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

[M18CTID]

Yeah, being first may just mean that he's quite good at his job.

Just remembered that he did make a dick of himself when leaking the story months ago - something about criticising City for not being contactable then backtracking and saying they referred him to a previous club statement, or something along those lines, but apart from that he's not made the same accusations against our club that the rest of the **** Avengers have!

 

[petrusha]

That's @mjshrimper? I'd guess Southend - his facebook page has a picture of their ground.

Was quite senior at the Press Association, and I've seen his stuff in various places.

Yes, he joined The Athletic from PA and was at the BBC before that. Evidently a Southend fan. I have to say, I haven't really noticed - for good or for bad - his coverage of us before.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Just remembered that he did make a dick of himself when leaking the story months ago - something about criticising City for not being contactable then backtracking and saying they referred him to a previous club statement, or something along those lines, but apart from that he's not made the same accusations against our club that the rest of the **** Avengers have!

Everyone makes mistakes, but if they correct them, then one shouldn't be held against them. I don't recall him going OTT either.

He can only report what he finds out/is told, and if it's clear that the words are from the source, not his, then he's just being a journalist. A bit like Sam Lee's comments yesterday, and Ziegler several times.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Yes, he joined The Athletic from PA and was at the BBC before that. Evidently a Southend fan. I have to say, I haven't really noticed - for good or for bad - his coverage of us before.

He writes about lots of sports - been in the i semi-regularly, often about cycling/drugs from memory, but mostly as commentary/analysis rather than coal-face news reporting.

I don't recall much about City from him either.

 

[dickie davies]

Makes you wonder doesn't it? To be fair, on this occasion Sam Lee seems to have broken the story first but put a much longer timeline on when an announcement would be made

I know Tariq Panja has come in for a lot of stick from our fans but all I've really seen from him is him breaking stories that have been leaked to him which is what any journalist would do. Unless I'm mistaken, I've not seen him go down the route of Castles/McKenna/Delaney/Harris x 2/Syed, etc, and announce to the world that the club is guilty

 

[petrusha]

See this Twitter thread from a few hours ago by the estimable @City_rabin before making a judgement about Tariq Panja - who, IIRC, once worked for the MEN and has close ties to David Gill (think @tolmie's hairdoo has posted on this before.

Anyway, the start of Rabin's thread:

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I don't see a problem with that headline, assuming it's Panja's own.

It's entirely possible that investigators DID want to boot City. It isn't necessarily his opinion being put forward. If he's said that he thinks it should be done, it would come down to how it was worded.

 

[M18CTID]

He was reporting UEFA's stance at the time mate, not his own opinion. Big difference. Of course, he himself might want us banned too but he's steered clear of airing his own opinion in the public domain unlike some of the other fuckwits.

 

[M18CTID]

See this Twitter thread from a few hours ago by the estimable @City_rabin before making a judgement about Tariq Panja - who, IIRC, once worked for the MEN and has close ties to David Gill (think @tolmie's hairdoo has posted on this before.

Anyway, the start of Rabin's thread:

I take back all I've just said - TPIAC!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

See this Twitter thread from a few hours ago by the estimable @City_rabin before making a judgement about Tariq Panja - who, IIRC, once worked for the MEN and has close ties to David Gill (think @tolmie's hairdoo has posted on this before.

Anyway, the start of Rabin's thread:

Blimey, some of those just seem like re-tweet anything and everything (retweeting Ogden is a clear sign of a diseased mind).

I take some of my comments on him back!