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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 40m

- 28.09.23: UAE match. Refs: Michael Oliver, Stuart Burt, Dan Cook, Darren England (VAR) - 30.09.23: Spurs/Liverpool game. Diaz goal ruled out. VAR Darren England; 4th official Michael Oliver. - 08.10.23: Arsenal/Man City game. No red for Kovacic. Refs: Michael Oliver, Stuart Burt, Dan Cook. 🤷

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12h

It seems apt that Manchester City fans adopted the Poznan, a celebration where everybody looks the other way.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 2h

Check this graphic from the BBC on which players were signed when which owner cash injections were made. The treble, the 4-in-a-row. All bought Abramovich-style in the FFP/PSR era, all rules fraudulently circumvented. They are Chelski on steroids. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 2h

Ditch them to the conference. Let them climb back up. Then hit them with the 2018-2026 charges.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 4h

Watch this in its entirety. A team went through their final 18 games winning 16, scoring 54, conceding 9. And it wasn't enough to win the league ahead of the biggest cheats in the history of world football. The following season, the squad was ridden with injuries due to this exertion. Farce. Get rid

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Mikel Arteta & Martin Odegaard address the Arsenal crowd after Premier League title heartbreak 💔🔴

YouTube video by TNT Sports Football

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 3h

When you look at the sheer scale of the fraud and cover up, and then consider that the Premier League's top referee was paid significant amounts of money by the same people during the period, then it's hard not to think that we don't need further investigation.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 15h

Sham, pain, City’s over.

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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 13h

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 4h

Any discussion of sanctions have to be based on the facts that: 1. City knowingly, deliberately, proudly defrauded the competition for over a decade. 2. City publicly undermined the Premier League's democratic right to hold them to the agreed laws of the competition.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 4h

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Mikel Arteta & Martin Odegaard address the Arsenal crowd after Premier League title heartbreak 💔🔴

YouTube video by TNT Sports Football

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 14h

God knows what this will be like.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 14h

Still find it absurd that we knew about City's conduct and still were prepared to enter a super league with them. Let's just hope all the PL teams refuse to entertain it when City get expelled and try to start a new super league.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 15h

If you defraud a casino, you go to jail. Eight Premier League titles. Eight.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder which City players will mysteriously pull hamstrings before that Anfield game.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 15h

That Ferran Soriano video looks and sounds like he’s been crying shortly before filming it.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 19h

I’m hearing that Win the dog ate Manchester City’s irrefutable evidence.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 16h

New City statement: “We’re free to do whatever we… Whatever we choose and we’ll sink the blues if we want We’re free to say whatever we… Whatever we like if it's wrong or right, it's alright”

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Sleaford Gooner @sleafordgooner.bsky.social · 17h

Edit; sham audit! Is a perfect anagram of: Etihad Stadium

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 17h

🚨Sky Blues break BlueSky🚨

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 18h

Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 18h

Will there be a fan protest against the owners? Would anyone be able to tell if there was? These are the deep questions that prevail.

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Ann Buckley @annbuckley.bsky.social · 20h

Get ‘em, Rob

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 19h

I’m hearing that Win the dog ate Manchester City’s irrefutable evidence.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 19h

The official Manchester City statement is embarrassing. You wonder how much people working within the club pushed back against the tone and wording from the owners. I’d be ashamed for the club’s name and official site to host such a piece of writing.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 19h

“the opinion” Haha, they’re so done.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 23h

So for all the chatter about the ruling's potential impacts on the City players, either their new signings were lied to about the charges by Man City or their new signings were informed & signed with full knowledge of who they were joining (and presumably made comfortable in their contracts)

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Man City learned of guilty verdicts in summer before transfer activity - sources

Manchester City were first informed that they had been found guilty of more than 100 breaches of the Premier League's financial rules in the summer, sources told ESPN, before spending heavily in the transfer market.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s funny how it took just over a year after the charges being announced for other teams to catch up and overtake Man City.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’d expect anyone to know if they had two ‘independent’ employers paying them two ‘seperate’ salaries, by the way.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Liam Gallagher has gone from gloating that City having done nothing wrong to gloating that City will avoid significant punishment for doing wrong.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing that could make expelling City easier is if they continue winning all their games. In that case none of their opponents will feel aggrieved at the results being rendered void.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In September 2008, this Arsenal team, built from minimal cost, developed by Arsene Wenger, beat Porto 4-0 in the Champions League. Also in September 2008, Manchester City were purchased by Abu Dhabi. Over the following 6 years, Manchester City acquired more than half of this starting line-up.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Enough about Man City being well run. From the moment the takeover happened, they relentlessly acted against the rules to gain advantages. It was always going to be found out. Individuals could ride the storm and profit from it temporarily, just so long as the club had the veneer of a well-run club.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I saw one City fan note friends saying how it always seemed too good to be true. I mean, just look at it...

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The red cartel" 30 years: How long Liverpool went between league titles. 22 years: How long Arsenal went between league titles. 13 years: How long since Man Utd's last league title. 13 years: How long Man City went between finishing 3rd in Division Two, and winning the Premier League.

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