While i find this hard to believe it is possible. The Leicester appeal showed us that an independent PL panel, con investigate, charge, find guilty and punish, without having all the facts correct, just like UEFA with both losing on appeal, it puts a huge amount of pressure on our panel to accept only fact.I've had it on good authority that this happened (and I know who it came from). More recently I've been told (but I couldn't verify, so treat it with caution) that we were specifically offered a 6-point deduction and a large fine to settle pre-hearing. I don't know if the deduction would have applied last season or this. Obviously our answer to that offer was no. This echoes what happened with UEFA, who offered us a fine to settle, an offer we again rejected.
You can look at this as the PL believing their case wouldn't stand up at a hearing, or that it would and they felt a slightly more severe penalty would be in order (although they have no idea what the IC might do).
Clearly the media weren't told, or if they were, chose not to publicise it for whatever reason.
The Telegraph article is saying that we would be looking at being thrown out of the CL, Club World Cup as well as the domestic cups.
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Or the sandwiches, sausage rolls and pork pies, given what they're charging in the IDRC's restaurant.That’s the invoice.
Is it preferable to the one worn last night though?Premier league will impose our new club colours and kit designView attachment 132269
I've had it on good authority that this happened (and I know who it came from). More recently I've been told (but I couldn't verify, so treat it with caution) that we were specifically offered a 6-point deduction and a large fine to settle pre-hearing. I don't know if the deduction would have applied last season or this. Obviously our answer to that offer was no. This echoes what happened with UEFA, who offered us a fine to settle, an offer we again rejected.
You can look at this as the PL believing their case wouldn't stand up at a hearing, or that it would and they felt a slightly more severe penalty would be in order (although they have no idea what the IC might do).
Clearly the media weren't told, or if they were, chose not to publicise it for whatever reason.
Some people prefer the tactility and flexibility of paper, especially as it’s a known quantity and a medium they’ve operated with for many years. If those papers are ours then I guess Pannick will prefer operating that way, and like a chef with his knives he will want it ‘just so’ in his workplace, so he can perform to his best. It’s his case to run as he sees fit.@gordondaviesmoustache
Completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things but.. when I see lawyers using a trolley to wheel massive boxes of legal papers into the courtroom I always wonder why they don’t save themselves the bother and use digital versions.
Presumably would also be much easier to use within proceedings as well if you can just open a file instead of sifting through thousands of docs.
Maybe it’s a bit grandstanding on the courtroom precinct.
To many City fans, their so called rules, seem to be one rule for one one rule for another. Where were these rules when Chelsea were spending their way to success, or when ushited and Liverpool spent what they liked in the nineties. The rules only came in when City got the money to challenge. But we got in too late for their rules to stop us so they have had to resort to what is happening now.No we don’t… allegedly-:)
Don’t buy the opinion that you have to abide by protectionist rules. City today in its current form would be Newcastle or worse Everton.
The club had no choice but to sign up and to find ways around it.
Interesting cheersSome people prefer the tactility and flexibility of paper, especially as it’s a known quantity and a medium they’ve operated with for many years. If those papers are ours then I guess Pannick will prefer operating that way, and like a chef with his knives he will want it ‘just so’ in his workplace, so he can perform to his best. It’s his case to run as he sees fit.
Things are more digitalised now, but it’s not obligatory upon the person conducting the case, although they will still need to use that platform more widely in the hearing, such as with witnesses.
Don’t think there’s any grandstanding, as it looks a bit daft and anachronistic imo.