EyeInTheSky
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Finally gets something on target. Best shot yet!And on the Daily Mail website, the main news is that Marcus Rashford hit a reporter with a football.
Finally gets something on target. Best shot yet!And on the Daily Mail website, the main news is that Marcus Rashford hit a reporter with a football.
We will be having our stolen titles back for a fecking start. That cnut Barton getting a backhander to get sent off idiotically hand them the title during the QPR match.Talk about tainted titles.
That would be sweet.We will be having our stolen titles back for a fecking start. That cnut Barton getting a backhander to get sent off idiotically hand them the title during the QPR match.
Literally not even being reported by most of the English press.So what sort of punishments could be handed out? Doubtful they would do anything retrospective, but I wonder if there's a chance of a Juventus calciopoli type punishment... Not sure how long it would go back, but would be nice to add on a few titles I guess
If this builds up enough steam I could see a future ban from european competitions for a few years though. It really needs to be more than just a slap on the wrist like most of the fines tend to be.
They should immediately be stripped of all their titles... except 2013-14, they definitely deserved that one.Talk about tainted titles.
There was a debate in parliament when United pulled out of the FA Cup for a year - at the government's behest.I’ve just had a look through the online UK newspapers (I know, I feel dirty now) and there is very little to nothing being reported.
If this was United that was involved, it would be front page news and a 10 page expose!
Oh yes. That one was fair and clean.They should immediately be stripped of all their titles... except 2013-14, they definitely deserved that one.
I'm sure you're right. Although I do wonder if City's good relationship with the press is what's causing certain outlets to hang on for more concrete information.True. There are a couple of similar stock tweets from James Ducker and Rob Draper in the last hour that would cover them should they be untrue. Tomorrow's edition is regarding human rights and City trying to manipulate the press. We may see a reason then but I suggest, like today's info, tomorrow's will pretty much be regurgitated stuff that has been thrown around before
For the purposes of tax evasion/manipulation, or investor/stock market deception, absolutely. Otherwise it would strictly be a football issue.Isn’t false accounting a crime?
Do you agree with the way Man City go about their business in general? Yes or no answer please.Most of what's been released is not new and unless it relates to events after the settlement with UEFA, are irrelevant. There is a reason that UEFA settled - they didn't want this all aired in public because they would have to release plenty of info about their own house that they wouldn't want to plus they couldn't take the risk of losing the legal case over the legitimacy of FFP. So if there's nothing that post-dates the settlement, there's nothing more going to happen and if there is, it will just lead to another settlement. Obviously they are trying to make the releases as sensational as they can but there really is very little that's remotely new - for example, the stuff about image rights was both known and widely available in the public domain.
Well that's why journalists have tried to get the bottom of the truth, as they will feel people have the right to know.Most of what's been released is not new and unless it relates to events after the settlement with UEFA, are irrelevant. There is a reason that UEFA settled - they didn't want this all aired in public because they would have to release plenty of info about their own house that they wouldn't want to plus they couldn't take the risk of losing the legal case over the legitimacy of FFP. So if there's nothing that post-dates the settlement, there's nothing more going to happen and if there is, it will just lead to another settlement. Obviously they are trying to make the releases as sensational as they can but there really is very little that's remotely new - for example, the stuff about image rights was both known and widely available in the public domain.
I don't understand what you mean by 'agree with'. If you mean do I find it acceptable, the answer is yes.Do you agree with the way Man City go about their business in general? Yes or no answer please.
I don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that City have done something criminal ? That they have defrauded someone ? What is it that UEFA have to act upon exactly ?Well that's why journalists have tried to get the bottom of the truth, as they will feel people have the right to know.
What the football world does with the information is up to them. But before they could have suspected what they'd like but with no line of evidence. Now it is different.
UEFA could have swept whatever they'd like under the carpet but now they have to act. That's how things like this work and why people should ask questions in all avenues of life. There is a lot of corruption and lies out there.
I wonder how much Stevie G got for that 'slip' ?We will be having our stolen titles back for a fecking start. That cnut Barton getting a backhander to get sent off idiotically hand them the title during the QPR match.
