In a scheme the head of the Premier League said "systemically broke Premier League rules for a decade", the Premier League has officially found Manchester City GUILTY of all 115 charges against them.
They have 72 hours to appeal, they will obviously do so, don't fool yourself.
What's the penalty? That wasn't announced today. The independent commission will have to meet again, and there's zero chance, even if the appeal of the main charges goes through, that it consummates during the season.
But, as I said, there is only one apt penalty...
A points deduction would technically result in their demotion to about the regional leagues (the seventh tier).
This is going to set off all kinds of lawsuits where literally billions of pounds are going to be in play.
There is only one proper solution: Expulsion, dissolution, liquidation.
And HOPE that the result doesn't kill the Premier League outright.
Because there's something a lot of people don't get: The Premier League itself has all but hitched its future, and the resultant explosion in television rights fees both domestically and internationally, on Manchester City blasting the glass ceiling back when this run started.
And it's now all been declared against the rules by the Premier League.
Expulsion, dissolution, liquidation.
I can see the comparison that you made involving the fake 1990's Bull Dynasty.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Karceno4Life on You Tube, NBC bought the rights to the NBA for one man: Jordan. He was the good guy, and everyone else was the bad (Ebersol saw it as a TV show, not a sport).
Exposing Dick Ebersol and Stern for rigging the playoffs every year to get Chicago and a certain opponent in the finals would have been major.
In 1991, they doctored the WCF so that the Lakers could play the Bulls. They wanted MJ to dethrone the Pistons and the Lakers for his first title.
Then, after letting Portland make it in 1992 (a makeup call), they wanted MJ and Barkley in 1993 (Seattle got screwed in Game 7 of the WCF). If MJ didn't get sent away for gambling, I believe that 1994 was supposed to be Bulls-Sonics (a makeup call for the 1993 WCF ref ball loss).
Speaking of gambling, that's another side to this. If they expose how much MJ was actually doing gambling-wise (and the trouble he was in), and if they expose the game fixing the NBA and NBC did for MJ, it would have crippled the NBA for years.
Also, I sometimes wonder if they wanted Shaq to go to LA in 1996 to make it easier for MJ in the East. That led to NBC possibly making Shaq and Kobe the new good guys after MJ's retirement. Their three titles were during the last three years of NBC's run. When the contract went to ABC and ESPN in 2002-03, the Shaq-Kobe Lakers didn't win the title the next two years.