It became worse the minute we had more money than “them”. We are the lottery winners who have built a fabulous new house on some old “private road” in Wilmslow and that has pissed our new neighbours off so so much. Each day sitting there in their decrepit old house, up to the eyeballs in debt, twitching the curtains and muttering “bastards” to themselves. Of course back in the day the rich thought that wealth was fine but according to “them” it’s not for everyone.A follow up for you: why has it been deemed that straight up owner investment - I own this business, I have this money, I will put this money into this business - is somehow worse than everything you mention?
I don't work in the accountancy sector and haven't for many years but when I did it was for a company that eventually was absorbed into BDO. Along with Grant Thornton, they're the next biggest behind the likes of EY, PWC, KPMG and Deloitte. They operate in over 150 countries so they're certainly far from the one-man band I worked for just after leaving them.I think d
I think you work in finance and accounting Colin? Do you know how long BDO have been our auditors and is it of any surprise that we don’t use one of the “Big 4” as our auditors? Which of course used to be a “Big 5” with Arthur Andersen (pre Emron)?
The illegally hacked emails weren't inadmissible, where did you get that from?The UEFA case had certain issues 'time barred, also the illegally obtained evidence like hacked emails were inadmissible. This won't be the case with the PL case.
It's part of the unfortunate hysteria of reporting.
Because there's no obvious rules around punishments, people let their imaginations run wild. There's a report in one paper about United staff wondering about getting winners medals for 2017/18.
The punishment could be a fine, points reduction, relegation, expulsion from the football system - even forcing the season to be replayed is theoretically within the Premier League's powers.
It's what makes people think they've been cheated when the club only gets a fine.
Something tells me we don’t need toWe need to invest in hackers of our own.
I think City desperately need to try and go on a PR offensive. The charges are complex enough but the narrative is simply City cheated therefore relegate them, strip them of titles, deduct points and give them a transfer ban.
As long as that’s the pervading narrative our name is mud. It will damage us in negotiations with players, sponsors and coaches. It will tarnish any of the clubs achievements. If the charges, or the majority and most serious of them, are dismissed that will be a footnote. The damage will have been done. Our club will have suffered such reputational damage that couldn’t be undone.
The City PR department need to do something that never seem to have done before, get very aggressive. We could warn journalists to temper their articles, tell them if they condemn us now, we’ll ban them for life if the charges are dismissed. Warn newspapers, Sky, Talksport to be accurate and neutral or lose all access if we’re cleared. It might stop the condemnation and move towards factual reporting.
Ha ha,Arsenal, bankrolled by the mythical Rwandan tourist board, where even illegal economic migrants won’t go and who blew 72million on Pepe are now pontificating to us about financial frugality
I don't work in the accountancy sector and haven't for many years but when I did it was for a company that eventually was absorbed into BDO. Along with Grant Thornton, they're the next biggest behind the likes of EY, PWC, KPMG and Deloitte. They operate in over 150 countries so they're certainly far from the one-man band I worked for just after leaving them.
They became our auditors in 2006, as they audited the 2007 accounts, so pre-date either takeover.