Jay Harding

A football loving music head, guitar player and appreciator all things Rock n' Roll & Crystal Palace #ItsOnlyRocknRollButILikeIt

[HC15OnTour 🟥🟦🏆🦅 @HC15OnTour]

Marc Guehi - what a top bloke.

Carried us to our 1st ever FA Cup, Charity Shield & a place in Europe

A Rolls-Royce of a player that went about his business, led from the front & did it all with incredible humility, respect & humbleness

A role model on & off the pitch

❤️💙

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Can we have a word for Mark Chapman?

He does 5Live for hours every weekend, MOTD on a regular basis & fronts a lot of Sky’s football coverage, all whilst being pretty much universally liked and respected. I love the bloke and don’t know anyone with a bad word to say about him.

[SmokeyGirl25 @_SmokeyGirl25]

Never Ever get Lock out of Your House,Mercy I seen a lot 🤣🤣🤣😂
Laughing so much I almost Pee 🤣😁😉

[Steve Parish @CEO4TAG]

Come on Mr Manzi that’s cherry picking of a long ruling to create mischief and make it look like the club had no case. I am sure having diligently read the whole ruling you know that this is not in any way a fair reflection.

I don’t think anyone doubts who makes decisions at the football club - indeed Bobby you generally blame me for pretty much every goal we concede 🤣, so it’s a particularly strange point for you to try to make.

In the context of our case that employment contract is an irrelevant formality. I am one of four main owners and partners and I act as principle partner at the club and again as I am sure you will have read our case was based on three distinct things.

Sporting Merit - the rule says that in the event of a conflict the club that takes precedence is the one that qualifies for the higher UCC comp on ‘Sporting Merit’. We say we won the FA cup and qualified directly for Europa League, as opposed to Lyon who qualified on sporting merit to the Conference League were reclassified into Europa League because PSG won the domestic cup but didn’t need the Europa place having already qualified for the Champions league. The court struggled to find a reason for this clause if it wasn’t to give a club in our situation precedence. Three judges on the panel and we lost this 2-1 - very much ‘hitting the bar’ if you like. We remain of the opinion that we are right on this point and one judge did concur (much as we didn’t want Lyon fans to lose out either )

Anti Trust (unequal treatment) - We knew, and the court and UEFA’s lawyers basically accepted, that other clubs had been given past the 1st March deadline to comply for various reasons, not least because there were conflicting communications about the date and it didn’t leave time to sell or even get clubs into trusts . We were also in turn told by the original panel chair, both on the record and informally, that if the the buyout of the shareholder in question was completed prior to the draw that would likely be a cure as clearly no distortion of the competition could then occur, especially as the process to sell had begun prior to March 1st. On this basis we spent the summer with Woody’s help completing a difficult and complex $200+ transaction only to still be removed.
We strongly believe this was unequal treatment and that were we in any other court where competition law was properly applied we would have won this point. For technical reasons it’s hard for us to get UEFA outside of their own system and into a ‘higher’ court but I believe this will change over time (although not necessarily a good thing overall) .

Decisive Influence - We never argued in court or publicly that JT had no ‘influence’, we argued that in reality myself and the exec team at the club made the decisions and in any event he was 1 of 4 votes so his vote wasn’t in any way decisive, this was backed up by my other partners with whom there is a long standing relationship and a great deal of trust and indeed JT’s own evidence and many public pronouncements that he felt he had no influence. The court sadly for us decided ‘any potential’ for influence is decisive 🤷‍♂️.

As a footnote I would say The UEFA disciplinary and CAS appeal process has some benefits against say the full judicial system that the Premier League have saddled themselves with. It moves faster and allows the system to run effectively but in our view is too skewed towards expedience and as such can produce unfair outcomes and unequal treatment of some clubs.

Apologies for the long post but this is detailed and important stuff, how clubs are treated in these process matters and can’t be dealt with in click bait - In the end we thank the judges for their time and we move forward ❤️💙

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Four years ago today to seal a win at Manchester City.

One of my favourite recent Palace goals, the anticipation of the break in the dying moments, the little set from Olise, the finish. It’s a thing of beauty.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Whilst it’s tempting to say the FA Cup Final, it’s still the 2-2 draw Palace got away at Sheffield Wednesday in May 2010 for me.

A 10 point deduction, players not paid for months, likely extinction if we lost, 6,000 in the away end. Pure relief. ❤️💙

[Holmesdale Road @holmesdale_road]

Sky Sports News interview on CPFC led anti UEFA dissent.

“The protests will continue both inside & outside the stadium against UEFA & those that we feel have altered the culture of football in this country in a negative way over the last 30 years.”

[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

@HLTCO This and Ambrose again Utd in the league cup. Also doesn’t technically count but honourable mention to Ian Wrights overhead kick at Geoff Thomas’ testimonial.

[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

@HLTCO Also the amount of time it seems to take refs to allow players back on the field after receiving treatment, often at a disadvantage due to having fewer players on the field and are stood thier waiting often defending too!

[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

@HLTCO The ridiculous off sides we now have. His elbow was offside, his ear lobe, Christ if I played my nose would always be offside. Really ruined it.

If I’m honest VAR too or its current incarnation because it’s an absolute joke.

[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

@FBAwayDays Blackpool back in the early 2000s only 3 stands and no cover got absolutely pissed on 😂

[Steve Parish @CEO4TAG]

What a day for Palace and South London. a dream come true, from watching the FA cup as a kid, through all the heartbreaks to finally get our name on the trophy and qualify for Europe means the world 🦅 ❤️💙🦅

[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

@Bennyumbongo @StokeyyG2 That’s only PL top he actually has a 47 in 48 record in total

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

Yeah, this is already the advert of 2025.

[Jon @SpurzForEver]

Any other team we would be gushing about it fact 💯😎🤝

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

“It must be so boring being a #CPFC fan!” 😴

“In the last 5 years, they’ve finished between 11th & 14th. You have to concentrate on cups!”

Gabby Agbonlahor slams Roy Hodgson for not going all out against #EFC, last night. 😱

[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

@jamalthetenth @adam_deadman Exactly this as a Palace fan, I didn’t think I’d make it back in time from work to catch it but sadly I did

[Norwich City FC @NorwichCityFC]

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[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

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[Jay Harding @Jay_Harding]

@samthesparks 💯%see this far too often