Foreign owners and the Premier League.

[Man_City_Loyal]

be worse off than United if it happen's the amount of debt

 

[JGL07]

That will be the well known Arab dissident Nicholas Mcgeehan again who was once in the pay of American capital.

US, Britain and Australia and many other nations including the UAE were part of the 'Coalition of of the willing' who invaded Iraq and that was just the latest in a long line of overseas military campaigns. The Middle-east is a cockpit of war, conservative regimes and refugees but only a fool would blame the Arabs for these problems and yet that is precisely what programs like this do.

The UAE is a very divided society. It is built on migrant labour but who built Manchester's canals, and man our textile factories? No doubt there's much wrong in the UAE but until Western human rights campaigners start scrutinising their own states then they cannot be taken seriously.

Manchester’s canals were not built by migrants. They were mostly built by locals. There were some Irish workers but they remained a minority. It was only in the 1920s and 1930s and particularly in the 1950s, when motorway building began, that large scale Irish immigration was felt in construction.

As for textile factories, there are very few left as most garments are imported.

Your general point is correct. Construction had a lot of French workers come in the 1980s (at least in South-East England), and subsequently more from Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe from the 1990s. Many were not even from the EU (Ukraine, Albania, etc.).

Britain encouraged bringing in migrants to take low paid jobs in much the same way as the Gulf States have done.

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

The UAE, Australia’s largest Middle East trade partner. The UAE, until earlier this month, the largest hotel owner in Australia. 250 Australian companies working in the UAE and the UAE which has almost $12M invested in Australia. The investments in the UK and the US hugely dwarf these numbers and yet football is the problem?
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

That will be be 12 billion and not 12 million. A not insignificant sum but, as you say, chickenfeed compared to investment in UK and USA.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I'm sorry it's not clear who you are calling hypocritical

People who complain about Arab money in one context but are happy to completely ignore it in any other context, or people who complain about Arab money, whilst gleefully accepting money from the Russians, for example.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

That will be be 12 billion and not 12 million. A not insignificant sum but, as you say, chickenfeed compared to investment in UK and USA.

You are quite right and I’ve edited my original post.

 

[samarasra]

That will be the well known Arab dissident Nicholas Mcgeehan again who was once in the pay of American capital.

US, Britain and Australia and many other nations including the UAE were part of the 'Coalition of of the willing' who invaded Iraq and that was just the latest in a long line of overseas military campaigns. The Middle-east is a cockpit of war, conservative regimes and refugees but only a fool would blame the Arabs for these problems and yet that is precisely what programs like this do.

The UAE is a very divided society. It is built on migrant labour but who built Manchester's canals, and man our textile factories? No doubt there's much wrong in the UAE but until Western human rights campaigners start scrutinising their own states then they cannot be taken seriously.

Every country imo has skeletons that should be scrutinised, but its so much easier to focus on "foreign issues" than admit we are no better.

 

[Marvin]

Manchester’s canals were not built by migrants. They were mostly built by locals. There were some Irish workers but they remained a minority. It was only in the 1920s and 1930s and particularly in the 1950s, when motorway building began, that large scale Irish immigration was felt in construction.

As for textile factories, there are very few left as most garments are imported.

Your general point is correct. Construction had a lot of French workers come in the 1980s (at least in South-East England), and subsequently more from Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe from the 1990s. Many were not even from the EU (Ukraine, Albania, etc.).

Britain encouraged bringing in migrants to take low paid jobs in much the same way as the Gulf States have done.

Irish immigration into Manchester and Liverpool goes back a lot further than that. Manchester for example had very large Irish communities with the area near what is now Oxford Rd station known as Little Ireland hence the Manchester Martyrs.

 

[maurizio]

Irish immigration into Manchester and Liverpool goes back a lot further than that. Manchester for example had very large Irish communities with the area near what is now Oxford Rd station known as Little Ireland hence the Manchester Martyrs.

In 1834 a fifth of Manchester's population was Irish. Like many Mancs I have Irish ancestors going back years on my Mum's side. Industry and textiles attracted a lot of workers from all over.

 

[Bill Walker]

People who complain about Arab money in one context but are happy to completely ignore it in any other context, or people who complain about Arab money, whilst gleefully accepting money from the Russians, for example.

Nobody is complaining about Arab money, all those facts and figures you listed about investment are a mute point. This programme was created by a couple of anti City media hacks, making out ADUG and mainly the Royal Family to be evil. Most Melbourne City fans Ive spoke to are very happy with the takeover and I havent heard any politicians complaining about them either. So I still dont understand who exactly you are calling hypocrites.

 

[JGL07]

Irish immigration into Manchester and Liverpool goes back a lot further than that. Manchester for example had very large Irish communities with the area near what is now Oxford Rd station known as Little Ireland hence the Manchester Martyrs.

I am not disputing that people moved to from Ireland the Cities like Manchester after the potato famine. Internal migration within the UK from Ireland, Wales and Scotland to England has happened continually over the years if not centuries.

I was referring to the specific large-scale recruitment of Irish in the UK Construction industry which was largely a a Twentieth Century phenomenon promoted by the likes of McAlpine.