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O/T Man City have got off...
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well they have had one charge dismissed. Guilty on the other 114...
Reckon we could be above them next season if they get the appeal done quickly.
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Official PL confirmation now out. Man City are fucked.
The statement is as damning as they come.
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Fake News as Donald would say ☺️. Anyway think I will be six foot by time they get chucked out ,as field day for lawyers.
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The PL rulebook doesnt allow a CAS or other external appeal. Just another panel with quite a tight timeline, a few months or so. And Id imagine the time spent already has meant every crossbones every t has been double checked and every dot above every i verified.
Very little room for manoeuvre left.
I think as a pub lawyer that guilt and punishment will be confirmed this season.
They could try the High Court but I think they would decline to hear it and the PL wouldn't necessarily be required to delay punishment while they considered it if they did agree.
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When do the police get involved and charge all the directors with fraud?
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Andy Burnham will get a telephone call from Abu Dhabi and suddenly ask Mr Plod to make all the bad news go away.
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Police get involved! Mega Lolz.
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Hope you are right.
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the whole report is now available to all on thw web. 40-ish pages.ì
Holy Fuck!! Has been my reaction to what I've read so far.
Shame it's got so many redactions.
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 09:31:23 on 30th September 2026
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I'd guess a massive fine and 10-15 points deduction this season or next. Anything involving relegation or stripping titles would cause diplomatic issues for the UK government with the UAE.
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The UAE have got bigger things to worry about.
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I think the FA will bottle it. Give them a little points deduction and big fine, whilst pretending its a punishment
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I’ll be amazed if the FA punishes them.
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Agree they will give a few more brown envelopes out for this.
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So would I as it's the PL (x109) and UEFA (×5) rules they've broken.
Not sure the FA have a vote or a say? Altho' they must have as the game's ultimate arbiter in England?
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The only course of action left is to liquidate City. Might as well liquidate Chelsea too
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Expel them this season from everything except the Mickey Jones Subway Cup and their county cup.
Drop them to the Conference for 27/28 and make them work to the spend limits of each league as they progress back up.
Fine them exactly the amount they recieve in stadium naming rights and front of shirt sponsorship every season for 5 seasons.
-20 points every season for 5 seasons
FA Cup ban 5 seasons.
European ban 5 seasons
Transfer ban 3 seasons. No new player registrations other than from existing internal pathways.
And engrave a physical asterisk against their name on every trophy since the date of the earliest offence.
That should act as a small deterrent while the rest of the PL clubs and dozens ofmplayrs line up to sue them for lost income.
And 'proper' Man City fans will be used to trekking down to tiny grounds from the last time they dropped to tier 3. It'll be nostalgic for them.
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 12:33:22 on 26th September 2026
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They should award all their ill-gotten titles to Arsenal. That will go down with the X football fans.
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I think they will get a large fine. The Premier league is shit to watch. Man City are the only team that are worth watching.
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Hope they’re stripped of every title and have every book from the British Library thrown at them by Jofra Archer
No doubt it’ll be a fine and a transfer embargo though
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It'll be an appeal first that lasts years and can be afforded by Man City, while the Premier League start to run out of cash to maintain it.
So city will get off with a mini fine and plus ca change
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*a fine of £10,000,000
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That'd be nothing.
They need stripping of titles and a relegation of several tiers. They can start again in the farmer's league.
Remember Rangers, Portsmouth and Luton's 30 points. It needs to be worse than that.
Yes they'd bounce back with a promotion every season but the stain would remain.
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Think those were mostly decided by the League they were in.
The FA did do part of Luton'a but football league did the larger penalty.
Rangers got an automatic 10 point deduction by the SPL and then clubs voted them out.
Portsmouth got deductions by the PL and then the Football League.
I think Everton's was decided by a 3 man independent panel appointed by the Premier League.
That is what I would expect to happen to Man City. The Premier League should appoint an independent commission to decided on an appropriate punishment. Subject to the appeals process.
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The panel is PL appointed. The seperate appeals panel also, so independence is always troublesome as someone has to appoint it. Altho' I think they are senior KC or judges. The timeliness for hearing the appeal on the case, and passing judgement ahould be done this season I think (4½ months ish). But deciding the punishment and how that gets appealed no clue.
The bigger issue is all the clubs who lost out on titles and European spots in City's cheating seasons. All the players who missed bonuses. The lost sponsorship opportunities...
A CL spot is worth a minimum of £100m a season. If you finished fifth one place outside you might have a claim.
Precedent for knock-on impact has already been set with Everton having to pay Burnley £35m in damages because Burnley might have survived if Everton hadn't breached spending limits. (Damages being appealed currently).
This is gonna get very messy now and lawyers are gonna get very rich dragging out compensation claims.
Who'd have thought all that money sloshing around and all thise clubs owned by billionaires, hedge funds and private equity consortia would cause problems eh.
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You don’t get these problems at Royston FC.
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True but sometimes lower league or non clubs do attract dodgy characters for various other reasons .The bods some yrs back at Fleetwood, Billericay and recently the two Maldon & Tiptree.Theze are the ones that immediately spring to mind.
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Not to mention those dodgy brown envelopes at Boston
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Our previous chairman Victor was completely above board. No skeletons in his cupboard
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Had a nice Brazilian bimbo in tow TBF though.
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She was bald?
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No. That was his Hollywood girlfriend
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Was it the FA or premier league that punished those teams?
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Having worked with many Luton fans over the years, they more than many would be all over this.
The honest and sensible ones would’ve been the first to admit, that they would have no argument over the points deduction over 2 admins, but the extra 10 points they got for something that was no more than a technicality, was what finally condemned them to join us in the conference.
That “technicality” would pale into insignificance as to what City did upto 2008 and beyond….
I really can’t see what the authorities can do with this amount of charges…, maybe let a city drift off into some Super League somewhere.
We all no it’s going to be a massive lop out though
Pretty obvious why Pep left now….
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Agree but it won't happen.Know this not directly related to tax but at least Rangers got chucked down to bottom of Scottish leagues , it should have been to their non league though .Can you imagine MC being put in the North West Counties league
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FC United fans are convulsing
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City or Tottenham away first?
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