PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Alan Harper's Tash]

@Alan Harper's Tash

I was about to ask you out for a meal too.

Your loss. ;-)

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Don't think he's actually saying that first bit, tbh. He was presumably referring to this court case.

I've just re-read it and it's clear he's saying you joined in with the club to 'silence' brave journalists like him in order to discredit witnesses. It's a disgusting slur any way you read it.

 

[ballbag]

I thought he was a weirdo before the last few pages, but he's beyond broke. Good. ****.

 

[cleavers]

Bloke deserves his own thread, as most of the last few pages are about him, and nothing much to do with the actual charges.

He'll be reading it all, and loving that.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I have said to him that I don't believe the toolkit thing Colin believes and that I have told Colin that. I also said Colin is wonderful self publicist (which he is).

I'll take the self-publicist remark as a compliment, although I've never set out to promote my "brand" over my mission of demystifying football finance and defending City's corner. You've been a staunch ally in that latter cause and I think we've earned our reputation as two of the leading City financial figures.

But I'm most surprised at the toolkit comment. I started on that road when Khaldoon mentioned at the time of the 2014 settlement that the beef with UEFA was over the treatment of wages.

I did a forensic deep-dive into the FFP regulations, including the toolkit, and I've documented the change from version 1 of the toolkit dealing with eligible wage deductions to version 2. It's unarguable that there was a material change in a key part of the basis of calculation. I clearly demonstrated this with screenshots of the 'before' and 'after'.

I worked with Swiss Ramble, whose sources at UEFA were invaluable in accurately identifying some of the key figures, and we agreed the calculations. I knew the figures that had been agreed between City & UEFA. Professor Rob Wilson at Sheffield Hallam reviewed my work and accepted it.

Furthermore I've had indications from the club that I was on the right lines. So I'm fully confident in my work. I therefore think your choice not to believe it reflects on you, not me.

Edit: here's a link to the piece I did on this. Please note that the reference to not collaborating with Swiss Ramble only refers to the piece he wrote on this. We did collaborate on the initial investigations into City's attempt to mitigate the impact of their losses for the first FFP assessment.

How UEFA shifted the Goalposts to Shaft Man City.

By Colin Savage. (@prestwichblue) Introduction I’ve written about this before but it’s clear some people still think that it’s something that I’ve made up in my fevered imagination. Having revisite…

boltfromtheblue.live

 

[Ric]

Bloke deserves his own thread, as most of the last few pages are about him, and nothing much to do with the actual charges.

He'll be reading it all, and loving that.

Yeah, fair point. We should probably get back on topic now, and stop giving him the attention that he craves.

 

[eastmanc]

I've just re-read it and it's clear he's saying you joined in with the club to 'silence' brave journalists like him in order to discredit witnesses. It's a disgusting slur any way you read it.

That's the way I read it.

 

[spacecadet]

He's an absolute fucking clown. He has disrespected our club and City fans for a good few years. Deserves all the flak he gets. A fuckwit buffoon of the highest order.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

I thought the way he singled me out and copied and pasted what I posted here onto his Twitter page utterly bizarre. I was having a bit of a rant on here and said the club should sue him and somebody mentioned the death of his wife. I think I said although sad he was a c**** before it and has been one after it, or something like that. The way it was implied was that my "Deranged" post was indicative of the terrible abuse he gets from City fans. As a result I was piled on by his followers, redshirts of course and even fucking Gary Lineker called me, or rather my post, vile. I actually thought given some posts I'd seen about him mine was fairly mild. I didn't like the twist that I was either making light of his wife's death or mocking it, that certainly wasn't the case.

What I did do however was take a look online about his wife's death. It was very sad and I could see how this could easily mentally affect someone. As a result I posted here that I was sorry if what I posted was misconstrued and if it caused him any distress that was not my intention and it wasn't. I posted that here as apparently somebody relayed my original post to him, so whoever was doing so, if true, could send him that one.

As for the offer he was putting out there to meet me for dinner and constantly saying I hadn't replied to him, with a possible inference I was somehow running scared, that wasn't the case. He has no email address I could find and even if on Twitter you have to be a blue tick member to message him. I did pm somebody here who'd had dealings with him to try and get a contact number but was advised against it . Apparently anybody who had done so had been bombarded with abuse and hounded to the point that an injunction had been sought. I am far too long in the tooth for that nonsense. Given the way he has reacted to @projectriver on Twitter after their spot on Talksport I think I did well to heed that advice. As for actually having dinner with him why on earth would I do that? We have absolutely nothing in common and we are poles apart on our views on City and the charges. There is also a chance it could have deteriorated in a not too pleasant way. I am too old and wise these days to let my ego lead me into such situations and I'm happy that's the case.Thirty years ago it would have been very different.

This sick freak was deranged before his missus past.

He is one of several heads of the snake who have been undermining our club since day one.

They are so deeply embedded in their hatred and delusion that they've lost all reality and objectivity.

If you look beyond their shit, there is often a common background denominator.

These lying,casual racists have much in common with manics like Chemical Ali, Putin and an infamous Austrian.

 

[Newman Noggs]

The next time Nick tries this disingenuous "City fans are paranoid and delusional" narrative, someone should ask him if we imagined the creation of the G-14 too.

And it's worth reiterating that The 3 English clubs that were part of that G-18 (as it later became) who put pressure on Platini to shift the emphasis of UEFA's FFP away from the debt it was originally intended to control, were none other than United, Liverpool and Arsenal.

The idea that those clubs were anything other the prime movers in shaping PL's version FFP is simply beyond rational thinking. That Harris finds such a notion incomprehensible proves it.