grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 4hIt’s not just the guilt but the complete arrogance and disregard for everyone else as a matter of course. Even a punishment they could overcome in a 2-3 years would leave me asking what’s the point of following the league at all. And I think a lot of people were considering that before the verdict 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s what makes me laugh about the Chelsea fans singing, “We want our Chelsea back”. Ok then, so a nothing club who’d won a solitary league title in its entire existence. 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Don’t the club still owe a colossal sum to Abramovich? 100
Reposted by @grumpy-bob.bsky.socialR. J. MACREADY @rjmacready.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It might be in the full report, but I find it very disappointing that the threats and intimidation City aimed at journalists who've been covering their industrial scaled cheating are never mentioned in the 40-page summary. 051
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even if you don’t believe anyhting completely bent was going on, it’s a colossal conflict of interest that should never have been permitted. 120
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah and it’s those huge outlier signings that maybe now don’t sound that outrageous (38m Aguero for example) but at the time destroyed the market and completely changed the landscape 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Indeed. Try having your Aguero moment with no Aguero you absolute shagwits. 130
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Kind of pisses on the whole “couldn’t get it done” narrative doesn’t it. Shows how disingenuous all that was too as all the journos and media knew what they were doing. 030
Reposted by @grumpy-bob.bsky.socialHayters TV @hayterstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"They [Man City] bought all my players!" 🙃 "If there’s no respect for the rules then it’s not real sport!" 😤 Back to this classic Arsene Wenger interview on FFP 🧠 06822
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Where that second stash of docs you promised Rui? 130
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Let’s hope the rumoured additional document release from Rui Pinto includes this detail. Then they can go from the fourth tier of English football to the tenth. 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The rats running away with their money is so apt. 120
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They knew. They all knew. It’s why they ran away. 020
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Is the ‘irrefutable evidence’ in the room with us right now?” 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes. A transfer ban is kind of pointless when you’ve ensured they were able to go out and spend well over 300m on a completely brand new young MF to mitigate against that outcome. 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Exactly this. 20 years of the PL has already been wasted. It literally comes down to is this a real league or not? It’s existential. If there’s no proper punishment, the PL just becomes a joke league where Nation states piss all over the rules & we can all just sack it off and do something else. 030
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Exactly the same with Abramovich’s Chelsea. Media too busy revelling in the spending, and fawning over Mourinho to question anything. All the while denigrating a genuine football man like Wenger for pointing out in real time what was patently obvious to everyone. 011
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pissed Odegaard has more PL titles than him. What a POS 120
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Did the drugs really help Lance that much? He was in pretty good shape anyway. 151
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Plus obviously all the legal threats when you didn’t like what they were saying. 000
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes mate. Everyone did reach their own conclusions because anyone with half a brain knows that a nothing club doesn’t have revenues that dwarf Real Madrid. You made it so obvious you were cheating people basically stopped caring about the PL for more than a decade. 140
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not difficult to spot the bought and paid for is it. 230
Reposted by @grumpy-bob.bsky.socialPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.josimar.noThe Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side | Josimar 10345140
Reposted by @grumpy-bob.bsky.socialJosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We have taken down our paywall for 48 hours - for you to enjoy some of our reporting about Manchester City. First up - The men behind Manchester City: The dark side By @ncgeehan.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2018/08/10/t...josimarfootball.comThe men behind Manchester City: The dark side - josimarfootball.comOn the pitch, Manchester City impressed everybody last season. Now let’s take a look behind the scenes – on the men who own the club. 17555
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Or more accurately, “I don’t want to believe the biggest achievements in my club career were all predicated on unprecedented cheating and consequently completely worthless.” 030
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Our entire strategy of building a stadium and swallowing some tough years was based on the fact that there would be financial rules. Of course Wenger couldn’t compete with all the fraudulent spending on top. Where were the media when he was literally telling them what was happening? 040
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This whole thread is perfect, took the words right out of my mouth. 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s abject cowardice. They all knew what was happening in real time. The reaction now almost makes it worse but I’m still revelling in it too much for it to really tarnish my enjoyment. 020
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Exactly. There’s no punishment that could be sufficient to take away the illegal titles & to move them back to where they were. I mean do we think Guardiola & Haaland are pitching up at a Championship or even mid table PL side? It’s the moments of joy stolen from other teams I find most offensive. 150
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It has to be a years long punishment. Along with Chelsea, their entire current reputation & standing in world football is predicated on those periods of calculated & deliberate rule breaking. 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Shame the media here couldn’t locate their bollocks for the last 20 years. The fact that they all perpetuated the narratives about Arsenal, during both Chelsea and City’s unprecedented periods of cheating, and despite knowing full well what was going on, is to their absolute and eternal detriment. 2151
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Going to look even better when it all becomes a strike through rather than an asterisk. 020
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They all did. It’s why they all ran away as soon as any sort of culpability loomed large. 030
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Exactly, regular clubs don’t have that many ways to generate more revenue. So their calculated, long term deceit has affected fans of literally every other team. 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Incredible how that narrative was spun considering the weight of charges against City. Looking a bit different now isnt it. Beating probably the best ever manager who had a hundreds of millions head start, all gained with a pre-meditated and ongoing intention to break all financial rules. 1103
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Which was obviously intentional on their part to spike their rivals yet again. An absolute disgrace they’ve been allowed to rebuild their entire MF at the cost of well over 300m while all this is ongoing. 070
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The biggest cheats in the history of sport Philippe. 030
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Along with Chelsea, that’s nearly two decades of the PL ruined by doped clubs. As Wenger was articulating in real time, only to be widely mocked for not beating said club and the manager out pathetic press fawned over 0131
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Completely agree but that should have happened with Chelsea too. 020
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The punishment should be colossal. How could it possibly be worse? Deliberately cheating for over a decade rendering the PL pointless for years and spending millions trying to sabotage and delay the investigation. They’ll forever be known as the biggest cheats in sport’s history. 040
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Literally the whole point of having it. Let’s fuck these idiot refs off along with the shagwits in the VAR booth and rebuild it all properly. 020
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Against a Man City team who’ve spent over a decade breaking rules, what guarantee is there you ever succeed? How many teams have done it? Klopp’s super team that deserved, and would have won, many more against a non doped team. In your first managerial job is a ridiculous achievement by any metric. 030
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hard to know if it’s fascism or stupidity that needs fighting against. 220
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026PL just doesn’t give you one match to breathe. One thing Arteta deserves huge credit for is recognising the impact of the new CL and beefing out the squad. Likely will be what wins us the title again. 010
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Why do they make me speak to these people every three days” 0110
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Picking the games really makes sense for a couple more years at least. Maybe it’s the Stoke PTSD but I really don’t want to see refs letting him get smashed to bits in games like we just watched on Saturday for example. Plenty of time to give him minutes where his legs can stay safely attached. 030
grumpy-bob.bsky.social @grumpy-bob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s Brooks again isnt it. He did such a bang up job at the weekend, he’s bound to get another crack at the full house. Only thing he missed was a red card. 020