Thanks OI

Apologies, McKenzie only got close to 40 billion but she has managed to give away well more than half of it by the end of 2025 apparently.

If City are the only club breaching the rules by disguising ownership income as commercial, i would be very surprised. It appears that they only got caught out by some guy hacking their system and gaining access to emails. What is the role of auditors and the FA/EFL in ensuring compliance. When i were bean-counter, the audit was solely about compliance to Companies Acts. Do football clubs have to prove compliance to Prem/EFL rules or are we relying on hackers and ex staffers?

TF - Carnegie was a robber baron of the 19th century who spent some of his ill-gotten gains on libraries, halls etc, to improve his reputation. Gates has invested billions from selling crap overpriced software in vaccinations (how does his intent compare to Dolly's in that situation?) and other health fields. McKenzie Scott is really another category, being busy trying to give away as much of the 60 odd billion she got from Bezos in the divorce as she can. And she then married a high school science teacher. All 'bad' money used for good causes, an idea I totally support.

But we aren't talking about Manchester City, who I agree need to be punished, to help out the other over-financed and happy to skirt the rules clubs. We are talking about the money spent away from the stadium on improving the East Manchester area. I consider it amoral to suggest that people probably worse off than us shouldn't have their lives improved by investment from outside.

And, regardless, that guy puts his right arm out to knock it into the player.

Red Kite - inflatables have been back in fashion for years. You've only got to look out over the south coast to know that. 😎

I thought all Franchise fans had difficulties of some sort. :-)

*start not starry

Ok understood. Hopefully that staff member will never be let pitchside again because you can’t be doing that. Please note I never said it was funny (I know you didn’t say I did so all good.)

The look on his face. My brother is learning disabled so I know the signs.

Oh ok yeah what were the signs you saw of learning difficulties?

Trig, I saw the footage and at first glance thought it amusing. However it appears to me that the guy has learning difficulties and it's not so funny.

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Anyone seen any facts about the incident at Mk yesterday where their member of staff threw himself at the Reading player to fake injury/assault.

Ok spit ta never witnessed that

We can talk about Colston and Carnegie and whomever else you wish. In the particular case of Manchester City, it is quite clearly naked sports washing for their own political gain. I'm not sure why this is an issue pointing this out.

Explain those ones OI please.

Half time blanket around the pitch at half time,use to dodge the coins coming over our heads from the seated south stand fans.

So you are against Carnegie's literacy washing and Gates' bad software washing and Mckenzie Scott's Amazon divorce washing?

Cool we live in a world with no morals.

Blanket?

Doesn't stop the people being happy. Should everyone hate Carnegie Libraries and similar urban improvements?

It's called sports washing, OI.

Football has come a long way from the days of chucking coins in the blanket going around plough lane, to pay for steve Hatter , although we at afc wimbledon still do it without the blanket:-)