UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[christened at st marks]

 

[aguero93:20]

You should call him out on Twitter and expose him for his blatant hypocrisy. I'm going to.

He'll just block you, I'm speaking from experience.

 

[blueinsa]

Liew is a Liverpool fan so no surprises he's talking shite and going over the top.

Someone should remind him that when a clubs fans decide to riot resulting in the deaths of 39 fans its stops becoming a sport.

Or when a club decides to hack into another clubs scouting database.........

 

[sir baconface]

This an extract from that pathetic article. What a vile bigot

"
Trawl the City messageboards in the wake of Uefa’s decision to ban the club from the Champions League for two seasons, and it won’t take you long to stumble across the rhetoric of scorched earth: of traitors and revolutionaries, violence and purgation, shady cartels and subhuman scum. "

Jonathan Liew swallowed a thesaurus and spat out big, aggressive-sounding words at random. His article is a rhetorical pile of puke.

 

[BrianW]

I hope the Sheikh has a team scrutinising public statements - including those on Fan sites - for potential libel, and uses our very strict English libel law to his advantage. Could end up closing a few of the bastards down altogether.

 

[hello]

Our owner will not take anything but a win?

We are now all or nothing surely?

1. Being deceitful isn't always 'a worse offence than the offence itself': it's in most jurisdictions (according to sentencing guidelines) far less serious than the original offence itself and results in much fewer prosecutions. Even in the UK, if I turned up at the Guardian's offices and slapped David Conn's bald head but then denied it, the only prosecution I'd face is one for the (common) assault.

2. More importantly, nowhere in the 'UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations' or 'the Procedural rules governing the UEFA Club Financial Control Body' does it say that:

• 'Breach of trust' is an offence
• 'Breach of trust' or a similar offence is more serious than any other offence

Once again, it looks like Conn's arrived at an opinion not just without facts but in the opposition of facts.

He really is a disgrace to journalism.

Was that an offer? do you have a gofundme thingy in the absence of legal aid to deal with the common assault defence ;-)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Can people stop saying polite things about Gary Neville, there will be some self interest in this for him. He is not just trying to unify .
the people of Manchester.

The man is a rat (or should that read, the rat is a rat?).........

 

[Asa's left peg]

I wonder what Conn's end game/ideal scenario looks like? We loose and back down to the 3rd division and everything back to normal? SM pulls out and UAE becomes a bastion of human rights like the UK and USA? Those pesky Arabs go back to living in tents?

I've read he is a city fan. I'm not sure that's the case. He would at least put in some balance to his vitriolic scribblings. There again I'm not a pseudo political journalist.

 

[bellwhaft]

If CAS can't process the case by this summer, are we still banned next season or does it automatically get suspended?

 

[aguero93:20]

If CAS can't process the case by this summer, are we still banned next season or does it automatically get suspended?

Up to CAS. I'd imagine that they'd suspend the ban. If they're taking their time to process the case they're taking it very seriously so a suspension would be necessary.