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Founder of @stocs_global - building the Ai Gateway to Global Resale. Ex-Journo, 4th gen Forest fan, ex-Editor of The Trent Times @NFFC fanzine. Views my own.
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The day nothing happens to City is the day the Premier League officially loses all authority.
You can’t dock points from Everton and Forest for minor overspends, then look the other way on 115 charges because a club is "too big to penalize."
Rules either apply to everyone equally, or they don’t exist at all.
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Your man @Knox_Harrington here speaking to @bbc5live about Manchester City being found guilty by the Premier League...
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Russia hit a private medical center in the center of Kyiv. This is, again, a purely civilian object, in the middle of a busy business street, in the middle of the day.
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Putin has just signed a decree to increase the size of the Russian army too 2.4 million members 1.5 million soldiers making it one of the largest land forces on planet earth.
We’re just a month and a few days from the US midterms.
Trump faces losing the grip on his Presidency and Putin will be aware of the risk of losing his biggest Western asset.
Expect a huge false flag event in an attempt for Trump to try to call martial law, to manipulate the democratic process.
Expect Putin to bide his time for a month or so to see which we the wind blows before he makes his next big move.
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Pessimism is literally for losers.
You have every right to push back on people who are convinced nothing will work in life.
I am a Forest fan and I can tell you straight, if Forest were ever found to be pulling the sort of caper Man City have, I wouldn’t be on social media trying to defend it, playing the victim.
I’d be saying we broke the rules, we deserve the punishment.
Football, sport, business, politics - you name it - should all be on a level playing field.
I wouldn’t want to support anything that is rotten.
City fans: Man up; take it on the chin, take the punishment, clean the house, clean the slate, learn from it and go again.
All this whining is not a good look.
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🏟️🔵 HOW MANCHESTER CITY GOT THE ETIHAD STADIUM IS A STORY MANY PEOPLE DON’T KNOW.
Manchester City do not own the Etihad Stadium. Manchester City Council does.
And the stadium wasn’t originally built for Manchester City.
It was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, after Manchester’s failed Olympic bids. The council wanted an 80,000-seat athletics stadium on the old Bradford Colliery site in Eastlands.
Construction began in December 1999. Tony Blair laid the foundation stone.
The stadium cost £112 million to build — including £77 million from Sport England lottery funding, with the rest coming from Manchester City Council.
It opened in July 2002 for the Commonwealth Games.
After the Games, the athletics track was removed and the stadium was converted into a football ground. The pitch was lowered and around 23,000 permanent seats were added.
That conversion cost more than £40 million, with around £22 million coming from Manchester City Council and about £20 million from Manchester City for bars, restaurants and corporate facilities.
Then City moved in for the 2003/04 season.
The club signed a 250-year lease from Manchester City Council on a fully repairing basis — meaning City became responsible for running, maintaining and developing the stadium while retaining the revenue generated from it.
The original rent was based on ticket income above 35,000.
Then came the Abu Dhabi takeover.
In 2010, the arrangement was renegotiated. City secured the right to sell the stadium naming rights, eventually leading to the Etihad Airways deal, while agreeing to pay Manchester City Council a fixed £3 million per year, rising with inflation.
In 2011, the stadium officially became the Etihad Stadium.
Since then, City have funded further expansions themselves, taking the capacity from around 47,000 to more than 61,000.
So no, Manchester City weren’t simply handed a stadium for free.
But they also didn’t build the original £112 million stadium themselves.
Public lottery money helped build it. Manchester City Council helped build it. The council funded much of the football conversion. And City obtained a 250-year lease.
That’s the history of how Manchester City ended up at the Etihad. 👀
Has Guehi left his brain in the dressing room?
What an atrocious mistake. The forward diagonal pass was on for a one-two.
Why on earth did he turn backwards?
Shocking.
