| City v football v PL 08:41 - Oct 23 with 676 views | saint901 |
The war of legal words between City and the PL intensified yesterday.
City say that their "victory" in the first round means that all of the Associated Party Transactions (APT) rules are legally invalid and cannot apply.
PL says that only a few of these APT rules need to be changed and that this will be done in the next three weeks.
A meeting of the PL clubs was not asked to vote on whether City's view was correct or if they favoured the PL view.
At the same time the City fan groups staged a protest outside the offices of the PL claiming that the PL was under the control of Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs and that the legal witch hunt v City was for the benefit of those clubs.
Ironic really because three of those clubs will be destined to join City in the European super league which is now a lot closer.
This also demonstrates just how hard it is for clubs promoted out of the Champ to gain a toehold in the PL. It seems that the annual amount paid to City by its sovereign funds owners, desperate for the world to forget their human rights record, is probably more than certainly our entire annual turnover and probably a good half the clubs in the PL.
We therefore have a very unequal playing field and inevitably this will mean that the "poorer" clubs will be unable to compete as the "richer" clubs buy all the talent. This can only end with the PL being reduced to either 8 to 10 super wealthy clubs who care nothing about where the money comes from and who send all the wrong messages to the millions of fans or the PL being effectively all the poorer clubs plus some from the Champ.
It also means that the refereeing bias that favours "big" clubs will continue to grow because the cost of an "error" will be enormous. The PL management will cease to exist, TV will focus only on those big clubs and the fans? Nobody cares, they contribute a small percentage of money and cannot see that their clubs are being used to sportswash repressive regimes.
If the PL clubs were offered a vote on keeping the APT rules - as modified - or going the City route which is essentially an unlimited, untested and untouchable "hands off" message to the PL, then Saints would do the right thing for the game and the fans. I do not however have any confidence that they will. Money talks and City and probably Newcastle and others owned by regimes with something to hide, will throw us a few million to keep us in line and because owners are business people first and football fans a very long way back second, they will not care where the game is in ten/fifteen years time.
This is the thin end of a very big wedge that will split the game forever.
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| City v football v PL on 07:25 - Oct 24 with 486 views | saint68 |
The championship is proper football in this day and age, the Premier league is slowly hanging itself (thankfully) and soon enough the viewing figures will start declining when the non attractive clubs have empty stadia and mass debt to govern annually.
City will get nothing more than a fully affordable (to them) fine, and that'll be that...a decade of cheating paid off, and another decade of dominance to hammer home the benefits of doing what you want with no strong governance to worry about | |
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| City v football v PL on 12:08 - Oct 24 with 398 views | arfurdent |
Pretty obvious that the club in question will deploy expensive legal resources to conduct a war of attrition bringing any PL action to an expensive hiatus.
Other clubs will have their legal teams analysing all PL rules and regulations for holes, missing full stops and incorrect grammar to seek pecuniary advantage of the situation.
It will look like legal trench warfare with the victors being those with the most spare oilwells.
The cannon fodder in the lower reaches and leagues will be consigned to insignificance.
The goverments much vaunted football regulator will be shafted by UEFA / FIFA threatening international competion bans.
Going the way of F1? [Post edited 24 Oct 12:09]
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