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

[BillCarlisle]

But let’s not forget the Rags & Arsenal know how to use politics to influence decisions. Both have had Keir Starmer sat in the stands for the last month & will have used those opportunities for lobbying.

So have we.

If it comes down to where he had the best hospitality then we've nothing to worry about.

 

[Chappie]

Yep we have no history

You must understand that Football history only started when the Trafford Red soxs and the Anfield Screechers started winning trophies in the sixties.

 

[bakerdave76]

I'm guessing Slimey Stone didn't write it then.

Ai ..

 

[cheekybids]

Seems to me anything that Starmer does that benefits United or Arsenal will be scrutinised beyond belief in the political press. He is already in a bit of trouble. He won't be doing anything he shouldn't.

Maybe :)

Yeah my point is all clubs have billionaires who know the value of lobbying & access to key decision makers.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

We also have a member of a UAE ruling family on our side who has invested billions in our country and saved one of our major banks from going bust.

The PL have scruffy Jim catweasel, the tax evading petrochemical polluter,and and a bunch of yank hedge fund shysters, whose culture is 'invest a little, extract a lot' and bugger sporting excellence and winning trophies !!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

There’s been no statement from the club, other than a spokesman saying “As you know, we are not in a position to comment…”.

Lawton is clearly well connected though, with one of his close colleagues being married to Arsenal’s CCO, so I think it’s naive to suggest that he’s purely guessing here. I imagine he’ll know the mood music around the PL about how the hearing went.

I can't see City issuing any statement until there is something public from the PL - they are playing it strictly according to confidentiality as I see it.

Lawton has probably asked questions such as "did City seem happy with..." and got back a "I would imagine they think it's a win".

 

[lancs blue]

Spot on. Fuck all those clubs. They started this shit back in the 80s when they carved up the first set of live TV rights where virtually every week we had one of the so-called “Big Five” being broadcast live, or worse still, two of the Big Five playing each other. Not to mention those same clubs carving up the way that gate receipts were distributed.

Of course, as time went on one of those five clubs - Everton - fell down the pecking order to the extent that they’re no longer classed as one of the present day Big Six, but the other 4 of the 1980s Big Five line-up are all still there acting like cunts.

These clubs can moan as much as they want about the people who run our club having better access to bigger global companies and potentially better sponsorship deals than them but I couldn’t give 2 shits. They still have their own business contacts to negotiate mates rates deals, as evidenced by United and Chevrolet (which ended with the Chevrolet guy who brokered it getting sacked - nothing to see here, honest), and Liverpool’s scrawny-necked Boston-based **** of an owner signing a kit deal with a Boston-based supplier. What was the losing bid Mr Henry?

I usually agree with most of your posts on here but I'm not convinced there's much mileage in raking up stuff from the 80s, for example IIRC under Swales, City were happy enough to support the removal of the 25% of gate receipts going to the visiting club.

Right now I think we should encourage any club or fanbase that's finally realising what's going on in the PL hierarchy.

 

[M18CTID]

I usually agree with most of your posts on here but I'm not convinced there's much mileage in raking up stuff from the 80s, for example IIRC under Swales, City were happy enough to support the removal of the 25% of gate receipts going to the visiting club.

Right now I think we should encourage any club or fanbase that's finally realising what's going on in the PL hierarchy.

Good point but just to clarify that Swales was a **** as well!

 

[sir baconface]

I want this cleared up asap. Can the club not offer Starmer & Son a royal box at the Etihad… oh and an XL fourth kit for Ms Raynor?

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Harris is fucking hurting!!

is that magic hat account his?