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30 Sep 2026 21:12:27
How embarrassing of a country are we? The prime minister saying he doesn't want to lose city owners.

Honestly, it just gets worse and worse in this country.

30 Sep 2026 22:31:25
Wouldn't be like a politician to be completely inept at reading the room and public opinion.

30 Sep 2026 22:32:19
We're poorly led. We have been for decades.
He's obviously on their payroll.

There isn't a politician out there who prioritises the nation over their own political agenda. Filthy rats the lot of them.

30 Sep 2026 22:48:03
What's wrong with that?
They have invested millions into Manchester and he is the former mayor.
They should just take their punishment.

30 Sep 2026 23:15:43
If Burnham is on their payroll, isn't that another charge? 😂
And one for Burnham? 🤨
Come on, Ron, let's see the irrefutable evidence for this claim, please.

30 Sep 2026 23:19:03
Why is he getting involved?
Where are his priorities?
He has a lot of work to do getting this country back on its feet, that doesn't not include pining for Man City's owners to remain.

If they are not 'fit and proper owners' they should be kicked out. How anyone could say they are fit and proper, especially some nincompoop unelected prime minister, beggars belief.

30 Sep 2026 23:23:35
You don't think inner city mayors have ever taken a back hander from rich developers?

You need to get out more Rigsby.

Why else would he waste his time commenting on it?

They've called in a favour.

01 Oct 2026 00:09:38
It is all very strange. Why’s he getting involved? It’s nothing to do with him, let the commission get on with their job without interference.

01 Oct 2026 00:20:54
It makes you wonder if Burnham is up to his neck in shady deals when Manchester Mayor. Burnham said it’s got nothing to do with him so what’s he opened his mouth for. Very suspicious. The plot thickens and Rui Pinto said he’s got more on City. It’s an utter scandal what they’ve been up to.

30 Sep 2026 21:05:15
Evening eds any word on the injury front with Isak and more so Gapko cheers Notsozippy.

{Ed001's Note - Isak is expected to be fit after the internationals but Cody is still being assessed.}

30 Sep 2026 20:11:23
Surely an incoming pod during this international break ed001? To touch upon the Man City charges etc.

{Ed001's Note - we were intending to do one anyway, so yes.}

01 Oct 2026 00:05:22
How do we watch these please?

30 Sep 2026 12:50:01
Is anyone else thinking there is a possibility our game against City could be postponed?

I just don't see how the Premier League can allow City to play given their statement yesterday and the impending sanctions.

The problem is, until they are sanctioned it leaves a real grey area for both City and their opponents.

Do we know if this game will ultimately matter? If City are booted out of the Premier League then all of their results so for will have to be erased.

I just feel it would make more sense to suspend City from playing until they have been sanctioned.

There's obviously an issue that if they are not booted out and it's just a points deduction they would have to play the games later but that's exactly my point. Until everyone knows what the sanctions are there will be a dark cloud hanging over every game they play.

30 Sep 2026 13:59:08
Very much doubt that would work out Rio. It'd just cause a bigger mess with match schedules. Let them play and like others have said make it known what everybody else thinks of them in the process.

30 Sep 2026 14:02:21
Too messy, never going to happen.

30 Sep 2026 14:03:41
I think people are getting ahead of themselves. It's taken years to get to this point, I doubt things will all of a sudden get decided in a fortnight.

I know the game at Anfield will be spicy but it's just a game, it's starting to sound like people are calling for a firing squad for players that have done nothing wrong.

30 Sep 2026 14:07:20
All this expulsion talk. Never going to happen.

30 Sep 2026 14:23:52
Rios, that's not going to happen. That game will be played and let the sparks fly on the pitch.

City will get what's coming to them in the end but I do not see why that should affect the game going ahead, personally.

30 Sep 2026 15:15:02
They have to allow City to play incase City find a way to wriggle out of it, or if they are actually innocent all along.
So it's business as usual until the appeal is over and then the sanctions hit.

30 Sep 2026 15:15:15
While that's true, AAR, it would be a complete farce if City managed to win the league this year while all this stuff is going on, I'm not sure anybody could really afford to drag this out for another year or two. While I appreciate that they will try and drag it out, it's not a good look for the league if they are allowed to continue competing for the biggest prizes with a squad built on such a questionable foundation.

While I appreciate that the players have for the most part done nothing wrong, surely their agents will have made provisions for what might happen if City were found guilty? Everybody knows that the club had this shadow hanging over them and that they should prepare for the worst.

