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@GingerWildheart 34 years since first seeing you at the Krazy House. Can't wait.

First gig of the year tonight, in Liverpool. It’s gonna be emotional 🥰

@officiallydale @BroadcastMoose Love the home fan in the bottom left disappearing once the goal goes in

This angle of the winner 🤯 Thanks for the clip my friend, @BroadcastMoose 🤝 #rafc

@officiallydale I do like the keeper trying to play on and then Barlow trying to barge him over the line

A strike like that deserves to be seen from every angle 😍 #rafc

@officiallydale Is this likely to be the last fixture change of the season? No danger that the Braintree game will be moved is there?

Our home meeting with Wealdstone on Sat 11th April has been moved to a 5.30pm kick-off ℹ️ This will be shown live on DAZN 📹 #rafc

Dodgy maths time - have we equalled our record number of points in a season with 12 games to go?

Need to learn Maths

@MichaelKilpat10 Absolutely, see you there

@ColDale4 Feels bloody good! See you at Yeovil?

@AdamJoseph Is there potential to other PL clubs to seek compensation for funds they've missed out on? Any team finishing one spot outside the CL places have missed out on millions. Can't just dismiss that with a shrug of the shoulders if City are found guilty.

🧵 THREAD: Manchester City, the charges, the evidence, & how justice was delayed. Manchester City weren’t charged because rivals complained or because they 'spent big'. They were charged because evidence shows a decade-long system designed to hide owner funding, inflate revenue & deceive & obstruct investigations. The Premier League’s case didn’t appear overnight. It began in late 2018, triggered by Football Leaks documents - internal emails, invoices, contracts - that contradicted what City had been telling UEFA & the Premier League for years. Those emails are the backbone of everything that followed. At the centre of the case is a simple allegation: Manchester City repeatedly disguised owner funding as commercial revenue. FFP rules require sponsorship income to be real, independent, and market value. What the emails suggest is that City’s biggest 'sponsors' weren’t paying what City claimed - Abu Dhabi was. Take Etihad as an example. Leaked emails show City executives discussing Etihad paying only a fraction of headline sponsorship deals, with the shortfall quietly topped up by Abu Dhabi government-linked entities. One email explicitly references ensuring funds 'come through the correct channels' so they are not detected as separate sources of funding. That is the definition of disguised equity. This wasn’t a one-off. Emails show Etihad deals where shirt sponsorship, stadium, training kit & campus naming rights were all inflated wildly out of line with the market at the time - later confirmed in the actual contracts, not just drafts. The numbers in the leaks weren’t hypothetical. They were real. UEFA auditors suspected this as early as 2013–14. They found £47m of 'intellectual property' sales boosting income, a £5m 'win bonus' paid for an FA Cup final City lost & sponsorships from Aabar and Etisalat above market value. City were fined & restricted - but crucially, UEFA never saw the full records. Why? Because City refused to provide them. This becomes a pattern. When UEFA charged City again in 2020, they imposed a two-year Champions League ban. City appealed to CAS & had it overturned. City fans shout 'INNOCENT', shared out of context screenshots. They're wrong. CAS did not rule that City were innocent. CAS ruled that UEFA could not meet the burden of proof - largely because City did not co-operate. City were fined €10m specifically for obstructing the investigation. Even City's own expert witness was denied access to key information that could have disproved disguised funding. 'No evidence' doesn’t mean nothing happened. It means the evidence was withheld. CAS explicitly stated that disguised equity funding could not be excluded - only that neither side could conclusively prove their case. That vagueness was entirely engineered. After CAS, new emails emerged suggesting Simon Pearce, a senior City executive & Sheikh Mansour adviser, had given misleading testimony under oath. City declined to comment. Again. While all this was happening, the Premier League had already been investigating City for years. City’s response? Delay. Delay. Delay. Obstruct. Litigate. Court filings later revealed City challenged the legality of the investigation itself, filed repeated procedural applications, refused to hand over documents, forced arbitration, then challenged arbitration & tried to keep the entire process secret. A High Court judge called it out in 2021. “It is surprising, and a matter of legitimate public concern, that so little progress has been made.” That’s legal spiel for stonewalling. This obstruction accounts for 35 of the 115 charges alone & that’s before we get to the secret payments. City declared Roberto Mancini's salary as £1.45m per year. On the same day he signed with City, he also signed a “consultancy” deal with Al Jazira - a club owned by the same man who owns City - worth £1.75m per year. That deal was explicitly marked confidential. Emails show City executives arranging the payments. Same signatures. Same people. Same day. The allegation is obvious: City paid Mancini off the books. Leaked documents allege undeclared payments for Yaya Touré, including via third parties. These aren’t rumours. They’re contracts, emails, invoices. This is why there are 14 charges relating to manager and player remuneration. Then there’s image rights. City told UEFA they sold player image rights for a £24.5m lump sum to comply with FFP. Later, they quietly resumed earning millions from image rights again. The buyer? A company whose directors included City’s own senior legal officer. Independent journalists couldn’t even establish its genuine commercial purpose. All of this feeds into the core allegation across 54 charges: City failed to provide accurate financial information in good faith. Not once. Not twice. But repeatedly, over nearly a decade. Now add politics. UK government departments discussed City’s charges with the British embassy in Abu Dhabi. Those communications are sealed - because releasing them could 'damage relations with the UAE'. City insist they are not state-backed. Then why is the state involved? Yet still, the delays continue. A 12-week closed-door hearing. Half a million documents. Years of silence. City remain 'innocent' - not because the evidence disappeared, but because the verdict hasn’t landed. This is why the case matters. If City walk away with a fine, it tells every club to cheat cleverly, obstruct endlessly, spend on lawyers, not compliance.. & the rules collapse. This isn’t about jealousy. It isn’t about success. It’s about whether financial regulation in English football is real - or optional for the richest club in the league. The evidence exists. The emails exist. The delays are documented. Now only one question remains, do the rules apply to City or not?

