Leaning To One Side

18 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

A little taster from journalist Nick Harris. Man City have threatened him with injunctions and legal action for reporting their misdemeanours. 

Nick Harris@sportingintel

Lots of commentary in  past 36hrs about why PL charges under PSR rules against EFC and NFFC appear to be being expedited, while Man City's 115 charges (from an investigation dating back to 2018) linger, TBD on a now-agreed but not public timetable 1/n

Everton (for a second time) and Forest have been charged for "simple" failures to balance their books around the "acceptable" losses of £105m over a 3-year ruling period. 2/n
 
Whereas Man City's 115 charges effectively amount to accusations they were conducting financial fraud on a grand scale over a long period, and hoodwinking not just the PL but UEFA, and not co-operating. 3/n
 
We know from Football Leaks and other sources that the City hierarchy's view has long been they'd “rather spend £30m on the 50 best lawyers” and sue Uefa “for the next ten years” than accept a punishment. THIS is plutocracy. 4/n
 
They HAVE spent millions on lawyers. The've used every legal avenue possible to stall the process. When I was an MoS reporter in 2021 we used an external QC to gain access to "open justice" and attend court as City tried to stymie the PL's investigation. 5/n
 
If Man City's supposed mountain of irrefutable evidence of their innocence is ready to go, then bring it on and get it sorted. For the benefit of everyone. 6/n
 
They could have cooperated almost SIX years ago when the PL first started investigating them, and they didn't. That's their prerogative. It's not great on the optics but they don't care about optics. 7/n
 
There is also a massive (MASSIVE) political element to this case. Sheikh Mansour is the deputy PM of a significant political ally of the United Kingdom. Imagine if he and his club were shamed by multiple guilty verdicts. Unprecedented and unpalatable. 8/n
 
I'll be submitting further FOIs to try to establish the extent of British government involvement in the PL vs City case, but others so far have been fruitless. The stakes are SO much higher than whether a football club broke some football rules. 9/n
 
Some (some) City fans go to extremes to convince themselves there's no case against City. Despite having been fined 90m euros (later reduced to "only" 30m) for major breaches of financial rules, and dishonesty, and non-cooperation. Before 115 PL charges. 10/n
 
I've reported on City my whole working life. I knew, and know, people inside the club at all levels. I've been Khaldoon's guest in their directors' suite (albeit before I called them out). I have multiple sources who told me what really happened. 11/n
 
Man City's hierarchy realised around 2010 that they needed "accelerated investment' before UEFA's FFP came into force. Their solution was cooking the books. That was evident from their 2014 punishment onwards. It's all been in plain sight. 12/12

Goodnight. X

Thanks KITR, much appreciated…….wow, sounds as though the repercussions from this could be huge if they don’t find a way of wriggling out of it

4 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

That feels like a reasonable punishment. Should they face a punishment that relegates them from the Prem then the EFL don't have to accept them. 

Fine to have that opinion.

However Man City agreed with the rules, voted for them, and then broke them continuously. 

That's deceitful and destroys the integrity and fairness of the game. 

Genuine question KITR (I’m not really ‘clued up’ on these things), what kind of things have they allegedly done?

Such a bargain as well

Thought he should get some well deserved recognition with a thread of his own.  He’s really grown into this side since he’s joined and has been so so good the last few games (in contention for MOM in each imo).

His reading of the game is immaculate, brings the ball out of defence with ease and his distribution is very good.

Well done Rob, keep it up son!

Sister Sledge:

Upside down, boy you turn me

inside out, round and round etc

I’m sure one of our more melodic members could fit in Anis’ name in there somewhere…

6 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I don’t believe there is anyone in the current Academy that is likely to breakthrough in the next 12 months (2 windows) like Alex did for us.  Alex instantly made an impact and was influencing games pretty much from the start of his first team career.

Therefore we will have to buy in players.

Anyone know how the two other highly rated kids we got from Guernsey are doing (was it Acey and Ap Sion), they seem to have fallen off the radar

What an absolutely delightful player, one of my all time favourites. Can’t wait to listen 

Joe Morrell?

8 hours ago, Lew-T said:

Fair? Fair as in the way Bournemouth cheated their way to the PL and are now taking advantage of being a yo-yo club.

Quite frankly  **** what they think is fair, get as much money as possible, and even then ask for more.

 

Sorry, please delete this post (my sausage fingers)

1 hour ago, Bris Red said:

Struggle to see where LJ goes from here to be honest. Can’t ever see him getting a job in the championship again.

Perhaps he could use his extensive list of contacts and get a job in the NHS or the Army 

Norman Hunter

Robbie Turner

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3 hours ago, spudski said:

They were his parting comments ' publicly'...just maybe it was said to him privately as well, if not stronger?

I get the impression he was given enough chances, and it was attitude and application that made it a problem.

I personally think he could be a decent player, but influences away from football distract him. And that those influences are strong enough to distract others around him.

I hope he leaves.

Are you able to furnish us with a couple of hypothetical examples of what these “influences” might be/relate to Spud?

33 minutes ago, Chicken George said:

Oi. Don’t come on here and ruin my thread. 
You’re making yourself look guilty. 
Were you parked on Drake Road last night behind a black Audi and you awoke this morning with your hands smelling of rancid chicken? 
Remember - a positive answer to that question will result in a £6.50 charge for the car wash and a verbal apology. 

In the immortal words of Delia Smith, “LETS BE AVIN YOU”

Has the perpetrator got the giblets to out themself and confess

Back row, third from left….dead ringer for Brian McClair

3 hours ago, leadman said:

Ban him for life?

Why ffs.

Streakers and pitch invaders are a British institution.

1 a game I say

 

Erica Roe

Few gems have been unearthed from the Channel Islands over the years...Graeme le Saux, Matt le Tissier

28 minutes ago, Banjo Island said:

Tisdale would be a great fit for them the blue few would lap up the foolish outfits this guy wears cravats trilby hats peaky blinder caps he looks a total tit they would love it wearing that gear you might just about get away with it if your winning but go on a loosing run and your gona look pretty foolish

The next Malcolm Allison maybe  .....

4 minutes ago, southvillekiddy said:

Lj in a bikini. That's all the team needs to fire

Careful now, we don't want to increase their arousal levels too much

5 hours ago, Riaz said:

He fought for a British title... most of us can only dream of doing so.

Unfortunately he fought a world class talent on the night.

Yep can't argue with that, have seen him "live" a couple of times and he's not impressed me one bit.

Thoroughly out-classed

Him being a gas head aside, what an utterly inept so-called boxer

hahahahahahahaha

1 hour ago, WesM said:

Stefan Payne has done the gas fans here!

 

Love it, that's gonna sting haha

Print that bastard 

8 minutes ago, BobBobSuperBob said:

Meanwhile Dopeys Post Match Peres Conference appeared  ‘difficult’

 

Haha, Bob that has proper cracked me up

27 minutes ago, Masala said:

Chasing cars - Snow Patrol

Informer - Snow