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

High time City pushed back on the PL & this is certainly a first for us which I'm glad to see.

However, I'm slightly surprised why its up to us to begin legally challenging these specific AP rules. Why I can understand we're essentially a business like most PL clubs & looking after on own interests as any business should.

It sounds like if we were to win then it won't be us who actually benefits the most it will be those 'loveable' Geordies & PIF.

Considering their huge wealth & most likely legal expertise which dwarfs our owners, I'm surprised they're not at the front line & leading this rather than us. Perhaps too busy concentrating on their emerging boxing empire?

Of course none of us have actually read the actual legal challenge set out by City, but if we're all about protecting ourselves I hope we don't begin pushing agendas for others to benefit & eventually kick us off the food chain.
 
I don’t know about anyone else, but it really is getting pretty nasty in chats with people I’d actually considered pretty good mates. I was joyous that we had become so successful without becoming public enemy number one even as recent as the season before last. But this last move seems to have turned a huge tide against us. Dig in blues!

Painful chatting to my rag brother in law. He talks down on City's success like theirs was built by Mother fuckin' Teresa!!
 
I would normally agree with you that if it was most other teams, the media would just accept the verdict.
But, there's been several high profile articles in the supposed "high-end" press saying this judgement will have major repurcussions e.g. the EFL would not get any money from the Premier League.
If City do win, you can bet this will be portrayed as a terrible decision, opening the floodgates to an Arab domination of the Premier League.
That will not be acceptable to the Red Arse Media...
Even if we win this rule challenge, it can only be a good thing for the competitiveness of the PL.
Allowing owners who want to invest and grow their business/club, so bringing more clubs in the league capable over time of challenging for honours.
It will be just a case of adding more competition to the league but shuffling the pack a bit.
This is what the cartel are really scared of, not City, we're over the hill and far away.
 
Even if anything was leaked, it would need a competition law professor to go away and analyse it before giving an opinion on which side it possibly favoured. Cases of this nature can be incredibly tedious to the layman with one or two sentences of text being deconstructed and debated for hours.
The news media will just wait for the judge's decision like the rest of us - leaks in cases like this one just aren't sexy enough to be newsworthy.
That's what they want you to think, the judge will be stripped to the waist and covered in baby oil whilst hitting himself on the chest with a gavel. Meanwhile the two lead KCs will be wearing clown outfits (including makeup and giant feet) and being lofted overhead by their respective teams and will be fighting with 3ft long cheese baguettes.
 

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