PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[chaddblue]

so it didnt come out before PL kicked off, whats the guarantee it will come out before PL 26-27 kicks off?

Today was the obvious date. Could be this time next year now.. although I’m starting to come round to the idea it’ll never be announced

 

[calumdown]

sub optimal

suboptimal is all one word.

at an absolute push you could possibly get away with hyphenating it.

you should know this.

suboptimal

indeed.

 

[Bill Walker]

Today was the obvious date. Could be this time next year now.. although I’m starting to come round to the idea it’ll never be announced

Is that it then, all over, we can forget it ?

 

[KS55]

There was a point though when they found out the legal team we had put together, when they found out the irrefutable evidence we had, or when they realised we were going for the jugular on APT. I do hope at some point they realised we were not going to lie back and take it.

Oh, I think the PL spotted that straight away.

 

[KS55]

Reckon City can sue Paddy Power after all this? Sick of their pisstaking of us

Suing people over a joke is not a good idea, either PRwise or legally.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

The notion of a written opening being exchanged seems to me, to be totally contrary to the core principles of advocacy. Or at least advocacy as I understand it. In fact if it’s been exchanged in writing then what’s the point in articulating it to the tribunal at all, given they have read it?

Maybe it's like on here. Where you write something and someone takes it completely the wrong way and you have to explain everything. Only they get to do it verbally ;-)

 

[Chris in London]

I accept written advocacy has an important role (eg skeletons) and I’d also agree that a hearing of that complexity deviating from the MO you’ve described is going to be suboptimal, and quite frankly an oral opening will have a nugatory impact on the outcome of proceedings like that in any event.

It was a wider observation specifically in relation to an opening, and by extension, a closing to which I was musing.

I think that format, where everything is reduced to writing without any capacity for oral submissions that aren’t foreshadowed by a written document, is much more exposed to risk of being superseded by AI than one where ex tempore oral submissions are routinely made.

If there is no real human, oral, persuasive input to the outcome of a hearing then eventually the role of a human advocate will ultimately become redundant, surely?

Try not to think about written closing submissions.

It will only upset you.

 

[thegoatsthegoat]

Paddy Power rip the piss out of absolutely all of the big clubs, and do so mercilessly. I think it's hilarious tbh.

For example they have already paid out on Celtic winning the league and robbing the rangers fans in Scotland.

It's what they do.

Don't take anything they say as malicious, city-focused, indicative of the result or anything other than a drive to get clicks, punters and brand awareness. It will be the rags when they lose their first game, arsenal the same etc etc. Stop being so precious ffs

Yeah they are great and don’t favour anyone despite being Irish. I may be less offended as I’ve got a £100 free bet from them now off the back of this stunt haha

 

[Gordyola]

i remember 2012 when he paid out on utd winning prem, about 6 games to go, had his pants down

That was BetFred I have it on good authority that Fred Done got absolutely roasted by Ferguson, was told to never do it again

 

[Beaker]

I was listening to TalkSport in the car yesterday (I know, I know) when Goldstein interviewed someone from Paddy Power and asked him about this. The guy appeared almost embarrassed explaining it, and Goldstein concluded with a "er alright, we'll leave that one with you." You could see he thought it was a load of crap. If TalkSport distances themselves from you over something, you know you're on the wrong track.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Maybe it's like on here. Where you write something and someone takes it completely the wrong way and you have to explain everything. Only they get to do it verbally ;-)

Rag.

;)

 

[dickie davies]

Try not to think about written closing submissions.

It will only upset you.

Spoken like a true small claims solicitor

 

[Bluemoon230989]

They could have been taken aback when they first heard or saw the strength of our defensive arguments during the “arguments articulated in detail in correspondence before the trial”. Obviously not once the consideration of evidence began.

I have it on good authority that our legal team wore masks and hobnailed boots, carried chainsaws, machetes and baseball bats, and made throat-cutting gestures at the opposing KCs,
That would take anyone "aback".

 

[Bluemoon230989]

i remember 2012 when he paid out on utd winning prem, about 6 games to go, had his pants down

Wasn't that Fred Done?

 

[burning blue soul]

Maybe it's like on here. Where you write something and someone takes it completely the wrong way and you have to explain everything. Only they get to do it verbally ;-)

Did you just call me a bastard?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Spoken like a true small claims solicitor

How very dare you. @Chris in London isn't a small claims solicitor. He is very tall ......

 

[schfc6]

Last I saw, the Premier League brought more lawyers and more KCs to the tribunal so that's just not going to fly really.

Similarly when the costs become public, it will be impossible to argue one side had much better lawyers unless there's a massive discrepancy in the legal costs of either side.

Haven’t we learnt throughout this whole saga that the truth can often take a back seat?

 

[schfc6]

That’s easy, their adverts are fucking annoying and their pizza is absolutely vile.

If that’s not enough, I run a garage and one of their delivery drivers car broke down, non of our lads would even get in the car it was that disgusting. Yet this bloke was delivering all round the village.

 

[bluestevei]

Wasn't that Fred Done?

Sorry yes it was Fred the red

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Did you just call me a bastard?

For you, I would use a much stronger word ;-)