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

[MillionMilesAway]

Ah, I see what you're trying to say now. Cheers.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Haha, me neither. Although I always liked Brian Glanville - he may have smelled and dressed like a tramp but I never had the feeling he could be bought.

It's quite sad actually, only last few years I woke up to it.

They aren't friends, they aren't even acquaintances, just people working you and others.

I hated what the job had turned me in to, worrying nightly what others thought about you, how I could keep earning, the people you have to suck up to.

I attended CBT therapy last year and my counsellor pretty much sat open-mouthed throughout, hearing how as a teenager I once had a telephone thrown at my head in the office, always being told I was a useless ****, people mocking me when it could clearly be seen I was upset, editors ringing me at 2am to have a go at me.

Hearing sexist comments, jobs for the boys, token offerings to minority reporters to tick a box.

I thought you had to take all that to get on and get on I did, but she explained that was not normal human behaviour, I had been taken advantage of from a very young age, straight out of school, fuelling anxieties and insecurities which will take a long time to fix.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Always first there, always sat on the front row and always shoehorning his ability to speak several foreign languages into any news conference

I once had the misfortune to sit with Steven Howard at a semi-final.

Fucking hell, I was drunk just smelling him.

A bit like Dave Whelan broken leg, someone would always bring up he used to date Kate O' Mara.

One of most genuine people I have encountered in football was Sir Bobby Robson.

As for journos, old schoolers such as Mike Ellis and Alec Johnson were always class acts towards kids like me coming through.

 

[blueyorkie]

Well, it's been brewing ever since I observed the nauseating, hysterical, hyperbolic glee with which the football press responded to the original Der Spiegel stories based on the Football Leaks materials. I've been waiting ever since to have my say once the matter was properly disposed of, a moment that arrived with this week's publication of the full CAS report.

It probably also doesn't help that I'm currently in a Russian hospital undergoing treatment for Covid and associated pneumonia. I can't say I felt in much of a mood to soft-soap my views, to be honest. (I'm doing fine and am much improved compared with my rather pitiful state earlier in the week, thanks.)

Get well soon pal

 

[portisheadblue]

Didn't Winter ask Mancini at his first presser as manager if he knew the sort of people he was now working for?

He certainly did .... I was somewhat gob-smacked with his language .... but the sneer was all over his face .... and it needed a nose as long as his to look down over.

He went on my shit list that day and he’s still there.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I don't think I've seen it mentioned by anyone - I must have overlooked when it was!

I did wonder whether the report said 'unanimous' anywhere in it.

Sometimes it said "the Panel" and sometimes it mentioned a majority.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I've attended a few press conferences at City and I’m always struck by how utterly childish the press pack are - they are like kids on a school trip. No respect, no decorum and utterly unprofessional pretty much all of them.

When you think about it, over the last 10 years, they’ve had weekly press conferences from Pep, Mancini, Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson to name 6. Some of the finest tactical minds ever to have coached/managed in the history of football and all they can ask them are the same inane questions, week after week. Tactical insight questions? None. Questions about the game coming up? None. Insightful questions about the game just played? None. Charlatans and frauds is applicable to the majority of them, sadly.

 

[waspish]

When you think about it, over the last 10 years, they’ve had weekly press conferences from Pep, Mancini, Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson to name 6. Some of the finest tactical minds ever to have coached/managed in the history of football and all they can ask them are the same inane questions, week after week. Tactical insight questions? None. Questions about the game coming up? None. Insightful questions about the game just played? None. Charlatans and frauds is applicable to the majority of them, sadly.

Because all they are about is a headline they not interested in tactics of a team.

 

[Mr.Banks]

When you think about it, over the last 10 years, they’ve had weekly press conferences from Pep, Mancini, Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson to name 6. Some of the finest tactical minds ever to have coached/managed in the history of football and all they can ask them are the same inane questions, week after week. Tactical insight questions? None. Questions about the game coming up? None. Insightful questions about the game just played? None. Charlatans and frauds is applicable to the majority of them, sadly.

You only tend to get those questions from the foreign journos. If you watch Pep's pressers, especially the CL ones, his whole demeanour changes when he is asked those type of questions. Before that he looks like he'd rather be anywhere else.

 

[LongsightM13]

It's quite sad actually, only last few years I woke up to it.

They aren't friends, they aren't even acquaintances, just people working you and others.

I hated what the job had turned me in to, worrying nightly what others thought about you, how I could keep earning, the people you have to suck up to.

I attended CBT therapy last year and my counsellor pretty much sat open-mouthed throughout, hearing how as a teenager I once had a telephone thrown at my head in the office, always being told I was a useless ****, people mocking me when it could clearly be seen I was upset, editors ringing me at 2am to have a go at me.

Hearing sexist comments, jobs for the boys, token offerings to minority reporters to tick a box.

I thought you had to take all that to get on and get on I did, but she explained that was not normal human behaviour, I had been taken advantage of from a very young age, straight out of school, fuelling anxieties and insecurities which will take a long time to fix.

Wasn’t Howard also the actor Leslie Howard’s son or grandson?
James Lawton was a kind old soul with a soft spot for City