I sit in front of the top brass in 125. Before every game I turn round and check out their faces as a gauge of what’s going on. They always look happy as fuck! Then I look to my left and see an extension being built that’s costing hundreds of millions. Then I look on the pitch and see gundo has come back. Cos I’m sure he would have left Barcelona to come back to a club that will soon be playing in the northern premier!Not quietly confident, supremely. To the point, it feels like they already know the result.
Amen brother!What's also interesting is other sports welcomes their investment.
Horse racing, Cycling, F1, Snooker to name us a few.
When you look at how other sports welcome the investment the only logical reason for Europe football to be against this is pure racism
But just look at what's been brought to Manchester, best academy in the world, investment in the local area, We are without doubt the best run Club in world football.
Give me our owner over any American.
You're kind of missing the point mate,with the golf,boxing and snooker the money being offered is blowing everyone else out of the water.Who sponsors our oldest and most traditional cup competition?
Part of the point surely is the selective nature of the sportswashing criticism. Some funding from the UAE seems to be perfectly fine while some is immoral and outrageousYou're kind of missing the point mate,with the golf,boxing and snooker the money being offered is blowing everyone else out of the water.
Creating a new competition with ludicrous money on offer is not a option currently with football as it has been in other sports.
That's not to say it won't happen in the future.
"Genocide washing" I believe is much more of a disgusting Money grubbing exercise than any alleged sportswashing bullshit. Strange the press or media morons never mention it.I’ll tell you what makes me laugh…they call the Etihad sponsorship of City “sportswashing” and yet, Emirates is all fine and dandy sponsoring the FA Cup and the tarquins…as for their sleeve sponsor, all I remember about them (until the last Government deal with them) is what happened in 1994…I wonder what kind of “washing” that is…
I've tried to explain why in my opinion other sports are responding more favourably to investment.Part of the point surely is the selective nature of the sportswashing criticism. Some funding from the UAE seems to be perfectly fine while some is immoral and outrageous
I've tried to explain why in my opinion other sports are responding more favourably to investment.
With regards to football the original point was whether the kickback against investment was based on racism.
While this may be a factor in some people's opinion,for me the cartel clubs are against this from a purely protectionist position.
I've tried to explain why in my opinion other sports are responding more favourably to investment.
With regards to football the original point was whether the kickback against investment was based on racism.
While this may be a factor in some people's opinion,for me the cartel clubs are against this from a purely protectionist position.
Yes again this is it. The case against us is dead in the water. UEFAs case was a sham and so is this. They can spin as much as they want - it will spin literally 360° and guess what end up back where it started . . .The PL has some "evidence" that what they allege has actually happened. We know that from the leaked emails, but we also have to assume they have more "evidence", for more years, from their investigation.
The problem for the club is to show that something that didn't happen, didn't happen. The way they did that at CAS was to get an independent auditor to look at payments from ADUG and show none went to Etihad. It's a start, but it's not wholly convincing (the money could have come from another ADUG company, for example, or be routed through other companies or come from Mansour's personal accounts). By the way, this is why control of access to external information is so important. The club can now control, to a great degree, the information it provides to the panel, and in what format they present it. Anyway, together with the witness statements that it didn't happen, including statements from Etihad that they didn't receive any money from ADUG or Mansour, which CAS found compelling, it was enough to sway the majority of the panel, with comfortable satisfaction, in favour of the club's position. The audit report(s) this time will be different and the witness statements presumably also, to cover the greater number, and specificities, of the 115 allegations. So much for the club's problem.
The PL's problem is that their "evidence" is entirely circumstantial, as was UEFA's, and they have the burden of proof to show that the alleged behaviours, on the balance of probability with a high degree of cogency, actually took place. UEFA couldn't, and I very much doubt the PL will be able to, either. Certainly not on the most serious charges.
Long may the southern based 'journalists' (who are happy to ignore lots of shit going on in this country including the promotion of with drawing from the EHRC) have to travel up to cover the best team in the world, from London, on shit transport like the rest of us.Part of the point surely is the selective nature of the sportswashing criticism. Some funding from the UAE seems to be perfectly fine while some is immoral and outrageous