PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

JewelZee said:
Bro, freshly cooked meatballs made the right way with ground veal, pork, and beef. Piping hot tomato sauce. Fresh melted provolone with some pecorino romano sprinkled on. Served on a fresh Italian stick or French baguette. Rank? C'mon fella, that's a bomb sandwich!!
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No, it’s abuse of meatballs.
 
Not sure if this is good or bad…can be read both ways to me!

Fifa agent ruling could have FFP spin-off​

It happened far away from any sporting arena but hugely respected sports lawyer Nick De Marco KC has called the arbitration ruling dismissing Fifa's proposed agent caps "one of the most significant legal defeats for an international federation in sport for many years".
"There is a difference between a sporting rule that may be justified in terms that relate to matters that are integral to the essence of the sport and rules that are really about regulating commercial activity, as the fee cap was," added De Marco.
"Some financial restrictions, for example even highly controversial salary caps on sport, may well be more closely connected with competitive balance, and thus easier to justify on that basis, than others, such as the type of financial fair play rules that Uefa and the English Premier and English Football Leagues provide for in football.
"Those rules are not justified by considerations of fair competition, and in fact are often in contrast to competitive balance (in that they tend to provide an inherent sporting advantage to more established clubs with greater income revenue) but are justified on more financial grounds (upholding financial sustainability)."
 
Cobwebcat said:
Not sure if this is good or bad…can be read both ways to me!

Fifa agent ruling could have FFP spin-off​

It happened far away from any sporting arena but hugely respected sports lawyer Nick De Marco KC has called the arbitration ruling dismissing Fifa's proposed agent caps "one of the most significant legal defeats for an international federation in sport for many years".
"There is a difference between a sporting rule that may be justified in terms that relate to matters that are integral to the essence of the sport and rules that are really about regulating commercial activity, as the fee cap was," added De Marco.
"Some financial restrictions, for example even highly controversial salary caps on sport, may well be more closely connected with competitive balance, and thus easier to justify on that basis, than others, such as the type of financial fair play rules that Uefa and the English Premier and English Football Leagues provide for in football.
"Those rules are not justified by considerations of fair competition, and in fact are often in contrast to competitive balance (in that they tend to provide an inherent sporting advantage to more established clubs with greater income revenue) but are justified on more financial grounds (upholding financial sustainability)."
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hmmmm we've had 20 or so years of FFP shite and they're only just saying this now?! They should have read Bluemoon we've know for years.
 
JewelZee said:
In other words neither of you know anything about Italian food...
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I cook Italian to academy standards and I say that this is not only an abuse of meatballs but a palate outrage, a snack from hell, a shitty sandwich, a cultural abomination, a wretched ragout and an insult to Carluccio himself. It is the equivalent of a pork pie butty, of fried black pudding, of porridge made with milk and sugar. It is fit only for rags and north Mancunians where a barm is a muffin, and they spell Vimpto without a “p”.
 
cheekybids said:
Manchester City & we will win.
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We beat the bastards first time round and this is what outrages them. It was a “bad day for football” I forecast hari kiri in the boardrooms of the redshirts, PL execs falling out of windows, a mighty reckoning as Khaldoon lays bare the perfidy, the corruption and the redshirt bollocks.
 
KS55 said:
I cook Italian to academy standards and I say that this is not only an abuse of meatballs but a palate outrage, a snack from hell, a shitty sandwich, a cultural abomination, a wretched ragout and an insult to Carluccio himself. It is the equivalent of a pork pie butty, of fried black pudding, of porridge made with milk and sugar. It is fit only for rags and north Mancunians where a barm is a muffin, and they spell Vimpto without a “p”.
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It's a great sandwich. Not sure you'd find one in Italy though.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
hmmmm we've had 20 or so years of FFP shite and they're only just saying this now?! They should have read Bluemoon we've know for years.
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I think it's nearer 10 years then 20 but it's certainly true that the question was raised on Bluemoon even before the regulations came into force. The trouble is that the courts have to pronounce on the matter and they can only test their admissibility in the circumstances of the case before them. Their ruling then becomes a precedent in all such circumstances. No club has challenged the rules in court on the grounds that their effect, rather than their intention, is anti-competitive. City could have done this back in 2014 but ... The problem was that the cost of obeying the regulations was about £10 million, and City were convinced the rules would never apply to us ever again! The alternative was a very long drawn out battle in the courts (at least 4 years before it even came before a court), during which we would almost certainly have been banned from the CL. City's financial people were, quite rightly, of the opinion that litigation is not a viable option unless unavoidable, because it hampers the achievement of sporting objectives (achieved brilliantly in our case)
 
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