This absolutely wins hands down

What is up with these fellas wearing Jerusalem cruisers and socks? Prayer Force one’s 🤣🤣 🚮

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Apparently the red cartel also includes Chelsea so it might be the purple cartel. City fans are divided on the naming convention.

Some city fans are Somehow saying United, Arsenal and Liverpool are to blame for city cheating 🤣🤣🤣 But but but It’s all the fault of tHe rEd cArTeL

Pot kettle black Barton arcade ! Black pudding Benedict is outstanding

Never let this call die 🤣🤣🤣

In simple terms Etihad told the US Government in 2015 that claims Abu Dhabi funded its Manchester City sponsorship were “false” and that it was paid from Etihad’s own liquidity. At CAS, City/Etihad again maintained the sponsorship was funded by Etihad - evidence CAS relied heavily upon this as a statement of fact when rejecting UEFA’s case. Now City’s appeal reportedly argues the money came from the Abu Dhabi Government. SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT LADS …

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City have lodged their appeal today and by all accounts they have a new last minute lawyer. 150m legal bill and the crux of the appeal is; “Someone else paid the money”

Wow. Read this 2013 email carefully. They’re explicitly discussing the funding route: ADUG shareholder → Etihad → MCFC. Then comes the extraordinary line: “We can’t show the payment routes.” Instead, call it “partner funding” and “do not include any more detail than that.” That is one hell of a contemporaneous document.

Graham Souness just said he’s applied by Manchester City and the allegations. He went on to say - he firmly believes that Paul Pogba should be banned for life as a result of the City charges. 🤣🤣🤣

new 1st class lounge open at Jersey airport… Coffee is absolutely En pointe 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Hamdallah off to watch the toffees lad ?… wahalla !

Good work @JayMotty … 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. I’m still chuckling at the fella comparing city to Emmeline Pankhurst or the Peterloo massacre🤣

For the hard-of-fucking-braining this morning: Sportswashing is when a state, government or political actor uses the popularity, prestige and emotional pull of sport to improve its international reputation and divert attention from things it would rather the world focused on less, particularly human-rights abuses, slavery which is still perfectly legal under Islamic laws or political repression. That can mean buying a major football club, sponsoring one, hosting a World Cup or Olympics, or pouring enormous sums into high-profile sport. It isn’t a synonym for “brown people investing money.” The defining feature is the alleged reputational purpose and effect: associate the state with trophies, superstar players, glamorous events and happy supporters, thereby distracting from, minimising or normalising criticism of its conduct. Academic literature describes precisely those mechanisms: distraction, minimisation and normalisation. And no, the underlying practice isn’t ten years old just because the word is relatively modern. States have used major sport for prestige and political image- the Greeks and the Romans we’re doing it- what’s newer is the widespread use of “sportswashing” as the label for a particular form of it. So you can argue about whether the term is fairly applied in any particular case, scholars do … but pretending nobody knows what it means isn’t an argument. It has a perfectly intelligible and extensively discussed meaning.

That’s like praising Fred West for laying a decent patio 🤣

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My tweet has had a million views … WTF

Hey @RuiPinto_FL can we have an inspection of Burnham’s bank accounts or payments made to the mayor of Manchester from Abu Dhabi