According to Man City's accounts, every seat that appears to be empty is simply a fan spending hundred of pounds at concessions stands
These are the local working class fans who can only buy the season tickets by paying on instalments Makes sense
Yes because civil and criminal law differs significantly. Disclosure levels in civil cases are set by the court, and is all about what each side is intending to rely on as evidence. If deemed admissible the court might rule that UEFA have to provide all of the emails they have in their possession and not merely the ones they think helps their case. My opinion is, that if their entire case rests on these stolen emails and doesn’t have supporting evidence e.g. proof that the actual transfer of cash relating to the sponsorship deal came from 2 different sources, or of City can show the converse, then it’s likely to fail.
There's a huge degree of truth in that most people in north Manchester are too on their arse to be able to afford to go and watch City twice a week when they can watch it on TV (what with the trams always being late and that). Far enough. Premier league football is expensive to attend. The club itself shouldn't pretend that isn't the case though. The whole premise of Manchester City is ****ing bollocks to be perfectly honest.
Or maybe they just count season ticket seats as filled, same as Arsenal and others. City’s food and drink concessions are provided by a company called F3 btw, so they’d have to be in on your hopeless conspiracy theory.
They robbed it all from the homes of hard-working, law-abiding Scousers living close by. (Let me enjoy this 15 minutes of role reversal, please).
But the whole premise (and a tad of truth) in Martin Samuel's argument is that 'little' clubs dream of being taken over by a gizzillionaire and being transformed into Real Madrid. Must admit, when we were going through near meltdown with Hicks and Gillette in 2010 I PRAYED for an Arab Sheik, an African potentate or even Sicilian gangsters to save us. Thing about City is this though - if Newcastle (as their original target was?), Everton or Villa had been in City's shoes and had a decade like this, there wouldn't be 20k empty seats at even League Cup games, never mind Prem games. Well I don't think so anyway.
I agree, it would be full every week and there would be none of the bullshit excuses. You can chuck as much money as you like at Man City, they simply are not the "massive" club they like to portray themselves as, never will be.
Maybe the arabs were persuaded by the bullshit we'd been hearing for years there were more blue than red in manchester. Obviously that's been proven to be utter bollox. Also they couldn't attract the fanboys across the country or from abroad either.
Manchester City’s financial director Diane Abbot is confident she will have their 2 year ban reduced to 3 years.
Watford were taken over by the Mafia But they ran out of horses heads before they could get us to Man City level
That's the same Diane Abbott who went to the same Oxford and got a similar second-class degree as our current prime minister; the one who hides in fridges when people ask difficult questions. Go on brb - open up the thread again.
Call me Mr Picky, Mr Kusturd, ... but something tells me that this may not be an original witticism of yours ... albeit it that it is rather funny .... is it one of Matth's?
Raheem Sterling says Real Madrid are a "fantastic club" but insists he is "really happy" at Manchester City. Sterling, 25, has been linked with a move to Real following City's two-year ban from European competition. "Right now I'm at City and I'm really happy. But I say Real Madrid are a fantastic club," Sterling told Spanish outlet AS. "When you see the white shirt you know exactly what the club stands for, it's massive."
Odd timing that. He starts playing footsie with Real Madrid a few days after City get banned from the CL hmmmmm lol why is he even chatting to some random Spanish newspaper?