Jagtar has been released from Tihar Jail on bail
First steps to Freedom
This would not have been possible without Waheguru Ji, the community & your support.
It is not over until he is back home.
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Etihad threatening to sue. UAE reportedly intimating that UK investment could be pulled. A Prime Minister couching any criticisism. If this sorry saga doesn't convince you that state ownership of football clubs should never be allowed, nothing ever will.
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BREAKING: The Premier League confirm an independent Commission has found Manchester City guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
The independent Commission found that between Seasons 2009/10 and 2017/18:
"Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on ‘sham’ agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs.
"The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators.
"Manchester City was significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits.
"During the Premier League’s investigation, Manchester City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League (three of the four alleged breaches were upheld).
"The independent Commission found that Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ commercial deals with a number of its sponsors during the period, which were part of a disguised funding scheme, whereby those companies were only required to pay a portion of the relevant sponsorship fees. The remainder was funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club. As part of the scheme, further ‘sham’ arrangements, funded by ADUG, were entered into to enable the club to record lower operating expenses than it actually incurred, as well as a ‘sham’ circular arrangement with Fordham, an entity that purchased the club’s players’ image rights, that was funded by ADUG."
The EPL add: "The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules. The consequence of this, as the Commission found, was that the club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators. The Commission concluded that ‘by its conduct the club clearly intended to circumvent the PL Rules.
"As a result, Manchester City failed to accurately report its income and expenditure for the purposes of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules and UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Rules. The Commission found that, had all of the relevant agreements been reported accurately in the club’s accounts, it would have been in breach of both the League’s and UEFA’s spending limits by a very substantial amount.
"In addition, during the course of the four-year investigation conducted by the Premier League, the club committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League. The Commission concluded that the club had ‘made concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the PL investigation."
Richard Masters: “The core decision establishes the facts of what happened at Manchester City during this period. It details how the club systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade.
“It also vindicates the Premier League’s decision to pursue this case against Manchester City. While the process to date has been both long and difficult, the League has remained determined that the facts be established independently.
“It is a key responsibility of the Premier League to ensure that the Rules, approved by the clubs themselves, are upheld to protect the integrity of the competition. It is paramount that the League remains competitive and fair for all clubs and for the fans. We take that role extremely seriously.
“This disciplinary case, and this decision, are the most significant in Premier League history. There are elements of the case that remain to be decided, including, importantly, what sanction must follow for these breaches. Now we have the Commission’s decision, we are committed to moving swiftly through the remainder of the process, to provide certainty for the League, our clubs and fans.”
A redacted version of the independent Commission’s findings has been published.
Now that the charges have been proved, the issue of sanction will be addressed separately in a further hearing.
City has the right to appeal the independent Commission’s findings and has until Friday 2 October to exercise that right.
Fairly clear then: Man City don't have fit and proper owners. How can they possibly be allowed to continue running a football club after this?
How can their "sponsorship deals" possibly be taken seriously from here on in? And why should they be allowed to skew any other competition from here on in?
They've tried to play by their own rules and it's blown up in their faces. They've operated with arrogance, frustrated the process, made the club a laughing stock and, far from "washing" their own reputation, they've played a game, lost and made themselves look worse.
They need to go.
States shouldn't own football clubs.
🐺 Manny is one of the kindest, most considerate humans around, a true die-hard Wolves fan, and someone who gives so much to the community without ever asking for anything in return. The hate and racism he is receiving in these comments is a disgrace and genuinely saddens me. 😟
Being the man he is, Manny will just say something along the lines of "It's expected, I'm used to it", but what kind of world do we live in where this is just normal for him? 😡
He hasn't spoken against others drinking alcohol, he hasn't insulted anyone, he has purely stated that if his only option is to risk alcohol being thrown over a sacred article of his faith, and we all know it will happen, then he'll choose to stay home.
Manny, you have nothing but my respect and support here. Just wanted to say that. 💛
#WWFC
If you want to support your team, go to a match.
If you want a beer, go to a pub.
If you can't go more than 45 minutes without alcohol, go to an AA meeting.
Plenty of areas for those who want to drink at football, and they can drink before football and also after football. As a turban wearing Sikh, Bring it into the stand I’m in, then that’s me done with Football.
My way of life is more important, and it will drive away others too, who live an alcohol free life. Football culture in the men’s game is completely different to any other sport. 🙏🏾
We caught the moment Restore activist @lewisrholmes was "scalded by boiling liquid" yesterday while being confronted about his relationship with neo-Nazi Patrick McGinnis. As you can see, he spilt the coffee on his hand while putting it in a bin. He refused to answer our question
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