RT @DanSFC94: #SaintsFC qualify for the UCL in 2015/16 without Man City. We were 3 points behind them. Instead, we had to sell our best pl…

This is why Tories \ Reform UK are bricking it about rejoining The EU.

Rui Pinto (@RuiPinto_FL) is ready to assist the British authorities in the Manchester City case in exchange for protection. Despite launching a crowdfunding page this Friday, the whistleblower’s priority remains cooperating with authorities. Exclusive breaking news 🚨 theguardian.com/football/202…

As someone who, like many others, watched a parent virtually crumble before their eyes in slow motion with Alzheimers, this is beyond abhorrent. Let this be the absolute fucking end of the rancid, dwindling career of this odious, poisonous dimwit.

In the 80s, Pablo Escobar used the concept of "narco-philanthropy", where he adopted Robin Hood-like tactics such as building schools, housing, distributing food to buy local loyalty and form a social shield against law enforcement. He then used the same institutions to launder drug money. Escobar even ran for Congress and won. He was affectionately known as El Patrón, El Doctor, Columbia's Robin Hood

Remember in the summer at the World Cup, when Balogun didn’t have to serve his one-match ban and everyone was up in arms, saying politics absolutely should not interfere in football? That.

As much as it pains me to say it I fookin respect Man United as a football club. Liverpool United and Arsenal built absolute monsters over generations history trophies supporters worldwide fanbases. Proper football institutions. Then Chelsea and Shamchester City turned up with the billionaire cheat code and started waving the credit card around like a pissed up lottery winner. So this “Red Cartel” shite absolutely kills me. The Reds built the fookin castle you gang of crabs just bought one. 🦀😂

Manchester United were founded in 1878. Liverpool in 1892. Same era, footballing world and both built their success over generations, not overnight. Liverpool have 20 league titles, with 18 won before Financial Fair Play even existed. That history was built through Shankly, Paisley, Dalglish and decades of identity, standards and winning culture. United have 20 league titles too. The Busby legacy, the Class of ’92, Ferguson’s dynasty… all built long before billionaire ownership and state-level spending became part of modern football. FFP only arrived in 2011. These clubs had already become giants by then. That’s the difference. Real history takes decades to build. It comes through generations of players, managers, supporters and tradition. You can spend billions trying to manufacture success overnight, but you can’t buy 100 years of history.

🚨🔵🛑Sir Jim Ratcliffe on Manchester City financial breaches allegations.👀 🗣️Ratcliffe:​ "Let’s call a spade a spade, shall we? You look across town and you see this glittering empire, but the foundation is built on absolute financial fiction. We at Manchester United, for all our recent faults and boardroom incompetence over the last decade, generate our revenue because half the globe genuinely cares about the badge." 🗣️"City claim to have out-earned Real Madrid and United commercially, yet they play in a stadium they can barely fill for a Champions League knockout tie. It’s an insult to the intelligence of every football fan in the country." 🗣️"​If you run a petrochemical company and cook the books to artificially bankrupt your competitors, the government steps in and people go to prison. In football, apparently, you just get to hire a fleet of lawyers and parade around on an open-top bus for ten years." 🗣️"The Premier League has to stop tiptoeing around this issue like a frightened child facing a state-backed bully." 🗣️"​If those 115 charges are proven and frankly, the sheer volume of smoke tells you exactly where the fire is a Nine Hundred-million-pounds fine or a temporary points deduction is a sick joke." 🗣️"You don't dock points. You strip the titles, you wipe the records, and you send them down to the National League where they can learn to balance a legitimate ledger against Halifax Town. Anything less is a permanent, terminal stain on the integrity of English football." 🗣️"I, for one, am entirely finished pretending their 'treble' wasn't bought on credit they never legally possessed."

🚨🚨 | 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: if the Abu Dhabi-owned club keeps escalating its fight with the Premier League, English football could throw Manchester City out of the League. [@DuncanCastles]

🚨 BREAKING! Contributed by ADUG, by manager, at Manchester City, 2009–2018: Mancini: £56.9m per season Pellegrini: £113.0m per season Guardiola: £132.2m per season

Everyone laughing at him for asking for donations doesn’t understand the magnitude of this. This is genuinely life or death and if you think otherwise you’re silly. Very weird how the police protection has ended abruptly, when it’s the most vulnerable he will be. Someone wants him dead

Quality 🙌

🚨🚨 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Several reports from Chelsea sources claim Manchester City offered Chelsea £125M for Enzo Fernández. 🤯 But here’s where it gets funny… 👀 City allegedly wanted Chelsea to officially record the transfer as £80M, despite paying £125M — similar to how some of their previous deals have reportedly been structured. Chelsea said NO. ❌ No funny business. No creative accounting. No “£80M on paper, £125M in reality.” 😭 That reportedly became a major reason why the deal dragged all the way to the final day of the transfer window. Chelsea basically said: “If you’re paying £125M, write £125M. We’re not helping you cook the books.” 💀💀 Manchester City: “It’s just paperwork.” Chelsea: “Then put the real number on the paperwork.” [@Shednotty]

Apparently Manchester United were able to build their success due to the lack of financial rules pre-2009. So I went back to look at the publicly available financial records and found that actually United would NOT have broken Financial Fair Play (FFP) or Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) if they had been applied retrospectively to the 1990s or 2000.

Massive fan backlash at City = 10 fans show up 😂

A lot of people have said their trophies are tainted. But - the difference is they grassed themselves up. They’re still dodgy as fuck but they cooperated. Your mob is resorting to blackmail now. Lower than a snakes tits

This is the takeaway from a story about a journalist trying to investigate City's (now proven) financial cheating while his wife was dying of brain cancer Are there any decent City fans left on this platform. You've all lost your minds

This is what keeps getting ignored. Manchester City were allowed to defend themselves. Their witnesses were heard. Their evidence was considered. But an independent Commission ultimately found 114 of 115 charges proven, including sham commercial arrangements, misstated accounts and disguised funding. City have appealed those findings. (Premier League) You cannot simply call the process corrupt because the evidence didn’t produce the verdict you wanted. They weren’t denied a defence. They presented one and lost the case. Now let the appeal process test those findings.

Man City hire the City of Manchester Stadium off Manchester Council for £3 million a season Everton spent £750 million to build a stadium to kickstart the regeneration of North Liverpool Docks One of these clubs got absolutely hammered over a couple of £million Outrageous....