so this agenda thing.

[George Hannah]

The only one of our players who should be ashamed tonight is YaYa Toure. I can't wait for the January window so we can get rid.

CSKA Moscow 2-2 Manchester City - PLAYER RATINGS: Yaya Toure is Manuel Pellegrini's star man

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lol

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Should our players be investigated for throwing a match? Because that's what it looked like!

 

[blueinsa]

Should our players be investigated for throwing a match? Because that's what it looked like!

Don't feed it ladies and gents.......

 

[George Hannah]

Should our players be investigated for throwing a match? Because that's what it looked like!

feather brains in perfect harmony

 

[Blue Mooner]

Keep seeing this tonight, well we would have been 'out of sight' if the corrupt c**t had given the penalty in the first half, he fucking didn't and that's why theirs mattered, simple really.

The agenda again in all it's glory tonight. Stonewall penalty for us denied, that would have put the game to bed. Blatant dive rewarded with a penalty with 4 minutes to go to deny us the three points. Just how many more times allied to the draw before some fans wake up and smell the coffee?

In fact had Silva got the penalty against Bayern and the cone tonight to put us three clear we would have been sitting on 8 points. Absolutely disgraceful.

It's hard enough beating the best in Europe with 11 players v 11 players but when you're also fighting against the referee, well, it's no wonder we are where we are.

If any person in the world; be it any referee, referee's wife or friend, referee's dumped ex-wife, ex-referee, Fifa official, Friend of Fifa official, enemy of Fifa official, UEFA secretary, sacked UEFA employee, player, ex player; you, George Hannah...anyone....gave any newspaper or film maker in the world a single piece of meaningful evidence that referees were asked to give decisions against Manchester City, they (or you) would be millionaires overnight. And household names.

And even you can probably conclude that money and fame will make some people do pretty much anything.

You've obviously never heard of non-disclosure agreements in contracts, but that aside, the one thing that happens in this thread is we go round and round in circles and I've explained many, many times how this 'effect' manifests itself. It's simply about being savvy enough to understand the goals and strategic objectives of an organisation and then understanding what you need to do to get on in that organisation. We know what that is, the media knows what that is and guess what, so do referees - or at least the ones that get on in the organisation do.

There is no silver bullet, no damning piece of evidence, in the same way there has been no silver bullet with regards to many scandals. I can't believe that 1,400 girls were allowed to be abused in Rotherham and no one called it out, but it happened.

Then again you would have probably been the person ridiculing someone who was trying to call jimmy Savile out as a peado because you liked him so much on jim'll fix it.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Then again you would have probably been the person ridiculing someone who was trying to call jimmy Savile out as a peado because you liked him so much on jim'll fix it.

Not me. I wrote to the **** in 1978, asking to meet the City team, to no avail. Not so much as an acknowledgment.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

I'm not really one for this "Agenda" lark but the CL games this year are even causing me to consider digging out the tin foil hat

 

[Blue Mooner]

Then again you would have probably been the person ridiculing someone who was trying to call jimmy Savile out as a peado because you liked him so much on jim'll fix it.

Not me. I wrote to the c**t in 1978, asking to meet the City team, to no avail. Not so much as an acknowledgment.

Ha ha, that has lightened the mood on this thread, nice one Gordon.

 

[George Hannah]

It's warming up nicely on this thread, just as I anticipated.

unlike our players apparently
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[jrb]

UEFA will face questions over its enforcement of ground closures after a number of CSKA Moscow supporters appeared to gain entry to their side’s UEFA Champions League clash with Manchester City at the Khimki Arena.
The Group E match, which ended in a 2-2 draw, was officially played behind closed doors after the European governing body punished the Russian club for repeated racist offences by their fans. Three sides of the ground were closed but 650 people were allowed entry.
As the game kicked off and CSKA chants broke out, it soon became apparent that a significant number of those admitted were fans. They chanted or cheered throughout the game, raising questions over UEFA’s supposed ban on supporters.
Nobody from UEFA was available to comment but it is understood the governing body has little control over who the 300 tickets set aside for sponsors are distributed to. Of the rest of the tickets, each club receives 75 for their own delegates, 50 go to the children involved in the pre-match ceremony and their parents and there are 150 media.
City have not commented but are understood to have made a representation to UEFA, although the governing body is already aware of the issue.
CSKA media director Sergey Aksenov insisted the club had nothing to do with the fans who entered. He said:
“Those people you are talking about are 360 people from the UEFA Champions Club – partners, sponsors. If they are CSKA fans, they are good for us. Everyone is invited by UEFA, not CSKA.”
In a strange post-match press conference, CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky was also asked about the situation – but the question drew laughter from Russian journalists. “I don’t know,” he said, to applause.
City’s visit to the Khimki Arena in the same competition last year was also overshadowed by controversy as midfielder Yaya Toure was racially abused by CSKA fans. That was the first of three offences in the space of a year which culminated in the current three-match stadium closure.
In this latest clash, CSKA claimed a draw after being awarded a controversial penalty four minutes from time.
It was suggested to City boss Manuel Pellegrini that the presence of supporters may have encouraged the hosts or even influenced the referee’s decision. Pellegrini said: “Well I agree but maybe it is not my duty to talk about things that do not correspond to my duty.
“I think UEFA has its rules. This stadium was closed doors to everyone.
“I don’t know who has permission to give entrance to all those peoples, but really it is not my duty. I don’t want to talk about the referee or other things. I don’t want to be punished again.”

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