City launch legal action against the Premier League | City win APT case (pg901)

[AshtonBlueMooner]

Matt Lawton broke this news on 26th September and @tolmie's hairdoo also tweeted about it. They were correct. Well done gentlemen.
@slbsn questioned the reference to the agenda item being removed as potentially not being relevant. Clearly Stefan hadn’t had the nod.
Matt Lawton and @tolmie's hairdoo get where water doesn’t and that’s great news for us. Keep up the excellent work fellas.

 

[Mr Fraser]

The book cooking fucking cunts!!!!

Please City, get these fuckers in court for serious damages money.

Would like to see the un redacted version

 

[Blueboy73]

Social media is awash with morons spewing their rotten bile.

No change there then.
That's why I don't bother with it.

 

[M18CTID]

Meanwhile on red cafe there in denial

Apart from the fact that it won’t affect the other case, that’s one totally and utterly deluded desperate **** right fucking there!

 

[Mr Fraser]

Mike Wedderburn will be enjoying his evening slot on Sky Sports.

Sky sports reporting has not been what I expected. Think we know who has "won"

 

[west didsblue]

So, a summary:

As a fair few of us said, the club won some and lost some. The club wasn't really trying to overturn the whole APT thing and didn't so no problem there. But it did win on these;

The original and the 2023 rules are illegal because they don't take into account commercial interest on interest-free shareholder loans. Needs a new rule ASAP, I guess. Will affect Arsenal the most. Shame. Question is, does it have to be applied retroactively to the introduction of the APT rules in 2021 if all the rules aren't scrapped and all effects removed?

The new 2023 rules are illegal because certain of the changes significantly increase the risk of false positives: three changes are mentioned: "could" instead of would, "normal market conditions" and the removal of "evidently". The PL will just revert to the 2021 wording which gives more leeway to the club on valuations. Strangely, this section of the award also refers to the switch in the burden of proof from the PL to the club, but unless I missed it I can't find the panel's finding on that. Which means either they have made a mistake or I have missed it.

Two negative decisions on valuations (including the new Etihad deal) have been reversed and the PL had been found in breach of their own rules by causing delays in their determinations. Compensation claim incoming, I imagine for all that ....

I think :)

I don’t think we lost any. The fact that some of the reasons for the laws being unlawful were dismissed did not change the outcome that the rules are unlawful.

 

[chedinho]

It’s not necessaryly the West Ham supporters

I’ve already had apologies from West Ham mates.

 

[jimharri]

The Forest fan is not a happy bunny. Shame.

 

[Blue Til Death]

There was only ever going to be one outcome!

 

[SalfordCityBlue]

I don’t think we lost any. The fact that some of the reasons for the laws being unlawful were dismissed did not change the outcome that the rules are unlawful.

That's my reading of it too. We threw a lot of arguments at the same points - won some, lost some, but won the overall argument.