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Also let’s not forget for the final 20 mins of that, Virgil was playing CF and we had Jacquet and Kostas defending and them shit houses could be arsed to play football
After the first 15 (when everyone was mad) I think Trey was brilliant, picks up great positions to receive the ball, moved it well and in the second half was aggressive with his passing into the edge of the area….
I’d be a very poor man if I was sued Everytime I told someone to fuck off…. And that’s probably just this week.
And if Villa act like this, then Lucas Digne could have deffo sued me after we played them the other year the blue nose….
A little bit of atmosphere ahead of them being my local club in January @TSV1860eV
Have to feel for Gravenberch don’t ya. The second yellow, which is the more likely yellow stopping an act. Is what we screamed for with the Newcastle 2nd and he got slaughtered for not doing it
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How long is the stench of the “sham” going to corrode the meaning, worth, and very essence of the Premier League?
Listening to commentary about Manchester City’s players matching the defiance of their ownership and triumphing in adversity.
Listening to fans chorusing the names of the men running the club, wearing masks or displaying banners of their faces and jibing: “We’re Man City, we’ll cheat when we want.”
Victory being framed as “a lovely moment,” a show of togetherness as though some grave injustice has been imposed on City, rather than their hierarchy being found by an independent commission to have orchestrated financial doping on an industrial scale.
Their opponents and the rest of us wondering if any of this actually matters now and how much of it ever did?
There can be no business as usual pretence. We need a full stop to the absurdity.
Chelsea fans did this in 2003 when Ambramovic brought them. Thought they were cunts then, just like these are cunts now
Paul Lambert 🇪🇺 retweeted
If a single person messes with the elections, they are going to be exposed and dragged out onto the street to be tar and feathered by the public and they will ruin their lives forever. We’re not fucking around.
Some reach to equate from City have done to a fictional F1 movie. And there is also F1 teams who have season results stripped due illegal cars…
I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think.
In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards.
Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted.
City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it.
From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system.
From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.”
If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor.
We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?”
And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.
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Manchester City were found guilty of 114 out of 115 charges by an independent commission. The comparison made is not in the same ball park to the level of rule breaking Man City have committed.
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Hear me out… and this is a bold strategy but have we considered not giving away a shit ton of penalties
#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015
With @SamWallaceTel
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Paul Lambert 🇪🇺 retweeted
"I once had irrefutable evidence that I hadn't laundered £1bn to break football fair play rules, but didn’t present this to the investigation."
Me and @andrew_m_swift used to joke about Red Kev getting extra from his Abu Dhabi palm tree endorsement deal….. mad that it took this long to prove