ProjecTRon 🏆

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[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 - 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗱? 🪦

It’s not about the cheating.

Sure, they smuggled hundreds upon hundreds of millions of owner funding into the club, disguised as sponsor revenue (as well as paying staff and overheads off-book) gaining a huge illicit advantage that meant they could outspend all competition. Yes, it’s what enabled them to cheat their way to all that tainted silverware and fully corrupt the integrity of the league. But you know what? If the League earnestly believed they could rein in Man City with regular sanctions, I think they would do.

Hell, if Man City had plead out at the start, they might have got away with a mere relegation.

But it’s about how they responded to getting caught that means these owners won’t be permitted to remain in the League.

After the initial Der Speigel leak, Uefa went for them, at pace. Man City refused to cooperate or share evidence. Uefa sanctioned them. At CAS, Uefa shat the bed and Man City were let off. But shortly after that, Der Speigel leaked more emails which demonstrated Club officials and senior business leaders had lied - committed perjury - to get Man City off. They were caught with their pants down; their shame out there for everyone to see. No ambiguity. No missing context. Clear as day. They cheated and lied about it.

Yet when the Premier League sought to investigate, again, Man City refused to comply. So the League took them to arbitration to force them. Man City lost and yet they still refused to comply. Instead, they took the matter to the High Court and Court of Appeal… and lost twice again. Only then did they comply (whether they’d tried to sabotage the original evidence by then, who knows - I’d put nothing past them).

Throughout, Man City have demonstrated a total preparedness to corrupt the integrity of the competitions they are in and a refusal to
accept the authority of the leagues to protect that integrity. Instead, they sought to conduct highly expensive lawfare to evade justice.

You cannot allow such a powerful, malign actor to be part of your collective. They’re simply too dangerous. You just have to expel them.

That’s why I have suspected the Independent Commission will recommend expulsion and sufficient clubs would vote for it.

What could save them? A sacrifice. A fall guy. Someone that can take all the blame and walk away. The thing is, there are very few people who this could credibly be. Based on the leaked emails, it would have to be the entire executive for sure as well as Simon Pearce. But also, one of Khaldoon or Mansour.

Given Khaldoon’s been put front and centre with the media for dealings with world leaders lately… and Mansour has basically been hidden away, with hit pieces out connecting him to the genocide in Sudan… I don’t think it’s a stretch to believe Mansour would be the one taking the bullet.

Take the fines, compensation claims, stripped titles, and relegation on the chin and agree to sell the club to prevent expulsion.

One or the other it must be. And hopefully, this summer, not next.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

This analysis shows the scale of the sporting impact from Man City’s cheating.

The hidden equity was able to directly or indirectly fund EVERY major transfer from 2011/12 until now.

Every trophy under this ownership is tainted.

Every. Single. One.

[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

[FAREEDA KIRI🌹🌹🌹🌹 @Faridatu001]

🔴⚪ Arsenal lost against Southampton last season in the FA cup, Skysports went to the players the following day one by one to interview them on how they beat Arsenal 😂

Man city beat Arsenal in the Carabo cup, they made a whole interview for the players... Doku, Semeyon, Bernado silva all granted interview to talk about it.

Bournemouth win at the Emirates last season, Sky Sports show up at Alex Scott's house. His own house o. Just to talk about beating Arsenal.

As if that's not enough, I'm seeing Fabian Hutzeler right now on @talksports where he was explaining how he won against us last weekend. 😂

And this season alone, Premier League has made over 4 different videos breaking down Arteta's Arsenal. Four. I was asking the other day, when will they make for other teams 😂

Omo, whether you like it or not, Arsenal is not on your level. We are far, far ahead of everybody else in this league. That's why beating us is the biggest story of your season.

