LiberalCommunist

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.

The FA, pushing shit around a room all week like fat dung beetles, just in time for recess, then the weekend. Then back fresh for work next week, ready to continue the process. Fucking parasites. What ever the outcome.

Maximum disruption. It can't be anything else at this stage.

I think the waiting might well be over. I think there's going to be a Monday morning dump. And then the wait begins.

Wait, what? Massive overspending for years. Unchecked, grossly unsustainable to any normal company. And in that time the accrue 20 odd titles while rubbing everyone's face in it. And you feel sorry for them? Our gaffer sent a mong to stand by a tree with a phone and our fans got hammered with the worst punishment ever handed out and its seemingly not over. Fuck City. Fuck the Governing body. Sorry, but there's no comparison. When's our day in the sun for all the turmoil we have faced? Yeah, thought as much......

Even the BBC headline is down playing the severity. 'Found guilty of the majority of 115 charges.' No, they were found guilty of 114 of 115 charges. That's not just a majority, that's all of them bar one. Seven of those were applicable to PSR rules, the others, far more serious. 54 counts of not supplying financial documentation. Hiding income. Failing to provide salary info. Fraud on a industrial level. 35 counts of not cooperating. And lets remember, other clubs have already been punished for far less. Everton and Nottingham Forrest should feel very aggrieved tonight if this punishment isn't massive points deduction and multiple relegations. I don't give a shit about City, but punishments have to be proportionate, or there's no point in having a governing body. So, what's the punishment to be, and when are all the other clubs going to start filing lawsuits. That's how it works now. You made the rules, after all. Burn it all down.

I had a feeling the City case would drop while we were waiting. This is just so perfect. You can't hate these people enough. They can't touch City, but they can show they have teeth. What a load of shit. Couldn't even find any info on the BBC, its a non story. Top of the prem. New manager. New hair cut. Leave them alone. I'm really quite tired of this now.

If we sack Tonda, do we get reinstated in the play off final.

If this was six, it would have been done already. I think they have forced us into something today. Something unpleasant.

That's a bit like asking why, if shoplifting is illegal, shops put all their stuff out on display and make it easy to steal. ------------------------------- But you are allowed to take the goods outside to your car without paying till 1pm. After that, its theft. That's closer to the situation.

Remember when Hoddle took temporally charge when Jones was put on leave? From day one, there was no way back. Now, although different, this would be the same. If he goes, he completely goes. No waiting in the wings for six months. Fuck that. We cannot afford to be persecuted indefinitely for this issue. Its gone on too long.

Marcelo Bielsa won the2019 FIFA Fair Play Award They made a proper example of him.

We've got no excuses for not having rock solid contingency plans in place, regardless of the outcome. _________________________________________________ What, like a replacement lined up? Jesus, even on easy mode that plan has a massive failure rate...................its why we are sticking by the dude.

I really do think, if we were absolutely flying, annihilating the opposition, they would go harder on us. That would have them on a crusade to tear us down even further. In truth the damage (self) inflicted right now cannot be properly measured as yet. But it could well turn out to be catastrophic. Chucked out of a very winnable play off final, then subsequently missing out on the auto's due to the four point deduction, that could have ramifications for years! They want us to suffer. They want us as the example they still have control. But another punishment dump could be hard to justify considering we are still serving the last two. This inconsistency of form we are suffering from, might well be thing thing that quietly lets this unfold without too much fanfare. I mean, there's no club in the country who stands by a manager with a six month ban who can't keep a clean sheet and can't win away from home. They understand the consequences of the next over reaction. Him getting jettisoned by us the very next day does not fit the criteria. Six game touch line ban and a large personal fine incoming. Anything else and the baby is going out the window rapidly following the bath tub. This shit ends this week. We've all had enough.

We need legs. _____________ My eyes are bad. I read that as Ings.

Finn gets the banjo out the way early. Now for a brace.

Millwall have been superb. But now here comes the real test.

Even though KM popped up with some key moments last season, I did not think he would force his way into our starting 11. But he has been a bit of a revelation these last couple of months. He offers something that we seriously lack. I hope his form keeps Fellows warming the bench. He could definitely learn a thing or two from this guy.

What a thoroughly enjoyable victory. Made all the more sweeter by the fact that I thought we'd lose this match. City have probably caused me more game anxiety that any other team over the last twenty years. The penultimate day of 2011, a chance of going six points clear at the top and securing a unbeaten at home calendar year record. Armed with a team of unbeatable winners, and they rock up and spoil the pre-arranged party. Since that day, they have held some weird hold over us. Even though we barely ever play them. No matter what our form, no matter how depleted their squad, they always get the better of us. In 2024 they destroyed another legendary unbeaten run. Its a fixture that just fills me with dread. Until now. That first 20 minutes surely ends the curse. How they didn't score I will never know. Some outstanding defending compiled with some big luck, and we ripped up the party pooper script for once and for all. Now, why am I dining out on this result three days later you ask? Well City play twice this week, both games at home, tonight against Lincoln & on Friday v's Watford. It will be really interesting to see how they fair. I thought they looked pretty sleek, and they will be around the play offs at the end of this season. If they go on to nab the points this week, they will be around the top three by Sat 3pm. We might well have just ended a curse, and fired up a useful rival.