bobbyowenquiff
Well-Known Member
I think Pep is smart enough to realise he will never get fair treatment from the English media. The PL and FA are different bodies but there are lots of people with bad faith towards City across the entire English football establishment. A lot of it is racially driven (conscious and unconscious) because of the ethnicity of our owner.Yeah, good points.
Dunno if Pep sees the PL/FA as separate entities, but maybe he's had enough of the English press and associated knobheads. Their/our loss.
I actually think the situation is improving but the PL case casts a long shadow. It is not just the fact we are being tarnished by allegations which are 15 years old but the real issue is that we have been treated differently to every other English football club. For example image right payments to players (to legally reduce their tax bills) have been made at every other club in this country for at least a decade but City are the only one who has been targeted for this. Pep is not stupid. He knows the situation. He suffered it in Spain for years with a corrupt pro-Madrid establishment.