Jared Botha 🇿🇦

LFC⚽️

[kat @hekitikehive]

won’t be following the Wirtz hate trend when you guys backed Nunez from start to finish

[Overlap Daily @ThatsFootballTV]

“They’ve stolen memories from everyone else!” 😤

Gerrard speaks about the memories he feels were taken away by Manchester City.

Watch the latest episode of Overlap Daily at 4pm on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts 🙌⚽️

[AJ @AJ__SR7]

Honestly just hate them

Even cringe watching their players running this siege mentality bullshit

It’s not ‘you against the world’

YOU are the problem

Just dish out the point deduction and send them into irrelevancy

[Trev Downey @downeytrev]

Stomach churning to look at Maresca gloating and this lot staying on the pitch celebrating with their fans.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

How long is the stench of the “sham” going to corrode the meaning, worth, and very essence of the Premier League?

Listening to commentary about Manchester City’s players matching the defiance of their ownership and triumphing in adversity.

Listening to fans chorusing the names of the men running the club, wearing masks or displaying banners of their faces and jibing: “We’re Man City, we’ll cheat when we want.”

Victory being framed as “a lovely moment,” a show of togetherness as though some grave injustice has been imposed on City, rather than their hierarchy being found by an independent commission to have orchestrated financial doping on an industrial scale.

Their opponents and the rest of us wondering if any of this actually matters now and how much of it ever did?

There can be no business as usual pretence. We need a full stop to the absurdity.

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

This league just truly feels meaningless now. #LFC

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Man City can appeal I get that. The frustration tonight is with the Premier League and media who want us to carry on like everything is normal for the next however many months. YOU told us they were guilty. Stop pretending we can carry on as normal

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

@Blueninja658 Come on man

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

Get stuck in lads. UP THE REDS🔥🤘🔴

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

The Reds are back.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

"Get lost! How dare you ruin what's part of our country, our DNA in this country."

Ian Holloway had some very strong words when asked about the Man City charges.

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

I am actually speechless man…

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think.

In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards.

Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted.

City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it.

From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system.

From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.”

If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor.

We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?”

And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

@City_Chief

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

@lledrok DARK

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Enzo Maresca addressing the Manchester City squad:

[FlorianFlicks @FlorianFocus]

I still can't believe that Carragher had the audacity to say "what we're seeing is what he is" about Wirtz after a bad performance

Isn't he ashamed of himself for saying something like that? Even just a little bit

[Braden (Fan) 🐦‍🔥 @Braden_LFC]

Wirtz after scoring and then getting a Klopp hug

[𝕱𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖚𝖓𝖊🎭 @LFC_Fortune86]

FLORIAN WIRTZ SCORES HIS FIRST GOAL UNDER KLOPP😭❤

[Stunner @Stunner_Lfc]

Jurgen klopp unlocked Florian Wirtz 😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

So glad to see him smiling again man! Hopefully we can change up this unbalanced midfield so he can marshal games like today 💫 🪄 #LFC

[FlorianFlicks @FlorianFocus]

Wirtz after the game

“The players around me made things a lot easier for me today. There was so much movement around me and when I have that, it becomes much easier for me to shine again.”

[Jared Botha 🇿🇦 @JaredBotha7]

Ffs

[Financial Times @FT]

Manchester City chair shielded by diplomatic immunity https://t.co/CTGCBARtcV