PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[bobbyowenquiff]

so the narrative is starting to get pushed that if we get found not guilty its because the government stepped in?

It was blindiingly obvious at the last football-related Commons Select Comittee that the Government and committee members from all parties have got Richard Master's card marked. They gave him a very hard time over the breakaway superleague proposals. They ridiculed him and stopped just short of calling him a liar.
Preston MP Sir Mark Hendrick, is very well connected in football governance circles has has been so for decades. He described the PL allegations agains City as a "drive-by shooting by the red-shirt clubs." You can be absolutely sure the Government and other members of that Commons committee are totally in the loop about the bad faith shown by the Premier League with their highly political investigation into City. Don't foget that all political parties are pushing for an indepedent regulator because they don't trust the people at the top of the PL.

 

[Blueroses]

We will definitely see this repeated many many times over the next 48 hours

Other outlets online already reposting it now it’s pretty obvious where this is leading. Saw football twitter accounts with huge following quoting the journo.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I thought City were the only PL Club to want an independent regulator ?

Which makes us an ally of the Government and an enemy of the PL. All the more reason for the PL to try and undermine us.

 

[waspish]

If a very prominent citizen from country A is accused of misdeeds in country B, misdeeds being strenuously denied by said citizen, then the foreign office/ embassy of country A would raise them with officials of country B. That is very normal and to be expected.

If will happened many many times over the years between many countries. The fact that the Athletic are treating this as a revelation or a story of any worth is pathetic. It’s throwing red meat to the ignorant.

Narrative always about the narrative for them to point at these things when we are found not guilty!

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Just heard tomorrow's groundbreaking revelations in the Athletic.

Apparently a FOI request has revealed that the subject of the war in Ukraine DID COME UP during recent UK government meetings with President Zelensky.

Further information shows that in their last meeting with UNISON, the government DID chat about pay disputes. More to follow.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Narrative always about the narrative for them to point at these things when we are found not guilty!

I wonder does anyone think the UK government haven’t lobbied the US government over potential very serious charges that could be levied against one of the members of the British royal family?

Maybe the athletic can do a freedom of information request over that and see if they get a similar response.

 

[domalino]

Read the article it's actually don't know is made up bollocks headline! Another fishing expeditions by that yank run sports group! They actually asked for the freedom of act to get info from 2000 onwards!

Uh no, they asked for information using the Freedom of Information Act passed in 2000 to request correspondence between 1/12/2022 and 1/3/2023.

@tolmie's hairdoo I'm surprised a journalist would make this mistake.

 

[Keeper!]

It never ceases to amaze me who the fuck the PL are accusing of cheating and the ramifications in doing so

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Uh no, they asked for information using the Freedom of Information Act passed in 2000 to request correspondence between 1/12/2022 and 1/3/2023.

@tolmie's hairdoo I'm surprised a journalist would make this mistake.

Never underestimate how thick most are.

 

[cheekybids]

Never underestimate how thick most are.

It’s not how thick they are but how gullible the readers are…..

Innuendo sells