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

[airfrance7]

I'm not seeing it!

Incidentally, who are Dubai sponsoring or involved with ownership-wise? Or did he just need a fourth arab state from the region to complete a stupid point?

Dubai sponsor Arsenal via Emirates deal.

 

[chaddblue]

A thought that crossed my mind

If the latest rumours of our exoneration, which have practically gone viral, and resulted in a huge wave of optimism amongst our fans, were merely speculation and not based on solid info.... surely the club would have or will issue a short statement urging caution and confirming they know nothing at all until Monday

If they don’t that says to me the club may already know the outcome and they’re enjoying watching our enemies squirm

 

[Bandofblues]

Only skim read it but the bile and vitriol seems to have disappeared. He makes some interesting observations about the effect of money on the modern game but he ignores the fact that money has in fact always ruled the game, that Champoins League monies skewed football massively for clubs like Utd for two decades. The emergence of City made it a big 6 instead of a top 4. FFP only sought to try and lock the likes of us out and despite their desperate attempts to exclude us via other means it now looks like we are here to stay. I say good luck to the likes of the barcodes and if they can make it a top 7 then it is only a good thing.

 

[jimharri]

169 pages since Cheeseman's tweet yesterday afternoon. Which will be chicken feed compared to Monday!

 

[Danamy]

I am.old school.City and will wait till it's in writing. The one thing I do find odd is not a peep from the press/media. Normally they would be saying something, the press/media knew City were going to be banned before we had even appeal. They were all saying we are banned , never said City are banned subject to appeal, we were banned end of !.

I would have thought the leaks are out and both City and UEFA know the outcome just very odd how the press/media arent leaking anything.

The silence is deafening

 

[lancs blue]

Only skim read it but the bile and vitriol seems to have disappeared. He makes some interesting observations about the effect of money on the modern game but he ignores the fact that money has in fact always ruled the game, that Champoins League monies skewed football massively for clubs like Utd for two decades. The emergence of City made it a big 6 instead of a top 4. FFP only sought to try and lock the likes of us out and despite their desperate attempts to exclude us via other means it now looks like we are here to stay. I say good luck to the likes of the barcodes and if they can make it a top 7 then it is only a good thing.

That article was published in February, plenty of bile and vitriol has passed through his keyboard since then.

 

[meeesh]

A thought that crossed my mind

If the latest rumours of our exoneration, which have practically gone viral, and resulted in a huge wave of optimism amongst our fans, were merely speculation and not based on solid info.... surely the club would have or will issue a short statement urging caution and confirming they know nothing at all until Monday

If they don’t that says to me the club may already know the outcome and they’re enjoying watching our enemies squirm

That is the ideal scenario,I've only been up half hour and the bile I've read about us is both amusing and annoying at the same time,just need Monday to come quick............in fact no,scrap that last bit,it's bloody weekend

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I believe It is quite common with some blues, mainly older ones in thier 40s and older, it is just usual city self deprications, just like rags songs like this is how it feels and city are a massive club were turned around to mock them then so was the use of berts as a thing they used to take the piss.

Things they used to mock us for, curly watts, peter swales, frank sidebottom ete, mamaging to fuck up are nostalgically looked at and rather than being used by them anymore to takethe piss by many who refer to themselves as berts

Some blues use the term, a lot of others probably don't.

Sniff, sniff...

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I’m a blue in my forties and never have I ever referred to myself or any other blue as a Bertie.

it’s a pisstake from the rags. Probably derived from the fact we call them rags and they didn’t have a witty thing to call us, so they came up with Bertie Magoo, he’s a proper blue.

“Bertie Magoo, the bitter blue”

 

[BringBackSwales]

A thought that crossed my mind

If the latest rumours of our exoneration, which have practically gone viral, and resulted in a huge wave of optimism amongst our fans, were merely speculation and not based on solid info.... surely the club would have or will issue a short statement urging caution and confirming they know nothing at all until Monday

If they don’t that says to me the club may already know the outcome and they’re enjoying watching our enemies squirm

Not a chance. The club have been told/asked to make no comment and that’s exactly what we are doing. Ian Cheeseman is not within the club’s control and is in no inner circle, he has just taken an independent punt.