Elbow beards
Well-Known Member
Never boring being a City fan. Even pre season :)
Questions need to be asked how that document was leaked. It can't do us any harm at all that "confidential documents" about the case have been shown to the press.From BBC sport:-View attachment 121264
I'm not going again!!
Is it The Times the Sheikh is trying to buy?Whiff?! It’s like standing outside a sellotape factory next to a sewerage plant in a town where everyone has dysentery.
The Times - as evidenced by Ziegler managing to release a full page exclusive on City’s 115 charges barely 18 seconds after the PL’s original announcement was made - appears to be Masters & Co’s media outlet of choice. Fucking cnuts, all of them
Just trying to reconcile the points you make here with the clubs currently sponsored by betting companies...Just a thought on the definition of sponsorship. Seemingly these new PL rules mean you must be getting a good return on your sponsorship. However isn’t the idea of sponsoring someone or something a kind of charitable act in which your intention is to give a helping hand to those you choose to sponsor. Almost an altruistic act. It’s always seemed strange to have to justify why you sponsor someone when surely it can be for their good and the consequences of that can reflect back on you.
Tellywag - which Mail owners want to buyIs it The Times the Sheikh is trying to buy?
Totally off track. The fair value rules re our sponsors, that we are taking legal action against, has nothing to do with the 115 allegations. Why are you making wild assumptions about what our KCs might have advised about those allegations? Little knowledge on your part & thus your recommendations on our “best defence” is totally wrong.Sounds to me like the KCs we hired have advised us the PL may have us bang to rights on the 115 as essentially the PL rules introduced since 2008 have been targeted at us specifically and within them the PL can define things such as 'non cooperation', ' related party' and 'fair value' however they wish.
Our best defence is therefore likely to be attacking those rules and showing them for what they are. If we succeed the 115 will vanish like a puff of smoke. If we don't succeed we are pretty fucked. Fingers crossed, but the legal brains advising us will no doubt be as certain as you can be that we'll win.