PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Damocles]

The reputational damage to the club is enormous, I've never been a fan of the let's drink rivals tears defiance so popular in here. In my experience, the constant 115 has adversely effected my enjoyment of our club's amazing achievements and I know I'm not alone, I'm sick to death of it, I really am, I want this thread closed forever and I want the club to exact it's pound of flesh publicly and with prejudice.

In the absence of a smoking gun, process is a wonderful tool for bad faith actors in authority to punish by other means, I've seen with my own eyes how the not so criminal justice system uses the opaque, interminably slow non crime hate shite to terrorise mostly elderly women into frightened silence. I don't think Khaldoon or Soriano either thought through or cared how the excruciatingly long drawn out 115 would effect the fan base.

We all know how this ends, there'll be no redemption in the outcome, no unequivocal innocence, just some variance of guilt, the only mystery is its shade and spin.

Excellent post, worded brilliantly. This doesn't end after the verdict, it will continue for a decade afterwards

 

[mcfcphil]

The moment we missed was immediately after the CAS result. We should have been on the front foot with our comms. We were just too passive. It was a blunder.

Agreed.
Perhaps the club knew the battle was won but war wasn’t over due to the PL investigation.
You would hope this time is different.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The worst thing is that it was pretty much self-inflicted. Get hacked in 2012, don't perform an in-depth review of computer security (presumably, at least not a good one, obviously), and get hacked again in 2018. Scandalous, really.

We got hacked TWICE?!?!?!

Are you kidding me? I regularly get angry at the ineptitude of our ticketing software with its unforgivable bugs, but someone let this happen TWICE?!?!?

Whoever the head of IT was has damaged this club more that anyone in its history.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Agreed.
Perhaps the club knew the battle was won but war wasn’t over due to the PL investigation.
You would hope this time is different.

I actually think that if we had been proactive we could have taken the wind out of the sails of the PL witch-hunt at that point. We couldn’t have stopped the PL but we could have influenced the tone of the media coverage moving forward. We have allowed a small group of individuals to literally spread lies and disinformation about the case.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Fantastic post mate, that’s how I and possibly thousands of other fans feel regarding the onslaught of these so called 115 charges, it has definitely taken the shine of our accomplishment's.

Has it fuck!

 

[mcfcphil]

I actually think that if we had been proactive we could have taken the wind out of the sails of the PL witch-hunt at that point. We couldn’t have stopped the PL but we could have influenced the tone of the media coverage moving forward. We have allowed a small group of individuals to literally spread lies and disinformation about the case.

Can’t disagree with that mate.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

We got hacked TWICE?!?!?!

Are you kidding me? I regularly get angry at the ineptitude of our ticketing software with its unforgivable bugs, but someone let this happen TWICE?!?!?

Whoever the head of IT was has damaged this club more that anyone in its history.

The ghost of Peter Swales like this post…

 

[Rammy Blue]

We got hacked TWICE?!?!?!

Are you kidding me? I regularly get angry at the ineptitude of our ticketing software with its unforgivable bugs, but someone let this happen TWICE?!?!?

Whoever the head of IT was has damaged this club more that anyone in its history.

I assume he means leaving the password open with the geezer that fucked off to the scousers, not exactly hacking more ineptitude.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Has it fuck!

We’re all different mate, and it’s a very subjective thing, but I’m definitely with you!

 

[Stoned Rose]

Thread has turned a bit silly.

Firstly we don’t know the outcome so the “when we’re cleared” posts are premature.

Second, imo we won’t be cleared of “everything”. There’ll be something, somewhere, most likely non-cooperation, we get “done” for.

If this happens, it’ll be impossible for City to come out with any kind of statement that puts all this to bed. The man in the street will always be able to say “cheats, you just made it too difficult for them to prove it by hiding all the evidence”.

My view, at this stage, is that’s been the aim all along. A long, drawn out, expensive character assassination and a powerful way of asterixing the club’s achievements.