How Man City Became Banned City
The Lead
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🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Manchester City has been banned from the Champion’s League, Europe’s most prestigious and lucrative club tournament, after an investigation found that the team lied on important financial documents. The future of one of the world's biggest and richest clubs is now very much in question. The Athletic’s Sam Lee joins us to break down the ban, what further fallout there could be, and what’s at stake for the team's highly controversial billionaire owner, Sheikh Mansour.
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| 0:00.0 | There was a stunning development in the world of soccer on Friday. |
| 0:09.0 | Manchester City, they are England's reigning Premier League champions and this is a real |
| 0:15.0 | statement from European football's governing body UEFA. |
| 0:19.7 | City are facing a two-year ban from the flagship Champions League competition I do. |
| 0:25.8 | Manchester City, one of the biggest and richest clubs in the world, has been banned from |
| 0:31.4 | the Champions League, Europe's most prestigious and lucrative club tournament. |
| 0:36.1 | Today, the Athletics Sam Lee joins us to break down the ban, what it could mean for the |
| 0:41.4 | future of the team, and what's a stake for Man City's controversial billionaire owner, |
| 0:46.8 | Cheek Man's Tour. |
| 0:56.7 | From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 0:59.1 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
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