City launch legal action against the Premier League | Unconfirmed reports that City have secured "potentially significant victory" (p 808)

[Dodge]

Rag HQ aka BBC Salford aren’t even mentioning this story, surely it’s newsworthy? Or are they waiting instructions.

It's wierd in the extreme. There's nothing, literally nothing, on any BBC platform.

The Champions taking their own league to court is dynamite in any country, never mind England.

 

[KS55]

How are the premier league determining who is related to who? If a company wants to sponsor city and they are owned by a shell company in the Caymans how the fuck do they know who owns it ?

A shell company in the Caymans? Hmmm….ah Manchester United who have NO TRANSACTIONS.

 

[Tarnats left peg]

I wonder if this has any impact on Everton and Forest.

 

[Bald fraud]

I don't normally subscribe to the idea of racism being a prime factor used by those who dislike our ownership.However the picture here of pep with Mansour,Khaldoon and others in Muslim dress is definitely being used to feed into a bigotry that exists against us.

Exactly what I thought. We’re dealing with racist bastards here. And I’m glad the club have flagged this up once and for all! It was all so different not so long ago though when the fake sheikh was supposedly buying the rags and every pick of him was in black and white dressed in western clothes

 

[halfcenturyup]

The Times article states it’s an arbitration hearing, presumably under the PL’s rules which also govern the 115 case.

The 115 are being heard under a Section W panel. This APT claim is being heard under a Section X arbitration, which is more like CAS, but isn't quite the same.

I'm still not sure how it can decide on matters of Competition Law, tbh, but I am hoping some legal guy can explain it.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I like it.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

We should be challenging absolutely everything.

I wonder what the journos would think if the majority vote in PL ( mostly US owners ) continued the self preservation mantra and voted to end promotion which they would all do in a heartbeat.

Would that be democracy ?

 

[homerdog]

My gut reaction to this is that we’re not on very strong ground here and that we might lose this action.

Your response is as expected, but on what basis do you make that assertion?

 

[BlueRockape]

There is a wiff of a PL leak to the Times about this . Rabin on X suggests this and I tend to agree with him . Something not quite right about it all ?

The premier sieve

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Sorry if I’ve missed something, but if 10-12 clubs are supporting the PL defence does that mean that City have support (or at least neutrality) of the other 7-9 ? From what I’ve seen recently the days of City being 1 v 19 are long gone.