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Interesting piece of info from an entirely reliable source with contacts at government level : for some time now there has been much deliberation at the highest level as to what should be done about the "tidal wave" of "funny money" being "laundered" by our football clubs. It seems the...

Reviewed the 2nd half on City+ : the "shithousery" starts 64th min. - Raya 2m10s lost ; 70th - Havertz 1m ; 72nd - Calafiori 1m30s ; 82nd Rice ( booked time wasting ) 50s ; 85th Martinelli 50s ; Gabriel 1m20s ( up to 90m ) Add on 2mins for substitutions = a minimum of 9 mins...

Rolling headline on my Microsoft Facesheet - "Man City FFP : Emphatic APT appeal verdict predicted with Citizens tipped to be found guilty". ( Football365) Guilty of what ? Silly me , I thought City were effectively the plaintiff/appellant in this particular matter and the Premiership the...

Brighton away - FACup - early 80's. Travelled by coach - organised by Poynton WMC. Coach broke down on M1 and we supporters had to sit ( in the rain ) on the hard-shoulder right on the Luton exit. My girlfriend at the time was a ManU fan and the rags happened to be playing Luton that day. So...

Like to keep a track on BBC's "Gossip" ( potential transfers ) during the transfer window. Very little to report regarding City - just a few rumours ( Grealish / Alvarez / Ederson ) might be on their way or not. Some talk in the media that Ten Bob has been given a "dreadful war-chest" with...

Thank-you -- understood ! Tyranny of the Majority -I suppose.

Interesting ! Given the above, could someone enlighten me on this point : I've read a number of differing accounts as to when the Premiership adopted and took on Gill's "Get City FFP" rules from UEFA - I think it was in 2015 ?. I recall the media headlines at the time rejoicing that the...

Talking about a "certain type of player", I was told a story about such a "certain type of player" : so a friend ( of a friend ) was enjoying a quiet drink, with his girlfriend in a night club in Manchester when a "certain type of player" together with his obnoxious entourage came over to them...

I wonder whether "scruffy" Jim has managed to get Sir Alex to give up the manager's parking space yet?

Spot on ! The Dispatches team set up a "Sting" whereby they invented a Far Eastern Businessman supposedly interested in buying an English Football Team. He was introduced to a secretive organisation ( let's call it Doug and Dinsdale's "The Gang" ) who could introduce established English...

I believe City did rather well at the " FIFA BEST AWARDS " not that you'd know it from Media coverage. The only headline on the BBC Football News ( courtesy of Simon Stone ) - " Date has been set for hearing into Man City Charges "...

Must be the Grauniad. Almost certain to be Barney Ronay. Hang on... just looking at Private Eye "Pseuds Corner" ... yes there it is... and there's another entry from Barney ... " The entire cultural history of the 1980's is basically Midge Ure walking through the Vienna mist in a leather...

Simple Sammy Wallace started his career as tea boy at the Torygraph. He moved on to the failing Independent, joining veteran hack -James Lawton and oddball-wierdo Ian Herbert. The three of them ( all rabid rag apologists ) regularly produced "Glory Glory manure" articles, interspersing them with...

If you think the Mail is bad then you need to avoid the Express ( part of the Reach / ManUMirror / Liverpool Echo ? stable ) The Express is always incredibly bad. Today's Express "Football" Page headlines, as usual, go back 4 days : ( and bear in mind City played on Tuesday ) - there are 91...

Looking at the rag's penalty yesterday : Martial ( who has "won" at least 2 penalties against City in recent years for obvious dives - the 6-3 springs to mind ) "wins" one against Everton just at a time when Everton are well on top. Martial ( outside the area ) receives a pass and kicks the...

"Simply put, this is a case initiated by UEFA, prosecuted by UEFA and judged by UEFA ... " ( City's official response to UEFA's /Leterme's/ Parry's, Gill's relentless attempts to damage City ) UEFA ( as do the FA and the Premiership ) operate in a legal vacuum ; they ( or more to the point...

I'm going back 15 years on this one : I had a footballing mate who was a fanatical ManUre fan ( but I should add - a very decent sort of person ) who was the very proud possessor of TEN ManU Season Tickets. He acquired the right to purchase these season tickets by his selling ManU Supporters...

Last night, had a good natured chat in the pub, with a Man Utd supporting friend, about media coverage of Man U relative to City. He told me I was paranoid. Knowing I'd be sure to be on solid ground - I told him to "google" the Daily Express Football Site as I could predict the Rags would...

For heaven's sake ! The correct number is 1.1 Billion. ( Kantar interviewed 54000 respondents and deduced the rags have 467M fans and 635M followers ) Come to think of it - I suppose all of us blues reading this thread are followers. And by the way - Qualcomm manufacture chips ( the...

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