How UEFA shifted the goalposts on FFP. The definitive story.

[eversince 76]

I read the whole piece over the weekend PB and found it easy enough to understand. It's a great piece of work.
It saddens me though that the game of football has come to this. I find supporting City a bit of a paradox at the moment.
I would like nothing more than City to take them on legally and bring the whole house of cards down. I would rather see the hyprocritical nature of the so called G7 examined and scrutinised with the same fervour and UEFA's corruption, whether it be under coercion or not, exposed to the public.

It's not going to happen though.
1. The media would not row in with the same gusto.
2. I don't think City's owners particularly want to do this. They want to be part of the future, whatever form it will take.

I'm not sure how comfortable I am in seeing City get into bed with this lot in order to win the UCL or Super Cup, or in bed with a CWC group if it comes to that.
Football is being fought behind the scenes in the murkiness of boardrooms and it is not a sport anymore. It used to have a semblance of a sport but nowadays it's like a war.
The amount of propaganda we are seing at the moment is all part of this war.

I was talking to my 16 year old at the weekend about this and he sees it all over the social media and doesn't read it anymore.
I explained to him that we as City fans seem to be the only ones, at times, that actually have to go and research the subject so that we are armed with the actual facts, just to defend ourselves and our team. Dippers and Rags are by and large lazy when it comes to football knowledge as they are constantly fed a narrative that makes them feel good about themselves. They don't have to check facts as their teams are not being attacked. Currently, they are given excuses for not being able to compete. even though we are not even halfway through the season and there is only two points between 1st and 2nd.
They have their history, they are constantly reminding us as they are constantly reinforced with this concept through the media.
But they are too lazy to actually look at the facts of that history. Their parts in why football has evolved into this rotten business. It doesn't fit the current narrative in this propaganda war, so it suits all involved to ignore the unsavoury bits.

We as City fans need to inform ourselves as we are constantly attacked. But I keep asking myself lately, even if we win, do I really want us to be part of this sorry mess.
I'm sure I'll cheer up when we lift the PL trophy again in May.

Well spoken sir.

 

[kiam06]

Great work @Prestwich_Blue

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I understand completely PB. I just want to say I have total respect to you for upholding the good name of our Club in such a fair and balanced manner! Especially in light of constant biased campaign we seem to be continually on the end of these days. Cheers

 

[dom]

I've finally got round to writing this definitive piece on the above, having been accused by a certain journalist of bullshitting and producing no proof about this.

It's very long (over 3.5k words) and goes into quite a bit of detail but it was the only way to prove beyond doubt what happened in 2013 and (to tie in with the Der Spiegel Football Leaks story) why we were so keen to get an extra few million onto the books. I'd be grateful for any feedback.

https://boltfromtheblue.live/2018/11/18/how-uefa-shifted-the-goalposts-to-shaft-man-city/

Great post PB...very well researched and clearly reported

 

[dom]

Well done for taking the time and trouble to simply something rather complicated.
Great article, hope some journo picks it up as it deserves a wider audience.

Oscar Wilde: ‘the truth is seldom pure and never simple’.....well done PB

 

[dom]

The media rather believe the stolen emails than the actual facts says it all really! Majority of Media full of jealous bitter supporters of other clubs who can’t or don’t want to see it.

Ad hominem argument...but in this case, so true

 

[dom]

Fantastic article Colin which puts a lot of meat on the bones of something many of us were aware of but were struggling to understand.

I’ve said it recently but I find it astonishing how so many of these journalists who are all too happy to stick the boot into City regarding FFP didn’t try to research the wording in the club statement about the “fundamental disagreement” with UEFA regarding the pre-June 2010 contracts when we were originally sanctioned. If ever there was a clue that we’d been fucked over due to a shifting of the goalposts during the monitoring period then that was it. These people literally know fuck-all about the regs themselves or how they work, but worse still they’re not interested in learning about it as they’re only interested in slagging City off. Try explaining things like acceptable deviation, Annex XI, and pre-June 2010 contracts to these fuckwits or your average clueless opposition fan and you’ll be met with a completely blank reaction.

I’ll add that It’s a good thing that someone independent of City and highly respected - Swiss Ramble - can see all this for what it is.

Excellent post M18..

 

[Nascent Blues]

For those wondering why journalists didn't ask why we thought UEFA had fucked us over, Jonathon Swift knew why: "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after."

 

[sheepskin_tearaway]

Was great to see this picked up by the nationals today, fair play to them running it in the interest of bringing balance to the debate and implicitly accepting that their skewed, sensationalist, agenda-driven narrative was perhaps misconceived, and that they were essentially acting as fluffers for the G7 cabal.

Oh.

 

[dom]

Was great to see this picked up by the nationals today, fair play to them running it in the interest of bringing balance to the debate and implicitly accepting that their skewed, sensationalist, agenda-driven narrative was perhaps misconceived, and that they were essentially acting as fluffers for the G7 cabal.

Oh.

This, ST.......not anytime soon....w@nkers, lazy, biased w@nkers, by and large....