WestGorton
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Like Sullivan who is disowned by West Ham supportersI'm not. Bloom is a ****.
Like Sullivan who is disowned by West Ham supportersI'm not. Bloom is a ****.
Why do they need an emergency meeting. I thought the PL won the case!
Hey, that's mine!
What did you expect?All I'm seeing from the MSM is, City had a couple of minor wins. We failed on everything thing else because it's deemed lawful.
Just like CAS, the MSM still avoid the amount of times NO EVIDENCE was qouted. We will always be the ones that "got away with a techincallity."
The MSM - BBC especially - are ignoring: UNLAWFUL, UNFAIR and UNREASONABLE. The report is quite clear about the way we were treated. We cannot win and will always be cheats.
You rotter!It's my twitter profile pic now. Many thanks.
I think upon a little reflection the extent of City’s victory depends on the club’s objectives. If it was to destroy APT (which I highly doubt) then it’s correct to say it’s somewhat limited, although still material. If it was to recalibrate the rules (which I expect it was) then the success would have to be, at the very least, characterised as highly successful.
However, what cannot be open to debate is the extent of the PL’s defeat. A de facto public authority having a finding that its rules were unlawful, as was the way they were applied, is huge. As are the findings of procedural irregularity and unfairness.
To fail to understand this is to fail to appreciate the function of an authority such as this, the laws of natural justice and the burden and standard of proof required to establish such findings.
This following from the Leicester shambles further underlines this organisation is not even close to being fit to oversee a multi-billion pound industry that has attained huge strategic and commercial importance to the UK.
That should be the story, but instead all we have is mental gymnastics from the media about how neither side won - when one of them manifestly lost.
Let me get this straight.
So we stand accused of getting an unfair financial advantage by disguising something like £60m of funding as sponsorship revenue (yet to be proven).
While it turns out that half the league have been pumping hundreds of millions into their clubs through interest free loan agreements in a manner that has been found by a court of law to unfairly distort competition.
Yet because the latter was sanctioned discrimination, inserted into the rules by the Premier League itself and waved through by a majority of clubs, nobody batted an eye?
And the average fan on the street is under the impression we're the ones 'financially doping'?
Am I missing something, or is this not absolutely fucking outrageous?