PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

CityPar said:
Do we have anything nuclear to go on the Premier League with? Surely if we had, we'd have dropped a couple of subtle hints to the main protagonists prior to this to get them to put the brakes on. It looks to me like the Big 6 aren't worried what City might have.
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Don't overlook the fact that the owners of the red-shirted mafia are all from corporate USA, and they are used to getting what they want by hiring political lobbyists to bully and/or bribe Congress to pass the legislation that benefits them.They may well be guilty of over-confidence in this case.
 
Could we not get Lord Pannick to just say the charges are subjective and we are not guilty but maybe if the charges were brought next week against another club then the result maybe different
 
Is it not time for seperate threads on contract law, geopolitical consequences etc so we can all get up to speed on the necesscary arguements to defend ourselves in the wider world :-) :-)
 
Fred_Quimby said:
No, if you join a club you sign up to obey their rules even if they are anti-competitive.
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If you join a club which doesn't allow white men, Chinese lesbians, disabled Blacks?

I assume these 'rules' would only remain until they were legally challenged, because they go against the law of the land.

Isn't that like me declaring my own "Law/Rule" that me & my fellow "Street Racer Club" members can drive at 100mph within the boundaries of Manchester?
 
havefaith said:
I was always of the impression you can have whatever you like in a contract, doesn,t mean its lawful and ultimately has to be enforced through the courts.

Assuming weve signed up to a contract with premier league then appears unfair terms and conditions can be challenged between businesses. (That said i,m no lawyer so may well be talking bollocks :-) )

Article below explains possiblities.


flintbishop.co.uk

Challenging unfair terms in B2B contracts | Flint Bishop

There are options available for businesses to challenge unfair terms in a contract with another, larger, organisation.
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As a general rule in English law, courts will strike down contracts, even if freely entered into, if they are unfair or contrary to public policy. See George Eastham and several pop music business cases, for example.
Courts would not, for example, enforce a contact that required someone to break the law, or not enter into a marriage.
 
Blue Tooth said:
Woke up this morning and felt a need to write something as a life long Manchester City fan. So much negativity around the club that I love and have watched since 1968.

It has been said in the media world that the truth should never get in the way of a good story. Over the course of my life, 60 years this far, I have seen this to be self evident in many many situations, both sporting and non.

Their job is to sell newspapers, get clicks and stir the pot. It has always been so. It may feel different in this scenario because they are going after our beloved Manchester City but we have been here before and won. .

We know what it feels like to be fucked.To feel like it has all gone tits up.

Halifax in the Cup.
Luton and David Pleat.
Ricky Villa.
Years and years of spankings by the different red shirts. Knowing we were shit and still showing up. We were there, somewhere, having our own experience of being City.

We know what it feels like.

Unlike all of our antagonists, who have dined for a long time at the top table. Who gorged themselves on a cycle of unfettered success. Unchallenged because of the hegemony they created.
They became complacent and stuffed full of themselves and their self important shite. Corrupt and bloated to the core.

They do not know how it feels to lose.

So when we kicked the door down, because it was the only way in, and brought a level of competition they could not live with,they did not have the spine for the fight. None of them. They tried to meet us on the pitch and failed. They tried through UEFA to knock us out and they failed again. So now they resort to the only weapon they have left. Old money. Old power. Friends in high places. The real corruption. Hidden in plain sight.

But they have picked a fight with a club who know how to scrap.We know the pain of losing big and we know how to come back from that.

Dropping 2 divisions.
Dark days and grim gallows humour.That place somewhere in the old ridings where 300,000 of us watched on in the shadows
Then Gillingham. A moment when the future looked so bleak that people walked away from Wembley , muttering "fucking typical City," only to be drawn back by a miracle.
Imagine that we had lost. I did. And I knew we would still be here come the next season.
QPR. Dead and buried. To make matters worse the old enemy winning it all. Again. Not in my lifetime. You think? Another miracle. A big fuck off metaphorical wink from Mario.

Champions.

Only this.

Just the beginning.

This club, players, management and of course us, the supporters, do not ever lie down.This too I have witnessed. Time and time again. We are City.
It is not even about the winning for me. When you have lost so many times you understand the balance of all things more deeply. You know you can always lose and it makes the joy of winning something our red friends will never ever get to experience.

The day Sergio scored was the loudest noise I ever heard in a football ground and I knew why. That banner. That sanctimonious, rub it in our faces spineless bunch of toss perpetrated by the prawn sandwich brigade. The old money. They never saw it coming. Noisy neighbours indeed.

I understood completely and more than ever before what it meant to be a Manchester City fan.
We can lose this current fight and we will still be here. That's what makes us a fucker to fight with. We don't know when we are beaten.

We're Man City.

We'll fight to the end.
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couldn't have said that any better, fantastic post mate
 
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