Media discussion - 2024/25

[Paul lakes knee]

I always thought Frank was a blue growing up in Belfast

 

[manimanc]

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the BBC Sport Chief Football Reporter.

Must be the only fella in the world who has a dick for a nose.

 

[homerdog]

Edited for accuracy

Hence my link in the post - AFAIK, he's still banned!

 

[bennyboy]

Truth hurts.

 

[frothy]

That a grown man should descend to such pathetic immature playground silliness says a lot about the state of sports and general journalism, and particularly the sad man himself.

 

[Gazza]

IPTV.
Don't give the wankers a penny

Man City - the only foreign club in the Premier League.

 

[burning blue soul]

Or officially the "not been champions of England between them for 87 years final".

At the time of course .

No matter what happens in the future, we'll always have spursy to laugh at.

 

[cheekybids]

Barmy Droneaway is actually a qualified lawyer, who worked for a 'magic circle' law firm before going into 'journalism'. You could argue that was their gain and our loss but you'd hope he'd bring some element of his legal training and experience into articles like these. Such as, for instance, reading legal documents like the CAS verdict.

He repeats the tired, false narrative that time-barring of key evidence was crucial to the outcome, and that the Etihad contract was significantly overvalued. Yet CAS examined three years of that contract and found that:
(a) there was no evidence it was funded covertly by ADUG.
(b) there was cogent evidence that the 'surplus' funding came from central marketing funds managed by the Executive Council/Tourist Authority
(c) the contract appeared to be fair value commercially for what Etihad were getting.
(d) Etihad received commensurate value from the contract, in terms of the exposure it gave them.

In other words, a legitimate and fair value contract. I've also explained that the cashflow timing was flexible but the accruals basis of accounting only allows us to declare the contractual value of the sponsorship, which was £60m a year. It's typical in kit contracts for the club to take a lump sum up front and a smaller payment annually, but unless the contract is specific about the up-front payment, or the way that the payments will be made, the club accounts will only reflect the contract's annualised value. Is that also dodgy?

Droneaway concludes that the PL could be in severe difficulties if we win this case but manifestly fails to understand why that would be. Rather than the (again) fake narrative that we can win because we have the more expensive lawyers, or recognise that we might actually get the IC to apply the law about admissible evidence or limitation periods (which he should be aware of), he paints a potential victory for us that's based on politics or loopholes, rather than the proper application of the appropriate laws and rules.

What he should be asking is why, in the face of the CAS verdict, the PL came to issue these charges, what the process behind their thinking was and who potentially pressured them into bringing an expensive and potentially disastrous (for them) case.

You can’t make a living as a solicitor by being wrong all the time so it made journalism a safe option.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Must be the only fella in the world who has a dick for a nose.

Perhaps ?
Andy Hinchcliffe has a nose like a Sumo Wrestler's Arse...

 

[citymad]

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the BBC Sport Chief Football Reporter.

And we still let him in the press room. Ban the fucker right now!