I've not heard of anything regarding Leeds at home but a Forest fan sparked out an elderly City fan outside the turnstiles ahead of our game against them. By all accounts it was a despicable attack and there was a thread on here about itPhysical assaults?
I think they have to have independent oversight. I also suspect the PL have known this is inevitable for some time (given the political consensus on the matter). It’s been said by many that the “115” charges against City were an attempt to prove self-regulation could work before a Regulator was imposed - personally, I suspect they knew it was inevitable and saw the charges laid against City as their best and maybe last chance to nail City and drive Guardiola away. Richard Masters was privately interviewed by Liverpool and United before being appointed after others mysteriously walked away. His treatment by the HoC committee exposed him as a lightweight out of his depth. Anyone who takes the time to look at the Etisalat sponsor issues, the UEFA “investigation“ and CAS would be unimpressed by that breathy propaganda piece peddled by Morgan and the Times. As indeed were some of Morgan’s own panel - David Dein was particularly balanced and sensible. It is worth watching…you can feel the desperation. Frankly, this whole issue stinks and will be exposed in due course. In the meantime, City’s enemies/rivals get a free hit - which was always the plan.First off, I’ve always made it clear in all my posts whilst being on this forum that I’ve never supported FFP because it doesn’t allow clubs to break into the top 6 cartel. Why say shouldn’t a Newcastle invest to challenge! For me the PL should have greater competition so that say any of 12 clubs could win the PL.
I have not read the Times article nor seen Piers Morgan and I’ve no idea how valid the charges are against City or what evidence there is to support them.
The point I want to make is that it seems inevitable to me that legislation will at some stage be passed to create an independent regulator, something always resisted by the FA because they’ve always wanted understandably to retain self regulation.
Whether that’s a good thing or not, I don’t know but I do think the privileged position the FA and PL will come to an end. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the charges levelled by the PL against City results in their loss of self regulation?
I'm an idiot but as far as I understand it the Premier League licence us to play in UEFA competitions so despite there being no relevant Premier League equity funding rule at the time if we've tried to disguise equity funding to pass FFP and in doing so provided the PL with a misleading set of accounts we'd be in breach of some rule there possibly perhaps (I think some of the charges relate to misleading UEFA or something).Yes, I'm aware of that but how do the 2 £15m Etisalat payments come under that remit when we have a perfectly plausible explanation for it?
Saw plenty happen at Leeds at home. They made a point to walk around the ground giving it out. There was one particular kick off outside Entrance YI've not heard of anything regarding Leeds at home but a Forest fan sparked out an elderly City fan outside the turnstiles ahead of our game against them. By all accounts it was a despicable attack and there was a thread on here about it
If you think back to 2012/13 City still thought they could pass FFP, just, because of the leeway offered by wages of players signed before its introduction being discounted. But it was only just, every penny was crucial at that time. It was suggested that Mancini’s pay off might derail it. So the £30 million advance payment against the Etisalat sponsorship was definitely necessary even if it broke no rules. Of course in the end it was futile, we’d already been deemed to fail on the 2011/12 accounts and had to accept the slap on the wrist. Trying to revive this now and suggest further penalties are appropriate all seems a bit desperate
It's a swizz. They've clumped categories of chargeable categories together and split them down into duplicates. People forget that we're not exactly talking about the collective brains of Britain here.I suspect that the PL decided to throw everything including the kitchen sink at City in the expectation that something would stick. 115 charges is a staggering number though whether the PL can back it up is another matter.
Yeah. Don't care. It only works with Utd fans anyway, because they're so desperate to believe that this last 15 years could be erased from history. Boo-hoo.This is what I thought too. To be honest, I don’t get half of this shit, FFP is just a load of made up bollocks. To me, it reeks of desperation, they are pinning their hopes on a sponsorship deal ten year back before the prems FFP came into place.
If we get cleared, I don’t think the accusations will ever stop. It’s going to keep rolling for years and this is what all this is about, tarnishing our reputation.