30 Sep 2026 15:53:19
They can't expel them once the season has started, but they could give them a 90 point penalty and ban them from rejoining once they're relegated.

30 Sep 2026 16:00:27
I don't think one other person is thinking our game against Manchester City could be postponed.

30 Sep 2026 16:15:24
Fifth, the whole internet is looking forward to it.

30 Sep 2026 16:57:28
I hope it's not as I've already bought my half and half scarf for the game.

{Ed666's Note - 114 scarf 😁

30 Sep 2026 17:41:04
It will have to go ahead city have already paid the ref and var.

30 Sep 2026 17:42:18
Absolute nonsense post, not letting them play would be a sanction itself, ahead of the appeal and the official sanction ruling which may not be delivered until as late as next summer. So in your eyes Rio we just don't let City play at all this season? Then what? And what if they won their appeal after not being allowed to play for 3/4 months?

30 Sep 2026 17:52:03
Dubai doesn't like the Flintstone's

But Abu Dhabi Do 🤣.

{Ed666's Note - I think that ones gone over my head

30 Sep 2026 22:05:41
I was just thinking out loud really no need to get all defensive Chewy.

I wasn't saying they should not let them play indefinitely but they have been found guilty so a suspension until the sanctions have been sorted makes sense.

If you are found guilty of misconduct at work they would suspend you until they had decided a sanction. They wouldn't just allow you to go about your business as usual.

Until the sanctions have been handed out, every game City play is a farce and could end up being meaningless.

I understand it's not so easy to do it but if there is any chance of them being expelled from the league it would make sense to not muddy the waters further by allowing them to play.

I'm not saying I think it should happen, just that it could happen depending on what the Premier League are thinking with regards to sanctions. Are they really going to allow a club owned by people who they have found guilty of being liars and cheats continue to play in their league?

30 Sep 2026 22:38:52
It can't happen though, can it?
What happens to the results if the teams who have played them? The injuries they picked up, the cards they picked up? Those teams will have to play 37 games and the others will only play 36.

It's just not practical to suspend them or kick them out of the league without causing more chaos.

They will get a fine, they will get a lot of points deducted. These things can easily be reversed if the appeals are successful. Suspending them cannot be reversed.
Hopefully it something like 90 points plus a future lengthy ban if they get in the promotion places - which can also be lifted pending a successful appeal.

30 Sep 2026 23:07:54
I will say I do have concerns about how this will spill over into tension in and around the ground on match day. I feel like postponing it might be best at this stage although I know that won't happen.

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30 Sep 2026 14:56:15
If Man City are threatened with expulsion.
The riposte will be: You do that and Qatar and the UAE will withdraw all their money from the UK.
UK economy crashes immediately.
The stakes are very high. The legal representation is very high.
Check mate.

{Ed001's Note - why would Qatar have anything to do with this? The Qataris and Emiratis don't particularly like each other. They are rivals.}

30 Sep 2026 15:25:02
You're also vastly overestimating the investments the UAE has in Britain.
They are a minor trading partner with Britain.
Plus they invest to make money, why would they cut their nose of to spite their face? It would make the pain of the city situation even worse. The UAE need Britain more than Britain needs them.

30 Sep 2026 16:18:52
Yuri, the stakes are not as high as you think. If the PL expel City, the club will eat that and the country (UAE) will move on and keep doing what it's doing geopolitically.

Also, pretty sure the UAE and other Gulf states have a literal war going on in their region that's taking majority of their time and resources. Not sure they are arsed at whatever rubbish is going on with a club they bought years ago whose fans they don't care about.

30 Sep 2026 15:11:36
Ignorance ed, all arabs are the same didn't you know? 😡.

30 Sep 2026 16:06:06
Bilateral trade between the UK and the UAE accounts for approximately 0.43% of the UK's GDP and 2.85% of the UAE's GDP.

The UAE withdrawing their money from the UK would hurt the UAE a lot more than the UK and would hardly cause the UK's economy to collapse.

30 Sep 2026 16:34:17
The country is due a recession, something will trigger it soon. But it won't be this.

30 Sep 2026 18:21:41
Agree with Mikey, City is essentially a hobby for these guys, their wealth and portfolios are monstrous. Whatever they have invested in the UK, City would only account for a minute percentage of it, probably somewhere in the region of 1-2%, they're not going to "mess around and find out" with the other 99.

30 Sep 2026 21:12:12
City were a means to an end - it opened economic doors through the guise of football, when trading directly with other countries wasn't 'acceptable'. It's not a hobby, it is and always was a business exoedient.

