PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Damocles said:
For some of Sheikh Khalifa's early life, he was a tribal nomad. This means that he walked around the Arabian desert stopping at the same hunting and water spots that his tribe had stopped at for thousands of years. Small towns btw, not tents, but their travel was seasonal and often hunting based before Sheikh Zayed reformed the country.

Imagine that conversation.

"Right, I've got a plan to catapult us into the stratosphere your Highness. It involves some cash, Clayton Ailines, and Richard Dunne"

"Richard....Dunne?"
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Haha... I was at Bootham Crescent, so i can relate. Have you read the file on HHSM mother?
 
supercity88 said:
Unnecessary is the key word. You are talking about people with extreme wealth. Why would they risk it all by carrying out fraudulent activity at a football club which is small beer compared to other projects?

There are very few high profile cases of fraud and those that have occured are due to a lack of liquid assets and processes to create an impression of wealth that didn't exist. Our owners have buckets of cash, there's no need to pretend it exists or funnel it fraudulently.
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Money talks, wealth whispers.
 
KS55 said:
You have twice now demonstrated great knowledge and understanding of UAE. Superb stuff. I’m sure the Times would use it if you asked them, it will be great background when we are cleared. Martin Samuel could be useful.
Well done, brilliant. How do you know all this?
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He is no stranger to the wilder shores of the internet.
 
Shirley said:
I was a regular at Maine Road in the 60’s and I can honestly say I never met one of these fans who went to Maine Road one week and the swamp the next.
Perhaps it’s a myth.
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I did. We couldn’t afford to travel to the aways so did the next best thing. I watched Duncan Edwards who would have been one of the greatest footballers ever.
It was after Munich and stories I heard about Trafford Utd that I came down hard for City.
 
KS55 said:
You have twice now demonstrated great knowledge and understanding of UAE. Superb stuff. I’m sure the Times would use it if you asked them, it will be great background when we are cleared. Martin Samuel could be useful.
Well done, brilliant. How do you know all this?
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Books, academic papers, some humint and leaks. I can assure you that the press would never ask me about this because I very vaguely know what I'm talking about. Stress on the very vaguely. The UK press don't care and don't want to care about the UAE. Rich Islam terrorists Arabs who spend money on pointless shit is their view and they'll always continue this
 
Eccles Blue said:
I did. We couldn’t afford to travel to the aways so did the next best thing. I watched Duncan Edwards who would have been one of the greatest footballers ever.
It was after Munich and stories I heard about Trafford Utd that I came down hard for City.
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Me too, my older brothers took me to home games at both in the 50s but I stopped going to the swamp except to watch City or internationals in 1958.
 
KS55 said:
I’m not sure what VP really means, they never explained. It wasn’t a post the last time I looked at their constitution, whereas DPM, of which there are currently four is an official title given to senior members of the cabinet, which is also not what you might think it is at first glance.
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i remember what a vpl was though,
in the days before thongs took over.
 
malg said:
Me and a couple of mates who worked in Asda Longsight back in the early 80s used to go to either Maine Road or the Toilet back in the day. Basically just a Saturday out with a couple of lads and a few beers. Took the football in every now and then and whoever was at home was the match we picked - didn't even bother with who the opposition was. Didn't do it every week, probably 5 or 6 times a season. Even went to Sunderland away with the Rags one season just because it was a bit of a laugh and a day out.......nearly didn't end well that one though.
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i had the misfortune to live in longsight for a few months in '86.

asda used to have stacks of free monthly promotional magazines for their products,
in the back pages of which were cut-out coupons/vouchers.

on the date of the magazine's release,
we used to fill a trolley with them,
take them home round the corner,
cut out all the coupons and return with pockets full of them.

the till staff were ace, they didn't give a shit.
no matter what you bought they would take any coupon regardless.
so you could stock up on, say, expensive continental cheeses
or luxury bathroom products, whatever, anything,
and hand them loads of 20p-off coupons for completely different items.
barely spent a penny in there, happy days.

until we got greedy and overdid at easter.
cleared them out of top-brand choccy eggs with piles of vouchers for other things.
i think the manager got sacked,
we got banned and it all ended.
heigh-ho.
moved to hulme.
fun while it lasted.
 
Mifred said:
Sorry I think you posted on the thong thread
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Spurs quarter 69 said:
My dad would watch both teams at Maine Rd in the late 40s. He would go to Maine Rd one week OT the next in the 50s prior to his military service. It was common among his generation with away travel difficult and Saturday morning working. By the 60s he would only go to OT for the cricket and by the 80s hated them with a passion. There are places this still happens Forest fans will go on Notts County saving their animosity for Derby. Some of Blackpool mates happy to go on Fleetwood with me though less so in the last few years. Would feel much less animosity towards the rags if their fan base was solidly Mancunian
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Where was dad from. Mine came to Manchester from dundee in his late 20s
 
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