PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Question for any of our legal beagles on here. If the result comes out that we are innocent of the bulk of the charges meaning we dont get a points deduction or relegation.... If any newspapers or media in general then use the words "City got away with it" Or that "the PL failed in their job of prosecuting City" etc... Can our club take them to court?
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Question for any of our legal beagles on here. If the result comes out that we are innocent of the bulk of the charges meaning we dont get a points deduction or relegation.... If any newspapers or media in general then use the words "City got away with it" Or that "the PL failed in their job of prosecuting City" etc... Can our club take them to court?
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I remember Khaldoon saying that "we'll take a pinch this time, but never again" or something like that. So I would imagine the answer to your query is yes, most definitely
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Instead, we had a non-executive board member actually doing the work on checking the valuation of one of our deals.

It's absolutely right that the board should hold the CEO to account, not reinforce his stupidity or buttress his incompetence. A half-competent board would have told Masters he needed to step down after finding out he'd knowingly acted against legal advice to exclude shareholder loans from APR rules. Clearly the PL board (which is a weak one by the normal standards of corporate governance isn't half-competent.



You could apply the same criteria to the City board. Who's the domain expert on there? Who are the genuinely independent non-executives? Why isn't the CEO an executive director?
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Completely agree PB & in the APT case the panel complimented board members for clearly not having a clue about their role.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Question for any of our legal beagles on here. If the result comes out that we are innocent of the bulk of the charges meaning we dont get a points deduction or relegation.... If any newspapers or media in general then use the words "City got away with it" Or that "the PL failed in their job of prosecuting City" etc... Can our club take them to court?
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Doubt it and wouldn’t be worth the time and expense
Also media companies are very clever in what they say might sail close to the wind but rarely get caught
 
CC1 said:
Oh dear. The PL will be really p****** off now the darling red tops have no money next season.
Let’s hope we hurt them more with a successful outcome of this travesty & disgraceful action against our great club
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Expect us to be the big brown baddies again in the morning... Me thinks some almighty deflecting might be on its way.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Instead, we had a non-executive board member actually doing the work on checking the valuation of one of our deals.

It's absolutely right that the board should hold the CEO to account, not reinforce his stupidity or buttress his incompetence. A half-competent board would have told Masters he needed to step down after finding out he'd knowingly acted against legal advice to exclude shareholder loans from APR rules. Clearly the PL board (which is a weak one by the normal standards of corporate governance isn't half-competent.



You could apply the same criteria to the City board. Who's the domain expert on there? Who are the genuinely independent non-executives? Why isn't the CEO an executive director?
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What’s wrong with the city board ? It’s full of big hitters. Domain expert ?
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
I literally can't think of any. Not even in Europe where or pundits tend to support the opposition. The CL final maybe but only when it looked like we were going to win it. And maybe against PSG.

But I can't think of any time the media have supported or club against anyone.
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I remember the semi final against Real Madrid under Pellegrini and on BT Sports both the Ginger Pig and Wio openly said they wanted Madrid to win…. What other English team has to put up with that. Why would BT want those pair of C@nts as pundits for that game in any case - clearly a very bitter agenda.
 
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