George Burrell

Father. Fiance. Tech lead. Full Stack Engineer. Some people just call me Gorg.

[George Burrell @sheixt]

@levelsio do you offer an API for InteriorAI?

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@wesbos Did the emoji print? 🤞

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@developedbytoby Congrats. Very impressive. Will look forward to trying it out 🤞

[George Burrell @sheixt]

@ryanflorence It feels like the start of an episode of Black Mirror

[Fernando Serboncini @fserb]

For the last couple months, our team has been working hard on a few paradigm-changing features for HTML Canvas.

One of them is the ability to have HTML elements in a canvas.

Here's a ThreeJS demo with a live HTML texture.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

🚨 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝟭𝟭𝟱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀: 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? 💣💥

𝘈 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦́ 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.

I received many comments on my previous thread analysing the evidence used by Uefa in its 2020 prosecution of Man City for breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP), asking me to go into more detail about what other evidence exists and why things might be different this time around when Man City face an Independent Commission later this year for the 115 charges of breaching Premier League rules.

If you have not read this prior thread, I would suggest doing so before continuing as it offers vital context. You can find it here: https://t.co/gR6XeZMofg

If you are completely new to this topic and don’t know any of the background or what’s going on with it currently, I would suggest starting with this first thread where I cover the background behind the charges against Man City: https://t.co/lFYCEsNMNb

In this new thread we’ll explore just how much trouble Man City is in by analysing publicly available evidence that underpins the Premier League’s 115 charges for breaching FFP rules.

There will be more evidence not in the public domain but the vast body of evidence that served as the catalyst for the 115 charges is available for all to see. I am referring to the Football Leaks documents produced by German publication Der Spiegel over the past 6 years, where they reveal emails hacked from Man City’s servers that outline a complex, covert operation to breach FFP on a massive scale with no-one finding out.

I will seek to breakdown the evidence and showcase how to it might be used to prosecute Man City.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩…

Der Spiegel has written several articles about the emails and how they outline the way Man City would covertly breach FFP by disguising injections of the owner’s money (equity) as legitimate sponsorship revenues; conspiring with the sponsors to funnel the owner’s money through the sponsors’ accounts. A download of the first large cache of email leaks can be found here: https://t.co/gZohNkB3Rj

This makes up the bulk of the evidence that I analyse in this thread.

Man City revealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that as many as 5.5 million documents had been obtained from the hack. As such, it’s possible there are more incriminating emails not yet released by Der Spiegel for public consumption. In the past, Der Spiegel has released new, unseen content in response to judgments and new revelations.

The 6 emails that Man City provided as originals during its CAS hearing against Uefa are just the tip of the iceberg when compared with the whole cache though. For reference, the CAS judgment and original copies of the 6 emails can be found here: https://t.co/cucEK9uBqZ

What I will cover in this thread is to examine just how damaging the entire cache (released by Der Spiegel so far) could be to Man City at the Independent Commission (IC) empanelled by the Premier League to adjudicate on the 115 charges. This will build on the analysis I undertook in my previous thread, which examined 5/6 of the original emails provided by Man City.

And since whenever evidence against Man City surfaces, you will also find an ardent City fan immediately dismiss it with “CAS said we did nothing wrong”… I will also cover how it all fits in with what happened at CAS too.

The IC should commence soon and hopefully resolve the matter before summer next year.

𝘔𝘦𝘨𝘢 🧵 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: 1-𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳+ total 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦!

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

🚨𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗙𝗣 - 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁🚨

I’ve wondered why so many people only ever talk about the 115 charges against Man City and not the evidence itself, which is incredibly damning and already in the public domain for anyone to read.

I came to the conclusion that the mainstream media outlets don’t raise it because they’re afraid of Man City’s financial power and inclination to pursue litigation.

And I think the reason its not discussed on social media is because the evidence is not so blatant if you don’t understand corporate financial matters and terminology.

So here is a thread, putting some the most damning evidence of Man City’s cheating in the spotlight and breaking it down in a way that anyone can make sense of.

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁…

In November 2018, German Publication “Der Spiegel” released their first story about how Man City had been subverting Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) and Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. These rules, introduced in Uefa competitions in 2011/12 and the Premier League in 2012/13, prevented clubs from undertaking unlimited spending using debt or owner funds (known as equity). Instead, clubs were required to spend what they “earned” such as from matchday income, broadcast revenue or commercial deals, such as sponsorships / partnerships.

The story’s source was a cache of leaked emails that Der Spiegel had obtained between Man City executives and board members, including the Chief Executive Office (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

The emails, which are numerous and took place over many years, go into precise detail about how Man City sought to subvert FFP rules by disguising equity payments from the owner as sponsorship revenue, by channelling the funds through the sponsors’ accounts.

Man City’s owner is the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), which is ultimately owned by Sheikh Mansour.

Uefa estimated that by cheating FFP in this way, Man City was able to spend hundreds of millions more that it should have been, distorting the transfer market and destroying the sporting integrity of the Premier League.

The emails analysed in this thread are the emails that Man City themselves provided as “originals” during adjudication.

For more on the background of the case, check out this thread:
https://t.co/lFYCEsNMNb

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[George Burrell @sheixt]

@AMonFootball But are we winning on field tilt

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@kentcdodds Happy Easter Kent

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@Magnific_AI do you offer any way to trial the tool or purchase a few tokens to test things out without committing to a subscription? Asking for £35 with blind faith is a bit much, I'm keen but that's a blocker for me.

[George Burrell @sheixt]

@TechSquidTV The sign of an end of term or a teacher that had a heavy night 😆

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@FFScout_Joe I've no idea what's happened to cause this but it's sad. I used to watch and it was just the two of you and Granville, it was clear it started with passion it's a shame that it's come to this

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Mixed reality can be a trip and a half. 😅

You’d be surprised how immersive and visceral the simplest augmentations can feel if you have a VR headset with decent camera passthrough.

Case in point being the Quest 3:

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

This made me laugh so hard 😂

Do you have someone like this in your network? I sure do 😉

Via @jelleprins

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

Beth Mead is one of a number of football stars fronting a new player-led initiative to help improve how mental health is handled within football.

Working with Common Goal, ‘Create the Space’ aims to better train people to help those facing mental health challenges in the game.

[George Burrell @sheixt]

@DiffKnock Glad you got what I meant with all the typos

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@jlengstorf Swag envy

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@mashable @hibberthometech looking forward to your thoughts on this

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