[Football] Theft is theft

[Lenny Rider]

Pregnant Manchester City executive jailed for stealing more than £100K

Pregnant former Manchester City executive Fiona Barclay, 33, was sentenced to 18 months in jail today after being caught swindling cash from the club.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Stealing is wrong and there‘s no excuse for it, but in almost a ‘cockeyed defence’ the poor woman was probably working her ‘bollocks‘ off for £30,000 a year looking at the untold riches being paid out elsewhere in the club?

Doesn't make it right clearly

Maybe I’m too soft, but are we in danger of creating a huge gap between the ‘have and have nots’ in society ?

 

[AmexRuislip]

If it doesn't belong to you, you can't have it.

 

[GT49er]

Pregnant Manchester City executive jailed for stealing more than £100K

Pregnant former Manchester City executive Fiona Barclay, 33, was sentenced to 18 months in jail today after being caught swindling cash from the club.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Stealing is wrong and there‘s no excuse for it, but in almost a ‘cockeyed defence’ the poor woman was probably working her ‘bollocks‘ off for £30,000 a year looking at the untold riches being paid out elsewhere in the club?

Doesn't make it right clearly

Maybe I’m too soft, but are we in danger of creating a huge gap between the ‘have and have nots’ in society ?

'We'........... ? I don't think I'm contributing anything to cause the ever-widening gulf.

 

[Swansman]

Maybe I’m too soft, but are we in danger of creating a huge gap between the ‘have and have nots’ in society ?

Well it has been the view of us "communists" and "left-extremists" for quite a while. Never too late to become a commie, man... Welcome!

 

[chickens]

'We'........... ? I don't think I'm contributing anything to cause the ever-widening gulf.

I gave my butler a pay rise on the spot after reading this.

 

[bluenitsuj]

If it doesn't belong to you, you can't have it.

If only Chelsea knew that

 

[AmexRuislip]

If only Chelsea knew that

End of thread

 

[Swansman]

If only Chelsea knew that

If you pay me like £100m feel free to steal everything from my apartment

 

[Lenny Rider]

If it doesn't belong to you, you can't have it.

My point, but are we in danger of creating a politics of envy that goes beyond the boundaries?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

£30K is a reasonable wage, so no great need to be greedy and steal.

Have nots try to find food every week.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I agree life is tough.
But for Mrs AR and moi, everything we have, has been payed for through hard graft.
If we couldn't afford it, we moved on.

 

[vegster]

Pregnant Manchester City executive jailed for stealing more than £100K

Pregnant former Manchester City executive Fiona Barclay, 33, was sentenced to 18 months in jail today after being caught swindling cash from the club.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Stealing is wrong and there‘s no excuse for it, but in almost a ‘cockeyed defence’ the poor woman was probably working her ‘bollocks‘ off for £30,000 a year looking at the untold riches being paid out elsewhere in the club?

Doesn't make it right clearly

Maybe I’m too soft, but are we in danger of creating a huge gap between the ‘have and have nots’ in society ?

We have already created the huge gap between the Haves and Have Nots.

 

[Questions]

I gave my butler a pay rise on the spot after reading this.

When I went to stay with a mate in a Durban his mates got wind of the fact that my wife and I were nice to his maid and gave her all our loose change and plenty of notes…They said wow….Mybwife even made her a cup of tea. First white women who had ever done it in herv70 odd years.

 

[Questions]

When I went to stay with a mate in a Durban his mates got wind of the fact that my wife and I were nice to his maid and gave her all our loose change and plenty of notes…They said wow….Mybwife even made her a cup of tea. First white women who had ever done it in herv70 odd years.

And the relevance…. I don’t think there is is any

 

[Hugo Rune]

So she is a ‘have not’ in society? A woman “…..who stole more than £100,000 from the club to pay for her wedding and 'buy gifts for her family' is jailed for 18 months!”

Stop it Harty you silly sausage!

 

[beorhthelm]

My point, but are we in danger of creating a politics of envy that goes beyond the boundaries?

creating? existed for centuries. like have and have not. bit peculiar to bring it up in relation to simple theft.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Her defence barristers claim that her isolation from family in Scotland was contributory is something else.

I also like the claim that she contacted the club to pay back the £85,000 o/a and hasn’t heard back!

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Pregnant Manchester City executive jailed for stealing more than £100K

Pregnant former Manchester City executive Fiona Barclay, 33, was sentenced to 18 months in jail today after being caught swindling cash from the club.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Stealing is wrong and there‘s no excuse for it, but in almost a ‘cockeyed defence’ the poor woman was probably working her ‘bollocks‘ off for £30,000 a year looking at the untold riches being paid out elsewhere in the club?

Doesn't make it right clearly

Maybe I’m too soft, but are we in danger of creating a huge gap between the ‘have and have nots’ in society ?

You're not soft you just a weird vision of reality.

 

[junior]

but are we in danger of creating a huge gap between the ‘have and have nots’ in society ?

Only with posts like this.

As you say, theft is theft. You can't say it's okay for one person to steal but not for another, because then were is the line drawn?

What if Man City had fired her and she went on to find employment in a care home, and she stole from that business or from the residents, because she thought she could steal with impunity?

I don't think there's many people who get reformed by the prison system, but maybe just maybe her time inside will focus her mind and if she does gain employment again on the outside she thinks twice about stealing again.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Only with posts like this.

As you say, theft is theft. You can't say it's okay for one person to steal but not for another, because then were is the line drawn?

What if Man City had fired her and she went on to find employment in a care home, and she stole from that business or from the residents, because she thought she could steal with impunity?

I don't think there's many people who get reformed by the prison system, but maybe just maybe her time inside will focus her mind and if she does gain employment again on the outside she thinks twice about stealing again.

Her conviction will be spent in 5 and half years (4 years after her 18 month sentence) so will not be disclosable for employment at this point onwards.

A POCA order against her could see the family impacted if they seek to recover the balance (don’t see why they wouldn’t)