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Yes City Win PL and the Mighty Magpies of Chorley FC win Promotion to the National League winning on Pens 4-3 !!

(12-05-2019 16:49 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Yes City Win PL and the Mighty Magpies of Chorley FC win Promotion to the National League winning on Pens 4-3 !!

Boooooo.
Bloody Chorley.
Still have nightmares about them

What this nightmare

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I see that Brighton have sacked manager Chris Hughton, despite the fact they have stopped in the Premiership.

I would say despite the results of the premier have been poor they have stayed up, and they reached the FA Cup semi finals so some would say it is a bit harsh.

Doesn't surprise me, they'd have been relegated had Cardiff won one or two more games.

Yeah think it was the game against Crystal palace when Cardiff only started playing when they went behind and some of the dodgy reffing decisions had gone the other way and Brighton would have been relegated

Man City at risk of Champions League ban with UEFA INVESIGATION VERDICT DUE.

UEFA financial investigators are reportedly expected to press ahead with recommendations for a Champions League ban against Manchester City within the next week.

Yves Leterme, the chairman and chief investigator of UEFA'S club financial control body, has been leading the review into evidence surrounding an alleged £60million payments deception detailed during the Football Leaks scandal last autumn.
Telegraph Sport disclosed in January how European football’s governing body was considering a suspension against the Premier League champions over potential breaches in Financial Fair Play rules. City deny any wrongdoing.
The New York Times now reports that investigation will conclude this week or next week, and is set to recommend a ban from the Champions League of at least one season.
The investigatory chamber is said to have finalised its conclusions two weeks ago in Nyon, Switzerland. A UEFA spokesman said it was unable to comment on a live investigation.
Leterme said in February that the club faced “the heaviest punishment” if the allegations were proven. Senior UEFA officials – who previously launched sanctions against City in 2014 – are particularly enraged by leaked files from 2015, which claim almost £60million was paid directly into the club by their billionaire Arab owners but declared as sponsorship.
“If it is true what has been written, there might be a serious problem,” Leterme said in an interview translated by German magazine Der Spiegel, which initially broke the Football Leaks scandal. “This can lead to the heaviest punishment: exclusion from the UEFA competitions.”
The documents, allegedly obtained by illegal email hacks, were previously said to show £59.5 million that was supposed to have come from City’s principal sponsor, Etihad Airways, was paid directly to the club by the Abu Dhabi United Group. To put that into context, City’s record signing is Riyad Mahrez, who cost £60 million from Leicester City last season.

IF the evidence in that is reported in the above post is true, then I would assume that it is possible that either Arsenal or Man Utd may yet gain a CL place at City's expense if UEFA were then to insist on a play off match to determine that place.

And at the same time I would not be surprised if political pressure was now brought to bear on the PL to hold it's own investigation and either ban City from the transfer window for a season or two, or place a record points deduction and maybe a possible relegation and force them to give up the title which they (City) may claim they won fair and square on the pitch with dazzling football, but many non - City supporters would now think on the evidence that is suggested, they played well dirty off it and should be stripped off the title for doing so.
Not only that then the Serious Fraud Squad should raid the Etihad, freezing assets and the owners hauled before the courts.

But there has to be a great many suspicious transfers that surely would have to be investigated not just at City but several other PL clubs and wouldn't be at all surprised if the Pogba transfer was possibly one of them that would be investigated. Weren't UEFA looking into Neymar's transfer to PSG?