0-0 until 43^rd miniute

HE tickets for a football match (even women’s) aren’t cheap and we didn’t watch the match today, we just decided to hang around before the game began (4:30PM). As of now, there’s a dramatic turnaround after Arsenal started strongly and was ahead.

Update: Full time, final score 4-2. Well done, City.

Way to shake off negative headlines…

Rianne says, “Arsenal did not intimidate them.”

Image from this video.

Kick-off in 5 minutes

oday we headed off to the stadium, where we saw all the players coming out from the bus. There was then a live band playing, mostly brass, with about 7 or 8 pieces including drums. We came back home just before kick-off and before many of the fans filled up the streets.

This is a tense time for Manchester City because of the case and any rivalry between Arsenal and the blues (in men’s) sort of resonates across leagues.

We saw/heard no loud chants or any signs of conflict. Security was abundant, they call it “safety”

Penalties

HE Man City financial charges case is still preying on our minds. They might escalate this to the High Court, I’m not entirely sure if they first need to seek permission (to appeal), but it seems inevitable the club will be penalised one way or another. We dread the idea of relegation or of a massive point deduction.

We went past the Manchester City Stadium twice yesterday. It looks better than ever (many fantastic improvements) and we agree with Burnham about the Manchester City owner improving the city. We’d like to see that carrying on, even if selfishly.

I’ll probably write about this regularly. My knowledge of the legal system in the UK is fast improving.

Is this still about sports?

his year and last year we’ve had nearly 10 hearings at the High Court (I’ve lost count) and we plan to appeal to the Court of Appeal, which is above the High Court. We have a potent reason for doing so.

Some sites now report that ManCity “eye potential High Court battle over Premier League’s FFP verdict”.

Rianne and I spoke about this earlier today. We hope any progress will be supported by strong evidence other than ManCity trying to create a distraction/story about how the incriminating information was obtained.

ManCity isn’t a bigger culprit than other, even much bigger, clubs with a higher budget.

OK, good start?

HE BBC reports that “[a]n independent commission found that City arranged “sham contracts” with a number of commercial partners as part of a scheme to disguise secret funding of more than £830m.”

Totally what the slop (so-called ‘AI’) so-called ‘industry’ is doing, inflating numbers by means of fraud while losing a lot of money and amassing trillions in debt. Yes, trillions.

OK only for Qatar?

rying to wrap my head around the ManCity predicament, and seeing we’re almost exactly two weeks away from the next home match (very difficult match against the two-times-in-a-row European Champions), I must wonder what the French say about PSG and how financial doping by Qatar is somehow OK. Yes, PSG is a much bigger culprit.

After what Qatar did in the EU and FIFA, as is well documented, I suppose nobody was really punished. So football is becoming increasingly toxic with double-standards and inconsistent enforcement.

The make-up of fake accounting

HE following chart from BBC makes it seems like the cheating by ManCity was akin to what slop companies do. They fake revenue (some circular) to make financially unsustainable (not even remotely viable) seem promising:

What a time to bring this out. ManCity is at the top of PL, having won many games in a row.