Manchester City

[Shaggy]

5-3

[Bender]

wtf whats the milan team?

[Chris]

El Shaarawy and a load of **** pretty much.

Amelia, Antonini, Zaccardo, Vergara, Constant, Traorè, De Jong, Muntari, Boateng, Petagna,El Shaarawy #AudiCup

[Neil Young]

I found this an interesting read and 'laundering reputation' is a very clear and succinct way to describe what's going on.

It's also worth noting the power relationships between the UAE elite and both the FA and the UK government. I'm sure Manchester City Council has also done well out of it - I wonder if its acquiescence has been bought too.

Ok, no one else gives a ****.

[Cormack74]

Ok, no one else gives a ****.

Yup read some of it but it's flipping long.

Interesting but (with a very slim handle on middle east politics / dictators) not all that surprising TBH.

[BobTheCharmer]

Ok, no one else gives a ****.

Not so Neil. I've just read the whole article and am completely flabbergasted. Its quite shocking to be honest. I'm not sure how they've managed to keep it under wraps for so long. In Russia and Ireland I'd almost expect it but the Arabs Emirates have such a good reputation on these kind of things. I fully expect a fan backlash in the coming weeks.

[Neil Young]

Yup read some of it but it's flipping long.

Interesting but (with a very slim handle on middle east politics / dictators) not all that surprising TBH.

Ha, yeah, you're right, it is long and it was unfair of me. It was just the article stood there all day and then suddenly there were half a dozen posts about the Man City match and I was saddened by the juxtaposition of the important but ignored and the trivial but enjoyed.

But it's not like it's real news, as you say.

[little dave hedgehog]

that article was many things, but enjoyable was never going to be one of them.

[Liverpel]

Not so Neil. I've just read the whole article and am completely flabbergasted. Its quite shocking to be honest. I'm not sure how they've managed to keep it under wraps for so long. In Russia and Ireland I'd almost expect it but the Arabs Emirates have such a good reputation on these kind of things. I fully expect a fan backlash in the coming weeks.

I'm too drunk tired to read the article but why would you expect that in Ireland?

[BillobShaisley]

It's not that people don't care it's just its 'olds' rather than 'news'. Additionally it's all 'over there' and we can't possibly intervene in other countries natural evolution any way, could we?

I've been through similar events, where groundbreaking revealing proof of hitherto unknown truths are unleashed on the world, surely resulting in huge demonstrations and a restructuring of the evil establishments in question, prosecutions and remedial action........ but no.

IMF / World bank riots
Vote Rigging in the USA
Common Law Treason and Tyrany by government
etc
etc
etc

Quite frankly, news about how backward justice is anywhere outside Northern Europe is somewhat stating the obvious.

[Kenneth]

It's also not specific to football. Despots from around the world use investments in british companies and property for reasons of status, money laundering etc etc. They also live here in large numbers. We hope that sport can hold up a moral lens that the rest of society/commerce fails to do but unfortunately this appears not to be the case.

[danperkins]

Negredo has looked impressive for them. Should have beaten Bayern ,missed loads of chances and ridiculous penalty against them.

[Bender]

"If Mancini and I were still at Man City, Joe Hart wouldn't be there. We made a decision to sign Begovic." - Platt (Source: Al Jazeera)

[RichC]

It would have been a good decision as well.

[Lee]

It would have been a good decision as well.

Hart was poor again today. Completely regressed over the last 18 months.