PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

paulchapo said:
People label it as cheating but it's not really is it? It's trying to work with ever changing financial rules and restraints that were bum.rushed through to stall our progress. Rules that didn't exist when the redshirts were the biggest kids on the block and spending more than everybody else. As soon as they were challenged the new rules came in. So far only the premier league has been PROVED to have acted illegally. Cheating is buying off officials or players from other clubs to influence results in our favour. Of course deep down even our fiercest critics know this, but instead of admitting we've just done everything better than them on and off the field and played magnificent football doing so, it eases their own minds by calling us cheats. It gives them an excuse for their abject failure. Hope that's clarified it for you.
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It’s only cheating because they’ve decided it is
 
PaulTheOctopus said:
If city is indeed guilty of cheating
What will people do

Do you think you will still support the club ?
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One trillion per cent, yes.

In the unlikely event that we’re found guilty of the most serious charges then the owners would have to go, inevitably. But they are not City. They are custodians.

Those of us long enough in the tooth supported CITY long before they arrived and will continue to do so no matter what.

And I can also live with a purge of the plastics and day trippers filming the match on their iPads.
 
oldius said:
Also a possibility.
It is very easy for people to slip up. A few beers, a bit of banter, and information easily gets out. We have probably all seen the same at works social functions and parties. I have never met Ian Cheeseman, but he also struck me as a true blue. I don't imagine that he would do something to deliberately damage the club.

As for the case, the timings of what he revealed didn't stack up so I treated it as nothing more than a but of gossip, but highly unlikely. We all just have to wait. This is not the same as cases where other clubs were clearly briefed by individuals with vested interests. The tribunal panel is now effectively sitting in judgement and making their final decisions. Anything that is now revealed, in advance, outs a mole from a very small burrow.
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I have met Cheesie at our supporters club do one night. He travelled all the way down from Manchester to Weston super Mare. That’s one hell of a journey.

My impression of him is he bleeds Man City, and he is very level headed and intelligent. If he told me something was about to happen I’d take notice at least. He is a top man.
 
PaulTheOctopus said:
If city is indeed guilty of cheating
What will people do

Do you think you will still support the club ?
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Define “cheating,” given your question.

And, like most others, it’s not a choice. I was born Blue and I will die a Blue. I’m not sure why people can’t understand this about most Blues.
 
PaulTheOctopus said:
If city is indeed guilty of cheating
What will people do

Do you think you will still support the club ?
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Even if the panel find us guilty I for one will not believe the club is actually guilty of anything that isn't done by the other clubs in the PL and we are nothing more than the victims of an agenda lead by the usual suspects.

Regardless of the outcome not supporting the club will never cross the minds of any proper blue.

What will you do ? Cut your half and half scarf in two.
 
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PaulTheOctopus said:
If city is indeed guilty of cheating
What will people do

Do you think you will still support the club ?
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I'd give a hearty fuck off to any fair weather so called supporters who stopped supporting. We'd be stronger for it and the IQ of this board might have a chance to rise above the level of qualifying for government benefits.
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
One trillion per cent, yes.

In the unlikely event that we’re found guilty of the most serious charges then the owners would have to go, inevitably. But they are not City. They are custodians.

Those of us long enough in the tooth supported CITY long before they arrived and will continue to do so no matter what.

And I can also live with a purge of the plastics and day trippers filming the match on their iPads.
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Not sure the owners would have to go

Unless they admitted guilt and said they'd been lying all this time
 
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