If I was a betting man I’d put my money on Livarpool. From the outside, it seems to me that the Glazers don’t particularly care about winning: it’s just business. John W. Henry is a sports owner who wants to enrich himself but he also wants to win in the process.
There’s a scene at the end of the film “Moneyball” - I highly recommend it by the way - that can enlighten you to his mindset. What’s more enlightening is the reports coming out of the USA in respect to his baseball franchise; doping, stealing of signs and illegality.
I think that's probably right. The claim seems mainly that we worked round them - the loophole mentioned above - which seems harder to do anything about.
My point was "as long as we haven't lied to them" - that would knock down any defence.
The sign stealing was at a non FSG baseball team, wasn't it?
An exec from that team subsequently went to an FSG team, and has now been sacked as a result of being given a ban from baseball.
Not sure what the other issues are.
well I had it this morning
There’s quite a lot on the internet in regards to their chicanery but here’s a start:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/175226-the-majority-of-boston-red-sox-used-steroids
I love it when you get all truculent on Twitter.
Yep. Some more than others. Alas, these ones are celebrated by the media for whatever sordid reasons.Cheers, I assume every team has had illegality of some kind!
Conspiracy, intrigue, lying, bombast, leaking by deep throat, corrupt courts, fortunes changing hands, petty rivalry, a small player battling powerful forces, fearless journalism (ha!), a whiff of racism; throw in a little light bestiality with goats, "Gunfight at the UEFA Coral" starring the Khaldoon Kid and Rick 'The Prick' Parry is an exhilarating adventure rivalling 'Star Wars' for fantasy and 'The Magnificent Seven' for triumph over the odds. At a cinema near you NOW.
Going back a while, maybe a couple of years, I used to be prepared to cut McGeehan some slack because I thought he came at issues from a different standpoint and might have some legitimate concerns. Obviously, I no longer think this and agree that he's possibly the most obnoxious of the lot for his dissembling occupation of the moral high ground coupled with absences of intellectual integrity such as we saw today.
As for that Scouser thinking that McGeehan knows anything about UEFA. Jesus wept!
I highly doubt City or the auditors lied to them, there's perhaps the case that UEFA didn't ask the right questions at the time and having seen the leaked emails etc 5 years later the alleged goat molester thinks we should have failed by a bigger margin and had a more severe punishment. I'ld be pretty certain that all direct statements and answers from both club and auditors were factual and in line with what the accounts show on record. The goat molester (Alleged) probably thinks nasty cheating arab twats did x & y to hide z in the accounts and only showed z to uefa type scenario, but it would have been uefa's responsibility to ask about x & y.
The charge of misled is bollocks as far I am concerned as uefa had full access to the accounts and auditors at the time and even after filing to permit them to change the annexes used.