thats it ric going to be a tough couple of weeks mainly just with opposition fans. but the more it goes quiet the more the jibes will stop suppose the best way to deal with it is to wipe the floor with everyone we play. its a real hettic month after this free week off and cant wait to get back to watching football.It’s been three days since the PL charges and I’m already finding the whole thing pretty draining. Not spending the next three years (potentially) fretting until a judgement is actually made. Fuck that! It’s no good for my mental health for a start. Just want to get back to enjoying football, or at least trying to, again.
Still think that we’ll ultimately prevail again, as at CAS, and that talk of relegation, losing titles etc is fanciful. Fans of other clubs and certain journalists are getting giddy, and things seem grim at the moment, but the story will drift away in the minds of most over the coming weeks and months.
With no immediate threat to the club’s future, I hope we go absolutely balls out in the coming transfer windows and add more trophies to our cabinet. Demonstrate that we’re not going away anytime soon, despite what they wish.
Of course it will have recourse to appeal in the high court. It is being heard under English law. And we have already appeared there in an administrative hearing relating to this precise matterI find it hard to believe that any quasi judicial process that does not have some form of appeal can be valid in the eyes of the law. I know we have been informed that this is a rule that all PL members have agreed to accept. However, I believe that any result which were excessively draconian would have to be heard on appeal if not in the High Court at least n some other forum. This has cropped up a lot over the last few days but to me at least it still remains unclear
Just stepping back and weighing things up here..
We were taken over in 2008 and had investment pumped into our club to enable us to complete with the likes of the rags, dippers, tarquins and chavs who between them had enjoyed a bit of a carve up with regards to winning leagues and cups and in turn benefitting from the millions of £'s CL qualification had to offer.
In what then appeared to be a fit of panic, new PL rules were quickly being assembled to ensure we wouldn't be to gate-crash the closed shop party.
However, because we were professional, clever and smart, we managed to get into the castle just before the drawbridge closed.
Obviously, the usual suspects were well pissed off..
From thereon in, not only did we build a team capable of competing with the chosen few, we assembled a management infrastructure that blew the old guard completely away.
The old ways where owners such as the Glazers, Kronke's and FSG's systematically syphoned off £100's of millions out of their clubs was being shown up for what it was..'pure greed'..!
The Glazers have taken out £1.1 billion pounds out of the rags since 2005 and have still not repaid anything anywhere near substantial off the £500 million pounds debt they originally dumped on the club.
Not a fkin peep about about this from the cnuts in the media btw..
Bingo, constantly whinging about the unfairness of it all whilst wasting untold millions on cart horses, this after spending £130 million pounds plus on a goalie and centre back. The fkin hypocrite..
City's new owners were not only investing in the team and management infanstructure, they were investing in East Manchester, generating 100's of local jobs, building a state of the art training complex and extending and improving stadium facilities..
All along, during this time you had the usual suspects looking at what we were doing with complete disgust..
City's owners were showing the rest of the PL and wider watching world how a football club should be run..
The watching world however were not impressed. They were far from happy that our club had 'elbowed it's way', albeit legitimately, onto the top table.
The G14 were getting rather pissed off too it seemed.
City soon faced charges of cheating and corruption, threats of CL expulsion and heavy fines.
Yet another obstacle for us to climb over.
Well guess what, we faced these charges head on and not only were we cleared of all the shit levied at us, we once again showed up the entitled establishment for what it was, a jumped up kangaroo court, backed by jealous, greedy owners of clubs who over the years had creamed off untold £millions without a thought for anyone else..
Over all this time, City went about their business on the field, playing mesmerising football, breaking record after record and winning stuff..
Let's not forget, Silva, Toure, Zabletta, Hart, Lescott, Clichy, Aguero, Nazri, Dzeko, Barry and the like were not the established world stars of the day.
I remember the media piss taking by one and all when Kaka turned us down, what was it ? Oh yeah, "you might have the money but you haven't got the class or history"..
They soon changed their tune however, when from 8 points behind with 6 games to play in 2012, we won the league in scenes that will never be bettered on SKYsports TV..
It was written in the stars that Ferguson and his rags team would win the PL that year.
Let's not forget, it would have been the rags 5th PL title in 6 years, btw, not a fkin peep out of the media twats about how unfair the rags dominance was back then, not a fkin squeak..
Ferguson had already been humiliated at the swamp 6-1 and had lost the return game at the Etihad in the most one sided1-0 you will ever had seen.
His team shit themselves that night and never crossed the halfway line, let alone had a shot on our goal..
Sergio's goal killed him, his team and the PL on that day.
At that precise time, I can safely say that I had never been happier in life..
Behind the scenes though, the chosen few were boiling with rage.
Not only had City beaten them on the pitch, they had fkin smashed them off it too..
