Metalartin
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David Conn, is that you?I imagine the penalty will be lessened. However, in my view, the chairman and several execs should then resign for the best of the club.
David Conn, is that you?I imagine the penalty will be lessened. However, in my view, the chairman and several execs should then resign for the best of the club.
Good idea admit guiltI imagine the penalty will be lessened. However, in my view, the chairman and several execs should then resign for the best of the club.
What’s Brian Horton doing these days?
A senior football exec? In Manchester? Strange how he'd be privvy to this info... oh wait..
That's because the game is not a level playing field. You don't blame the losing team, you blame the guys who bent the table.I'm not overly impressed by the club. We've had years and years of tough talk from Khaldoon, so far that has got us absolutely nowhere. No standing up to the relentless and sustained attacks and smears from certain parts of the media, for years now.
It's frustrating to read on here as well that most assume the club are without fault 100%. We have on the one hand threads and threads about the fans being alienated, match days only being catered for tourists, not renewing etc etc and yet with something like this there is a blind faith that the club are absolutely spot on.
I don't want us to win on a technicality.So on Valentine's day with UEFA showing how much they love us, I just hope that if CAS throw out the case on a technicality as they have with other cases for other clubs in the past that we don't just settle for that. The damage to our reputation will still be there if that's the case and we should seek reparation for this.
Hardly surprising given that it's City's are under attack.
However this is the one positive to be taken. Some City fans have grown complacent and Sheikh Mansour was managing city at arms length. Both need to engage again.
A scope document should come at the start of the investigation. It sets the parameters, the scope of what the investigation should concern itself with.
The fact that the scope document was only provided after the matter had ben passed to the adjudicatory chamber tells a story:
UEFA investigatory chamber: "have you seen these leaked emails?, fucking hell we might have something here, lets open an investigation"
UEFA teaboy: "you realise those were stolen, are out of context and oh the statute limitations runs out any day now?"
UEFA investigatory chamber: "shit, shit, shit, kick it upstairs now !, oh and don't forget to gob off to your mates in the press, we will have these bastards"
City: "errm, what are you investigating us about exactly?"
UEFA investigatory chamber: ………
City: "errm, what are you investigating us about exactly?"
City: "and would you please respect your own confidentiality rules whilst you decide?"
UEFA adjudicatory chamber (to the investigatory chamber): "you dickheads, where is the investigation report?"
UEFA investigatory chamber: ………
UEFA investigatory chamber: "here have our scope document instead"
City: "errm that's not due process"
UEFA adjudicatory chamber: "never mind that, will you just pay a fine/accept a ban please?"
City: "NO, fuck off !"
City: "and would you PLEASE respect your own confidentiality rules?"
UEFA adjudicatory chamber: "never, how dare you accuse.... "
City: > CAS
CAS: "UEFA you are a bunch of fucking clowns, go away and think about this properly"
UEFA: "Shit, shit shit - what do we do now ?"
UEFA: "errmmm"
UEFA: "errmmm, leak some other shit"
UEFA: "errmmm"
UEFA: "errmmm"
UEFA: "errmmm"
Good article by Martin Samuel https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...acket-payback-clubs-hate-Manchester-City.html
He’s on his own though.Samuel is always welcome at City.
A top professional.
Anybody else thinking - It won't make a difference to my support - Time for Pep to nail his commitment to the club & the fans?
City will surely come out swinging now, and it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out in the CAS. The punishment seems absurdly harsh and I’d be surprised if it was upheld. Even a reduced punishment (e.g. a one year ban) would still be extremely damaging though. A fascinating few months ahead, with a lot on the line for both parties.