PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[eastmanc]

I think we cooperated initially when FFP started and they did the dirty on us by moving the goalposts right before we posted our accounts and did us anyway. Since then we have treated them with the total and utter contempt they deserve

Was that clause 11?

 

[eyalluvitt]

At the same point in the UEFA case...

"Why the fuck would UEFA go to this extreme" without thinking they have proof?

... but the difference then was that we had recourse to genuinely independent arbitration in CAS.

My big worry is just how independent will the IC and a second IC (appeal process) be?

I know Stefan has tried to reassure us on this point but I still worry.

Rangers were almost destroyed by this kind of kangaroo court full of haters, ten years later it was deemed a malicious prosecution but the damage to the club finances and playing squad were enormous

 

[Asa's left peg]

I want it to be all in or nothing. We are either guilty and receive the punishment that goes with that or we are cleared completely and can finally move on.
We take a fine or a point and the cheat accusations stay with us forever.

It feels like another Prime doc, 'All In or Nothing'.

Maybe Robert de Niro as Khaldoon and Jack Nicolson as Lord Pannick!

I'd probably go with Les Dennis or Coco the clown as Masters.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I see the wet fanny calling others wet fannies-brigade are out.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Either way it doesn’t look good, they accuse the vice president of Abu Dhabi of industrial strength fraud and throw a £4 billion asset out of the Premier League. Other way is City destroy the Premier League in court leaving public opinion in uproar as City ‘got off’.

Very true, it’s a lose/lose scenario for everyone

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Rangers were almost destroyed by this kind of kangaroo court full of haters, ten years later it was deemed a malicious prosecution but the damage to the club finances and playing squad were enormous

I don't know why this keeps needing to be repeated but situations with Rangers and what we're going through aren't comparable in any shape or form.

Rangers FC were liquidated, ceased to exist. They had to start again and were voted in to league 2 by member clubs as the level which the new club would begin that process.

There was no damage to the playing squad because there wasn't one. Players were no longer under contract because the company which they originally signed with no longer existed.

The two situations and allegations are worlds apart.

 

[eyalluvitt]

I don't know why this keeps needing to be repeated but situations with Rangers and what we're going through aren't comparable in any shape or form.

Rangers FC were liquidated, ceased to exist. They had to start again and were voted in to league 2 by member clubs as the level which the new club would begin that process.

There was no damage to the playing squad because there wasn't one. Players were no longer under contract because the company which they originally signed with no longer existed.

The two situations and allegations are worlds apart.

missing the point, we could suffer a similar fate of having our income and playing staff decimated because of spurious allegations by very bitter hate filled people

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I see the wet fanny calling others wet fannies-brigade are out.

You can't have too many wet fannies.

 

[I'm Blue]

Anyone else have a bad feeling about all this? Worried?

Originally maybe, but as time has passed no.
The more I hear and see the more I believe it’s a witch-hunt.
I’ve gone from being slightly worried to finding the whole thing funny.
The way we’re being reported on, the way other fans are obsessed with us.
Add to that the fact that some fans are finally waking up to what ffp/psr is all about and now crying about it.
I love reading all the comments and seeing piss being boiled on an industrial scale.
A few of my current favourites..
“Small club”
“They’ll get away with it cos the PL won’t punish one of the big boys”
Hmmmmmm : )
“The PL is corrupt”
Never enters their small minds that the corruption just maybe again us.
I’m just enjoying the ride.
All part of being a City fan.
I made it through relegation,Stuart Pearce and the day we ran out of chips so I’m sure I’ll be alright.

 

[jockblue]

Sorry Eyalluvitt, but legally and factually thats exactly what happened. The whys and wherefores of whether it should have happened that way or at all are a separate debate and not for here, but thems the facts. The one thing I think we can all agree on is that its off topic for here....