South stand block 316. Legacy fan, and one of those increasingly rare season ticket holders (remember them?) Soon to be replaced by a tourist.
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Silva Boots retweeted
In case you do not understand the origin and nature of the so-called “115 charges” against Manchester City, allow me to clarify it for you. The English Premier League was formed in 1992. The purpose of the association was to create, centralize and distribute revenues for the member clubs. For the first 19 years of the Premier League's existence, the so-called “Red Cartel,” (Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester United) dominated the Premier League and collected the vast majority of revenues. The Red Cartel clubs won 15 of the first 19 Premier League championships.
Then something happened. In 2012, Manchester City, the so-called “noisy neighbors” of Manchester United, won the Premier League title. The following year, Manchester United was able to scrape back a narrow victory in the Premier League but have never come close since. In 2014, Manchester City again won the Premier League.
Manchester City, owned by a rich Arab Prince named Sheikh Mansour, had put together a world caliber team using his own money. He did not spend more money than the Red Cartel clubs. He just spent it better, on better players, and started to win trophies. Around 2014, the Red Cartel clubs, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United, then complained to the Premier League and pushed for new financing rules which were referred to as “financial fair play.” These rules were specifically designed to prevent a club owner from spending their own money to improve their football club.
Yes. You read that correctly.
In reality, these rules were nothing more than a straightforward “get Manchester City” scheme. They were designed to specifically target Manchester City’s revenue streams, effectively banning City from competing at the highest levels of the sport.
It did not work. Over the course of the next 10 years, Manchester City won 6 more Premier League titles, the Champions league, and the so-called “treble;” The Premier League, the Champions league, and the FA Cup in the same year, becoming only the second club to ever do so.
Manchester City had set up an arrangement which was legal under the Financial Fair Play rules. This involved the government of Abu Dhabi investing in advertisers, who then subsequently advertised with Manchester City, giving them revenue that they could then spend on new players. This was 100% legal under the Financial Fair Play rules.
However, in a case brought in 2018, the Premier League created an “independent commission,” which ruled that Manchester City had violated the byzantine Financial Fair Play rules. The so-called “independent commission” actually consisted of various officials who had either financial or cultural ties to the Red Cartel clubs (Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United.)
Since 2012, the only non “Red Cartel” teams to win the Premier League title are Manchester City, Leicester City, and Chelsea Football Club.
Only two other Premier League winners besides Manchester City have ever been accused of violating the financial fair play regulations. Those other two clubs are Chelsea Football Club and Leicester City FC.
I hope this explains it.
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I’d love to celebrate Enzo’s record-breaking start to City PL campaign, but…
the overwhelming guilt & sadness I feel for the club’s flagrant disregard of some hastily created “fair” play rules means that I must sit here and think about my sins.
#HolierThanThou 👇
Silva Boots retweeted
Oliver Holt is about as unhinged as you can get
Clearly a shill in the pockets of the cartel and is going to even more ridiculous lengths to try to appease his paymasters
Very very weird guy.
Take your tinted spectacles off for just one moment, read this and maybe even a tiny bit of you might think it’s not quite finished… yet.
If Manchester City supporters are firing back, it’s because we refuse, as Simon Bajkowski of the Manchester Evening News so eloquently put it, to “play the sad clowns that the deluded circus demand.”
And let’s be clear: this entire legal process, together with the relentless outrage from partisan media and punditry, has become a circus that stinks to high heaven.
Before Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City in 2008, the Cartel was firmly in control of English football. The established Incumbent Four had won 15 of 16 Premier League titles. They occupied every Champions League qualification spot for three consecutive seasons. City had won none.
Then City emerged as a genuine challenger to the established order, thanks to an owner with the resources necessary to compete with the Incumbent Four.
And suddenly, protecting football’s “financial sustainability” became the great crusade.
Shockingly, the rules that emerged—tying permissible spending to existing commercial revenue—overwhelmingly favored the Incumbent Four. The clubs that had spent decades building their financial advantages could continue spending accordingly. Challengers seeking to close the gap would face an entirely different set of constraints.
The established order had built its advantage. Now the rules would help preserve it.
In March 2019, the Premier League, with Richard Masters serving as interim CEO, opened an investigation into whether City had violated its financial rules. Masters would later become the League’s permanent CEO through an appointment process reportedly influenced by United and Liverpool.
Nearly four years later, on February 6, 2023, in the midst of what would become City’s historic treble-winning season, the Club was formally charged. The timing alone raises legitimate questions about the influence of partisan interests within the League.
The commission tasked with hearing the charges was then constituted under the authority of a Judicial Panel chair appointed through a process involving Masters and the Premier League.
And so the cloud hanging over City continued for an absurdly long time.
Finally, on September 29, 2026, we received a guilty verdict.
But that verdict came with a few rather extraordinary asterisks.
First, we don’t get to know who actually rendered the verdict. The identities of the commission members remain undisclosed.
Second, we don’t get to see the underlying evidence the commission supposedly analyzed—at least not yet.
Instead, we’re given a 40-page, heavily redacted decision setting out the commission’s findings, while the evidence underlying those findings and the supporting appendices remain outside public scrutiny.
We’re simply expected to accept on blind faith that an anonymous commission conducted its proceedings without bias, fairly evaluated the evidence, and reached conclusions fully supported by that evidence.
Perhaps it did. But how is anyone outside the proceedings supposed to make that judgment?
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Silva Boots retweeted
All the top six fans crying about how City had an unfair advantage and "cheated".
Sorry, what was their unfair advantage? That they were able to spend loads of money? Like the top six are able to do compared to the rest of the league? So ironic.
Deal with it.
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Silva Boots retweeted
You’re getting banned from the Etihad anyway, so don’t you worry. Red Cartel Shill
Silva Boots retweeted
It feels like people are slowly starting to wake up to the fact that the premier league is fundamentally corrupt from top to bottom. Financial rules, referees and var are only used for the sole benefit of the Red Cartel. Change won’t be quick but it’s coming.
Silva Boots retweeted
Joe Cole standing up for anyone outside the Red Cartel and even having the balls to bring Chelsea into the conversation. Keown is just a rabid Cun7 on the hunt for any retrospective trophies for his beloved Arse. As for the the TNT bitch trying to shut Joe down…
Silva Boots retweeted
Did Gary Neville just say “it’s not a popular goal around the country” when Haaland scored? I think he’s forgotten how much distain there is for cartel clubs in this country. City wouldn’t be in this mess if it wasn’t for the likes of Liverpool and the collusion that goes on with Masters and the cartel