Imagine the PR gaff of having to retrospectively strip titles from a club. All the PL will do is wait for a season where City win the league by 20 points and strip them of 19.

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    They aren’t being stripped of anything. They may get a token fine and a promise that they will be observed carefully. They might take a points deduction that will push them to 3rd place (at worst).

    Everton got slapped because, sadly outside the UK, nobody really cares about them.

    City are part and parcel of the Premier League’s international brand. Punishing City would call into question the integrity of the Premier League brand the world over.

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      1 year ago

      Hi Australian everton supporter here and just going to add that there are many everton supporters in Australia so to say no one cares about everton outside of the UK is not entirely true

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        I’m a Liverpool supporter in the US and can honestly say I know one City fan and he started supporting them last year because he has terrible taste. I have met hundreds of Everton supporters here and while travelling. Everton has more longtime fans globally than City.

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            In my circles in Perth, I know one City supporter from before they even got bought by the Thai fellow, he even got a MCFC tattoo in Bali in high school.

            So while you don’t have a lot of fans, they sure are passionate!

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              Again some wonderfully conclusive evidence about the number of international fans we have. Because you’ve only met one, we probably only have about… One.

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      Yeah, and because lots of relegated clubs have been putting pressure on them to fine us. We’ve overspend 20 mil on a stadium. That deserves a fine more than any point deduction.