Away end after Dale make it five league wins on the trot

@DAZN_NationalLg @officiallydale @NL_Enterprise The best there's ever been, the best there ever will be 🐐

Spectacular from Ian Henderson as he lobs Jamal Blackman to put Rochdale ahead🤯 @officiallydale | #RAFC | @NL_Enterprise

Sounds arrogant but we've not had to grind out many of our wins this season. We did today. What a team! #RAFC

@3riggers7 @DGardinerSPUD @RochdaleFan Ebanks amongst our lot, by a long way.

@DGardinerSPUD @RochdaleFan We said that on the way home. Can’t really say the keeper when you’ve bossed a game for 80 minutes but he made 3 great saves! Too many good performances but I think McBride had his best game for us last night. Up the Dale!

Without 5 key players: Oli Whatmuff Sam Beckwith Taz Allarakhia Aidy Barlow Mani Dieseruvwe Not a problem for Dale🙅‍♂️ Broome, Waller, Galvin, McBride, Hendo + Smith (when he came on) just seamlessly slotted in last night in their absences. Flexing our strength in depth💪 #RAFC

@RochdaleAFCcom @talkSPORT2 Southend at home

The draw for the next round of the FA Trophy is on @talkSPORT2 at 5pm today. Ties are the weekend of 10th January, so we'd expect either a guaranteed away fixture or another 'home' game at a local ground. This round is not regionalised. Who do we fancy, Dale fans? #RAFC

@CJPhillips1982 That was our Club Doctor

The panto continues. Kevin Maher throws the ball up in the air and it gets stuck. A groundsman then pushes the ball with his broom, gets the ball and throws it back up in the air. It bounces where he threw it and Rochdale fans cheer

Big thanks to Mani D for putting the penalty in the only place where I'd be able to tell it had gone in

@ArronBennett10 Why did this pic not make @Awaydays23 ?

Here we go Boston away You fucking blues🔵 #RAFC

Gloves will tear you apart 😥

Half time. Players, coaches and officials all walking off. Jason Taylor heads straight to the officials, doesn't speak to them and never takes his eyes off Savage to prevent him getting anywhere near the ref.

Best shithousing performance since Bristol Rovers away under BBM