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

[supercity88]

Anyone got the headlines from when arsenal first leaked this case to the press a couple of months back? I seem to remember the word 'nuclear' involved, and the general feel that we were about to end football...

All turned out to be major bullshit of course, despite us winning

Hopefully a landmark decision that ends then as a club instead.

 

[Claytop]

By the morning the usual suspects in the media will have it as us having to pay the PL damages…

 

[Bald fraud]

Richard Masters should resign today.

It’s coming

 

[Abattoir Blue]

I won't bother linking it but Barney Ronay has come up with a very long and tedious pile of shite masquerading as an article in The Guardian. Basically we have won fuck all.

Not quite. A lot of Barney blather as usual (I quite like him tbh)...but at the end he says it's basically a draw but with the blue corner shading it on work rate and aggression. A little dig in there, but accepts the premise of what City are trying to do (with some success).

 

[Sibierskii]

Fuck me we can’t even keep a clean sheet in the court room

 

[WRicko]

A few thoughts. Should interest on directors loans not be back dated ? Check for previous years breaches due to extra costs ? If so for when ? When APT rules came in ? Or when FFP came in ? Surely directors loans could be considered related party or APT ?

Also the tribunal has not ruled APT illegal but I am confused as to how they can argue that the premier league can go above and beyond Related Party without arguing there is some problem with the law in general for all business (surely parliaments job not the courts or the premier leagues ). I think theoretically Related Party / APT should be as strict as possible provided it’s done fairly. I just don’t see why football should be different to any other business

 

[manimanc]

They are incredibly stupid not to realise that all this would have come out eventually if they took us to court.

Did they seriously think we would just roll over and accept the charges?

They obviously did mate.
But i think that they've been told from Masters or whoever at the Premier League that there is a plan to bury us/ get rid of us with the 115 thrown at us and that nobody will find out and we'll be unable to do anything.
And also I'd like to think that we've been collecting tons of evidence over the years, just waiting for the dam to burst and fight back. The Premier League have scored one of the biggest own goals ever and we've give them enough rope to hang themselves with.

Today was their worst nightmare.

 

[paulchapo]

I really hope they don’t sell any tickets.

I hope the arena tell him he's not welcome, find somewhere else.

 

[surprisedbygrass]

I just read the BBC’s “what does it all mean” article and they have clearly taken the position that this is all about the number of points won and not the importance of the points. The league “won the most points therefore they won” seems to be the position.

They fail to mention that a) City didn’t challenge the league’s authority to set rules so the league won points we weren’t challenging and b) the points City won were because of unlawful, unfair and unreasonable behaviour by the League. If they can’t see this is a clear beating for the Premier League they are either blind or have another agenda.

The BBC have a broadcasting contract with the PL ..they fund the PL ...

From the PL website .

The Premier League has concluded deals with Sky Sports and TNT Sports for five UK live packages and with BBC Sport for the free-to-air highlights package. All three agreements will cover the four-year period starting Season 2025/26 and are the largest sports media rights deals ever concluded in the UK.4 Dec 2023

 

[ProofMCFC]

Everytime, news like this comes out at the right time. I already feel like the club is even more galvanised again just like the treble season. Erling posting what he’s posted on social media isn’t a coincidence, he loves it and he loves the club and he’s not the only one. There’s nothing like being a blue.