PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[SilverFox2]

Isn’t there an argument that by him speaking out and trying to undermine the legitimacy of the PL and its commissions that can only help us in the long run?

He can’t come out and say the same things about City yet as no decision has been reached.

Re last para I fear that the media verdict of our guilt has made any support of City a risk not worth taking for all in power. He is no doubt fearful of a Man U reaction.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Re last para I fear that the media verdict of our guilt has made any support of City a risk not worth taking for all in power. He is no doubt fearful of a Man U reaction.

All, or none, of that may be true. It just seemed to be jump on Burnham day yesterday.

All anyone should say, when asked for a quote about the situation is that they don’t have enough information to make an informed decision and that they await the results of the commission, but that they note that CAS found in City’s favour.

 

[dadnlad]

Breakfast on BBC Sportsnews. European night. Great. But all the BBC Breakfast people are interested in are the teams at the bottom of their group?? No mention of the current holders or leaders in their group Manchester City?? Disgraceful.

it's a fairytale story

 

[Paladin]

The shame is that there are interesting angles which could be explored in a scholarly fashion. For example: Is the Mansour investment in Manchester City sportswashing? To what extent do the fans of Manchester City protect the club's owners from criticism? How did the Mansour investment in Manchester City change the football landscape? How do we place the Mansour investment in Manchester City within previous and subsequent billionaire owner acquisitions and the previous 50 years of football ownership?

Each of these would be interesting as long as they don't start with an assumption as a conclusion: Mansour is sportswashing; his investment was bad for football; City fans are AD proxies, etc etc.....

[BOLD]Maybe we should start a Bluemoon University to write some of these scholarly articles. :)[/BOLD]


Edited to actually include a comment :) Sorry about that.

Great idea. The Bluemoon Writing Team.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You are expecting way too much!

No one has bothered to read the CAS judgement, because then they'd be able to comment more fairly. Instead they took the headlines of some items being time-barred which apparently means we were guilty and got away with it on a technicality - and as we were fined (for non cooperation) that means we were also guilty.

No one is suddenly going to start reading things that don't suit their agenda and come out with a fair comment on the situation.

Maybe so, but demanding anyone connected to Manchester in anyway quoting an opinion seems a bit weird to me.

 

[Kippax77]

BBC is fucking scum head to toe. Did you see that news report about the U.A.E last night? Total fucking hatchet job, making out like making business deals at a global convention is a war crime.

Its getting to the point where I don't see how you can pay that license fee and call yourself a City fan.

The same with Sly sports subscriptions

 

[The perfect fumble]

So I made the mistake of reading that nonsense. For an opinion piece that laments the lack of scholarly research into the topic of sportswashing, it certainly doesn't add much to the debate. Starting off with a ridiculous assumption as a conclusion (that City fans have become proxy defenders of the UAE government and the Abu Dhabi Royal family) is never a good look. It's a sort of a simplistic rehash of the nonsense that has been floating around for years.

It's a case of...

"If you want to get there I wouldn't start from here"

If you sup at the table of universal human rights, this is what you throw up.

Best to view it as the "progressive" version of the white man's burden and move on.

white man's burden :
: a duty formerly asserted by white people to manage the affairs of nonwhite people whom they believed to be less developed.

Of course the same people who peddle this nonsense believe in multiculturalism, but multiculturalism by its very nature is a celebration of difference, it's the polar opposite of universal human rights.

I'm more of a "when in Rome" sort of bloke, and so is Sheikh Mansour and so are the vast majority of folk.

 

[cheekybids]

Maybe so, but demanding anyone connected to Manchester in anyway quoting an opinion seems a bit weird to me.

No one had a go at him when he stayed out of football is corrupt for the last 5 years. It just seems incredible that as soon as his club is hit he used his platform of “quite a big cheese in Manchester” to influence proceedings.

As soon as he was pulled up, he said he’ll comment after the decision but he said fuck all after the CAS verdict, so I call bullshit.

It’s my opinion that if we’d had people outside of our club willing to challenge the narrative we wouldn’t be in this mess. I suspect Burnham thinks 1 of 2 things, speaking out about Everton will help Everton or help his political career.

So fuck him.

 

[nmc]

BBC is fucking scum head to toe. Did you see that news report about the U.A.E last night? Total fucking hatchet job, making out like making business deals at a global convention is a war crime.

It’s getting to the point where I don't see how you can pay that license fee and call yourself a City fan.

BBC and the UK taking the moral high ground whilst opening new coal mines and issuing licenses to drill for oil in the North Sea YCMIU.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

No one had a go at him when he stayed out of football is corrupt for the last 5 years. It just seems incredible that as soon as his club is hit he used his platform of “quite a big cheese in Manchester” to influence proceedings.

As soon as he was pulled up, he said he’ll comment after the decision but he said fuck all after the CAS verdict, so I call bullshit.

It’s my opinion that if we’d had people outside of our club willing to challenge the narrative we wouldn’t be in this mess. I suspect Burnham thinks 1 of 2 things, speaking out about Everton will help Everton or help his political career.

So fuck him.

lol, ok. So much anger; so little point.