I'm vehemently against their cheating and have bemoaned it for quite some time on here. I'm but one of many dissenting voices that find 'fair play to City' posts highly egregious to the point of challenging such absurd rhetoric, but at the end of the day, I/we are just specks of dust quibbling amongst ourselves on a football forum.
Our collective noses are put out of joint by such flagrant cheating and flouting of the rules in place, but what I don't get is why clubs themselves are not up in arms about a club whose dodgy practices are affecting them and their aspirations as well as creating a playing field so unfair that the supposed apex of the entire season became an anticlimactic procession won at such a canter that Sky had to hurriedly gloss over and regale us with anecdotes about City and their supposed brilliance knowing that the audience, for the most part, simply aren't buying it, aware as they are of how such brilliance came to pass.
There was a mortifying dread and horror to the notion that Liverpool were so few games away from something you'd simply be an idiot to deny. A feat that would have even eclipsed us and our treble, delivered with a squad that simply should not be capable of such... the tension here was palpable and the hand that forces acknowledgement twisted into a pretzel primed to yelp: "give!" If that final appliance of pressure had been made. It's simply not where we are with City, which is more along the lines of:
With every overwhelming performance they deliver, the excise is: but, followed by the next round of discourse on how they've been allowed to flout the rules to such an extent, not how brilliant performance X, Y or Z was, which is driving Pep and [some of] their fans to a point of distraction. Even if they crush Madrid en route to the treble, the narrative will be a million miles off what would have been reserved for Liverpool last season, assured are we that many will pointedly remark on it all being 'a farce' or 'irrelevant' or 'something that should come with an asterisk, no matter what'.
Again, this is all fan-driven and irreverent in the grandscheme, but how is it that clubs competing against City -- clubs adhering to the rules -- who are losing out on trophies, placement earnings and all the rest of it, are not up in arms about what is being permitted to happen by institutions who are supposed to be working in the best interests of the game (lol) and upholding the rules every club signs up to to actually be allowed to partake? If City were to win the treble, you've: Arsenal, Madrid (or whoever else might contest the final as their opponent) plus ourselves who are fall guys. It is not begrudgement of a trophy lost in and of itself that is the bone of contention; it is that a trophy can be claimed via clear, improper conduct.
La Liga rallies against Juventus' CL participation over FFP breaches
How is it that we're hearing nothing regarding uproar from clubs bearing the brunt of what City have been allowed to do? Per the above, Juventus have had a worse time of it for doing less than City, how, Sway? What gives?
The TL;DR is just go by the header, but.. if you did so happen to read the waffle above, do you not find it perplexing that legitimate clubs (at least observant of, and adhering to, the rules in place) are seemingly so passive with regards to what is, and has, been transpiring? Further to this, will Real and La Liga say nothing if City tonk them? Why the discrepancy between Juve and City? A case of 'until found guilty'?
Would appreciate some insights on this because I would've thought clubs simply would not stand for it.... but seemingly, they are?
Our collective noses are put out of joint by such flagrant cheating and flouting of the rules in place, but what I don't get is why clubs themselves are not up in arms about a club whose dodgy practices are affecting them and their aspirations as well as creating a playing field so unfair that the supposed apex of the entire season became an anticlimactic procession won at such a canter that Sky had to hurriedly gloss over and regale us with anecdotes about City and their supposed brilliance knowing that the audience, for the most part, simply aren't buying it, aware as they are of how such brilliance came to pass.
There was a mortifying dread and horror to the notion that Liverpool were so few games away from something you'd simply be an idiot to deny. A feat that would have even eclipsed us and our treble, delivered with a squad that simply should not be capable of such... the tension here was palpable and the hand that forces acknowledgement twisted into a pretzel primed to yelp: "give!" If that final appliance of pressure had been made. It's simply not where we are with City, which is more along the lines of:
With every overwhelming performance they deliver, the excise is: but, followed by the next round of discourse on how they've been allowed to flout the rules to such an extent, not how brilliant performance X, Y or Z was, which is driving Pep and [some of] their fans to a point of distraction. Even if they crush Madrid en route to the treble, the narrative will be a million miles off what would have been reserved for Liverpool last season, assured are we that many will pointedly remark on it all being 'a farce' or 'irrelevant' or 'something that should come with an asterisk, no matter what'.
Again, this is all fan-driven and irreverent in the grandscheme, but how is it that clubs competing against City -- clubs adhering to the rules -- who are losing out on trophies, placement earnings and all the rest of it, are not up in arms about what is being permitted to happen by institutions who are supposed to be working in the best interests of the game (lol) and upholding the rules every club signs up to to actually be allowed to partake? If City were to win the treble, you've: Arsenal, Madrid (or whoever else might contest the final as their opponent) plus ourselves who are fall guys. It is not begrudgement of a trophy lost in and of itself that is the bone of contention; it is that a trophy can be claimed via clear, improper conduct.
La Liga rallies against Juventus' CL participation over FFP breaches
How is it that we're hearing nothing regarding uproar from clubs bearing the brunt of what City have been allowed to do? Per the above, Juventus have had a worse time of it for doing less than City, how, Sway? What gives?
The TL;DR is just go by the header, but.. if you did so happen to read the waffle above, do you not find it perplexing that legitimate clubs (at least observant of, and adhering to, the rules in place) are seemingly so passive with regards to what is, and has, been transpiring? Further to this, will Real and La Liga say nothing if City tonk them? Why the discrepancy between Juve and City? A case of 'until found guilty'?
Would appreciate some insights on this because I would've thought clubs simply would not stand for it.... but seemingly, they are?