In what way has it been marketed specifically on the basis of sporting and regulatory integrity with this having hung over the league for 8 years with almost no information about it until a week ago?
Meanwhile City and their players are still front and centre in Premier League marketing. Just scroll through the PL website right now. FPL ad features Cherki. MyPremierLeague an features Haaland. Quiz of the season so far features Semenyo. Adobe partnership ad features Haaland.
All of that sits under a headline news stories about the City statement and appeal. The PL are more than happy to include them in all this despite the charges. Hardly consistent with marketing based on sporting integrity. And this week weâll start to see the ramp up of ads about their fixture with us next weekend.
Iâm not sure what to tell you but across the globe the PL is the model for commercial success. Itâs seen as having sporting and regulatory integrity.
The likes of Tebas have cited this in numerous statements.
In Serie A they talk about this too.
If thereâs no sanction on City its going to sound hollow.
If thereâs sanction theyâll dissappear from the marketingâŚ
That paints such an insidious picture. These owners not only need to be kicked out of the league, but the country as a whole Long term, planned corruption, at all levels. This is beyond cheating, into the territory of pure evil.
I am not a lawyer (but I play one on TV), and certainly not versed in UK law, so will defer to other legal eagles:
This is not a civil court decisionârather a private entity ruling (again, correct me). In the US, professional sporting leagues carry their own by-laws which must have adherence. For example: a team in the NFL is fined/sanctioned by the league for âspyingâ on other teams in order to obtain their plays. Said offending team receives a decision against them, and lose draft picks/fines/etc.
The âappealâ goes to the NFL, who decides not whether the wrongdoing occurred, but whether they violated a by-law in the process to provide adequate fact finding. This is an actual case by the way.
SoâŚmuch like our civil/criminal lawsâwhere âappealsâ do not consist of vacating trial court decisions based on the convicting facts but rather the means and progression in which the decisions were madeâdoes this apply to the de facto league âcourtâ as well?
My logical conclusion would be that it wouldâŚand thus the chattering about taking this to âregularâ court.
I paid a brief visit to Blue Moon; 80% of the posts there are exactly like that. They seem to have been brainwashed over the years and donât have the slightest shred of a guilty conscience or sense of wrongdoing. The whole thing has simply been normalized far too much over the years.
You really have to look closely to find the âfew normal onesâ who are actually suffering from the situation and wish for new owners. I find that truly concerning.
Well they wonât be saying that anymore will they.
They wonât be wiped the second a judgement is handed down. Sky will still show their fixtures. The players are still going to feature because theyâre still stars. If anything the story of them potentially getting relegated based on a points deduction will be a bigger one than Arsenal strolling to a league title. The first opportunity for them to officially be relegated Sky will be there.
You say that youâre for punishing Man City yet roll out every possible excuse not to punish them severely. Over-inflating all aspects of their contribution to the PL.
