Sheasy

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

This man's name is Jimmy Corry.

The home he had lived in for 13 years in Belfast was destroyed in an arson attack carried out by the far right. Corry lost all of his belongings along with his home.

Despite having done nothing wrong, he became a target of racists.

[Ann Barry Murphy @AnnBarryMurphy]

@IrishRail any extra trains planned to go on for Sunday 21st July for the hurling match?

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

@Picks_N_Packs @laurennUTD Easier said than done, cause you then lose access to applying for away games and cup finals etc.

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

@Picks_N_Packs @laurennUTD Wait till we get a home league cup tie and Champions League home game cup payments both start at the end of August. Thats £90 in the space of a few days.

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

@GirlGiada @marksandspencer First world problems

[indykaila News @indykaila]

Arsenal fans thought they were buying Premier League winner medals at the parade, only to discover they were actually Liverpool @ChampionsLeague medals with a sticker slapped over the top.

That is wrong. They should be refunded.

[Red Army 68' 🇾🇪 @MUFC_RA]

Just the right moment to bring this back up. Takes me right back to my seat in Moscow

“Van Der Sar saves it, United again!”

🏆 🏆🏆 🇾🇪 🔴🔴🔴

[Stretford Paddock @StretfordPaddck]

Winning a Champions League final on penalties isn’t for everyone 🤷‍♂️

[Paul Manc Bald and Bred @MufcWonItAll2]

Tweet of the week. 👇🤣🤣🤣

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

🧵 THREAD: Manchester City, the charges, the evidence, & how justice was delayed.

Manchester City weren’t charged because rivals complained or because they 'spent big'. They were charged because evidence shows a decade-long system designed to hide owner funding, inflate revenue & deceive & obstruct investigations.

The Premier League’s case didn’t appear overnight.
It began in late 2018, triggered by Football Leaks documents - internal emails, invoices, contracts - that contradicted what City had been telling UEFA & the Premier League for years.

Those emails are the backbone of everything that followed. At the centre of the case is a simple allegation: Manchester City repeatedly disguised owner funding as commercial revenue.

FFP rules require sponsorship income to be real, independent, and market value. What the emails suggest is that City’s biggest 'sponsors' weren’t paying what City claimed - Abu Dhabi was.

Take Etihad as an example. Leaked emails show City executives discussing Etihad paying only a fraction of headline sponsorship deals, with the shortfall quietly topped up by Abu Dhabi government-linked entities.

One email explicitly references ensuring funds 'come through the correct channels' so they are not detected as separate sources of funding. That is the definition of disguised equity. This wasn’t a one-off.

Emails show Etihad deals where shirt sponsorship, stadium, training kit & campus naming rights were all inflated wildly out of line with the market at the time - later confirmed in the actual contracts, not just drafts.

The numbers in the leaks weren’t hypothetical. They were real. UEFA auditors suspected this as early as 2013–14.

They found £47m of 'intellectual property' sales boosting income, a £5m 'win bonus' paid for an FA Cup final City lost & sponsorships from Aabar and Etisalat above market value.

City were fined & restricted - but crucially, UEFA never saw the full records. Why? Because City refused to provide them. This becomes a pattern.

When UEFA charged City again in 2020, they imposed a two-year Champions League ban. City appealed to CAS & had it overturned. City fans shout 'INNOCENT', shared out of context screenshots. They're wrong.

CAS did not rule that City were innocent. CAS ruled that UEFA could not meet the burden of proof - largely because City did not co-operate. City were fined €10m specifically for obstructing the investigation.

Even City's own expert witness was denied access to key information that could have disproved disguised funding. 'No evidence' doesn’t mean nothing happened. It means the evidence was withheld.

CAS explicitly stated that disguised equity funding could not be excluded - only that neither side could conclusively prove their case. That vagueness was entirely engineered.

After CAS, new emails emerged suggesting Simon Pearce, a senior City executive & Sheikh Mansour adviser, had given misleading testimony under oath. City declined to comment. Again.

While all this was happening, the Premier League had already been investigating City for years. City’s response? Delay. Delay. Delay. Obstruct. Litigate.

