PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[paulchapo]

I don't get how that man has had a career, he's not even funny. He talks at a snails pace in his dribbling scouse accent and just tells random stories that are fucking boring.

Me neither. He's as funny as most scousers which is not funny at all except in their empty heads. Some idiot years ago started the myth all scousers are witty and have a great sense of humour, they've lived off that lie ever since.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

You are right of course but his comments were shocking because of the tone he used. He just went into an angry rant in the middle of a jokey conversation. He was asked about his team LFC and went off at a tangent about City.It was a surprise given the context. It was pure hatred.

Egged on by Stelling. I notice Stelling said afterwards ‘John said City could be innocent or guilty’ - forgetting that Bishop had said PL teams and supporters should boycott playing / going to watch their team play City.

The whole City must be guilty cause there are so many charges agenda run by Talksport with no recourse to potential innocence seems to skirt very close to legal boundaries.

 

[paulchapo]

And when LFC caused EVERY English club to be banned by UEFA for 5 years, because of Heysel, did the other clubs stop playing them ? Or did they ask them for compensation ?. Never let a dipper try to adopt the moral high ground...

If we want to talk about sports washing that has to be one of the biggest examples out there. It's like it's been erased from the famous history the scousers love so much. Nobody ever fucking mentions it even on its anniversary. The biggest stain and disgrace in the history of football committed by those scumbags. Never, ever should they lecture anybody on anything.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I expect this kind of spiteful ignorant vitriol from the rags and tarquins, but Bishop and Liverpool fans in particular should be wary of assuming guilt when the evidence might suggest otherwise.

 

[Lord Blue]

We are owned by Sheikh Mansour 75pc and SilverLake 25pc(approx). I get your drift but it is wrong to use a broad phrase like UAE ownership unless you believe that Sheikh Mansour is not allowed to invest his personal wealth where he wants. It is a nuance but an important one.

completely disagree

the context was that city get tarred with sportswashing, yet arsenal do not.

i used the phrase "originate in the UAE" i never said we were owned by the UAE.

i fully understand our ownership model thank you very much. it really shouldn't be this big a deal.

 

[SilverFox2]

Week 4 of the Trial of the Century.

Let's imagine the scene in one of those plush suites inside the NDRC. We have PL Lawyer speaking and Panel Member.

PL Lawyer: My I refer the panel to Item 1, the alleged email from Mr Pearce on the 1 April 2012.
Panel Member: Is this the item you referred us to 12 times in week 1,18 times in week 2 and 28 times in week 3 ?
PL Lawyer: Yes, correct Mr Pearce's alleged email.
Panel Member: In relation to what charge is this concerning?
PL Lawyer: This is in relation to the grass cutting non compliance charge for 2013-2014.
PL Member: How ?
PL Lawyer: Let's not get too bogged down with any specifics of the email, as we believe it illustrates the malevolent disregard for the PL rules that permeated the executives of MCFC. An attitude of contempt for the rules which led to a complete disregard of the grass cutting regulations.
PL Member: Oh Christ Almighty, not again, what time is Lunch ?

Rules are there for City to pedantically observe.
All other clubs are either exempt or dealt with differently on a sliding scale of threat to the main PL clubs.

No problem there except reference to English Law elsewhere in the rules probably makes fairness an issue.

 

[Manc in London]

Me neither. He's as funny as most scousers which is not funny at all except in their empty heads. Some idiot years ago started the myth all scousers are witty and have a great sense of humour, they've lived off that lie ever since.

Scousers must be funny. After all, they always laugh at their own 'jokes'.

Many years ago, I sat in front of three inebriated scousers on a four-hour flight. Each one of them thought they were a comedian. Non-stop drivel for the whole flight. I had a headache after the flight as I spent so much time grinding my teeth. It was excruciating.

 

[willipp]

Egged on by Stelling. I notice Stelling said afterwards ‘John said City could be innocent or guilty’ - forgetting that Bishop had said PL teams and supporters should boycott playing / going to watch their team play City.

The whole City must be guilty cause there are so many charges agenda run by Talksport with no recourse to potential innocence seems to skirt very close to legal boundaries.

Stelling is a snidey little **** when it comes to City and the charges.

 

[Coatigan]

What a scouse twat. Saw him at O2 once. Won't be again

He's just Jamie Carragher with a mullet. Equally as funny.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Egged on by Stelling. I notice Stelling said afterwards ‘John said City could be innocent or guilty’ - forgetting that Bishop had said PL teams and supporters should boycott playing / going to watch their team play City.

The whole City must be guilty cause there are so many charges agenda run by Talksport with no recourse to potential innocence seems to skirt very close to legal boundaries.

