• JurgenShankly@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    If there’s any justice in this world, City should be national league. Start again for breaking football for the past 15 years. Everything they’ve won has a black mark on it, an asterisk. I don’t want the extra titles, it’s meaningless now. I just want the truth to come out an the right punishment for it to stop others in the future

    • GormlessGourd55@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      The case is still being worked through. You can’t just slap a guilty verdict on someone and say “well that’s sorted”. That’s not how these things work. They have to be evidenced, proven etc.

  • SnooOranges357@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    They could deduct City of 20-30 points and City might still qualify for a European non-CL competition. But they can sell it as a harsh punishment because it’s twice or thrice as high as that for Everton. I can totally see this happening.

  • Vegan_Puffin@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Unless Man City are stripped of titles then any punishment is not tough

    A fine is just business and they will just invent a new sponsor

    Relegation is a year out while they stomp the 2nd tier. It also punishes those teams because there will be one less promotion place available because Man City will obviously go straight back up

    A point deduction does even less than a relegation.

    Take away the awards they “earned” through cheating because that’s what it was about. On field success. Unless that is taken they have effectively gotten away with it with a mild to soft slap.

  • BIG_FICK_ENERGY@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I swear these things always go the same way.

    1. Allegations drop. Fans of accused club go on the defensive while fans of rival clubs gloat.
    2. People tire of hearing the story constantly, neutrals slowly start to drift from “punish the cheaters” to “I’m sick of hearing about this”
    3. Wait 2 years
    4. Slap on the wrist, cost of doing business punishment is handed down.
    5. Fans of accused club gloat, fans of rival clubs cry foul and corruption. Nothing fundamentally changes.
  • gluxton@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Ultimately it’s harsh as they complied but no one would have any complaints if they showed consistency with then dealing with the bigger clubs.

  • sidvicc@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Everyone is cribbing based on decisions not yet even taken, but isn’t this what most fans wanted?

    Clubs actually have impactful consequences for breaking funding rules?

    It hasn’t happened to the biggest offenders yet, but IMHO it’s a good thing to see a firm precedent after decades of loosey-goosey shit like Fit-&-Proper person test or chump change fines given to infinite money glitch clubs.