I'm enjoying every bit of this. 😏

COYG 🔴⚪

[SensibleTakes @SardarGooner]

This was Manchester City as defending champions

[🎁 @Valnoon13]

The linesman in the Manchester Derby watching all this play out after he correctly ruled city's goal out for offside😭

[Rory Talks Football @Rory_Talks_Ball]

Final thing on the offside goal

I’m not buying PGMOL’s claim that Matt Donahue VAR simply failed to recognise that Enzo attempted to play the ball

He spent a good minute rocking back and forth to see if Enzo got his head to the ball, he physically couldn’t have missed that Enzo attempted to play the ball

The reality in my opinion, is that he completely forgot the laws of the game relating to interfering from an offside position. He looked only at whether Enzo touched the ball, because he thought that was the only rule he needed to look at.

And THAT, raises enormous questions over the standards of Premier League officials

[ProjecTRon 🏆 @nickozic]

@JustOsogo My brother-in-law. SIP 🕊

[Rory Talks Football @Rory_Talks_Ball]

Hilarious this narrative that is desperately being pushed about Arsenal benefitting from referees

The only actual clear and obvious mistake made in an Arsenal game this season went against us

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: The Premier League's Key Match Incident Panel has concluded that there was one missed VAR intervention at Villa Park. They believed Arsenal should've been awarded a penalty for Ian Maatsen's challenge on Bruno Guimarães 🚨

[SV *Champions of England* @SVCarbaholic]

Arsenal need to continue to bully and oppress everyone in the league cos when this stuff and the broken legs to our players were happening all we were told was that we were too soft and weak

[ProjecTRon 🏆 @nickozic]

This looks scary. I didn't realize the seriousness of the collision watching all those years back.

[Champ Àyó @Mr_Practus]

This guy was literally stars 🌟. The goal stood, we called it out then but we were told to suck it up and call out our players for being soffft but now who’s crying all over TL😅😅😅

[Champ Àyó @Mr_Practus]

This guy was literally stars 🌟. The goal stood, we called it out then but we were told to suck it up and call out our players for being soffft but now who’s crying all over TL😅😅😅

[Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @timstillman_]

I try not to bring up ancient grievances because it's a waste of energy ultimately, but the referee who allowed that Alonso goal should never have refereed again.

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

Well them going to prison isn’t viewed as a joke so there’s that. A lot of comedies are about people getting out of messed up situations.

Them being locked up and all the unfair roadblocks they run into are supposed to make you upset. Make you uncomfortable. Make you think. The movie is full of laughs but also tragedies.

One inmate had a baby with the wardens daughter but can’t claim the child or they’ll kill him. He loves the wardens daughter and she loves him, but their family can’t happen.

Another inmate purposely gets himself killed because he doesn’t think his family back home will love him when they find out his sexual orientation.

Eddie and Martin are examples of not losing spirit against insurmountable odds.

I say that to say it doesn’t make light of prison or the era in which it takes place. A reminder of how things used to be and that it was not that long ago. Still happens. Most of the time without a happy ending. It is a deep movie disguised as a comedy.

Sometimes that’s the best way to get important messages across

“A spoon full of sugar, helps the medicine go down.”

Can you dig it?

[Fan_Monty @AFC_Monty_]

Timeline unanimously said this wasn’t a red card btw.

[𝐌 @MooreRMFC]

If we want to rejuvenate football we need to curb the over reliance on stat padding and G/A.

EPL as a case study; after GW3 Bruno has 4 G/A and he’s been only decent in only 1 game.

Cherki & Ødegaard have been better in all 3 games but if for instance the league ends today Bruno will have a higher chance to win the best player.

Same goes for Ballon D’Or, we need to always look at the bigger picture and if we do this, defenders and GKs will have chances to win the ultimate awards too.

[Kai Havertz @kaihavertz29]

LDN. Still red.

[ProjecTRon 🏆 @nickozic]

@cagiago_

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

They were talking about “beating Arsenal will change the trajectory of our project”

Now its “we put up a fight against the Champions, I see positives”

We are THE STANDARD.