I'd hazard a guess it's like when a rich kid gets set up for life.
They'll never really appreciate the hard work that makes the fruits of your labour taste so sweet.
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with 130 FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th Sep 2024 | Concluded 9th Dec 2024 - Awaiting outcome
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They'll never really appreciate the hard work that makes the fruits of your labour taste so sweet.
Well, they've ruined another Fa cup.
'greatest domestic trophy in the world'
. Yeah right
'greatest domestic trophy in the world'
. Yeah right
They might as well just get a bye straight to the final every fecking year.
Still tremendous viewing all these years on
One of their own that did it as well
Sounds more like a scripted drama to single out one fan as the reason. Surely the staff and management didn't rely on one numptie in the crowd, they had to have had persons with a bit more insight and sense, possibly relaying incorrect information or a very late goal elsewhere changed things with that info relayed around too late.
Don't spoil it.
True. Feck that club.
Still tremendous viewing all these years on
One of their own that did it as well
This was the same day United clinched the title with a 3-0 away win at Middlesbrough. I watched the United game in a pub in Didsbury. They were showing the city game too, and at kick off there were loads of city fans and loads of United fans in.
By half time city were losing 2-0 and United were leading and all the city fans just left
One of the best days as a United fan. As if winning the title wasn't glorious enough.
Still tremendous viewing all these years on
One of their own that did it as well
A comment from that thread:
'Remember it well.The days when others laughed at us.Now they are Jealous with bitter Bile... .Up the City'
They are such entitled pricks.
We still laugh at you, because you won the treble and are still irrelevant to real football fans.
So have they gotten away with the 115 then?
This was the same day United clinched the title with a 3-0 away win at Middlesbrough. I watched the United game in a pub in Didsbury. They were showing the city game too, and at kick off there were loads of city fans and loads of United fans in.
By half time city were losing 2-0 and United were leading and all the city fans just left
One of the best days as a United fan. As if winning the title wasn't glorious enough.
1968 was still the biggest troll. The finallly won the league after 50 years, and we win the European Cup and take all the attention.
I'm sure you'll be laughing when city win the title next season and we're relegated
"Real" football fans
Just heard yesterday’s athletic football podcast, which is usually quite good, where they talked about City’s summer transfer window and how they’re likely to spend big.
Managed to not mention the charges or potential punishment once.
I was kind of impressed.
Managed to not mention the charges or potential punishment once.
I was kind of impressed.
They're all complicit with the death of the PL as a sporting competition and its rise as a enormous marketing vehicle. It takes integrity to constantly put any City conversation in context, but almost every football journalist in England has none. They just need pay cheques to keep coming - that's it.
Then they’ll make money when it dies by complaining about and then eagerly broadcasting what ever comes after.
I don't think it will ever die though - it could roll on and on bringing money until its at the point of some hideous wrestlemania style event. Players wont care, they ultimately want money too. The way that the main outlets such as Sky and Athletic have covered city for a decade, isn't at all surprising, but it is still unbelievably depressing. They could have spoken out and shone a real spotlight on it years ago and all of this would be settled, but they simply didn't. Didn't want to put in the work, didn't want their gravy train and their lovely VIP treatment from the sheikh to stop. Didn't want to say a word against Guardiola who they fawned over like schoolgirls. It took a German paper to do some proper investigative work into their blatant cheating and even then, the British media couldn't be stirred to mount any semblance of demanding clarity and highlighting how the league was essentially becoming a farce.
At this point it's clear nothing is going to happen.
It would undermine the league if they were to be punished, but the FA let City finish the league to push punishment to a later date.
They are trying to bury it with time.
Agreed.
It’s still remarkable how an otherwise well respected football podcast can dedicate an entire episode to City’s future transfers and just ignore the massive elephant in the room.
Nothing substantial at least.
I still think this is the most likely scenario:
Speaking of Middlesbrough, they beat City 8-1 on the day we clinched the 2008 title.This was the same day United clinched the title with a 3-0 away win at Middlesbrough. I watched the United game in a pub in Didsbury. They were showing the city game too, and at kick off there were loads of city fans and loads of United fans in.
By half time city were losing 2-0 and United were leading and all the city fans just left
One of the best days as a United fan. As if winning the title wasn't glorious enough.
The good old days.
Year 2419
Awaiting outcome.
Awaiting outcome.
100%
I listened to most of it wondering if it'd ever come up, but it was clear they had no intention. It's sad how tight a leash City have on Podcasts even.
The Independant Panel thats deciding what happens if anything has nothing what-so-ever to do with the FA or the Premier League
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It just shows that all Citahs purchased success is now absolutely tainted and always has been.
They will never be viewed in the same light as the proper clubs who earned their success with earned growth plus highs lows along the way.
I’ve said it before but their treble season was nothing like ours despite the same trophies being won.
Plastic clubs will always be plastic clubs.
They will never be viewed in the same light as the proper clubs who earned their success with earned growth plus highs lows along the way.
I’ve said it before but their treble season was nothing like ours despite the same trophies being won.
Plastic clubs will always be plastic clubs.
It's either that City have paid them all off, or they're too scared to say anything because they don't want to get sued. Or both.
And then began city's Leicester-like emergence to unsettle the red cartel. To this day, nobody knows how they did it and it remains one of sport's great stories.
this is what is especially aggravating though - you can't get sued for adding a caveat such as 'pending the outcome of their case' or even speculating what punishment might be or what it might mean. To not even have that is mental, in fact its actually more weird to not mention it at all. They have either been paid, or have absolutely no integrity whatsoever. I don't see a middle ground.
So state sponsored cheating is real football to you?"Real" football fans
Didn't even tag me in so i could respond.
You are allowed to be a Citeh fan on here you know.
Still tremendous viewing all these years on
One of their own that did it as well
Please tell me that was somewhere on here relaying bad info
The PSG fans going wild last night looked real enough to me.
There used to be two Manchester clubs until Middlesbrough eight one.
Its obvious they have been briefed that the case is done and they are in the clear...
City would have paid the PL off... more money for PL directors is better than year of court case.
It was a month or so back when an article came out saying Sky sports pundits have been told to watch what they say when it comes to City's case... which is clear most outlets have been briefed to the result.
Now, by having outlets speak about City's spending in the summer without mentioning cheating, it will normalise it and hope that slowly people forget about it.
This is where the other PL clubs need to step up, especially ones who have been hit with point deductions already.
It’s literally an ongoing legal case. It’s that simple. Until there is a resolution nobody is going to be throwing around casual accusations against a company that have proven themselves to be aggressively litigious.
No its not. The legal case is complete with a verdict outstanding... the case was complete in December 2024.
Has the verdict been announced?
If you read what I said... verdict outstanding you will answer your own question.
It was a rhetorical question.
If the verdict has not been announced, the case is as good as “ongoing” for journalists as nobody knows the result.
How can they comment on the case if the result is still unknown, people want them to be critical of City but if City come out of this with a win then that journalist and their publisher are going to be taken for everything they own.
Until the verdict is public, nobody is going to risk putting their neck on the line and saying something that upsets City.
Only for City.. does saying "possibility of charges" is called commenting on the case.