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

[slbsn]

They may even have offered a suspended sentence but I don’t think we saw any reason to admit guilt or perhaps more importantly we probably didn’t trust the G14 not to stitch us up again. We took one ‘pinch’ and look where that got us?

They could easily have been more precise on a further settlement and it would have/could have been endorsed by CAS. It would have been final (this time). As for "guilt" - it is customary for commercial settlements to say that neither party accepts liability or "guilt". Whatever happens at CAS, City can't close down any further future "attacks" from the competition.

 

[slbsn]

If you don’t think City would be particularly likely to pursue the matter on through the Swiss Courts, am I right in thinking your confidence has its roots then in UEFA simply mitigating against the possibility of losing at CAS (ie they’d rather have settled for a 12 month ban rather than risk us getting no ban at all)?

There is a lot at stake. Losing is a 2 year ban AND lots of other issues. Settling in a managed way at 1 year for a ban in a Covid CL feels a commercial decision UNLESS we are super confident of our appeal being fully upheld.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Which one is me Al?

Dr Dre. He’s the obvious choice as he’s the only medically trained one.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Dr Dre. He’s the obvious choice as he’s the only medically trained one.

Thought as much. Best to check though. :-)

 

[KS55]

Jeez were you from my street, that's my whole childhood. Haven't heard anyone refer to rallivo since den, let alone spell it.

Sis-par-brick too. Its all rock paper scissors nowadays

In the 50s, we played rallivo, the pop man delvered in stoneware jars, the rag and boneman came round on his horse drawn cart shouting "eh, raggedy bo..........one", and it was "sis, pak, brick" or "one tate, two tate, three tate more" and my gran called it a barm.

 

[Blue_eyes]

In the 50s, we played rallivo, the pop man delvered in stoneware jars, the rag and boneman came round on his horse drawn cart shouting "eh, raggedy bo..........one", and it was "sis, pak, brick" or "one tate, two tate, three tate more" and my gran called it a barm.

Fsake!!! you lot are beggining to sound like Manchesters equivalent of the four Yorkshiremen.

 

[johnmcfcagain]

Fsake!!! you lot are beggining to sound like Manchesters equivalent of the four Yorkshiremen.

And a newspaper lasted three days. Day one we read it. Day two we spread it on the table like a tablecloth, and day three we cut it up into squares and put it on a nail in the outside lavvie.

 

[Akpowell]

fucking sis-PAR-brick, wtf is par, its pack, sis, pack brick

Is it fuck, it's
sis, pat, brick.

 

[asahartford1]

In the 50s, we played rallivo, the pop man delvered in stoneware jars, the rag and boneman came round on his horse drawn cart shouting "eh, raggedy bo..........one", and it was "sis, pak, brick" or "one tate, two tate, three tate more" and my gran called it a barm.

Rallivo, is that the same as Kingy, remember a corky catching me in the back, still hurts today.

 

[patrickblue]

They may even have offered a suspended sentence but I don’t think we saw any reason to admit guilt or perhaps more importantly we probably didn’t trust the G14 not to stitch us up again. We took one ‘pinch’ and look where that got us?

I'm pretty sure that's what's happened.
It's become a case of proving our innocence, which TBH, I wish they had done in the first place, instead of coming to an arrangement.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Is it fuck, it's
sis, pat, brick.

Pap.

As in (pap)er.

 

[johnmcfcagain]

Rallivo, is that the same as Kingy, remember a corky catching me in the back, still hurts today.

Better than a corky hitting you in the bollocks. That's when you need to put a jubbly on em to stop the swelling.

 

[petrusha]

There is a lot at stake. Losing is a 2 year ban AND lots of other issues. Settling in a managed way at 1 year for a ban in a Covid CL feels a commercial decision UNLESS we are super confident of our appeal being fully upheld.

It does seem strange to me on the face of it given that the advice in such cases is never that you're certain to win, no matter how strong the position may seem. And the effect of Covid would seem to make a one-year ban less unpalatable now than when the AC handed down its decision nearly four months ago.

You don't think the lack of a settlement is more likely to be down to UEFA? In other words, being under pressure from influential stakeholders to come down hard on City, they prefer the CAS to be responsible for a more lenient outcome, even to the extent of a one-year ban, which allows them not to be accused of 'caving in'.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

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.

Know it well. The posh bit ;)

 

[KS55]

Rallivo, is that the same as Kingy, remember a corky catching me in the back, still hurts today.

Christ, that reminds me, we played Kingy on Princess Parkway, no no the grass bit, still remember a wayward throw bouncing on the bonnet of a passing car.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Thought as much. Best to check though. :-)

It’s not possible to forget about Dre.

 

[asahartford1]

Better than a corky hitting you in the bollocks. That's when you need to put a jubbly on em to stop the swelling.

I was about 7, they hadn't dropped-)

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

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

I must only ever hear it being used by those who are so desperate to attribute it to United - usually Bavarians.

We have done such a good job on and off the pitch when it comes to people knowing City as a global brand.

 

[johnmcfcagain]

I was about 7, they hadn't dropped-)

I was about 13 and they went back up.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Surely not?

So if your mate in M14 said "Did you watch Match of the Day" you'd reply with "I watched the Man City game then turned it over"?

I've literally never heard anyone from inside the M60 say "Man City" in that context, always just "I watched the City game".

Of course it would be City in that context. I was responding to the post in terms of anyone who asked me who I supported?

I very rarely hear anyone from Manchester use the prefix for us.

Unless they are the type of person who brings their own toilet roll to a game.