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Some of the political journalists could do with looking very closely at Andy Burnham, his time as Mayor of Manchester, and the Man City owners. I'll shut up about football now.

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That he also doesn't see the other differences is laughable. Everton accepted the ONE charge and so dealt with the Premier League, City contested the ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN charges so it went to an independent panel that had nothing to do with the Premier League

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State of Burnham. Just throwing the club he's supposed to support under the bus by comparing their charge of spending a bit too much that they completed accepted with industrial scale cheating by Manchester City who are still lying about it to this day.

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"It is "frustrating when people rush to judgement", Burnham said. This has been ongoing for EIGHT YEARS and the panel took TWO YEARS to reach their verdict. 'Rush to judgement'

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"I do actually thank the City Football Group and the wider ownership for the money that they didn't just put into the Etihad [Stadium] and the campus around it but also into the city". It cost £112m to build. It cost £42m to convert into a football ground. City paid £20m. Taxpayers paid the rest.

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Burnham "I would be really concerned to lose them. "They've been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester and obviously the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is." BY CHEATING AND PISSING ALL OVER EVERY OTHER CLUB IN THE COUNTRY

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I think they have to be expelled, otherwise you just turn every league they are relegated to into a circus for a season.

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To give you an idea of the scale of their cheating, for every £1 they got in legit sponsorship money, their owners pumped in £8 of illegal money, producing 'sham' contracts claiming the sponsors had paid it all. Over £900m fraud.

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Both Nandy, who has the sport brief, and Burnham have been very quick to highlight that City say they are not guilty, despite being found guilty. Loads of people appeal guilty verdicts and findings. We still say they are guilty until anything changes.

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And this all only covers up until 2018, when they had won (I think) eight trophies. They've won 15 since. Do we think they just magically stopped cheating in 2018? Of course we don't.

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For those outside football circles, which I appreciate is most of you, it's hard to truly convey the depth of their cheating and lying, the impact this will have on football for years, and the fury of everybody not connected with City, including the media.

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Andy Burnham can be the PM of the country that has the most popular football league in the world, or he can keep sucking up to UAE. He won't get to do both.

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There is not one single person who is not connected to Manchester City that thinks the current owners should be allowed to remain owners, but our PM would be 'really concerned' if they sold. Corrupt as fuck.

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Can't half tell their government has been threatening the UK government.

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This is insane "The prime minister said the situation was "contested by Manchester City" and he praised the club's owners since 2008 - led by Sheikh Mansour, United Arab Emirates deputy prime minister and royal family member - for investing in Manchester." They were found guilty. Of all of it.

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'rule breaches' RULE BREACHES! This is unprecedented in its scale and Manchester City's refusal to cooperate while provably lying while giving evidence

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The new football regulator has the power to force the sale of a club and this is as clear a case as you will ever see of that being required but this gives me no faith they will be allowed to be independent.

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Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

There we go. The former Mayor of Manchester, who was very cosy with the owners of Manchester City who have been found guilty of the biggest cheating scandal in British football, would be "really concerned" if they sold the club www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4h

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve heard decent people I respect describe Burnham’s speech as the most consequential of their lifetimes. For trans people - not mentioned at all - it has no consequences beyond the continuation of our demonisation and exclusion.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

Fuck me, the amount of people trying to get this Manchester City cheating scandal to be called 'The Pepstein files' is going to drive me off a cliff. Take a second and think where the joke is here and what you are using to land it. Then stop it.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

The law was perfectly fine and trans people were protected until Labour changed all that

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

If Burnham was doing to you what he is doing to me, maybe you'd have some empathy about this position and not come to the defence of a man who is happy to have me excluded from society, facing daily abuse, while watching our kids die. 'Disagreeing' lol

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Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.social · 8h

Similar levels of fucking over queer people anyway.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6h

"Lisa Nandy told BBC Radio 5 Live: ‘It’s hard to overstate how serious it is. ‘It is important to say that Man City contest those findings and they have the right to a fair process, but the implications are serious if they are upheld and serious for football as a whole.’" [Mail]

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7h

This headline reads like they are going to teach kids how to be misogynistic, which, tbf, is probably what the BBC are hoping it is

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Courtney Love is a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fast 2 Furiosa @hexadecibelle.fyi · 9h

that’s weird there must be some kind of glitch, it looks like the Secretary for Labour For Trans Rights keeps blocking the accounts of trans people

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7h

I'm honestly ok about this folks, but thank you. Much worse happened in my teens 🙃

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As you can tell by the fact I was wearing a dress, my mum was still forcing me to wear what she wanted me to wear

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Don't think I've ever told anyone that until now. Huh.

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I was about six and a young man, about 18 or 19 pulled my dress up so he could see my underwear

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Or you could just get a library card and read it for free on pressreader.com

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Or you could just get a library card and read it for free on pressreader.com

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You can understand why the dumbest fucks on the planet would want to feel they control 'super intelligence'

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 22h

Peter Tatchell is saying things again

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... Like who exactly is labour fighting with over trans rights if they are pro-trans rights?

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And he kept Phillipson in place

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I will say I do feel that some labour MPs are pushing back more now under Burnham but it's still all just words and he has already allowed trans segregation in schools to go ahead.

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Actually, scratch that, I do mean to be that person

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I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted.

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Or what about from the former Mayor of Manchester? He was apparently quite cosy with the owners of City. Anything?

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