PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

KS55 said:
I cook Italian to academy standards and I say that this is not only an abuse of meatballs but a palate outrage, a snack from hell, a shitty sandwich, a cultural abomination, a wretched ragout and an insult to Carluccio himself. It is the equivalent of a pork pie butty, of fried black pudding, of porridge made with milk and sugar. It is fit only for rags and north Mancunians where a barm is a muffin, and they spell Vimpto without a “p”.
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It's a great sandwich. Not sure you'd find one in Italy though.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
hmmmm we've had 20 or so years of FFP shite and they're only just saying this now?! They should have read Bluemoon we've know for years.
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I think it's nearer 10 years then 20 but it's certainly true that the question was raised on Bluemoon even before the regulations came into force. The trouble is that the courts have to pronounce on the matter and they can only test their admissibility in the circumstances of the case before them. Their ruling then becomes a precedent in all such circumstances. No club has challenged the rules in court on the grounds that their effect, rather than their intention, is anti-competitive. City could have done this back in 2014 but ... The problem was that the cost of obeying the regulations was about £10 million, and City were convinced the rules would never apply to us ever again! The alternative was a very long drawn out battle in the courts (at least 4 years before it even came before a court), during which we would almost certainly have been banned from the CL. City's financial people were, quite rightly, of the opinion that litigation is not a viable option unless unavoidable, because it hampers the achievement of sporting objectives (achieved brilliantly in our case)
 
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