If they are going to get this 60 point slap on the wrist, I’d rather they get it next season. I want them to grind through an entire season with the knowledge that they’re fucked at the end of it regardless of results.
On the other hand, it’s not great for the legitimacy of the league (fucking lol) for a team that is effectively kicked out still being able to influence the rest of the table.
if they are docked 60 points, that means they’ve been found guilty of cheating.
if there found guilty of cheating during those years then they should be stripped of all titles
all those trophies won through cheating and the punishment is 1 year in the championship?
it looks like the cheating was worth it!
Wouldn’t it be at least a direct relegation to the 3rd or 4th tier football leagues?
Maybe next year if he refuses to sign a new contract. Highly doubt it will happen this summer.
Do clubs that win promotion have to apply to play in the PL? If so, just remove any acceptance for 10 years or whatever.
If the PL gets this wrong, I think football in the UK is done. Probably for me at least.
Exactly. Even to this day there are people that argue Armstrong won those 7 Tours. Cycling did the right thing in removing any winner over that time, and it remains a reminder of the damage he did.
The PL needs to do something similar.
It would only be the case if they were placed into administration rather than relegated. The Premier League can only throw them down one level.
Not directly. The P/L is seperate to the rest of the English pyramid so they would go into the championship.
The catch here is that would likely see Shiek Monsour pull his cash out and walk away calling in all his loans made to the club. This would likely leave them in foul of FL rules so potentially see them drop to League 1. Put this on repeat for all of the Football League and before you know it they are Non League with such a huge amount of debt that they would face administration and with such toxicity towards the Man City name they would likely end up a supporter based ownership model
my heart bleeds…
If only!
As does mine.
The instant hard on.
The football league FFP rules are a lot tougher than the Man City rules.
While City will recoup quite a bit letting their front line team fuck off on loans to other sides , they will still have a massive cost cutting in place too.
I expect City to fully litigate this being the cunts that they are and buy off some of the judges in the process and get out with a token punishment which doesn’t involve relegation
So best case scenario is city catch and pip arsenal and then have title voided 
Yeah that was the other angle you could come at it from.
60 point deduction this season could be Spurs best chance of survival! 
Spurs would still fuck it up and get relegated…
I would be OK with 60 point deduction, if every league title was stripped from them. The 60 point deduction is the punishment, stripping the titles is correcting the record.
No different to what had happened in other sports or other leagues (eg Juventus) where cheating has been uncovered.
What about the owners and sponsors?
The club gets a 2 season penalty, one of which they potentially still win major trophies, but the owners are still free to own a football club without sanction?