Politics BA and enthusiast. Barrister. Says "No" to nonsense.
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My advice for the new intake of pupils/baby barristers:
Enjoy your victories but don’t bathe in them,
Learn from your losses but don’t dwell on them
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It wasn't the sexual assault allegations.
It wasn't the coup attempt on January 6th.
It wasn't the racism.
It wasn't the transphobia.
It was the price of gas and groceries. As great as last night was, the sad reality is that Americans didn't care until it affected their wallets
Seems like City fans have turned into a strange kind of post-truth Trumpian Maga Cult, where ends justify the means and the owners can do no wrong/they don’t care. Stockholm Syndrome at its finest.
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How long is the stench of the “sham” going to corrode the meaning, worth, and very essence of the Premier League?
Listening to commentary about Manchester City’s players matching the defiance of their ownership and triumphing in adversity.
Listening to fans chorusing the names of the men running the club, wearing masks or displaying banners of their faces and jibing: “We’re Man City, we’ll cheat when we want.”
Victory being framed as “a lovely moment,” a show of togetherness as though some grave injustice has been imposed on City, rather than their hierarchy being found by an independent commission to have orchestrated financial doping on an industrial scale.
Their opponents and the rest of us wondering if any of this actually matters now and how much of it ever did?
There can be no business as usual pretence. We need a full stop to the absurdity.
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Good piece.
This is often referred to as the “time-barred” matter at CAS.
It was about two payments of £15m recorded as Etisalat sponsor income by Man City in 2011/12 and 2012/13, but which were actually paid to the club by an individual named Jaber Mohamed.
Man City made a submission to CAS that clarified these were loans made via an intermediary (called Jaber Mohamed) on behalf of Etisalat because it had liquidity issues at the time and could not afford to pay its sponsorship commitments to Man City. They confirmed that the lender in question was fully repaid in 2015 by Etisalat though. Who was that lender?
ADUG. Not the CPC.
This is a statement of fact made by Man City to CAS.
So if AD sponsors could obtain liquidity from the CPC to fund the Man City sponsor contracts, as the CPC explanation asserts, then why was ADUG paying Etisalat’s Man City sponsorship commitments for two years’ running?
As for the repayment in 2015… that only came after a settlement with Uefa in 2014 addressing suspicious sponsorship payments. Cleaning house clearly.
Just another fact (one of many) that highlight Man City’s “CPC explanation” as totally preposterous.
Manchester City may be undermined by evidence they gave to Uefa over mystery broker
✍️ @martynziegler and @Lawton_Times
thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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Someone’s clearly had a word because this is a bullshit narrative.
Arsenal and Man Utd hate the rules as they are - they’ve both struggled with Uefa’s terribly for half a decade.
The reality is Man City had the talent and resources to have structured everything they did in a completely compliant way. They could have had EVEN BIGGER sponsorship without breaking PL rules (and Uefa were always going to roll over for them).
But that’s not who they are. They broke the rules because they wanted to. As a fuck you to everyone else. They cheat because they can.
The reality is that financial controls are 100% necessary to protect clubs and the game. The rules as written are complete shite though and could be done so much better. But most of football is full of idiots who can barely understand simple rules, let alone write sophisticated ones.
Mansour is like that client we have all had who comes out of the witness box smiling, thinking they’ve smashed it when in reality their evidence was awful. They are then flabbergasted when they lose. I’m sure Pannick is not surprised at all. #MCFC
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“Tax on aspiration” is the phrase rich people used to persuade poor people they shouldn’t tax rich people “because one day you can be like us”.
Whilst stamp duty is a bit of a rubbish tax, this phrase is used for any levy that affects the wealthy more than the poor.
Stamp duty is a tax on aspiration.
It locks first time buyers out. It freezes the market.
Only the Conservatives will scrap it.
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There’s no way FIFA will let the possibility of Bellingham missing a semi-final against Argentina slide. He will definitely get at least a yellow card tomorrow
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Lots of England fans clearly have no idea the absolutely massive advantage that playing at Aztwca gives the Mexican side. Put aside for a second the sheer size of 100,000+ fans and intimidating atmosphere (thats only the minor advantage).
The true advantage is purely physiological, in ways that cannot be countered.
Fans of MLB baseball know that Coors Field in Colorado is an outlier stadium. The elevation is so much higher than any other stadium that games at Coors generally scores 20-30% more runs than the rest of the league. Below is a pictograph of the altitude of Coors vs the other stadiums. Coors sits at 5194 ft.