They are dodgier than I even thought. Players being paid by separate companies to reduce wage bill by £30m over 2 years!Here's part 2 of the 4 articles that will come out from Spiegel about Man City: Read it here -> Project Longbow
This is sport and City have cheated the rules. Other clubs and football supporters have every right to want something to be done about that.I don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that City have done something criminal ? That they have defrauded someone ? What is it that UEFA have to act upon exactly ?
So in that same vein where we actually physically finished 2nd we were not rewarded with the title? Which makes more sense since that is how the season finished and we are barely 10 games into this season to be judging where they will end up.I understand the jokes about not wanting Liverpool to win it and as a United fan I wouldn't want Liverpool to win their own Christmas raffle but there's the football fan inside of me that says I'd rather they win it than City. Liverpool have big support and history and with that the last couple of years they've got good owners (IMO- I'm not getting into that again on this thread re: The Glazers), a good vision and a good manager who's built a squad well. If they come 2nd this year, something tells me that hasn't been and probably never will be properly rewarded because City will be ahead of them. And City will be ahead of them because they've cheated. That is the reality.
I can't get to hung up on what would happen with things like this to be fair. It's the future of football I'm more worried about if things like this are allowed to carry on.So in that same vein where we actually physically finished 2nd we were not rewarded with the title? Which makes more sense since that is how the season finished and we are barely 10 games into this season to be judging where they will end up.
And the season where we lost on goal difference?
Probably a signed special edition copy of Phil Collins greatest hits.I wonder how much Stevie G got for that 'slip' ?
It all makes sense now.
Morality ? Seriously ? Football lost all claim to holding any kind of moral high ground years ago.This is sport and City have cheated the rules. Other clubs and football supporters have every right to want something to be done about that.
The supporters of football (fans, journalists, anyone with an interest) are there to behold football's morality as much as they can. UEFA, FIFA etc claim to but certainly do not. Them sweeping it under the carpet is an indictment of them (not for the first time). Fans have every right to question it.
I 100% agree.Morality ? Seriously ? Football lost all claim to holding any kind of moral high ground years ago.
Did it ever really have any? Even back to the "good old days", where players were paid a loaf of bread a week by their super-rich club owners at the time who were just as corrupt and had ill-gotten gains to one extent or another, while still working in the coal mines during the week.Morality ? Seriously ? Football lost all claim to holding any kind of moral high ground years ago.
Can't wait.There's something tomorrow about them impeding humans rights organisations.
That could be national news issue, not just sport.
Guardiola's yellow ribbon. Shameless weasel he is.
I think the problem is that when you get down to the absolute nuts & bolts of this, is football really supposed to stand up and say to the outside world it's fine to put a club into debt, it's fine to alienate the fans with big annual price rises & kit prices that are close to criminal, it's fine for agents to manipulate players in so many different ways, it's fine for all the kickbacks that go on, it's basically fine to do anything you want except god forbid, try and inject cash into the business.I 100% agree.
But when things get put out in the open, they should be dealt with. I know there will be thousands of dodgy deals going in football that are under the surface.
What would you propose everyone does with this information then? Just forget about it?
Good point. He has not said a word on this.Jamie Jackson right now is adding up if he should write about this or not.
On one hand, it's news.
On the other hand, does he want to start having to pay for his own Ray Bans to wear in future press conferences? After all, Christmas is coming and City do buy the best gifts.
Tough call.
Maybe just ignore it and enjoy the surprise of having another Wayne Rooney story to report on.
Probably not - these things are always relative. Plus we look back with rose tinted glasses.Did it ever really have any? Even back to the "good old days", where players were paid a loaf of bread a week by their super-rich club owners at the time who were just as corrupt and had ill-gotten gains to one extent or another, while still working in the coal mines during the week.
The only difference now is that players are now earning feck loads comparatively speaking.
Every other club that abides by FFP rules?Normally fraud means the sport suffers. Most financial 'crimes' involve fraud and victims - who exactly are the victims here ? Who has been defrauded ? Or, is there no crime ?