PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Al Jazeera is a Qatari news programme?

The plot thickens!

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Sunday is gonna be ace. Will give me a chance to air a new chant.

Mancini woooah
Mancini woooah
Got paid by man city
And al Jazeera TV.

Fuck all the haters and let's make some noise.

It was Al Jazira the football team not Al Jazeera the TV channel. So maybe change it to “Al Jazira FC” to get it to rhyme :)

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Sunday is gonna be ace. Will give me a chance to air a new chant.

Mancini woooah
Mancini woooah
Got paid by man city
And al Jazeera TV.

Fuck all the haters and let's make some noise.

Its good but one syllable too many in "And al Jazeera TV". Not easy to sing, even harder with a gob full of hotdog; )

 

[Ajm1985]

@twosips did a cracking job on that show. Neville occasionally speaks sense (evidently self-motivated, in part) but Carragher is such a gurning arse.

 

[I'm Blue]

I fucking wouldn't!

I’ll except not guilty or burning the lot to the ground.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

He's a **** and that other Scouser dickhead is another ****.

Are you a ****?

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

The club seem confident and ready to do battle, so I'll take their lead. And I don't imagine they did what they did without good advice. The PL don't appear to be particularly professional and there seem to be undercurrents to this wider than just a few accounting issues.

And, as I said at the start, this is probably about our rivals throwing mud and hoping some sticks. I think they'll regret that.

This is very reassuring, PB and we're all very glad to hear it, but could you explain what yo mean by "undercurrents to this wider than just a few accounting issues." Does this apply to what we are supposed to have done wrong? Or the machinations of those trying to destroy City? Or the independent regulator? Or something else?! Do you personally feel confident or do you simply trust the club?

 

[Spanishbob]

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our City's home, to ride out the storm of this Premier League war, and to outlive the menace of the Liverpool Untied tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of ADUG-every man of them. That is the will of the committee and the fans. The City Football Group and the sponsors, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous clubs have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo-like Premier League and all the odious apparatus of Glazer rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in courts, we shall fight on the terraces and European nights, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend with Lord Panick, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the newspaper courses, we shall fight on the training grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets of Boston, we shall fight in Hillsborough; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this City or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our fans beyond Castlefield and Clayton, armed with flags and guarded by the 1894 Group, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the Citizens, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Very churchillian

 

[give it to gordon]

I don’t know about anyone else but this whole saga has taken over my life in the last few days. I can barely think straight.

The richest team in the world for the past 15 years or so, is falling foul of rules that were apparently brought in to protect clubs from financial ruin. The potential punishment could financially ruin us. Some would say typical City is alive and well. Let’s hope we can still say the same in years to come.

I watched friends of mine go through the Bury saga and what it did to them. That club was potless. Ours is fucking loaded, yet we could meet the same fate.

I am truly disgusted that either situation was allowed to happen. Both at different ends of the spectrum. It shows that FFP isn’t fit for purpose (unless you’re part of the cartel) and it’s farcical that the government can stand by and watch a perfectly successful and solvent business, with nigh on 150 years of history, and with real community value, face this possibility based not on law, but on some made-up fucking rules to keep the same clubs at the top.

Thinking of those clubs, I don’t even think the real fans of those clubs would want this to happen to us. Yeah, the Twitter dickhead brigade and glory-hunters, who latched on to the successful club of the time might want us gone, but I can’t imagine the like of local United fans wanting our rivalry to disappear. It’s that rivalry that has us all so invested in the game. I hate United as much as the next blue, but I hope they are always around.

IMO this is squarely on a minority of people like the Glazers and FSG who have given nothing to this game. Nothing to this country. They’ve seen an opportunity to make money (no issues with that, I’d even say good luck to them) but clearly the huge amounts they’ve made isn’t enough…they want it all and they couldn’t give a fuck who they hurt to get it. A disgrace.

I am remarkably relaxed about it.

I trust our owners 100%

This is just a witch hunter.

But most of all I am a City fan and that will never change

 

[I'm Blue]

Anyone know what happened with this investigation ? Has similar references to some of our charges