The powers that be then wheeled in VAR and sold it as the tool to end all doubt, no more grey areas, dodgy decisions, unfair calls and confusion.
It's been and still is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, Rashford's 'goal' was a fkin bent, blatent cheating, scandalous fkin decision..
Fast forward to today, the chavs ownership has changed and yet another yank has appeared on the scene.
The chavs have managed to write off £1.5 billion pounds worth of loans Abramovich had saddled them with and they have just gone and spunked in the region of £600 million on new players.
Not a fkin peep out of the twats at SKY or the usual media twats about FFP, dodgy dealings or unfairness of it all, not a fkin peep..
The rags and dippers are now being hawked around all and sundry and my guess is it's because their yank owners have finally realised that we in the UK are not the US.
We don't run our football clubs as franchises where there is no relegation or promotion and you get to cream the money off year in year out..
You invest, build, nurture, manage and plan. You then compete on a level playing field and work hard to win stuff..
Apparently not any more you fkin don't..!
In yet another roll of the dice, the PL have delved back in time to 2009 to rummage through our accounts to see what they can now stick us with..
Our accounts that btw have been meticulously pawed over time and again prior to being signed off as true and correct back in the day..
Never mind that though, over 100 charges apparently, all the usual suspects are now giddy as fcuk, baying for us to be hit with relegation, title stripping, expulsion, points deduction... All of these they all scream..
Well guess what you bunch of bent fcukers, we've beaten you on and off the pitch, we've beaten you at the CAS and I have 100% faith that we'll beat you again..
Our owners have remained firm time and again and have shown their commitment to City by fighting all these allegations off for years and I'm certain that they are not going to throw the towel in now.
We are a £4billion pound giant of the game with the highest turnover in world football..
That's why I have complete trust in the guys that run our club..
That's why I know we're not going to go away into the darkness lightly..
That's why I'm confident that we are going to straighten this out once and for all..
However, I don't want us just to finally clear our name, I want my pound of flesh..
I sincerely hope that we blow these fcukers out of the water and if that means we sue their arses off in court after this is done and the PL collapses into itself then that'll be a good start as far as I'm concerned..
We have been waiting for this day to finally arrive, we will be fully prepared and I'm convinced that we'll prevail..!
Great post mate, I also think there's a whiff of Racism to be thrown in as well.Just stepping back and weighing things up here..
We were taken over in 2008 and had investment pumped into our club to enable us to complete with the likes of the rags, dippers, tarquins and chavs who between them had enjoyed a bit of a carve up with regards to winning leagues and cups and in turn benefitting from the millions of £'s CL qualification had to offer.
In what then appeared to be a fit of panic, new PL rules were quickly being assembled to ensure we wouldn't be to gate-crash the closed shop party.
However, because we were professional, clever and smart, we managed to get into the castle just before the drawbridge closed.
Obviously, the usual suspects were well pissed off..
From thereon in, not only did we build a team capable of competing with the chosen few, we assembled a management infrastructure that blew the old guard completely away.
The old ways where owners such as the Glazers, Kronke's and FSG's systematically syphoned off £100's of millions out of their clubs was being shown up for what it was..'pure greed'..!
The Glazers have taken out £1.1 billion pounds out of the rags since 2005 and have still not repaid anything anywhere near substantial off the £500 million pounds debt they originally dumped on the club.
Not a fkin peep about about this from the cnuts in the media btw..
Bingo, constantly whinging about the unfairness of it all whilst wasting untold millions on cart horses, this after spending £130 million pounds plus on a goalie and centre back. The fkin hypocrite..
City's new owners were not only investing in the team and management infanstructure, they were investing in East Manchester, generating 100's of local jobs, building a state of the art training complex and extending and improving stadium facilities..
All along, during this time you had the usual suspects looking at what we were doing with complete disgust..
City's owners were showing the rest of the PL and wider watching world how a football club should be run..
The watching world however were not impressed. They were far from happy that our club had 'elbowed it's way', albeit legitimately, onto the top table.
The G14 were getting rather pissed off too it seemed.
City soon faced charges of cheating and corruption, threats of CL expulsion and heavy fines.
Yet another obstacle for us to climb over.
Well guess what, we faced these charges head on and not only were we cleared of all the shit levied at us, we once again showed up the entitled establishment for what it was, a jumped up kangaroo court, backed by jealous, greedy owners of clubs who over the years had creamed off untold £millions without a thought for anyone else..
Over all this time, City went about their business on the field, playing mesmerising football, breaking record after record and winning stuff..
Let's not forget, Silva, Toure, Zabletta, Hart, Lescott, Clichy, Aguero, Nazri, Dzeko, Barry and the like were not the established world stars of the day.
I remember the media piss taking by one and all when Kaka turned us down, what was it ? Oh yeah, "you might have the money but you haven't got the class or history"..
