Franklie

[Franklie @boremyself]

@Knox_Harrington Losing to them is always grim but today was very bleak. I’d been ok with their players and my mates who are city fans. Not their fault etc. But they’re lapping it up and the whole thing is a farce. The naysayers & gaa boys were right. Why would anyone pretend this is sport?

[Franklie @boremyself]

@NiecyOKeeffe Ah jeez. I hope you get the best possible news

[Franklie @boremyself]

@JamieBrysonLLB Why are you offering commentary on a statement you wrote?

[Franklie @boremyself]

@JamieBrysonLLB You’re so desperate to be downtrodden that you forget how much is still weighted in favour of the unionist community. The law has to take a back seat for the 12th celebrations to go ahead. We’ll see if you’re still pushing for robust enforcement next summer.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@DrWHKitchen What an appalling post this is. If you genuinely see some sort of equivalence here, you are beyond redemption.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@macbloschaidh @LitterOlivia @BelTel @irish_news @Independent_ie @BBCnireland @CoolFMNews Why would that be bad news for me? I have some experience in this area and I’d find it hilarious if they want to get themselves in trouble like that.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@macbloschaidh @LitterOlivia @BelTel @irish_news @Independent_ie @BBCnireland @CoolFMNews Legal aid will likely have been granted to the applicant. I’d guess one of the intended marchers or another orange order member who is deemed to have standing. Bryson won’t be getting paid through legal aid - either directly or indirectly.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@Anfieldlnsider Incredible player. One of few who could add genuine power to a header from a wafted cross as well. And that was nowhere near his main thing

[Franklie @boremyself]

@JamieBrysonLLB Utter bullshit. They’re likely horrified that you’ve become their spokesperson and wish you’d never raised Drumcree.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@philh77 @davidlynchlfc The avenues of challenge are limited. Of course, a team of exceptional lawyers with endless resources might be able to pick some holes in the panel’s approach. But it is safe to say that those same lawyers were not armed with irrefutable exculpatory evidence.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@Billers26 @philh77 @davidlynchlfc No, it wouldn’t. Because then City’s lawyers would have accused the panel of failing to have regard to all of the evidence. It takes time to do this properly. City’s approach has been to prolong at every opportunity

[Franklie @boremyself]

@BelfastBooks Your Orwellian tendencies have literally taken you back to 1984.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@prmikes @davidyelland @GaryJamesWriter Ha ha ha. All the information is in the headline. Certainly for a keen student of subtlety, such as yourself.
Your use of the word persecution reinforces the view that you’re either gullible or wilfully refusing to engage with what has happened.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@prmikes @davidyelland @GaryJamesWriter Can I just double check that you can read? They weren’t informed before City and would have been entitled to early notice having instigated protective proceedings.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@lfc_arrow Massive congrats to you and the whole family. Welcome little red.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@BackseatsmanLFC I’d pretty much resigned myself to becoming one of those dads who likes the football but wouldn’t know who they were playing this weekend. Then Jurgen came along with this lot and I was as invested as I’ve ever been.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@JamieBrysonLLB Must be really depressing when your whole identity is professing loyalty to people who find you repellent.

[Franklie @boremyself]

@CoybigC @Miknanimus @1PatDunne1 Why are you talking like an internet teenager when you’re a bleak 55 year old?

[Franklie @boremyself]

@JamieBrysonLLB I think if you say mob and control a few more times then the message will really hit home.

[Franklie @boremyself]

Sham Phishy FC

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything.

Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report.

The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took.

It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems.

This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday.

📝 @jwhitey98: https://t.co/iZ74j9gKJE