The yearly shameless disrespect of Wrexham’s James McClean’s actions towards the country’s respects to the fallen soldiers during the wars is uncivil, and should not be seen on the pastures of English football as a vehicle for McClean to show his distain, the Football Association needs to ban McClean from any participation of matches during the month of November, the poppy remembrance. The FA are ineffective and unprincipled, it’s time to clean the house out. The employers of McClean, and there’s plenty of clubs that let the disrespect rumble.

McClean has his reasons citing the 1972 Derry incidents, but McClean has chosen to earn his living in English football, that is his right and it has to be the supporters’ right to have McClean removed from the public domain during the outlined sensitive period, supporters react and the air becomes a pit of hatred. The FAs asinity came with a ruling that McClean should be directed off the pitch at the shortest route, possibly to the players tunnel during the inflamed actions of the supporters with particular reference to half and full-time on the clock. McClean to be substituted would require the player to depart the pitch quickly. To reiterate, the player should be removed from the November footballing calendar, unrepentant actions from the FA and McClean, reach for the sanitiser. Link to articles Feb 10^th James McClean and Aug 5^th 2020 Champions of England, Troublesome James McClean.

Coote’s Fall from Grace

Manero goes into the depths of a fallen referee David Coote (the men in black), did Coote have an encounter with an extra-terrestrial? From Coote using industrial language aimed at Jurgen Klopp with name calling and at Liverpool FC, a video was released via a former friend now foe to detail more, Coote was seen sniffing a white powder at Euro 24. A further revelation came down the pipe with Coote during a Spurs v Manchester City Carabao encounter pre and post-match, even during the half-time interval did not stop Coote texting to arrange a drug fest at a hotel post-match looking to earn his spurs.

So why has Coote come off the rails? Has the verbal diarrhoea loaded up v the officials via the manager’s players, supporters and anyone else within earshot affected, has the abuse as termed, to be umbrellaed under the conditions which the match officials endure, has this had a psychological effect, to break down the mental barriers of Coote? Or has Coote become too big for his britches, to become pompous? Either way, Coote’s days as a match official are over. There now has to be a case for match officials to be drug tested, will the football association act? T suggest not, but referees do need to be scrutinised even more so now particularly with their mental state of play, let’s hope there’s no more whistle blowers of the unwanted story tellers. Link to article May 3^rd 2019 ‘The Men in Black’.

The Prem v City

Two months into the City v The Premiership tribunal, City’s defence argument on the APT (Associated Party Transactions) fell apart at the stitched seams. The Premier League amended the rules in part, sixteen of the Premier League clubs voted in favour of the amendments, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa sided with the Manchester City base argument. Shareholder’s loans were the remit with clubs now converting the loans into equity, to crossover to shares to court curry favour with the PSR (Profit and Sustainability Rules), to absolve from points reductions, to dodge the bullets. Loans at clubs with zero interest will be sectioned out. Loans into equity will offer more stability for clubs. The ATP to state that clubs are not to benefit from commercial deals or reductions in costs that are not to benefit from commercial deals or reductions in costs that are not of a fair market value. The days of clubs hitting the high road for humungous loans to be slowed with the Premier League’s narrowing of the rules, to tighten.

The three named clubs in the Premier League for all the wrong reasons, Everton, Brighton and Hove Albion and Arsenal combined owe a staggering 1.08 billion pounds of debt owed in shareholder loans, equity is the route to loosen the debt shackles. Despite the billions funnelling into the Premiership clubs, players wages suck over the eighty percent mark of clubs incoming revenues, of the mosquito squadron is their slant towards the pyramid system with a meagre six percent of the Premier League’s income being the paltry offerings to the pyramid. The Manero article link to Nov 26^th 2024 ‘The City Perpetrators’ on day nine of the tribunal came with the media outlets laying claim to a City victory referencing City’s sponsorship deals and the APT as read, while the media were of the mind that City would walk free, the Manero stood firm and said that is not the case, to squash the nonsense, quote Manero on X @chestermanero “If this is the case, then by the following week it will be all over”. As we now trailblaze into day sixty of the proceedings (at the time of writing). The Manero also stated on X @chestermanero “The APT rules must stand firm”. City wanted the APT scrapped, which still retains a thread to the City sponsorship deals with the amendments holding court. City lay claim to the APT being of an unlawful in its entirety, that was never going to be the case, to remain set in stone to safeguard the stability, integrity and competitive balance of the league, City can appeal but it is the associated party transactions that will govern, to stand firm.

The Manchester City Charge Sheet

Failure to provide accurate and up to date financial information from 2009-10 to 2017-18, 54 charges.

Failure to provide accurate financial reports for player and manager compensation from 2009-10 to 2017-18, 14 charges.

Failure to comply with UEFA’s regulations including UEFA’s club and licensing and financial fair play regulations, 7 charges.

Breaches of Premier League profitability and sustainability regulations from 2015-16 to and including 2017-18 season.

Failure to co-operate with the Premier League investigations from Dec 2018 to the present. 115 charges, are City facing the abyss?