We’ll win the majority of charges. Not proven.
We’ll take a hit on a few others. Failure to cooperate.
Will that diminish my memories of our successes at City, not a chance.
Watching us win, lose or draw, after the takeover with my beautiful, thoughtful, caring pal, having a beer, maybe a few too many, before he was taken far too young, but having seen us win the league one last time in 2022, will never be forgotten.
Being at Wembley with my daughter on her 16th Birthday, to see us win the FA Cup, in 2011 won’t ever be erased. The emotion, the tears, the joy, that won’t ever go away.
Seeing Sergio score that goal, with my daughter, son and best mate. Crying, unable to get my breath out of sheer excitement and joy, won’t ever be repeated. Not in my lifetime.
The league cup wins, FA Cup wins, the centurions, the fourmidables, the treble winners.
Seeing Gundo scoring in 12 seconds, surrounded by my daughter, son, son in law and my dearly departed friends son, will live with me until my last breath. Being in Istanbul with my lad is a memory that will go to my grave, and the car park fiasco will be repeated every time I talk about that amazing evening in the Ataturk Stadium.
There are many more I could talk about, so many more.
But, the point is, I’ve seen, lived, loved and experienced the highest of highs watching our boys in blue and nobody will ever be able to take away those memories.
I trust our club and our senior leaders. I hope and pray that justice will prevail. But, and it’s a big but, if the panel decide that it’s been proven that we have breached more of the charges than I was expecting, I will not ever forget the fabulous memories, on the pitch, that our club have given me.
I’ll still be there every other week.
This has never been about financial fair play. This has been about the establishment being shaken to the core when our owners have invested their money and professionalism in an effort to play on an even keel. The media loving red shirts being pushed to one side and so the witch-hunt began.
Regardless, on the pitch, our battles have been won with the best football the premier league has ever seen and likely will ever see.
Hopefully, the hearing will cement what we already know, we are an elite football club run by the most professional executives possible.
Time will tell.
CTID