despite being owned by a state with which the UK has many interests economically will it be one of the cases that might go unpunished?
despite being owned by a state with which the UK has many interests economically will it be one of the cases that might go unpunished?
I think retroactively stripping titles is the only punishment worthwhile. What’s it to Man City if they even get forcefully relegated? They have all those titles, success, new fans, and prestige already. It sends a signal that it is OK to buy success and get all those wins because all that will happen is you will spend one season in the championship before being back.
Being able to say to City fans that they only won the league 1 or 2 times because the rest of it they cheated and were disqualified is the only way the punishment can have any meanings. This history books won’t care otherwise.
And from what I can see with Everton it was at least they tried to get out of it and were hurt by the pandemic. City and Chelsea did it deliberately. The punishment has to be heavier.