PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Chi-town blues]

The Burden of Proof in a Court of Law is “ Beyond Reasonable Doubt”

I believe at PL/FA hearings its way lower than “On the balance of probability”

So the balance of probability means 2+2=5?
Why am I not surprised?

 

[JRockBlues]

Someone attempting to explain a little on the charges we're facing:

 

[christened at st marks]

I firmly believe we will hit the PL as hard as we can and to show them we aint cheats and enough is enough.

I bloody hope so hit everyone of the tossers

 

[inbetween]

One thing that people don't understand is that City weren't even a top 10 club in 2008. We had to spend to get to where we are now but we've spent less than Chelsea since 2008 and yet we've built a team that has won far more. To say this journey isn't allowed means no club can ever win the league except for the richest.

The only clubs outside of the traditional top 4 to win the Premier League since it began over 30 years ago is us and Leicester. Blackburn only won it back in the day because they spent a ton under Jack Walker. Those Leicester moments aren't going to happen again whether we have financial fairness or not so the motives are stupid.

It's funny how that traditional top 4 has been broken apart and now suddenly we now need to be financially fair, competition my arse. These people would destroy competition if they could and that's what they're trying to do because to them it's all about the money.

With city it isn't about the money, it's about competition, trophies and then the money.

 

[skillman]

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Stick that in your pipe and smoke it

Fantastic article. Genuinely.

If only every fucker read it and took it in.

 

[GGG]

Exactly. Much as we don't want to admit it, City are small fry in all if this, a minor investment in the grander scheme of things.

Reputational damage extends beyond the Club and I don't believe the Premier League have truly digested what the ramifications are for years to come.

I suspect Khaldoon and Sheikh Mansour will want to be heard personally by these spunk bubble fuck-wits.

Indeed.
And when City eventually are cleared of all, I fail to see how this doesn't open the Premier league to be sued for all the reputational damage due to all this? especially so if it proved they had no clear case to begin with.

 

[doobyedoobye]

There must be some twists and turns about to be revealed from both sides surely....

 

[halfcenturyup]

Charges, claims, prosecution.

Yes, sorry. I have no idea what the club have actually been charged with. I know what rules we broke in what years, but not how. So it's impossible to come to any conclusion on how serious any of it is, really.

 

[flb]

I’m not one to usually post on forums, in fact this is actually the first time, but with everything that has transpired over the past few days coupled with the flagrant arrogance of football ‘fans’ i’ve felt compelled to respond.

I won’t go down the road of emphasising the misery it brought me at school, although relevant it’s hardly exclusive, but what I will focus on are the sheer levels of hypocrisy that are emerging, hypocrisy that we all knew existed but couldn’t truly demonstrate because one club was state owned (originally) and another was bankrolled by a horrendous group of incestuous yank capitalists.

During the past decade Manchester City have produced the best football ever witnessed, scored the most goals and essentially made a mockery of an English pyramid headed by two teams in Red, both dominant in respective decades due to the majority of investment and all the perks that it brings - better players, trophies, more fans - similar to ourselves although we still can’t sell out our stadium allegedly (heard some ball bag on the radio the other night claim we only get 30,000) but we’ve never been truly allowed to appreciate it.

Certainly amongst ourselves we have rejoiced: QPR, Villa, Leicester, Liverpool, United etc but there’s never been a moment where we’ve not had to suffer the ignominy of a loutish fat tosser down the boozer who so flippantly decries our achievements as being tinged with falsities, arab money, financial tampering, inflated sponsors (words he can’t even spell let alone understand) or; when faced with some facts that he struggles to dispute, barks treble or twenty times in our face like a petulant child, remnants of last night’s dinner still smeared around their mouth, before slinking off with their fellow minions, fortified by the fact that we’re yet to win the champions league.

Dealing with people like this is allegedly part and parcel of the sport, working class ribbing and ‘friendly banter’ to be expected amongst rival fans… except that it’s not, it’s tiresome, absorbing and ultimately annoying to the extent that it has literally sucks the fun out of it all, a bitterness echoing loudly in the streets, on social media, on whatsapp, in the boozers and at work, fully grown men and women focusing their jealously through petty barbs, goading people into responding to try and deflect their own pettiness and insecurities.

I’ve maintained for a long time that there are no truly decent rags and I’d like to think that over the past few days that any lingering doubts people have had to the contrary have been extinguished. Having to listen to people try to explain something to me that they know even less about than I do is tiring enough but when you’re also faced with a bombardment of populist media shills and ex-players, let alone the very organisation that your football has done so much enhance the brand of, then I could be forgiven for giving up and just accepting the inevitable.

But then the final piece of the jigsaw fell into place and all the ‘coincidences’, the collusion and corruption finally jumped right out and smacked me in the face… Qatari investment. All the false sentiments and morality, the things we’d known for so long that were simple mechanisms to try to mask their spite finally shone through. I mean, we should have known it was coming when the media tried to condition the public into believing that it was because of City and Newcastle that clubs like Liverpool and United had no choice but to seek state investment, as though they were forced into it.

Make no mistake the timing of Monday’s announcement, the delay to the Independent Regulator, the two week window it potentially gives the Qatari’s to meet the Glazer’s deadline, displace the Governments dependence on one State’s finances by shifting it another - may sound a tad too conspiratorial but can anyone truly pretend they don’t agree?

If the above goes through, which it most probably will, all the murmurs of human rights violations will disappear, vanish as though they never existed and the truth will present itself because all this has ever been about is no longer being the best… like the most popular child at school suddenly losing his grip on his peers, the only way to try to regain that is through manipulation and lies.

Personally I believe we’ll prove our innocence but on the back of this it’ll instil a whole new level of tribalism and toxicity and so we must never forget the way we’ve been treated. Never pretend that this was okay and never lose sight of the fact that we were there when we were shit! MCFC. x

Keep on posting mate !

 

[Nellies left peg]

Indeed.
And when City eventually are cleared of all, I fail to see how this doesn't open the Premier league to be sued for all the reputational damage due to all this? especially so if it proved they had no clear case to begin with.

The football authorities in this country are a total joke. Pgmol , the FA and PL are a fucking shambles and I would be astonished if they have got anything serious that is going to stick. Just the jealous hateful eight or do that despise the fact that we have shit on their parade that are pushing this and for someone like Wenger to come out and call us cheats just because we bought all his players lol