Any more of this and I'm changing it to "SERIOUS RELEGATION FEARS"Time to change the name of this thread back?
Any more of this and I'm changing it to "SERIOUS RELEGATION FEARS"Time to change the name of this thread back?
City are about to appeal.
Which IMO will see them wriggle it down to a warning and suspended ban.
Any more of this and I'm changing it to "SERIOUS RELEGATION FEARS"
City are about to appeal.
Which IMO will see them wriggle it down to a warning and suspended ban.
I really hope it doesn’t as if they can pay their way out of this then it makes perfection of any related rulings. Why penalise someone for FFP and related fraud, then allow them to use money (that stretches their apparently fictional budget), to get themselves out of it. No, this is one ban that really has to stand or the rules and potential sanctions will forever be ignored by all clubs from here as they know if they pay enough any penalty can be overturned.
I think this is going to be a stand/principle issue
- Very big difference between exceeding FFP guidelines vs.
- Specifically committing Fraud to get past FFP guidelines
If they are found guilty and get past appeals, not only is it likely that it will stick, the FA/EPL will have to step in as well (there is an article that suggest they could face expulsion from PL because of the severity of the implications of outright fraud)
David Conn (who has been reporting on this for a couple of years) on The Guardian football podcast gives a good explanation of it all - explains how City are being done for lying, not for the actual financial side of it all. As such, he seems to think it will be difficult to wriggle out of.
I think this is going to be a stand/principle issue
- Very big difference between exceeding FFP guidelines vs.
- Specifically committing Fraud to get past FFP guidelines
If they are found guilty and get past appeals, not only is it likely that it will stick, the FA/EPL will have to step in as well (there is an article that suggest they could face expulsion from PL because of the severity of the implications of outright fraud)
They have already had thatCity are about to appeal.
Which IMO will see them wriggle it down to a warning and suspended ban.
Can’t see us making up 11 points on City - or even 10 points on Leicester. I’d snatch your hand off now for 4th.
After all the panic, wailing and nashing of teeth that we saw on here by some a few months back i would think 4th would send some into ecstasy.
To raise funds towards the FIFA / UEFA / PL Christmas partiesSo then what is the point in rules if they can be so easily disregarded?
I thought @Gutter Boy became a Sheffield United fan?!West Ham forum will have that thread.
As poor as a lot of other teams around us also are, I have a bad feeling about us getting CL next season. Our biggest chance IMO is a Leicester collapse or City actually being banned/fifth place being enough to qualify.
We have no chance of catching Leicester...do the maths.As poor as a lot of other teams around us also are, I have a bad feeling about us getting CL next season. Our biggest chance IMO is a Leicester collapse or City actually being banned/fifth place being enough to qualify.
We have no chance of catching Leicester...do the maths.