PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Kippax77]

If there was any chance the outcome looked anywhere near favourable for the PL, certain journalists would have been pre-briefed, and we'd have seen a drip, drip from the likes of Holt, Deloony and others over the last 48 hours.

This is being very carefully managed by the PL, and I suspect they are sh**ting themselves over damage limitation and potential fall-out. Masters could be gone by the end of the week, if not today.

Right this is the post I've been waiting for to make my decision on opening a bottle of red tonight.
Thank you/or it's your fault I feel rough for work tomorrow morning, I'm having it.

PS it's been a tough day today trawling through this thread while working

 

[jimharri]

Come on, even the Pope is hanging on for this.

..... "And this is what he said" .....

 

[DTKOAG]

I’m getting the word..

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

..... "And this is what he said" .....

He’s got at least one ‘fuck off’ left in him I reckon!

 

[waspish]

If you're a City fan that watches Mark Goldbridge AKA Brent Di Cesare from Nottingham, you must hate yourself. He's a glory hunter who also uses a fake name, can't get more plastic than that.

Thing with this utter kunt is he does it all for views clicks and he gets no fallback from it sat in his home! He probably now lives in a mansion miles away from any big city rake it in! Cant stand people like him! Making a living out of being pure evil talking like he know what he is talking about! He has millions of viewers to spout his continuous bile about our club but says it in a way he will get away with it!

 

[Johnnyblue7]

Says the dipper from Liverp, er, Dublin. Those bloody Irish, eh?

A very insightful take on things from the top Irish scouser.

 

[roy.or.r]

When is this shitshow going to end? Whatever happens, I just want to get it over with.

 

[M Gaudino]

I really don’t understand why people watch dickheads like him.

goldbridge is brilliant at what he does - entertaining his audience (be it mostly united’s armchair worldwide fanbase or other people who believe they are watching a guy get angry at united being shit). he has created this alan partridge type persona and literally given himself a new name to do so. His real identity, his kids, his wife he doesn't share any of that.

its no coincidence AFTV get the best viewing figures - they run a colourful gammet of made up characters and encourage them to have catchphrases/patois whatever and say ludicrous barely believable opinions. arsenal being shit makes for more entertaining programming.

city by comparison have basically no youtubers of any note that are worth watching if you arent a fan of city - mostly ordinary manchester based fans giving boring sensible opinions.

the most famous is probably Buvey who has developed more of a fan base by saying daft crap and winding up the united, liverpool and chelsea fans on the fan channel watchalongs. hes from bristol ffs.

they are all basically just TV shows. stop getting upset about what they are actually saying. if you do you are lost in the world of social media which only cares about clicks and viewership.

speak to real people out and about. they dont hate city, in fact they are indifferent just like we used to be about arsenal and liverpool before the last 10-15 years of twitter happened.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Mark Goldbridge on his latest video release - titled 'Man City Not Guilty?'

'if you are found not guilty, it doesn't mean you didn't do it'

The narrative has begun already.

What does it mean if someone investigates you for four years and produces no evidence? I realise we are all living in a "post-truth" society but that's a bit of a stretch, even for a moron like Goldbridge. Is that the standard he applied when he worked as a Police Officer?

 

[skillman]

Personally think it'll be a while before we hear anything yet. And even then I think it'll only come out because it's been leaked and their hands have been forced.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Wouldn't like to say for sure, but the Holt piece sounds like the seeds of a damage limitation exercise. You can be sure if the PL had won, he wouldn't be saying there were no winners. He'd be shouting from the rooftops the PL had won. If it's good news, City need to come down hard on these people to make sure the club doesn't need to go through all this again.

I just have a feeling, based on some of the stuff like this in the media, and the snippet that all senior managers were supposedly told to be in today, that the initial verdict was received by both parties yesterday. But I stress I've nothing more to go on than that.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Thing with this utter kunt is he does it all for views clicks and he gets no fallback from it sat in his home! He probably now lives in a mansion miles away from any big city rake it in! Cant stand people like him! Making a living out of being pure evil talking like he know what he is talking about! He has millions of viewers to spout his continuous bile about our club but says it in a way he will get away with it!

The **** lives in Solihull, which is one of the most sinfully dull places in Christendom.

 

[paulchapo]

What does it mean if someone investigates you for four years and produces no evidence? I realise we are all living in a "post-truth" society but that's a bit of a stretch, even for a moron like Goldbridge. Is that the standard he applied when he worked as a Police Officer?

Standard Goldbridge he's just in it for the clicks and money and he's been successful at it.

 

[Superace]

Says banned and starts with guilty ..then mentions or not guilty !

Yes but the Headline says not guilty, he's an idiot either way.

 

[Gazza]

Yes but the Headline says not guilty, he's an idiot either way.

But is it 'of love in the first degree'

 

[Kippax77]

I just have a feeling, based on some of the stuff like this in the media, and the snippet that all senior managers were supposedly told to be in today, that the initial verdict was received by both parties yesterday. But I stress I've nothing more to go on than that.

That sounds like a decent hunch

 

[Stoned Rose]

I'm getting a 5pm Wednesday feeling.
Not based on anything but my own gut.

That’s quite a long time to go without mate.

Have you tried prune juice?

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Personally think it'll be a while before we hear anything yet. And even then I think it'll only come out because it's been leaked and their hands have been forced.

 

[TedofChume]

Whoever “wins”,’ a Premier League chief executive told me on Monday, ‘it is the ultimate worthless victory. There can be no winners. There are only losers both ways.

We've won then.

It was this but that did it for me, totally bias and framing Simon Cliff as a baddy:

"
Judging by the sheer grandiosity of his pronouncements, City’s general counsel, Simon Cliff, seems to believe he actually runs English football now. Maybe he actually does run English football. He certainly seems to have Richard Masters, the Premier League’s rather beleaguered chief executive, right where he wants him.
Cliff is a faintly Musk-ish figure, who appears to be fond of shouting the odds and calling the shots. He tells the other 19 Premier League clubs what is legal and what is illegal and when to fall in line and when to disobey. The impression he gives is very much that City run English football now."

All I remember Simon Cliff stating was that City had won the APT case not the Premier League, (which Masters was claiming). Simon Cliff has since been proven to be right on this point.

 

[adrianr]

Then tell them what you honestly think about their club too. I've got some great results doing just that! If they want to act that way I'll not be restrained with my views either ;) You're letting them bully you. It sounds like you just need more firepower, that's all.

You've missed the point. You're now having a hostile conversation in place of a previously cordial/friendly one, for nothing you have personally done. If you enjoy now having to use more 'firepower' in your football chats with friends and colleagues then good for you I guess, but it shouldn't come as a shock to you that it's not a sentiment shared by all.