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

[Alan Oakes Shinpads]

No, they refer to themselves as Manchester City Football Club Ltd.

I don't use that one either.

Someone's relationship with City is very personal - I'd perhaps argue it could also depends on your own social class and geographical location?

I am litter of the runt, central Manchester M14 ilk, and it has always been Man City for me and those who grew up around me.

And it's also a barm ;)

I am from a similar background and when I was growing up in the sixties I used to and still do say Man City.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

And don't get me started on those who just state Manchester, thanks to that French prick ****ana.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I am from a similar background and when I was growing up in the sixties I used to and still do say Man City.

Good man - loads of runts on this forum - long may it always be that City are rooted in white dog shit, that black tar which used to bubble up in the streets when it got hot and back entries for playing rallivo and kick-can!!

*Edits - plus the rag and bone man and that person who used to leave bottles of dandelion and burdock and limeade and lemonade on your doorstep like the milkman.

Used to get 10p a bottle returning them.

Life was so simple then...

 

[JCB001]

Fan.....City,Man City.
Media, Radio, TV, Journalist(s)...Manchester City
END OF :)

 

[domalino]

And don't get me started on those who just state Manchester, thanks to that French prick ****ana.

Imagine how all the Bath, Bristol, Bradford, Birmingham, Coventry, Cardiff, Exeter, Gloucester, Hull, Lincoln, Leicester, Norwich, Oxford, Stoke, Swansea & York fans feel about how foreigners just call us "City" or "The City"

 

[slbsn]

Far too much is made of a Simon Cliff email that attributed the famous Khaldoon quote about 50 lawyers and £30m in 2014. Its just the sort of off the cuff remark someone may say in the heat of the moment. It's not even necessarily a direct quote.

I am extremely doubtful that City will challenge FFP - that ship sailed many years ago. I agree that subject to the current situation, FFP acts as a hinderance to competition to us because we are now at the top table. It would be disproportionate to challenge FFP as a way to avoid CL bans in 2020 and 2021 especially as no case could be completed before the end of 2022 anyway (realistically). As I have also said, I don't believe City challenged FFP itself at CAS this week. Finally, it has to be a strong argument that after 10 years (perhaps longer) of accepting these rules of UEFA, City will be prevented (estopped) from challenge. For that reason, we have one final appeal in the Swiss courts but its a super long shot and will likely fail.

 

[slbsn]

And don't get me started on those who just state Manchester, thanks to that French prick ****ana.

Maybe just me, but nothing better than foreigners (particularly players) using Manchester (meaning us) these days. Confirmation of the club's status.

 

[hihosilva]

just listened again to the Soriano interview which he says the emails were stolen & taken out of context. Uefa asked City to explain the emails,some information was being leaked to the press & at that point City stopped communicating. The club complained to CAS who said the leaks were worrying & they will judge it at the end of the process, which has now been done. Soriano states that all of the payments Sheikh Mansour has made to the club have been declared & audited.
Surely if this is correct then its an open & shut case.

 

[argyle]

No, they refer to themselves as Manchester City Football Club Ltd.

I don't use that one either.

Someone's relationship with City is very personal - I'd perhaps argue it could also depends on your own social class and geographical location?

I am litter of the runt, central Manchester M14 ilk, and it has always been Man City for me and those who grew up around me.

And it's also a barm ;)

Same as my Dad, born and raised on Rosebery Street in Moss Side.

He uses City for the family and Man City for everyone else.

 

[Marvin]

just listened again to the Soriano interview which he says the emails were stolen & taken out of context. Uefa asked City to explain the emails,some information was being leaked to the press & at that point City stopped communicating. The club complained to CAS who said the leaks were worrying & they will judge it at the end of the process, which has now been done. Soriano states that all of the payments Sheikh Mansour has made to the club have been declared & audited.
Surely if this is correct then its an open & shut case.

The UEFA investigation and the media coverage seemed to me more like a witch hunt than a serious investigation of the Der Spiegel allegations. The British football media never once considered it from Manchester City's point of view yet they claim that journalism is there to question authority and privilege. They never did that once. They just capitulated to the agenda of clubs scrambling for a bigger slice of the pie partly because it suits the commercial agenda of their employers.