What Bishop said was City could be innocent or guilty but if you had 115 charges you must have done something. Sterling tried to backtrack. Just the usual distortion and dishonest coverage.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I expect this kind of spiteful ignorant vitriol from the rags and tarquins, but Bishop and Liverpool fans in particular should be wary of assuming guilt when the evidence might suggest otherwise.

I Prem League win since inception is their record ( asterisk req'd for Covid ) - hence the bitterness.

They are exactly the same as the rags and gooners imo.

Chronic entitlement issues topped off with jealousy. Blatant and obvious.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Stelling is a snidey little **** period.

Full of himself.

 

[old blue]

I really hope the people of Manchester boycott John Bishop’s gigs after his poisonous tirade against City on TalkSPORT today. His comments saying clubs and rival fans should boycott games against City were despicable, especially as he lives in Manchester. His claim that: “There are 115 charges so we must have done something” showed him to be a total moron. It’s always funny when the mask slips from people like him.

It would be the first time he has been funny.

 

[paulchapo]

Scousers must be funny. After all, they always laugh at their own 'jokes'.

Many years ago, I sat in front of three inebriated scousers on a four-hour flight. Each one of them thought they were a comedian. Non-stop drivel for the whole flight. I had a headache after the flight as I spent so much time grinding my teeth. It was excruciating.

Everybody gives them a wide berth wherever they're spotted. It's unfortunate if you're stuck somewhere you can't escape them, like a plane. They always appear to travel mob handed and their "Humour" is just them attempting to take the piss out anybody who isn't a scouser.

 

[paulchapo]

Stelling is a snidey little **** when it comes to City and the charges.

He supports Hartlepool ( Allegedly ) If true he must hate everybody the fucking monkey hanger.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Scousers must be funny. After all, they always laugh at their own 'jokes'.

Many years ago, I sat in front of three inebriated scousers on a four-hour flight. Each one of them thought they were a comedian. Non-stop drivel for the whole flight. I had a headache after the flight as I spent so much time grinding my teeth. It was excruciating.

They are the closest breed possible to fitting the “tar with the same brush” mantra, 99.9% of them are utter cunts.

 

[supercity88]

Me neither. He's as funny as most scousers which is not funny at all except in their empty heads. Some idiot years ago started the myth all scousers are witty and have a great sense of humour, they've lived off that lie ever since.

They're a lovely little community of supportive people with a great sense of humour. They just can't take a joke and go into fucking hiding when it comes to outing anyone who's broken the law within their ranks. A tribal cult of people with a chip on their shoulder.

 

[Rammy Blue]

I Prem League win since inception is their record ( asterisk req'd for Covid ) - hence the bitterness.

They are exactly the same as the rags and gooners imo.

Chronic entitlement issues topped off with jealousy. Blatant and obvious.

Yep, unfortunately it’s where the main stream media have done their job with regards the appalling way they have portrayed us and the charges purely for click bait.

Every WhatsApp group I’m part of, every conversation in a boozer, every Facebook group I see, where there is any pisstaking of scum fans for example, immediately reverts to us being banned and relegated for being cheats.

It’s so painfully dull, they can’t accept their own shortcomings.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Stelling is a snidey little **** when it comes to City and the charges.

Fancy being a insincere, shallow, 5' 4", stacks wearing, has been from fucking Hartlepool.

Chips on both shoulders give him a balanced but knee high view on life !!

 

[halfcenturyup]

We are owned by Sheikh Mansour 75pc and SilverLake 25pc(approx). I get your drift but it is wrong to use a broad phrase like UAE ownership unless you believe that Sheikh Mansour is not allowed to invest his personal wealth where he wants. It is a nuance but an important one.

You know all this, but it's important for everyone to always remember that no-one has ever challenged (in any legal or regulatory case, UEFA disciplinary action or PL disciplinary action, afaik) that Mansour owns City in a personal capacity rather than as some vehicle for AD. The fact that no-one has, means that no-one can, as I am sure some people would have liked to. The closest anyone got was UEFA in 2014 through the definition of a possible related party connection between ADUG and the AD sponsors, and UEFA eventually threw that out themselves.

City fans should be careful not to fall into the AD "trap" by combining ownership and sponsorship. They are two very different issues.

The whole concept of sportswashing is that we are owned by an AD sheikh and as such the purpose of the investment is to improve the image of Abu Dhabi, which falls at the first ownership hurdle (I once had this discussion with Delaney whose response was "I can't take you seriously if you can't see the link between Mansour and the AD government" as if it was some sort of gotcha. If I could shake my head on Twitter, I would have done).

The issue of AD sponsorship is nothing to do with sportswashing, which is why Emirates sponsorships aren't an issue. The issue rival clubs have with the number and amount of City's AD sponsors is that Mansour has contacts in AD, of course, and is using them to increase revenue. Yeah, tough. Suck it up, which I still hope will be the result of the APT case.

Anyway, I am sure you know all this. I was trying to summarise my thoughts for the thread as a whole.