Topic: Man City - cheating bastards rumbled

[A Red Abroad]

So in addition with Their owners refusing to co-operate since 2018 how are they allowed to compete in the league when they are refusing to abide by the leagues rules in submitting required financial documents. Surely the PL can and should kick them out right now, until they hand over the docs they should be suspended from the league immediately.

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

But for the last 5 years, they haven't co-operated - and are still part of the PL.

[El Lobo]

Who are they ?

Liverpool, United, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Klopp, Klopps wife, Klopps son,

[rawcusk8]

Hard to keep up with this thread, what’s the latest?

[MJD-L4]

Who are they ?

Us and 7 other clubs that's apparently wrote letters to the footballing authorities about them. Think Pep alluded to it recently in a presser.

[rocco]

Actually as funny it’s Murray Rosen KC  ( Arsenal fan by all accounts)

[Red Raw]

Is this not kind of existential for the PL?

If it is shown categorically that success can be achieved through systemic cheating and disregard for the rules, then the entire brand is devalued. How can you command huge fees for TV rights when it has been acknowledged that the whole thing can and has been fixed?

I don't think it is as simple as dumping them in the Championship either as that would take a place from a League One club that has earned it.

[clinical]

If a sprinter or whoever is found to have taken drugs they are banned and everything they won stripped. Why should it not be the same for Man City?

They financially doped.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Does this mean that we won't get any videos of them singing nursery rhymes and drinking pints of water?

["Bobber" Thanks :)]

Would love the 3 titles to be handed to us, just for us to paint them trophies black or have blood drawn on them dripping down

[PeterTheRed ...]

Going to be interesting how this plays out. The PL between a rock and a hard place. One verdict ruins the league's commerciality as the biggest and the best by putting a huge asterisk over results in recent times, the other will effectively be the final nail in the coffin of the sport. Which will it be? I wonder who the first pundit will be to argue that sports results are won on the field and this is all about business law and accounting procedures. I have a favourite for that contest.

Man City make very little of PL's World wide appeal. LFC and Man Utd getting additional 3 titles each would actually be good for the brand, with the PL looking strong and fair ...

[S]

Is there anything in these leaked documents about Noel Gallagher’s plagiarism?

[duvva 💅]

Does this mean that we won't get any videos of them singing nursery rhymes and drinking pints of water?

Hooray

[Barneylfc∗]

Hard to keep up with this thread, what’s the latest?

Abu Dhabi are cheating c*nts and everyone knows it.

[didi shamone]

It'll be interesting to see if anyone other than Liverpool fans give a shit.
Up until now if I mentioned this investigation or the previous conviction that they got away with to lads in work who support other teams, they aren't in the slightest bit interested. I get looked at like I'm making it up.

[Andypandimonium]

If a sprinter or whoever is found to have taken drugs they are banned and everything they won stripped. Why should it not be the same for Man City?

They financially doped.

Years of legal argument around validity of contracts may impact that. Let's be honest, the PL welcomed them with open arms and love their sports washing antics. If eventually found to be guilty as charged it should be the end of the PL as well as City. Maybe we can go back to a time when footie existed outside the PL era and reinstate all that great history as meaning something.

[Schmidt]

It'll be interesting to see if anyone other than Liverpool fans give a shit.
Up until now if I mentioned this investigation or the previous conviction that they got away with to lads in work who support other teams, they aren't in the slightest bit interested. I get looked at like I'm making it up.

Hard to make banter out of City's corruption when no one can find any City fans to use said banter on.

[duvva 💅]

Would love the 3 titles to be handed to us, just for us to paint them trophies black or have blood drawn on them dripping down

Don’t forget the 2016 League Cup

[Samie]

Don’t forget the 2016 League Cup

And another Community Shield. 

[A Red Abroad]

Hard to make banter out of City's corruption when no one can find any City fans to use said banter on.

 

[duvva 💅]

And another Community Shield. 

Fuck. I was at that one too

[Samie]

Pep could be fucked too... 

https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1622547543556071424

It's dozens and dozens of serious allegations about long-term and widespread book-cooking. The ramifications for all concerned could be massive, including for Pep, who has been assured City never did anything wrong ..

[rocco]

Question

Murray Rosen KC Picks the 3 man panel and also picks the new 3 man appeal panel who’s decision is final

Who ? Decides the punishment based on a guilty verdict from the 3 man panel .

[DonkeyWan]

It'll be interesting to see if anyone other than Liverpool fans give a shit.
Up until now if I mentioned this investigation or the previous conviction that they got away with to lads in work who support other teams, they aren't in the slightest bit interested. I get looked at like I'm making it up.

United fans I suspect, since they were denied 3 titles by City.

