#ManCity statement:
Following today’s publication of the Rule X Arbitral Tribunal Award, Manchester City Football Club thanks the distinguished members of the Arbitral Tribunal for their work and considerations and welcomes their findings:
- The Club has succeeded with its claim: the Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules have been found to be unlawful and the Premier League’s decisions on two specific MCFC sponsorship transactions have been set aside
- The Tribunal found that both the original APT rules and the current, (amended) APT Rules violate UK competition law and violate the requirements of procedural fairness.
- The Premier League was found to have abused its dominant position.
- The Tribunal has determined both that the rules are structurally unfair and that the Premier League was specifically unfair in how it applied those rules to the Club in practice.
- The rules were found to be discriminatory in how they operate, because they deliberately excluded shareholder loans.
- As well as these general findings on legality, the Tribunal has set aside specific decisions of the Premier League to restate the fair market value of two transactions entered into by the Club.
- The tribunal held that the Premier League had reached the decisions in a procedurally unfair manner.
- The Tribunal also ruled that there was an unreasonable delay in the Premier League’s fair market value assessment of two of the Club’s sponsorship transactions, and so the Premier League breached its own rules.
As Madrid win the penalties, people say what a show of resistance, perfect defending, defensive masterstroke
If they had lost the penalties: Real didn't attack, it is not the way to defend agaisnt City, how can Real play this way
In fact, what happened: City was superb, just needed that de Bruyne chance to go in or Halland header to hit the bar and go in.
Real Madrid couldn't do much more than they did. City did a huge amount of things, but needed a little bit of luck
@tmbc_waste any ideas when you’ll be emptying the blue bins missed last week due to the tornado? SK15 3JG postcode, area is a mess as it is due to damage without overflowing bins adding to it!