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.

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.

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.

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.

ngland could have and maybe should have beaten Spain at home, but a disappointing turnaround showed why the world’s #3 is not #1 (Spain is).

Spain has many very good players.

Earlier today in this blog I mentioned what might happen to Man City and I also spoke to my dad about this today. He does not rule out relegation and massive point penalty (like -10 or higher).

I believe this can carry on for quite some time. BBC says, “[m]any will argue that if upheld after any appeal, the nature and scale of the wrongdoing City have been found guilty of warrants such as sanction on the basis that titles were won unfairly, and any misrepresentation of revenue and costs gave them a crucial competitive advantage.”

Time will tell.

We too plan an appeal next year.

kind of miss football. There won’t be any PL (club) matches for over 2 weeks to come. Nothing. Just dull international games, starting with Spain.

Norway has just (barely) beaten Denmark, with our Manchester-born Haaland scoring twice.

Yesterday we went past the stadium and saw lots of major improvements, including in the “main” bridge leading to its northern gates (and hotel). It was a project well executed and worth the wait (they had closed that bridge area for weeks).

am back home to catch up with news and, today being a mostly sunny day, I’m glad we took advantage. Warm days can end any week/day and not come back until spring next year. No more short sleeves.

As noted in the previous post, we kept track of the match remotely and came back with a happy outcome, both in terms of points and goal difference (GD).

Now, for about 3 weeks, City can rest on its laurels, well positioned for a first league win in 3 years.

Like City, we fight ’til the end.

Listening to football (radio/park nearby) costs nothing

t’s easy to take. It’s easy to tell someone, “what makes you happy? What are you taking? (Drugs, medication etc.)

What about giving? How about sharing with others?

That too gives joy, contentment, the memorable blissful moments, fulfillment, happiness.

Last year we gave our money to defend Free software.

This year we give our life and labour to feed the animal kingdom.

It’s about giving, not taking.

The birds’ looks today were gratitude enough.

I think that a society driven by extreme forms of capitalism relies on consumption (“consumerism” makes it sound like a religion), which means people are trained psychologically to take, to hoard, to collect; the notion of giving away or sharing (e.g. better salaries for one’s employees) is portrayed as foolish.

In the Free software movement, we strive to commend people who share while condemning those who work for greedy monopolists. We don’t show much respect to people based on affluence. It indicates a desire to hoard rather than true, objective achievements or professional accomplishments.

In academia, likewise, what counts most is publications, not job titles or salary.

HE match is about to begin and seeing the above photo shows how football became all about sponsors – to the point where they tell people what to drink and eat based on which company pays.

It is ridiculous. Rianne will have a laugh though.

Notice how they even had the drinks “face the camera” to show the letters and logo in full.

am so pleased today, almost ecstatic and in very good mood, having found another large sack of premium seeds for the birds. I got it for a special price again .

We now have enough of those seeds to last until Christmastime and the birds will be delighted. They’re crazy about this stuff, unlike the bread so many people give them (it’s not healthy and actively discouraged).

There’s a match here today (last match until mid-October when Paris Saint-Germain, now a serial European Champion, comes to play here), so we plan to cross the stadium and visit the park where the birds wait. After that we’ll relax and prepare for another week of GNU/Linux links – it is the third day of our 15^th year as a married couple and feeding/watching birds is already a joyful hobby of ours, sort of like pensioners (who cares about stereotypes of age).

Next year, if our application is successful, we wish to go to the Court of Appeal and set the record straight. We’re just a couple that shares news, the only people we upset are slaves of monopolies, working for those monopolies like a Kapo. One day they’ll come to accept they just got used by those monopolies, then inevitably discarded, as always.

A Kapo (or catspaw) is still just a Kapo.

A Kapo does not wish to think of himself as just another Nazi.