by Dameerto » Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:35 pm
You couldn't make this shit up (or apparently you could), courtesy of the BBC of all places, it's really going down market since they realised they actually had to account for the pennies they were spending. This is taken from the middle of a piece about the match where he manages to slag off both CITY and PSG:
The money men don't live up to billing
This fixture was touted as a battle of Europe's richest clubs, with both sides backed by wealthy Middle-Eastern owners - PSG's from Qatar and Manchester City's from the United Arab Emirates.
While the teams have spent almost a reported £800m between them on players in the past five years, the game, which was entertaining, lacked the quality expected from such blue-chip line-ups.
Fernando's mistake for PSG's equaliser was a prime example.
The Brazillian collected a pass from Hart on the edge of his own penalty area and, while trying to flick a pass with the outside of his foot, directed the ball off Ibrahimovic's boot and into an empty net.
"The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee ... has banned Mr Joseph S. Blatter ... for eight years and Mr Michel Platini ... for eight years from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a national and international level. The bans come into force immediately." - 21/12/2015