#MUFC—win or lose | #ScriptConsultant ✍️ | #Author 📖 #MovieBuff 🎬 | Stuck in the #80s 📼 👀
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I love classy clubs. 👏
Welcome to Como, @ManUtd! 🔵
Founded in 1878, Manchester United are one of the most historic clubs in English football. Known as the Red Devils, the club have built a rich tradition across domestic and European competitions, with 20 English league titles, 13 FA Cups and three European Cups to their name.
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That’s how you do it!! 👏
Deducted 17 points. Almost out of existence.
18 years later, we're preparing for our first-ever European home game.
This is how #afcb survived.
Minus 17 | The greatest football story:
youtu.be/5wov49A2R04
ALT Steve Fletcher sprays champagne in the AFC Bournemouth dressing room in 2008.
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Wow 👇 🔥 Can’t wait!!
I’m proud to share the trailer for my new film, GHOST SOLDIER. See it exclusively in movie theaters this Veterans Day, 11/11.
#ghostsolidermovie
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Ian Noakes retweeted
To be fair to City, you can't expect a club that hasn't won a trophy in 51 years to compete with the defending European Champions.
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I cannot believe the discourse surrounding Andrey Santos’ performance vs Atletico Madrid; so disingenuous.
How can you not rate a footballer of this level? Controlling the tempo when in-possession, wins his duels and covers so much ground for his side. This is the perfect Baleba partner. x.com/UtdTopCee7/status/2110…
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Sharing 2020 CAS quotes completely misses the point. CAS only ruled based on the limited, filtered evidence they had before their 5-year time limit expired.
The 2026 Independent Commission found City guilty on 114 counts because the Premier League forced open the unredacted files City hid from CAS. When internal emails flatline verbal statements, a panel has no choice but to rule the witnesses dishonest.
If CAS "proved" the deals were self-funded, why is City’s current appeal explicitly arguing that the Abu Dhabi state did fund them? The fan narrative completely contradicts the club's own changing legal defense.
It shows how dismissive and biased the so called “independent commission” were.
There’s no way the commission found evidence that ADUG funded City’s sponsors and to call all the witnesses liars proves they didn’t want to listen to city’s case in the first place.
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This is completely false. Try checking the UK Subsidy Control Act or standard FCA regulations governments routinely ban owners, especially foreign state entities, from dumping unlimited uncommercial capital into businesses to distort fair competition.
More importantly, City weren't punished for "spending money." An independent panel found them guilty on 114 counts because they systematically fabricated over £830M in fake sponsorships to hide that spending and lied to their own auditors.
Falsifying corporate financial statements to bypass regulatory caps is a severe corporate offense in everyform of business. It's not a "bent football rule," it’s accounting fraud.
Man City broke all the rules. All the rules are bent and corrupt. Everyone can have an opinion on who is in the wrong, but owners spending money on a business they own isn’t illegal in any other form of business. In fact, some would say it’s encouraged.
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Until Manchester City are sanctioned for their decade-long cheating every one of their goals and every one of their wins this season will be meaningless. The Premier League also remains hugely damaged for as long as this "sham" continues.
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Our owners have only cheated UTD.
City’s owners have cheated every club they’ve played.
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I remember you graciously coming into talksport and doing a Monday night show with Mark Saggers and I. You were candid, friendly and a very good guest.
I asked you about diving and cheating, something that if players in England did pre 2000, your own dressing room would scold you. So you didn't do it, it wasn't "English sportsmanship".
You replied. "In Spain, young players, coaches and managers don't see it as cheating, they see it as pushing the boundaries ", said with a smile!
I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. Diving and cheating are a cancer on the sport and the sport is worse for it, and yes plenty of English players do it, I know.
It's like corners. We used to put the ball in the hole, solidly within the lines, as the laws meant. Now the ball is almost placed at the near post such is the ridiculous rule bending.
As players, it's hard enough to compete in this sport ( and I know your experience with Biggleswade would confirm that) without knowing rules are being broken to the point where we can't compete anymore. That's what City are guilty of Guillem, industrial scale financial doping that made it impossible for competition to thrive. Look no more at 4 in a row to prove that.
In Europe, financial cheating in sport and in life is the norm. I've travelled extensively in Spain, Greece and Italy and those 3 places you could buy a house tomorrow and the seller will ask " how much cash will you pay so I can lower the official price". This simply can't happen in England because despite not being perfect, there are some rules that guarantee a punishment. Financial doping in football is one.
I speak for myself but foreign investment and players since 1992 has added the cherry on the top of a 120 year old cake that mostly was incorruptable, mostly.
But with that influx we've seen on and off the pitch things that long standing watchers never thought they would. City's financial doping is a last straw for many because we've grown up being used to, in theory at least, a competitive arena for all. 4 divisions of it unsurpassed anywhere.
I know you're not justifying City's verdict, merely asking a question, but you also must expect that different countries have different standards. The standards in England are now tainted, because habits and cultural norms elsewhere have tainted an almost unimpeachable sport in this country.
It's one thing to play devil's advocate and another to advocate pushing those boundaries into something that fundementally changes the sport.
For the worse.
I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think.
In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards.
Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted.
City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it.
From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system.
From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.”
If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor.
We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?”
And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.
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The highest of praise for @Leny_Yoro 👏🇫🇷
ALT Leny Yoro in action on his France debut, alongside a quote from Zinedine Zidane that reads: 'He had a great debut. I am very happy for him. He did his role very well.'
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“FFP was brought in to keep the red cartel at the top”
Before FFP, United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool took 37 of the 40 available top four places between 2000/01 and 2009/10.
That’s 92.5%.
If you use the 10 seasons after FFP came into force, 2011/12 to 2020/21, United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool occupied 23 of the 40 top four places.
That’s 57.5%
Such a shit cartel
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This 👇
51% fan ownership. A strict interpretation of the original ( not bastardised one by Red Bull and Co) German model.
That's what we need in England. Protected by law, as English football should be a protected cultural asset.
Lost count how many times I've argued for this to happen, now's the time.
For every fan of every club, for a fair pyramid and continued success.
51% fan ownership. Non negotiable.
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