PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

cibaman said:
I think the early 60s were much different to the second half of the decade. Hooliganism really took off mid 60s. I remember the 1968 derby at Maine road being brutal. You might have seen an isolated one on one punch up in the early 60s but not widespread violence
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That sounds about right

I'm not quite old enough to remember the mid 60s but I've read just about every City-related article and match programme from that particular period and references to pitch invasions and isolated incidents start appearing at the start of 66-67

I'm guessing that it had gradually been increasing (but largely ignored by the media) especially with Maine Road hosting so many big games the previous season, and even during the Poyser years, there would have been large followings from Sunderland and Leeds and possible tension.
 
PaulPowerScreamer said:
The whole "going to watch both teams" thing seems so alien because it was so bitterly tribal a relatively short time afterwards and loyalties became set in stone so early.

As you know, the only non-international match shown live on TV used to be the FA cup final and the first live game I remember watching was a rags game! It was the 76 cup final and 6 year old me, who'd never been to Maine Road, was jumping around the house celebrating the Southampton win.

I didn't even go to a City game until the following year and going to watch the rags would have been unimaginable.
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I lost almost a full can of beer when celebrating that goal by Bobby Stokes
 
Micky Blue said:
It’s very strange.
My thought is the American owned teams will have multiple American ‘fixers’ or consultants. Non of which will be in the limelight and many of which will hold other directorships.

Everton with Moshiri and Usmanov looked very dodgy but they never got the same treatment as us
www.theguardian.com

Everton owner received £400m from Alisher Usmanov companies, documents suggest

Exclusive: Questions mount over ties between Farhad Moshiri and tycoon, before he was put under sanctions
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

From the outside the optics at face value of the £30m admittedly look suspicious.
But having been found with no case to answer at CAS and like you mentioned all the information being readily available on Twitter it looks like a complete hit job on us once again.

It’s also strange as we are seemingly not held to the same standards by the media as other clubs.

Chelsea - were dodgy as fuck under abramovic, it’s all coming out now but largely ignored by the media.
Everton - under Usmanov… sorry it was clearly Moshiri and was exceptionally dodgy.
Liverpool - sponsored by alleged money launderers
Arsenal - murderous regime sponsor them
Tottenham - owner is a convicted criminal, insider trading no less.
United - sir Jim pollutes the planet literally on an industrial scale.

None of the above get the same media / PL scrutiny as our owners and club.
Imagine if our owners were convicted of insider trading, or etihad were laundering money for a sanction hit country.
We would be hung out to dry.

I’m just going to call it out as blatant racism, by the media, by the PL and by the fans of other clubs.

They also always call up human rights in the UAE. I don’t want to get political but not many nations, the west included are squeaky clean. To focus myopically on one region and call out issues seems agenda driven as opposed to driven by genuine human compassion.
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Did the UAE ever threaten to invade Greenland?
 
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