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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 5h

I can believe that, given you still believe Man Utd are relevant 👍

Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 5h

May I, have the temerity to suggest that information from someone who doesn't know the difference between their and there might just be a tad unreliable ???

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 6h

It is said Bongo played drums at that party.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Birthday Amanda 🎂🥳

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really don't get the love for HBA such a wasted talent. Ginola for me.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Same experience here, and similar number of years - late 70's for me, (Packers) treat like family when we were out there.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or in Ratcliffe's case, cutting for cutting's sake because that's his MO.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks Chris, that makes sense - I recall a comment a while ago I heard from someone who worked there saying "we used to have one man bands, now we have teams" fwiw.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting stuff Chris 👍 Do you know how many employees in total we now have? Suspect that's also grown significantly as all the folks on your chart (particularly the back office roles) will have staff.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is it partly that the left hand leg of the "now" is compressed, there will be hierarchies within that, that aren't shown ?

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And it's now, as we were told, in the middle of "the hood"!!!

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well yes, I know that, but fact is he was a good manager despite that, I was shocked and not a little pissed off when he left, the fact he shafted us should not disguise the fact that he was good and followed another good (legendary) one which was the premise of the opening post.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Graceland is a great visit, but surprisingly small !!! The displays do make you realise how huge a superstar he was though. When in Memphis try and do Sun studio tour 😉 (My boss down in the jungle room).

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He was good manager though until he shat on us.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A bit further down on the list Joe Harvey (who should have some form of recognition at the ground IMO) followed by Gordon Lee, were good, well until Lee pissed off !!!

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Think Amy was just taking a sabbatical. Hopefully she'll be back 👍

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't believe he even wants to meddle tbh. He simply stated a fact that the UAE investment in Manchester had been a massive boost to regeneration, that of course was siezed on and twisted by Cunt Mason at the BBC and his ilk.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

FFP is fine. The sale is booked when it happens, when the payments/instalments are made is just a question of cashflow.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What exactly have Newcastle done to football (apart from abide by all the rules) 🤷‍♂️ At least they don't have over a billion of debt.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going to be a disaster when the yanks get up to the 14 votes mark.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spurs'll be ok I think, their debt was taken out to build a revenue generating assett. Man U not so much, their debt is just ridiculous.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Particularly when those rules are supposed to safeguard clubs from unscrupulous owners, whilst debt (the only real club killer) is completely ignored.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a definite problem but if they do just points deduct, the team that stays up benefits, which in itself isn't right. No easy answer.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Vested interests could come into play, Prem clubs will probably want them relegated via points deduction, as it means one of them stays up. But, I doubt the championship clubs will want that as it very likely means one less promotion "golden ticket" next season. L2 I reckon would love to have them

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No probably about it Percival.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a 100% stitch up by the RW press and Chris (cunt) Mason in particular to try and score points. An utter non-story to try and knock him down. He's not accepting millions from dodgy donors like a certain frog faced Russian assett.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's simply a Chris (cunt) Mason constructed attack line, this whole "PM said" nothing burger.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fake income was a poor choice of words, I meant the rule breaking "additional" income.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not at all, just a realist who sees through the protectionist bullshit.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Add in Villa and Forest while you're on, unable to spend what they can afford simply because of rules introduced solely to protect those who've already been through their "spend what they want" phase.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not really, Rangers operated a tax avoidance scheme at industrial scale and then couldn't pay their bills so were liquidated. City will remain liquid. Even then, the tax issue (possible debt) here is way smaller than the tax collected on the rule breaking £830 Million income so will HMRC just 🤷‍♂️.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will HMRC be bothered about £12 Million or so when they collected circa £160 Mill in tax from the rule breaking additional income ??

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What part of "as far as I know" was unclear ??

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just because you wish it, doesn't make it so 🤷‍♂️

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fifth change in my lifetime, I couldn't give less of a shit !! That said, I would however have been pissed off if they'd resurrected that round NUFC abortion.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Receiving income by breaking rules but then reflecting that income in your accounts is not false accounting though. False accounting is reporting income you didn’t receive or losses you didn’t suffer for example . They didn’t falsely account for it as far as I know.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Utter sensationalist rubbish, governmental interference in football governance is a major FIFA red line, and yes they're corrupt as hell but that is something they are red hot on (probably just so a government can't stop them being corrupt).

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There won't be criminal proceedings, yes they falsified financial returns but they inflated their income and will therefore have paid more tax than they should have so HMRC won't give a shit. What else is there of a criminal nature 🤷‍♂️ They broke sporting regulations, not the law, as far as I know.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Newcastle have steadfastly observed and followed the rules. It's nothing to do with "state owned" it's just some owners will act dodgy - see Chelsea/Abramovic for an example.

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Ali McPherson @toonpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They tried, and lost in court, ...... to Man City. So now, Associated party transactions are allowed but they must be fair market value and signed off/approved by the Prem League.

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