‘My heart goes out to fans but the integrity of the football must be upheld’: Culture Secretary calls for swift resolution to Man City case
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/my-heart-goes-out-to-fans-but-the-integrity-of-the-football-must-be-upheld-cultu-5Hjdj6H_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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The fans knew what they were doing. It’s been obvious for years. They sung songs about their lawyers after dragging out the CAS investigation until the deadline expired.
There is no place for integrity and professional football in the same sentence.
The fans celebrated it.
Reminds me of the Redknapp quote.
“If you go in there and start winning, they would have taken Saddam Hussein in there when he was about, the fans don’t give a monkey’s! If you start winning every week, they’re singing ‘there’s only one Saddam’.”
Ultimately needs to be a punishment that properly deters others in future – not just a “it may cost you a few more quid to settle everything up.”
Vacate the titles but don’t redistribute them – too hard to tell what would have happened if they weren’t cheating, other than them not winning.
Then don’t simply relegate them down a tier. Kick them all the way out of league football and let them spend the next however many years trying to work their way back up.
That would be a severe enough punishment for anyone to judge that trying this would be foolish.
Ah yes, the “integrity” of established clubs colluding to preventing smaller clubs from out-competing them.
My view is they shouldn’t have title stripped off them, as it was still those players who won the games, put the training, effort, and dedication in.
They should put asterisk next to the club name on the years, and then do a points deficit that would take 8-10 years to pay back
So does this mean the FA or even the government is now going to “finally decide who has won the football”?
Show me a city fan who spoke out against the corruption that was obvious to the rest of us and I’ll show them sympathy. Otherwise, fuck em
Integrity? In Premier League football? Bwahahahaha.
Any of their fans from the 90s will remember football in the third tier. They actually used to get a good fan turnout back then so needn’t worry too much.
They may lose a few fair weather fans
The fans got to celebrate a decade of success they should not of had, I have no sympathy this time.
Don’t give a shit about the fans personally, they’ve been nothing but arrogant cunts through all this and it’ll be great to see them suffer now
Even now Citeh don’t fill their stadium or sell out their share of Wembley for a cup final. There is no way that are as popular of financially successful as they say they’ve been.
I think the Premier League should suspend them for five years minimum so they can play in the lower leagues and only be accepted back into the Premier League in a five years as long as they have changed their behaviour.
That will mean standing up to the UAE and pissing them off by inflicting a proper punishment they cannot just pay off. It needs to be a fine but then relegation from the Premier League with further points deductions over successive seasons to really make it stick. You have make City a terrible investment prospect for this to mean anything.