30 Sep 2026 23:04:45
Many have no idea, absolutely none about the middle East.

{Ed666's Note - speak for yourself mate I know Scarborough very well.

30 Sep 2026 23:20:43
Aye, it's not like we've been through a couple of world wars and forty five days of Liz Truss, is it?

30 Sep 2026 11:37:47
The Premier League statement on City is very strong, to the point where heavy sanctions seem inevitable, although I suspect this might end up in front of the High Court in some form or another.

That doesn't seem to rule out sanctions being applied after the appeal, but it would increase the risk to the Premier League because they would likely owe City more in damages if the High Court later finds against them.

I hope it's not insensitive for me to say, but it's during situations like this that I particularly miss having Ed002 around. I'm sure he said on here years ago that these rules would directly/indirectly end up being challenged in a non-sporting court. Another statement which looks set to come true years down the line. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say he is sorely missed.

However, regardless of whether FFP/PSR/SCR are later found to be unlawful by a higher court, if the Premier League has admissible evidence supporting the case they have proved against City then relegation just may be of least concern to the City board. Whatever the case with the fairness of the rules, City's ownership have committed a litany of financial crimes in trying to circumvent them. Individuals could end up in serious trouble here.

30 Sep 2026 13:19:40
You guys really feel something will come of it?

30 Sep 2026 13:42:04
I don't think they're in a position to do anything else LFOS. I could understand the pessimism prior to the Premier League statement, but the league is taking quite an aggressive posture if there ultimate goal is to do nothing. You do not fight a case for 3 years otherwise.

An appeal is not as far in scope as people think, generally you need to have a new case to hear. You cannot just simply disagree with the ruling of one panel and ask for a new trial with another. This was a 12 week process, they'd be bonkers to have anything else they're holding back that may get them off of this from a Premier League sanctions pov.

Where it does potentially become interesting is if it ends up in the High Court, but if they're simply going to repeat the same case there, again, I don't think that will work.

30 Sep 2026 13:48:42
Well said about ED02 Fornax. He would be a total mine of info on all this. Perhaps it's divine intervention after all.

30 Sep 2026 14:25:24
Lastfanofslot, do you have any idea what will come off this if the PL do not throw the library at city?

30 Sep 2026 15:23:22
Why are people so jaded about this case and suggesting that City will get off scot free? Surely you have to realise that the PL themselves would absolutely prefer to sweep this under the carpet and turn a blind eye to what City have been doing, it besmirches the league and the integrity of the administration just as much as it does City. It's not like they're hellbent on prosecuting City and making them into a scapegoat at all costs, the PL aren't some righteous crusaders of justice.

City have essentially been found guilty, it would take some kind of lawyering act of god to prove that the legal process taken to incriminate City was not proper or unbiased protocol, which is essentially the only way City can overturn the whole thing now, and that's a hell of a long shot as far as hail marys go, their only hope is the argument that the independent committee is not in fact independent. If City don't get a sanction appropriate to the crime, imagine what all the other clubs in the league who have a claim to recompense are going to do, it will probably be bedlam.

As for relegating City, there's no guarantee that the Championship, League One etc. would be willing to accept them. It could very well be that they follow suit and City end up a non-league club.

30 Sep 2026 18:36:12
Sancitons will be issued post-appeal, no matter if they take the PL to the high court. City cannot do anything to stop that. Taking it to the high court would be an entirely separate case in which City will not be challenging appeal the ruling or the sanction directly, it will be to contest the legality of it all, to claim bias or some nonsense conspiracy.

They can put in for a stay on on the ruling to delay the implementation of the sanctions, but it's unlikely they'll actually get one.

30 Sep 2026 21:13:47
The appeal has to be lodged by October the 2nd I believe.

30 Sep 2026 10:38:26
I reckon our next home game might break records for the most watched prem game of all time.
I've seen so many rival club fans say would kill to have a ticket that day.
The world's watching and we just know the home crowd is going to put on a good show.

I'd like the cheats bus to have to drive down the street lined with thousands of our fans, all chanting "cheats" the most intimidating as they can do it without actually tipping over the bus.
I hope our players refuse to shake hands.
No let up in the game with boos and cheats chants all the way through.

I really hope there's loads of new banners and some home made ones and the tv cameras make a point at showing every last one.
I hope Anfield absolutely rattles them and we smash them 5-0.
And I hope city has to face that every week until they get relegated.

