PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[city2]

It's even worse. They are not even charges. A sporting organisation has accused City of breaching its accounting rules and referred the case to an independent panel. The PL is essentially acting as a private members' club. The headlines about "115 charges" are absurd.

We were guilty according to the media as soon as it was announced

 

[nellyonthewing]

I heard a whisper we'll be playing in the Second Division of the Rwandan League.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Its the bin dippers that irritate me. There the last set of supporters that should presume guilt without a hearing

That’s a point of have tried and usually failed to get across cos certain things are deemed untouchable.

namely, the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. From 1989 I have broadly been in agreement and sympathetic to fans of LFC, what most of them seem to forget or are probably to young and or ignorant to understand is the role of The Sun newspaper in spreading lies, appalling lies. Fast forward a few decades and the shit being thrown at us is based on allegations made by the German equivalent of The Sun. Der Spiegel has had to apologise more than once for fabricating stories and telling lies. It’s really that simple.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

I'm not a watcher of podcasts but this one featuring @projectriver might be interesting for those that do like them.

 

[jayblue]

What's really upsetting in all of this is the collateral damage to our reputation.
Some of the comments I read are very upsetting and border line racist.

The damage is already done. That's what they want. Guilty or innocent we will always be tarred as cheats. We will never shake this off.

 

[KS55]

It's even worse. They are not even charges. A sporting organisation has accused City of breaching its accounting rules and referred the case to an independent panel. The PL is essentially acting as a private members' club. The headlines about "115 charges" are absurd.

The Grauniad went so far as to say that, because CAS did not say “not guilty” but said “UEFA have not proved etc”, we were adjudged not to be innocent but the case was “not proven” as in the Scottish criminal system.
The mixing up of civil and criminal law is commonplace.

 

[ysmsa]

It’s funny on RAWK. They’re praising Harris and his continued obsession to see us ruined. Hes like some god-like hero to them, infact if the worst happened I envisage a statue outside murderfield.

Someone on there has also predicted a 40 point deduction, and then, through sheer paranoia, says it won’t be dished out until a season is deemed where we wouldn’t win the PL anyway, so it looks like we’ve been punished but everyone saves face.

What a fucking weird bunch of people they are on there.

Do you have to be a member, or can you jib onto RAWK on the back of someone else with no accountability?

The Liverpool way!

 

[bluemonkey71]

Even by his standards that’s pretty stunning, mainly because (most) of his tweets have deliberately just about stayed on the right side of the law to avoid litigation.

This is different and surely requires the immediate attention of our legal team??

Press.office@mancity.com

Had enough will see what they say about his latest comments

 

[paulchapo]

Last time I made this point about Nick Harris my post was deleted, but here goes.

I sympathise with anyone who suffers a bereavement but I’ve never understood the notion that it gives him a free pass to relentlessly attack our club, call us cheats, accuse us of being criminals and basically call for our abolition.

Bereavement is horrendous but it is something that sadly, and inevitably, we all experience.

Yes I had a bit of a rant about him on here myself. Nothing ott, saying the club should sue him for the stuff he puts out about us and that he was doing so before his bereavement. He, or supposedly somebody who likes him on here, copied and pasted it to him and he put it on his Twitter account. Of course it was taken out of context and implied I'd sent it to him and this was the sort of abuse he suffers for exposing us. I had done nothing of the sort of course just had a rant in a fans forum. Bizarrely he offered to take me out for a meal and talk about it. He kept on asking me to contact him, in spite of me having no means to do so as I didn't have his email and you had to be a blue tick member or something to do so on Twitter.

I did research the death of his wife and feel some sympathy, it was an awful tragedy for himself and his daughters to go through. Anybody with any humanity would feel sorry for him and them. Feeling guilty I issued an apology of sorts here so hopefully the person who thought it a great idea to send my rant to him also sent that. Some friend of Nick he is sending him stuff he would not normally see to upset him further.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

We were guilty according to the media as soon as it was announced

The "115 charges" narrative was apprently briefed to some of the media (the Times) shortly before City were told. That could only have come from the PL or a rival club Director who is in the loop with the PL leadership. The PL have been happy to leave that narrative out there and have done nothing to correct it since. It just confirms what we all know: that the PL leadership and some people in the media are still acting in bad faith. The Everton sanction leaked out over last weekend as well. I wonder where that came from.