My thoughts, not entirely finished in a multi reply, thread to Sam Lee posting clearly ironic replies to the report about Nottingham forest and Everton being charged for PNS violations under FFP.
I have several notes about more of what I wanted to say, but I chose to stop
One bit I wanted to include which I mentioned was more emphasis on accountability for the journalists, who are supposedly experts, interested in investigating and asking questions as a profession, demonstrating what I was trying to ask questions pointing to what I would consider reasonably fair as a criticism of questionable self awareness versus leaning into chest thumping finger, pointing scape goating, bullying and blaming.
And while they may have thought they had good intentions the self-righteousness is always assigned, if not, at a minimum a reason to raise flags when anyone engages in this kind of behaviour.
The statute is the legacy of muckraking as we call it in the states, at least journalism or tabloid propaganda level journalism in the UK media is not an excuse for very intelligent, smart, supposedly caring individuals to not press and push on concerns that city fans raised about FFP from the beginning Rather than write us off as a bunch of ignorant, close minded, unwilling to listen to reason because we benefit humans.
You never know who might be telling the truth, and you should always be wary of those who have power in Nari, who might be playing puppet master in the background, and using you for their own purposes.
Go watch Oppenheimer or the latest Scorsese film, killers of a flower moon, which I just saw, and was moved deeply saddened by its demonstration of the harm caused by incredibly for perfect examples of Machiavellian behavior
The kind that dominates too much of human history by the powers that be that are always out there playing puppet master and I know as a mental health professional, that this is real in various mental health condition, forms to exist and happen and has happened in human history when things can go very very bad for us all I exploiting the kindness, worries, and at times good intentions of those susceptible to their games and manipulation.
That, especially can be those who care about things such as justice, and what’s right they are masters of playing such types, unless you decide to actually listen to other other points of view, then get stuck in what seems like an easy way or target to focus on attention upon the big bad wolf.
The bottom line is I’m much better than FFP could’ve been explored and implemented from the beginning, or as soon as the science that something was a mess became a parent fans who were ignored
And I don’t think it’s not completely implausible that the “115 charges” a giant piece of propaganda, realizing that we would escape the PNS violations, and that this is an optics nightmare for the populism and hysteria they’ve caused by blaming us for problems that are more far nore complicated than just “state run clubs“
But who wants to into complexity? It’s always easier to play goodies versus baddies
Our brains like that better, but that don’t make it right or best for all of us in the long term
And the super league, the thing that everyone’s afraid of is more likely than ever because of this decision and inability to look at themselves rather than point fingers.
And I love our fans, and I empathize with everyone, even as I said on some level, but we also sometimes didn’t help, but I don’t blame us, because we were bullied and mislabeled and misheard and written off and have far less power in terms of the conversation
The chickens come to roost and it sucks for us all.
