PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

cheekybids said:
In politics & business investigations are often only pursued after the media have created public outrage. You’ve only got to look at the Post Office for that. The premier league had 4 years to charge us before they did. They sat on it like Chelsea now.
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Sure, you could be right.

I just don’t remember there being a clamour for PL charges in the press. Certainly not to the level where weight of public opinion forces action like the Post Office.

Very little was in the public domain at that time and very little known about the investigation. Did we even have a bluemoon thread on it?

I remember hearing Stefan talk about it when there was the hearing over public interest and (if I recall correctly) he suggested it could be very serious but there wasn’t much to go off.

That was about it - then the charges dropped.
 
mcfcphil said:
Sure, you could be right.

I just don’t remember there being a clamour for PL charges in the press. Certainly not to the level where weight of public opinion forces action like the Post Office.

Very little was in the public domain at that time and very little known about the investigation. Did we even have a bluemoon thread on it?

I remember hearing Stefan talk about it when there was the hearing over public interest and (if I recall correctly) he suggested it could be very serious but there wasn’t much to go off.

That was about it - then the charges dropped.
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And the day after all the media said we were guilty. They could not abide the idea of some foreign brown people actually trouncing the cream of English football. Arabs see, bound to be cheats.
 
mcfcphil said:
Sure, you could be right.

I just don’t remember there being a clamour for PL charges in the press. Certainly not to the level where weight of public opinion forces action like the Post Office.

Very little was in the public domain at that time and very little known about the investigation. Did we even have a bluemoon thread on it?

I remember hearing Stefan talk about it when there was the hearing over public interest and (if I recall correctly) he suggested it could be very serious but there wasn’t much to go off.

That was about it - then the charges dropped.
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The way I remember it, the Daily Mail and the Guardian (in particular but they weren't alone) routinely shoehorned "are the subject of ongoing PL investigations' into all sorts of City-related articles.
(At one point, it felt like a cat could have had kittens on the Alan Turing Way and some of the usual suspects would have found an excuse to press copy and paste at the bottom of the article.
I'm being silly. This is nonsense of course. Most of the fuckers had the phrase installed as a template and, professionals that they are, theyd build up to it).
 
Drop all charges and fuck off would be the easiest way out.

Waste of time and money.

Rags…you are shit, accept it.

Dips…wankers, good team but major cunts behind the scenes.

Arse…we paid you more than enough money and thanks to your ineptitude we used the players to overtake you and now YOU are the bitch just like spurs used to be.

115 and out -:)
 
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wolviedinho said:
Drop all charges and fuck off would be the easiest way out.

Waste of time and money.

Rags…you are shit, accept it.

Dips…wankers, good team but major cunts behind the scenes.

Arse…we paid you more than enough money and thanks to your ineptitude we used the players to overtake you and now you are the bitch just like spurs used to be.

115 and out -:)
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love this
 
wolviedinho said:
Drop all charges and fuck off would be the easiest way out.

Waste of time and money.

Rags…you are shit, accept it.

Dips…wankers, good team but major cunts behind the scenes.

Arse…we paid you more than enough money and thanks to your ineptitude we used the players to overtake you and now you are the bitch just like spurs used to be.

115 and out -:)
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Oh how I wish that just for once you'd come down off that fence you're sitting on, dear Wolviedinho, and tell us what you really think..!

(Excellent, pithy summation by the way.. and I do so like 'pithy'..!)
 
oldius said:
Given there is absolutely no news, I am consistently surprised by this thread's position near the top of the 'new posts' section. It just needs to be done now as it's so boring (the dragging out, not the thread).
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Yes, no idea how it keeps ending up at the top of the page
 
For those that are bored Here's an early article (2021) from the Daily Mail. The comments section is surprising.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Man City STILL under investigation for breaking FFP rules

The Premier League said it would not comment further until the matter was closed. It isn't known what specific FFP allegations remain outstanding but the fact that the case is ongoing after more than two years suggests they are complex.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

And this one has Stefan Borsons comments too.
www.dailymail.co.uk

STEFAN BORSON: Premier League in unenviable spot in City legal battles

Manchester City's seemingly never-ending battle with the football authorities over matters of accounting are so esoteric you wonder who's interested.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
 
mcfcphil said:
Sure, you could be right.

I just don’t remember there being a clamour for PL charges in the press. Certainly not to the level where weight of public opinion forces action like the Post Office.

Very little was in the public domain at that time and very little known about the investigation. Did we even have a bluemoon thread on it?

I remember hearing Stefan talk about it when there was the hearing over public interest and (if I recall correctly) he suggested it could be very serious but there wasn’t much to go off.

That was about it - then the charges dropped.
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The whole thing starts with Der Spiegel then their story about even more emails is talked about in all the other publications.We didn’t think it would lead to charges, there was a clamour but likely it would have been talked about in the media thread.
 
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