PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Hmmm ok I’ll have a go,I’ll say around either the rags league game or our FA Cup game at Bournemouth,although the international break gives the media a full 2 weeks to vent over the results..
 
M18CTID said:
A lot of posters thinking Monday might be the day but all seems to be based on gut instinct rather than anything more concrete.
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I don't think it will be any Monday because the club will be told a day before the press release I understand so that would mean they would have to be told on a Friday and risk of it being leaked over the weekend.

Were any of the forest or everton releases done on a Monday?
 
117 M34 said:
I don't think it will be any Monday because the club will be told a day before the press release I understand so that would mean they would have to be told on a Friday and risk of it being leaked over the weekend.

Were any of the forest or everton releases done on a Monday?
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The CAS award was delivered to the parties on the Friday and then released on the Monday, wasn't it? It didn't leak, though during that interval Ian Cheeseman put his neck on the block and said City had won. However, it seems likely that he was taking a punt rather than had been the recipient of a leak from the club.

You'd also expect the ruling in the current proceedings to be communicated to the parties as a draft award in the manner outlined in a typically excellent post by @Chris in London earlier in the thread. As he points out, this isn't so that the parties can then try to change the panel's mind. The substance of the decision outlined in the draft will be the substance of the final award.

The purpose of providing a draft to the parties is so that they can comment on any minor technical errors, which can always creep in when a long and very technical legal document is compiled - no matter how carefully the person drafting it approaches the task and how skilled they are in performing it. The sorts of things I mean are typos, incorrect cross-references and minor discrepancies in terms of the facts. There almost certainly won't be any significant error at this point.

It'll be interesting to see how long the Panel gives the parties to comment in this case. As Chris says, they usually try to keep the period short, but in this case, it'll be a much longer document than the CAS award (which ran to 93 pages), so you'd think the parties would need longer in this case.

You can see from Chris's post that, in the real world, this period can be anything from a few days to a couple of weeks or more. In the case at hand, there's the issue that, in the football world, leaks are a way of life and the PL has operated throughout in a way that amply demonstrates this fact. In the light of this, maybe the Panel on this occasion might be inclined to give the parties what would otherwise seem an unreasonably short period for comments.

Who knows? Again, we're guessing, unless any of my learned colleague can offer a more authoritative assessment than I've been able to. But my personal hunch is that it's possible that the process of the parties' final comments being submitted to the Panel and being included in the final text could in fact take place over a weekend with a view to a Monday release (even if the parties had the draft text a few days before the weekend).
 
Blueeye said:
Heard from reliable source 1st April
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I hope its afore then.

I'm travelling on the 1st so don't want to miss the industrial strength pyrotechnic show that the club put on and the beer fest in front of Colin Bell reception or Khaldoon and and Lord David parading doon Deansgate in a Popemobile.

Rockets and fireworks all oyer east Manchester !!
 
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