If you put a 30 mph limit on a stretch of road and when a particular driver complies, tell them the limit was, in fact, 25mph, would have been a more apposite analogy.jrb said:On a day when every journo and media outlet has been on our side regarding FFPR, surprise, surprise, Patrick Barclay of the *London Evening Standard*, decides City deserves the punishment.
I've seen him on Sunday Supplement on numerous occasions, and he really is the old skool, Fergie, arse licking ****, that he portrays.
Patrick Barclay: Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour knew the FFP rules so must accept punishment
If you put a 30mph limit on a stretch of road, and augment the clear signage with an intensive publicity campaign and then, having identified a few drivers who insist on blatantly exceeding it with 60mph dashes, sit them down and offer help in curbing the habit, and still they indulge in it, what are you supposed to do next? Abolish any speed limit, at whatever cost to pedestrians and the other road users who asked for it in the first place?
gordondaviesmoustache said:If you put a 30 mph limit on a stretch of road and when a particular driver complies, tell them the limit was, in fact, 25mph, would have been a more apposite analogy.jrb said:On a day when every journo and media outlet has been on our side regarding FFPR, surprise, surprise, Patrick Barclay of the *London Evening Standard*, decides City deserves the punishment.
I've seen him on Sunday Supplement on numerous occasions, and he really is the old skool, Fergie, arse licking ****, that he portrays.
Patrick Barclay: Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour knew the FFP rules so must accept punishment
If you put a 30mph limit on a stretch of road, and augment the clear signage with an intensive publicity campaign and then, having identified a few drivers who insist on blatantly exceeding it with 60mph dashes, sit them down and offer help in curbing the habit, and still they indulge in it, what are you supposed to do next? Abolish any speed limit, at whatever cost to pedestrians and the other road users who asked for it in the first place?
MrE said:ITS SORTED !!!!!!
MANCHESTER City have offered two players to UEFA as office administrators, in payment for their £49m fine.
Footballers Fernandinho and Jesus Navas, who would be given lifelong photocopying duties at UEFA’s headquarters in Switzerland, are thought to oppose the move which would damage their international careers.
The pair would join Edinson Cavani of Paris Saint Germain, who was also handed over to UEFA to clear a fine and is currently working as a car park attendant.
Football blogger Joseph Turner said: “Football clubs increasingly see their players as cash assets and find them useful in settling urgent bills.
“David Moyes’s severance settlement actually includes Rafael da Silva, and David Healy is still held by the Inland Revenue in Scotland in lieu of unpaid tax.
“Though following Hernan Crespo’s landmark lawsuit against Chelsea, players can no longer be bisected to pay two separate debts. I believe he’s still negotiating to get his legs back from Lazio.”
The practice is even beginning to be used in the lower leagues, with QPR manager Harry Redknapp admitting this week that striker Bobby Zamora was taken away by bailiffs as payment for an unpaid gas bill of £439.
Redknapp said: “To be fair, he was only part payment. We still owe about £200.”
tbf I find most people I encounter to be unimpressive thinkers ;-)Braggster said:I have always found Barclay an unimpressive thinker for a supposed heavyweight journalist, and that sort of simplistic analysis won't be changing my mind.
City Raider said:Just seen Quinn bigging us up before the game tonight and basically saying UEFA shifted the goalposts.
The support in our media has been interesting, the same semi- xenophobic stance they've adopted to 'arab' money is now being used against UEFA - 'who are they to tell english clubs how to spend their money'
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:City Raider said:Just seen Quinn bigging us up before the game tonight and basically saying UEFA shifted the goalposts.
The support in our media has been interesting, the same semi- xenophobic stance they've adopted to 'arab' money is now being used against UEFA - 'who are they to tell english clubs how to spend their money'
I thought Quinn was awesome tonight and really stuck up for us, and as has been said UEFA moved the goal posts. I hope we keep our powder dry, sword sharpened and if necessary go for the jugular and kill FFP for good in the Courts if necessary.
In our owners I trust!!
ForzaMancini said:Mr Ed (The Stables) said:City Raider said:Just seen Quinn bigging us up before the game tonight and basically saying UEFA shifted the goalposts.
The support in our media has been interesting, the same semi- xenophobic stance they've adopted to 'arab' money is now being used against UEFA - 'who are they to tell english clubs how to spend their money'
I thought Quinn was awesome tonight and really stuck up for us, and as has been said UEFA moved the goal posts. I hope we keep our powder dry, sword sharpened and if necessary go for the jugular and kill FFP for good in the Courts if necessary.
In our owners I trust!!
If what PB is saying is true then Quinn will obviously have contacts and heard the same about UEFA stitching us up. No doubt as pissed off at the injustice of it all as we are.