“There is a social contract and norms that govern things. It is built on mutual trust that everyone will have honest disclosures, accurate accounting in the books, and actually make admissions when they break the rules.” Exactly and very well said. If City cannot be trusted to follow the rules and will not be honest and will obstruct all investigations and scorch the earth in litigation, there has to be a substantial punishment or all of that becomes the new norm.
Without harsh sanctions that reflect the degree of the cheating and the league wide impact, all this waiting would just have been pointless. Sanctions should include being stripped of titles, having to return the trophies, have their name removed and the titles awarded to the runners up. Of course they should be relegated to the lowest division and prevented from acquiring players first a decade. I’m for banning them from the FA and being subject to lawsuits from each of the 20 teams in the division for each year they cheated along with fan club lawsuits too. Fuck them forever.
I think we will get the punishments you suggest, in addition to a forced sale. As you say the rule breaking and subsequent lawfare was so brazen that the PL has been left no choice.
Something that concerns me, and that I wrote a piece about myself, is the slew of subsequent legal claims other clubs will make against City.
I think it this isn't worthy of a forced sale, what is? The obstruction and overt hostility to the league investigating them shows that these people will not engage in communal government. If they won't be part of the community, they should be expelled.
The cynic in me believed deep geopolitical ties could’ve potentially bought City a slap on the wrist, relatively speaking. But with such a strong initial verdict I struggle too see it now. The Premier League have backed themselves into a corner and must now either deal with City or answer to the rest of the traditional big 6, and the other parties who’ve watched proceedings carefully.COYG.
“There is a social contract and norms that govern things. It is built on mutual trust that everyone will have honest disclosures, accurate accounting in the books, and actually make admissions when they break the rules.” Exactly and very well said. If City cannot be trusted to follow the rules and will not be honest and will obstruct all investigations and scorch the earth in litigation, there has to be a substantial punishment or all of that becomes the new norm.
Without harsh sanctions that reflect the degree of the cheating and the league wide impact, all this waiting would just have been pointless. Sanctions should include being stripped of titles, having to return the trophies, have their name removed and the titles awarded to the runners up. Of course they should be relegated to the lowest division and prevented from acquiring players first a decade. I’m for banning them from the FA and being subject to lawsuits from each of the 20 teams in the division for each year they cheated along with fan club lawsuits too. Fuck them forever.
1. strip the titles
2. 1 pt deduction for every charge found guilty
3. 4 year transfer ban
:)
Further destruction of a high trust culture in GB.
Well said and a thorough piece.
I think we will get the punishments you suggest, in addition to a forced sale. As you say the rule breaking and subsequent lawfare was so brazen that the PL has been left no choice.
Something that concerns me, and that I wrote a piece about myself, is the slew of subsequent legal claims other clubs will make against City.
Possibly even broadcasters against the PL itself.
https://godisamitre.substack.com/p/city-are-guilty-pandoras-box-is-open?r=2832ms&utm_medium=ios
I think it this isn't worthy of a forced sale, what is? The obstruction and overt hostility to the league investigating them shows that these people will not engage in communal government. If they won't be part of the community, they should be expelled.
The cynic in me believed deep geopolitical ties could’ve potentially bought City a slap on the wrist, relatively speaking. But with such a strong initial verdict I struggle too see it now. The Premier League have backed themselves into a corner and must now either deal with City or answer to the rest of the traditional big 6, and the other parties who’ve watched proceedings carefully.COYG.