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[DrBlueBob]

That’s two people that have recognised it. I didn’t know so many blues had ever visited.

They're stalking you Sam.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

you seem certain that they can make up a rule to punish us with and accuse me of bollocks,

Right they haven't done anything wrong lets make something up a punish them, are you normal lol

you don't think they've done anything wrong?

 

[Academica]

Something like this has been threatened for a long time & whether or not city were the inside guys to take this down I am unsure.
What it has highlighted again is that these clubs do not see this a game for the fans but only to maximize profits at every opportunity.
The Champions league has not been a competition worthy of its title since its creation.
The fact none champions can win the competition whilst losing numerous games along the way should have been the end of the competition.
But having numerous media outlets who are struggling for income (mainly due to the dross they print) actively promoting the teams they believe will produce the clicks to keep the money rolling has given all these teams the self entitlement they have. As they believe the utter garbage written about them.
The champions league needs a total overhaul and not the one that is currently on the table.
City need to take this opportunity to stand up and say that this is the time for change to promote competition and reward current achievements not past.
Scrap and seedings or coefficients and reward winners of the leagues an automatic place regardless of the country they compete in.
Perform draws for groups from one big bowl whereby it all comes down to the luck of the draw and not allowing the bigger clubs an easier ride out of the groups.
Fans want excitement, fans want to believe that no matter who they support and how much history or income their club has they have just as much of a chance to progress.
Historic achievements should not give you a free pass.
This would be a start, working out salary caps and set transfer budgets should be looked at too all in an effort to get back to what the game is about, tactics coaching and a pure desire to win. If the playing field evened a little there maybe more surprises along the way.
We have been lucky to have been invested in so heavily but I am pretty sure that the majority of us at this point do not want us just to get to the position where we win because we can out spend the rest. We want to continue to win as we have been doing by purchased strategically whilst employing one of the best tacticians,motivators,revolutionists and perfectionist the game has ever seen.
I’d like to think I am not seeing this through blue tinted spectacles but I truely believe we have earned every trophy we have ever won through hard work, determination, skill and professionalism from top to bottom, and not purely on the amount of money we have spent. Yes it has helped, but Mark Hughes, Van Gaal,the not so special one and even Whiskey nose in the early days has shown it’s not all about the money you spend yes it helps but that does not guarantee success.

Agree with all of this except (City need to take this opportunity to stand up). I don't think we are in any position to push for change at the moment. I think along with the greedy 11 our influence is diminished and we should probably keep our heads down for a while and concentrate on winning football matches.

 

[kaz7]

Where are we ? We look stupid after everyone else has apologised, maybe we are not sorry


One bad move after another

 

[Sir peace frog]

you don't think they've done anything wrong?

I don't know, just my way of dealing with the way I felt about the whole thing, I think my opinion that it was a sting maybe is a way to cope with being so utterly let down, I must admit I was in disbelief and if found out then yes punished as hard as possible

 

[momo88]

Has anyone from the club even apologised yet?

Why apology? Did they kill someone? Maybe the club felt there is an opportunity to get more money, after all who's gonna pay de bruyne sterling and co astronomic wages if the club is on deficit? Not to forget Uefa CL rules about deficit

 

[Cobwebcat]

Where are we ? We look stupid after everyone else has apologised, maybe we are not sorry


One bad move after another

Have Chelsea?

I have a theory that we are currently wrongly seen as the saviour of English footy at the moment while the other clubs apologise. Perhaps some PR firm have said “an apology only draws attention to your error while at the moment you and Chelsea are primarily seen as the teams that brought the ESL down....be remembered for that as you can’t get anymore out of this”

Just a mad theory.

 

[Steve68]

Where are we ? We look stupid after everyone else has apologised, maybe we are not sorry


One bad move after another

There’s ‘dog sorry’ and cat sorry. ‘Sorry I got caught’

I suspect we are hearing a lot of the latter sort from various clubs so far.

