PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[mexico1970]

I see it now!

Hay Panna Cotta with Apricots & Sunflower Seeds

There’s a taste of summer in this simple recipe for classic panna cotta with hay and caramelized apricots. Try it now!

www.eateryberlin.com

The spotted dick doesn't like it up him.

 

[cheekybids]

Thanks for explaining how the media works to me.

The 28 years I’ve been working in PR and Marketing, including 4 years in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Press Office in Whitehall, now all makes sense.

Are you saying big stories aren’t suppressed?

 

[WRicko]

The point is that Khaldoon saying that we don't have a ruling doesn't mean we don't know what the outcome is.

They can be very confident but cannot be certain

 

[johnny crossan]

They can be very confident but cannot be certain

They can if they already know the outcome.

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

5 minutes too late but at least you spelt his name correctly :)

The delay was caused due to me having to ‘paws’ for thought.

I’ll get my coat as the taxi is already here.

 

[WRicko]

They can if they already know the outcome.

They cannot know the outcome before the ruling

 

[johnny crossan]

They cannot know the outcome before the ruling

knowledge = having good reasons to believe something is true

 

[Kinkybyname]

They cannot know the outcome before the ruling

 

[mcfcphil]

Are you saying big stories aren’t suppressed?

Big stories are often suppressed, but that’s not what we’re talking about here (or at least what I’m talking about)

The scenario is a local journalist has been told by a credible source within City that there has been verdict but not to publish anything.

Clearly, if that source wanted to suppress the story there would have been a much easier way of doing so - don’t tell the journalist in the first place.

 

[mexico1970]

They cannot know the outcome before the ruling

What people are suggesting is that they will have more than a good idea of how well it's gone and what the ruling will be. Unless of course the judges have judged boxing competitions at any Olympic games where corruption abounds.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

I read a lot of crime fiction, and as an expert I can confirm that every crime investigation is steered off course by a corrupt detective who leaks information to the press…..

 

[cheekybids]

Big stories are often suppressed, but that’s not what we’re talking about here (or at least what I’m talking about)

The scenario is a local journalist has been told by a credible source within City that there has been verdict but not to publish anything.

Clearly, if that source wanted to suppress the story there would have been a much easier way of doing so - don’t tell the journalist in the first place.

I was talking to the bloke who doubted @Prestwich_Blue reason for suppressing & then gave an example of working in an area where I’d imagine big stories are suppressed all the time.

 

[mexico1970]

Big stories are often suppressed, but that’s not what we’re talking about here (or at least what I’m talking about)

The scenario is a local journalist has been told by a credible source within City that there has been verdict but not to publish anything.

Clearly, if that source wanted to suppress the story there would have been a much easier way of doing so - don’t tell the journalist in the first place.

I have always thought that when we are cleared we will help the PL and Masters to come out of this with as little damage as possible.

That being said rumours will get people ready for the final verdict to come, like lube before the big event it's all about the preparation.

 

[Coatigan]

I’d say ‘pushing it so far into the long grass’ probably falls short of an actionable libellous statement.

What would need to be the minimum wording or structure of that implication to meet such a threshold?

 

[Coatigan]

The world is full of smoke and mirrors, this is why you have speculation.
Some people can see , what others can't

See what?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

What isn’t?

That he’s lost the will to live.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

Seriously, of course other clubs will try to sue City if they are found guilty of any charges, on top of any sanctions. But this saga is affecting us more than everyone else, they might get a small compensatory boost but the Premier League is shooting itself in the foot. If people wake up and look at this without bias, it is a terrible look for the EPL whichever way it goes, and the top players will be swayed by this when they see other big clubs in Europe, UAE and USA with money, supposedly devoid of corruption.

(The last bit was meant to be ironic).

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

What would need to be the minimum wording or structure of that implication to meet such a threshold?

That it was untrue and caused material damage to the club’s reputation. Think it meets the former but not the latter.

Carragher’s been guilty of far more actionable statements in terms of City’s revenue imo.

 

[mcfcphil]

I was talking to the bloke who doubted @Prestwich_Blue reason for suppressing & then gave an example of working in an area where I’d imagine big stories are suppressed all the time.

I agree with TheGhost on this though.

It’s pure fantasy that a journalist would sit on a story of this magnitude.

It’s also fantasy that a source with the credibility required to give a steer that would be enough to justify publication would expect a journalist to sit on it.

 

[mcfcphil]

That he’s lost the will to live.

Sorry, with you now!