Man City's charges could force us to rewrite the last decade of Premier League history ✒️ danielstorey85
Manchester City will be permitted to operate as normal in the meantime; the innocent until proven guilty principle applies. They issued a statement expressing surprise at the alleged breaches and welcoming the review. That may well be enough to satisfy Pep Guardiola, who has always stressed that he was assured no wrongdoing had taken place and that he would leave if he had been lied to.
If City are found guilty, the fabric of the league’s decade between 2009 and 2019 changes entirely. The league table never lies, we are told. Clubs end up where they deserve to end up because we are all playing by the same rules. Money drives success, the uber-wealthy offering shortcuts with their spending power, but the construct of the league remains within the same basic parameters.
Those questions are impossible to answer. What of the teams and managers who finished second to champions Manchester City – Liverpool, Manchester United, Jose Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers, Jurgen Klopp?