I posted something along these lines, when was it? Seems years ago. Circles within circles. A poster who was an auditor confirmed what I said. Rinse and repeat.
I respectfully disagree with your respectful disagreement. You bastard. Actually, I don't.
Of course decisions are taken based on various factors. I am saying that the PL imo had no choice professionally in February 2023, after it had considered all the factors, but to continue.
I think it was a mistake to start an investigation at the same time as UEFA, although I can understand why they did. I think it was a bigger mistake to continue the investigation after the CAS judgment (that was the time to quit and say it had been investigated by the highest court in sport) and I am struggling to see a reason for that other than club pressure. But I don't see proceeding in 2023 as a mistake. Even if you don't buy the "professional" argument, the internal political fall-out of dropping the case would have, imho, outweighed any of the other factors, including the additional costs to be incurred.
A few renditions of ‘we know what your are’ will soon fade away on match days once 115 has gone awayWhen we get the all clear from the Kangaroo tribunal we may be not guilty by the people who matter but even if that's written in the next Kings speech it'll still be the stick other fans and the media beat us with.
Unless the club show some balls and start throwing a few twats in front of the courts and suing them for all they are worth.
I don’t think they will sue, it’s not their style. Shame.When we get the all clear from the Kangaroo tribunal we may be not guilty by the people who matter but even if that's written in the next Kings speech it'll still be the stick other fans and the media beat us with.
Unless the club show some balls and start throwing a few twats in front of the courts and suing them for all they are worth.
I don't disagree, but at the same time there's another legal team who believe there's merit in the PL's case, unless they are ignoring counsel's advice.
Could there be a case that the PL don't see much merit, but want to at least be seen to have taken us to task. If they lose, then so be it, they can claim to have done their utmost and let public opinion still deem we 'wangled it' somehow.
With the APT ruling we won a very significant argument regarding loans, but we didn't win every point. Some of the subjective beliefs about Middle Eastern ownership were not deemed to be valid.
It would be a wonderful outcome if not a single allegation can be substantiated. It would be a perfect outcome if we could disprove each allegation. However, I think it's fairly reasonable to wonder what the other side is coming at us with and if the panel may interpret some things negatively.
The hurried and erroneous manner in which the charges were initially published leads me to believe they were brought forward in haste. The PL must have been under pressure from within and/or without. Hopefully, that's reflected in their case, but I'm still anticipating they'll get something to stick. The old 'throw enough mud' approach. It's worked with the general public and no panel is entirely infallible.
Indeed, Baz.. reading this thread during the past few days, I've been channelling my my 'Inner Grandchild'.. as in 'Are we there yet?'..!After 7985 pages I've decided to take the radical decision to just wait for the formal outcome. Anyhow, I'm off to Leicester now to er, watch football!
would love to see this but don't think it will happen. What I do thik we'll get will be a strongly worded statement that effectively "dares" the media to continue with the cheat line and we'll see a change in tone from them, albeit through gritted teeth.When we get the all clear from the Kangaroo tribunal we may be not guilty by the people who matter but even if that's written in the next Kings speech it'll still be the stick other fans and the media beat us with.
Unless the club show some balls and start throwing a few twats in front of the courts and suing them for all they are worth.