Are Manchester City’s Titles Now Tainted?
(NBC)
Yes. Not the first, 2012, but those since, and all the trophies during the period sanctioned, 2012-2016. And they may be taken away from City. The Premier League is separately investigating City on the same grounds as did Uefa. The EPL, and I assume without knowing, the FA, can effectively vacate titles. The League can retroactively deduct points. That would vacate Premier League titles.
City might get out of this on appeal, I don’t think so but they might, but City is guilty. Our defense before Uefa was to argue the inadmissibility of the emails and other documents leaked to Der Spiegel. Not the authenticity, the inadmissibility.
You know, there is precedent for this in sport: Adam Silver and the NBA against Donald Sterling. Sterling and his lawyers argued that since the tape recording of Sterling’s racist rant was nonconsensual and therefore illegal (and it was) it couldn’t be used by the NBA to discipline Sterling. The inadmissibility defense didn’t work too good. Adam, how long are you banning Mr Sterling?
City's legal team got it all wrong. They got it all wrong in 2014. Then was the time to challenge the entire FFP structure in the European courts. They would have won! FFP is a protocol that under the guise of equal applicability could only apply to City and PSG. It was a City-PSG exclusionary rule. It is also an illegal restraint of trade, and it deprives workers of freedom of movement and depresses the market price for their services. You take that case before the European Court and Uefa is as fucked as City is now. But after threatening to do just that City paid the Uefa fine and signed an agreement accepting the FFP strictures! Whelp.
We City fans have to acknowledge facts. The evidence in this case is simple and direct as a slam dunk in basketball and it comes from our beloved City’s own words, just as it did from Donald Sterling's words. I gleefully join my fellow Cityzens in booing the Champions League anthem and despising Uefa but there is no reasonable doubt that City is guilty of breaking rules that it signed it would obey. City fans have to accept this common syllogism: When you break rules that you signed were binding upon you, no matter how unfair those rules are—and you get caught!, you’re going to get whacked. Full stop.
CITY FOREVER!
(NBC)
Yes. Not the first, 2012, but those since, and all the trophies during the period sanctioned, 2012-2016. And they may be taken away from City. The Premier League is separately investigating City on the same grounds as did Uefa. The EPL, and I assume without knowing, the FA, can effectively vacate titles. The League can retroactively deduct points. That would vacate Premier League titles.
City might get out of this on appeal, I don’t think so but they might, but City is guilty. Our defense before Uefa was to argue the inadmissibility of the emails and other documents leaked to Der Spiegel. Not the authenticity, the inadmissibility.
You know, there is precedent for this in sport: Adam Silver and the NBA against Donald Sterling. Sterling and his lawyers argued that since the tape recording of Sterling’s racist rant was nonconsensual and therefore illegal (and it was) it couldn’t be used by the NBA to discipline Sterling. The inadmissibility defense didn’t work too good. Adam, how long are you banning Mr Sterling?
City's legal team got it all wrong. They got it all wrong in 2014. Then was the time to challenge the entire FFP structure in the European courts. They would have won! FFP is a protocol that under the guise of equal applicability could only apply to City and PSG. It was a City-PSG exclusionary rule. It is also an illegal restraint of trade, and it deprives workers of freedom of movement and depresses the market price for their services. You take that case before the European Court and Uefa is as fucked as City is now. But after threatening to do just that City paid the Uefa fine and signed an agreement accepting the FFP strictures! Whelp.
We City fans have to acknowledge facts. The evidence in this case is simple and direct as a slam dunk in basketball and it comes from our beloved City’s own words, just as it did from Donald Sterling's words. I gleefully join my fellow Cityzens in booing the Champions League anthem and despising Uefa but there is no reasonable doubt that City is guilty of breaking rules that it signed it would obey. City fans have to accept this common syllogism: When you break rules that you signed were binding upon you, no matter how unfair those rules are—and you get caught!, you’re going to get whacked. Full stop.
CITY FOREVER!
