Man City to sue PL

[YoboCopter]

If I were a City fan, I’d just embrace the club’s villain status

Has to be less exhausting than trying to argue that they are actually a force for good

You’ve bought the league, so what?

If you’re my age you’ve seen your club in League One and been through every low as well as every high

Embrace what your club is

Enjoy it even

This is your time, and if you’re old enough you paid many a penance to get here

Just stop trying to argue this as anything other than you guys winning the lottery and breaking the league at the same time

Be the villains. At least then you can live honestly

Nailed it

 

[Rob17896]

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"Tyranny of the majority"...are they effing kidding here?

Not if you are used to a Dictator. The whole thing is bent but City take it to new levels.

 

[Walken]

I'm sure its a complete coincidence that the date for their hearing was announced today.

Horrible club, horrible fanbase and truly horrible owners

 

[tommytowne]

Finally on BBC site now.
Bit late to the party.

 

[carolinablue232]

I guess when you’re not used to rules, anything would seem discriminatory…Or they just know they’re about to have the book thrown at them and they’re doing this as a preemptive defense mechanism.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Scum club. Represent the very worst in modern football.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I don't recall them being found guilty

lol. You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Lobworm]

Scum club. Represent the very worst in modern football.

Not like that paragon of virtue, the premier league....

 

[barneygumble]

Yet they didn't sit there and say Everton, Nottingham Forest or Leicester were being discriminated against?

You can make all the dodgy deals you want and when you get collared on it, you cry?

Bad enough they literally whale all youth talent with the North West, but this just embarrassing by them.

 

[Alan Whittle]

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"Tyranny of the majority"...are they effing kidding here?

That is the phrase that stuck with me.I thought of when poor old King John was made to sign The Magna Carta by the Barons. He might of thought it tyrannical but it was the start of rebalancing society for the better

 

[Abertonian]

When people make a faustian pact there is always a toll to pay.

The PL, politicians, broadcasters, gambling companies and journalists have been happy to slurp champagne and chomp on prawn sandwiches while letting nation states, crooks and chancers buy up historical clubs without challenge or criticism. They've been more than happy for football to go full tory and disenfranchise the normal fan who was the lifeblood of clubs.

I will shed a tear for these guys when the PL eats itself.

 

[Sean Ashley]

The last line is spot on, the revenue situation is similar to the Bosman situation all them years ago.

A power play between players and the club. The players won.

Now it is between clubs and the league that governs it. The only thing keeping these big clubs from leaving is the broadcast deals being a large percentage of revenue.

If you allow City to pump huge sums of money regardless of the fairness. Then City have leverage over the league as they won't need them anymore and can seek better ventures elsewhere.

We are treading on territory of domestic games being played abroad and the European competitions being more important than the Premier league itself.

When people make a faustian pact there is always a toll to pay.

The PL, politicians, broadcasters, gambling companies and journalists have been happy to slurp champagne and chomp on prawn sandwiches while letting nation states, crooks and chancers buy up historical clubs without challenge or criticism. They've been more than happy for football to go full tory and disenfranchise the normal fan who was the lifeblood of clubs.

I will shed a tear for these guys when the PL eats itself.

 

[Yarrgh]

Hahahahah they're arguing that the fair market assessment is discriminatory against gulf nations.

Good luck @stony

This sounds an awful lot like someone who has been caught breaking the law trying to explain that they're not really a criminal because the laws are bad.

"But should it really be a crime to rob a bank when wages are so low?"

 

[Yarrgh]

Rats. So it was sports washing all along.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

@anxiouswarrior come hold my hand brother