Azteca is at 7200 ft.
England can mitigate the advantage somewhat with oxygen tanks, but they simply wont be able to change the physiology of their bodies in a week the way the Mexican side has changed theirs. There is 24% less oxygen at 7000 ft than at sea level, which means the English players will be struggling to catch their breath the entire game.
The body does adapt, but over time. The Mexican squad will have been practicing at Azteca for months, which has changed their bodies. Their blood will have 20-30% more red blood cells than the English players blood. Of course, its not impossible for England to win, but the advantage for Mexico is enourmous. In practical terms, it is as if the entire team has been placed on an aggressive doping program (doping for endurance sports such as cycling or soccer is almost always related to increasing red blood cell count).
If England manages to win the World Cup, the game vs Mexico will likely be their toughest, for reasons that have nothing to do with the skill level of either team.
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Good luck to the North of Ireland tonight.
I can’t imagine how wild the rioting will be this evening now it’s been confirmed one of their leaders is a pedophile …
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The UK is like a football club sacking managers constantly because it's easier than admitting that you're just shit
Brexit and 14 years of the Tories completely screwed us and nobody from Burnham to Farage can fix it until we accept that we sold Xabi Alonso for Alberto Aquilani
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Feb 1, 2026: Man City star Rodri accuses the referee of not being neutral.
"I know we won too much and the people don't want us to win, but the referee has to be neutral. It's not fair because we work so hard. When everything is finished, you are frustrated."
He was fined £80k and FA panel “unanimously” agreed he hadn’t met threshold for a “sporting sanction”
March 20, 2026: Harry Maguire gives away a penalty and is sent off. Later claimed he called officials a “fucking joke” as he went off.
Maguire and United disputed fourth official’s claim. FA sided with officials and hand an extra one-game suspension to #mufc defender
Right…
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Judge-only trials: letter published in The Times and signatories in full
Lammy’s jury reform plans are unworkable, lawyers warn.
Read the full letter and news in The Times. Signatories:
Riel Karmy-Jones KC , chair, the Criminal Bar Association, Andrew Thomas KC, vice-chair, the Criminal Bar Association, Kirsty Brimelow KC, chair, the Bar Council of England and Wales, also former chair of the CBA, Heidi Stonecliffe KC, vice-chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales, HH Peter Collier KC, formerly resident judge, Leeds crown court, and recorder of Leeds, HH Christopher Kinch KC, formerly resident judge of Woolwich crown court and recorder of Royal Borough of Greenwich, HH Geoffrey Rivlin KC, past deputy resident judge at Southwark crown court, HH Peter Rook KC, formerly a senior circuit judge at the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey), former CBA chair, co-author, Sexual Offences: Law and Practice, HH Jeffrey Pegden KC, formerly a circuit judge and formerly judge at Southwark crown court, HH Nicholas Loraine-Smith, formerly a circuit judge and formerly judge at Southwark crown court, HH Paul Dodgson, formerly a circuit judge and formerly judge at Southwark crown court, Tana Adkin KC , former CBA chair, Chris Henley KC , former CBA chair, Mark Fenhalls KC, former CBA chair, also former chair of the Bar Council, Francis FitzGibbon KC, former CBA chair, James Mulholland KC, former CBA chair, Mary Prior KC, former CBA chair, Claire Davies KC, leader of the South Eastern Circuit, Caroline Goodwin KC, leader of the North Eastern Circuit, also former chair of the CBA, Samantha Hillas KC, leader of the Northern Circuit, Harpreet Sandhu KC, leader of the Midlands Circuit, Sarah Jones KC, leader of the Western Circuit, Christopher Rees KC, leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit.
thetimes.com/article/1a32721…
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🚨 Judge Only Trials 🚨
The law of unintended (👀) consequences.
An old-fashioned long thread.
And a prediction.
👇🏼🪡 🧵
Forget the managers and tactics for a moment. Dalot epitomises the long running problem. He is consistently poor. Some good players can have a bad game but some players just aren’t good enough and he is one yet he has hundreds of appearances and wears G Neville’s shirt.
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Injuries have been a major problem for years. Players seem to be out for an inordinate amount of time with little explanation. Dalot isn’t, so gets game time despite costing us in games over and over. Poor recruitment, poor injury management and poor squad = poor results
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