PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Exeter Blue I am here said:
Another reason that the media assault on Chelsea for ‘buying success’ was far less intense than the war waged against City, is that the year before Abramovitch took over in 2003, the Champions League was expanded to accept 4 x PL teams rather than 3 (albeit that the 4th team were obliged to enter at the qualifying stage). Unlike with City’s (and Tottenham’s) emergence in 2011, this effectively meant there was no threat to United, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of those 3 clubs continuing to get their hands on the filthy CL lucre every year, and indeed they (United, Liverpool and Arsenal, along now with Chelsea) duly occupied those 4 qualification slots for the next 6 years, until Spurs finally got a foot in the door in 2010 when Hicks and Gillette’s mismanagement of Liverpool saw them slip briefly out of contention.
When City started qualifying from 2011 onwards, it meant one of the red shirt piggy clubs would miss out on somewhere between £50m and £100m a season in CL revenue, hence the intensity of the subsequent media campaign against us by the usual red media stooges and clickbait merchants.
FFP wasn’t introduced to nobble City, it was brought in to mitigate against the possibility of another Chelsea style takeover. We just happened to be the next club to walk through the door waving our wonga!
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Spot on.
 
Trojan1962 said:
No because Newcastle are perceived to be a proper club with magnificent supporters with a superb fan base. However we know this to be not strictly true when they were in difficult times
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None more so than when Grimsby Town played at st James Park and only 13k fans turned up for a league match. Prob 500 away fans..so 12k geordies
Just before Kevin Keegan took over iirc.
It's all part of their History.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
None more so than when Grimsby Town played at st James Park and only 13k fans turned up for a league match. Prob 500 away fans..so 12k geordies
Just before Kevin Keegan took over iirc.
It's all part of their History.
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Probably protesting against the owners

That’s the usual explanation Geordies come up with when anyone dares to question some of their rather low historical attendances
 
chaddblue said:
Probably protesting against the owners

That’s the usual explanation Geordies come up with when anyone dares to question some of their rather low historical attendances
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Newcastle are a one-city club, with a large ground, so it’s easier to go, but equally easier to not go, as there isn’t another local team's support just waiting to pounce, and ridicule a small attendance.

Yes, they’ve had some small crowds, but so have most clubs at some point in their history.

Indeed, I can vividly recall being in the away end, with an Everton supporting mate at the swamp, the midweek before City’s promotion at Bradford in 1989

They still deny it, but the crowd was a lot lower than the official 26,000 which, according to the media, had included all the non-attending Season Ticket Holders.

Newcastle will never be slated as viciously as City, essentially because long term we’re a bigger threat to the rags fanbase,

Modern football is all about the here and now, and regardless of what Simon Jordan thinks, the next generation won’t give a flying f*** about the aura of the Busby Babes or George Best. They’ll just see a crappy, decaying, leaking 1990s stadium, compared to the ever-expanding ETIHAD complex.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
None more so than when Grimsby Town played at st James Park and only 13k fans turned up for a league match. Prob 500 away fans..so 12k geordies
Just before Kevin Keegan took over iirc.
It's all part of their History.
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They also don't wish to remember these times also they were only in the second tier and we were getting 28 to 30k in the third tier !
 
Damanino said:
Btw there is no news at all of United and Chelsea investigated by PL. both got Uefa FFP fines, they are both cheaters :), Chelsea even admitted themselves they were doing shady stuff for years under Abra which resulted an Uefa fine of 10m euros. wonder if same accounts will be found problematic by PL too, in theory they have to be.
same as United's minor issues with Uefa FFP, lack of media hysteria over these is quite telling tho.
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Actual admitted cheats get media appeasement, we get criticised for fighting a witch hunt
 
dennishasdoneit said:
None more so than when Grimsby Town played at st James Park and only 13k fans turned up for a league match. Prob 500 away fans..so 12k geordies
Just before Kevin Keegan took over iirc.
It's all part of their History.
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The very definition of fickle. And that in a one horse town.
Imagine if they had the Disneyland of football right on their doorstep like us?
They are an absolute myth

