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I think a lot of us are at the "STOP BEING A FUCK-HEAD PLEASE" stage.

One of my neighbors has erected a frantically scrawled sign in their yard that reads "Slow the FUCK DOWN please" On the one hand, I get the sentiment. People drive like lunatics in the neighborhoods here - someone drunk-swiped my recycle bin last night. On the other hand, the please is funny.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 11h

This stuff is the dumbest conspiracy. They kept notes, they openly threaten people, they have unsigned docs, they say they can't get the real documents to people. On and on. It's all so Epstein.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 11h

"Sorry, we don't know how to print out bank statements. Oh, those sponsorships we claim are totally real, ignore that they didn't get signed by anyone and are just a scrawled note saying 'I give 100m to Man City'. Those are super real I promise."

City did make available their online bank account, which went back 12
months to the spring of 2013, but that did not cover 2012 or most of the 2013
financial year, which together constituted the first accounting period of
Uefa's FFP regulations.

City are understood to have replied that the paper bank statements were not
accessible to the club's management at the time the consultants came to
Manchester. The club's hierarchy suggested to Uefa that the consultants
could have made further requests for statements before highlighting that
they had not been provided.

The consultants are also understood to have reported to Uefa that some
multimillion-pound sponsorship contracts with Abu Dhabi companies had
not been signed. City dismissed that as an issue, telling Uefa that they also
had contracts with non-Abu Dhabi sponsors which had not been signed, and
that it was clear the deals had been done because the sponsorships were
being fulfilled.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 11h

Oh look, they do the same thing.

The club risked severe sanctions for the scale of its deficit including possible
exclusion from the Champions League, yet a controversial settlement was
agreed in May 2014. City vehemently objected to the process and the
conclusions, and were seriously threatening legal action against FFP, arguing
that the break-even principle could be considered unlawful.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 11h

The guy who personally brokered the shit deal that let City escape all punishment was none other than FIFA peace prize maker-upper, king of corruption, and the guy who sold the world cup to Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, Gianni Infantino.

The "adjudicatory chamber" of Uefa's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) is
understood to be hearing the charges made against the club this week.

If its panel finds the charges proven it could ban City from the Champions
League, the trophy the club has most coveted since the start of Mansour's
£1.3bn project and transformational 2016 appointment of Pep Guardiola as
manager. City are certain to appeal against any adverse finding to the court of
arbitration for sport.

In 2014 European football's governing body was led by the now Fifa
president, Gianni Infantino, and leaks published in 2018 by Der Spiegel
appear to show he was personally involved in the settlement.

UEF

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 11h

Oh this is the good stuff. The REASON UEFA weren't able to punish City is because they settled with City in 2014 (a settlement City broke) and when they opened the investigation again in 2018 they only had one year before the statute of limitations would run out. Guess who brokered the settlement?

The findings against City were made by consultants appointed by Uefa in
spring 2014 to delve further into the accounts the club submitted. The
Guardian can reveal Uefa concluded City had made losses totalling
approximately €180m in 2012 and 2013, vastly exceeding the €45m FFP
maximum deficit allowed, provided those losses were covered by an owner.

Uefa's first inquiry into City over FFP has been known about for six years. So
too has the deal which City eventually and reluctantly agreed with Uefa to
limit their transfer spending. But the detail of the process, revealed today by
the Guardian, has never officially been made public.

The Guardian understands that within Uefa there were people who believed
the regulations should have been more strictly enforced in 2014 and one staff
member working on FFP is said to have left shortly after the settlement was
agreed.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 11h

One person who probably deserves huge credit in all this is David Conn. He was writing about how City's spending was unsustainable all along. www.theguardian.com/football/201...

theguardian.com

Questions over health of Premier League as scale owners' loans revealed

Premier League accounts have emphasised clubs' dependence on the backing of wealthy owners

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 11h

The article goes on at some length with Marwood. Clearly he's deeply involved in the transfer policy at City during this time. He knows exactly the sums that were being paid for players. I wonder if he knew what ADUG were doing to fund that? Seems impossible to think he didn't.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 12h

Chelsea would NEVER break even, they would never balance the books, and they still don't. Also, hey look former Arsenal man Brian Marwood. Maybe someone should get on the phone to him and ask him what he thinks.

