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Our 115 charges aren’t just related to FFP - some of them are from just before FFP came into play. There’s charges relating to the length of the grass being too long! One of the charges was written incorrectly when the Premier League published them - which City’s lawyers caught straight away and the League had to backtrack and change the charge. It’s amateur stuff! As you rightly say, we’ve (City) got the PL tied up in legal knots because, contrary to the average brain dead football fan sheep, this isn’t just about points deduction, fines or relegation - this is people potentially doing time in prison for tax evasion. If found guilty it would have to involve the Government and HMRC. The fact is, the PL last February were pushed by the red teams into charging us quickly thinking it would derail our challenge against Arsenal - it did the opposite. And now the dust has settled they’ve realised what a huge issue they have on their hands. I don’t for one minute think City are squeaky clean. But at the same time I don’t think we’ve done anything the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, United, Chelsea etc haven’t done over the years. Look at United’s world record deal with US owned/based Chevrolet the other year. Crazy unheard of numbers at the time and then the guys at Chevrolet that gave the deal the green light get sacked and Chevrolet are were in serious financial trouble. They just don’t want a non-US owned club taking their power. The more competition the better for the league - the likes of yourselves, Villa, Everton etc, these are the clubs you want to see getting money pumped into them and challenging. You guys last season, Villa this season. It’s good to see. But if that means it pushes Liverpool and United further down - we saw in 2013 the exec for the PL say publicly that Man United’s poor form isn’t good for the league, we had Masters a few weeks ago refer to Everton and Forest as “small clubs”, they’re desperate to protect the red teams. Hopefully the other teams will wake up soon and see what’s going on.

It sounds like your right back situation (pre-Kieran) was the same as our left back issue. Can’t remember the last time we had a decent one!

When he was a kid I was sure he’d become a midfielder because of how good he was on the ball. He was always kicking a ball around though, you’d see him outside the Co-op booting a ball against the wall in his City tracksuit. I'm still baffled how Spurs gave him away because they thought Aurier was better.

Im from Bury where Kieran is from. I played in the same league as his brother Kelvin and my brother was in the same team (Woodbank) as Kieran when they were kids. Chris, Kieran’s dad ran the team, and although Kieran was a year younger than everyone else he played for the team. When I say played, I mean he completely bossed it. From such a young age you could see how class he was going to be. I remember one match when he was about 7 or 8 and he skinned the entire opposition, put his foot on the ball and just blasted it top corner from outside the box. He's from a family that is obsessed with football, unfortunately they’re Man United fans but you can’t win them all His mum and dad are sound, my mum would often go into the local shop near where they lived (and where my mum worked) and would try and wind his dad up when City beat Man United (which was rare when I was growing up) It’s great to see him still doing well.

I’m watching on NOW so probably about 5 mins behind.

Get in Villa!

Is Wilson not decent? Every time I see him play he seems to score. The lad Dovbyk at Girona looks a good option and would probably do well at Newcastle.

Pearce thought playing Sib LW for us would work….we didn’t score a goal at home for about 6 months! Felt like 6 years!!

Is that true? 6 teams voted against it but it was still brought in? The Premier League doing everything the American owners want without realising it will be the end of the PL as we know it!

City fan in peace! I’ve got a soft spot for Newcastle - my first season being taken to Maine Road as a kid when the Kippax was rebuilt and one match that sticks out in my memory that season was playing yous. Mainly because of the Asprilla and Curle spat but also your kit was class at the time. We’ve also had quite a few players play for both clubs whilst I was growing up as well, a lot of terrible ones (Sibierski and Charvet spring to mind) but some decent ones (Given, Bellers). We had Beardsley on loan for a few games I seem to remember when we had our Kappa kit as well. I wanted to see what your fans thoughts were after it looks like City and Newcastle were the only two teams not to vote on this new sponsorship rule. Good to see that most of you can see what the American owned clubs are trying to do. It was always the same with FFP - a lot of clubs were promised that it would stop City if they voted for it, but all it’s done is stop them competing. We were already in the castle at that point, it was a drawbridge being put up to stop others from “doing a City”. And we’re now seeing that with other clubs failing FFP, Howe mentioning he might have to sell in the summer. All FFP has done is stop teams from pushing the likes of Man United further down and keeps them in touching distance until they can stabilise. The American owned clubs are still desperate for this ‘Super League’ and this is just another step towards that imo. Anyway, good to read some of your opinions and I’m hoping City can help your owners out and the clubs work closely.