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Chippy_boy said:
OT, I know, but Trump is actually clinically insane, isn't he. I mean not just a bit whacky and up himself in the extreme; actually stark raving bonkers.
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Yeh and Biden is sharp as a tack with all of his wits about him. the true definition of being on the ball...a living symbol of mental acuity...LMAO
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Another reason that the media assault on Chelsea for ‘buying success’ was far less intense than the war waged against City, is that the year before Abramovitch took over in 2003, the Champions League was expanded to accept 4 x PL teams rather than 3 (albeit that the 4th team were obliged to enter at the qualifying stage). Unlike with City’s (and Tottenham’s) emergence in 2011, this effectively meant there was no threat to United, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of those 3 clubs continuing to get their hands on the filthy CL lucre every year, and indeed they (United, Liverpool and Arsenal, along now with Chelsea) duly occupied those 4 qualification slots for the next 6 years, until Spurs finally got a foot in the door in 2010 when Hicks and Gillette’s mismanagement of Liverpool saw them slip briefly out of contention.
When City started qualifying from 2011 onwards, it meant one of the red shirt piggy clubs would miss out on somewhere between £50m and £100m a season in CL revenue, hence the intensity of the subsequent media campaign against us by the usual red media stooges and clickbait merchants.
FFP wasn’t introduced to nobble City, it was brought in to mitigate against the possibility of another Chelsea style takeover. We just happened to be the next club to walk through the door waving our wonga!
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Is that a euphimism ??
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Another reason that the media assault on Chelsea for ‘buying success’ was far less intense than the war waged against City, is that the year before Abramovitch took over in 2003, the Champions League was expanded to accept 4 x PL teams rather than 3 (albeit that the 4th team were obliged to enter at the qualifying stage). Unlike with City’s (and Tottenham’s) emergence in 2011, this effectively meant there was no threat to United, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of those 3 clubs continuing to get their hands on the filthy CL lucre every year, and indeed they (United, Liverpool and Arsenal, along now with Chelsea) duly occupied those 4 qualification slots for the next 6 years, until Spurs finally got a foot in the door in 2010 when Hicks and Gillette’s mismanagement of Liverpool saw them slip briefly out of contention.
When City started qualifying from 2011 onwards, it meant one of the red shirt piggy clubs would miss out on somewhere between £50m and £100m a season in CL revenue, surely a contributory factor in the intensity of the subsequent media campaign against us by the usual red media stooges and clickbait merchants.
FFP wasn’t introduced to nobble City, it was brought in to mitigate against the possibility of another Chelsea style takeover. We just happened to be the next club to walk through the door waving our wonga!
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I've always said this, we was the first club to constantly upset the the entitled top 4.
 
travelman said:
I've always said this, we was the first club to constantly upset the the entitled top 4.
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Bit by bit, stealthily, the number of English clubs allowed into the CL increases 3 to 4, 4 to 5, so there is less and less chance of one of the cartel missing out. The ESL was, and remains, the logical conclusion.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Bit by bit, stealthily, the number of English clubs allowed into the CL increases 3 to 4, 4 to 5, so there is less and less chance of one of the cartel missing out. The ESL was, and remains, the logical conclusion.
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Every Club should be ALLOWED to progress with initial investment.Wolverhampton,Preston,Huddersfield were big clubs years ago.There should be no entitlement,you get you deserve as we did with the Swales era and our dear cousins down the M62 had a nine year spell in division two before investment came to their aid.Fumny how its deemed bad now!
 
JewelZee said:
Yeh and Biden is sharp as a tack with all of his wits about him. the true definition of being on the ball...a living symbol of mental acuity...LMAO
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Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. A bit like when we were asked to vote for either Boris or Corbyn.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Bit by bit, stealthily, the number of English clubs allowed into the CL increases 3 to 4, 4 to 5, so there is less and less chance of one of the cartel missing out. The ESL was, and remains, the logical conclusion.
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Ironically though, its the performances of the likes of the rags that are causing our co-efficient to slip and we will lose those extra spots.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Bit by bit, stealthily, the number of English clubs allowed into the CL increases 3 to 4, 4 to 5, so there is less and less chance of one of the cartel missing out. The ESL was, and remains, the logical conclusion.
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Top six in the near future will be Champions League places so all the privileged few will have to be truly shite not to qualify ! Nothing changes with UEFA just that they know we won't be going away anytime soon so they increase the number of places to qualify ! If the Premier League wasn't so cash rich a European Super League would already exist to the detriment of all the European Club Leagues!
 
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