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Truth about England’s beauty

Being backed by an oppressive regime takes the gloss off the Premier League champions
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The more you look into it, the more awful it appears:

When football correspondents investigate how that success is built on the money directed to the club by the petro-princeling Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, all hell breaks loose. Fans don’t want to hear about the connection between the beauty of the play on the field and a deputy prime minister from the United Arab Emirates, which bans political opponents, jails dissidents and enforces state-sponsored misogyny. They do not want to know that UAE wealth comes not only from oil, tourism and financial services, but from the labour system in the Gulf states that isn’t quite slavery but too close to it for comfort. Foreign nationals account for 88% of the UAE’s population. Those who leave their employers without permission face punishments for “absconding” and, in the words of Human Rights Watch, are “acutely vulnerable to forced labour”.
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Try starting a conversation about how Manchester City could afford the biggest single-season wage bill in English football history (£351.4m in 2019-20) and an estimated €1.036bn (£890m) invested in transfer indemnities to sign the squad’s current players and watch as the abuse descends.

One football writer pointed me to this season’s Champions League semi-final between the UAE’s Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, owned by the rulers of Qatar. He said that one day historians would go through the television and press coverage and notice how few journalists discussed the fundamental fact that plutocratic and dictatorial states were using sport to burnish their image.
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The more you look into it, the more awful it appears:
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Funny how no similar articles ever appear about Manyoo and Arsenal, to name just two, and their financial connections to similarly 'awful' regimes run by dusky-faced people in the same part of the world, nor Standard Chartered's murky dealings to name another. Will be interesting to see what happens when one of the sainted cartel clubs inevitably get bought up by Middle Eastern interests.

Wasn't Cohen a cheerleader for the Iraq fiasco?

All the more strange that supposed lefties like to play the selectively moralising 'some money good and some money bad' game.

Still, we can all look forward to the day when an Arab regime becomes a left-wing social democracy or summat. All that needs to happen is to make sure the population, when given a free-choice, don't plump for the Islamists as usual...

But anyway... yawn.
 
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RD2003 said:
Funny how no similar articles ever appear about Manyoo and Arsenal, to name just two, and their financial connections to similarly 'awful' regimes run by dusky-faced people in the same part of the world, nor Standard Chartered's murky dealings to name another.
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Maybe that's because they didn't have the biggest single-season wage bill in English football history.
 
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Maybe that's because they didn't have the biggest single-season wage bill in English football history.
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Oh, pseudo- liberals think it's ok dealing with these regimes and their offshoots, or laundering dubious money, as long as you don't have the supposedly biggest wage bill? Sorry, didn't realise.
 
RD2003 said:
Oh, pseudo- liberals think it's ok dealing with these regimes and their offshoots, or laundering dubious money, as long as you don't have the supposedly biggest wage bill? Sorry, didn't realise.
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You've really no idea how daft you look defending the means by which your club has bought success, or the ugly disparity that such dirty money brings to the game, have you?

And what do you mean by 'pseudo-liberals' by the way?
 
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You've really no idea how daft you look defending the means by which your club has bought success, or the ugly disparity that such dirty money brings to the game, have you?

And what do you mean by 'pseudo-liberals' by the way?
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There is no dirty or clean money in this world, just money. That's what I mean about the state of today's left. Jesus.

Nor is there any real issue of buying success. After all, as discussed above, all success is bought in one way or another. Every club at any level which signs a player they think will improve their side is trying to buy success. It's just that if you want to reach the top, you can't do it without sourcing the finance to get the right players. Which is why those who manage to do so might end up challenging for the top honours and those who don't do not and never will. This is not good, but is how the game has been structured by those clubs which were in a position to make the PL power-grab, and in other countries turned their domestic top-flights into one or two-club leagues. Recently, as we know, they dropped all pretence at fairness with the attempted coup of the ESL.

You do realise that we're not dealing with a sport here, but a high-stakes worldwide business, where losing, say, a CL qualifying place means the loss of tens of millions, don't you? It's strange how City seem to bother you so much when you, as you're so keen to tell everybody, have LOST ALL INTEREST IN IT (caps yours), and like having a pint on the terraces of whatever non-league club you've adopted this week.

You know what I mean by pseudo-liberals. Or maybe you don't. However, who cares?
 
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It's strange how City seem to bother you so much when you, as you're so keen to tell everybody, have LOST ALL INTEREST IN IT (caps yours),
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You keep repeating this, but I simply don't recall stating that I have "LOST ALL INTEREST IN IT."

Could you refresh my memory and show me this quote please?