[rob1966]

One for the Mancs to chew on after their years of laughing at City robbing us of titles - if Abu Dhabi hadn't have pumped money into City, they could have got Ped as manager instead

[Reds r coming up the hill]

Is there anything in these leaked documents about Noel Gallagher’s plagiarism?

I think he wrote about today many years ago…
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you
And by now, you should've somehow realised what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now

[CowboyKangaroo]

Question

Murray Rosen KC Picks the 3 man panel and also picks the new 3 man appeal panel who’s decision is final

Who ? Decides the punishment based on a guilty verdict from the 3 man panel .

Its a fairly standard arbitration process. If the panel find that City breached the rules they will also be able to choose a punishment from those made available to them (though one of those punishments is a catch-all "whatever the panel sees fit" punishment)

[PIPA23]

Would love the 3 titles to be handed to us, just for us to paint them trophies black or have blood drawn on them dripping down

Not just that..

https://twitter.com/thelouisdangoor/status/1622566729799933953?s=46&t=zIGDzwtRoJemWWFOQdwe-g

[rob1966]

I think he wrote about today many years ago…
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you
And by now, you should've somehow realised what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now

[Nitramdorf]

Melt the fuckers statues down and recast them them as actual legends of the club like Kinkladze and Tommy Hutchinson and that other bloke.

Imagine seeing Silva and all their other pricks hand over their medals. Whilst we are at it, make them hand over 80% of their wages as well.

[rocco]

Its a fairly standard arbitration process. If the panel find that City breached the rules they will also be able to choose a punishment from those made available to them (though one of those punishments is a catch-all "whatever the panel sees fit" punishment)

You sure the panel who said guilty , choose the punishment

[MJD-L4]

Not just that..

https://twitter.com/thelouisdangoor/status/1622566729799933953?s=46&t=zIGDzwtRoJemWWFOQdwe-g

It's fucking sickening how much Jurgen & the lads have missed out on because of these shameless pricks.

[MonsLibpool]

Melt the fuckers statues down and recast them them as actual legends of the club like Kinkladze and Tommy Hutchinson and that other bloke.

Imagine seeing Silva and all their other pricks hand over their medals. Whilst we are at it, make them hand over 80% of their wages as well.

Don't forget Shaun Goater

[Gili Gulu]

The Guardian are hilarious. It's not the headline on the sports page.
If it was Liverpool it would be the headline on the main news page.

No commentary at all, or opinion pieces.

[jillcwhomever]

Is this not kind of existential for the PL?

If it is shown categorically that success can be achieved through systemic cheating and disregard for the rules, then the entire brand is devalued. How can you command huge fees for TV rights when it has been acknowledged that the whole thing can and has been fixed?

I don't think it is as simple as dumping them in the Championship either as that would take a place from a League One club that has earned it.

The charges they are facing stipulate relegation as being one of the penalties they could face.

[spen71]

How’s blue loon taking the news?   Don’t want to violate my eyes by going there

[Lee1-6Liv]

Not just that..

https://twitter.com/thelouisdangoor/status/1622566729799933953?s=46&t=zIGDzwtRoJemWWFOQdwe-g

Also, if we hadn't gone all out in the league, having to win every game, we might have been able to rest players for the CL final.

[Barneylfc∗]

The Guardian are hilarious. It's not the headline on the sports page.

If it was Liverpool it would be the headline on the main news page.

Liverpool are a big club though.

[Son of Spion]

It's been a long day, I've only just seen that Abu Dhabi have been charged with something but I don't know what exactly. Can anyone give a very short nutshell account of what's happened and if there are any likely punishments being mentioned? It would take me a week to catch up with this thread.

Thanks. 😊👍

[Mister Flip Flop]

There's been something very corrupt and disgusting about football these last few years and we all know it. I do find it weird that there has been so little focus on what City have been up to in the media but then again i'd say a lot of that has to do with us being their main rivals and them being happy enough for anyone to win it but us. Interesting that Arsenal and even United have a chance of a title this season and everything seems to coming to a head and at the very least it will effect City's players and management for the next while. What City have been up to is akin to a Lance Armstrong finishing miles ahead of everyone in the Tour De France for years and every single fucker knowing it and doing fuck all.

I've basically lost a lot of faith in the game for years now and the events of the champions league final and then the sport washing world cup finished me off more or less but if nothing else i may regain a lot of  love for the game if this actually results in City being punished properly.

[Barneylfc∗]

It's been a long day, I've only just seen that Abu Dhabi have been charged with something but I don't know what exactly. Can anyone give a very short nutshell account of what's happened and if there are any likely punishments being mentioned? It would take me a week to catch up with this thread.

Thanks. 😊👍

Charged with inflating revenues, and deflating player/manager contracts since 2009 basically.

Any punishment related chatter is nothing more than speculation.