This is on the sport social podcast network.

This is Andy Heating. I'm here for a tour special. I'm delighted to be joined by

Kiron McGuire teachers football finance at the University of Liverpool

Football Industries,

MBA, I believe.

We've got Keeling in.

We've been trying to get them in for a while,

actually, to talk about is book the price of football.

But, and that will, that's to be that'll be coming soon but

basically just with the guns on at the past week I bet your world's exploded

over the past one since Friday night that's right right I was just in the process of cooking my

wife a nice meal for Valentine's night and then the phone started ringing at

20 to 7 on that was from Sky, BBC News, I TV, Talk Sport, Talk Sport 2, Radio Manchester.

I finally got to bed about half past 11 and then started on Radio 5 the following morning at 7 o'clock in the morning and it's not stopped since.

So we are of course talking about the decision and judgment handed down by UEFA to Manchester City banning them from the Champions League for two seasons

and also issuing them with a 30 million pound fine. I mean it's a lot I know

football's sensationalist anyway but I mean this is really a verdict

that shook the hold of European football. I think so I agree with you entirely

part of the reason for that is that City themselves had been briefing

journalists that they they were very confident that

they wouldn't be any severe penalties and they were completely innocent of the charges and certainly

those of the stories that were going out in the media.

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