PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

You're wrong here. It's an arguing technique known as the 'Gish Gallop'. You make a huge number of random, bollox claims, which cost you nothing in terms of time and effort. Your opponent then has to spend considerable time and effort refuting each claim, at which point you just make some more. The whole time your opponent is spent refuting the claims, you are controlling the narrative, and the audience grows bored of listening to your opponent talk. And if your opponent refutes just some of the claims, you can use it as evidence that the others must be true, so you tie your opponent's hands into fighting ALL of them, and your opponent is fighting an uphill battle, regardless of the accuracy of the claims. Not engaging is the only way your opponent can win.

You see this all the time in political debate..thanks for putting a name to it :)

 

[Pontypool Blue]

The sad, sad thing is that journalism was once a proud profession, this lot really have no pride or integrity. Click bait tactics are cheap but like you say, so obvious.

.. And it is the worlds oldest profession too.
Oh wait hang on I was confusing it with prostitution - although today's journalists are selling their souls to anyone who will buy them so in some respect they are similar in selling themselves to whomever will cross their grubby palms with filthy lucre.

 

[laserblue]

To my mind Liverpool supporters seem to have a hard on for us and all this shit because they have some fantastical vision that somehow they are going to be awarded titles.

They all conveniently forget or deny that LFC failed FFP in 2013 and only got away with it because they were so shit they didn't qualify for Europe thereby falling outside UEFA's investigation and punishment remit.

The same with them being on the verge of failing FFP in 2015 when they somehow magicked up £35 million in years old bogus 'stadium development expenses' for the non-existent Stanley Park project started by the previous owners and offset it against their FFP losses. This bullshit was accepted without question by UEFA and swept under the carpet by their man on the inside Rick Parry.

 

[Dribble]

The club's messaging has been incredibly poor on this.

They should have been pushing out via their sources in the press that this is only 4 or 5 incidents that are generating dozens of charges each because of the time period covered.

They should be pushing much harder the idea that the non-compliance is to do with the PL changing the rules on what clubs have to submit in 2021.

They should be briefing people that the club wants this over and done with ASAP.


It's absolutely incredible to me that no one at City seems to have learned from the UEFA saga that their strategy of saying nothing just allows the narrative to be completely taken over by the people shouting loudest on the other side.

Mate no one's listening. It'd be like Christine Keeler's "Well they would say that, wouldn't they?".

City's best recourse is just to do what we do & leave them to gossip & accuse. We shouldn't even credit these planks with a response.

One lesson I learned in life years ago is never try to justify yourself until the appointed time. Most involved in football believe we're cheats. They've no real idea why, but that doesn't matter anyway.

It gives the likes of ManUre, Dippers, Arseholes, Spuds & Chelsea someone to blame if they fail to reach the Champions League or win any trophies.

We're just the boogie man they need to blame for their perceived failures...

 

[Pontypool Blue]

Just left a Heaven 17 gig in Lytham so just logged in to have a look and after about 3 mins reading all I can say is Fk these odious Cnuts ALL of em Cmon City

Yep - they have all been crushed by the wheels of man city

 

[FantasyIreland]

In a criminal court you have the right to silence and you are innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
The onus is on the prosecution to prove their case.
In a PL tribunal it remains to be seen if we still have these rights, but in the kangaroo court of social media the onus seems to be on the defendant to prove their innocence and you are assumed guilty on the balance of probability which shifts charges every time you break silence and state irrefutable facts in your defence.

Silence is probably the right course of action as proving you’re innocence to an unreceptive unwilling SMS jury is an impossible task.
It is a game you cannot win and only provides further clicks and fodder for the great unwashed.

Yeah,i can see and accept that stance.....it just doesn't sit well when every media outlet and SM site is singing from the same vindictive/jealous sheet.

I cant wait for this to conclude and the fuckers crawl back under their respective rocks.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

1 thing everyone seems to know though is the charges

Mate no one's listening. It'd be like Christine Keeler's "Well they would say that, wouldn't they?".

City's best recourse is just to do what we do & leave them to gossip & accuse. We shouldn't even credit these planks with a response.

One lesson I learned in life years ago is never try to justify yourself until the appointed time. Most involved in football believe we're cheats. They've no real idea why, but that doesn't matter anyway.

It gives the likes of ManUre, Dippers, Arseholes, Spuds & Chelsea someone to blame if they fail to reach the Champions League or win any trophies.

We're just the boogie man they need to blame for their perceived failures...

Good point. They can blame us and not fix their own shit. Suits City

 

[Pontypool Blue]

Sheik Mansour is an investor by trade and inclination. Building the structure and facilities to become self sustaining was his plan from Day 1, irrespective of ffp. Our subsequent history and his steadfastness proves his perspicacity and genuine commitment.
PS EDIT.
CFG is becoming a global monster.

Some would say massive

 

[Fred_Quimby]

The building of the extension, hotel, City Square and shop and to the South Stand is the biggest and best FU to the PL you could ever imagine. This is what we think of your 115 charges.

 

[manimanc]

Andy Jacobs, talksport and Chelsea mardarse, said today that these 115 charges will be dropped because our owners are bigger than anybody out there and have more money and can blow the Premier League out the water.

Sounded like he was going to cry.