@England
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This always failed the "smell" test. Now in light of the announcement yesterday, the relationship between Michael Oliver, these officials & Abu Dhabi regime needs further scrutiny.
independent.co.uk/sport/foot…
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The Untold Pep Files: A Story of Drugs, Referees, and Dark Money in Football👇
Imagine a story so massive it makes the Lance Armstrong scandal look like a warm-up act. It starts with a single player, spans across three countries, and exposes a decades-long trail of destroyed evidence, "miracle" doctors, and institutional corruption.
Welcome down the rabbit hole. 🕵️♂️⚽
CHAPTER 1: The Player Who Got Caught
Before Pep Guardiola was the master tactician, he was a midfielder for Brescia in 2001. That was the year he tested positive twice for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone.
His defense? "Contaminated multivitamins."
Who was the man preparing those exact vitamins? Dr. Ramon Segura, the same physiologist who was working with Frank de Boer when De Boer also tested positive for nandrolone that exact same year.
The pattern was set early: win at all costs, and surround yourself with questionable medicine.
CHAPTER 2: The Barcelona "Miracles" & Operación Puerto
When Pep took over Barcelona in 2008, guess who he immediately brought in to lead the medical staff? Dr. Ramon Segura.
At the same time, Spanish football was shadowed by Operación Puerto, the infamous raid on Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes that uncovered 99 blood bags containing EPO. Fuentes openly admitted on trial that he had worked with football and tennis stars, famously taunting the court that naming his clients meant Spain would have to give back their Champions League, European Championship, and World Cup trophies.
The Spanish judge’s response? Refuse to let him name names, reject WADA’s appeal, and order all blood bags destroyed under the guise of doctor-patient confidentiality.
Add to this:
Journalists uncovering full-season "doping preparation plans" for La Liga giants.
Real Sociedad’s president admitting they spent €327,000 annually on illegal black-market PEDs.
Retracted slips on radio revealing players using growth hormones for "muscle recovery."
Spanish football's Golden Era was built, but the paper trail was conveniently burned.
CHAPTER 3: The System Expands — Financial Doping & Negreira
Winning wasn't just happening on the pitch; it was being secured everywhere else.
While the public obsessively meme's about Premier League charges, Barcelona was paying millions to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the Vice President of Spain's Refereeing Committee. When asked in court to provide the "referee reports" they claimed to be paying for, Barca couldn't produce them. They paid off the referees' boss, plain and simple.
CHAPTER 4: The Bayern Friction
When Pep arrived at Bayern Munich, he tried to bring his hyper-aggressive medical protocols with him. He insisted on sending injured players back to Barcelona to be treated by his preferred specialists.
This sparked an explosive fallout with Bayern’s legendary physician Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, who walked out in disgust over Pep’s demands for unnatural, record-breaking recovery times. Bayern’s old guard refused to bend the knee to Pep's dark arts.
CHAPTER 5: Manchester City & The Ultimate Machine
At Manchester City, Pep finally found a club with zero moral boundaries to stop him.
The strategy reached its final, perfected evolution:
Financial Doping: Siphoning billions in hidden payments to bypass FFP rules and buy infinite depth.
Medical Anomaly: Key players like De Bruyne, Kompany constantly flying to Barcelona to see Dr. Ramon Cugat, mysteriously recovering weeks ahead of human biology norms.
Refereeing “controversies” and literally paying off referees like Michael Oliver.
When Samir Nasri got caught receiving illegal IV drip treatments in 2016, it was framed as an isolated mistake.
THE VERDICT
From nandrolone positives in 2001 to 115 financial charges and paid-off referee chiefs today... Pep Guardiola didn't just adapt to elite football. He systematically redefined how to cheat it.
You think Lance Armstrong was the biggest cover-up in sports history?
You haven't been paying attention.
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Superb write up in Manchester City by @david_conn
theguardian.com/football/202…
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Protest by City fans outside The Etihad later.
Police have advised all 20 of them to be on their best behaviour.
