James Junior McKeon

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[The White Rabbit @TheWyteRabbit1]

And just like that… everybody stopped talking about the Epstein Files.

[James Junior McKeon @jjmckeon]

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[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.

[James Junior McKeon @jjmckeon]

@andyburnham

[Opac Jr @OP4C]

Since this tweet Aston Villa have had two top 4 finishes, a Champions league quarter Final, and won the Europa Cup.

Birmingham City failed to finish higher than 10th and got relegated to League 1.

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[James Junior McKeon @jjmckeon]

@delves1 Ye aged well this one

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

👀 "How dare you say that!"

🤣 "Guff boy!"

Funny Welsh caller clashes with Jason Cundy! 🤣 #england #wales

[James Junior McKeon @jjmckeon]

@TheWyteRabbit1 🤦🏽‍♂️

[Muslim @Muslim]

🇹🇷 🇵🇸 Turkish fans welcomed the Palestine National Team with MASSIVE stadium tribute during a friendly match against Konyaspor

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🚨🇮🇪 Troy Parrott (24) for Ireland. 😳

That is INCREDIBLE. 👏

[Alexei @MUFC_redarmy99]

Hang on so they were allowed to spend £400m even though they knew they were guilty, while clubs like Villa had to sell their whole team to follow the rules.

A disgrace.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Guilty, guilty, sham and shame. How on earth can Manchester City appeal a verdict as devastating and damning as the one passed down by the independent commission investigating breaches of financial regulations? City will appeal, of course, and it’s their right under Premier League rules. They clearly will appeal, claiming the verdict is “unsafe” but they are surely simply delaying the inevitable punishment, making themselves even more unpopular, damaging their club and the game further.

For justice to truly prevail in this case, punishment has to be swift. For City to start the long journey back on the road to redemption, they have to take their medicine. These are dark days in the history of the Premier League and they are darkest at the Etihad. City's owners have to see the light, accept their guilt and begin the process of rehabilitation.

An appeal involving deny, deny, delay, delay, shreds any sporting integrity this season has. The thought of this taking years to resolve – doubtless via the High Court - feels potentially ruinous, certainly deeply damaging, for the sport. How many people will be turned off by a league stained by a constantly updated asterix, by a sport effectively run by lawyers. City have to take their medicine now.

For sporting competitions to survive and thrive, there has to be a willingness on all parties to play fair on and off the field. That may sound naive, an outdated purist principle, but it matters to many. A few engaged in the game will take short-cuts but one of the reasons why the Premier League is so followed around the world is because of the perception of its essential honesty.

Players give everything from first minute to last. Promoted teams can occasionally trouble the established order. But industrial-level cooking of the books highlighted in the independent commission’s report, effectively allowing City, regular champions, to spend more on players will shake confidence in the competition.

City’s owners have to think very carefully, not least about their own and their famous club’s reputational damage. Read the room. Read the statement. How can they possibly answer the powerful, damning language used in detailing the offences devised to circumvent FFP. Others were playing by the rules, City were bending them, the commission found. City fans can argue that FFP/PSR/SCR rules are anti-competitive, and protect the “cartel” as they see it, but City signed up to the rules.

And, then, in the words of the Premier League CEO Richard Masters, “systematically broke” those rules for “nearly a decade”. Masters deserves to feel vindicated for his quiet, firm leadership of the league in this long, tense case against such a wealthy, self-confident member.

Many of the 40 pages of findings in the "core decision" contain blow after blow to City. If the Premier League versus Manchester City were a boxing bout, the referee would have stepped in. “Sham contracts”, “misstated accounts”, “concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators”. “Egregious acts of non-cooperation”. Basically, deception writ large.

A phrase that will now pass into the annals of footballing infamy is the “Disguised Funding Scheme” whereby companies “were only required to pay a portion of the relevant sponsorship fees. The remainder was funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd”. ADUG. City’s owners. The “Disguised Funding Scheme” basically overstated sponsorship income by £830.69m. A staggering amount.

This is now not about Manchester City the club, but Manchester City the ownership, including the chief executive Ferran Soriano. They have to stop embarrassing the club and the sport. They have to stop letting down their fans. City’s owners have to consider the relentless abuse coming the way of fans, players and coaching staff in games to come, starting when entering what will be a bear-pit at Anfield on October 11.

Soriano, assuming he attends, can expect a particularly uncomfortable afternoon in his seat and in the Liverpool boardroom. It’s hard to see how he keeps his job – if City’s appeal fails. Fit and proper person?

In continuing to protest their innocence, City claim they have “irrefutable evidence” to defend themselves. If so, why weren’t three independent judges persuaded? City have had long enough, employed exceptional briefs, and still lost.

Having been found guilty of doing the wrong thing, City now have to do the right thing and that is accept the inevitability of sanctions and seek some form of settlement with the Premier League. They will not, of course: too proud, too defiant, still too convinced of their innocence despite the weight of this report. They will become outcasts even without yet being cast out. That is to come.

City's owners have to acknowledge the impact their activities had on other clubs, and accept the considerable compensation claims flooding their way from other clubs they pipped to trophies, possibly even from players. If they’re sensible they will look for a settlement that includes substantial compensation, running into hundreds of millions of pounds, to aggrieved clubs who missed out on trophies, on prize money. Maybe that £830.69m should be the figure considered in any settlement. Fitting.

City's owners have to see sense. The alternative is years and fortunes spent in the courts. Nobody wins. Except the lawyers. Football loses, because the game remains on hold until City are punished.

[Jermaine Pennant @pennant83]

Cooked the books and basically said we’ve made £900 Million in revenue is absolutely WILD. Said we got £340 million sponsors and commercial etc etc. when only really got £43 million 🤣🤣🤣. Teams have been robbed titles and trophies…. Before you all go, it was won on the pitch the players deserve it…..

If you’d gone by the rules like Newcastle, like Aston Villa you wouldn’t probably have half those players!!! Man City moving absolutely wild 🤣🤣 thought they would get away with it as well, hahahaha zero sympathy, now use are f@#*ed take all your trophies to the championship. #mancity

[Paa Manuel @PaamanuelUtd_]

Prime Pogba

[رحمان @Ra__mmi]

Olise is a mad mannnnn !!! https://t.co/eRqSwBknKr

[James Junior McKeon @jjmckeon]

@Utdchief001 🤣🤣

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9

[James Junior McKeon @jjmckeon]

@ARoberts2016 @StevenSeagFan83 @Jonah_238 😂😂

[JP Online @JP_FlipsnSlips]

What a goal this was from #avfc

[ady @avfcady]

So we get smashed by Brighton first game. Down to 10 for majority of the game. 5 players missing.

‘Villa are going down - too much change’

Arsenal get smashed 3 nil by Brighton.

‘Brighton were brilliant’

Arsenal were full strength, no?

Funny old game #avfc #afc #bhafc

[James Junior McKeon @jjmckeon]

@AVFC_Connor_ 😴