by Chinners » Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:24 pm
BOLLOX UPDATE
City and Liverpool fans join tributes to tragic United supporter Mike Carter who died after argument on Manchester night out
Rival fans have paid poignant tributes to a United supporter who was killed after a row over football.
City and Liverpool fans condemned the attack against dad-of-four Mike Carter and joined the outpouring of support for his family.
Mike, 49, was punched in the face during an argument in Manchester city centre in the early hours of Sunday, August 31. Moments before the assault, he exchanged some banter with two strangers about City and United.
His heartbroken family and friends held a vigil at his bedside at Salford Royal for more than a week, but he died yesterday.
After the M.u.E.N. revealed the full story, football fans from as far away as Australia paid their tributes on Facebook.
Mark Wilkinson posted: “RIP from a City fan. Hope the person responsible gets caught.”
Michael Boyle added: “RIP Mike. YNWA. Liverpool fan.”
Gavin Currie said: “RIP. From NUFC.”
Paul Taylor wrote: “RIP lad. Hope the guy gets locked up for a long time and this is coming from a City fan. He did not deserve to die, no one does, definitely not over football.”
Fellow Blue Tony Barlow posted: “This is a very, very sad story and as a life-long City fan I would like to pass on my condolences to Mike’s family and friends.”
Jason Singerling said: “What some people call banter I would call abuse. Football is only a game, life is far more important. I am a Man City fan and I’m very sorry to hear this sad news, I’m from Sydney, Australia.”
Michael Scrimshaw wrote: “Ashamed to be a football fan tonight, no fan should lose there life over a bit of banter. It's football - win lose or draw we all go home supporting our teams still.”
Kevin McNally added: “RIP Mike, from a fellow Red. Football fans, regardless of what team, should set rivalries aside and pay respect.”
Mike, who lived in the Ellesmere Park area of Salford, had been on a night out when he was attacked on King Street West around 3.10am.
The two men then ran off towards Deansgate and Bridge Street.
One man was white, 6ft tall and of slim build. The other was Asian, 5ft 7in tall, medium build with black hair.
Anyone with information should call police on 0161 856 3400.
Hull City: Owner Assem Allam says club put up for sale
Hull City owner Assem Allam has put the club up for sale as he continues to fight for a change of name to Hull Tigers.
Allam threatened to quit the Premier League club within 24 hours if the name change was rejected, and the Football Association turned down the proposal in April.
"When I say something, I mean it," he told a news conference on Thursday.
He revealed the club had been for sale 22 hours after the FA's decision.
Allam said an appeal was being lodged against the name change rejection with the Court of Abitration for Sport.
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Manchester City bend UEFA Financial Fair Play rules by naming just one 'club-trained' player in their squad... three less than Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool
Manchester City have been allowed only one club-trained player in their Champions League squad for the coming season
This is three less than Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool
A UEFA Financial Fair Play ruling meant their squad was reduced from 25 to 21 but the governing body has now compensated for this
Dedryck Boyata qualifies as City's club-trained player
City travel to Bayern Munich for their first group match on Wednesday
Manchester City have been allowed to name only one club-trained player in their squad for the opening stages of this season's Champions League - three less than Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool.
City, despite having failed UEFA's FFP ruling which meant their squad had to be reduced from 25 to 21 for the tournament, have been allowed to reduce their non-overseas quota to five to compensate for the reduction, according to the Independent.
Clubs in the Champions League are meant to have at least four 'club-trained' and four 'association-trained' players in their 25-man squads, but UEFA have seemingly accommodated City's situation.
Of City's five non-overseas quota, Dedryck Boyata is the only club-trained player, with Joe Hart, James Milner, Gael Clichy and Frank Lampard making up the rest as association-trained players.
Boyata, a Belgian-born midfielder signed as a teenager from Brussels, has made just 11 Premier League appearances for City since joining in 2009. He was given a new contract in May to keep him at the club until 2016.
Daniel Geey, a football law specialist, told the Independent: 'UEFA have effectively rewritten their home-grown player rule. There is nothing in Uefa or FFP regulations about the home-grown rule changing.'
It is thought that players union Fifpro - with full support of City - started making overtures to Uefa that they would potentially take legal action over theoretical restriction of trade. Uefa eventually relaxed the restriction and allowed City to have five non-overseas players, meaning 16 foreign players rather than the predicted 13.
The likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea may argue that Uefa have let City off the hook. If Champions League squad was going to be shrunk from 25 to 21, this would assume proportionally that eight home-grown players should become seven, not five.
City believe they have fully complied with Uefa's rules with regards to the composition of their Champions League squad.