PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

69FACUPfinal said:
Mine was the 4-1 win at Old toilet 12 December 1970. A present for my 13th birthday. Glyn broken leg, Lee won pen scored ( last pen until Erls in 2023 fpr us at that leaky grim place) and the 1970 victory was so easy it set a false narrative for the decades following a decade later. Rot started imo with Spuds 1981 FA Cup og and replay robbery.....
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Lee scored proper hat trick that afternoon right foot,left and a header but no penalty that day 100%.
 
Shirley said:
I was a regular at Maine Road in the 60’s and I can honestly say I never met one of these fans who went to Maine Road one week and the swamp the next.
Perhaps it’s a myth.
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I was one of those in the late 60s. Mind you, I was only 10 in 1969. My dad was a season ticket holder at the swamp and my brother remains a rag season ticket holder to this day. It was his school that ran trips to City so I tagged along and the pair of us used to go to both. I was at the rags European Cup semi final in 1969 and our FA Cup Final was the first tv programme I saw in colour.

I know that by 1974, I hated them but I can't recall a specific event that led me that way. Maybe I just grew up.
 
Newman Noggs said:
I was one of those in the late 60s. Mind you, I was only 10 in 1969. My dad was a season ticket holder at the swamp and my brother remains a rag season ticket holder to this day. It was his school that ran trips to City so I tagged along and the pair of us used to go to both. I was at the rags European Cup semi final in 1969 and our FA Cup Final was the first tv programme I saw in colour.

I know that by 1974, I hated them but I can't recall a specific event that led me that way. Maybe I just grew up.
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My dad came to Manchester in the mid 60s and went to both but not for long. He could explain why he didn't continue going to the other place apart from there was something he did not like.
 
Damocles said:
I've never worked out Sheikh Khalifa and MbZ. Obviously after the stroke, he was a puppet. However there's a narrative around the MbZ was elevated to "Chief Advisor" type role all the way back in 2004 when he was appointed as Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council.
But with like most of these stories, it came out after the death of Sheikh Khalifa and makes MbZ look like the "legitimate" ruler so could well be complete bollocks and propaganda. As I say, even the Governments don't know and they have guys who spend their entire working lives trying to navigate this stuff. Someone like me who reads a few books or papers about it has no chance.

You can see in this cable from the US Embassy that they refer to "Khalifa and MbZ's Government".


It also references how one of the elder brothers of the Bani Fatima was removed from Government positions for being "too influenced by the Majlis circle" or to put into terms we'd get, he was too Arab and not business enough. It's the equivalent of going down the pub and having everyone whinge at you so then going to say the same in Cabinet meeting. He's talking about the price of Carling while you're trying to talk about a £33bn oil trade deal.

So Khalifa represented the older and less educated and more tribal generation while MbZ represented the new business focused and less traditional generation. How the power dynamics played out here nobody really knows.
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These WikiLeaks diplomatic reports are very entertaining. I would say that HH Sheikh Khalifa and HH MbZ worked as a team—they created the modern Abu Dhabi. However, since MbZ reported to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, if City is "state-owned," Khalifa would have had to approve it.
 
chesterbells said:
@OB1 I see you follow this account mate. Is it reliable?

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Take it with a pinch of salt.
How many times have the ITK crowd said it’s going to be on this date or that date.

‘Now verified by the most reliable and internal sources at the club’
That statement on its own is laughable.

Either way he won’t tell us who these most internal sources are and he can’t prove anything.

Let’s just wait until it’s released or until there’s a reliable leak from someone who’s at the very least IPSO regulated.
 
Keith Moon said:
These WikiLeaks diplomatic reports are very entertaining. I would say that HH Sheikh Khalifa and HH MbZ worked as a team—they created the modern Abu Dhabi. However, since MbZ reported to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, if City is "state-owned," Khalifa would have had to approve it.
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For some of Sheikh Khalifa's early life, he was a tribal nomad. This means that he walked around the Arabian desert stopping at the same hunting and water spots that his tribe had stopped at for thousands of years. Small towns btw, not tents, but their travel was seasonal and often hunting based before Sheikh Zayed reformed the country.

Imagine that conversation.

"Right, I've got a plan to catapult us into the stratosphere your Highness. It involves some cash, Clayton Ailines, and Richard Dunne"

"Richard....Dunne?"
 
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