urban.spaceman

Could not more strongly disagree.

IIRC De Marco advised us last season to not submit the business plan the EFL demanded from us, which they took us to an independent panel over. We won that case; I believe it was because we proved the EFL didn’t have the right to request it in an ongoing season when we weren’t in their league the season before. I think we will win this charge from the Premier League on the same principle as the accounts would relate to the previous season when we weren’t in their league either.

Would definitely have needed one of these before: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75343nx06go

Correct!

ChatGPT gave me a “Friday Night Brain Relax” version: So, the Premier League — basically the big boss of English football — is suing Leicester City (yeah, the team that pulled off that miracle in 2016) because they think Leicester broke money rules. They’ve called in the legal Avengers: Linklaters, one of the UK’s fanciest law firms. Think of them like wizard-lawyers. One of their big-name lawyers, Ben Carroll, is now going after Leicester for spending more money than they were supposed to in the 2023/24 season. These are called the “Profit and Sustainability Rules,” but really it’s just the football version of “don’t go broke trying to flex.” But wait, it gets juicier. The Premier League also says Leicester didn’t hand in their homework (aka financial accounts) on time, and when the league asked for explanations, Leicester allegedly acted shady — like dodging calls and not helping out. So the league’s all like, “You ghosted us and spent too much. We’re telling Mom.” Leicester has their own legal squad too — including a guy named Nick De Marco KC, who’s like the Messi of football law. These guys are ready to defend the club like it’s the Champions League final of courtrooms. Now, here’s where it turns into football Inception: Leicester got relegated in 2023 to the Championship (the lower league). Then they got promoted back up. But now they’re doing badly again and are getting relegated again. So the Premier League tried to punish them for overspending while they were in the Championship, but that caused drama because — plot twist — they weren’t under Premier League rules during that time. An earlier court-type group said, “Sorry, Premier League, you can’t punish them for what happened in a league you don’t run.” The Premier League didn’t like that, so they secretly launched another legal case in October to try and overturn that ruling. Basically: “Nope, we are in charge, even if they were in the Championship. We’re not letting them get away with this.” They argued in front of some serious legal royalty: two ex-Supreme Court judges and another top lawyer. Big courtroom vibes. The League managed to convince the panel that it does have the right to investigate Leicester — but they didn’t convince them to undo the earlier decision completely. Leicester’s lawyers were like, “This isn’t wrong enough to throw out,” and the panel was like, “Fair.” TL;DR (the snackable version): Leicester might have spent too much money when they were in the lower league. The Premier League thinks they should still get punished now that they’re back, even though the rules are fuzzy about that. So now a bunch of top-tier lawyers are fighting it out in courtroom football — and everyone’s watching to see who scores. Pass the Doritos.

Can’t read the article as I don’t have an account but here’s TwatGPT’s summary (almost none of other bots I posted it in could read it): Yes, I can provide an overview of the article titled “Linklaters on call in new fight between Premier League and Leicester City” from The Lawyer, published on May 23, 2025. Overview: The article discusses the ongoing legal dispute between Leicester City Football Club and the Premier League concerning alleged breaches of the league’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR). The Premier League has enlisted the services of the law firm Linklaters to represent them in this matter. Background: Leicester City has been charged with exceeding the allowable financial losses set by the PSR during the 2023–24 season. The club argues that the Premier League lacks jurisdiction over these charges since the alleged breaches occurred while they were competing in the Championship, under the governance of the English Football League (EFL). Legal Proceedings: The Premier League maintains that it retains jurisdiction over the matter due to the timing of the financial reporting and the club’s subsequent promotion. An independent commission has been appointed to assess the validity of the charges and determine any potential sanctions. Implications: This case highlights the complexities of financial regulations in English football, especially concerning jurisdictional authority when clubs move between leagues. The outcome could set a precedent for how financial breaches are handled in similar situations in the future.

Our argument was “this is how the rules are written and we have acted accordingly” Their argument was “that IS how the rules are written but our intention was for them to be interpreted a different way and Leicester should have acted on our intention and not how they are in black and white” It wasn’t even a loophole. It was just “the rules”. The breaking of their own rules is the repeated acting outside of their jurisdiction and trying to palm off the investigation to another league which they knew couldn’t do. Doing it once is careless. Doing it 4-5 times over several years is a different story. And we’ll continue to ‘breach PSR’ because the rules are so poorly written and implemented, that we’d already broken them by the time they came into effect. It’s like changing the speed limit from 80 to 40, giving you 10 yards notice and then fining you by taking away your wheels for being over the speed limit and not slamming your breaks on fast enough, while rewarding the 6 hooky Bugattis still doing 150mph and texting while driving with ‘NOS’ and forcing us to sell everything under the bonnet and the boot to the same 6 twats…. And the cop that pulled you over is Dot Cotton off Line of Duty. They still lost far more than us over the same period and were given allowances that no other club were privy to. Not only are these rules grossly anti-competitive, they’re implemented in such an absurdly lopsided way that they’re still pushing for harsh punishments of a club that was relegated 2 years ago because of these rules, while giving the Bugatti twats free reign to do whatever they want and not just limited to this competition. Agree with everything above. As far as I can find out, we haven’t. FFP came in the season before we were promoted in 13/14. I posted in here the other day on that point: The very nature of PSR IMO means you can ONLY view our situation in the context of what was happening in the league at the time. Going back to my speeding limit analogy - we’re still trying to get to 40mph. Only we have very few parts of the car left to sell for any value so now we’re just skidding with metal on the tarmac and sparks flying everywhere and most likely we’re about to end up in the ditch wrapped around a tree. We can’t just ‘slow down’ - the situation is fluid and impossible to rectify now we’re in it. YES, the club are culpable for transfer and wages disasters that they’re still ****ing doing. But the implementation of these rules has been a direct cause of the absolute horror show over the last 3 seasons. Everything the club had built is still being systematically torn apart by a league hellbent on destroying it regardless of their own rules, fair competition or sporting merit.

Breaking their own rules multiple times is pretty extraordinary and exclusive to us. They’ve also changed their rules in order to continue their pursuit. Man Utd have lost £85m more than us in the same period and have been given allowances not privy to anyone else. They’re also £1bn in debt. The PL even stated in the September 24 case this: Given the clear cause and effect of the Man City case on US, it’s pretty rich of them to want to conclude our case before that one. Especially when we’ve already suffered the consequences of trying to comply with their rules in the first place.

That was when my dad stormed out. I would have stayed but he was my lift home

7 of those (130) charges ARE PSR breaches. Their case is also very relevant to ours. There is a mountain of evidence that the Premier League have acted in *extreme* bad faith.

No Cambiasso - was it a 0-0 draw away to Chelsea at the start of the 14/15 season?

0-5 vs Villa 2003? Walker assaulted a fan who ran on the pitch to throw his season ticket at him.

They’ll have to find it first.

The last time they won a trophy DVDs were a relatively new technology

We’ll consider me ruddy offended now.

They lost £85m more than use in the same period.

Won’t stop him getting the tattoo though.

They’re *****

Imagine BEING Tottenham and winning like that.

This really is the darkest timeline innit. ****ing perverse.

This bloke please. Try confiscating my GET TITS OUT sign now you bastards

As it did last summer. People seem to have forgotten that.