#so according to slbsn who is 'a former financial adviser to man city a man city fan a former banker current lawyer CEO & general counsel to

[doux-amer]

Look, one of the places Twitter has Tumblr beat is if you follow sports news because that’s where it breaks the fastest and it was very funny seeing everyone wake up to the news about Man City yesterday morning. Hatred and schadenfraude unite all of us beyond club rivalries and transcend leagues! 

But on a more cynical and sobering note, I'm jaded enough to think that City's not going to get more than a perfunctory, performative slap on the wrist (and in any event, we won’t see anything happen for a long time because that’s how it is with legal proceedings). I wish we could see actual consequences for once because otherwise, it’ll lead to dire consequences for the league and sport. Football's already a mess with ownership and clubs acting as if they're above it all.

Besides the fact that corruption should never be awarded—and that's the message that we'll see if Man City weasels its way out of the punishment it deserves, just like they did when they got the Champions League ban dropped on a technicality (stupid of UEFA, but when have they not been stupid?)—we've seen how much damage City and other clubs like it have wreaked over the past decade. More than that if we’re going to be honest. It needs to stop somewhere. 

#i don't care much for retroactively stripping city of their titles #or docking points from them #what does that matter in the long run? #that doesn't change the past and it doesn't give us any of the joy we were robbed of #it's meaningless #who cares about point deductions? oh what they don't have a fighting chance to win one season? boohoo #(i'm aware that there are ripples that will be created from that but in the grand scheme of things it's still a light punishment!) #if the charges are this serious and they very much have to be #there's no way they'd dredge up such old issues spanning back a DECADE unless they were confident there was proof of misbehavior #so according to slbsn who is 'a former financial adviser to man city a man city fan a former banker current lawyer CEO & general counsel to #a PLC dealing with allegations of historic accounting issues' as described by sportingintel #'Alarmist or not the sheer extent of the PL charges are at a level that IF found proven must lead to relegation' #this is all on twitter btw. i forgot to mention that slbsn and sportingintel are twitter accounts #ANYWAY. because of his credentials i'd like to believe that because i won't be satisfied unless city get relegated #even though that will never happen because that's the way of things in this sad world we live in #that is pretty much the only punishment that will cow clubs from engaging in financial misconduct like this #because the ramifications of that are devastating on multiple levels and one that all clubs would desperately want to avoid #who cares about piddling things like fines if you're owned by an oil state or silly things like point deductions #go after chelsea next! go after psg! go after every single stupid club that's screwing around tbh