@talkSPORT How about waiting until the process plays out instead screaming from the roof tops about punishments. Stuart Pearce you are a disgrace. Expect nothing else from Stelling. Piss poor media coverage. All one sided.
The more you strip this #ManCity case back, the more extraordinary it becomes.
We are effectively being asked to accept that hundreds of millions of pounds were allegedly moved through a vast disguised-funding scheme, while the Commission reportedly found no direct evidence that a key individual - widely rumoured to be Sheikh Mansour - knew of or authorised it.
City’s position is even more fundamental: the money was not owner funding in the first place.
Then allegations this serious - allegations which, in substance, resemble deliberate corporate deception - are being determined inside a Premier League disciplinary process on the civil balance of probabilities...can you imagine any allegation against you being tried on the ‘balance of probabilities’?
If people genuinely believe City committed fraud, then test that allegation in a criminal court under a criminal standard of proof. Don’t casually use the language of fraud while pretending a private football process is the same thing.
Meanwhile, the same ownership has poured enormous investment into Manchester - jobs, housing, infrastructure and regeneration. Even if you believe City committed these allegations, the over reporting of sponsorship money would have invested extra millions into the UK economy.
And there is another part of this that too many people refuse to confront: the racialised hostility around City’s ownership.
You do not have to call every critic racist to recognise how often “Arab money”, “oil state”, foreignness and cultural suspicion are used as shorthand to delegitimise the club and its owners.
Criticise the evidence. Criticise the governance. Criticise the decisions.
But don’t pretend the tone around #ManCity has always been neutral.
Well, what can we say…other than a huge thank you for the support at the Myerson BBQ.
It is always a pleasure to host our Annual BBQ, gathering together for an evening of networking and meeting new friends. Thank you all again for joining us!
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@altrinchamhq People that hide behind a computer to preach such hate are clearly very weak , cowardly and most probably jealous of who they are attacking. Well done for staying strong.