City to be charged for booing Champions League jingle (anthem)

Do you think in a film version of this we could get Donald Sutherland to play Platini, wearing a white suit with a red rose buttonhole?
 
It's their competition, they make the rules, even if they are unfair?

Can imagine them issuing an initial fine but with threats for escalating punishments eg increased fines, playing in empty home stadiums, point deductions and ultimately exclusion?

We have legitimate grievances for unfair treatment by Uefa, that hopefully will be given publicity.

However our rival clubs, the media and Uefa will love to have an excuse to give us punishments that damage our club and stop our rise.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
We should have a card/mosaic type display that we hold up during the "anthem" that has "BOOOOOOOOOO" on it all the way round the ground.
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Yeah I was thinking Showsec would probably confiscate the banners, bit harder to confiscate a mosaic.
 
City Hobgoblin said:
Could sing extremely loudly over it next game? Surely the humourless self-important twats wouldn't issue a fine for that...?
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As long as you sing the words to the anthem (which are in German BTW), otherwise yes, they probably would.


When I saw this thread earlier I was fully expecting it to be BS and to quietly go away. I find it astounding and hilarious in equal measure that it's actually true. I can see this being the final straw as far as City are concerned.
 
Gaudion M said:
You would have to prove how your rights are being restricted, as it is the club that will get fined it is a grey area of the law. The club could challenge it and would have a strong case but then you are back in to the mess of biting the hand that feeds you.
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They are not the hand that feeds us, if you are referring to our club being there, we are the hand that feeds them. Without the football clubs competing there would be no Booefa and they need the clubs more than the clubs need them if you think about it. I hope our club sues the backside off them for restricting our right to ply our 'trade'!! JMHO
 
Gaudion M said:
You would have to prove how your rights are being restricted, as it is the club that will get fined it is a grey area of the law. The club could challenge it and would have a strong case but then you are back in to the mess of biting the hand that feeds you.
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Or prove that the club are being punished for upholding our rights to expression?
 
franksinatra said:
So what if he does? Unless he has showed that he is racist what is the problem with his posts? He should not be responsible for the behaviour of his fellow fans just as I should not be by some of the idiots who follow us.

It seems we are gettting a bee in our bonnet by racism but happy to stereotype russian/ Cska fans and in the next breath he is being threatened with a ban, from the thread, while complaining at UEFA trying to stop freedom of speech. The double standards of the moderators and this board is staggering.
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Where was the threat of a ban?
 
As I said previously, on the to boo or not thread, I'm looking forward to booing the music at the final This is the best thing that has happen, now the booing will become more widespread, hopefully other fans will join in I'm sure the Bayern fans who got treated equally badly in Moscow will be only too willing. Boooo
 
Eccles Blue said:
They are not the hand that feeds us, if you are referring to our club being there, we are the hand that feeds them. Without the football clubs competing there would be no Booefa and they need the clubs more than the clubs need them if you think about it. I hope our club sues the backside off them for restricting our right to ply our 'trade'!! JMHO
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What you forget is UEFA don't want us there... we're not going to get support from the "elite" clubs on this. UEFA want an all singing all dancing competition between about 8 clubs that they feel deserve to be in the competition. They don't want us in it because not only have we spent beyond our means to qualify, we've also been successful and now we're daring to complain about our treatment from officials.

They're going to have to be very careful here, because the media have already stated why City fans are unhappy - including the ridiculous enforcement of CSKA's punishment for racism... it the fine we receive is anywhere near that bracket then they're even more of a mockery. We should boo even louder now. They can fuck right off. Let's boo until they kick us out of the competition.

The worry I have is that the main board look willing to suck UEFA off in order to be a part of the CL. It's vital to our global marketing. The trouble is us everyday fans want to be able to say our piece. We've not done anything that brings the game into disrepute. We've just booed a farce of an organisation whose current Head is serving a suspension for corruption.
 
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