 

[danielwood5]

Bloody hell even my local tory mp is getting involved lol

European Soccer `Super League`
English football fans have prevailed the self-styled “Big Six” Clubs have withdrawn their support and the `European Football (super) League has crumbled. At least for the time being. Now we have to make sure that it does not rear its ugly head again.
Let us be clear: the proposal to create this European league was not, as the embryonic League`s Chairman, Real Madrid President Florentino Perez, sought to claim, “to save football”. It was about big, foreign, money. It might have been good, in the short financial term, for the handful of participants but it would have been bad for the British and the European game and it would have been particularly bad for the smaller clubs who have always looked forward to emerging as the `giant killers` that have injected so much excitement into the game.
It is not as though the `Big Six` English clubs are even at the top of the charts but by building a protective financial wall around themselves they sought to insulate against a loss of form and potential relegation .That might fit neatly into the game plans of Russian oligarchs and American business investors seeking to guard their assets but could there be anything much more boring than seeing the same cluster of `elite` clubs fielding their over-priced muscle to play each other every week? A Saturday afternoon watching paint dry might be rather more exciting.
It is now clear that the Managers and the players of the clubs lined up to join the `European Football League` were kept in the dark about the secretive discussions taking place as were, so far as we can ascertain, UEFA, FIFA and our own domestic governing bodies. And as were, of course, the people who matter most – the loyal fans who on good days and bad days, come rain or shine and whether on the way up or on the way down, have stood by their clubs at every level and are the bedrock of what the football community and family is supposed to be about. They were taken for granted as Senor Perez and his buddies tried to take them for a ride.
For the great and the good of The FA and UEFA and FIFA, not all of whom have in the past always been squeaky clean, the creation of an `EFL came as a monumental shock because of the potential for the loss of their own power to control the game. And Money. While much sabre-rattling took place not only in Whitehall but in the corridors of footy-power and we were told that “We will talk to them” and “if they do not listen then we will take sanctions against them” the nature of those sanctions was desperately vague. These are private businesses and if they want to play with each other and if the star players believe that their bread is buttered on that side and are willing to literally play the game then how are you going to stop them?
Looking to the future we are up against big bucks and a little lateral thinking is required.
Football matches require grounds and those grounds and the fans visiting them again, when Covid permits, have to be serviced. There is crowd control and traffic control and policing and fire and health and safety requirements that have to be met. And if, suddenly, not only those attending the matches but all of us were to decline to patronise the burger chain or the drinks supplier or anyone else that gives these Behemoths succour then that might begin to send a clear message that while we welcome innovation and investment in sport and that while we are not opposed to reasonable profit we do not like naked greed and that the fans that support all football clubs have to be treated with respect. If they are taken for granted we could go a step further and boycott all of the brands that are advertised around the grounds or on the teams` strip and if we did not buy all of that expensive sportswear merchandise either then we would begin to hit the EFL club owners in the only place where it really hurts them – in the wallet. The threat may have gone away for the moment but it could return and we have to be prepared – and the club`s owners have to know that we are prepared - to all play our part in any future battle for the soul of football.
In the meantime, there are all of the many fan-orientated and honourable teams to get behind and there is also Parliament`s secret weapon, Dame (as she must surely become) Tracey Crouch. She has rightly been asked to continue her inquiry into the future of the game in Britain and if I were the owner of a “Big Six” football club I would not put too much of my carefully squirreled away fortune on the chances of coming out of a skirmish with our Tracey unscathed. We shall all await her findings with very great interest indeed!
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Which MP is it? We've got a brand spanking new tory as our MP but I'm not even sure he's real as he never seems to vote in the commons, speak out or actually do anything!

 

[gaz76]

Has anyone from the club even apologised yet?

What is it you want the club to apologise for? All this "dear fans we are sorry we upset you and wont do it again" bullshit does nobody any good. I would much prefer to hear an explanation of what was actually going on, as it is all we got was a generic statement from the twelve clubs late on sunday saying they were going to start a super league on weekday nights, thats it, thats all they said.