Why the Premier League are going to war with Manchester City

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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So the Premier League has waged a war with its serial Champions, Manchester City - but what is rule W51, could City suffer a points deduction this season or even be stripped of past titles? Host Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Sam Lee and Matt Slater to explain... What have Man City allegedly done wrong, how long is this all going to take, why there is an Arsenal fan on the independent panel and the significance of a postponed government White Paper on football's ability to govern itself. Plus, what lessons we can draw from recent controversy in Serie A, cycling and rugby too. Produced by Adonis Pratsides *** • Get 6 months of Babbel language learning for free when you purchase a 6 month subscription by entering the code ATHLETIC at babbel.com/play Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:03.0	On Monday the Premier League went to war with its serial champions Manchester City
0:09.0	charging them with over 100 alleged breaches of its financial rules.
0:14.2	It marked the end of a four-year investigation.
0:19.0	But what is rule W51? And could suffer a points deduction this season or even be stripped of past titles.
0:28.1	I'm Mark Chapman and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. athletic football podcast. I believe it.
0:35.0	Because I said to them, if you lie to me,
0:38.0	the day after I'm here,
0:41.0	I will be out and you will not be my friend anymore.
0:49.0	So with us for this one, our Manchester City Correspondent Sam Lee and Senior Football news reporter Matt Slater.
0:55.0	Let's start with the charges, Matt. Very simple. What have they charged with?
0:59.0	How far back to the allegations go and why now?
1:02.8	Okay, well look there's lots of charges over a hundred and they kind of break down into sort of groups really.
1:10.0	The first group is all around Manchester City not providing accurate reports of financial accounts.
1:18.1	So they haven't been honest and transparent with the League and that goes all the way back to
1:22.4	season 2009, 10. transparent with the league and that goes all the way back to season
1:22.8	2009 10 up to 2017 and 18 and in each of those seasons there are about five or six
1:29.5	breaches all related to the same thing that you have not provided accurate financial
1:34.9	information that gives a true and fair picture of the club's financial
1:38.0	position and that of course is all related to the, I think I have to go all the way back to the Spiegel and the Football League stuff and the inflated sponsorships and disguised costs, but it is all around you have not provided accurate accounts.
1:53.2	And then we have another sort of set of charges that are around very specifically
2:00.3	the Roberto Manchini allegations that he had kind of a little bit of a side hustle going on,
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