What are you lot hoping to see on the day? (Serious and unserious please)

Maybe an open top bus parade celebrating the trophies we should have won escorting the city bus into the stadium? Could have a tipsy Klopp stood on the top deck posing with 3 Premier League trophies? Haha.

30 Sep 2026 10:50:26
Lots of Cheetos pelting the bus as it arrives at Anfield, maybe a few hundred inflatable giant Cheetos too.

30 Sep 2026 11:03:58
I'm no lyrical genius so can't work out the first bit, but 'dont look back in anger, you cheating *unts' does have a ring to it even if it is a word I wouldn't generally use.

The game is going to be wild, and could be right up there with one of the most hostile days we've seen towards an opposition team. I hope no one crosses the line but can almost guarantee some will.

As for city, the biggest issue for me is, they have falsified the foundation of the success. So yes this period under investigation is in the 2010's but everything is tainted. You don't get peps success without the financial doping that comes before.

But some of the excuses I've seen to minimise the punishment are laughable. Trying to connect it to groundsman or the players didn't cheat. It will be the everyday staff that lose at most, as usual, but it cannot be used as a way to lessen what city have done. £100s of millions added wrongly, they cooked the books and need the book throwing at them to suit. And let's be honest, that's only what's been found I can only imagine it's deeper.

30 Sep 2026 11:06:16
Would love to see the same.

Though its a bit harsh on the players. They not the ones doing shady stuff so trying to intimidate them i think is going a bit too far. I'm sure they are not feeling too great and feel ashamed themselves already.

Then again this may also backfire and give them a firework up their b#m to stick it to the Prem and we may fire them up if we confront them.

I watch sport for sport not for the drama, that's why this is so stupid its turning the game into days of our lives and i hate it. What happened to no politics in sport noise.

The club needs to be punished so severely no one would ever think of doing it again. It's brought the game into disrepute.

30 Sep 2026 11:41:09
Mikey, there is no way our players will refuse to shake hands, neither would I want them to.

{Ed025's Note - why not have their players hung drawn and quartered?..ffs, this has nothing to do with the players, its the owners and hierarchy that are to blame ..

30 Sep 2026 11:56:15
MrJones, actually there was at least 12 players who were (knowingly) benefitting from sham image rights deals, which were through shady additional contracts, what we don't know is the true extent of it. Also, the case only covers up to the 17/18 season, so whilst we may not (yet) be able to prove that the current roster of players are receiving additional unreported payments outside of their contracts, given the extent of the deception the length of time it went on for, I would be very surprised if they weren't.

30 Sep 2026 12:01:22
Lots of 'Sham-chester' chants hopefully!

30 Sep 2026 12:01:46
A good performance and 3 points is all that matters. There's no point forcing this game to be symbolic when the protagonists are not present.

30 Sep 2026 12:39:14
Some of them will be present FPF. There's usually a few executives in the Royal boxes. Those who aren't will be watching along with a worldwide audience! Are ya mad for it??? Absolutely!!

30 Sep 2026 12:41:26
And I agree fully FPF 3 points is the right way to end the day! I hope Gakpo makes this one he has proven integral to many positive things this season. He'd be a loss.

30 Sep 2026 12:42:14
And I fully agree with Rome too regarding the pre match handshake.

30 Sep 2026 12:46:41
I love all the above posts. Most especially ED25s idea of a William Wallace style execution! A mighty suggestion altogether!

30 Sep 2026 13:16:44
We have a new coach, new coaching team and a lot of new players, some very young, that need to settle at a club that has been through a difficult 15 months. Personally, I don't expect more of them that we'd normally expect - good performance and 3 points. Expecting them to deliver some form of retribution to City on the pitch would be a bit unfair.

Regardless, I expect the atmosphere will be feral. Hopefully the players use that atmosphere to perform at their best.

30 Sep 2026 13:28:22
Fair play Chewy (something city know nothing of). I loath City because they have been found guilty, i'm not going to paint their staff with the same brush unless they are found guilty themselves. Innocent until proven guilty and all that. I do suspect some knew but i'm not jumping on any bandwagon doing speculation and spew vitriol at em.

That being said i do hope the largest hammer comes down on them and it will hurt the non playing staff and playing staff unfortunately, that makes me dislike them even more that they have betrayed the people who have given them so much.

I want Liverpool to win fairly on the pitch without showing hate and show the City owners how it is supposed to be done.

30 Sep 2026 14:13:42
I honestly won't give a toss about all the Man City stuff that day. Three points would have us 3 off the lead and continue Andoni's good start. couldn't care less what happens to city. if the atmospheres a bit more electric because of it then so be it.

