It's a rabbit hole once they are in it they find it very difficult to get out, it's the same with "They must be guilty" crowd, they are rival fans and they see it as some sort of game where it's just a bit of banter rather than what is really going onA mate of mine is currently down the rabbit hole about Andy Burnham, claiming he’s knee deep in corruption. He keeps sharing social media posts on our WhatsApp group from what are usually far right accounts. I’ve told him to post his shitty conspiracy theories elsewhere. I think he’s getting a lot of it off Nick Buckley who he claims to be mates with. Now I’m no massive fan of Burnham myself but unless people can prove he’s up to something dodgy then they should shut the fuck up.
You should’ve said” can city bribe you for an hour? money talks “My seemingly sensible brother in law (rag) is convinced if we “get let off” its because we bribed “The FA”.
This is what we are up against.
I asked him what the fuck its got to do with the FA anyway and how any bribe would go down.
He just said “money talks”
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More like “Blind faith “ the manner pl and red shirts have ganged up against city .I very much care if they did with two exceptions, the non-cooperation charges given the PL are acting on others behalf and anything with "in good faith" appended as that's purely subjective rather than objective and can mean anything they like (or are told to like).
Right pc, but this guy who messaged you could maybe have been asking what it is actually all about?No I have seen a few media outlets actually break down all the charges. All it takes is a bit of effort to search for them. I doubt anybody here is going to take the time to keep posting them to everybody who asks.
Did anybody get 6? I can picture something along the lines of the closest to United was someone with 6, I thought it was Arsenal, apologies.
I’m not sure if it has before and if not that is clearly wrong.
However if it has I do think that is the correct position to take.
The other consideration re Mancini is contract fulfilment, so I absolutely remember him spending time in Abu Dhabi ie tons of photos/videos of him training the mens team. Wether he did the consultancy work then or during the PL close season, who knows. re Ol bacon chops, don't forget for many years he had his brother and his son on the rag payroll as 'agents' and 'scouts' even though they barely had any professional football experience. Back then it was all considered cushty because the all powerful GPC could do whatever he wanted. When the BBC queried him about it he banned them from the swamp ! FFS the national broadcaster. It's because of him PL contracts include media engagement by managers as a must do.This is what I'm intrigued by too.
Without going down the "obviously United can do whatever they want, dur, dur, dur" route, did United have to report the finances of the dealings Ferguson did with the owners of the club outside of United? So did they have to report all the goings on with the racehorses and whatever else?
Surely, that's a similar business transaction as Mancini working for the Abu Dhabi club and as long as everyone has paid tax in the correct way depending on the country the business has been conducted in then what business is it of the Premier League?
When does a working business relationship outside of a football club become disguised owner funding?
Does City have to give the Premier League access to the finances of the restaurant in town owned by Pep, Txiki and Soriano? Do they have to prove that they own the restaurant and not Sheikh Mansour?
This is where I don't understand where the whole 'if City are guilty then people will go to jail' stuff comes from, if tax has been paid and all the accounts are in order and show where money came from and went to then why would HMRC or the Fraud Squad get involved?
Surely the only issue would be whether the Premier League think that Mancini being paid by a club in Abu Dhabi was actually disguised remuneration for the City job? That would be a Premier League issue rather than an legal issue.
Like a lot of things with them, it feels like the Premier League have put all these half-arsed rules in place that don't stand up to scrutiny and don't work particularly well in the real world.
I'm not even sure what those costs were doing in the club's accounts in the first place. They should have been Glazers' costs as they made the money, so I don't really have a problem with taking them back out again.
Except that post-Leicester, the written rules are the rules and, as far as I know, there is no rule saying those costs could be deducted. Someone should challenge it :)
The other consideration re Mancini is contract fulfilment, so I absolutely remember him spending time in Abu Dhabi ie tons of photos/videos of him training the mens team. Wether he did the consultancy work then or during the PL close season, who knows. re Ol bacon chops, don't forget for many years he had his brother and his son on the rag payroll as 'agents' and 'scouts' even though they barely had any professional football experience. Back then it was all considered cushty because the all powerful GPC could do whatever he wanted. When the BBC queried him about it he banned them from the swamp ! FFS the national broadcaster. It's because of him PL contracts include media engagement by managers as a must do.