The evidence now requires Manchester City supporters to make the distinction their owners have spent years blurring.
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An effort to protect clubs from going into administration.
City can rest safe in the knowledge that should they win this season’s delayed Champions League competition, they will get the opportunity to defend the title next year.
Financial scandals have damaged the integrity of both clubs. With the rewards for cheating so high, harsher punishments are needed.
The clubs no longer ‘belong’ to the fans - they have become instruments in an ideological war between Western capitalism and the rent hungry sheikhs of the Gulf states.
Clubs are more wary about buying and selling.
Financial Fair Play rules require clubs’ spending to match their earnings.
Lurking behind the jubilation of Manchester City winning a second Premier League football title in three years has been their dispute with Uefa over the financial fair play (FFP) regulations. The club…
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