Oh and as for your little catty remark about "whatever non-league club (I've) adopted this week," let me put you straight on that one.

For the past decade or so I have solely supported Dulwich Hamlet. And not just 'supported them' as in throwing money at Sky from a comfy sofa or whatever, but as in going to loads of their games home and away, helping to advertise and promote their games, taking photos and filing match reports, DJing at their social events and hosting fundraising auctions. Being part of the community, if you like. Giving a bit back to the club.

Given that they've hardly played any games this season, I've started going to see my next closest team Peckham Town, and done what little I can to help them out.

But then my interest is still with the actual sport and not the "high-stakes worldwide business" that you're so keen to defend and support,
 
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You keep repeating this, but I simply don't recall stating that I have "LOST ALL INTEREST IN IT."

Could you refresh my memory and show me this quote please?

Oh and as for your little catty remark about "whatever non-league club (I've) adopted this week," let me put you straight on that one.

For the past decade or so I have solely supported Dulwich Hamlet. And not just 'supported them' as in throwing money at Sky from a comfy sofa or whatever, but as in going to loads of their games home and away, helping to advertise and promote their games, taking photos and filing match reports, DJing at their social events and hosting fundraising auctions. Being part of the community, if you like. Giving a bit back to the club.

Given that they've hardly played any games this season, I've started going to see my next closest team Peckham Town, and done what little I can to help them out.

But then my interest is still with the actual sport and not the "high-stakes worldwide business" that you're so keen to defend and support,
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Look at your posts above where you lapsed into capitals.

I don't care who you supported this week or last. Please go ahead, knock yourself out. As it happens, I like the odd non-league game myself. Walking to the ground, nearby friendly pubs etc. Genuinely,

You might claim to be interested in 'the actual sport,' but you need to admit that City are living rent-free in your head, and have been for some time. Strange that.
 
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Look at your posts above where you lapsed into capitals.

I don't care who you supported this week or last. Please go ahead, knock yourself out. As it happens, I like the odd non-league game myself. Walking to the ground, nearby friendly pubs etc. Genuinely,

You might claim to be interested in 'the actual sport,' but you need to admit that City are living rent-free in your head, and have been for some time. Strange that.
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So I haven't actually said that I "LOST ALL INTEREST IN IT" (in caps) but you thought you'd make that up and keep repeating it anyway?

Now that is strange. As is this bizarre is notion that "City are living rent-free in my head" as I've absolutely no idea what on earth that means.
 
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So I haven't actually said that I "LOST ALL INTEREST IN IT" (in caps) but you thought you'd make that up and keep repeating it anyway?

Now that is strange. As is this bizarre is notion that "City are living rent-free in my head" as I've absolutely no idea what on earth that means.
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Let me do a little countdown to this Mickey Mouse trophy game next week.

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Eddie Large's half-time team talk, with City 3-0 up and cruising for promotion.


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“We needed a third, but with a few minutes remaining, we got an instruction from the bench to hold the ball in the corner and waste time as they’d heard Wimbledon had taken the lead at Southampton.”

“That’s when Quinny raced from the physio room and up the touchline and yelled at us that we needed another goal, but we’d already wasted a few valuable moments.”

(I do believe Liverpool were happy to let us score another seeing as we weren't called United and wore blue)

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MATCH OF THE SEASON: 1996

Timewasting, Oasis and relegation
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Aguero off to Barca then. Not a surprise as he is a boyhood mate of Messi. Likely he will have a couple more prolific seasons with them.
 

Manchester City v Reading 1996/97 – City Til I Die

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Ajax had put a firm offer in for Kinkladze, and reportedly so had Barca. Alas, 26,000 City fans manipulated a Georgian country boy to stay another season in Div 1/2/Championship/whatever for another year of getting kicked about, putting more weight on, and all round general misery.

Pretty much ruined his chance of being a great in European club football.
 
Farewell, then, Aguero. What a player. Great mins per goal numbers, 182 League goals, shitload of trophies, scored one of the most iconic goals in history. Didn't seem to attract much ire from opposition fans either. Hope he gets a run out today, and hope he features next weekend in the CL final. One last fairytale?
 
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Farewell, then, Aguero. What a player. Great mins per goal numbers, 182 League goals, shitload of trophies, scored one of the most iconic goals in history. Didn't seem to attract much ire from opposition fans either. Hope he gets a run out today, and hope he features next weekend in the CL final. One last fairytale?
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that header was a fucking beaut, obvs Everton's defence was awful but 'phew!' Pure natural instinct, and timing. Love a good header.
 
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