Tom

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

We're at the stage where Manchester City fans are unearthing stories from 1910 to find precedent.

1910 ffs.

▪️ Before the Spanish Flu.
▪️ Before World War 1.
▪️ Before the Titanic.

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

I will never EVER forget this moment at stupid o clock in the morning…

Best England moment in recent time 😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

Ian Wright on Man City's owners🗣️

"I have nothing but DISTASTE for the owners & what they've done"😡

"They are very very wealthy people & they could've done this properly, but they didn't because it's just a vanity project!"💸

"They do NOT care about ANYTHING! English football, what the fans think, They don't care about ANYTHING"❌

"They just wanted to win for PR, This is all for PR, THIS IS BOLLOCKS"🤬

{@WeAreTheOverlap}

[Alex Crook ⚽️🎙 @alex_crook]

Pretty sure the Prime Minister should have more pressing things to deal with right now than an independent Premier League commission and as for Etihad getting involved, the latest staggering development in a truly wild situation. Desperate times call for desperate measures?

[Wayne Barton @WayneSBarton]

Burnham statements, Etihad making threats, the IFR ought to be taking notes on all this because the only logical outcome is to ban and remove state ownership from football.

Manchester City’s determination to cheat shouldn’t be a matter of national and international politics.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

The Manchester sign gets an update…

18+ GambleAware

[Alex Crook ⚽️🎙 @alex_crook]

The Premier League statement pulls no punches. The use of the word 'sham' five times is particularly cutting and the numbers involved are simply staggering. It's cheating on an industrial scale yet the club continue to protest their innocence.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"Do you apologise to football fans? The Premier League says 'sham' contracts, is this a 'sham' club?"

@RobHarris questions Man City chief executive Ferran Soriano after the club was found guilty of all charges related to Premier League's financial rules

https://t.co/3A2kYsOcCZ

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🎙️ Speaking in 2020, Arsène Wenger was asked about Manchester City and their financial fair play case.

🗣️ He joked: "They bought all my players! If there’s no respect for the rules then it’s not real sport."

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Manchester City owners’ damaging strategy of appeal, deny and delay will inflict untold damage on countless people. It will inflict damage on this season’s Premier League which is effectively on hold with an unpunished City still involved. It inflicts further damage on the reputation of the world’s most popular sports league. It casts a cloud over the league for seasons to come, for as long as they drag the sport through the courts which they could do.

City owners’ refusal to accept responsibility in the face of overwhelming evidence against them further hardens anger towards the club. The strategy inflicts further damage on a 146-year-old club whose reputation was made by the honest endeavour and thrilling football of that outstanding team of the late 60s and 70s. The actions of City’s current owners risk trashing a historic club’s reputation.

Appeal, deny, delay inflicts further turmoil on the lives of their supporters. City fans’ innate defiance may waver when getting called cheat relentlessly. City fans didn’t cheat. Their club owners did with “sham contracts”, according to the findings of a long, forensic review by an independent commission. But it is City fans facing the consequences of their owners’ book-cookery – in the stands, on the streets, at work. A storm of scorn.

Do City owners also not think of their head coach, Enzo Maresca, and how every press conference will be an inquisition? Every player interview? Every arrival at an away stadium?

Do they not think of all the vital work done by City in the Community, the club’s charitable wing currently trying to celebrate 40 years of helping disadvantaged local people, and how their conduct impacts that?

Appeal, deny, delay damages Abu Dhabi’s own reputation. Do they actually care about football? About pressure on innocent, hard-working staff? About integrity? City’s owners have done plenty of good in East Manchester but that work now seems tainted.

Do they not care about the millions of people in this country who love football. Some may now, because of sham contracts and appeal, deny, delay, simply turn away from the national sport?

Do the owners worry about the UAE’s image? The behaviour of City’s owners is now a diplomatic issue between the UK and the UAE. And good luck to our new ambassador to the UAE, Geraldine McCafferty, who took up the position last month and will need all her diplomatic skills acquired in Sarajevo, Bogota and Beijing.

If they had a shred of responsibility, City owners would call off the lawyers, accept the independent commission’s findings, take the punishment and seek some settlement with the Premier League over compensation to other clubs. Appeal, deny, delay helps nobody.

[Wayne Barton @WayneSBarton]

It’s wild, it’s genuinely the biggest scandal in the history of football and maybe even sport overall.

Nothing they did since 2008 counts for anything. Nothing they achieved means anything.

[Daily Mail Sport @MailSport]

Hull City owner Acun Ilicali insists Manchester City are 'no different to a doping athlete'

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

😡 Roy Keane on Man City's 115 charge guilty verdict:

🗣️ Keane: "If I was a Manchester City player, I'd be 100% sticking my medals in the bin.

I'd feel let down by the club. It's cheating."

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

Man City lied about 900 million pounds?! Forget relegation…Burn the club down

[Shephin Mathew @Shephin_Mathew]

This guy was also the VP at Barcelona when the first Negreira payments were made. Coincidence.

[Footy Accumulators @FootyAccums]

Rob Harris...

Take a f*cking bow 😂😂😂

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

That’s all folks we have officially sold out no more tickets left congratulations to everyone who got a ticket and to the people who didn’t sneak in fuck it yolo LG x

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

📝 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘: Manchester City have signed An Asterisk on a contract that will last forever.

(Source: The History Books)

[Gaz Drinkwater @GazDrinkwater]

I actually feel sorry for Manchester City fans.

So desperate to emulate their neighbours, they closed their eyes to the most obvious case of corruption that sport has ever seen. Everyone knew that their dominance wasn’t genuine. It was never real. But their fans were hoodwinked.

[Tom @paynetep19]

@JackCun96 Your ignorance is shocking, no wonder you feature on TalkSPORT