PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

LeonardoDaVnci said:
There is a media organization that all of us are legally forced to subscribe to, it's called the BBC and the annual fee is currently £169.50. They are absolutely front and central on the constant attacks into City and have been from day one. The content used by Der Spiegel and the Sunday Times was all provided by a group called "European Investigative Collaborations", (https://eic.network/) the BBC are quite open about their leading role in that group. Last summer after the treble victory they ran a "115 Charges" story on BBC World presented by Ross Atkins. It was an absolute hatchet job that could have been scripted on Rag Cafe. Right at the very end after five minutes of besmirching the club, smearing the owners and sponsors it ended with the cursory "City deny any wrong doing". It's estimated that 320 million people watch BBC World. Although the BBC coverage of Co-Live morphed into a weird rant about Ms Tiffin on here, it was a perfect illustration how a good news story was turned into an attack on MCFC. There are far too many examples of Dan Roan and Simon Stone attacks to be mentioned here.

So I would say the BBC is the absolute litmus test of any change or moderation in the media treatment of the "115 Charges". I'll be watching them in the next few day...

[aside] has anyone noticed how they never mention anything negative about the owners of MCFC in the coverage of the Women's team. That must be caused by a "clash of BBC agendas"...
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I have to agree to large extent, Stone and Roan have clear agendas against City and the HYS pages are always deliberately edited to allow fans of other clubs to slander us, while City fans posts are deleted. The editorial direction for these decisions comes from the top.
 
Weird of Goldbridge to lie about having a letter.
Can`t help to think of a theory probably based on wishful thinking. Would have been funny if someone actually sent him a fake letter from the club that made him nervous.
 
Bald fraud said:
IF we win it’s the perfect excuse for the red shirts and spurs to throw their toys out the pram and run off to a super league. Theyve known what the outcome will be along. They won’t really lose as they’ll still have gotten rid of us
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Completely agree.

Their end game - having done everything to tarnish our achievements and besmirch our reputation - was that either we are found guilty and destroyed, or not found guilty - giving them a pretext for running off to the european super league citing the clear lack of integrity of the Prem.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
No
No news
Just speculation

Chat about Goldbridge and BBC Licensing laws today.

Probably best to check again in the autumn.
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If C&D warnings have gone to our biggest media enemies, in particular the BBC, then something significant really has happened. Why would the club’s lawyers agree to such a course of action?. We can all keep an eye on 'auntie' over the next three critical weeks, let's see if they change their tune.

City being cleared plus the 777 Partners debacle, plus being caught bared faced lying in a select committee should be the final nails in Master's coffin. I suspect his resignation will be the first genuine sign of good news... here's hoping.
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LeonardoDaVnci said:
If C&D warnings have gone to our biggest media enemies, in particular the BBC, then something significant really has happened. Why would the club’s lawyers agree to such a course of action?. We can all keep an eye on 'auntie' over the next three critical weeks, let's see if they change their tune.

City being cleared plus the 777 Partners debacle, plus being caught bared faced lying in a select committee should be the final nails in Master's coffin. I suspect his resignation will be the first genuine sign of good news... here's hoping.
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Both paragraphs I’d file under “just speculation.”
 
moggymoz said:
Mods, is it possible we can fuck right off (ban from posting) any member that doesn't post anything of relevance to the actual thread subject, cos it's now starting to do my fuckin head in, cheers in advance.
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wow, glad you are not deciding Citys fate with the PL charges.
 
Bald fraud said:
IF we win it’s the perfect excuse for the red shirts and spurs to throw their toys out the pram and run off to a super league. Theyve known what the outcome will be along. They won’t really lose as they’ll still have gotten rid of us
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Any super league without us isn't really the best of the best. They'll be running away to join the equivalent of the Europa League.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Was away over the weekend and saw a red i know. Decent enough bloke, good job, seemingly a sensible man

Told him of the rumours that charges have been dropped, told him what the city lawyer told me. His reply …

“Well youve obviously bribed someone”.

I laughed as i thought he was joking but no, he was deadly serious. I asked what he means and he said , “youve bribed the FA”.

The FA? What we have drove to london with a bag of cash to bribe ‘The FA’. Couldnt be arsed going into it as regards what the fuck the FA have to do with all this, nor how he thinks the bribe went down.

He then said “if you get away with it then forest and everton should sue”

Thats what we are up against. Idiots
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Anyone faced with rag cretins like this, just remind them they're under investigation by HMRC over image rights payments to players.

The allegation is that they've overpaid these, which reduced their corporate tax & NI liabilities as the players themselves are personally liable to these. I'm told that HMRC are claiming a sum of somewhere in the region of £100m from them over these payments. That's potentially tax evasion.

If HMRC are right, then that means their expenses in the accounts will have been understated. I wonder if the PL will open an investigation, in the same way they're investigating our image rights payments via Fordham? Because they'll have done pretty well what we're accused of, which is presenting inaccurate accounts.
 
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