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

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RT @gtperformer84: @premierleague @LFC @TAGHeuer Richard Keys exposed as footage showing suspicious link to Premier League chief resurfaces?

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Richard Keys exposed as footage showing suspicious link to Premier League chief resurfaces?
August 7, 2020 Olly Hawkins
The plot has thickened in this seemingly ongoing Saudi takeover saga as Richard Keys’ (BeIN Sports) relationship with an influential Garry Hoffman comes under the microscope.


Who is Gary Hoffman you may ask? Well, he is a former Barclays banker who was appointed the Premier League’s Chairman on June 1st.

Suspicious timing when you look at the turn of takeover events we’ve experienced since then, and even more suspicious when you hear what Richard Keys has had to say about his “very good friend” below.

Given Keys is a Qatari-based journalist working for BeIN Sports (strong opponents to this Saudi buyout) and has made it abundantly clear he’s against this NUFC takeover, the following clip makes you wonder to what extent did their relationship influence this deal?

Not only that, this relationship he boasts about with the man he knows “very well” seems all the more intriguing given the amount of inside knowledge he’s claimed to have had on the takeover over the past few months. A potential breach of NDA’s? A conflict of interests?

The latter seems very possible when you consider the Premier League have just hired someone whose ex-employers at Barclays are in the middle of a legal dispute with Amanda Staveley’s PCP!

Add into this the fact Keys has been erasing some of the comments he’s made detailing his relationship with Hoffman and it’s not a good look at all – for him, Hoffman, the Premier League or Qatar/BeIN Sport.

He will point the finger at piracy, but this stinks of a conflict of interests and points to something many of us have feared all this time – the Premier League don’t ideally want this deal to go through and have allowed themselves to be influenced by parties outside their remit, not simply focus on this pass or fail test that should be completely objective.

Who knows, but a lot of the above does not sit right with me and should be investigated.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The teremity to sign that letter knowing they were also undergoing an ffp investigation and were found in breach!

They weren’t the only signatories displaying an abundance of temerity.

 

[Paladin]

Looks like wolves have just been done for exactly the same thing we were back in 2014.
Excessive losses, fine and squad reduction from uefa conpetitions for 20/21.
Only theres no media attention to it at all!
Shock

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...punished-UEFA-Financial-Fair-Play-breach.html

Does this qualify for 'Most Ironic Post of the Year'?

 

[Eds]

I am very surprised by the ref tonight. Apart from the shirt pull on Kevin which the ref missed. He had a very good game. On to Portugal and a game against Lyon. So onwards and hopefully to the Champions League final.

He was poor. Gave a couple of goal kicks to them instead of corners, gave us a corner instead of a goal kick, missed the penalty which had he have given it wouldn’t have been overturned but with the system supports the on field decision, missed a blatant foul on KDB just outside the box and huge push on Silva in last couple of minutes. That’s just off the top of my head. He was very poor and if that’s the best ref in Germany then their standards are lower than ours.

 

[remember arthur mann]

He was poor. He was very poor and if that’s th3 best ref in Germany then their standards are lower than ours.

Steady on now.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Who knows, but a lot of the above does not sit right with me and should be investigated.

I think the PL will be happy to order an investigation into, er, the PL!

 

[Woody135]

Does this qualify for 'Most Ironic Post of the Year'?

Haha! I meant almost none

 

[laserblue]

He was poor. Gave a couple of goal kicks to them instead of corners, gave us a corner instead of a goal kick, missed the penalty which had he have given it wouldn’t have been overturned but with the system supports the on field decision, missed a blatant foul on KDB just outside the box and huge push on Silva in last couple of minutes. That’s just off the top of my head. He was very poor and if that’s th3 best ref in Germany then their standards are lower than ours.

Just carrying on from where he left off two years ago in the last 8 first leg game at Klanfield.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Brych was bent as usuaL. Besides the foul on KDB, the penalty and the corners he pulled us back on at least three occasions when we had the advantage and let Real continue when fouls were made. Very selective choice of the advantage rule. Don't forget he was the t**t who refereed that first leg at Klanfield. No doubt Lahoz will referee us against Lyon.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Brych was bent as usuaL. Besides the foul on KDB, the penalty and the corners he pulled us back on at least three occasions when we had the advantage and let Real continue when fouls were made. Very selective choice of the advantage rule. Don't forget he was the t**t who refereed that first leg at Klanfield. No doubt Lahoz will referee us against Lyon.

It was classic Graham Poll stuff.