PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Scaley]

Need to beat them, the 1998 Auto Windscreen Shield defeat is still raw.

Only for the few hundred of us that were there! Definitely the lowest point of my City supporting life. I wasn’t at York away though.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

I apologise in advance in case this has all been raised and answered many times, but I am confused and would welcome any clarification. On the face of it there are two strands, one to do with playing by the rules of UEFA and EPL, and the other to do with illegal activity.
The EPL and UEFA deal with the "club" rules, in particular FFP . The EPL has local oversight of clubs to ensure that owners are fit and proper persons, that stadiums are safe, secure areas and that fans' behaviour is acceptable, and so on - all right and proper.
As I understand it FFP was raised by UEFA and the matter settled, so that goes out of the window. So far as I am aware EPL is not grousing about the state of the stadium, nor questioning the ability of the owners to run a football club.
If, in the course of its years long investigation, the EPL came across evidence of illegal practice this would, surely, have had to be passed on to HMRC and the police. This hasn't happened, has it?
So, in the end, what is this about? If I am revealing depths of ignorance and naivety and thereby offending the City faithful I shall simply plead senility and hope to get off with a warning.

I believe the EPL has finally accepted that we did, in fact, enter the FA cup in 2012 but they refuse to budge on the truly major issues and still maintain that we didn't cut the grass properly.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I see Dan Roan still finds it impossible to refer to our owner by using his name. He seems happy to use a racist trope of "Abu Dhabi owners" with no reference to the US firm (Silverlake) who own 24 per cent of CFG. City "owned by Abu Dhabi" is inaccurate but also a dehumanising phrase which avoids using Sheikh Mansour's identity. Is Roan bigoted or just very stupid?

He’s most likely both.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Another one from our Liam

 

[remember arthur mann]

Get ready lads n lassies

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When's York away ?

 

[manimanc]

Get ready lads n lassies

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Nice one, last game of the season at home.
Fuckin Gillingham away on boxing day?
Pep ain't having that that's a given.


*What some young viewers on here don't realise is that a lot of us on here have actually seen us play these teams*

 

[Sibierskii]

It’s an embarrassing mistake but not sure it’s as bad as you’re making out.

Some intern has gotten the years that the rule book changed wrong. In 2012 the laws moved around so the old rule C became rule E

E11 in 2011/12 is entering the Fa cup and in 2012/13 onwards its submitting accounts and they’ve mislabelled it.

The 12/13 book even has a little column telling you what the old rule was - I bet they never realised how important that would be!

Not sure it will get us off, but I do think it will impact how the more diligent journalists like Kieran Maguire view the competency of the PL legal team.

Think thats where the grass length rumour came from

 

[richards30]

When the news first broke yesterday I thought we were at about an 8, tonight I’d say 3 or 4.

3-4 is still quite high??

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Pleased we have Mansfield at home last game, hopefully we can secure promotion but no going on the pitch or we might get into trouble!

Are you mad? Length of that grass? We will be on our arses before we get to the white lines…..

 

[Lavinda Past]

If this was the dippers or the rags, you’d not be shouting throw them out? I certainly would….

'Tis the nature of competitive sport. Fully accepted and acknowledged in our day to day interactions with non-Blues.

I'd dance many a merry jig if the rags went bankrupt, along with thousands of others.

I'd be far more concerned if our 'natural enemies' were suddenly taking our side, and I expect that they'd say exactly the same.