They soon changed their tune however, when from 8 points behind with 6 games to play in 2012, we won the league in scenes that will never be bettered on SKYsports TV..
It was written in the stars that Ferguson and his rags team would win the PL that year.
Let's not forget, it would have been the rags 5th PL title in 6 years, btw, not a fkin peep out of the media twats about how unfair the rags dominance was back then, not a fkin squeak..
Ferguson had already been humiliated at the swamp 6-1 and had lost the return game at the Etihad in the most one sided1-0 you will ever had seen.
His team shit themselves that night and never crossed the halfway line, let alone had a shot on our goal..
Sergio's goal killed him, his team and the PL on that day.
At that precise time, I can safely say that I had never been happier in life..
Behind the scenes though, the chosen few were boiling with rage.
Not only had City beaten them on the pitch, they had fkin smashed them off it too..
The powers that be then wheeled in VAR and sold it as the tool to end all doubt, no more grey areas, dodgy decisions, unfair calls and confusion.
It's been and still is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, Rashford's 'goal' was a fkin bent, blatent cheating, scandalous fkin decision..
Fast forward to today, the chavs ownership has changed and yet another yank has appeared on the scene.
The chavs have managed to write off £1.5 billion pounds worth of loans Abramovich had saddled them with and they have just gone and spunked in the region of £600 million on new players.
Not a fkin peep out of the twats at SKY or the usual media twats about FFP, dodgy dealings or unfairness of it all, not a fkin peep..
The rags and dippers are now being hawked around all and sundry and my guess is it's because their yank owners have finally realised that we in the UK are not the US.
We don't run our football clubs as franchises where there is no relegation or promotion and you get to cream the money off year in year out..
You invest, build, nurture, manage and plan. You then compete on a level playing field and work hard to win stuff..
Apparently not any more you fkin don't..!
In yet another roll of the dice, the PL have delved back in time to 2009 to rummage through our accounts to see what they can now stick us with..
Our accounts that btw have been meticulously pawed over time and again prior to being signed off as true and correct back in the day..
Never mind that though, over 100 charges apparently, all the usual suspects are now giddy as fcuk, baying for us to be hit with relegation, title stripping, expulsion, points deduction... All of these they all scream..
Well guess what you bunch of bent fcukers, we've beaten you on and off the pitch, we've beaten you at the CAS and I have 100% faith that we'll beat you again..
Our owners have remained firm time and again and have shown their commitment to City by fighting all these allegations off for years and I'm certain that they are not going to throw the towel in now.
We are a £4billion pound giant of the game with the highest turnover in world football..
That's why I have complete trust in the guys that run our club..
That's why I know we're not going to go away into the darkness lightly..
That's why I'm confident that we are going to straighten this out once and for all..
However, I don't want us just to finally clear our name, I want my pound of flesh..
I sincerely hope that we blow these fcukers out of the water and if that means we sue their arses off in court after this is done and the PL collapses into itself then that'll be a good start as far as I'm concerned..
We have been waiting for this day to finally arrive, we will be fully prepared and I'm convinced that we'll prevail..!
Well not yet it hasn't. City were able to swallow the £10 mill fine. As I said though I didn't agree with it as by paying it, we only strengthened them & their argument that City were guilty of something. And gave them another load of dosh to spend on legal fees against us.Well clearly taking the pinch has hit us like a freight train.
We need to rebuild on the pitch this summer, do you honestly think the events of this week will help that?
Hmmm... not sure about that, Yves Leterme claimed the PL case is stronger than UEFA's ...how does he know?
Also the speed in which articles came out would indicate some of the press (at least) were pre-briefed.
The Mrs asked me at the dinner table last night what was wrong with me. I told her all this City stuff was getting me down. She proceeded to give the worse response imaginable…”it’s only football”. I nearly covered her in Super Noodles (we are classy).You are not alone, Buddy.
If that first sentence is correct, I have no doubt it is with coercion.This seems more like the PL have hit the self destruct button !
The sensible people saying the pl must be mad to try and prove City with very high ranking, highly intelligent people would have been fiddling the books for decades. These people will not take kindly to this.
Theres now take about a new ESL and talk of standard Charter being taken over.
Time for brew and the popcorn I think
Mate the uefa news broke when I was on the way to the airport with my wife to Florence for the week for our first holiday without the kids ever. It totally ruined the holiday for me - and subsequently my wife's too. My mental and physical health was already as low as it ever has been before or since so that didn’t help matters. In the end, all that worry was for nothing. I didn’t sleep for 2 full nights before the CAS result.Agreed Ric. Fingers crossed. And as far as mental health is concerned, it’s knocked mine to a record low this week. Genuinely impacts it.
It's not unusual to feel this way. When something we love is being attacked, it hurts. More so, when we can do nothing about it.Just how I feel pal.