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

[gordondaviesmoustache]

This point was put to a legal eagle a few years ago, & the summary came back as follows:

You & I can form an invitation only Fast & Furious Speedster Club, without limits. The UK road speed limit is 30mph, & as long as none of the club members are caught speeding, or are reported for speeding, we're cool.

However, the moment someone has concrete evidence of law breaking going on at the speed club & reports it, the authorities HAVE to act. Where FFP is concerned, there is already a challenge creaking its way through the EU Court Process.

I honestly believe if we start spending the promised £30m on an army of lawyers to challenge FFP, it'll be dead in the water before too long. City just didn't want it to be us who did the deed. As it stands right now, we have absolutely fuck all to lose, & that is the most dangerous kind of foe you could wish to happen across.

This also reminds me of those mens only clubs which were successfully challenged by gender equality groups. Their clubs had their rules for decades, the law said different when it was challenged..... As UEFA/G14 will soon find out, the law is the law.

You simply cannot say with any certainty that we have nothing to lose. The law of unintended consequences frequently says otherwise.

 

[Dribble]

You simply cannot say with any certainty that we have nothing to lose. The law of unintended consequences frequently says otherwise.

As it stands with a two year European ban coming in May, what else is there for us to lose?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Agree. Not just on this subject but overall the content is poor. Shame really as they signed up some decent writers.

Did they? Or did they just sign up personalities and opinion writers?

There is a very big distinction to be made between them and newsgatherers.

They believed they were buying their twitter followers, people want news stories not flowery prose about stuff that may have happened years ago, anecdotes as such.

 

[Nails]

Did they? Or did they just sign up personalities and opinion writers?

There is a very big distinction to be made between them and newsgatherers.

They believed they were buying their twitter followers, people want news stories not flowery prose about stuff that may have happened years ago, anecdotes as such.

I think most people who signed up were looking for informed analysis and long reads. Not the shitty opinion pieces everyone else does. It’s been a big let down.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

As it stands with a two year European ban coming in May, what else is there for us to lose?

Plenty, potentially.

The dismantling of UEFA and the lack of certainty that could provide is one example. We might benefit from that, we might not.
Did the chairmen of the ‘Big 5’ envisage the rise of clubs like City and Chelsea when they concentrated more and more wealth at the top of the English game?

Move the pieces on the board around sufficiently and unforeseen things can happen. Attacking UEFA is not without risk.

 

[cleavers]

I think that neatly sums it up. Straight from Liverpool uni to the Echo where he's spent 10 years maximising clicks.

The text on my laptop is small, and clicks looks very much like dicks, maybe a good reason for it....

 

[GBrannan]

Plenty, potentially.

The dismantling of UEFA and the lack of certainty that could provide is one example. We might benefit from that, we might not.
Did the chairmen of the ‘Big 5’ envisage the rise of clubs like City and Chelsea when they concentrated more and more wealth at the top of the English game?

Move the pieces on the board around sufficiently and unforeseen things can happen. Attacking UEFA is not without risk.

Which is probably why Soriano is praising the part of UEFA he wants to keep (admin) but chucking the other part under the bus (FFP).

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I think most people who signed up were looking for informed analysis and long reads. Not the shitty opinion pieces everyone else does. It’s been a big let down.

It all has its place, but that is what broadsheets were always supposed to deliver?

The Athletic business model seems a strange one and is built on nothing more than monetising followers that were aligned to personalities on Twitter.

People want to be told something they don't know already.

 

[oakiecokie]

The Athletic and French you say?

Oh well...

Let's just say a couple of old dragons will be out of their jobs very soon :)

And that's all I can say, genuinely.

Well it would be nice if it were Gill & Parry.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I think most people who signed up were looking for informed analysis and long reads. Not the shitty opinion pieces everyone else does. It’s been a big let down.

totally agreed. They totally hoodwinked me into buying this, wont be in future. Trouble is, there is STILL room for more intelligent analysis without the clickhate bollocks and I hope someone fills in the void that The Athletic pretended to do.