LiberalCommunist

Won't they just put him out of his misery. There is no way back. There is no goodwill. Its just unpleasant now.

Got nothing but contempt for the EPL & VAR. But we need to go up this season to pay the bills. And repay the faith DS has shown.

Lest we forget their names. They must forever live in ridicule. Except for Troy Deeney. He's still under house arrest.

None of this feels lucky. It's been horrendous. The last part of the punishment doesn't even feel like a let off because of how long it took to reach the verdict. I just want to put this whole sorry affair behind me now. Its been horrendous. I'm glad we stuck with him. He's not perfect, but he was worth fighting for. Now he can fight for us.

There's work to be done. Lets start putting things right before we start talking about rewards. Starting Sunday. We owe this lot a game.

The FA's punishment was the wait to find out.

I'd take that, all day long. But that would mean the wait has been the punishment. And I can't see them letting us off with that, because it will soon be forgotten. There has to be more, to set the example they clearly want.

Tonda being at the SF event tonight does fill me with a little more optimism. I'd bin that shit off straight away if there was to be a incoming ban the very next day. One way or another, hope tomorrow represents some closure to this horrific timeline.

I think the constant ridiculing of MB has gone far enough. Perhaps just ignore his posts if you don't think they are legitimate.

Same with Cormac taking six months to fix a bit of road, and then screwing up the fix. They are busy, there's a lot of roads. Be patient.

The drag it out option has served City well. If they can kick this can down the road for long enough, it might well disappear, with the help of a rather large brown envelope on the desk of the right amount of greed person. I honestly would not be that surprised. Meanwhile, we are condemned to the pits of Mordor to break rocks for eternity. Love a bit of justice.

We need competition. Its good for the squad. Anyone who doesn't want competition will become a problem. Play him.

Yeah, that does seem rather obvious now.

The debate going on in this thread shows that the punishment could be anything. Literally anything. Its like Spying. It wasn't even a rule break, until they made it so. But now its the worst rule break ever. Its kinda funny. Football has done this to itself.

I get where Gio is coming from. Man Utd where chucking around £30M on a single player in the 90's. They had a massive head start. So of course obscenely rich Arab owners where going to come in and just do what they do, chuck obscene amounts of money at the problem. However, City knew these rules were in place, so they needed to tidy up the whole affair, not double down on the injustice. Side note. I bet if the same forensics was applied to Utd's books they would find similar tricks in a lesser extent. So I take their outrage with a pinch of salt. Villa and Toon should feel pretty hard done by though, they seem to be the only two clubs who have been totally captured by the financial ceiling. In saying that, very welcome sharing the pain from dealing with the governing body, I just hope more are sucked in. Burn it all down as far as I'm concerned.