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

What do you think will be the outcome of the CAS hearing?

  • Two-year ban upheld

    Votes: 197 13.1%

  • Ban reduced to one year

    Votes: 422 28.2%

  • Ban overturned and City exonerated

    Votes: 815 54.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 65 4.3%
  • Total voters
    1,499
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The perfect fumble said:
While not wanting to defend the Guardian, it's not just in their comments section that the anti City trolls ply their trade, almost every City article with a comments section is infested with them, no matter how anodyne the article.
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The Fail have even stopped City fans biting back by banning posts, every City article is now infested with rags and victims, and where usually you'd have City fans replying there's nothing now. Very strange.
 
The perfect fumble said:
While not wanting to defend the Guardian, it's not just in their comments section that the anti City trolls ply their trade, almost every City article with a comments section is infested with them, no matter how anodyne the article.
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The Secret Footballer (who wrote in the Guardian) said he was given one rule when he began writing for them, "Don't upset Liverpool fans".

The Guardian for some reason has an overwhelming Liverpool following, which over the last few years has made commenting on any City article virtually pointless. That's not a slight on Liverpool fans, but they dominate so much that you get the same kind of crazy comments you seen on any fan only site (including this one) - where everyone has their tinted specs on, and has ten people to back them up whatever the merits of the point they've just made.

Ironically, I saw the Secret Footballer quote in the comments section, and the person who shared it was piled on by Liverpool fans calling them a liar and worse - this despite the fact that they'd provided a link to the Secret Footballer saying the exact quote.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I think most of the Guardian's digital revenues are leveraged on the back of the shrinking print advertising which they can still sell at premium rates. Without double checking the figures I think the Guardian has actually only made a profit once in the last 20 years. A lot of traffic to its website is from overseas. I know how much you like the Guardian (not) so hopefully you will share my hope that it continues to go down the pan. I actually think it is doomed as much as the tabloids are. The last one standing will be the Daily Mail which will survive by taking readers from its rivals as they slowly vanish.
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The Daily Mail has (I think) the oldest readership - so time may well catch up with them too.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I've fixed your punctuation. I think it now means what you wanted to say. ;-)
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Not playing socialist today, I think it was Harold Wilson, if memory serves, that coined that phrase. The FT doesn't have the luxury of bullshit, there's money on the line, they even started going soft on Corbyn, when they realised Boris was bonkers.
 
I see city have hired David Pannick QC to represent them.

he was the fantastic silk who wiped the floor with govt in the brexit stuff. Gina millers lawyer.

20k a day apparently
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
He also previously represented City against Joe Royle regarding an argument about the construction of Royle’s employment contract in relation to compensation for early termination of that fixed-term contract, essentially in terms of whether City were in the PL or the Championship at the point they sacked him. Just read the Judgment which was quite interesting.

https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff7a660d03e7f57eb0cab

When you read a Judgment like that it reminds one that in terms of mental reasoning, CoA Judges are generally on another planet, as are most of those who regularly appear before them, Pannick very much included. He looks like a class act from where I’m stood.
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Lord Justice Gage was very profound! Great read that. I could have saved them all the hassle though. The minute we were definitively down was when 3 hundred of us were being chased off the pitch against Chelsea. I miss those days (a bit).
 
blueinsa said:
Club has warned them to back off or its legals so they now turn on City fans.

Bless em.
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Interesting probably isn't the right word for it, but what is noticeable is the high handed tone these football scribblers have adopted when referring to City fans.

Beyond what they actually write, which for the most part is clickbait bullshit, they patronise us in a way which tells me a great deal more about them than it does about us.
 
johnnytapia said:
Lord Justice Gage was very profound! Great read that. I could have saved them all the hassle though. The minute we were definitively down was when 3 hundred of us were being chased off the pitch against Chelsea. I miss those days (a bit).
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The ones at the end frequently say something along those lines. Great work if you can get it!

Not sure I miss them, but I'm very glad I had them.
 
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