Patricia Åslin

Teacher, Mother, Wife. Crazy about football, music, literature,movies and TV. Depeche Mode, Lenny Kravitz, George Michael, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. Man Utd❤️

[John Cross @johncrossmirror]

Premier League has become a farce amid this uncertainty… Man City results feel meaningless in the meantime https://t.co/7tfKqbNPMY

[Oliver Holt @OllieHolt22]

Manchester City's players behaved with the smug arrogance of men who appeared to believe they were embarking on the first stage of a redemption tour at Anfield on Sunday. It was part of the 'we do what we want' culture that dominates the modern club https://t.co/mKiCwDC1eW

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

The Premier League will continue to be a farce while City, a club found guilty of 114 charges, are allowed to play in it. How meaningless this all is.

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Sickening. Haaland asks for a red. Then he scores. The league has zero integrity at the moment. It's a farce

[Wayne Barton @WayneSBarton]

When you see Erling Haaland scoring and the City fans celebrating as if the club has been persecuted and not been found to be the biggest cheats in football history, you understand why everything that now happens - a continued product of the cheating - badly stains the league

[Jan Eliasson @JanKEliasson]

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Navi Pillay, is a champion of human rights known for her clear and courageous stands,
When praised for this,she says:
“Why should telling the truth
require courage?”

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

Wonderful group we are joining.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Today, the U.S. is sanctioning the ICC and doing a deal with Putin who faces an ICC arrest warrant.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows

[kyama @kyamawebb23]

Okay, I think that we all need to admit that the US has passed the point of no return. When an execution by firing squad is going to be livestreamed, you know you're no longer living in a civilized nation.

[Covie @covie_93]

So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???

[Grå Hanna @gra7987]

Samma dag som Navi Pillay tilldelas Nobels fredspris för sitt arbete med internationell rätt inför USA sanktioner mot ICC. Galenskapen är glasklar. När rättvisan hotar makten angriper makten rättvisan. https://t.co/oyo65fzdlg

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Oliver Glasner: “I hope Manchester City case verdict will arrive quickly”.

“The most important thing is the integrity of the league because as soon as the fans can’t trust it, they won’t watch it anymore”, told The Times.

[Jan Eliasson @JanKEliasson]

@washingtonpost How about a public hanging outside the Pentagon preceded by a speech of the Secretary of War?
Welcome to Medieval times.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Live execution ?? Is this where we are now ?

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

‼️ City Are Guilty. Now Make the Punishment Fit the Crime

I’ve written a lot about the Manchester City case over the years and people have often asked me the same question:

What punishment would you impose if the findings survive appeal?

Well, here it is.

Finish this Premier League season, but impose a points deduction sufficient to guarantee relegation and, subject to acceptance, allow the EFL to place them wherever they see fit.

Then:

- No parachute payments.

- 30 point deduction the following season.

- 20 points the season after that.

- 10 points the season after that.

- Three years of severe transfer spending restrictions.

- Strip the domestic honours directly affected, including those after the initial investigatory period, and leave them vacant. No retrospective champions.

- Pay compensation where rival clubs can demonstrate genuine financial loss.

And finally, any owners, directors or senior executives implicated in the wrongdoing (potentially: Sheikh Mansour, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Ferran Soriano, Danny Wilson, Claire Catlin, Txiki Begiristain etc.) should face the regulator’s suitability process and, where they fail it, be banned from English football.

I don’t want Manchester City Football Club destroyed forever. City supporters, Liam Gallagher included, didn’t devise financial schemes or sit around boardroom tables constructing sham arrangements.

I want the competitive advantage gained through years of rule breaking destroyed, and those responsible held accountable.

One enormous points deduction followed by promotion and business as usual wouldn’t cut it.

The consequences should follow City for years.

Because if nine seasons of serious financial wrongdoing can ultimately be overcome with one bad season and a large cheque, what deterrent is there?

Make the punishment hurt. Make it last. Make sure nobody ever considers doing it again.

[Victor Pressfeldt @vpressfeldt]

Jag har gått igenom Valmyndighetens drygt 5 000 incidentrapporter från valet. Flera kopplar ett parti till kampanj vid eller i en röstningslokal. SD förekommer i flest. Ca 30 beskriver främlingsfientliga eller rasistiska påhopp. Här är detaljerna: https://t.co/jbgeCpmDxB

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

🚨💣This is something else. Read this.

