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  1. DeanoAustin

    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    Fair point sir. You have to be fudging horrendous cheaters on an unprecedented scale for Spurs fans to say that. Which is exactly what City are.
  2. DeanoAustin

    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    There are lots of issues here but a club under this cloud winning the league would be catastrophic PR. The media around it every week, the PL having to hand them over a trophy while this is going on, the feeling of being cheated from clubs, fans and players being exacerbated every week. It can’t...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    Sad thing about this season is that if City don’t win it, Woolwich are the likely benefactors. That’s become less unpalatable reading this judgement but it’s still unpalatable. If City were to win the league this season, it would be an incredible show of mental strength from Maresca and his...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    Is it not possible that City have already presented their "irrefutable evidence" and the Independent Commission saw it as very refutable? Makes no sense that you could easily disprove a case and instead go through years of delays and an appeals process.
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    On the punishment - I think all of us have a view and most are setting themselves up for disappointment and outrage with it. These things are not straightforward, none of us are legal experts so our opinion isn't really informed by the parameters that the PL or Independent Commission are working...
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    Emirates Marketing Project

    100%. City fans are no better or worse than anyone else's fans. From their perspective, their owners did exactly what Chelsea did 5 years earlier. Their owners bridged the gap to Man U and Liverpool in the only way it could be realistically done. They did it by investing their own money into the...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    Yeah, that's exactly the time period I'm thinking. Probably from the early 80s to the late 90s. Think the riches of the PL from broadcasting and some of the scandals in Italian football contributed to Serie A's demise albeit I'm sure someone more informed than me could give a more complete and...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    That's a danger here that I haven't heard spoken about much. Is the PL brand tainted? They've basically ruled that what we've watched for the last 15 years hasn't been a fair sporting contest. The PL's financial advantage is colossal now but once upon a time Serie A had a massive advantage and...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    That's fair comment. Obviously, media need to careful with libel laws and a club as litigious as City. However, some of the clues were in plain view. City's revenue exploded in a way that was unrealistic. Good journalism highlights those facts and asks the hard questions of the people in power...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    It is a massive, massive story but I'm not sure what the media can do. It's been reported and lots of pundits and journalists have hammered City especially. They can't veer into the territory of hysterical or their credibility goes and that's not their job. City will be viewed like Lance...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    Your question was what the difference was between City and Enron. The fact Enron were publicly traded is the main one when it comes to prosecutions. Also, Enron went bust through fraud, City didn't. False accounting is an offence but is it worth HMRC conducting a lengthy investigation if what...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    I find it fascinating to be honest. The language from the investigators is very strong and the detail explicit. Yet City have responded just as strongly in maintaining their innocence and that they have evidence to support it. Personally, I don’t see how they can be innocent. The sponsorship...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    You’re possibly right. I don’t know the rules or know what the rules were then. However, it’s been established that they were in breach of financial rules in 2010 and there was an abnormal growth in revenue at that time. Logically, if not legally, that should have been grounds for serious...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    Here is the bit I don’t understand and maybe there is a good explanation for it. City’s revenue exploded around 2010. In 2 years it pretty much doubled which seemed out of kilter with the rest of the league. Why weren’t they investigated at that point? The earlier the PL went in, the smaller...
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    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    Potentially. It certainly isn’t my area of expertise but I’d have thought that for a criminal case to proceed, they would have to show that the owners defrauded someone or tried to avoid tax or something. Potentially, they’ve misstated accounts here but it’s with the purpose of being able to...
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