PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

PPT said:
Seeing as the CAS panel voted 4-3 in our favour we could be in deep trouble. I hope I’m wrong, but I just can’t see anything but a guilty verdict.
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It was 2-1 and the guy finding consistently for UEFA was their appointed man. I seem to remember at the time that this was usual practice for voting to go like this and that the person nominated by one party never votes against them. UEFA won none of their points beyond those where we refused to cooperate You are being way too pessimistic.
 
hilts said:
He did well but fuck me people are acting like he was Churchill or Luther King.

Hyperbole everywhere.
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How many posters have used those two to compare what Guardiola said in this thread, I have skipped large sections? I suspect none have except you.

It was a great response to the bullshit he along with our club has had to face since Sheikh Mansour took over and later when he took over as manager, and I alongside nearly all City fans would understand the sporting context and indeed wider motives (closed shop for usual teams, xenophobia/racism, European cartel teams, etc) that he was IMO eloquently and as forcefully as he could respond to this re-run of the UEFA bollocks.

Pep himself as the press conference started referred to a much more important event in the ‘real’ world that has occurred with the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, so he and as already said us as fans know what context we are talking about in this case, football.

A brilliant retort delivered to an audience baiting him throughout for any weakness in any of his replies. Pep is a very bright man speaking to the vermin who unfortunately we have as our media and IMO handles them with the contempt they deserve but in such a way most of them can barely muster a coherent reply that ever raises its head from their usual pure click bait fúcking nonsense.

In addition, we all use hyperbole especially when talking about things we love, in this case City, and when we see other people attacking the things we love, we usually respond with the passion that stirs within us as humans.

Is this attack on us personally or our family members, of course not, but it is on something I love dearly which has helped me personally throughout my life when going though the usual painful things in life such as break ups, losing family members, going through hard times such as the current cost of living, all real human day to day life events.

Sport is sport and brings up our tribal instincts and we respond with the passion and love we each individually feel for our club/tribe, and such has been the ride our beautiful club has taken us through our lives (in my case I am middle aged), that it is very hard not to respond full of the love and passion that generates and stirs within us, and in some cases may be seen as some as hyperbole, but me as already said, as passion for something we hold dear in our hearts and lives.
 
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give it to gordon said:
It's not an independent panel really am I am sure City have plans should that happen.
I am expecting them to find us guilty as it's as bent as a 9 bob note.

The chairman is a gooner season ticket holder his club was behind that letter !.

You cant have an organisation which is judge and jury and not right to appeal that is a kangaroo court.

This is why I think City have some really big dirt of a few clubs. It was very odd how all the managers keep quiet. Klopp normally cant help himself remember his " it's a bad day for football " when CAS cleared City.

Now the pl CEOs are crying over Peps presser lol they seem very sensitive for some reason, very nervous.
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NONE of the snake owners have defended CITYs right to ‘ Innocent until proven guilty’.

And cos Pep name checked Levi,one of the evil nine, the rest of the cohort start squealing.

He who laughs last laughs fucking loudest !!
 
half & half derby scarf said:
I think the exact opposite mate. The PL will inevitably have to back down before it gets anywhere near a hearing.
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Hopefully. Maybe I’m just pessimistic?
But the PL have gone all out on this one with a death or glory approach. It is the last and final opportunity to finally finish us off. They don’t give a shit about fairness or justice and they don’t have to. They want us gone.
 
give it to gordon said:
It's not an independent panel really am I am sure City have plans should that happen.
I am expecting them to find us guilty as it's as bent as a 9 bob note.

The chairman is a gooner season ticket holder his club was behind that letter !.

You cant have an organisation which is judge and jury and not right to appeal that is a kangaroo court.

This is why I think City have some really big dirt of a few clubs. It was very odd how all the managers keep quiet. Klopp normally cant help himself remember his " it's a bad day for football " when CAS cleared City.

Now the pl CEOs are crying over Peps presser lol they seem very sensitive for some reason, very nervous.
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No way on earth will an eminent King’s Counsel let his judgement be influenced by being a member at Arsenal.
 
OB1 said:
That analogy he has made is exactly right. That is what has me absolutely steaming about the whole thing. City are the victims here: victims of attempts at protectionism.
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Adding to that analogy, once the new rules governing shops were forced on him and were subsequently 'broken', the other shops colluded with the local newspaper to ensure they defamated the character of the shop owner by running stories incorrectly stating that what he had done was both legally and morally wrong. The local community read the papers and simply believe the lot.

In the next chapter it gets interesting, where the shop owner fights back and takes everyone to the cleaners, located at the end of the High Street ;-)
 
So do City get to choose a rep on this three person panel ? Or do we just get our legal men to put our case to the panel? My main concern is the objectivity of the panel. If it’s completely above board and we are bang to rights then I can accept that, if it’s a kangaroo court with little or no avenue to appeal then that is my big concern.
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
This is the aspect of the matter which has been aired on this forum but nowhere else. I think most would be very sceptical indeed about your assertion that many in Parliament and even in government are supporters of City (not perhaps in a sporting sense) because it might be assumed that the break even rule, balancing the books and "living within your means" aspect of FFP would appeal to our present government. But City are quite different from any other club, with the possible exception of Newcastle, in that they are run by people who operate on the world stage in both the diplomatic and economic spheres. The owner is HRH Sheikh Mansour. We are not dealing with local butchers, bakers or candlestick makers or dodgy second hand TV salesmen. Honesty and integrity really matter and as PB points out the PL could be in the process of "fucking up" major deals with an important friend and ally at a time when the UK needs investment desperately. The pressure must be on the PL to stop this nonsense and to make a full retraction with an unequivocal apology.

The result must also be a change in the nature of the regulatory body. If the PL survives it must be the end of "influence" exercised by the cartel. If City do have friends in government circles we have a great chance to ensure that the regulatory body is genuinely independent and one which ends this FFP nonsense so that the investment which football needs badly can be made. Cost control yes, depending on how it works: corruption, NO!

And a knighthood for Pep after his heroic effort yesterday.
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He can’t be knighted.
 
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