The only precedent for such a project is Chelsea, whom Roman Abramovich
bought in 2003, giving him a five-year start on Mansour. Yet with more than
£700m spent since, Chelsea have still not made it to breaking even despite
the famous promises of Abramovich's former chief executive, Peter Kenyon.
So City's chances of succeeding depend heavily on making valuable first-
team signings and nurturing academy successors, in a football operation
overseen at the Carrington HQ by Brian Marwood.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 12h

so, they did go meet with UEFA officials. curious if that involved any lavish gifts.

Yet City's response is not the loadsamoney two-fingers to Michel Platini
which some, observing the £500m lavished to date by Mansour, might have
expected. The club's chief communications officer, Victoria Kloss, flew to
Geneva to give Uefa advance sight of the results, seeking to show the
governing body that City's new regime is also taking care of the club's fans,
culture and "soul", and, financially, does plan to become sustainable.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 12h

SURPRISE! They did not in fact comply. This was actually when they started emailing each other about how they weren't going to comply in the least.

City's chief executive, Garry Cook, and chief financial and administration
officer, Graham Wallace, both said the club plans to comply. Their strategy is
to propel City to the top, make more money from the TV and commercial
boost the Champions League avails and gradually bring wages down by
replacing ageing galacticos with graduates of the academy, on which City are
also spending a fortune.

"Player acquisitions on the scale we have seen in recent transfer windows
will no longer be required in the years ahead, now that we have such a deep
and competitive squad," pledged Cook in the annual report.

"We expect our financial performance to position us to be compliant with
financial fair play when the regulation starts to come in," states Wallace,
formerly the chief financial officer for the sports media business IMG.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 12h

They didn't meet UEFA FFP, they violated FFP in every conceivable way, and got away with it because the statute of limitations ran out.

ince Manchester City released last week's not very shocking
bombshell, that Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi's vast spending on the
club had financed a loss of £121m, the football world has been asking
a very specific question. How can a club whose owner is indulging
losses on that scale possibly meet Uefa's "financial fair play" requirement
that within four years clubs in European competition must be close to
breaking even?

S

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 13h

Yep, I want a full criminal investigation of what the Premier League, FA, UEFA, and FIFA knew about this City scandal (and CHELSEA), when they knew it, and what they did. I also want to know if there were any "special contacts" awarded to any execs. This goes all the way up.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 13h

you have two huge examples: chelsea and city. Everyone knew that this stuff was going - it was openly talked about - but no one "caught" it in the books? That seems super fishy to me.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 14h

this Manchester City story stinks of the FIFA Russia world cup. I would be surprised if it doesn't turn out that Manchester City was essentially bribing fa and Premier League executives

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 14h

how did a hacker break the story when the Premier League and UEFA had been directly looking at Manchester city's books for 15 years and were incapable of uncovering what was blatant and obvious cheating

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 14h

everyone is talking about the punishment Man City deserve but what about the Premier League and football association executives that were either the most incompetent directors of all time or, and I want to see an investigation into this, complicit.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 14h

he was replaced by Gallagher's brother.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 14h

lol! But seriously. Or maybe reach out to some contacts at the club and develop some relationships and get some insider info the old fashioned way? Weird concept, I know.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 20h

Apparently US troops have finally withdrawn from Iraq. We never did find the WMDs, the yellowcake, or anything else that the war criminals in charge of the USA promised we would find. What we did find was an endless supply of human suffering at our own feet. Mission accomplished. 👍

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 20h

It's the year 2080 and the Premier League is still embroiled in legal battles with Man City over their egregious cheating from 2009-2079.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 20h

It's the same problem we have with journalists covering politics in the USA (and elsewhere); they are terrified of losing access, so they only cover the stuff that escapes containment. There is very little investigative journalism left.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 30/09/2026

scavenger's reign is probably one of the best animated shows to come out in the last 10 years? is that an exaggeration? so innovative and thoughtful and just beautifully drawn and acted

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

i think people need to start referring to folks like the owners of Man City as Robber Barons.

Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th century muckrakers and others as social
criticism to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American
businessmen. The term appeared in that use as early as the August 1870 issue of The
Atlantic Monthly[1] magazine. By the late 19th century, the term was typically applied to
businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2] Those practices
included unfettered consumption and destruction of natural resources, influencing high
levels of government, wage slavery, squashing competition by acquiring their
competitors, and to create monopolies and/or trusts that control the market. The term
combines the sense of criminal ("robber") and illegitimate aristocracy ("baron") in a
republic.[3]

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

I guess 6969420 was taken.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

Huh, looks like even Pep was caught up in City's BILLION DOLLAR CHEATING

During the 2017-18 season, Pep Guardiola's second in charge of the team, City recorded
£145.73 million ($192.4m) in commercial revenue, with only £11 million ($14.5m) paid by
sponsors and the remaining £134.73 million ($178m) paid by the owners, which is against
Premier League rules.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

yep, and it's ruining football all over the world in the process.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

Arsene Wenger called it in 2005, 21 years ago.

"I feel yes, because they are a financially doped club.

"They have enhancement of performances through financial resources which are
unlimited. For me, it's a kind of doping because it's not in any way linked to their
resources.

"It puts pressure on the market that is not very healthy. They can go to Steven Gerrard or
Rio Ferdinand and say 'how much do you earn, we'll give you twice as much'."

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

The thing about this is that it's so easy to tell when clubs are financially doping: if they net spend €1bn on transfers over an 8 year period there's a huge chance that some chicanery is happening. So, the conclusion is that EVERYONE knew and did nothing.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

more exciting the PL became. The more that they cheated, the more that it attracted VC and PE who are now pumping billions into everything PL related. This summer, the League as a whole spent €4bn on transfers. That's more than every other UEFA club COMBINED.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

I'll tell you how you should feel: you should feel like the Premier League knew about all of this cheating and allowed it to happen because it enriched them. The more money Chelsea and City spent on players, the better the TV contracts kept getting. The more that PL clubs spunked on players, the

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

Not a fan of Barney Ronay's writing style but this paragraph absolutely nails the problem with the Premier League.

It is also important to remember that English football hovers like a locust
cloud over every other league. The reeling-in of talent and expertise is
hugely destabilising. How are you supposed to feel in Germany or Belgium
about the fact City and Chelsea have between them spent more than £3bn on
transfer fees, all of which is now tainted, apparently put into circulation by
something other than a legitimate sporting project?

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 29/09/2026

Disney plus just alerted me that I have some homework to watch a bunch of movies so that I can be prepared to watch avengers doomsday in December. I don't think that's how movies are supposed to work but what do I know anymore

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 28/09/2026

The USA isn't far away from this. Actually, if the Jan 6 terrorists had gotten ahold of Pelosi or others I think we'd have already had something like this happen. This is a result of the misinformation news cycle on places like X. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.com

DRC politician beaten to death after radio appearance about Ebola outbreak

Marie-Celestin Karondwa was attacked on Sunday after promoting measures to prevent spread of disease, his party says

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 28/09/2026

if only there was a federal bureau of investigations. They could ask them to look into this.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 28/09/2026

Texas also well known for having access to tons of water in all those open spaces.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 28/09/2026

ahh.. that place looks very neat. prices aren't that bad either. for specialty coffee like that especially.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 28/09/2026

the goal has always been to bankrupt the country so that they can get rid of social security and other social welfare programs.

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😡moth😀 @7amkickoff.com · 28/09/2026

it would be interesting if every Premier League club was investigated for financial irregularities. I bet you there's more than just one or two

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