Ferran Soriano, CEO of Man City. But he is also the guy who represents English club football in Europe.

He was vice president of Barça during 2003-2008. During this exact time (it’s Laporta’s first tenure) — Barça’s notorious payments to the — then CURRENT — VP of the referee organization, Negreira, increased significantly, from about €100k per year to €500k per year. The payments are not denied, they are not a rumor. Everything has been exposed. Barca officials withdrew the money in cash from one bank, walked over the street to another bank and deposited it on accounts controlled by Negreira. Untraceable — until Negreira lost it when Barça stopped paying him and started to black mail them. A ton of traces was left. During a tax audit — everything was uncovered.

From Barca’s POV, it’s like say Chelsea had paid Howard Webb €700,000 a year under the table. Barça claimed that they paid Negreira to write reports on refs and record games on VHS from the Euros and the World Cups. No coach have ever seen any ref reports. It will have no consequence in Spain. To get a sporting sanction for bribing a ref — it must be discovered within 36 months (absurdly short). Laporta has explained that Barca was just paying for what Real got for free — ie “fair” refereeing. It’s funny, because when you add up like red cards received/given — Barca had +43 and Real -5 (2003-2018).

Did Soriano know of this? He was Laporta’s closest guy. Responsible for finances. But just to be clear — there is no evidence of it.

That is just the start of it. Soriano left Barça involved in a big spy scandal which led to him being prosecuted in court. Soriano had allegedly engaged a security firm to spy on people to find leaks from the Barca organization. He was cleared of the charges. It’s funny, plenty of Laporta’s pals are prosecuted in court for crimes, but never convicted by the Catalonian courts.

So what happens next, there is a 3 year gap after leaving Barca accused of crimes and joining City. Was he occupied by the court proceedings?

Nope, Ferran Soriano became the chairman of Spanair. A top job. Three years later — Spanair was no longer. Spain was an airline shorter. It went bankrupt. New court proceedings followed. Ferran Soriano was ordered to pay a €10.8m to creditors and he was disqualified as acting as a director for any company. Both of which he later was acquitted on appeal.

So he goes to City and becomes one of the main persons in Project Longbow (the plan to fake sponsor income). City gets fined by UEFA, in steps Ferran Soriano and makes a deal with Gianni Infantino (circumventing the UEFA body that was in charge of the proceeding). Infantino always knew how to make friends and gain favors.

Since Man City have been the best English club in Europe, they got to nominate England’s representative at the European Club Association (ECA) — the most powerful organization next to UEFA, with whom UEFA cooperates very closely regarding club football. It is one of the most powerful roles in football.

At a recent meeting in Copenhagen with the ECA, Ferran Soriano in relation to City’s being convicted of 114 charges, took time to declare that “it has taken eight years to reach this point” for the Premier League, and that “it will still take much more time” before anything is final.

City, the club he has been a CEO for, for over a decade, was just found guilty of 114 of 115 charges.

Can anyone tell me why the heck this guy is representing English football in Europe? He hasn’t been convicted of anything — but honestly, is he suitable? What other prominent positions in football are held by City nominees like this?

@Grok Please let me know if I got any facts wrong in this text. 👇

[Kata @utdshows]

🚨🎙️ José Mourinho on Manchester City’s financial charges:

🗣️ “I don’t think people quite understand the magnitude of this situation.

City ruined title races.
City affected relegation battles.
City cost clubs European spots.
City got managers sacked.

If the charges are ultimately upheld, you’re talking about years of Premier League history that could have been affected.

Everton were deducted six points for one breach.

Manchester City have been found guilty of 114.

That’s 684 points if you use the same six-point deduction for every charge.

Obviously, I’m not saying that’s how the punishment should work. I’m saying that when you look at the scale of the findings, you understand why people are demanding serious consequences.

Serie A relegated its biggest club for a whole lot less.

This is potentially one of the biggest scandals football has ever seen, and it cannot simply disappear because Manchester City are one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Because if the rules were broken on this scale, it is not only Manchester City who were affected.

The entire competition was affected.

That is why this is so serious.” 👀

[Oliver Holt @OllieHolt22]

I hate the idea of asterisks or spaces where winners’ names should be. It feels like a desecration of football’s history. But after the guilty verdicts, I don’t see any other way - City should be relegated from the PL and stripped of titles won since 2009 https://t.co/WVzrh61iyU