing cash cow with little to no risk to themselves, whilst at the same time increasing ticket prices, maximising hospitality and prioritising the tv market and yet fans nowadays see that as an ideal model for ownership.

It’s all fucking ridiculous.
 
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