City fined over £2m by PL | Sanction agreed for 22 breaches relating to ko delays

Well it took them 12 years to spot our financial shenanigans so 2 years to find out our games have been kicking off late, is par for the course.
Why not after one game, maybe 5? OK then, how about at the end of every season?
It does have a feel of the last desperate acts of a corrupt organisation about to lose court cases and have a regulator imposed on it.
 
As a ref I'm delighted to see this. It's my biggest pet hate, you call the teams in and the coaching staff and 11 players just ignore you*. As a single individual there is nothing you can do, you can go mental and start without them but that would cause a riot. I'm not sure PL referee teams have any more power, they knock on the door and ask the players to come out, if they ignore him or refuse, what can he actually do? Probably has 2 burly security guards in his personal space as well. Be interesting to see the decisions City got or didn't get in the first 10 minutes of the second half of these games. The only power the ref has his is whistle once the game starts, it's my go to weapon in these scenarios.

The last league match included here is also the longest delay. A game to win the league and the best manager in the world has nearly 3 minutes longer with his players than allowed. That's an advantage that a £100k fine doesn't come near covering.


* I assume the clocks starts at this point and each team is on their own time.
 
I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned, but have any other clubs been fined for this? Or are we the only ones?

I'm not insinuating some conspiracy against us either; I'm just curious.
 
BobbyBoy said:
As a ref I'm delighted to see this. It's my biggest pet hate, you call the teams in and the coaching staff and 11 players just ignore you*. As a single individual there is nothing you can do, you can go mental and start without them but that would cause a riot. I'm not sure PL referee teams have any more power, they knock on the door and ask the players to come out, if they ignore him or refuse, what can he actually do? Probably has 2 burly security guards in his personal space as well. Be interesting to see the decisions City got or didn't get in the first 10 minutes of the second half of these games. The only power the ref has his is whistle once the game starts, it's my go to weapon in these scenarios.

The last league match included here is also the longest delay. A game to win the league and the best manager in the world has nearly 3 minutes longer with his players than allowed. That's an advantage that a £100k fine doesn't come near covering.


* I assume the clocks starts at this point and each team is on their own time.
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How could we possibly tell?

Teams are constantly allowed to foul us at will with individual committing numerous yellow card assaults without ever getting carded...

...does the name Tanganga mean anything to you?

Or do you mean like an attacker breaking the lines and being through to what would be a 1-on-1 with the keeper with the scores level and just minutes remaining on the clock only for the game to be stopped to give us a free-kick in our own half? No, that's surly far too late in a game for an unbiased individual to hold onto a petty "they told me they'd be out in a minute and it took them 2 minutes" grudge.

You're just showing yourself up with your "understanding" of refs' pettiness and their 6-year old tit-for-tat mentality where "he did this so I did that".

I was once told that this behaviour was evidence of having a small penis, do you concur?
 
manimanc said:
I know khaldoon said that he won't give in to anything but I'm thinking we've took this pinch because the 115 has fell flat on it's arse.
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Let’s hope so. They can turn round to the red fans and say well we failed but at least we got them for getting on the pitch 45 seconds late for the second half that time they played Brighton!
 
Sorry if mentioned already, - but are we the only club who was hit with this fine? Surely other teams must have been late now and then?
 
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