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

[sir baconface]

Have the big words gone away now and is it safe to come back out?

This should be a felicitous time to return.

 

[petrusha]

Simon Cliff - not a City employee one of our lawyers. We should sue him.

Wasn't it Simon Pearce a City board member

My employer's now suddenly making me do actual work, the miserable bastards, so no time to go back and see what was said before this.

Cliff's the senior in-house lawyer, and thus an employee, of CFG: https://www.cityfootballgroup.com/our-business/leadership-team/ - he was the one who made the crack, when Dehaene died, about 'one down, six to go'.

Pearce's most infamous statement in all this was: 'We do what we want'.

It's no especially edifying to read and has been seized on by our enemies. They were stupid to commit such stuff to email. Of course, I condemn it.

But given the volume of material that was purportedly available and the sophistication of the software they used to search through it, it's not as bad as it could be. I suspect if almost any club's electronic records were purloined and examined in the same way, you'd find stuff that's just as bad and in a lot of cases there'd be much worse.

I'm assuming here that there isn't more material on us that's being held back and is waiting to be used. I think they'd have released it already if it were available, in an attempt to bury us for good.

 

[BlueTG]

Just a quick, relatively unrelated question.

If Sheik can’t own the company Eithad for them to sponsor us (like claimed), how can the Red Bull teams function?

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Have the big words gone away now and is it safe to come back out?

We of a less pusillanimous disposition were quite enjoying the braggadocio.

 

[KS55]

You and @worsleyweb and his legal team!

Madam chair, I would like the panel to examine this coat.....

 

[Kenward Garg]

we pulled out?

Yep. Don’t quote me on this but something to do with a change in the clause.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

An idiom surely?

Wouldn't it need an "it's a" in front of it to be idiomatic?

 

[bobmcfc]

who is the third accused person and why were fifa so desperate to get the case dropped

 

[Keeper!]

Souness was brave with his 'cabal' trying to stop City considering one of the cabal is lfc.

Souness is not brave, just a very honest and thoughtful man.

 

[manimanc]

Just a quick, relatively unrelated question.

If Sheik can’t own the company Eithad for them to sponsor us (like claimed), how can the Red Bull teams function?

Because they have wings...