Manchester United
Heaton Moor
Joined February 2012
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Simon O'Reilly retweeted
As a Forest fan, I have zero love for United. My two penneth is: their culture has been suffocated. First by the Glazers and further by Ratcliffe. United is being led by unlikeable, passionless, cynical and penny pinching characters. They set the tone and, like a waterfall, it flows down, through every channel and into every corner. They have sucked the life & soul out of that football club. It’s only their hardcore, longstanding fanbase keeping their identity alive and yet they are doing everything to get them gone with their draconian season ticket policies.
😂😂😂
Four days ago, Man City set an attendance record for the Etihad Stadium. Over 60,817 people were in attendance, and none of the rival fans posted about it.
Last night, they saw empty seats and started moaning.
Empty seats don't mean unsold tickets; people can buy tickets and decide to stay home due to tight schedules.
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
The probability of Man City overturning the guilty verdict through an appeal, another legal route, or even UAE pressure/blackmail is as slim as a broke person becoming a billionaire by dec this year. The best they can overturn is 2 charges out of 115 breaches, leaving 113/115.
My prediction is City will end up with 115/115, a modified verdict referred to the IC for sanctions, with recommendations to extend investigations into 2026. Who knows what they did? It could be worse than Haaland accepting a house in Dubai in exchange for a lengthy contract.
City fans keep celebrating the word “appeal” like it means “reset.” It doesn’t. You can challenge a verdict, but you can’t Ctrl+Z the evidence nor the club image. Right now city is guilty and a certified cheat in the history of football.
The Premier League keeps receipts. No shortcuts, no expiry date for sham business practices.
You can sleep with your mother-in-law beneath the sea and still think nobody knows, but eventually, the truth surfaces!
Money can delay the reckoning, it can’t guarantee an escape from it.
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
OLIVER HOLT: The preening triumphalism of Man City stars at Anfield shows they do not have a scintilla of self-awareness between them. These players stand on the shoulders of cheats - and they know it trib.al/SI47nQ2
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
Man City are getting slaughtered online for lifting a Man United banner, word for word, ahead of today's game at Anfield.
Of all the clubs to borrow a slogan from, they went with the one across town.
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
Robbie Mustoe is in synch with me. (USA Sports)
OPINION: Punishment for 114 charges for 10 long years of fraud:
🔵 Strip #ManCity off all the Premier League titles.
🔵 Put three years of transfer ban.
🔵 Give 30 points reduction for the next 5 years.
🔵 Set aside a pool of money £200 -£300 million for distribution to clubs losing out to PL & clubs losing titles & European competitions.
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
🚨🗣️ Eric Cantona on the Manchester city 115 charges:
"I don't know why they're delaying the punishment, all the premier league clubs wants them out, go ahead and remove them because no one will even notice that they're gone"
"No one will stop watching the league because of city, the fans they have today came from other clubs and those fans I am hundred percent sure will follow them down because if those fans were loyal, they would have stick to their original clubs"
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
🚨Liverpool’s former goalkeeper coach John Achterberg on Manchester City:
"l remember we played them at Wembley and there was a big banner covering thousands of seats as they couldn't sell out their allocation. Their fanbase is nowhere near as big as Liverpool's, but their commercial revenues were higher. It made no sense."
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
The Stretford End will welcome back the famous ‘ticker’ flag tomorrow.
It has been updated by The Red Army.
For @TheAthleticFC
nytimes.com/athletic/7674131…
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
Where would Man City be if they didn’t cheat? 🤷🏻♂️
We’ve taken the money pumped into the club by their owners, worked out which signings it funded each season and removed every Premier League goal those players scored.
Here’s what the leagues would look like…
A Thread 🧵👇🏼
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
All this FFP and PSR stuff is getting boring. Strip away the mythical “cartel” nonsense and it’s simple, City and Newcastle fans want mega rich owners to spend what they like, hence Newcastle fans suddenly becoming City’s unofficial legal team.
United, Liverpool, and Arsenal weren’t handed their position by the Premier League. They spent generations winning trophies, building support, and growing revenues, just as Real Madrid and Barcelona did in Spain.
Do the rules need changing and ambitious clubs have room to grow? Absolutely yes, but rules also exist to stop clubs buying an advantage through inflated or disguised revenues.(City)
And cut the morality act.
Newcastle and Villa fans aren’t leading some great socialist revolution to save football, they want wealthy owners to spend their way to the top. They weren’t hamstrung by PSR for the previous 70 years or more, they were mostly just shite.
Argue for different rules by all means, but stop rewriting 70 years of history and dressing a billionaire’s chequebook up as Robin Hood fighting the cartel.
Simon O'Reilly retweeted
One of the greatest players I've ever had the privilege to see.
In a day and age where prices are bandied around like confetti I honestly don't think you could put a price on what his capabilities were.
Now, you get one type of midfielder who sits on one position, passes it 10 yards max and it worth £100m.
Then you get another type of midfielder who adds average attacking thrust. Another £100m
Then, you have captains who don't open their fucking mouths for 90 minutes, called" leaders ". Another £100m
He was a team's best defender, best holding midfielder, best leader, best attacking midfielder and most important match winner.
Priceless. Truly priceless.
