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

[burning blue soul]

Devil’s advocate, can anyone explain where exactly the Prem have won on anything significant?

An analogy that I think comes closest is the premier league dropping their car off for an MOT only for the mechanic to find a dead body in the boot.
The premier league are subsequently found guilty of murder, but are commending themselves for the car passing its MOT.

Stop me if I'm wrong here.

 

[kaz7]

Pannick is a god

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

It wasn't arbitrary.

Talk about missing the point.

Bingo, it was dliberate targetted biased and illegal. In no way was it arbitrary.

 

[domalino]

They questioned the legality of the rules - and guess what....

The legality of APT as a concept was upheld, just not the 2 most recent additions. City argued the whole thing was unlawful and failed.

It’s not arguable that was a major victory for the PL, if City had succeeded in that there’d be no APT rules right now, and as it stands we’re just back to 2020 rules.

People can argue about whether City thought they’d actually win that argument or not, but the fact is they made the argument and lost and the PL is in a much much better position than they’d be if that claim had been upheld.

 

[mscenterh750]

He doesn't understand anything. No surprise there.

Anyway, good to see him depressed.

How much was the adidas deal with the rag cunts? The fucking irony of this **** spouting anything about sponsorship is fucking laughable. The pyjama wearing, rag loving ****.

 

[jrb]

I don’t want another £1mill+ being accepted like we did from the Yank owned Red shirt cartel, Sport Franchise Club, Liverpool FC.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

What did we lose on then?

 

[domalino]

Really? I thought it’s been said by many that it was only the amendments to the rules that we weren’t happy with and that we had no issue with APT as long as it was implemented fairly?

No we challenged the whole thing, it’s the first argument on the full decision.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

We cannot rely on Spurs for anything, but have we now got 7 clubs to stop anymore of the cartel shit? 1 City 2 Newcastle 3 Villa 4 Chelsea 5 Soton 6 ? 7 ? Was really surprised at Fulham

What this has shown is that it is the law which prevents the cartel from ruining anyone who stands in their way. The regulations governing the game have to be consistent with the law. For years now we have been treated to the nonsense that the governing bodies are only seeking to establish financial fair play, but today they have been shown to behave partially and unlawfully and deliberately so. It will be interesting now if an owner invests more than the PL allows and argues that FFP ignores that sponsorship deals are not as favourable to small clubs as "big" ones.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Has anyone checked if John Bishop is still alive?

I haven’t spotted him on TV since I put it on at 5 so he’s probably dead