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

Prestwich_Blue said:
And Spurs were the club who originally got round FA rules about paid directors and other things, when they set up a holding company over 40 years ago.

Instead of slapping them down, the FA were supine and, along with the scrapping of the ticket money sharing agreement, pretty well all the commercialisation of football started from there.
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Exactly!

You just took me back to 1998 when we were clawing our way out of the third tier and I was at a company management meeting and having a pre-dinner drink at our Cotswold hotel with my colleagues. Those of us footy supporters in the group included a Sunderland Mackem (who, like me, went to games and always talked sense) and a couple of United fans along with one who followed Spurs and another, Arsenal.. all telly fans, of course, full of themselves..

The latter two were having the usual digs ('bantz' I believe the young bucks call it these days?!) at 'Ickle City of Division 3' (it was a couple of weeks before 'York away'.. my stars, how low had we fallen!); and then they had a few pops at the United fans for their club 'ruining' football with its obsession with 'making money'.

I put down my pint and pointed out a few things to said North London herberts. I said that however bad and treacherous the Red Filth might be for English football in general, it was Irving Scholar's early 80s takeover on the cheap at Spurs, plus the setting up of a new holding company which allowed for Directors to take money out of their clubs, that started the Gadarene rush towards the formation of the Premier League.

Spurs were quickly followed by David Dein et al at The Arse in chasing the filthy lucre that football was then beginning to generate. And of course, Martin Edwards at the Red Filth. I also pointed out the involvement of 'Big 5' (including Liverpool and Everton) in the grab for money, power and influence.

Pointing out their clubs' involvement in creating the state of football at that time in the late 90s, plus their hypocrisy in forgetting (or should that be 'not paying attention to'?) their respective clubs' history didn't exactly endear me to my colleagues but I'd had enough and they got the point.

My Mackem pal said as we went into dinner 'Serves 'em right for trying to cross swords on football with you!' My answer to him was a rather more terse 'F**k 'em..'
 
bigA said:
He's been implicated in match fixing scandals involving the club he owns (Aris Thessaloniki) in the Greek League. Also investigated for drug trafficking and smuggling and breaking sanctions in regards to Russian oil.
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Yup, charge against him dropped when ALL the witnesses dissapeared. Crazy stuff yet he is here in the PL
 
CityFan1970 said:
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Good and inconsequential.

City got on the whole what they wanted. Apt rules amended.

Words that appear insignificant can hold a lot of meaning. We seemingly got a few changes that will aid us commercially. The database information can only help when fighting the league over fmv.

Overall the rules will still exist but clearly changes will be made now and possibly in the future depending on the tribunal.

The loans we didn’t seem to care about until we needed to make a point.

I know stefan claims this case has no bearing on 115 but I can’t see how it can be ignored. It might not be essential regarding fraudulent books but it does give you a view into how city feel treated by the league and how we have ended up with the charges in the first place. Using unlawful rules to help certain clubs while punishing others is bias and corruption in plain sight.

Anyway, let pep get Akanji and stones as a double dm to cover Rodri and hopefully we can start to kick on. Weird seeing football issues at the top instead of the legal wrangling.

Never fucking boring.

Never change city.
 
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CityFan1970 said:
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Too true! Naught for our comfort in that lot of hot air. Echoes Stefan's pivotal dispute with City's legal team discussed so much in the thread - having the new Etihad & AD Bank deal reassessed under the pre Feb APT rules may well still result in them staying blocked - can't see any other win so why is it a good day for us on his take ?
 
CityFan1970 said:
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Stefan must be getting paid a fortune to go on there, as I think I'd want to name my price to sit in a room with White and Keown, regardless of what they were expecting me to add to a debate.

Keown reading from a fucking newspaper then asks 'these rules that are unlawful, what do they mean?'

White saying City are surely going to go legal, as they've 'thrown their weight around a lot recently'; despite being told 2 or 3 times why City may not need to go legal just yet

Do either even listen to whats being said, or even understand? Don't know why but I expected more of White for some reason
 
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