Court filings later revealed City challenged the legality of the investigation itself, filed repeated procedural applications, refused to hand over documents, forced arbitration, then challenged arbitration & tried to keep the entire process secret.

A High Court judge called it out in 2021. “It is surprising, and a matter of legitimate public concern, that so little progress has been made.” That’s legal spiel for stonewalling.

This obstruction accounts for 35 of the 115 charges alone & that’s before we get to the secret payments.

City declared Roberto Mancini's salary as £1.45m per year. On the same day he signed with City, he also signed a “consultancy” deal with Al Jazira - a club owned by the same man who owns City - worth £1.75m per year. That deal was explicitly marked confidential.

Emails show City executives arranging the payments. Same signatures. Same people. Same day. The allegation is obvious: City paid Mancini off the books.

Leaked documents allege undeclared payments for Yaya Touré, including via third parties. These aren’t rumours. They’re contracts, emails, invoices. This is why there are 14 charges relating to manager and player remuneration.

Then there’s image rights. City told UEFA they sold player image rights for a £24.5m lump sum to comply with FFP. Later, they quietly resumed earning millions from image rights again.

The buyer? A company whose directors included City’s own senior legal officer. Independent journalists couldn’t even establish its genuine commercial purpose.

All of this feeds into the core allegation across 54 charges: City failed to provide accurate financial information in good faith. Not once. Not twice. But repeatedly, over nearly a decade.

Now add politics. UK government departments discussed City’s charges with the British embassy in Abu Dhabi. Those communications are sealed - because releasing them could 'damage relations with the UAE'. City insist they are not state-backed. Then why is the state involved?

Yet still, the delays continue. A 12-week closed-door hearing. Half a million documents. Years of silence. City remain 'innocent' - not because the evidence disappeared, but because the verdict hasn’t landed.

This is why the case matters. If City walk away with a fine, it tells every club to cheat cleverly, obstruct endlessly, spend on lawyers, not compliance.. & the rules collapse.

This isn’t about jealousy. It isn’t about success. It’s about whether financial regulation in English football is real - or optional for the richest club in the league.

The evidence exists. The emails exist. The delays are documented. Now only one question remains, do the rules apply to City or not?

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

😂😂

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

I was elected as a Councillor when I was 20. I spent hours researching about standing orders, how to propose an amendment and what a council structure was.

If you’re 40+, stood for election, got elected, and didn’t research how a council works you should resign for incompetence.

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

Andddddd he’s off 😀

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Ridiculous… @_DeclanRice should have won this.
Absolute travesty that someone whose team never once competed for the Title wins over a guy whose brilliance all season led us to the Title.

[Signal Not Noise @_SignalNotNoise]

Reform UK don't know what they're doing.
Don't believe me... watch this 👇
Today's Council meeting in Kirklees.

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

😂😂

[Paul '78 @Gibson_Is_King]

Ive got a Boro ticket for the play off final tomorrow.

Unfortunately I didn't realise it clashes with a wedding, so I can't go now.

If anyone wants to go please please let me know.

Its at St John's Church in Yarm and the bride's name is Sarah.

#OldButGold #UTB

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

I’m on the fence with this! Maybe there was an under diagnosis in our childhoods, however when kids are being bold, parents nowadays give them an IPad to play with rather than actually discipline them!

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

We stopped disciplining children & started diagnosing them. Now we have a nation with unaccountable adults. 🤷‍♂️

Tell me I’m wrong

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

@ThrillaRilla369 Manners!

[The Walking Saint @JamesCarr02]

I have taken my autistic son up and down the country this season to every home and away game including the play off games. Thousands of pounds spent on travel, hotels, tickets and food. I now have to tell him that his team have cheated and been kicked out. Ashamed #saintsfc

[Sheasy @IrishSheasy]

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[SaintsExtra @SaintsExtra]

🚨🎟️ Southampton’s 37,604 ticket allocation for Saturday’s Championship play-off final at Wembley is now SOLD OUT #saintsfc @sfcawaynumbers