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PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules
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Inter Me Nan
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Fuck em.If we end up getting hit by non-cooperation charges only then I hope we get a decent PR company involved because, even though that's what happened at CAS, 99% of the public still think we were found guilty.
It's a like like like from meThe worst thing about Tebas is that he is given a platform in the English media, including the BBC, with absolutely no challenge and no context reported. Just think about that for a second. A man who is still under investigation for corruption and has recently re-asserted his support for a far right political group which wants to forcibly repatriate Muslim immigrants from Spain is allowed to make false and libellous comments about the PL Champions without being called out or challenged. The English media which is apparently so concerned about workers rights in the Middle East is happy to give a voice to a fascist.
Many fans think we were guilty of the main charges last time because the press called us guilty without the emphasis on the fact that it was because we didn't co-operate.They will have to do the mental gymnastics that we bought off the highest court in Europe in CAS and then an Independent panel to the Premier League. Exoneration is subjective to football fans depending which team they support.
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More amazing still, is it was only a few weeks ago he said this:I find it incredible that the bloated fascist Tebas is invited to the FT football event and allowed spout pure invective about us. The home of the Premier League are happy to allow a far right nutball, who has allowed his own league to degenerate into chaos, is given free press to denigrate the current English champions. It beggars belief but the English sporting press never cease to amaze for all the wrong reasons.
https://www.thescore.com/esp_fed/news/2575313
"This is the problem you have in football, that when you detect a problem, some cheating, in this economic case it takes so long to react."
So he's pretty much been saying what he likes about all Premier League clubs and the Premier League as an organisation. Sounds like one of them pissheads at the pub, who get all preachy after a few whiskeys : "Yep City are cheats and they're pretty much all at it in the Premier League, am tellin' ya now. I'm always right when I'm drunk"."I am sceptical because I know that it is not only Manchester City that have similar problems," he said.
"There are other Premier League clubs that have also breached their financial regulations and the league is not acting as it should have been acting for years in this respect."
La Liga's chief criticised the English top flight and insisted that a potential European Super League would not be a clever way of competing with its riches.
As long as he's bashing City, our UK press and tv media keep giving him credibility, like his opinions are to be respected or like he has integrity or something. It's similar with the quotes from Leterme that keep getting circulated. They'd never normally give these characters the time of the day or if they did, it would be with a negative slant to poke fun at them.
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tolmie's hairdoo
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Off the table by both sides ? Or we just think we have dealt with it and the Premier League are holding out
Any idea what’s left
Off table by us. No idea what's left.
If we end up getting hit by non-cooperation charges only then I hope we get a decent PR company involved because, even though that's what happened at CAS, 99% of the public still think we were found guilty.
They'll always think that because this whole thing is based on one very simple concept:
"There's no way the dirty Arabs are performing better than our historic clubs. The only possible explanation is they must be cheating."
M18CTID
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Not sure it's 99% mate. It's just all the shouty cunts who, to be fair to you, because of their shoutiness give off the impression that they represent the wider football supporting community.If we end up getting hit by non-cooperation charges only then I hope we get a decent PR company involved because, even though that's what happened at CAS, 99% of the public still think we were found guilty.
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How do you know
Instinct and accountant's nose.
M18CTID
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It never fails to amaze me how thick and gullible so many football fans are when plenty of them display competent levels of intelligence outside of football. It's clearly a case of tribalism taking over. And don't anyone think our own fans are much different - if this was United having all these charges levelled at them, plenty of our own would be giving it the "Cheating cunts/guilty as fuck" line without any knowledge of the case and without giving a shit about due process.They will have to do the mental gymnastics that we bought off the highest court in Europe in CAS and then an Independent panel to the Premier League. Exoneration is subjective to football fans depending which team they support.