30 Sep 2026 13:49:13
Ed025, thinking the players had nothing to do with it or didn't know what was going on is just naive beyond belief. For starters, Yaya Toure was named as a player receiving external payments from the to City owners. If other players received payments beyond what was specified in their Man City contract, then that would be definitive proof they knew the whole place was operating dishonestly.

The players are not directly to blame as they had no control of the clubs finances, so what you say is correct, however.

{Ed025's Note - I think it’s very seldom that a player will get involved in contract matters Lowe. They have a plethora of advisors and agents who deal with that lark mate. The players are only interested in on field matters I expect..

30 Sep 2026 14:26:29
Iron man, and you know the City fans are going to call the Wham-bulance about that.

30 Sep 2026 14:02:31
The biggest question mark I have is what happened to the accounts after 2018?
It appears the "sponsorships" appeared to grow at a steady pace. We know know they were topped up by the owners considerably up to 2018, but surely the same was happening after? So is there going to be another investigation into the later years?

Sorry ed025 I have to respectfully disagree about the players being completely innocent, they knew exactly what they signed up for, the massive amounts of money they all got is tainted, that makes them cheats as well for me. Refusing to shake hands is a symbolic gesture that's going to be seen far and wide and is absolutely the right thing to do for me.

{Ed025's Note - i think thats very harsh Mikey, i cant tell you how to think of course mate but for me they are just employees who play for the club and are completely blameless..

30 Sep 2026 17:27:55
I genuinely hope that City are met with a chorus of cheating chants for 90 minutes of every game until they are put out of the league. As for the players, whilst I'm a little on the fence about what they knew and didn't know about contract details etc what the current crop of players did know is that City were under investigation for 115 charges of cheating and many decided to turn a blind eye and sign there big contracts.

many people will say that city were innocent until proven guilty but unfortunately people are also guilty by association, we all saw the leaked emails long before yesterdays official statement, City also dodged other sanctions purely on technicalities so in my eyes players can take a bit of chanting and jeering from opposing fans.

{Ed025's Note - how Thuggish..

30 Sep 2026 21:16:41
Winning the match and, at the same time, expressing an opinion about the owners is Manchester City aren't mutually exclusive.

30 Sep 2026 10:07:34
Ed, Klopp himself said back in the day that if indeed City got busted, that he would celebrate the titles they get stripped of and would ask for a parade.

Man was a prophet, after all.

{Ed001's Note - the quotes I saw just said that he would defo go on a parade, not that he would ask for one.}

30 Sep 2026 10:40:31
Ah, I missed that part.

Hence, I await his parade with baited breathe, lol.

{Ed001's Note - so long as it is not bated breath, as it is a long time to hold your breath. What exactly is baited breath? I keep seeing people type it, but I don't know what it is!}

30 Sep 2026 10:56:07
I'm not sure I want the trophies, it'll never be able to replace the experience of winning the trophy in real time.

I definitely don't think City deserve to keep them. The sanctions need to impose a reset of sorts on that club. I think a points deduction that would see them relegated, plus a multi-year transfer ban would go some way to do it. They should also be fined £900m (boosted by inflation from the point of initial offence) so that they cannot profit from selling their elite talents.

30 Sep 2026 11:26:00
Well then Fornax, whilst the rest of us celebrate I guess you could sit in the garden and read a book.

30 Sep 2026 11:42:54
The last thing this case makes me want to do is celebrate unfortunately. This could be extremely damaging to the league and hurt it's members financially down the road. It is vitally important to handle this correctly so it doesn't turn into another calciopoli imo.

30 Sep 2026 12:01:18
Outside of City's bank balance and points tally, it won't hurt anything except egoes and images, it's vitally important justice is served.

30 Sep 2026 13:13:07
Crazy to think Brendan Rogers would have won the club their first so called PL trophy. Will he get on the parade bus also?

30 Sep 2026 13:28:56
Baited is a misused homophone ed001. Bated is correct, think from Shakespeare or at least used by him.

{Ed001's Note - sorry mate, I know, I was just kidding.}

30 Sep 2026 14:27:50
Ed01, I have no idea either. I just use it same way others do in the hope that it means impatience or over excitement or something.

{Ed001's Note - sorry mate, I was just joking, it means nothing I know.}

30 Sep 2026 09:28:09
Decent little cameo from Rio last night.

30 Sep 2026 10:38:27
Wow, only 18, not only a great footballer but a jeweller too!

30 Sep 2026 13:29:53
Nice one Zedd!

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