Lord Pannick to represent City / Pannick's OJ-style Summation

[remember arthur mann]

I am amazed if we are as innocent as we say, the club have not employed @gordondaviesmoustache to sort of this sham.

Please proof read.

 

[Jack Hackett]

Your not going to find many friends here when we’re up against.

The general feeling of City fans, we don’t know if we broke rules or not, but honestly we wouldn’t change the last 15 years (although probably feel we could have had a CL).

If it turned out we doped our players or paid refs, it would be very different. As it is we spent money (more than most, but less than one). Rules are made up bollocks that would not exist if not for us.

I disagree facts are facts and the best can turn the black/ white into various shades of grey.

I think it is fair to say PL will have good counsel too, but the news of course will be expensive lawyers so City may get you off if guilty!

For the record we where saying the same about Greenwood, so we know that narrative from both sides.

I don’t have enough knowledge to know what the ‘rules’ are let alone if City have broken them. My stance is clear. Whatever the rules are, I’m opposed to them for reasons previously stated. However, regardless of how unfair I think they are, the City board have a duty to be cognizant of them. As for Pannick, a good signing because he will shine a light on the fairness of the rules and that will likely lead either to a judicial review of the FA PL governance or more likely hasten government’s plans for independent regulation. I’m not sure the FA PL has thought this through or the likely risks it runs when this case will throw a spotlight on their governance. In my view, there’s a lot here for City to be optimistic about and hopefully lead to a scrapping of what I believe to be unfair and anti competitive rules.

 

[Half time draw tickets]

Khaldoon is presumably Walker, Guardiola? Pike maybe?

Guardiola = Mainwaring
Kaldoon = Wilson
Txiki = Walker
…and Arteta = Pike

 

[remember arthur mann]

Sheik Mansour went to London in a Lambroginhi, brought back Lord Pannick KC to defend Man City... Time. For. Bed

 

[Jack Hackett]

That sounds all fine and rational, but it will not have escaped your notice, I hope, that in a disturbingly large section of the media and virtually all other sets of supporters (especially the two red clubs in the north west), there is a prior judgement of guilty on us. And that means that we're already being tarnished before the facts have even been established.
We in fact have a fine tradition in Anglo-American law of putting the burden of proof on the plaintiff or the prosecutor. Not the defendant. That is by no means the case in the world at large. That is not being respected here, and nobody's going to tell that that sheer weight of public bile and prior judgement will have no effect on the commission of enquiry.

The PL must feel they have a pretty good case. Although it is at least possible that this is as much a sideways manoeuvre, addressed as much to a government that is just about to bring out a White Paper about the running of the PL, as it is motivated by good faith and the will to do justice on a member club. My club must feel they have a pretty good case: they would not have put out the firm club statement they have done otherwise. This is a risky, potential zero sum game for both parties.
As for myself, I suspect I speak for the vast majority of supporters on here, and probably all, when I say that I was a City supporter when we were in the Third Division (renamed to spin it so that it sounds better by communications experts) and I will be a City supporter if we find ourselves in the National League North.
I would hope that all true Arsenal supporters would adopt the same position if Arsenal found themselves in the National League South. In fact, if they are true supporters, they won't even have to think about it.

I agree with much of that. The action by the FA PL to my mind has always been about politics not finance with their fearing loss of power in the face of independent regulation. Common law does not apply here though and the rules are a self protecting mechanism of the closed shop which is the FA PL. As I said in my previous post, the FA PL might find that comes under scrutiny in this case and their governance structure might not survive. A big risk for them.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Lord Pannick
He looks like Norris from Coronation Street

Norris wasn't available. But I shall ask my Rag s-in-l if the good and ennobled Lord is up to the job!

 

[hammocity]

I really have no idea what you’re talking about and my response about facts referred to those being considered in the upcoming enquiry - in other words, did City break the rules or not? What think you?

What did you think about George Graham's £425k bung back in 95? Do you think that's the only bent deal your club have been involved in?

I'm guessing all Clubs have a bit of dirty washing in their history but not one club other than City is being investigated and charged, it's a fucking stitch up, in plain sight.

Look at your Chav neighbours, putting the club at risk with ridiculous bending of the rules and back into debt after writing Roman's 1.6b loan off, we're debt free and the best run group in Sport. The development of East Manchester, bailing out Barclay's and investing in the Academy apparently counts for fuck all, what's more important it seems is to make up all kinds of ridiculous rules to catch us out. Your club and the co conspirators are a fucking disgrace.

 

[Etihad]

I agree with much of that. The action by the FA PL to my mind has always been about politics not finance with their fearing loss of power in the face of independent regulation. Common law does not apply here though and the rules are a self protecting mechanism of the closed shop which is the FA PL. As I said in my previous post, the FA PL might find that comes under scrutiny in this case and their governance structure might not survive. A big risk for them.

It would be ironic it the Government that wants low regulation ends up stepping in and imposing an external regulator on these Muppets. Would serve them right.

 

[Colin Barretts bouffant]

So $80k for a KC a day plus team costs, nice little invoice for the PL to pick up if we win + damages etc...isn't that how it works?

 

[hammocity]

So $80k for a KC a day plus team costs, nice little invoice for the PL to pick up if we win + damages etc...isn't that how it works?

Would be good but I doubt it'll work like that, hope you're right though.

The thing is this panel completely influenced by the Hateful 8/9 already have us banged to rights, there's no way they'll come down on our side, our hopes will rest with an appeal, preferably heard by non football loving advocates who can see through the Premier League shit.