:) We could extend this analogy all day, but I will accept that you don't think the PL requiring clubs and third parties to amend otherwise legal contracts is an issue and shut up.
unconfirmed but I understand there is an option to buy at a nominal price after 25 years???On the 250 year rental income, previous years have been less, and have been negotiated up, if that rental figure remained the same over the remainder of the 250 year rental income, that would be over £1bill the council gets off City. Maybe there will come a point in the future when the club decides it’s want to by the stadium for substantially less than £1bill it will have to pay out in rent to the council?
No, it's more like saying a ref is less likely to be neutral if he supports or has played for one of the teams.That’s a bit like saying a magistrate cannot try a motoring case if he’s a driver or a ref can’t be neutral if he played the game.
You have to draw the line somewhere on what constitutes bias. The courts or arbitration is the backstop.
You can bet your life that City will lobby the new regulator when the time comes.
Thanks. Maybe not so irrelevant for those with big loans and sailing close to the wind on permitted losses.No 2 separate points. 2024 amendments, will go. Shareholder loans going forward will be FMVed for market interest rates.
We have to pay 1/20 of their costs. That is patently UNFAIR.
No, but you’ve gone from the general ( a regulator with any football experience) to the particular, a rag ref. After all, it was an Arsenal member that chose our panel. Despite some objections here, the panel was decent.No, it's more like saying a ref is less likely to be neutral if he supports or has played for one of the teams.
Would you want anyone connected to the rags eg. Gill or Neville overseeing the game?
Don’t leave out @gordondaviesmoustache, he will be upset.Fair enough, we will see in the next couple of weeks, I suppose.
Just thought lawyers engaging with journalists about legal cases was punching down, which is something I'm not keen on.
Anyway, you can punch me on legal matters as much as you want, and frequently do :) but keep it up, I will always be grateful to you, @petrusha and @Chris in London for educating me about law and sports law over the last eighteen months much more than I had ever thought I would have needed. It has all certainly helped me shape positions on these cases that I am comfortable with.
And probably wrong about :)
You mean "Think about what she's actually saying" according to your interpretation?I disagree. She mentions financial controls to keep the PL competitive, but where was her concern when ManUre & Chelsea spent over a decade divvying up PL titles between them?
If anything, she's inadvertently spilled the beans. Wasn't FFP & PSR meant to control rising debt in football to stop another Portsmouth from happening? Where is her concern over debt?
Nah, her concern is stopping other clubs from investing in their squads, so the Hammers don't get left behind & become relegation threatened. This is Brady wanting to drag everyone down to her level, rather than investing so WHU improve to a level where they can compete for the PL title & CL places. This is the dream for all fans of PL teams, not just annual PL survival.
Think about what she's actually saying. It's not fair if clubs like City have ambitions & put their owners money where their ambitions lie, run their clubs professionally & reap the rewards. How dare City leave WHU behind!
No wonder most Hammers fans can't stand her. Just imagine if she took over from Khaldoon & her plan for City going forward was Gollum as manager & PL survival every season? That's the level she wants everyone in the PL to be at so it's "fair".
It is an incredible headline on that article. Totally false.Sam Wallace is an arsehole.
A fully paid up Rag full of self entitlement.
Originally the "Manchester" Football Correspondent of the Telegraph he bacame "Northern Correspondent - 'coz he only ever did stories in the rags.
The club need to ban this areshole/weasel from City games ASAP.
I really have had enough of the club rolling out the red carpet for journalists who continue to kick us in the face.