PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

slbsn said:
Nobody (KCs on both sides included) knows (or rather as of the time when I got this information, knew) when the decision will be/would be made. There was an initial expectation (it doesn't seem that was based on anything other than general experience ie not from the IC itself) around March/April but that came and went. This information was from multiple sources earlier in the Summer so it is possible more guidance has now been given but I am minded to think it remains a black box. As you'd imagine, various very senior parties (lawyers and principals) have been on holiday and will be on holiday - they are not simply cancelling everything pending a decision. Obviously, as ever, believe what you like.
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From your professional experience and given the general idea that decisions within the realm of sport or even public interest in general seem to be expedited, are we still within a reasonable time frame or is it close to a "what's taking so long?"
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
I do love the idea that opposing fans will be convinced we’ve ’paid them off’ should we be largely exonerated. One of those fans even told me we’d likely get found guilty on a couple of minor issues so it ‘wouldn’t look obvious we’d paid someone off’.
And yet, we couldn’t pay them off to make it go away either before it even started or much much sooner than now!!!
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'Paying them off' is such a weak argument! It means PL are corrupt and are willing to be bribed. Now, it goes both way though. I mean we can argue that the rival clubs paid the PL off to bring the charges in the first place. And we could have bribed them before they brought the charges to eliminate all the hassle, media scrutiny and massive legal fees.

Go and figure which "paying them off" makes sense.
 
pudge said:
From your professional experience and given the general idea that decisions within the realm of sport or even public interest in general seem to be expedited, are we still within a reasonable time frame or is it close to a "what's taking so long?"
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Somebody needs to go round and prod them with a stick, just to make sure they’re still alive.
 
I was watching the sports news before, and particularly the mayhem at Morecambe and Sheffield Wed, and it brings home just how damaging to the game the conspiracy between the cartel and the PL (and in my view the entire media) has been. Decent clubs that mean a lot in their communities have been destroyed by shisters, who decent regulation would have kept out of football. But all the focus has been on the best run and most financially stable club in the world, because the cartel just couldn’t compete. It is utterly disgusting.
 
cheekybids said:
& the board, they were all in on it except Matthew Ryder KC who was brought in after.
Alison Brittain, Richard Masters, May Fyfield, Dharmush Mistry must have known but not a fucking chance did they run it past a KC, to compound the charges & get the press release wrong.

So is it possible the board didn’t have the relevant knowledge or experience & got it horrendously wrong?
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It’s more than possible. The PL has a track record of making blunders, especially legal ones.
 
Whether or not said:
I was watching the sports news before, and particularly the mayhem at Morecambe and Sheffield Wed, and it brings home just how damaging to the game the conspiracy between the cartel and the PL (and in my view the entire media) has been. Decent clubs that mean a lot in their communities have been destroyed by shisters, who decent regulation would have kept out of football. But all the focus has been on the best run and most financially stable club in the world, because the cartel just couldn’t compete. It is utterly disgusting.
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Rick Parry has been too busy sticking the knife into City to do his job at the EFL properly.
 
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