CAS judgement: UEFA ban overturned, City exonerated (report out p603)

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Samuel is the best football journo around. He calls us out when it’s needed but will always put our case forward when he feels we deserve it.

 

[SilverFox2]

The reaction to today has showed that this isn’t over yet.

There’s a couple of key bits to me. The first one is the narrative being set around the evidence being not established. I have a feeling a few will have even more egg on their faces when the CAS details fully come out and it shows that the evidence was so easily refutable it begs the question why Uefa felt it was anywhere near conclusive enough in the first place.

The second bit is around the time barring. I’ve seen a few journalists make snide remarks about the best lawyers or us getting off on a technicality. I have not seen one properly question how on earth Uefa could think they could possibly charge us, breaching their own regulations in doing so. Not only that but also after being pulled up by CAS for trying to do exactly the same already when they overruled them in the PSG case.

If you couple those two together, it’s beyond incompetence to me, to the point of even wondering if this outcome is actually what Uefa wanted all along (conspiracy theory I know!). Show publicly they’re doing what the ECA wanted them to knowing that it was destined to fail and then use that as a basis to properly overhaul the system.

The fact that not a single journalist has properly picked up on that though and not really questioned the real story here, which is the actions of Uefa and the underlying motives behind it, means there’s still a lot more mileage in this yet.

Bring it on :)

The point is we went to CAS fighting UEFAs compliance with their own rules not the fairness of them.
We won using their own unfair rules against them.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

This is brilliant

Top that, very good.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

No, Liz2

Does she get as much action as Karen ?

 

[domalino]

This is brilliant

The Delaney tweet just cracks me up every time.

Every other journalist is hiding behind the time-barred thing, but Delaney is so fucking petty and gets in so many scraps with city fans online that he managed to outright dismiss it as a possibility and insulted anyone who thought it could be.

CAS couldn't have drafted a ruling to make him look more of a cretin if they tried.

 

[meltonblue]

The point is we went to CAS fighting UEFAs compliance with their own rules not the fairness of them.
We won using their own unfair rules against them.

I know, that’s my point! CAS has already found against them once for the exact same scenario, that is beyond incompetence to the point I really question the underlying motives.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Martin Samuels in the Mail wrote a decent expose of the crooked cartel.

 

[Bald fraud]

Every single article I’ve read from this afternoon onwards is the same cockroach’s praying the premier league investigation can nail us these fuckers are so desperate it’s a disgrace!

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Martin Samuels in the Mail wrote a decent expose of the crooked cartel.

link 8-)

 

[BlueBrain]

Not sure if it was mentioned already but city put the statement out on the website at 9:29am! Lol

I feel like they missed a beat by not putting it out at 9:32...